Breaking Barriers

PRE- 2019 Mindset

The original goals of the UNITED NATIONS focussed on buiding peaceful international relations. American bankers like the Rockefeller family were some of the early influencers who got the organization going. Over time, goals around social issues took precidence over international relations.   There was always tension between the idealists and the pragmatists. In other words, between those who wanted to focus on the GOOD to be done vs. those who wanted to focus on the GOODS they could attain by means of their increased involvement.

1998, the address by UN’s then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the WEF: "“The United Nations has been transformed since we last met here in Davos. The Organization has undergone a complete overhaul that I have described as a ‘quiet revolution.’…A fundamental shift has occurred. The United Nations once dealt only with governments. By now we know that peace and prosperity cannot be achieved without partnerships involving governments, international organizations, the business community and civil society…The business of the United Nations involves the businesses of the world.”

Back in 1998, this seemed a benign statement. As corporations turned into multinational and then supranational coporations, as shareholders had no more national loyalties, they became increasingly powerful. Many of the most powerful, those whose entire business models disrupted their industries, were invited to join the World Economic Forum (WEF). This is the world's largest corporate lobby group.

In the 1990s, many citizens had been protesting against the big corporations for their use of child labour, their exploitation of workers, their disregard for enviromental protection and safe working conditions, etc. These billion dollar corporations needed a kinder, gentler image as shareholder capitalism was looking far too greedy.

They flocked to the idea of 'Stakeholder Capitalism" and PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. They could PARTNER with citizens to make the world a kinder, gentler place.... 

This was the era of increasing buy outs of smaller local media, manufacturing and other local companies. Then we had mergers of entire industries for mutual gain. (For example a chemical company buying up a drug company so that they would have the TREATMENT for the harm their product caused, or mergers of news corporations with surveilance tech corporations to "guard against disinformation", etc.) Ever more power in the hands of ever fewer decision makers. 

NOTE: an oligarchy is a government or society controlled by a small group of very powerful people.

Take a moment to get an appreciaiton of the wealth of a SINGLE INDIVIDUAL making up this class of "oligarchs" by opening this interactive tool. What was the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos "worth" in 2019, before the WHO's declarion of a pandemic drove even more dollars in his direction?

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

By 2019 the World Economic Forum  partnered with the UNITED NATIONS - no questions or oversight from the uninformed public. 

When it comes to ONE of the UN organizations, the World Health Organization, we find that since 2017, the role of "non state actors" people who donate to the WHO and expect their agendas to be pushed, had become increasingly powerful. This year 217 such "not state actors" appear to have had open and informal access to WHO officials. Just think - IF THIS MANY BIG OIL PLAYERS had access to decision makers AHEAD of the government reps... would you be happy? Why should those who profit IMMENSELY have this kind of "crony" relationship with decision makers? 

Is it the same with the upcoming UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT? Can private sector players come in and influence decision making?