So You Want to Start a Trump Resistance? Grow food.

[Tony Gosling]

So You Want to Start a Resistance
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=174813#174813
February 7, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - Talk of "resistance" ebbs 
and flows as political parties enter and leave power. The one 
constant among this turbulent process is the futility and impotence 
of these so-called "resistance" movements ignited and left to burn.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/so-you-want-to-start-resistance.html

When President Donald Trump took to the White House in January 2017, 
such calls were once again made to "resist" the new president and all 
the perceived evils he represented.

However, so confused and detached from reality are these calls, that 
no such resistance has even the remotest possibility of improving 
America's plight, with a much more likely possibility of actually 
making that plight worse.

The Deep State: From Whence Real Power Flows

According to Wikipedia, the deep state is described as:
...a political situation in a country when an internal organ ("deep 
state"), such as the armed forces and civilian authorities 
(intelligence agencies, police, administrative agencies and branches 
of governmental bureaucracy), does not respond to the civilian 
political leadership.
And the reality is, within every nation exists a deep state of one 
sort or another. Excluded from Wikipedia's definition are "internal 
organs" comprised of corporate-financier interests with unwarranted 
wealth and influence on scales that likewise allow them to "not 
respond to the civilian political leadership," or even directly and 
fully control that civilian political leadership altogether.

Beyond mere conspiracy theories, leaked e-mails made available by 
Wikileaks from 2008 - one month before President Barack Obama won the 
2008 election - reveal how Citibank's Michael Froman provided a list 
to John Podesta laying out virtually the entire cabinet of the 
soon-to-be president.

The New Republic's October 2016 article, "The Most Important 
WikiLeaks Revelation Isn't About Hillary Clinton," would report 
(emphasis added):
The cabinet list ended up being almost entirely on the money. It 
correctly identified Eric Holder for the Justice Department, Janet 
Napolitano for Homeland Security, Robert Gates for Defense, Rahm 
Emanuel for chief of staff, Peter Orszag for the Office of Management 
and Budget, Arne Duncan for Education, Eric Shinseki for Veterans 
Affairs, Kathleen Sebelius for Health and Human Services, Melody 
Barnes for the Domestic Policy Council, and more. For the Treasury, 
three possibilities were on the list: Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, 
and Timothy Geithner.

This was October 6. The election was November 4. And yet Froman, an 
executive at Citigroup, which would ultimately become the recipient 
of the largest bailout from the federal government during the 
financial crisis, had mapped out virtually the entire Obama cabinet, 
a month before votes were counted. And according to the 
Froman/Podesta emails, lists were floating around even before that.
Citibank's parent company, Citigroup, reported annual net profits for 
2016 at around 15 billion US dollars. This is enough money to provide 
1 million dollars in bribes to every member of the US Congress, in 
both the Senate and House of Representatives, and still maintain the 
vast majority of its wealth. And Citigroup is just one of many 
immense, corporate-financier monopolies not only cohabitating upon 
Wall Street, but cohabitating upon the boards of directors and 
sponsorship lists of America and Europe's most influential policy think tanks.

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Prominent US policy think tanks include but are not limited to:
The Brookings Institution
RAND Corporation
The Heritage Foundation
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for American Progress
Crisis Group
Freedom House
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
The Atlantic Council
Think tanks are forums within which unelected corporate-financier 
funded policymakers devise and promote policy on behalf of their 
benefactors. They represent the collective interests of multiple 
multi-billion dollar multinational corporations, banks, and other 
institutions. They often have ties directly to corporate-media 
platforms, with corporate-media figures either included within think 
tank boards of directors, or their media platforms servings as 
corporate sponsors, or often, both.



Policy is not only devised and promoted from within think tanks and 
by media platforms associated with them, but this policy inevitably 
ends up in the hands of corporate lobbyists, who in turn, place it in 
the hands of both US legislators and staff in the White House itself.

The Hill in an article titled, "Top Lobbyists 2016: Hired Guns," 
enumerates specific lobbying firms, while The Hill's article, "Top 
Lobbyists 2016: Corporate," enumerates specific, prominent lobbyists 
and the corporations they work for.

While many Americans may envision the US President bent over a desk, 
penning US policy in the Oval Office at night, in reality, US policy 
is merely rubber stamped by presidents and congress members - many 
times having not even read the bills and policies they are signing off on.

This is the very definition of a deep state that not only ignores 
civilian political leadership, but exercises absolute control over 
that leadership's selection and administration.


Fighting the Deep State

Realizing then, that is it not "Obama" or "Trump" that we are 
actually protesting, or even conservatives or liberals, but the deep 
state and the corporate-financier special interests that constitute 
it regardless of who occupies the White House, Congress, or any side 
of any given mainstream debate, it becomes clear that protests 
against "Trump" and other politicians or parties we disdain are beyond futile.

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Instead, taking on the deep state more directly is required, but how?

The Global Fortune 500 includes:
Big-Retail
Big-Energy and Oil
Big-Auto
Big-Pharma
Big-Ag and Processed Food Giants
Telecom and Tech Giants
Big-Banks, Insurance, and other Financiers
Big-Defense
Big-Media
The corporations listed among the Fortune 500 also, without 
coincidence, sponsor the aforementioned, unelected policy think tanks.

They are able to wield such power and influence because of the 
immense, unchecked wealth they hold as well as their control over the 
very necessities modern civilizations requires to function. They hold 
this wealth, in turn, because they are uncontested monopolies in 
their respective industries to which hundreds of millions of people 
around the globe pay their paychecks to each and every month.

Imagine global wealth and influence represented by a game board. The 
US-European Fortune 500 have nearly covered the entire board with 
their pieces, with very few exceptions being competing circles of 
special interests in Russia and across Asia, particularly in China.

To truly fight the deep state, it is imperative to remove their 
pieces from the board and replace them with pieces of our own.

How Organic is Pushing Big-Ag Off the Board

While many people believe revolution involves burning cities, 
unfurling flags, and joining huge mobs of rebels and protesters, the 
reality is that positive change only comes from patient hard work, 
incrementally removing unjust, domineering edifices from society, and 
replacing them with better, localized, and more equitable structures.

There is perhaps no better example of this than the organic 
agricultural movement.

Resulting from a backlash against massive global-spanning and 
insidiously unjust chemical and genetically-modified agricultural 
monopolies like Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, Dow, and Bayer, 
the modern organic food revolution is predicated on local grassroots 
networks spanning the world, consisting of millions of people - both 
producers and consumers, media platforms educating and informing the 
public, farmers' markets, organic farms and collectives, local 
retailers, as well as processing companies producing value-added 
products and more.

Village by village, town by town, city by city, and country by 
country, organic agriculture has spread for a variety of reasons.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R08qdgzH-as>Ask The Urban Farmer -- 
HOW TO START UP your own market garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R08qdgzH-as

First - the direct socioeconomic benefit it brings those who are 
engaged in growing and selling. Instead of one massive corporation 
concentrating profits from around the globe into the hands of a board 
of directors and their corporation's shareholders, organic 
agriculture - through local entrepreneurship - distributes those 
profits more evenly, directly to the people growing, processing, and 
selling the food.

Second are the health benefits, not just for consumers eating cleaner 
food, but also for the farmers growing it spared the hazardous 
effects of chemicals used in big-ag farming. Additionally, the 
environment is spared pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, 
as well as genetic pollution associated with big-ag farming.

And finally, there is the positive macro-economic impact of localized 
organic farming - involving a more distributed and localized 
agricultural system that can better prepare for and protect itself 
from market fluctuations, natural disasters, and other factors that 
have an immense and devastating impact on farmers trapped within 
big-ag monoculture.

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The organic food industry has been steadily growing, taking a larger 
and larger percentage of the market away from big-ag each year. In 
other words, taking big-ag's pieces off the game board, and replacing 
them with organic agriculture's pieces.

And as the organic food movement grows, it becomes easier in many 
places for individuals and groups of people to enter into the market 
- further eroding big-ag's position on the board.

Big-ag has attempted to strike back through policymakers it controls, 
its army of lobbyists, and influence over the media to attack, 
undermine, and even outlaw aspects of the organic industry to 
reassert itself. However, it is in vain. Those entering into the 
organic industry outnumber those invested in big-ag a million to one 
- and are entering into organic agriculture out of passion and 
self-preservation, not profits alone.

A similar tale has unfolded due to information technology empowering 
individuals with the ability to compete with establishment media 
monopolies. The alternative media  has slowly replaced the game 
pieces of big-media monopolies, wiping out some entirely, and pushing 
others into corners where they now desperately fight to retain 
credibility, profitability, and audiences.

Taking on the Rest of the Deep State

In order to replicate this success across all other industries and 
aspects of modern human civilization the deep state currently 
dominates, the same sort of incremental building-up of our own 
institutions, businesses, networks, and paradigms is required.


Image: The Game Board of global geopolitical, socioeconomic power.

As technology advances, it will empower people on a much more local 
level to directly compete with the biggest and most powerful 
monopolies on Earth. Solar power and advances in battery technology 
will allow larger numbers of people to make either personal or local 
power grids independently of both state and corporate energy monopolies.

Manufacturing technology is increasingly making it possible to 
manufacture locally, short-circuiting corporate-financier dominated, 
global-spanning supply chains and all aspects they encompass. It also 
allows for a larger number of players to enter into and compete in 
industries that have for over a century been dominated by immense, 
centralized monopolies every where from big-auto to aerospace 
corporations, and big-retail.



Crytocurrencies and blockchain technology is making it possible for 
people to develop their own independent monetary instruments, 
circumventing centrally controlled banks, financiers, and state 
monetary systems.

While some of these solutions are just finding their way onto the 
game board, dwarfed by those of existing monopolies, the incremental, 
patient, but persistent organic agriculture movement as well as the 
alternative media are case studies proving that it is not only 
possible, but likely inevitable. As technology makes it easier for us 
to take a share of the market and the benefits that come with it for 
ourselves, we will - and at the expense of existing monopolies.

Still Not Convinced?

For those still not convinced - imagine this scenarios:
Americans take to the streets, protesting against President Trump and 
his policies, burning down their own cities, brutalizing their 
neighbors, fighting with police resulting in arrests and injuries on 
all sides - only to end up going home and changing exactly nothing.
Because when they go home, they continue paying into the very system 
they were just out protesting - by shopping at Walmart, filling up 
their big-auto cars with big-oil gasoline, drinking Starbucks, 
pecking away at the screens of their slave-made Apple iPads, fueling 
the actual source of social injustice - the concentration of wealth 
in the hands of corporate-financier monopolies - that gestated a 
politician like Trump and all those that inhabit his administration.
Compared with this second scenario:
Americans begin working locally, starting and supporting local 
businesses, organizing themselves to create local institutions that 
carry out the affairs of their community that government and large 
corporations refuse to address.

In 4-8 years, a level of self-sufficiency will exist in such 
communities, cutting off both the government they despise and the 
corporations that created and influence it from the money, time, 
attention, and energy of millions of people. These resources, kept 
locally, would be used to move the country forward directly as the 
people - not Wall Street and Washington - sees fit.
And because no "revolution" of fire, blood, and bullets took place, 
the government would atrophy and shrink where it was unwelcomed by 
the people, and survive and continue to function where it was needed 
- and where it still functioned, people who now hold leverage in 
their local communities with their own two hands, could demand and 
receive the administration that suited them - not special interests - best.
In the end, there would not be lawless mayhem, but a government 
brought back into balance, brought back because of the leverage the 
people empowered themselves with locally through constructive 
activism, entrepreneurship, local institutions, and decentralized networks.
  Americans must realize by now, having protested the war in Iraq in 
2003 only to be completely ignored and have the war rage for now 16 
years under both a Republican and Democrat president, and having 
protested almost continuously since President Trump's election in 
2016, that protests alone accomplish nothing.

Without leverage, the special interests that dominate American 
politics have absolutely no reason to listen. By cutting these 
interests off from the very source of their strength - and channeling 
that strength instead into local movements like organic agriculture, 
alternative energy, local manufacturing, alternative media and 
entertainment, and alternative currencies - we empower ourselves with 
overwhelming leverage - not only to exact our demands from our 
elected officials, but to implement policy locally without conferring 
with or receiving "approval" from Washington in the first place.


For those who delude themselves into believing they can replicate the 
success of "revolutions" like the 2011 "non-violent" "Arab Spring," 
they need to consider the above equation of real power, then 
reexamine the "Arab Spring" to see whether or not that was truly a 
grassroots "revolution," or simply foreign-backed regime change 
fueled by billions of dollars from US-European special interests 
through a variety of channels - including very violent subversion.

While the actual path to resisting and overcoming unwarranted wealth 
and power is not as glamorous as a Hollywood summer blockbuster, an 
incremental transition in which we shift the direction our own 
resources flow, away from Wall Street and Washington and instead back 
into our communities locally, will not only improve our communities 
and enrich ourselves, but also completely and truly "drain the swamp" 
US President Trump has only dredged deeper and stocked with even more 
creatures.   
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So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann 
companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv 
to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German 
communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli 
authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again 
because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the 
Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, 
and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened 
again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of 
these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, 
protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as 
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