Why is this world any different than the one that we grew up in? Remember when we were encouraged to “Buy American”? That hasn’t been heard in years. The manufacturers don’t want us to “Buy American”, in fact, they would rather we didn’t. It’s not in their plans for America. So what IS in their plans for America? Well, to put it bluntly, it’s not America our industrialists and our power structure think about. It’s the entire planet they have their sights on. Profits are the key. If they can make it cheaper somewhere else, they will. The United States is just a part of the grand scheme of things, not the center of anything, really. Think about this for a minute. Why do people riot at the G-8 Summits and the WTO Conferences? Why do they put these meetings in the backwoods of Canada, or bring in thousands of policemen and private security? Why do people protest the World Bank? What’s the purpose? Why are people throwing Molotov Cocktails at the participants? What’s going on?
Globalization
What is Globalization and why should we worry about it?
What is Globalization? It is the collective effect of purposeful and amoral manipulation that seeks to centralize economic, political, technological and societal forces in order to accrue maximum profit and political power to global banks, global corporations and the elitists who run them.
"Free Trade" is the central mantra. Globalization is set against national Sovereignty, closed borders, trade tariffs and anything that would restrict its goals and methods used to achieve them.
Globalization promotes regional and global government, a one-world economic system of trade and a form of fascism where global corporations and their elite control the policies and directives of individual governments.
Got that? form of fascism where global corporations and their elite control the policies and directives of individual governments.
Sound familiar? Why are other industrial nation’s people so far ahead of Americans? It’s because they know what’s happening, they have been following this far longer than we. They are “sensitive” to fascism in Europe, seems they have had a “problem” with it before. So, now that we have identified the crux of the problem, what does it mean, and how do we stop it? That is a hard question, but there ARE things that we can do. After all they haven’t usurped our entire government…yet. Here are some things that the August Review, a site that exposes “Globalization” and all it’s pitfalls recommends. 1. Follow the money, follow the power 2. Discern illusion from reality, especially with media outlets 3. Listen to experts who offer a meaningful critique 4. Study & verify sources and footnotes 5. Apply liberal doses of common sense
Doesn’t sound too hard, it’s certainly not revolutionary, but it WILL put a crimp in their style if everyone starts doing this. There are a few issues that are on the table now that people should start paying attention to. Here’s a very short list:
1. Real ID. They want to know where you are, what you buy, and they want the ability to “turn you off” (that’s when they cut your lines of credit and put a hold on your holdings, effectively making you a “non-person”. 2. The North American Union This unfortunately is not a “conspiracy theory”. It’s real and there are people putting the screws to politicians in all three countries to ensure its passage. Gone will be “The Declaration of Independence”. The Constitution, and for that matter the Stars and Stripes and the United States of America. Canada and Mexico by the way, will also cease to exist. Timeline on this? Soon. We will be using the “Amero” instead of the dollar. You can turn your dollars in at whatever rate they want to give you. 3. The War on Terrorism This is a mechanism whereby they can create endless war and endless profits as they use the resources of the world for disposable munitions that must be replaced on a steady basis. A veritable gold mine of industrial production and a lessening of the population.
These are some of the basic ideas about “Globalization”. It is not your idea of a “good deal”. If the world were to get together and form a world government that embraced a representative form of governance, that would be another thing, but this isn’t it.
One other thing I would like to mention, these people like to “remove” people that go against their plans. I would like to be immune, but I’m not. None of us are. They don’t play fair and are accountable to no one. So if you don’t see me after awhile, well, that’s the breaks. One more thing, I don’t make this stuff up.
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I have pondered this question for years now and must fly in the face of accepted leftist wisdom on this issue. The definition of Globalisation in Mr. Gatto's arrticle is ,in reality, a litany of the flaws in it rather than the real definition thereof.
In truth many corporations have committed abuses in the process, and American workers have also suffered from its effects. But I believe that globalisation is the natural "leveling of the playing field". Before you leap to call me names or brand me a right wing apologist allow me a moment,please.
Ever since the industrial revolution we have seen the industrialised nations use the third world as a source of raw materials and slave labor, even to the point of installing puppet governments in order to safeguard the thievery of those essential raw materials to feed into the evergrowing maw of our machine technology. Today we see these very same third world nations growing their own industrial revolution. Is this, I ask, a bad thing?
Again, I am very aware of how the transnational corporations are controlling and abusing these emerging industrial developing countries, just as we ourselves were once a labor force abused by industry. But I envision a labor movement there as we had here, one that will raise working conditions and wages as they did so ably here.
What you call the evils of globalisation I call a normal leveling and what you see as a loss of jobs here I see as a changing economy, with concomittant adjustments. We are now a knowledge based economy where we once were a manufacturing base. Just as, once, buggy whip manufacturers were forced by market pressures to seek other means so does the American labor force need to retrain for this new economy. Technology has always been lucrative, beyond most of our wildest imaginations, so shall it be again.
I am not blind to the abuses of our current administration or our corporations during this sea change, but I am optimistic that, once we shed Bush and Reaganomics, we shall see job training made available to our work force and the establishment of many, many new jobs replacing those lost to outsourcing. A new and exciting world awaits and gobalisation cannot nor should not be stopped, we must take the long view here while protesting the worst of the abuses of course.
Whatcha think?
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 12:20:30 PM
We have argued before. You have a very naive view of this. Notice I said in my article that a one-world government is not a bad idea if its founded on democratic principles. This is not. It's a fascist brand of slavery, not just for Americans , but for everyone. Study the Ferderal Reserve and see how much interest you pay the global bankers. Then see what this elite does to your "labor unions". They will not be allowed to exist. Wake up Ardee. Watch the movie Zeitgeist on this website or at my site. It's very understandable and makes perfect sense. Do yourself a favor.
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Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments)
on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 12:35:32 PM
I am sorry you think me naive, but nowhere in my response did I speak to a "world government" and nowhere in your reply did you deal with the economic realitiies I noted.
So then do you think it fair or just that the west control all the manufacture in the world? Is it your world view that third world nations remain enmired in poverty and disease so that we do not have to deal with the reality of our own changing economy?
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 11:53:27 AM
"Ever since the industrial revolution we have seen the industrialised nations use the third world as a source of raw materials and slave labor, even to the point of installing puppet governments in order to safeguard the thievery of those essential raw materials to feed into the evergrowing maw of our machine technology. Today we see these very same third world nations growing their own industrial revolution. Is this, I ask, a bad thing?"
If it were true it would be a great thing - but it's not. In most of the world the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, and the ratio of rich to poor is getting smaller. Many of these third world nations are socially inequitable, politically unstable, and therefore filled with homocidal ideologues. As al Qaida has shown, that makes it everyone's problem; we need to tackle it at its root - social inequity.
Also, a strong case has been made that Iraq was invaded to secure its oil, and that the Malakin government is a puppet government (albeit not a very cooperative one).
We are now a knowledge based economy where we once were a manufacturing base. Just as, once, buggy whip manufacturers were forced by market pressures to seek other means so does the American labor force need to retrain for this new economy. Technology has always been lucrative, beyond most of our wildest imaginations, so shall it be again
A "knowledge based economy" sounds like like a viable option - but the reality is it's really a financial economy they are talking about, not a production economy. We are losing our indigenous edge in technology by financing its development elsewhere. That, in essence, is why GM is in such trouble - it was far easier to make money financing cars than producing them. You might say, no problem! Perhaps you are right, but that is not the argument you propound. (It will be intersting to see what happens to GM as the current credit crisis plays out)
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cam (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 54 comments)
on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 2:35:52 PM
While you are correct that, here in the USA, the middle class is shrinking, and that in nations still under the imperialistic sway of the west there is dramatic inequality and dire poverty the rest of your summation is false.
Nations that are industrialising, like India, Malaysia, Micronesia and China, especially China, are seeing a growing working class and they are getting more comfortable lives.
It is correct to oppose the abuses of transnational corporations world wide, it is also logical to note the shrinking job market here, and the loss of wages and benefits. But you cannot stop the inevitable leveling of the playing field and you had better get used to the economic changes here. They are not all going to be bad!
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 12:02:15 PM
It can be good -- necessary -- or it can be bad. It's depends on how much, where, and how it's handled. It's good water seeks its own level -- if you live by a lake, but maybe not so good if you plumbing leaks.
Don't get trapped by a word which means all sorts of different things. We are getting increasingly more globalized and nothing will stop that, but it needs to managed properly and not just a way for tyrants to be more tyrannical. The poor in other countries need and deserve more euqal treatment -- but so do the poor in the U.S., and letting the wealthy become more wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle class is bad, no matter where they live. Getting products from other countries is OK in principle, but those countries should have well paid workers so they buy goods we in the US make, and should have to follow the same sorts of laws for the environment and human rights. So don't get distracted by the broad word 'globalization' from the real issues.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 997 comments)
on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:04:07 PM
Globalization isn't the problem. It's who is behind hit, Defense Contractors, Oil Companies, International Banker that want to have it all, and leave the people in the world as serfs.
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Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments)
on Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:31:15 PM
no one is really 'behind it' -- it's an outgrowth of history, like tribes merging into cities merging into states and nations. It's part of the growth in communication and travel technologies. There are two forces at work trying to comtrol how it goes: the corporate fascists and the people.
One great difficulty for the corporatists who basically are trying to use the old models of colonialization, which they don't seem to understand, is that a people can't colonize itself -- that becomes a form of slavery. As people come closer together they become more aware of what everyone else is doing, and become more unified and empathetic for those exploited.
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Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 997 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 5:23:57 AM
When these bankers that control the money supply (all these central banks like the Federal Reserve, that's privatly owned BTW), they charge interest to the governments that get their money from them. We pay that interest in the form of taxes and higher interest rates for us. They shrink the money supply, buy out anything they wish, reinstitute more money later and this has been going on gor decades. Control the money supply, control the country. Put more countries under one umbrella,, control whole economic zones. Unless we change how money is produced and distributed, we are in a grand scam.
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Timothy V. Gatto (348 articles, 177 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 574 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 8:19:41 AM
In American Government we have two Parties masquerading as two. We know that the Left and Right are just two flavors of Authoritarianism. Or you should know it.
On the Global stage the The Two poles of Authoritarianism are Free Market Capitalism and Communism. Both Authoritarian and self serving for the Elites.
Someone talks about the leveling of the playing field. That's very Leftist. Globalization will use which ever Flavor that they can shove down the throats of the unaware population at the time.
Americans, both Left and Right are nothing if not unaware.
That Zeitgeist was good video. The big error was in the end when they missed the IRANIAN dispute is a charade to support the ridiculous Global OIL prices. IRANIAN Oil profits too from this. As does Chavez and Russia and USA and Canada. Lots of Facists and Socialists on that list. Socialists and Communists are pretty much the same Leftist song and dance. It's Not some real dispute over actual Political differences.
Since to the Globalist, Political differences are just a tool.
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"Hoss" David P. (51 articles, 5 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 338 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 2:29:58 PM
It the one world system, or the "new world order" which has been pushed by Republicans and Democrats alike. Clinton made it happen when he and the Democrats voted for NAFTA. This ONE WORLD SYSTEM is also predicted in the Bible[KJV] and is referred to as the beast, which is a system not a person. The Bible characterizes it as being evil to be presided over by Satan while posing as christ, quoting what appears to be scripture. An example is Bush's remark "if you are not with us you are against us" and is meant to resemble the book of Matthew 12:30. Luke 9:50 and Mark 9:40 state it quite differently saying "he who is not against us is for us". Bush has claimed he was appointed by god to be pResident. Just food for thought. Thanks for the article.
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Swami Bogananda (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 38 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 3:55:21 PM
Globalism......when did we (the people) have that debate?
To some, it may look good on paper, but in practice it seems to be shaping up as fascism and the global sweatshop.
It also seems to be the end of the American experiment. The Sovereignty of the U. S. of A......what a quaint notion. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.....they contribute nothing to the bottom line.
It is all about the bottom line, isn't it?
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B York (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 89 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 4:18:21 PM
Nowhere do I see anyone tackling the real question, excepting, and then only in part, for Blue Pilgrim.
We all understand that the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign shores is bad for both Americans and those recipients of those jobs who must endure unsafe working conditions, little or no benefits, pollution of their air and water supplies, etc.. I do not protest this very real assessment.
However how can we , in good conscience and because we live all together on a small blue ball, deny others the chance for a better life realised through the industrialisation of former third world nations? When blanket indictments of "Globalisation" are made without consideration of the fact that much of the world still lives at or near starvation levels we do a disservice to the real problems and to those we should be trying to help.
As Mr. Gatto noted, large multinationals run this outsourcing to increase profits and at great expense to ourselves and the world. They also seem to run our government rather effectively as well through the power of the checkbook. This is the fight we must engage in, not railing against an inevitable and necesary growth of industry on foreign shores. That only makes us appear ethnocentrist and xenophobic.
Halliburton got contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, contracts with GUARRANTEED profit margins, not a bad deal huh? They spun off Kellogg, Brown and Root, chartered in the Caymen Islands, moved factories to China and other such places thus avoiding the payment of one red cent in American taxes, and on contracts we the people gave them and on money we the people paid them. This should be illegal as hell and this is our target.
Instead some would rail about some guy in Malaysia working for twelve cents an hour as if he was the villain in this piece. The problem with job loss here in America is only because our government is not affording displaced American workers retraining in the emerging new technologies we profit upon. Our gross national product is around ten trillion a year, despite the exporting of manufacturing abroad.
Once America was an agrarian nation, and for a very long time most of its wealth was in agriculture. Some claim that our Civil War was really fought, not over slavery, but over which faction would run the country, the agrarian South or the industrialised North. Our current battle is over who should run our nation as well, Halliburton and the other transnationals or we the people.
Those of you who fail to see that we are no longer a manufacturing giant, and never will be again, are simply refusing to acknowledge fact, or are resistant to change, or do not know the stock market and which stocks prosper and which decline.
Anyway, as you might note this is a subject about which I am rather passionate. I believe that talk of the evils of industry going to Micronesia are sidetracking the real problems besetting us, the power of the CEO's over our government. All the Boards of Directors of all the major giants are composed of the same five hundred or so folks......the names appear again and again if you look for them. This is the real enemy, out of control capitalists whose names are far from household words.....they own the politicans, they own the stocks and bonds, they own your debt and they own you, unless you might consider doimng something about that.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2377 comments)
on Friday, August 17, 2007 at 6:57:57 PM
Why does this "good" life for our "neighbors" in other countries have to come at the expense of Americans? Why can't progress occur colaterally? Moving Industry just to move it is not progress.
I suppose you think the Democrats or Progressives would never build in a guaranteed profit for a Multi National Corporation? I suppose they were just asleep when all this happened. Convenient I suppose.
The Communist Leftist Chinese Elites have allowed their country to be exploited by Multi National Corporations. Those Communist Elites live as well as any Capitalist Pig. So much for the Peoples revolution over there.
Vote Democrat in 08. Let's give the Bush-Clintn dynasty 8 more years to finish the job of selling out America.
Globalism isn't for anyone. It's for a ruling elite cabal of Corporate and Government officialdom and a marginalized working class glad for the crumbs that fall off the Elite's table.
A True American Liberal or Conservative would reject this. I don't see it being rejected by any of our politicians.
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"Hoss" David P. (51 articles, 5 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 338 comments)
on Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 7:15:06 AM
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