Expolitation and Ignorance

Dear Comrades,

I want everyone to know that my posts on my blog are very biased and I do not incite hate and violence but rather the opposite. In this post I want to talk to you all about the vast amounts of exploitation and ignorance of the worlds leaders. Most of these world leaders talk about sharing the same tastes of the average Joe. But most of the people in this world work as farmers and most suffer extreme poverty. I do not want my fellow people to be lied at it. Obama promises change but where are the bailouts for the 25,000 children going to die today? Where are the bailouts for 12 year old children wielding AK-47's? The American president in a clandestine meeting with Americas top business executives took a vow to improve the fiscal practices of America in favour of the peoples needs. I do not blame the president but rather his ego for power.

The World Trade Organisation along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have run aground with criticisms. But first before we criticise let us examine their goals. The IMF was designed to protect the International monetary system from collapsed and thus this means they help governments overcome payment problems. The World Bank aims to invest in programmes that would help economic, social, and political development to promote post war Reconstruction. Today the IMF lends to countries with deep economic troubles by promoting privatization and economic liberalization. The World Bank then supports these programmes with loans meant for specific ends. Now we get to the criticisms. The World Bank, IMF, and the WTO have been charged for enforcing a one size fits all fiscal policy on all countries they are lending to. Some of these measures have been to harsh in certain areas including huge government social spending cuts and inflation. The Iron Triangle also advocates huge privatization of previously government controlled areas. This allows environmental degradation to occur and for basic human rights to be controlled by multinational companies. In Bolivia the indigenous people have sadly lost, Swiss water corporations have taken over water utilities and now charge the local people for their right to water. If you go on World Vision and select a child without HIV/AIDS you'll most probably see a young Bolivian child looking back at you. Nigeria's oil ridden delta leads us to the next battle. The truth is that the people of the Niger Delta are incredibly isolated. It is here that private companies such as Shell, Mobil and other foreign companies rape the land dry as the old Belgium imperialists did on the Congo. Here they use private mercenaries to impose their economic will on the people. We still have economic imperialism in the world. The Nigerian people get nothing in return. Remember Ken Saro Wiwa? Same goes for the WTO. Thousands of our brothers and sisters around the world die from AIDS that could easily be prolonged. This, we can blame on TRIPS. This allow big pharmaceutical companies to patent their products thus halting technology and knowledge and killing thousands. Generic products today are still hard to obtain because of this copyright law. 200,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves as a result of the WTO. Monsanto's Bt cotton and other GM foods are being enforced to Indian farmers and they have contributed to this "farmer genocide." They are dependent on Monsanto (GM foods don't reproduce) and subsistence farmers face the reality of not being able to feed and house their families. What about labour rights and human rights? Out of the 153 member countries none are allowed to say no to products that have been created by child labour or in sweat shops. To top it off they are not even allowed to say NO to products that have been linked to or have destroyed any part of the environment. I can go talk about this for longer but I wont because analyzing the Iron Triangle's policy would take your whole day away reading this. Now I will talk to you about the responsibility of the West's government for the third world.

The president of the United States of America is the worlds largest arms trader in the world and he gets ALOT of money from this. He profits from children shooting other children while 3 billion people live on less then a dollar a day. 44.4% of American civilian taxes go to making weapons of mass destruction, the nuke is not the weapon of mass destruction, today its the small arms. I think Eisenhower said it best,

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Eisenhower was absolutely right.

It would take us 19 billion dollars for ever child and man to have basic education but instead we steal the money that would go to them to spend it on weapons that would take their lives away. They are robbing the lives of the people. The perfume industry of Europe and the United States would allow women across the world to have access to reproductive health. They are robbing the people of their health. Every child holding a gun, every women being rapped, every infant that dies from extreme poverty and is allowed to befall upon mankind represents the true face of our humanity. As you finish reading this post 85 children would have died from hunger.