Market Colonialism

The title link is a video of working contracts in Indonesia. Companies set up conduct policies, but Indonesia is run by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their sponsor companies such as Gap, Old Navy, and other apparel companies. The factories and warehouses routinely work employees under the projected conduct to make export deadlines. They also tell their employees not to reveal infractions. They have punishments.

Many people step up to the wonder of the world, large beautiful cities and great power and wealth, and they do not look back. They live a comfortable luxurious life and do not look back, they do not look underneath.

It is what is underneath that counts. If you live on injustice, on the backs of the innocent poor, any beauty you produce is tied also to that evil that produced it, even if physical strings draw back to the hand of that child, it is still his or hers. The great cities of the world are built by the blood of the innocent. They are filthy with it. The vast piles of wealth of the world are all stolen with the hands of the impoverished still attached to them.

How filthy is that?

The world belongs to humanity. Dispense it equally. Those who do not contribute their honest portion, that small pittance of real labor required from each to the great task of supporting us all with earth's help by God's grace, they are criminals. The axe is hanging above their heads. It is by God's mercy that their own misdeeds are not against themselves directly. Their justice is delayed momentarily, in mercy, without destroying its justness, until their case can be settled by their mind and their life.

This is a horrible situation to hear for a person who is honestly good. An honest and good person deserves no such judgement. It pains them to see that wrong has been done and because they are good they seek to right it and extend the realm of their own justice and goodness through it. Jesus Christ forgives that injustice at the beat of a repentant heart.

Please, be that repentant heart!! Please, allow God to restore those whom you have wronged, and to restore you if you have wronged. Acts done in greed and wrath and hubris are not the justice of God. As god made Moses' hand leperous for a moment to show Pharoah his power, so has the world been made horrible for a time, to show God's power. But God can heal us instantly as he healed Moses.

Ask for this healing.

This is the ground-floor consequence of IMF/WB contracts and Neo-Conservative policies. I believe we should provide goodness and righteousness and fairness to these people, and to our brothers and sisters in humanity. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Do, love yourself.

In other situations, we have changed a nation's laws and economic foundations to give us a better market position. Costa Rica was forced to sell of its national lumber at very low rates, and now they have very few trees.

Large established and state-sponsored companies often go into Iraq or Africa with low wide prices from paid-off infrastructure and full credit from states and out-compete local businesses. Then they can raise prices or buy their foreign competetors for stock-bottom prices. This destroys foreign businesses, makes foreigners reliant on American and western companies, and pays us a boussant or a bonus price for our goods out of their pockets. Because of loan repayment, 70% of Pakistan's GDP goes to foreign countries. What they have left does not support a school system, and public fuel prices have risen considerably. This destroys the quality of life of the average Pakistani.

Now, the IMF money stolen by Suharto in Indonesia is being repaid by the Indonesian people. This is continuined sucking and neocolonialism. Financial colonialism is very similar to conventional national slavery. Both should be stopped. The ones 'at the top' answer to God, not to no one.

This is neocolonialism, and it is a largely concealed enterprise from those not in power who benefit from it. Those who do benefit from it while being in power, they help orchestrate the system.

This rift between those who benefit and know, and those who benefit and don't know, it must be fully breached before the situation can be righted.