The term “juggernaut” refers to any group of people, organization, or team capable of crushing any opposition. In other words, a juggernaut is a very powerful entity.

In our corrupted world, a modern day juggernaut demands blind faith and obedience, to the exclusion of individual rights. It is not merciful and it takes no prisoners.

We have many examples of juggernauts in our world today. Powerful entities are ruling, and in many cases, ruining our lives.

How do we protect ourselves from juggernauts? Is reform the answer? New laws? Wouldn’t it be nice if these people considered the long term effects their greed has on the populace, and wouldn’t it be even better if they cared?

How do you instill conscience in a corrupt and greedy person, let alone a giant conglomerate?

This is the reason we humans have instituted laws and have governmental agencies to enforce those laws: to protect the rights of the individual as well as the masses. Is this suddenly an out-dated concept?

In the world we live in, I feel almost naive writing those words. Corruption has reached a level that I have never seen before. Is it because of technology that everything is exposed? No one can hide? Has this degree of avarice been going on for centuries, but we were not as aware? Or is it worse now than ever?

Do we not all have a right to survive and prosper? Why do certain elite few think that they are the only ones who matter?

My grandfather was a very wise man. He was a hard working, successful businessman and a real humanitarian. He said that a person can eat only one meal at a time and sleep in one bed at a time. He had his priorities in the right places, and his ambitions were well balanced. He was prosperous himself and wanted others to prosper. What’s with the unbridled frenzy and need to control everything, so prevalent in the world today?

There are juggernauts controlling our food, drug, and health industries, juggernauts controlling our fossil fuel industry, juggernauts controlling the entertainment industry, Juggernauts controlling our financial institutions, juggernauts controlling our political institutions.

Our health industry is corrupted by greed. Drugs are ridiculously over-priced. A person being treated for cancer using the prescribed method of treatment: chemo and radiation- can easily rack up expenses of $100,000 a month, or better. If a person chooses an alternative method of treatment, his insurance will not cover him, even though the cost is dramatically less, and in my opinion, more effective. What pressures are brought to bear on the medical profession and insurance companies that create this inequity? Who sets the standard? Easy, “Big Pharma” is a juggernaut. The FDA is a juggernaut. Don’t believe that your health and well being is their priority. Profit is their motive.

I have done extensive research into the pharmaceuticals and FDA practices regarding cancer and cancer cures, and am shocked by what I have learned. Scientists and doctors have addressed cancer as far back as the late 1800’s. Yes, independent scientific research on cancer has been conducted for over a century. Important discoveries have been made, and malicious attempts to cover up these findings have occurred throughout.

Why do you think we do not yet have a cure for cancer? Cancer is big business.

Cures will only be approved if the pharmaceutical companies can obtain a patent so that they can “manufacture” a product, even directly from nature, and charge outrageous prices for it.

There seems to be a hesitance to use the word “cure” for cancer, at least in the United States. In that many experts consider cancer to be a chronic disease, therefore not curable in the classic sense, the word “resolved” is favored over “cure”.

Who pays for greed? Answer: You and I, in every imaginable way. The cost of chemotherapy, radiation, and CT scans is outrageous. Insurance companies pick up most of the cost, and then everybody’s premiums go up.

There are instances when a prescribed drug can help to heal the patient. But the practice of dispensing drugs is much abused. I was shocked to discover that doctors actually have quotas to meet.

Let’s look at the agricultural crisis in the US and the entire world. Our farmers are being victimized by greedy big conglomerates such as Astra Zeneca, DuPont, Monsanto, Novartis, and Aventis. Farmers are being bankrupted or are barely getting by. The suicide rate amongst them is three times the national average.

Our farmers are suffering from a globalized economy that rewards people with no allegiance to place. In other words, farmers are not able to supply food for their local communities, as in the past.

Globalization has caused farmers to produce the food they can produce most cheaply, to be offered in the global markets. Local food is brought in from some other place.

The export driven global economy is leading to the small farmer’s demise. They cannot make a decent return on their investment.

While our farmers are being squeezed out, CEO salaries in the food industry are soaring. And the people who prosper are brokers who scour the entire world for the highest return. They move their money from country to country at laser speed, while looking for cheap labor and a better deal. Farmers can’t do that. They’re bound to the land. Another juggernaut.

Because of lobbying, our politicians are supporting those very juggernauts who are exploiting the small farmer.

What about fossil fuel?

Conspiracists speculate that the reason we do not have an affordable alternative to oil is because the oil and coal industries are buying up inventions and patents. Also, it is thought they are threatening the very lives of the inventors. And governments are being controlled by these industries. Another juggernaut, perhaps?

President Bush used to say Americans are addicted to oil. We need energy, and we haven’t had any viable alternatives. With all due respect to Mr. Bush, I think addiction is not the proper word. Are we addicted to air?

As a side note, there is a promising possibility on the horizon known as LENR Technology (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). I’m usually nervous when radiation is involved, but admittedly, I know nothing about it. An Italian inventor, Andrea Rossi has developed a home fusion unit which is capable of heating a whole house for years. From what I’ve read, NASA scientists are enthusiastic about it. If it comes about, it will revolutionize the energy industry. It will also change life for the countries whose only export is oil. Will this innovation go the way of the rest?

How do these monopolies or juggernauts get away with their greed?

It’s because we, the people have not been looking, not attending our store. We have trusted our large institutions, and they let us down. Now we have to grow up fast and take back what is rightfully ours.

I’m all for prosperity, but not at the expense of another person or our planet.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are our inalienable rights. We can weigh in to make sure that balance is restored to our economies.

No juggernaut can stand up against a strong, committed, well-informed public.