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A New Year’s Resolution: Out Of The Box!

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 4:12
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A New Year’s Resolution: Out Of The Box!

Op ED Commentary –                

We’ve all always been ‘ boxed in’. Our rents and mortgages, higher than they should be, our too high cable and power bills, car payments … really a myriad of debts that box us into this empire. You see, it has all been orchestrated by not even the so called ‘ one percent’ . No, it becomes much finer than that with perhaps 1/10th of the 1 % that rules us all. As with the announcer on the 1960s Sci Fi show The Outer Limits: “We are controlling transmission…” so the very rich and powerful own our political system, our corporate world, our media and even, sadly, our revisionist history. They created the phony left vs. right paradigm, morphing it into this Red State vs. Blue State hogwash of Republican vs. Democrat claptrap. They needed a compliant media to go along so they only give credence (duh, air and print time) to journalists and pundits who play ball with the empire.

Big Oil and Big Gas rifle us with propaganda that we need higher prices to sustain our economy. They sell us the lie that fracking is safe. Big Pharma owns most of the mainstream medical profession, so it is easy to push drugs into our mouths over more natural and homeopathic treatments. The food we eat is not properly regulated by our government because, well, profit trumps public health and safety. In addition to forbidding cigarette smoking in restaurants, they should outlaw deep frying and saturated fats! You know they won’t, just like the empire will never voluntarily withdraw from our military presence worldwide, along with the phony so called ‘wars’ we engage in. Not good for business!

So, we are all, whether we like it or not, boxed in. There is a way out if you dare to attempt it. No, not through violent revolution at all. Rather, the first step is through rejection or as Gandhi preached ‘peaceful non cooperation’ . Stop voting for anyone who runs under the banner of the Two Party system … period! Stop watching all the crap thrown our way on the mainstream and even alternative media. Begin to slowly (because it does take time) pick and choose away from the corporations that really suck. Open bank accounts with credit unions and not major banks. Shop at farmers markets and local stores or at least local chains and not just at Wal-Mart and the big boxes. Not easy to do, but can be done. And most of all, get out with other kindred spirits and stand in regular peaceful protest against what Eisenhower himself labeled a Military Industrial Complex which bankrupts us fiscally and spiritually. Forget about the labels of left vs. right. Seek out common ground with others who reject the current political system, focusing on pulling back this empire … before it closes up that box even further.


Philip A Farruggio is son and grandson of Brooklyn, NYC longshoremen. He is a free lance columnist (found on Nation of Change Blog, Truthout.org, TheSleuthJournal.com, Worldnewstrust.com, The Intrepid Report , The Peoples Voice, Information Clearing house, Dandelion Salad, Activist Post, Dissident Voice and many other sites worldwide). Philip works as an environmental products sales rep and has been an activist leader since 2000. In 2010 he became a local spokesperson for the 25% Solution Movement to Save Our Cities by cutting military spending 25%. Philip can be reached at [email protected]

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