The Thing About Chickens
1st chapter of my next book: Corporate Communism - Feeling GOOD Doing EVIL
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Hello. Wondering if 3 or 4 of you could help. I’m writing another book in my NOTES FROM A BLONDE series called “Corporate Communism: Feeling GOOD Doing EVIL”. As I complete the final draft over the next month, I’d appreciate it if a few of you could help me with a few chapters to make sure that it’s clear and easy to read (from your perspective).
Here’s the final draft of the first chapter, though I find it a bit long and may break it in two. Let me know what you think in the comments and, if you’d like to be a reader for some of my chapters, please reach out. Once the book is published, I’ll send you a free book as a show of appreciation.
Equity sounds like a nice word because it sounds so much like equality, but it results only in the equality of injustice for the masses.
Chapter 1: The Thing About Chickens
“In Soviet Times, I used to laugh at the chicken ads on TV,” said a friend who had immediately left Estonia when the Soviet Empire collapsed in 1991.
“Chicken ads?” I asked.
“Yeah, ads for chicken. You know, advertisements about how great their fresh chickens were and where you could buy them. The best.”
“What was so funny?”
“Because under communism, there’s only one source for chickens: the government. Every chicken in every part of the country was owned by the communists. Milk, beef, bread. Everything. There is no ‘competition’ in a communist country. In Soviet times, trust me, there was only one place to buy a chicken, if you could even find one, and they were all the same price. So why put those ads on TV?” Before I could figure out an answer she said, “Because the communists were trying to make us believe that our lives were just as good as the Americans’. If those Americans were watching ads for chicken, damn it, the Soviets would have chicken ads, too.” My friend sat quietly for a moment, thinking back to those dark times. “We all laughed at those chicken ads – secretly, of course – but those communists thought they were pulling one over on us.”
I don’t know why, but there seemed to be a lot of funny stuff going on around chickens and communists. My friend from Lithuania once told me a common joke that helped people get through those hungry times:
At the end of the annual community meeting highlighting the amazing prosperity and abundance that communism had brought to everyone in the village, the communist leader asked if there were any questions. One man stood up. “Yes, I have a question,” he said. “Why, if we’re all so prosperous now, why is it that we have no chickens? Before communism, we all had chickens. Now there are none. What happened to all the chickens?”
The room fell silent. The communist leader glared down from the podium at the man and said nothing. Then he scribbled a note in his binder full of notes and left the stage.
The following year at the village’s annual prosperity meeting, the communist leader finished his speech and asked if there were any questions. At first there was a terrified silence. Then a man tentatively raised his hand and stood up. “I’m not going to ask about the chickens,” he said, “No, I promise not to ask about what happened to all the chickens. I just want to know, what happened to my friend who asked about the chickens?”
To my mind, these two chicken stories summarize communism in a nutshell:
1. You’re told to believe lies.
2. The lies bring food shortages and hunger.
3. If you confront the lies, you’re punished or even ‘disappeared’.
For the record, when it comes to #2, the self-appointed rulers in communist countries never go hungry. The only ones who go hungry are the people that communism is pretending to “serve”. Mao and Stalin had plenty of banquets and no one can claim that the current North Korean leader isn’t getting enough calories.
Here in the West, I’ve been seeing the eerie communist pattern creep into how large corporations influence not only their employees’ thoughts and acceptable language but flex their muscles to influence the larger cultural and political ways that run counter to democracy and, more worryingly, counter to ensuring a stable food supply.
Over decades, the managerial class has been trained not to struggle against corporate think because they will be punished – either not promoted or directly ‘disappeared’ from their jobs. Some of the corporate propaganda has long been promoted by our own political leaders and repeated unthinkingly by the average citizen has actually brought real hunger and deprivation to many people living here in the West. Good jobs shipped overseas, stagnating wages for the jobs that remain, escalating housing costs, and runaway inflation on food and fuel have all contributed to a series of crises that leave many people trying to escape their despair by drugging over their ever deepening well of sorrow, sometimes in the simple form of relentless marijuana use or a bottle of gin.
One would think that Corporate America would have a natural disinclination to communism, but I’ll show you how comfortably aligned these two ways of doing business really are and how people are politely and often unwittingly shifting democratic power structures so that only the very rich are served.
The people who are actively and unknowingly shifting power to the rich are primarily the managerial class – the middle managers within corporations, governmental bureaucracies, and educational institutions. These are nice people, the ones who do their best to raise their families, pay their bills, keep a roof over their heads, and mostly live within the rules set out for them. When their HR departments foist social re-education programs upon them, they often acquiesce and align to the new corporate agenda. In an effort to get a promotion or to just imagine that they’re doing something positive for the world, they buy into a twisted agenda where they end up feeling good doing evil.
You may question what I mean by “feeling good doing evil”. In this book, I will show you the results of what warm-hearted, well-meaning middle class people are doing to the society in which we live and how, with a “feeling good about myself smile”, they’re destroying to our children’s future. Corporate media has been particularly good at hiding the evil unfolding in our world under the guise of good.
I write this book because I see echoes of the gaslighting, controls, threats, and punishments that my family in Estonia suffered under Soviet Occupation. Yes, it’s not yet as severe here in the West as it was for them under communism, but it’s heading that way. If you are someone who has become afraid to speak – and you now “speak in whispers” only to those you completely trust – you are already feeling the forces of what I call “Corporate Communism”.
It's important to recognize that this new form of communism doesn’t strictly align with the purported ideologies of textbook communism but then, communism in practice has not once aligned to those ideals in any country. Yes, communism grew from Marxism, an ideology where everyone supposedly had an equal footing and piece of the proverbial pie whether you bothered to work for it or not. When it took hold, in the blink of an eye, communism became all about erasing citizens’ rights and applying central control of the economy and food supplies in such a way that it benefited no one except the unelected rulers. The reality of actual communism in the Soviet Empire and China and Korea and Venezuala and Cuba and other 20th century economic disaster zones resulted in a privileged elite terrorizing the majority into silence and submission, starvation, le, the abject suffering of hundreds of millions of people under its control, and the deaths of an estimated one hundred million human beings.
Just as communism purported to “care” about “the people”, today’s corporations and the self-appointed “trustees of the future” have cleverly positioned themselves as being concerned about the well-being of us little people – even of the planet as a whole. Case in point: the billionaire-backed organization, the World Economic Forum (WEF), pushes a totalitarian-styled globalist agenda that claims to be concerned about “the planet” and food security for the poor. Ask yourself this: have you ever once heard about a multinational fretting whether it was paying their fair share of taxes so that social safety nets and food security would be robust? Have you ever heard of a multinational concerned about whether they were paying their workers enough or giving them time to rest during a long day?
I haven’t. Just the opposite.
For example, after over a dozen staff jumped from the roof to their deaths at an Apple factory in China due to the exhausting, horrible working conditions there, NBC reported that:
Apple says it deployed COO Tim Cook and helped convince Foxconn to attach large nets to its building to help combat a rash of suicides at the iPhone-maker's China contractor that fabricates several of its products.[i]
Yes, Tim Cook’s corporate solution was to place nets around the building.[ii] Photos of the factory show that these nets now cover the windows, making the building look more like a prison than a factory serving a supposedly hip and progressive company. As for an attempt by the U.S. Congress to put pressure on companies that used forced labor in the Chinese Uighur camps, in 2020 The Washington Post reported that “Apple was one of many U.S. companies that oppose the [anti-forced labor] bill as it’s written.”[iii] The article went on to say:
Apple is heavily dependent on Chinese manufacturing, and human rights reports have identified instances in which alleged forced Uighur labor has been used in Apple’s supply chain.
In addition to the inhumanity of using forced labor from people imprisoned in those Chinese camps, the question is: how can a Western democracy with its labor and environmental laws compete with a country that uses slave labor?
The answer is, of course, it can’t.
Societies run by communism and pure corporate control ultimately end up dragging everyone (except those who have put themselves in charge) to the same, ugly place: poverty and hunger for the masses. In this book, I will show you how corporations and the managerial class propping them up are using the language and techniques of communism to shift our society to one where a handful of rich men at the top decide how the rest of us shall live. I’ll also speak to what I think we can do about it.
The polished public relations message claiming that gigantic corporations just want to “help” the poor in other countries started in the 1980s when corporations sent millions of working class jobs to communist China. Today, here in the West, we see the logical outcome of that Big Corporate Lie: the working class struggling to make ends meet (or simply finding a job or a place to live), the middle class just barely holding on, and the rich who are just get richer and richer by the day. Though they make pronouncements about how much they care about our world and the people in it, the ultrarich use organizations like the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other foundations[1] in their own best interest, not ours.
Being the bridge that allows the superrich to build cozy relationships with our elected politicians, the WEF is able to fund propaganda campaigns that pressure governments to undermine Western democracies by leaning on causes like global warming / climate change / climate crisis (the terms changing quite a bit) / the industrialization of food and, of course, the need for “global” solutions and “global citizens” – a framework that benefits only the multinational corporations.
Why is there little to no meaningful pressure on the major polluters, China? After all, according to an article by the BBC, “China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined”[iv].
At the WEF, executives and billionaires gather in Switzerland, a tax haven (no irony here?), with many of our elected leaders to decide what’s best for the world – on our behalf and without our input. While many multinationals still benefit outrageously from the lack of environmental laws in China (and will continue to do so since China is not bound by the Paris Accord), they tisk tisk the rest of us on “climate change”, even going so far as to promote the “transition decade” (2020 to 2030) as a time to “reset” (their word, not mine) the world and to “rightsize” (yes, rightsize – remember that word for later) our Western diets, shifting us away from meat “towards protein equity per capita”. [v]
Protein equity.
I must stress the danger of the word “equity” because it is peppered throughout so many government directives and supportive corporate media news reports and many don’t understand how it underpins communism:
Equity sounds like a nice word because it sounds so much like equality, but it results only in the equality of injustice for the masses.
The grand notion of equity – using a twisted form of what communists call justice in an attempt to reduce inequality – means that everyone except the self-appointed ruling class get flattened either through coercion, taxation, inflation, or force.
Or a combination of all four.
If you are just a small-time entrepreneur (as I am) or part of the middle class or a proud trucker or a farmer or a factory worker or getting by as best you can on welfare (as some of my relatives have done), equity will not be kind to you. Countries that run on what the rulers offer as an “equitable” framework have been devastated by hunger and poverty where millions of people live in terror of what the self-appointed rulers will do next.
If you search the word “equity” on the World Economic Forum’s website (www.weforum.org), you’ll see nearly 35,000 references to this notion of “evening things out” for everyone (except themselves, of course).
Is it really true that the multinational corporations and the billionaires who fund the WEF are truly concerned about “equity” and carbon emissions? Really?
What’s behind the smiling cloak of the WEF’s feigned concern about climate change?
Looking at the food industry for a moment, it is quite revealing to shine a light on how the WEF positions the purported concerns of their club of the ultra-rich. Notice that a World Economic Forum white paper titled, “Meat: The Future – A Roadmap for Delivering 21st-Century Protein” [vi], uses the word “investment” twice in one sentence. The authors ponder how Europe and America could:
…”promote a policy and investment strategy to encourage investment in and transition towards alternative proteins and sustainable feedstocks”[vii].
It goes on to describe how to coerce people toward synthetic meat despite the disruption to people’s livelihoods and culture:
“This is because of the inherently personal and cultural nature of food, and in particular the special place of meat in human diets and livelihoods. Suggesting that Argentinians or Texans should eat less beef, for example, would take a brave politician . . . how might a politician react to suggestions to replace farms with labs to grow meat?” [emphasis added]
The authors of “Meat: The Future” unwittingly let the cat out of the bag. Using the mantra that they’re driven by a desire to “reduce carbon footprint” (the way the 1980s corporations used the mantra that they wanted to ship factory jobs overseas to help the Chinese peasants find their way to democracy and nice, middle class Americans nodded in agreement as their working class neighbors’ jobs got shipped away), the true objective seems quite clearly to be to replace independent farms with meat labs, synthetic food processing plants.
Many synthetic food labs are owned by tech billionaires like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Eric Schmidt (co-founder of Google), Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), Marc Andreessen (Netscape), Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), and others.[viii]
In short, the WEF – which I view as the Corporate Politburo of the very, very rich – has determined that buying synthetic food made in a factory is “better for the environment” than allowing people to earn a living from the land, themselves. There are still many proud and powerful farmers in the world who are able to function independently of globalists. Rob people of the right to earn a living off the land and soon our food will be centrally controlled by billionaires who own massive factory farms staffed by their corporate minions.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
History has shown us what happens when communists centralize control of the food supply. Millions of people living on fertile soil starve to death.
Sticking with the food theme, the WEF Corporate Politburo published a blog in 2021 again encouraging us to avoid meat by eating insects to – you guessed it – reduce our carbon footprint.[ix]
“Thanks to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), we are at a turning point and finally able to industrialize the breeding of insects in a contained environment. Insect breeding is a data centric agro-industry with a lot of commonalities with precision agriculture.” [x]
Insects processed at huge corporate factories, of course.
Somehow, the “insects as human food” story has reached the elementary school curricula as though it were a positive thing. Of course, political movements always go after the children, first. They’re impressionable, and what kid doesn’t like to talk about bugs? But instead of teaching students that big corporations and billionaires want to take farmers’ livelihoods away with a plan to create meat labs and giant insect processing plants, elementary school teachers – trained to fret non-stop about our carbon footprint – are now teaching 10-year-olds about the wonders of eating bugs.[xi] It’s a fun topic for 10-year-olds, of course.
As for toddlers and pre-schoolers, at a small town in Canada, the University of Guelph’s childcare center now boasts they’ve reduced their carbon footprint by 65%. They say they’re also the first to have stopped feeding young children any meat at all. They’re completely plant-based.[xii]
No chicken for you, kid.
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FOOTNOTES
[1] The Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Club, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) set up by billionaires to serve their own interests.
[i] “Apple Sent Tim Cook to China, Encourages Suicide Nets at Foxconn: Report”, NBC Bay Area, February 15, 2011, https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/apple-sends-tim-cook-to-china-encourages-suicide-nets-at-foxconn-report/1909166/, accessed May 6, 2023.
[ii] Young, Noel, “Apple's new chief visits Chinese factory to hang nets after workplace suicides”, Daily Mail (UK), February 16, 2011, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357833/Apple-responds-suicides-Chinese-Foxconn-factory-hanging-nets.html, accessed March 10.
[iii] Albergotti, Reed, “Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China”, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-uighur/, accessed July 31, 2023.
[iv] “Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined”, BBC, May 7, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57018837, accessed August 21, 2023.
[v] “Meat: The Future – A Roadmap for Delivering 21st-Century Protein”, Weforum.org, January 2019, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Roadmap_Protein.pdf, accessed March 1, 2023.
[vi] “Meat: The Future – A Roadmap for Delivering 21st-Century Protein”, Weforum.org, January 2019, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Roadmap_Protein.pdf, accessed March 1, 2023.
[vii] “Meat: The Future – A Roadmap for Delivering 21st-Century Protein”, Weforum.org, January 2019, https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_White_Paper_Roadmap_Protein.pdf, accessed March 1, 2023.
[viii] Garret, Olivier, “Why Bill Gates is Betting Millions on Synthetic Biology”, Forbes, September 10, 2020, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030/, accessed March 2, 2023.
[ix] Hubert, Antoine, “Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food system,” World Economic Forum, July 12, 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/, accessed March 1, 2023.
[x] Hubert, Antoine, “Why we need to give insects the role they deserve in our food system,” World Economic Forum, July 12, 2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/, accessed March 1, 2023.
[xi] Part of the curriculum at the public schools in Guelph, Ontario, as described by a friend of mine who is an elementary school teacher in that district. 2023.
[xii] Hannam, Rebecca, “University of Guelph child care centre touts plant-based menu to reduce carbon footprint”, Farmtario, October 31, 2022, https://farmtario.com/news/university-of-guelph-child-care-centre-touts-plant-based-menu-to-reduce-carbon-footprint/, accessed March 1, 2023.