Mass Media Brainwashing Agenda The mass media has been covering up the truth by not been telling us that our nation’s unrestricted capitalistic system is responsible for a social and moral scandal associated with not only poverty within our nation but within Third World nations as well. And this injustice needs to be exposed and rectified. The late Pope John Paul II spoke against unrestricted capitalism. And in a 1986 pastoral letter on our nation’s economy, U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote: "Harsh poverty plagues our country despite its great wealth. More than 33 million Americans are poor; by any reasonable standard another 20-30 million are needy. Poverty is increasing in the United States, not decreasing. This tragic fact seriously threatens the nation's future. That so many people are poor in a nation as rich as ours is a social and moral scandal that we cannot ignore.” There are now more than 37 million Americans living in poverty. The U.S. media has been bought by the corporate elite precisely for the purpose of concealing this social and moral scandal. The corporate elite are able to conceal the truth about how our unrestricted capitalistic system is responsible for a lot of the poverty in our nation and the Third World by buying up the press, firing the offending editors, installing those who will "toe the Corporate Line" and subtly "shaping the truth" to fit their national and international agenda. Today, whenever you watch television, listen to the radio, read a newspaper, book, or magazine - it is very likely that the information you are receiving comes from a single media MONOLITH, or, in other words, a handful of multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates which speak with one voice. And this MONOLITH is dedicated to serving the interests of our nation’s greedy and corrupt corporate elite. In the month of July 2006, 70,000 South Korean activists staged anti-U.S. rallies denouncing “U.S. economic colonialism”. And Honduras’ Cardinal Rodriguez, while addressing an international audience attending a North American Institute conference, gave a litany of past and present-day atrocities, a litany that included “economic colonialism”. In a pastoral letter, U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote: (1.) “Beyond our own shores, the reality of 800 million people living in absolute poverty and 450 million malnourished or facing starvation casts an ominous shadow over all these hopes and problems at home.” (2.) “The U.S. approach to the less developed countries needs urgently to be changed; a country as large, rich and powerful as ours has a moral obligation to lead in helping to reduce poverty in the Third World.” (3.) “Developing countries often perceive themselves as more dependent on the industrialized countries, especially the United States, because the international system itself, as well as the way the United States acts in it, subordinates them.” (4.) "What Americans see as a growing interdependence is regarded by many in the less developed countries as a pattern of domination and dependence." In respect to the Third World nations, how do the leaders of our corporate/state governmental system lead them into our nation’s empire building “domination and dependence” system, wherein they become indebted to us and therefore easily coerced to promote our money-loving and evil power-hungry one-world empire building system, a system/trap that many developing countries have already been lured into. The international systems work in a way wherein U.S. firms are usually selected to help promote economic “development” in the Third world. These selected U.S FIRMS then recruit deeply impoverished Third World people and build factories to produce items they can sell abroad for a high price, while paying their Third World employees almost nothing. Many of these exploited Third World people are making some of our nation‘s corporate elite wealthier and wealthier, while they remain in deep poverty. Exorbitant profits for our nation’s corporations are possible when doing business in the "Third World" - profits not possible to achieve in the U. S. with our restrictions on the use of labor, with our many banking and government regulations, with our laws against usury, with our trade unions, etc. No worry in the Third World about overtime pay, sick leave, holidays, worker safety, etc. No concern there about toxic dumping. No concern about having to negotiate the clumsy political processes of democracy. It is a system which serves the interests of some of our nation’s most greedy and corrupt corporate elite, as well as some Third World governmental, business and military elite. U.S. Bishops wrote: “Many people within the less developed countries are excluded from sharing in the meager resources available in their homelands by unjust elites and unjust governments.” Most of our nation’s "aid" to Third World nations is in the form of loans. The debt becomes an unbearable load to these developing countries. A few of the elites in the government and business get wealthy, but there is marginal benefit for the people. They can work off some of the debt by giving concessions to U.S. businesses, voting with the U.S. in the United Nations or providing other benefits to our nation. Leaders of our nation’s corporate/state governmental system tell Third World nations that the private sector can do a better job than the public sector to bring about economic prosperity in their nations. Whole sectors are privatized – transportation, health, utilities, etc. However, instead of being "privatized" by local businesses, some of our nation’s corporate businesses come in and take over resulting in much higher costs than before. And in this way the leaders of our nation’s corporate/state governmental system gain control of these Third World nation’s economies and governments; and in doing so, coerce them to help promote our nation’s money-loving and evil power-hungry one-world empire building agenda. These horrendous conditions exist today because of our nation’s unrestricted capitalistic system as well as our nation’s - corporate elite sponsored - mass media, brainwashing, cover-up agenda. We can begin to rectify these injustices by letting citizens know that this evil U.S. empire building system exists and how it works. Thomas Dahlheimer Wahkon, MN. Note: An edited and shorter presentation of this letter to the editor was published in the Mille Lac Messenger, Mille Lacs County’s official newspaper.
