And they then are the ones investing in all the companies. The companies are not independent companies anymore. They’re basically billionaire money managed by the investment funds like Blackrock and Vanguard.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nDivide and Rule Is the Plan<\/h2>\n
Protests and unrest are increasing throughout the world as people grow tired of being controlled and downtrodden by the 1%. Demands for change are surging, so the 1% has rolled out a plan to overcome it \u2014 divide and rule.<\/p>\n
Shiva believes the East India Company in 1857 set the historic precedence. A revolt occurred that year against oppressive company rule, and the company was taken over by the British state. Up until that point, Hindus and Muslims in India had stood together to defend their land, livelihoods and freedoms.<\/p>\n
They identified primarily with their occupations and communities; religion was secondary. But when the crown took over, Shiva says, “They established a policy called divide and rule \u2026 it took from about 1857 to about 1920” to essentially divide the population against each other based on their religion. She explains:12<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n“That partition is still being played out. It’s an incomplete project. So, divide and rule becomes a necessity for the 0.001% to continue to hold on to power. What are the economic policies being pushed while people are divided? Because that’s really the agenda.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Duty of Truth<\/h2>\n
The refusal to cooperate with unjust law was termed a duty of truth by Gandhi. Shiva describes apartheid in 1906, when the British attempted to turn Indians in South Africa into second-class citizens. Indians had to register their race and carry identification. Police officers could enter homes and demand papers, and people were restricted from local trade and certain professions based on their race. “The people said we would rather die,” Shiva says.<\/p>\n
Others inspired by Gandhi and the duty of truth include Martin Luther King. “But \u2026 when King started to take up economic justice and economic equality issues, that’s when he was assassinated,” Shiva says, “because \u2026 you can talk in very sweet ways about civil liberties but you don’t touch economic justice and the economy.”13<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nThe word economy comes from oeconomia, or the art of living. But when this got changed into the art of money-making, it brought on violence. “When you turn the art of living into the art of money-making, which Aristotle called chrematistics, then you have to practice violence against the Earth and violence against others \u2014 destroy their livelihoods, destroy their freedoms, take away their resources.”14<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nSowing the Seeds of Earth Democracy<\/h2>\n
With the convergence of Big Tech and artificial intelligence, Shiva fears mechanical work, from radiography to law, will be made redundant, and 99% of people will become disposable. The solution lies in activating our sense of oneness or interconnectedness with all life and sowing the seeds of what Shiva calls Earth democracy:15<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n“You can either share this beautiful planet with love and abundance and sustainability, or say it’s all mine \u2014 every bit of land, every seed, every mind. Because what’s being mined is our mind now, and if we don’t defend the freedoms of all species and the freedoms of all human beings we could see, within 20 to 30 years, a level of disposability built into the structures that humanity will not be able to respond to.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nCurrently, democracy has shifted to being “of the corporations by the corporations for the corporations.” Earth democracy calls for a restoration of democracy “of the people by the people for the people,” not only for humans but also for nature.16<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0According to the ancient Vedas, the universe is divine, and everything therein \u2014 even the smallest grass \u2014 is an expression of the divine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nRead More @ Mercola.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Dr. Joseph Mercola, Mercola: STORY AT-A-GLANCE Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., details how the elite 1% intend to \u201cdivide and rule\u201d in order to achieve their exploitative goals The world\u2019s top 1% \u2014 the ultra-wealthy elite \u2014 and the modern empires they control \u2014 Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big Ag \u2014 are responsible for destroying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":333982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[146756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}