from Russia Today
In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the Mayan calendar. This will mark the end of capitalism and usher in a new era of equality, the Bolivian govt says.
“December 21 of 2012 will be the end of egoism and division. December 21 should be the end of Coca-Cola,” Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca decreed, with bombast worthy of a viral marketing campaign.
The coming ‘end’ of the Mayan lunar calendar on December 21 of this year has sparked widespread doomsaying of an impending apocalypse. But Choquehuanca argued differently, claiming it will be the end of days for capitalism, not the planet.
“The planets will align for the first time in 26,000 years and this is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism,” said Choquehuanca as quoted by Venezuelan newspaper El Periodiquito.
The minister encouraged the people of Bolivia to drink Mocochinche, a peach-flavored soft drink, as an alternative to Coca-Cola. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez followed suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for fruit juice produced in Venezuela.
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Thank goodness America is ruled by a buch of ordinary folk.
“the end of capitalism and the beginning of commun… itarianism”
lmao – we know what you mean dude, don’t be shy!
Bless him, he doesn’t want to make the average North American Joe’s hed asplode
I keep repeating this because my ability to type is severely limited, so here it is again:
I am not for “communism.” I am for communitarianism. The present economic disaster has come about because everybody ignored the obvious fact that a nation that allows 1% to own almost everything, while 99% own almost nothing, cannot be free. The 1% exists because they have have accumulated so much power that they do not get taxed at all. Meanwhile, people with normal jobs, even minimum wage jobs (few are informed of this) are required to give up at least 25% of their income to taxes!
We are back in the Gilded Age of 1931; the 1% rich own it all; the 99% non-rich own virtually nothing. But there is a difference now. All of our productional industry has been sent off-shore, and our workers are without skills and sound education. Beware!
“George Washington famously said, ‘Government is Force.’” Well he was as slave owner, wasn’t he? But there is more to it than that. Force is not government. Owning slaves is real force! Property implies force, in fact. Too much property implies too much force! What right do the super-rich have to use GOVERNMENT FORCE to “protect” their extravagant wealth? Wealth is force without democracy. Money + information (about other people) = power.
We in the United States of America now have the purest form of what most people would call capitalism. We also have more people in jail than any nation has had in history. The average person has very few rights, you will notice. Only the rich oligarchs have real freedom, of course, as wealth is 99% similar to raw power in wealth-dominated societies. The average class cannot live in socialism, since they are basically too poor, and also, they have no rights. What right do they have to impose tyrannical wealth royalism over the rest of us? Why can’t we be free of the absolute power of the super-rich economic royalty?
End The Rich!
The super-rich contribute NOTHING to our so-called “economy”! They have sold out 90% of our productional assets down the river to China, India, Japan, etc. All for pure Profit! They care about us about as much a they care about the Iraqi children they burned to death with white phosphorus!
No one should be allowed to own more that 20 times what they need to make a living and live comfortably. People should be required to register their substantial holdings, and if they exceed the 20 times limit, a random jury should force them to sell off the excess, and reduce their holdings to 15 times what they need. The proceeds should go to the commonwealth. Anything they fail to register should be confiscated, and those who willfully avoid registering assets should be punished. That is the only way to control economic royalism and protect freedom and human rights. Otherwise the 99% will inexorably be reduced to slavery.
Most of our industry has been sold for profit and shipped down the river to other nations, and there is perhaps only one way to rebuild it. All large industry should be owned and completely controlled by democratic communities and towns. Each community would own an industry, which could only be sold to another community. Some communities would have to be larger than others. For example, an ironmaking operation would require a large community, or consortium of communities. There could be government sponsored research and development communities too. Employees would have to live in the communities, and thus there would be a powerful incentive to minimize pollution. Small businesses would be operated by ordinary companies.
There will be no more rich political parties. No more rich to be protected by vicious policing. Freedom at last! But this is merely my solution.
Expect a coup in Bolivia before December, then. Coca Cola is a criminal imperialist enterprise. They do not fade away easily.
yep
Yes, you’re right about Coke. They, are part of the occupation/ subjugation, forces of the empire. Replacing the traditional food and drinks of the targeted nations with high calorie, corn syrup loaded crap, to weaken them physically. Coupled with advertising/propaganda to attack the psyche and mental facilities, hopefully turning the victims into mindless, war loving, consumers, based on the “American” model.
Change is coming! Our grand-children will be amused & amazed that we were so foolish to accept worthless foreign paper money as an ultimate store of value. For how long will they steal our resources? Look what manipulation of common LIBOR interest rates by just 0.1% did to mainland EUrop: hundreds of billions of euros accrueing to Aglo-Saxon banks! A solution is for our governments to take control of our mobile communications infrastructure and use it as (mobile) money: gsm antenae, call credit, etc. If roads are gov. owned, why not comm. network? Money is the ability to communicate /value/! Call credit already contains value (unlike paper) that can be transfered, exchanged (call-cards money), etc. Gov. can distribute call credit to depressed areas & take it back from the people again as taxes or to reduce inflation, unlike paper money. Take this idea to the experts & immune ourselves from bogus external exchange rates, convertibility, etc.!!
Read it this morning on my home page, but it ain’t there now–some people in an area of Mexico came together and chased out the politicians, law enforcement, and a mob that was logging out their resources, raping their women, and otherwise strutting over the place.
That happened a couple years ago. They’re still manning their Campfires, keeping ready for a return.
So, looks like another of the Latin American part of the 99 has had enough of the 1%.
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