Clearly, globalization would be one thing if all nations were in nearly the same economic development stage, if all had truly effective democracies, if all elected their trade and UN representatives, and the people owned their central banks. Here then, a federation and cooperation of truly democratic states is one thing, but today's effectively forced globalization of puppet oligarchies, and greatly disparate nations and cultures, is quite another.
Lastly, modern communications technology is not an excuse to end local perogatives, prevent tariff freedoms suitable for a very disparate and un-democratic world, or institute a global oligarchy. Still, the fascist dreamers dream on.
"The age of nations must end. The government of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they will surrender their arms." U.N. World Constitution
Clearly, there is no such thing as top-down democracy, only the "managed democracy" fraud of the ruling elites. Consider that we do not elect our representative to the United Nations, and we do not elect our representative to a public central bank, nor do we elect our mega-media editors. Worse, we do not have a National Initiative process with which to overrule our corporate controlled legislators. Lastly, our voting machines and processes are now being hijacked and privatized. What do we have left?
Who are we kidding? We're living in a stone cold oligarchy busy producing a world-wide neo-slavery and global oligopoly. In short, we have no effective democracy, nor any democratic globalization by which the majority of wage-earning people agree to, or agree not to, give up local culture and national prerogatives.
Such ruling elite force acts to separate and breed resistance, not bring us together in a peaceful and free fashion. So, are we coming together or falling apart? Even Euroland is now on the ropes, and the recent elections in South America do not portend any sympathy for globalization as we know it.
"There will be a collapse of the European Union pretty much like the Soviet Union collapsed. But do not forget that when these things collapse they leave such devastation that it takes a generation to recover. Just think what will happen if it comes to an economic crisis. The recrimination between nations will be huge. It might come to blows. Look to the huge number of immigrants from Third World countries now living in Europe." This was promoted by the European Union. What will happen with them if there is an economic collapse? We will probably have, like in the Soviet Union at the end, so much ethnic strife that the mind boggles." Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Bukovsky is a former leading Soviet dissident imprisoned for twelve years in Soviet gulags and psychiatric hospitals for his fight for freedom. His observations, in a recent inteview should give all globalists pause:
"According to Communist doctrine as well as to many forms of Socialist thinking, the state, the national state, is supposed to wither away. In Russia, however, the opposite happened. Instead of withering away the Soviet state became a very powerful state, but the nationalities were obliterated. But when the time of the Soviet collapse came these suppressed feelings of national identity came bouncing back and they nearly destroyed the country. It was so frightening. PB: Do you think the same thing can happen when the European Union collapses?
VB: Absolutely, you can press a spring only that much, and the human psyche is very resilient you know. You can press it, you can press it, but don't forget it is still accumulating a power to rebound. It is like a spring and it always goes to overshoot. PB: But all these countries that joined the European Union did so voluntarily.
VB: No, they did not. Look at Denmark which voted against the Maastricht treaty twice. Look at Ireland [which voted against the Nice treaty]. Look at many other countries, they are under enormous pressure. It is almost blackmail. Switzerland was forced to vote five times in a referendum. All five times they have rejected it, but who knows what will happen the sixth time, the seventh time. It is always the same thing. It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted. Then they have to stop voting. Why stop? Let us continue voting. The European Union is what Americans would call a shotgun marriage."
A trick for idiots, indeed.
In short, many clearly do not understand, nor care to address, the on-going force of tradition, culture and religion. As flaky and counterproductive as we may believe various elements of society, culture and religion to be around the globe today, forcing top-down change is simply a recipe for disaster.
Surely many of our existing problems and conditions are the result of imperialisms and dogmas both past and present... call it also the bad karma of colonialization and top-down globalization, with Iraq being the latest example.
Nevertheless, for globalization, or the freely chosen lack thereof, to be both wanted and successful, first the ruling must surrender their controls over our banking, media, political and electoral processes and re-empower the vast majority. Any more interconnected world must be democratic from the ground up, from local power to international cooperation, or these fascist-built associations and their members will likely suffer the consequences.
Unfortunately, ruling elites have purposely given away the levers of the free and democratic and left us without protection from the worst of freedoms, slaveries, and environmental assaults. Only by rebuilding WTO-GATT-NAFTA can we re-start the process and fix an ailing, undemocratic, globalization before it implodes in mutual enmity, and currency collapse.
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Great article Kent, for the past twenty years free trade propaganda has been spewing from corporate funded think tanks so many people believe it is the only way. I think people are starting to figure out the real agenda behind it as they witness the devastation of wages at all skill and education levels.
Its time for Americans to take a stand against the corporate whores who are supposed to represent the people of America and try them for treason because much of the globalist agenda is also a huge threat to our national security in the not so distant future. Trade with China perfect example,we get slave labor for short term profit they get massive industrialization and a military buildup that will blow your mind. In twenty years China will control the entire world and impose whatever kind of doctrine it desires. They could very well succeed at what Hitler failed.
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Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 193 comments)
on Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 6:01:00 PM
But we can't put our heads in nationalistic soil and hope globalization goes away. Instead, let's embrace globalization thru a democratic body of people who confront corporate rule.
The basic premise of George Monbiot's argument for a world parliament is that world government by elites is a given – whether we like it or not. Our only hope, then, is to develop a people’s forum that holds global government to account. See his Age of Consent: Manifesto for a New World Order.
In this book, he details how we can preserve our cultural identities, as a world democracy. A shorter version of his ideas is in this essay.
Instead of swimming against the tide of world governement by elites, why not build a boat for the people to hold that government to account?
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Rady Ananda (71 articles, 201 quicklinks, 17 diaries, 529 comments)
on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 1:30:17 PM
