Ep. 334 - Collective Consciousness Show

James Jaeger http://www.mecfilms.com/jrjbio.htm [email protected] Author, Producer & Director of Films & Documentaries. New Film Coming : UNSUSTAINABLE https://youtu.be/N21lbWaANaw James comes back on our show - his last appearance on AUN was 4/22/21 - to present his thesis about “The Leviathan: A Government-Corporate Complex” - see the text to the complete article posted online by James earlier this month. THE LEVIATHAN: a Government-Corporate Complex by James Jaeger - 8/03/2021 I have been trying to get to the source of the dysfunctional economy, the DEM-GOP bickering and the wealth disparity. Is it the Left or the Right that are screwing things up? Is it either? Neither? What political philosophies are to blame? What economic policies are to blame? I think I have a solution but here's my premise: Any person or entity that controls the GUNS and/or the MONEY is who we should be looking at. So who controls the GUNS and the MONEY? The Government. But you say, no, it's the Corporations. It's the corporations that make endless money and then buy up the government politicians through "Citizens United" and K-Street. THIS is all true. It is ALSO the Corporations. But consider this. It's not just corporations. It's Big Public Corporations. Big public Corporations are really part of the Government, if not government itself. Here's why. Any corporation that has done a public offering and sells their stock on the public market (Wall Street) is subject to the Securities and Exchange Commission (a government agency, state and federal) AND endless government regulations (state and federal). That's point one. Point two. All corporations are artificial entities created by the state and licensed to exist and operate. Only the Secretary of State can grant a charter for a corporation. Corporations are thus in effect mini state governments and I maintain large public corporations are actually federal governments, or extensions of the federal government ("Tentacles"). It's like the government is expanding out larger and larger via corporations. The public corporations are the Tentacles of the federal government. I am ONLY talking about PUBLIC corporations (S1 offerings). Private corporations (S corps, LLCs and Reg D PPMs) are not government. They are Mom & Pop corporations. Mom & Pop corporations are NOT government, but the moment they do a public offering they are BECOMING government. This is my theory. So, for all practical purposes -- I maintain-- the LARGE public Corporations ARE Government. They act like Government. They walk and talk like Government. They have as many layers as Government and the people that work for them come from Government and go back into Government. The revolving door. Public corporations ARE governments for all practical purposes because they also indirectly HIRE and FIRE government employees (i.e., presidents and congressmen) and government employees make policy and laws, i.e. they control the GUNS and the MONEY. Given this, for the purposes of trying to figure out the source of our dysfunctional economy and the wealth disparity, etc. -- I think we can make progress if we consider any and all LARGE public Corporations (think AMAZON, AT&T, BOEING, GOOGLE, LOCKHEED-MARTIN, MICROSOFT, DISNEY, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK) as government, at the very least as adjuncts of government. If we do this it simplifies the problem. It also disposes of the Left-Right conflict, i.e. the Dems blaming everything on the big bad corporations and the GOP blaming everything on the Big Bad Government. I think we need to recognize this is a "divide and conquer" strategy that the power elite is using on WE THE PEOPLE in order to usurp power via "political parties" and "public corporations." It's never the Government. It's the Democrats. It's never the Corporations. It's the Republicans. It's always the Democrats or the Republicans that are to blame. So WE THE PEOPLE do little more than watch a ping-pong match. I reject that. It's the entities that control the MONEY and the GUNS. We need to keep our eye on this as a single entity. It's what could be called a combination of government-corporate power. We could more formally call it the GOVERNMENT-CORPORATE COMPLEX (1) a corporate fascist state where government power unites with corporate power and as partners they expand the beast and acquire more and more of the world's assets to the eventual end of a Global Marxist state without individual property. Again, if we consider the government and large public corporations as a single entity -- a GOVERNMENT-CORPORATE COMPLEX -- we can dispense with all the finger pointing between the Left and the Right and get down to solving the economic and political dysfunctionalities of WE THE PEOPLE. So when one considers the Federal Reserve System (the MONEY) and the Military-Industrial Complex (the GUNS) how can one NOT consider this one (1) huge governing entity. So why are Dems and the GOP fighting over who is to blame for the problems -- the gov or the corporations. Nothing will get done if our attention is bifurcated. We should look at the Federal Reserve as a government-sanctioned quasi-private banking cartel. It's basically a private government. So when the Leviathan wants to expand, it prints fiat currency money out of thin air using its Federal Reserve "tentacle." This money is then funneled into public corporations that make weapons. Other public corporations borrow money at below market sums to expand their operations of usurping market share for all non-public corporations. All big public corporations ALWAYS get preferred money rates. The money pours into demolishing Mom & Pop businesses (with Amazon-type big box retailers), endless military hardware expenditures (for trumped up "wars"), 5 conglomerates that own 95% of the mass media propaganda machine. The fiat currency and fractional reserve loans pour into any and all large public corporations -- retail, military, mass media, academia -- and as it does these entities expand the reach of the state. So the original republic set up by the Founders has been hijacked by entities that are designed to do little more than expand the federal government -- and reduce the power of the 50 states (as in removing their militia systems). In other words the federal government and it's public corporations tentacles have become nothing less than cancer. They are an economic and political cancer upon the society WE THE PEOPLE used to once govern under the US Constitution. I think this is why WE THE PEOPLE have to stop pointing Dem-Gop fingers at each other and get serious about addressing the actual problem -- Federal Government and Public Corporations uniting as fascist partners. The government technically possesses the GUNS but the public corporations BUILD the guns. So who actually controls the weapons is nebulous. Remember all political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. So if the public corporations in the military-industrial complex refused to make any more weapons they could -- theoretically -- force the government to do their will. BUT if the public corporations refused to do their will, the government still has enough residual weapons in their possession to force them to comply or lose their corporate charter. This is why we have to consider the Leviathan a complex, a "government-corporate complex" -- almost a single entity, or a monster, a Leviathan as Hobbes would say -- that has many tentacles, each tentacle being one of it's large public corporations. Bear in mind, many laws have been passed by the Complex to facilitate mergers and acquisitions. Both Parties are responsible and members of both Parties have profited from the abuse of our Constitutional System. The system of laws we have is almost acid proof that both Parties are duplicitous in the deconstruction of the Constitutional Republic. In other words, our public servants in both Parties have been removing power from regular people and defecting to the government-corporate complex. There are ways this might be able to be handled. ------------------- (1) Note Noam Chomsky calls it the "state-corporate complex." Watch his lecture. Please support James Jaeger’s work by visiting and sharing these links: http://www.mecfilms.com/movies.html http://homevideo.net/ [email protected]