A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Debt-Enslavement Forum

Well, we knew it was coming.
We just didn't know when.
I'm talking about the consequences of an IMF loan of over $4 billion that was taken out earlier this year and which has plunged the popularity of the current administration here to under 30%. The result of any IMF loan is quite predictable and there is historical precedent to show us what one can expect. The mechanics are quite well articulated by John Perkins in his popular book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman. We knew from the start that the nation's workers would be upset because the loan conditions undermine their rights and cripple national development -- the very means by which loans are repaid in the first place. They also dismantle national sovereignty, the wet dream of globalists everywhere.
In a nation where the majority of people are either living below the poverty line or living extremely lower middle class existences, the reputation of these loans and their effects precede them. While the benefits accrue to the political class, they absolutely ensure increased poverty and unemployment for the majority of everyone else. Adding to the popular unrest is the view that the loans could have been avoided entirely. Not to mention the intrigue created by former Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa's assertion that Julian Assange was a bargaining chip to secure the first installment.
On a more practical level, these protests provide a first hand view of their effects on supply chains. Yesterday, I went to a branch of SuperMaxi, the most popular grocery store chain in Ecuador -- and the best stocked. Well . . . except for yesterday. After just two days of no "just in time" deliveries, shelves for essentials were bare. No bread. No eggs. And nearly no vegetables. This is what happens to any "developed" market system in the world that goes two or more days without regular truck deliveries. They call this progress. I wonder sometimes.

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In a sense, this global oppression is just a manifestation of the conditions I talk about in two of my previous books, The Joys of Psychopathocracy and Living on the Precipice. Try as people may, the solution never rests on policy changes. George Orwell, no friend to capitalism or free markets, was puzzled that he could find no historical examples to support his quest for equitable socialist democracy -- and not because he lacked the resources to do a thorough search. Such examples can't be found because they don't exist. They never have and they never will, because government itself is a function of psychopathy, regardless of type. Only when collective consciousness is raised -- and with it a reconciliation with the forces that bind us to the Natural World, with its infinite layers of reciprocal connections and relationships -- will we ascend from this Dark Age of endless exploitation and unforgiving, relentless "negaprocity" (negative reciprocity) -- the idea that life's goal is to improve our lives at the expense of our neighbors and the pillaging of our environment.
The change will occur. It has to. Any concept of "One World Order" is even more destructive and entropic than what we suffer with now. But it won't come without people speaking up. Voltaire eloquently expressed the essence of free expression when he declared, "I may not believe a word you say. But I'll fight to the death your right to say it." Nothing short of an insistence on social structures that operate in tune with Natural Law with bring real change.
In the meantime, expect more signs of unrest as a better world goes through its birth pains. And to our customers: shipments resume later this week -- ending one week of turmoil. [We stopped shipping out last Thursday, October 3, and expect to resume either later this week or early next week.]
We deeply appreciate your patience, loyalty, and understanding.