-Caveat Lector- ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR TRANSFER OF THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWER TO THE PEOPLE CONSUMERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE ! The peoples have no say. All economic and political power is concentrated in the trans- national corporations, their mass media monopoly and their politicians. And from their point of view people are only of interest 1. - as slave labour, only to be kept barely alive at minimum existence level, - this giving rise to the general class struggle - but at the same time also 2. - as consumers to keep the profit machinery running at maximum speed. The great potential of this other more pleasant role of ours so far has only been exploited to a very limited extent and only for defensive purposes. So let us expand the class struggle with exploiting this potential in an OFFENSIVE strategy: Let us utilize the contradictions existing within the robber barons castle to our advantage and disarm their imperialist struggle over markets and resources before it now once again will lead to world war. Let us utilize the fact that it is our money the robbers are fighting over, and play the predators out against eachother, before they succeed in completing the monopolization process. Why should we always remain on the defensive although the salesmen are completely dependent on our willingness to buy their products ! GLOBALLY the consumers' power may be utilized for internationalization of the corporations. This is the only strategy for saving our planet. It necessitates the formation of the World Parliament of THE UNITED PEOPLES, cf. http://www.unitedpeoples.net (under construction). REGIONALLY and NATIONALLY the consumers' power may be utilized for the people's takeover of the ownership or part of the profits of national companies and local corporate production and distribution enterprises. In each country a United Peoples Party or, to start with, a Consumers' Power Committee, "CPC", comprising progressive mass organisations and NGOs, and approved by the world parliament, is formed. The CPC may comprise a group of neighbouring countries. The analysis of the market and identification of the products and enterprises to be targeted is carried out by progressive professional economists / NGOs / students under the guidance of the CPC. The tasks of the members will be, as consumers, to buy, respectively boycott continuously or for a specified period of time the products pointed out by the CPC, and to motivate rest of the population to do the same. EXAMPLE : Three enterprises, A, B and C, are selling almost identical products and share the market as follows: Shares of market: A B C xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Profits: A B C xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Depending on the market, the strength of the CPC, etc., each one of the enterprises is asked either A) - if it is willing to turn over the ownership to the people in case it is chosen as the only one to survive, the stockholders' invested money to be paid back over a specified period of time, or B) - how great share of its extra profits it will allot to the people, if it is chosen as the only one or one of the few enterprises whose products will not be boycotted. If, for example, A and B bid highest, the CPC may choose to let A and B share C's market and share C's profit with the people, rather than let either A or B get complete monopoly: Shares of market: A B xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Profits: A B CPC xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx Everything of course will be based on a written agreement beforehand. ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR MOBILIZING THE CONSUMERS AND DOCUMENTING THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS 1. A data base administered by the world parliament of the united peoples, http://unitedpeoples.net Until the first parliament has been elected, the organizers will function as a provisional parliament. The data base stores the digitized biometric fingerprints of all of the participating consumers worldwide. The documentation of the vast number af active consumers enables the world parliament to lay pressure on the transnational corporations for ecologic, economic and political purposes. 2. The CPC publishes addresses in all cities and towns where registration of the interested consumers can take place, by placing the tip of the forefinger on a newly developed biometric sensor with a chip that within a second reads the sub-skin structure of the unique fingerprint, cf. http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Security/ Identification_Systems/Fingerprinting/ and http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tonycook/nzsdp/ Name, address or other identification of the participants is unnecessary. Furthermore, the fingerprints will be collected in shopping centers and - streets, at all sorts of gatherings, etc., by means of mobile computers or tiny specifically designed chips. The price of each of the recording devices - which have to be the same make and supplied with the same code everywhere - is of the order of $ 100. Via Internet the digitized images of the fingerprints are sent to the national data base of the CPC and to the global data base of the world parliament, together with the date of the recording. At the national data base each fingerprint automatically is allocated an account number. When all new computers before long will have fingerprint reading equipment in stead of password requiring software, the encrypted digitized image of the fingerprint may be sent directly from home. Confirmed by their fingerprints, the participants agree to continuously keeping informed of and to follow the CPC's instructions as to which products to buy and which products to boycott. 3. The CPC's negotiations with the targeted enterprises can start as soon as an adequate number of consumers have joined. When these negotiations / boycott actions result in takeover of ownership or part of the profits of targeted enterprises, the profits will be shared equally by the participating consumers. The payments most appropriately will take place as deductions of the prices the consumers pay in connection with shopping: In each store taken over by or associated with the CPC, the cash register is connected electronically with the central CPC data base keeping account of the balance of each individual. Upon verification of the fingerprint, the cash register automatically will reduce the price to be paid for the purchase, with all or part of the balance. Alternatively, the consumer may have the balance paid out in cash. A display on a screen in the store is remotely kept by the CPC and shows which products / companies / corporations are to be preferred, respectively boycotted, compares the prices of comparable organically grown products, etc. Furthermore, registration of new activists, fingerprint voting on current consumer issues, voting for candidates for the national, respectively the world parliament, etc., may take place here. In Northern countries, half of the profits will be transferred to the world parliament for global disposition. An independent institution will control and regularly publish all accounts. The campaigns for new active consumers should be adapted to the local economic conditions and the level of ecologic awareness. In the poorest countries the emphasis should be on the economic aspects: "Join us and make money !" In some Northern countries, e.g.in Europe, the ecologic aspects may be more appealing: " ecoNOW ! " For the more confused and thrill-seeking, a slogan like this may be appealing: " Touch and get polarized ! " The superior political perspective should never be forgotten. A universal text on the signboard behind the fingerprint reading sensor could be: Vote for a better world! Internationalize the corporations ! Ecological sustainability NOW ! Follow the instructions of the United Peoples' Party and get your share ! Imagine the day when - as a first step - any beggar in Dhaka, Nairobi, Rio, Washington or Copenhagen, by placing a fingertip on an electronic chip, will get a share ! WHEN this will happen, is up to YOU ! The organizers, the formative world parliament of the united peoples --------------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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