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On Banana Republics



(Wrote this post earlier during the election, when someone had brought up Banana Republics. So not all of it is relevant now. I've tried to adjust some statements by making them past tense, but can't be bothered correcting everything.)





As everyone probably already knows, Edward Bernays - of "Engineering Consent" fame (before Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent") - came up with crowd/mass mind control for propaganda purposes, including advertising. He is celebrated as an important AmeriKKKan.

Among his "grand achievements" is the creation of the term "Banana Republic" for the South American nations bulldozed by the US into producing bananas cheaply so that US multinational companies could make tons of money off this exploitation:



1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Overthrow of government of Guatemala[edit]

[color="#0000FF"]Bernays's most extreme political propaganda activities were said to be conducted on behalf of the multinational[/color] corporation United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International) [color="#0000FF"]and the U.S. government to facilitate the successful overthrow [/color] (see Operation PBSUCCESS) [color="#0000FF"]of the democratically elected president of Guatemala[/color], Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Bernays's propaganda (documented in the BBC documentary, The Century of the Self), branding Arbenz as communist, was published in major U.S. media. According to a book review by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of Larry Tye's biography of Bernays, [color="#0000FF"]The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR, "The term 'banana republic' actually originated in reference to United Fruit's domination of corrupt governments in Guatemala and other Central American countries.[/color]"[25]

2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

Original banana republic[edit]

The Banana planter: Minor C. Keith, American businessman.The history of the first banana republic begins with the introduction of the banana to the USA in 1870, by Lorenzo Dow Baker, captain of the schooner Telegraph. He initially bought bananas in Jamaica and sold them in Boston at a 1,000 percent profit.[7] The banana proved popular with Americans, as a nutritious tropical fruit that was less expensive than fruit grown locally in the U.S., such as apples. In 1913, for example, twenty-five cents bought a dozen bananas, but only two apples.[8] Its popularity among Americans was also spurred by the American railroad tycoons Henry Meiggs and his nephew, Minor C. Keith, who in 1873 began establishing banana plantations along the railroads they built in Costa Rica to produce food for their railroad workers. This experience led them to recognize the potential profitability of exporting bananas for sale, and they began exporting the fruit to the Southeastern United States.[9]



In the mid-1870s, to manage the new industrial-agriculture business enterprise in the countries of Central America, Keith founded the Tropical Trading and Transport Company: one-half of what would later become the United Fruit Company (Chiquita Brands International, created in 1899 by corporate merger with the Boston Fruit Company and owned by Andrew Preston.) By the 1930s, the international political and economic tensions of the United Fruit Company had enabled it to gain control of 80 to 90 per cent of the U.S. banana trade.[10] Nonetheless, despite the UFC monopoly, in 1924, the Vaccaro Brothers established the Standard Fruit Company (Dole Food Company) to export Honduran bananas to the port of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico coast of the U.S. The fruit exporters were able to [color="#0000FF"]keep U.S. prices so low because the banana companies, through their manipulation of the producing countries' national land use laws, were able to cheaply buy large tracts of prime agricultural land for banana plantations in the countries of the Caribbean Basin, the Central American isthmus, and the tropical South American countries—and, having rendered the native peoples landless through a policy of legalistic dispossession, were therefore able to employ them as low-wage workers.[9][/color]



Moreover, by the late 19th century, three American multinational corporations — the United Fruit Company, the Standard Fruit Company, and the Cuyamel Fruit Company — dominated the cultivation, harvesting, and exportation of bananas, and controlled the road, rail, and port infrastructure of Honduras. In the northern coastal areas near the Caribbean Sea, the Honduran government ceded to the banana companies 500 hectares (1,235.52 acres) for each kilometre of railroad laid, even though there was still no passenger or freight railroad to Tegucigalpa, the national capital city. Among the Honduran people, the United Fruit Company was known as El Pulpo, the Octopus, because its influence had come to pervade their society, controlled their country's transport infrastructure, and sometimes violently manipulated the national politics of the Republic of Honduras.[11]

3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananas

Plantation cultivation in the Caribbean, Central and South America

Main article: History of modern banana plantations in the Americas



Fruits of wild-type bananas have numerous large, hard seeds.In the 15th and 16th centuries, Portuguese colonists started banana plantations in the Atlantic Islands, Brazil, and western Africa.[54] North Americans began consuming bananas on a small scale at very high prices shortly after the Civil War, though it was only in the 1880s that it became more widespread.[55] As late as the Victorian Era, bananas were not widely known in Europe, although they were available.[54] Jules Verne introduces bananas to his readers with detailed descriptions in Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).



The earliest modern plantations originated in Jamaica and the related Western Caribbean Zone, including most of Central America. It involved the combination of modern transportation networks of steamships and railroads with the development of refrigeration that allowed bananas to have more time between harvesting and ripening. North America shippers like Lorenzo Dow Baker and Andrew Preston, the founders of the Boston Fruit Company started this process in the 1870s, but railroad builders like Minor C Keith also participated, eventually culminating in the multi-national giant corporations like today's Chiquita Brands International and Dole.[55] These companies were monopolistic, vertically integrated (meaning they controlled growing, processing, shipping and marketing) and usually used political manipulation to build enclave economies (economies that were internally self-sufficient, virtually tax exempt, and export oriented that contribute very little to the host economy).



Their political maneuvers, which gave rise to the term Banana republic for states like Honduras and Guatemala, included working with local elites and their rivalries to influence politics or playing the international interests of the United States, especially during the Cold War, to keep the political climate favorable to their interests.[56]

In short, banana republics are nations taken over by Americans and their stooges (=govts actually working for AmeriKKKa rather than the population). In KKKangress-ruled India's case this fits the Congress/AAP (=American stooges) perfectly and how all the brainwashees who were voting AAP/KKKaangress are an extension of The AmriKKKan Stooge System, and are *naturally* inclined - though Hondurans etc were not - to form Banana Republics.



Speaking of what constitutes a Banana Republic - a perennial 3rd world when in the grip of alien-funded (alien-serving) govts - one will never see the following in 1st worlds/non-banana republics.

- Which 1st world country would allow itself to be held hostage by communist terrorists? But in christoislamicommunist-infested India, maoists are killing people to prevent elections - a la the christian terrorist NLFT etc did in Tripura and Assam etc.

- Which 1st world country would ever be seen using EVMs that can be rigged: Whereas in until-recently christo-controlled India (Pune and elsewhere), EVMs were caught voting KKKaangress no matter which party the voters chose.







Repeating the important bit:

The earliest modern plantations originated in Jamaica and the related Western Caribbean Zone, including most of Central America. It involved the combination of modern transportation networks of steamships and railroads with the development of refrigeration that allowed bananas to have more time between harvesting and ripening. North America shippers like Lorenzo Dow Baker and Andrew Preston, the founders of the Boston Fruit Company started this process in the 1870s, but railroad builders like Minor C Keith also participated, eventually culminating in the multi-national giant corporations like today's Chiquita Brands International and Dole.[55] These companies were monopolistic, vertically integrated (meaning they controlled growing, processing, shipping and marketing) and usually used political manipulation to build enclave economies (economies that were internally self-sufficient, virtually tax exempt, and export oriented that contribute very little to the host economy).



Their political maneuvers, which gave rise to the term Banana republic for states like Honduras and Guatemala, included working with local elites and their rivalries to influence politics or playing the international interests of the United States, especially during the Cold War, to keep the political climate favorable to their interests.[56]

Can compare with what will happen with FDI.



- "contribute very little to the host economy" and mostly to alien corporations and economies.

- also political manipulation will be one of the inevitable outcomes of aliens installing themselves and their (multinational) businesses in India. Already seen. Including in many alien big businesses being conversion driven. Also seen in christomedia outlets in India and the havoc they wreak on not just the social but even and especially politics.



* Even many western embassies etc in India apparently employ only converts since they don't trust Hindus. What, no protests about quotas, no govt meddling to enforce quotas there? (Though which Hindu would want to work for alien interests on Hindu soil really?)



ADDED:

rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2014/06/quick-notes-train-journey-ucc.html

•FDI:

[color="#0000FF"]FDI in everything amounts to India for sale. Shortsighted way to raise cash. Indians will end up as shudras working for foreign vaishyas.[/color]

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) June 2, 2014

Closer to the original meaning of Banana Republic.





The actual material that instigated this particular spam series is in post 246 above.