being sucked dry by the big corporations we support).
Here's an explanation:
"In a tapeworm economy a small group of insiders centralize political and economic power at the expense of people, living things and the environment, in a manner that destroys real wealth. In investment terms, it is an economy with a negative return on investment. It is parasitic in nature.
The way an actual tapeworm operates is to inject its host with a chemical that makes the host crave what is good for the tapeworm and bad for the host. So the Tapeworm Economy is adept at using media and education and numerous financial incentives to get us acting against our own strategic interests and instead supporting and depending on the Tapeworm.
The symptoms of the Tapeworm are many - narcotics trafficking that targets our children, runaway exploitive and predatory corporate practices such as the patenting of life, terminator seed and the destruction of our topsoil and food supply, fraudulent inducement of debt to homeowners, students and consumers, suppression of knowledge and renewable energy technology, criminal mismanagement of government credit and resources, black budget operations and the manipulation of currency, financial and precious metal prices and markets. These practices introduce organized crime throughout all aspects of our lives... these transactions drain our families and neighborhoods on a daily basis – much like a tapeworm drains its host. "
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much, much more here at katherine austin fitts' great site
http://www.solari.com/realdeal.htmbecause all our government money and all of our government info is held by and run on systems managed by private companies (not the gov itself), we really don't have a sovereign government like we think we do. There's been an economic coup detat and the US as we know it doesn't exist.