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“Information Corporations Don’t Want You To Know”

It’s raining in paradise, again, no tennis. Shopping is good when it rains in paradise.  We need more paint to complete our remodel at the retreat. So it’s off to Home Depot.

The same strategy that overwhelmed agencies like The FBI, during the Clinton Administration, is the weapon of choice in the siege against The Virgin Islands Government.  The local media won’t tell you what’s really going on, because the advertisers own them and the media speaks for and to 15% of the population.

 The media is censored in the Virgin Islands, as the strategy of the corporation is buy media outlets and control the information that affects profits. More than 90% of all goods sold come from China or India, St. Thomas is full of tourist traps, little culture. There is a “Native Store” across from “Vendors Plaza”.

 Retail rents are outrageous on St. Thomas and St. John. There should be an office of the government to promote home-based business ownership and Internet based business that exports the culture. The people feel disenfranchised, and they are out right discriminated against in their own homeland.

A friend told me of a prominent attorney, firing a clerical staff member for speaking with her West Indian Accent. He said, “If she’s going to work here she’s going to speak “Yankee”. That would be like insisting that a New Yorker drop his accent while working for a West Indian company.

St. John has 2 or 3 percent more whites than Native St. Johnians.  Demonstrators from St. Thomas and St. Croix were already organized, for St. John demonstrations, because things are so bad racially speaking in the Virgin Islands.

It’s not race, it’s economics and it’s not exclusive to the Virgin Islands. Look at New Orleans and an onslaught of illegal immigrants, happy to accept lower than the prevailing wage. The Bush Administration, content to look the other way as they let who knows in our country and passes legislation to keep wages down and corporate profits up.

Who is running Homeland Security? Illegal immigration is a disgrace, there are so many holes in our all of America’s borders, there could be a map or Seven Eleven stores along the way. Why stop there, corporate America, build a chain of McDonalds, Burger Kings or Wal-Mart’s.  I’m surprised there are no employment agencies or job fairs sponsored by Marriott or Hyatt in proximity to gaps in our borders.

Illegal immigration and greedy corporations adversely affect all local economies, the Virgin Islands are at the extreme.  Now that corporations own so many media outlets, what use to be news is little more than Public Relations, they own resorts also.

There is a discernable pattern, plan and strategy designed to provide corporations with cheap labor in every geographic location.  Cheap labor is easy to find in third world countries, the U.S. is getting easier every day. The division between the haves and the have not is growing deeper.

A quality lifestyle can be experienced with knowledge and information. As the corporations have us convinced that we need two cars and women can have it all, is there a better way?  Most people don’t read about more than issues that promote consumerism, because the advertisers that pay the bills promote a lifestyle predicated on spending more money to enjoy life.

We’ve been lied to.  The number one reason, we work, is for respect. When we cannot achieve the level of respect we all need, we are unhappy at work.  We are told that we work for money because corporations cannot sell you the beauty of the sun, raising and setting.  We’re still not teaching our children that they should expect to love their work.

Enjoyment from life is contingent upon how often you can experience the things you truly love to do.

Are you setting and achieving goals? Are you planning ahead?  Or are you just going to work for a paycheck, receiving a couple of weeks off a year for a vacation and health insurance? We don’t even have the job security our parents were supposed to have, that’s when outsourcing began.

We must do more to promote self-employment, home-based businesses and neighborhood manufacturing.

They use to say “The Best Things In Life Are Free”, and they still are. Learn to smell the flowers, enjoy the meal, and get to know yourself.  It is a proven fact that the rich are not happier than the rest of us; corporations don’t want you to know this especially.

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