Secret Monopolies That Run The World
Do you want a future in which we would have the freedom to make our own choices? Do you think you already have that freedom? What would you say if I told you that dream was a lie? That most brands you think you’re picking and choosing between are just a few companies?
For example:
This year, IMDb (the online movie database) had approximately 3.3 million titles (includes episodes) and 6.5 million personalities in its database, most of them Hollywood-owned companies. These millionaires get government fund, subsidies and tax breaks!
This is unfair competition by a too big and too powerful industry.
Sometimes their movies have political and military implications. The government directed Sony’s psy-operation on the North Korean President is just one of many. Some targeted individuals are ordinary citizens, ethnic minorities or any person that some demonic writer chooses to focus on. If only most movies were about something good and useful instead of reinforcing stereotypes and promoting amoral and violent behaviour.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Sue the hell out of them!
They are racketeers: a racketeer is someone who commits crimes for profit especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion or illegal business activities involving crime.
RICO-laws permits a private individual “damaged in his business or property” by a “racketeer” to file a civil suit. The plaintiff must prove the existence of an “enterprise”. The defendant(s) are not the enterprise; in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same. There must be one of four specified relationships between the defendant(s) and the enterprise: either the defendant(s) invested the proceeds of the pattern of racketeering activity into the enterprise; or the defendant(s) acquired or maintained an interest in, or control over, the enterprise through the pattern of racketeering activity; or the defendant(s) conducted or participated in the affairs of the enterprise “through” the pattern of racketeering activity; or the defendant(s) conspired to do one of the above.
In essence, the enterprise is either the ‘prize,’ ‘instrument,’ ‘victim,’ or ‘perpetrator’ of the racketeers. A civil RICO action can be filed in state or federal court.
Both the criminal and civil components allow the recovery of treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).
The current Commissioner responsible for Competition Policy within the European Commission is Margrethe Vestager that should counter this harmful monopoly. The Directorate-General for Competition (COMP) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, located in Brussels, Belgium. The DG Competition is responsible for establishing and implementing a coherent competition policy for the European Union. The DG Competition has a dual role in antitrust enforcement: an investigative role and a decision-making role. Here are some other agencies that counter harmful monopolies (look up these for an agency near you, and email them): CES, ACM, NMa, JFTC, TCA, COMP and TFEU