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The mayor of New York embraces Karl Marx
By Jon Rappoport
At infowars.com, Kelen McBreen has unearthed a stunning statement NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio made to New York Magazine:
De Blasio: "What's been hardest is the way our legal system
is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this
city, of every background, would like to have the city government be
able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who
gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there's a socialistic
impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they
would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I
would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of
years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the
point that that's the reality that calls the tune on a lot of
development... Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would
determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And
there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and
rents. That's a world I'd love to see, and I think what we have, in this
city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on
one level. They'd love to have a very, very powerful government,
including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their
day-to-day reality."
Boom.
The elimination of private property rights is one of the primary tenets of extreme socialism/Communism.
And of course, the disposition of private property---the takeover---would be achieved by government.
So for those people who think the rising tide of socialism is
just a myth, you now have the mayor of the world's most powerful city
advocating it publicly and openly.
And the response of the mainstream press? A yawn, and silence.
Or to put it another way, bland acceptance.
Private property was one of the basic issues Ayn Rand, the
most reviled and adored novelist of the 20th century, explored in depth.
Here are several statements she uncompromisingly offered:
"Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since
man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right
to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man
who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave."
"The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property
rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make
property out of others; since the competent have nothing to gain from
the incompetent, it means the right of the incompetent to own their
betters and to use them as productive cattle. Whoever regards this as
human and right, has no right to the title of 'human'."
"You cannot force intelligence to work: those who're able to
think, will not work under compulsion; those who will, won't produce
much more than the price of the whip needed to keep them enslaved. You
cannot obtain the products of a mind except on the owner's terms, by
trade and by volitional consent. Any other policy of men toward man's
property is the policy of criminals, no matter what their numbers."
In a half-sane society, private property rights would be
debated in depth at every college, without interference. But that is no
longer possible, owing to censorship of speech.
Beyond this restriction, students aren't equipped with tools
of analysis to approach the subject. Instead, they're indoctrinated with
vapid generalities.
As I've detailed in several recent articles, the rank
promotion of socialism has nothing to do with "power to the people."
Socialism is an elite strategy, boosted by Globalists as a way of
gaining control of governments and populations.
Their pretense of "share and care" is a mask behind which
they are instituting a worldwide management system. They, not the
people, will own the means of production, and they will determine the
distribution of goods and services.
Instead of solving the problem of predatory
mega-corporations, "socialism" will elevate those corporations to even
greater heights of power.
As just one example---what president of the US stood for, and
promoted, the greatest degree of socialism? That would be Franklin
Roosevelt, who presided over the New Deal and World War 2. How did he
rein in corporations and prosecute their crimes? Are you kidding?
Consider Charles Higham's classic, Trading with the Enemy:
"What would have happened if millions of American and British
people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had
learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey [part of the Rockefeller
empire] managers shipped the enemy's [Germany's] fuel through neutral
Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the
public had discovered that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after
Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars' worth of business with the
enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan [the
Rockefeller family among others?] Or that Ford trucks were being built
for the German occupation troops in France with authorization from
Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the
international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to
Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's communications
systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT
built the FockeWulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops?
Or that crucial ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers
in Latin America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War
Production Board in partnership with Goering's cousin in Philadelphia
when American forces were desperately short of them? Or that such
arrangements were known about in Washington and either sanctioned or
deliberately ignored?"
If you want a modern example of "socialism" at work, consider
another soft promoter of this philosophy, President Barack Obama, and
his response to one of the most predatory of corporations, Monsanto, and
other food giants.
From Scott Creighton, "Obama Pitches India Model of GM Genocide to Africa":
"At the G8 Summit held two weeks ago at Camp David, President
Obama met with private industry and African heads of state to launch
the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, a euphemism for
monocultured, genetically modified crops and toxic agrochemicals aimed
at making poor farmers debt slaves to corporations, while destroying the
ecosphere for profit."
"But African civil society wants no part of this latest
Monsanto aligned 'public private partnership.' Whatever will the
progressives do now that their flawless hero has teamed up with their
most hated nemesis [Monsanto] to exploit an entire continent like they
did to India not that long ago?..."
"With a commitment of $3 billion, Obama plans to 'partner up'
with mega-multinationals like Monsanto, Diageo, Dupont, Cargill,
Vodafone, Walmart, Pepsico, Prudential, Syngenta International, and
Swiss Re because, as one USAID representative says 'There are things
that only companies can do, like building silos for storage and
developing seeds and fertilizers.'
"Of course, that's an outrageous lie. Private citizens have
been building their own silos for centuries. But it's true that only the
biowreck engineers will foist patented seeds and toxic chemicals on
Africa."
Obama? A socialist warrior against corporations on behalf of
the people? It's long past the time for ripping that false mask away.
During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama
transmitted signals that he understood the GMO issue. Several key
anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White
House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.
These activists weren't just reading tea leaves. On the
campaign trail, Obama said: "Let folks know when their food is
genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what
they're buying."
Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly
an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an
important line to draw in the sand.
Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in
government. He was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his
administration wouldn't do business in "the old way." He would be
"responsive to people's needs."
Then came the reality.
After the election, people who had been working to label GMO
food and warn the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core.
They saw Obama had been pulling a bait and switch.
After the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto
people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues,
the USDA and the FDA:
At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of
Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto
Danforth Center.
As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues
czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public
policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval
for Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.
As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack.
Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors' Biotechnology
Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the
Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.
As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.
As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.
As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously
worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a
major funder of GMO agriculture research.
We should also remember that Obama's secretary of state,
Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was
counsel to Monsanto.
Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan,
as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the
Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.
The deck was stacked. Obama hadn't simply made honest
mistakes. Obama hadn't just failed to exercise proper oversight in
selecting appointees. He wasn't just experiencing a failure of
short-term memory. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto
and other GMO corporate giants. He was Monsanto's agent.
And now let us look at what key Obama appointees wrought for
their true bosses. Let's see what GMO crops have walked through the open
door of the Obama presidency.
Monsanto GMO alfalfa.
Monsanto GMO sugar beets.
Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.
Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.
Syngenta GMO stacked corn.
Pioneer GMO soybean.
Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.
Bayer GMO cotton.
ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.
A GMO papaya strain.
This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.
You don't attain that position through errors or oversights.
Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto,
biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of agriculture.
Socialism? Power to the people? Share and care? Special concern for the downtrodden?
Socialism is a means for government to gain ironclad control of the means of production by colluding with mega-corporations.
That collusion, that tight partnership has been called fascism. And that's what socialism turns out to be.
To the degree that governments are socialist, in England, the
US, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, China, Canada, Australia and
other countries, that's the pattern.
It would evolve into the same pattern in New York, where
Mayor Bill De Blasio is blowing smoke up everybody's backside, with his
remarks about people-power and strong government taking over private
property.
If the mayor wants to prove otherwise, let's see him go after
the most mighty anti-people corporation in his city: Goldman Sachs.
Let's see him lead a no-holds-barred prosecution of that outfit's
crimes.
Let's see him attack the company that is running a significant chunk of Donald Trump's presidency.
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Jon Rappoport
The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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