The mechanisms of abuse

ABUSE ON CHILDREN OF MULTINATIONAL: an invisible GLOBAL EPIDEMIC
There may be a deeper revelation of the soul of a society, the way in which it treats its children, "said Nelson Mandela

How can we not agree?

Yet today's children may be attacked, made ​​ill, or killed by pervasive drug trade, food and drink junk, made ​​perverse in various ways by unscrupulous violence, engaged in forced labor without any benefit, and then thrown into a future of business debt bondage and meaningless work. How can this be allowed to publicly growing systematic abuse at every level? What kind of society could look away from her as the dominant institutions ruin the lives of young people and the future of humanity?

The abuse is built into the system. All rights of the very people who care about children -from working parents to support systems social- are derived from treaties 'commercial' corporate laws to ensure that surpass the sole object of the rule of "the benefit of investors." The children are in the lower layer, and for the most unscrupulous expropriated from the global system. The excuse of "more competitive conditions" means, in fact, a race to the bottom of benefits for families, social security, education, higher debt-free, the protections against toxic environments, to which the young are the most vulnerable. At the same time, growing sales of junk food, malnutrition, and deterioration encourage the cultural development achieved only -a increasing demand for money at the top.

The mechanisms of abuse are not tempered by reforms as in the past, but deepened and broadened. The appropriations for [the law] Omnibus Harper undresses also scientific institutions and social and removes foreign transnational corporate rights in the name of "partnertariato a trans-Pacific" and "Trade Agreement between Canada and Europe," they further advance the great expropriation.

An application is not made ​​joining these points, but place it is taboo. What war, social or ecological collapse is now fed by rapid creep enterprise rights in order to steal and pollute the society and -i less considerati- young people?

In the second expanded version of Cancer Stage of Capitalism (The cancerous stage of capitalism, ndt) I explain the entire system. Monetary operations omnivorous [activated] by corporate wealth proliferate through their living host, overcoming the defenses of the social life at all levels and silencing criticism. None [of these actions] tends to serve a social function ("life support" in the original, ndt), but only to maximize profits. They surround, threaten, bribe and harass with the armies of corporate lobby legislatures to pass and launch attacks through advertising and wars with the media as their vehicle of propaganda. There are all the classic features of the bullismo- requests pervasive one-way, make a gang, threatening with force, false pretenses, weaken opponents seized and exploited, and brutally attack those who resist. But bullies are seen only among the young people themselves, while the government in the interest of the welfare of children is increasingly sacrificed to the fanatical doctrine according to which the "invisible hand" of the market is God's Providence and all goods are "goods ".

HOW THE ABUSE FIN COMPANY MOVES IN CHILDREN

Recall as the spokesman for the General Electric and United States President Ronald Reagan sent in wave 80s post-war against unions, peace activists, environmentalists, and every type of community is not subservient to American corporate rights. Nicaragua is small and hunger, who had risen against the tyranny prepared by the United States, bringing public education and health benefits for the children overwhelmed by the poverty was identified as an example.

"All they have to do is say" Uncle "," Reagan said with a smirk to the press when asked what he could do to stop attacks on Nicaragua the United States. They did not do it and the United States undermined their central port and funded the Contras with money from drugs to weapons to attack and burn down schools and hospitals. The Reagan administration and the media ignored the judgment of six billion dollars of the International Court against the war crimes and the false claim of "self-defense". Abusers always continue if they are not shown and the first victims are always the children.

Now with the collapse of European banks designed by social-democratic opponents of the oil-rich who have gained from looting companies in the Middle East and support systems for the basic necessities in slow decline, we are able to see the direct invasion corporate of the minds and bodies of children. As elsewhere, the rationale is to "give them what they want." And all the levers are pressed to engage young people to the products of multinational addictive - the baby and the teenager are afraid of being left alone, the desire for more sugar, salt and fat, the charm of the primordial images of violence and destruction, the desire for attention in a stereotypical form, the boredom of inertia with no vital function, loss of social recreation areas because of the great lack of funds, the incessant compulsion to distraction, and doubt from the black hole on the right I . All products and incitement unhealthy and addictive form a common pattern of child abuse, which is much more destabilizing for the life of any other of the past. Under the discovery, growing epidemic pathological.

In response to diseases caused by the goods, skyrocketing obesity and lack of physical fitness in juvenile depression unprecedented and psychic indifference to violence, almost no standard of public life that is pushed to the youth is allowed in the super market lucrative. Even when the increasing consumption of countless children of junk foods, pharmaceutical drugs and entertainment that destroy life makes them dependent on what could eventually ruin their lives, you can see the lobby furiously that hinder the healthy lifestyles.

As shown in Childhood Under Siege / How Big Business Targets Your Children (Childhood under siege, as big business targets your children, ndt) by Joel Bakan, systematic abuse is ignored, denied and secured against public regulation. Even with diabetes fatalities to food and beverages and junk hormonal dysfunction and poisoning of the body due to the countless chemicals, materials and untested chemicals that nourish our lives, young people are not protected by this systematic abuse and growing by the multinationals, not even a packet of information required to prevent their physical and mental disorders, which continue to grow.

UNDERSTANDING ABUSE ON CHILDREN OF COMPANIES AS A SYSTEM PATHOLOGY

The classic film and book Bakan, The corporation has revealed step by step "corporation like a psychopath." Professor of Law and also a parent, he recalls' "idea gone too far" of modern civilization that has been aggressively pushed aside, "that children and childhood are needed that kind of public protection and support that only a company could offer. "Now look, the big corporations are "free to promote ideas and unhealthy products - to put pressure on scientists and physicists to push the sales of their psychotropic drugs - to make the environments of children - in fact, their own little body stoves toxic - and to profit from the educational systems increasingly turned into big business. "For a long time the horrors and dangers of child labor have drawn attention, and Bakan reports that today they are returning.

The classic text by Ronald Laing, The politics of the family (The family policy, published by Einaudi, ndt), explores the issues of child labor, arguing that young people are made to live in a drama whose roles are programmed from one generation to the next. They are "good" or "bad" to the extent that either follow or resist the roles imposed on them. The change of course today is that the stage and the plot are dictated by the marketing of the multinational big business. Events include them on the stage and the plots of the activities and the dreams of youth through sport models, games and similar relationships, identity formation, eat and drink, creative expression, clinical care, increasing education and even sleep. Their advertising affect children from the cradle and push them strongly towards harmful substances that are addictive. This is the reason why, for example, "only 1% of all advertising of food offers a healthy diet." The sale of unhealthy desires through every window of impressionable minds has multiplied so much that almost no area of life, including schools, it is clear from the order of the day total.

Meanwhile governments controlled by corporations abdicate a definitive obligation of modern government - making it possible to protect the lives of the young and the healthy future of humanity. On products of pervasive violence of multinational companies, for example, the American Medical Association reports: "thoughts and violent behavior are induced systematically and virtually all children from the games of the multinationals." The occupation of childhood and adolescence has now reached 9-11 hours per day for ages 8-18 years who are glued to multimedia orchestrated by multinational business. Children are motivated by desires not necessary and the adaptation to a culture around them that has a "marketing system panopticon" to attack their "deep emotions". The endless repetition of slogans and false images replaces the reasons and life care, and the logic of advertising is that you are not defective product. In essence, the dependence on junk goods of all kinds driving sales growth of multinational corporations and the failure of the life skills of children comes later. What greater abuse of children could exist?

Bakan shows abundant evidence of Big Pharma buying favors with doctors, putting items in the names of newspapers, invents childhood diseases to prescribe their medicines, drug and youth from infancy to substances that do not secure their offering. The corporate invasion of public education travels with the invasion of children's health. Administrators with salaries from business leaders to collaborate on the agenda no educational function, and mechanical testing devices neighbors all'esaminazione independent academic are the Trojan horse for a massive padlock of bad education. Bakan is aware that the whole trend of 'corporatization of schools and educational institutions "undermines the role of education in promoting critical thinking and clever thoughts." In fact, fighting against them on principle. Because the reasoning and critical research need people who learn to address problems regardless of the profits of the multinational and to penetrate beyond the beliefs conditioned by the market. Big business asking for the opposite. Maximize the return of money as his first and only principle of thought and judgment and select against any truth or knowledge that is in conflict with his goal.

The corporate abuse of children, in short, goes far beyond all other forms of abuse of children put together. But in a world where both parents have to work to survive, and the money always wins the election, the interests of the lives of children are pushed out of sight. "Multinationals are large, powerful and dominate the institutions" summarizes Bakan, "deliberately programmed to take advantage of and reject others who are looking for their welfare."

So what is the solution? Bakan emphasizes the precautionary principle and laws against obvious damage to the young. He emphasizes the "values" and "teach what is good for them and what is not." So we have no main criterion of the two. They show themselves once seen. Good for kids is whatever makes the functional life skills to grow consistently, and evil is what makes them non-functional. The domain of multinational corporations in the opposite direction. Therefore, the lack of physical fitness, obesity, depression, ego fantasies, aggressive violence and aimlessness nodes maximize his profit on the abuse of children goes out of control. This is the heart of our disorder. The solution is the control of public corporations based on proven standard of life skills.

John Mc Murtry
Source: www.globalresearch.ca