The Financial Jigsaw, Part 2 (83) - LIMITED LIABILITY; The Enabling Vehicle of Planetary Control - The Blight of Consumerism - End of Iron Age - [07-04-26]

The Limited Liability Corporation is the enabling construction that has prevailed for hundreds of years: The Global Corporate Control Matrix has systematically acquired the majority ownership of this earthly realm and certainly dominated the terrain for centuries if not millennia. Their master plan has always been about the complete and absolute control of the earth’s natural resources. And through the exertion of this monopolistic control, they have been able to enlist the assistance of billions of other souls in the service of stripping the earth bare of her finite resources.

How has the vast majority of humankind been corralled into a corporate movement that rapes, plunders and pillages the planet? The agenda began in earnest centuries ago with the chartering of the East India Company in 1600. “East India Company:, English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by royal charter on December 31, 1600. Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. In addition, the activities of the company in China in the 19th century served as a catalyst for the expansion of British influence there.” (Britannica)

The awesome speed, efficiency, and thoroughness with which the planet has been transformed into a veritable wasteland over the past centuries can be attributed to a single phenomenon: the CORPORATION. Nothing comes close to this business entity (which is a ‘person’ in its own right) in providing a vehicle for the extraction of everything our modern civilisation needs to prosper, especially the extraordinary energy contained in oil which is the life blood upon which everything else depends.

The shield of limited liability, which is hardwired into every corporate charter, essentially conferred the right to commit multi-decade legalised acts against humanity in the interest of generating corporate profits at the expense of the environment and every living thing. The resulting waste products have polluted every corner of the earth and sea. We have ended up with a landfill global economy which is finally failing.

In fact, it has been observed by one perceptive author during the stock market crash of 2008 that, if the devil himself were ever to assume the perfect form in which to carry out his dastardly deeds, the corporation would provide an ideal fit. The following excerpt neatly elaborates this state of affairs:

“Another announcement will be made, in the not too distant future, about the business entity commonly known as the CORPORATION – the main huckster of the Anglo-American ‘brand’ of predatory capitalism. Surely, if the devil were to ever choose the perfect form in which to enter in order to carry out his nefarious designs, incorporation is it. Is there any other entity on earth – person or party, organization or association, government or institution, jurisdiction or bureaucracy, club or group, fraternity or sorority, etc. that can function with such impunity, as it hides behind the shield of LIMITED LIABILITY? Those two words have given complete cover for the flagrant and wanton destruction of planet Earth.”

You name it: oil slicked coastlines, razed rainforests, beaches strewn with dead dolphins and whales. Not to mention the complete erosion of human, civil and national rights, wherever ‘INC’ decides to set up shop. Let’s pick a country. Let’s go to India and visit Bhopal of Union Carbide fame. Close to 8,000 people died within two weeks of that December day in 1984 in what is known as the worst industrial disaster of the last century.

Or visit the Punjab and talk to the thousands of widows of farmers who committed suicide because of Monsanto’s “seedless seeds”. Or go to just about anywhere on that subcontinent where a Walmart is being protested for land theft, encroachment and despoilation. Let’s not forget about all the Coca Cola bottling plants that have become notorious for stealing the most precious commodity that every Indian cherishes and covets – WATER. Well, that takes care of land, water, air … and blood. What else in heaven’s name do these stake and stockholders want?

We all know the deal. It’s the one where the individual, and his/her environment, is always trampled in favor of the corporate interest. Isn’t it time to really take stock of what our current predicament has left us with? Perhaps it’s also time to seriously think about actually re-ordering the ORDER, instead of once again rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Like we’ve said, “optimizing stockholder profit” will soon be history, as the cease and desist orders are not far from being issued to Corporate America. Might as well get a head start on dissolving (or re-chartering) that corporation.”

Connect the dots; “we are witnessing the emergence of corporate-style governance in national leadership and nation-sized corporate influence in global affairs; but what are the implications? For centuries, we’ve operated within a clear dichotomy: nations governed as nations, and companies operated as companies. But we have been blurring those clear demarcations and it looks like they are about to break.”

Once the publicly held corporation was created, the stockholders, the bondholders and any other group of stakeholders could participate in a business opportunity anywhere around the globe. As long as the investment would produce an adequate ‘Return On Investment’ (ROI), it could be bought through the appropriate financial instrument and engaged for as long as one wanted to accept the risk.

This single financial dynamic allowed the people of the world, rich and poor, young and old, smart and dull, to invest in all the world’s corporate schemes and scams under the cover of corporate respectability with no accountability. With the advent of the public corporation, no matter what the impact on the environment or the indigenous peoples, harvesting the natural resources of the planet was enjoyed by almost every investor and especially those in the ‘developed’ West (including me!). As a Boomer, I am as guilty as the rest of us.

This is how everyone was made complicit in the degradation of the worldwide environment. The very nature of the stock and bond markets made it easy to buy into any scheme, as long as it made money (and making money from money). The effects of waste and pollution on the local communities from corporate operations never mattered; only profits and money mattered, as they still do now more than ever.

Such a subtle detachment on the part of the unwitting investors from the global destruction wrought by the corporations is at the very heart of how our 21^st century civilization has approached so many environmental tipping points, wars, and planetary points of no return. Very few stop to consider how their actions, especially those which are empowered through their financial investments, might impact the world-at-large.

Primarily it’s the tremendous success of so many powerful cultural memes and such influential monopolies, corporate-directed mind control programs which quite effectively underlie and drive today’s Consumer Society. That these clandestine marketing strategies still operate under the radar makes them all the more effective in their subliminal conditioning.

The multitude of news reports alone and their incessant references to consumer spending, consumer optimism, consumer confidence, consumer reports, consumer buying, consumer price index, consumer guide, consumer protection, consumer watchdog, etc. over many decades of media marketing and advertising saturation? Give me more - more is better for everyone!

This is Western Imperialism, by any other name, which rests on global finance issuing debt at interest (usury). Its core instruments are global banks, reserve currencies, structural adjustment programs, debt peonage, and the power to reorganise entire economies. This system, built by the US, Britain, Germany, France, and Japan among others, is anchored in the IMF, the World Bank, dollar dominance, and multinational corporations backed by military blocs following WW2.

There is no doubt that wars (and rumours of wars) are being waged. A truly epochal war has been raging on every land, in every body of water and in every continental airspace for centuries. If you reside anywhere within the planetary biosphere, you have seen it, heard it, and feel it.

James A. Michener is credited for bringing awareness to the graphic dichotomy that exists on today’s global battlefield. It is a conflict defined everywhere by two sides: those few who wish to husband and preserve our world for future generations and the majority who care not about the consequences of their actions.

In Michener’s bi-century saga entitled CENTENNIAL, he draws the battle lines with great dexterity that have been shaping up over a period of two centuries. He vividly captures the looming wars which would go on to define the entire planetary landscape throughout the 20^th and 21^st centuries. Was he that prophetic in his prose and prescient in his writing that all would soon come to pass?

Clearly, the ongoing human conflict for the body and soul of the Mother Earth is fundamentally not a religious-inflamed, or racially-engendered, or gender-based one, although these differences are routinely used to incite war. At its core, The People vs The Corporations represents a war of imperial possession for the planet itself and the desire of a few to take anything they want from it … at any and all cost.

Who among us wants to live on land that is not suitable for growing crops and are pure and free from environmental poisons and chemical toxins? Who does not want their children to thrive and flourish in a community that is committed to local practices which do not erode the future quality of life? Who would ever want to participate in the many global business operations which are proven to destroy the local environment?

It is very easy to spot wherever the corporation has just been. Their handiwork is evident by so much death, environmental destruction and damage to ecosystems in general. Someone said that “we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children.” But we aren’t borrowing from our children. Borrowing (debt) means that we will pay it back, but we aren’t paying back. We can’t pay it back because the financial system always requires infinite economic growth to pay interest on the debt, otherwise the system collapses.

We are stealing from future generations and the current crop of youngsters have noticed. The above perceptive quote is accredited to the author Jane Goodall, a British ethologist known for her exceptionally detailed and long-term research on the chimpanzees of Tanzania’s Gombe Stream National Park; in 1977 she co-founded the Jane Goodall Institute.

A survey of the wreckage from every battlefield over the past many centuries shows the superiority of war implements on the side of the corporations. The Iron Age was so named because of the iron (aka steel) which was used everywhere throughout the emerging civilizations, especially in armaments of war. As long as the battlefield is defined by the use of iron, as it has been thus far, the victors could always be predicted each and every time.

All this changed in 2026. War is no longer defined by 20^th century iron and steel. We can expect the most profound and fundamental changes of the era, and equally consequential societal changes, which will translate to unparalleled political, economic and social revolution around the globe. To be continued…