David Icke - The Robots' Rebellion - The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance (1994)

258 to technology serving humans. Awakening people are demanding these changes and they will be necessary anyway when the world economic order is holed below the water line and sinks. There is going to be a great deal of reacting to events and we will have to move very quickly. We will see that we all depend on each other, and community spirit is going to return in a very big way.

Throughout the Industrial era, the trends have been in the other direction. Financial power has been concentrated in fewer and fewer hands by the cost of installing mass producing technology and the need to compete with other countries. This has been the bankers’ doing. We have seen community businesses fail in the face of unfair, market-rigged, competition from the major banks and corporations, all of which are Brotherhood controlled. National companies have grown through this economic injustice to become multi-nationals which wield enormous power around the world. Many of them have a bigger turnover every year than scores of countries, and that gives them the muscle to exploit those countries and even govern them from behind the scenes. This brings about the grotesque sight of food growing land in poor countries being used to grow luxury crops for the rich. This is often at the instigation of Brotherhood multi-national corporations and corrupt politicians.

In my book It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This, there is a chapter entitled ‘Empty Bellies and Chocolate Bars’. It is so called because according to Oxfam well over half the children in Ghana are malnourished, while half the food growing land in Ghana is growing cocoa for the western chocolate industry. Another statistic I used in that book was that 400,000 children are reckoned to die in Brazil every year from hunger-related disease when Brazil is one of the biggest exporters of food in the world. While those children live and die in poverty, the land that could feed them is used to increase the profits of multi-nationals and the rich world in general. This manipulation of trade and debt by the West has led to the almost unbelievable situation in which more money passes from poor countries to rich every year than goes the other way. Remember that next time you see Western politicians talking about the ‘aid’ they are sending to the poor, or when you hear people criticise such aid because ‘charity begins at home.’ No it doesn’t. Exploitation begins at home and is exported across the world. In the new tomorrow the word charity will be used only in accounts of human history. There will be giving and receiving, but there will be no dependence and