These misconceptions are understandable because when things are wrong, we all have a driving need to know who to blame! In some cases, elitist slight-of-hand initiates and then perpetuates false assumptions.
This writer has never been accused of charging that all large corporations are guilty of initiating and perpetuating globalization. There are many businesses, including banks, who are led by moral, ethical and good-hearted businessmen or businesswomen. Just because a company might touch globalism does not mean it and its management or employees are evil.
Every bit of thirty-five years of research indicates that there is a relatively small yet diverse group of global players who have been the planners and instigators behind globalization for many decades. The primary driving force that moves this "clique" is greed; the secondary force is the lust for power. In the case of the academics who are key to globalism, a third force is professional recognition and acceptance (a subtle form of egoism and power.)
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The Global Elite: Who Are They?
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You will like a story I'm editing right now - "The Permanent Revolution", coming soon to a ViveLeCanada near you.
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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden
Got nothing...
by Stan Moore<br />
(Wednesday March 01 2006)<br />
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"It's class warfare, and if you aren't worth a million dollars in America in the near future, you won't be worth much at all."<br />
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Bush, the Neo-Cons, and the Congress members of both parties are steadily destroying the U.S. economy and its prospects for the future. "Free trade" is the goal, and cheap labor is a means to that goal. American manufacturing jobs are being cast aside in Kansas and Detroit so fast as to make the head spin. And all the while the dumbed-down rustbelt right-wingers cheer as their jobs go away forever and their children and grandchildren are placed under mountainous piles of debt.<br />
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It cannot be long before the process is irreversible and before Americans learn what it is like to live in poverty in huge numbers. The moneyed elite loves it. The global corporations don't mind if American labor is devalued and if the American lifestyle goes under, as long as cheap labor is available and consumers are buying merchandise somewhere in the world. The corporatocracies learned long ago what Henry Ford knew -- it is better to make a penny off a billion poor people than to make a dollar off a million middle-class people.<br />
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America's days of greatness are nearly over. The children of America have been sold out to the lowest bidder, and will never be able to repay the debts they have been placed under. Foreign owners and landlords will be coming to collect the rent and foreign employers will soon do to American labor what American employers are now doing to labor in Malaysia, China and Vietnam.<br />
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Democracy will not save America, because the first goal of the corporatocracy was to corrupt the democratic processes in favor of class structure. The golden rule is truer than ever -- whoever has the gold makes the rules. <br />
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<a href="http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/27587">http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/27587</a>
I look forward towards reading it, Dr Caleb. When might we expect publication?
H.F. Wolff
<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />
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You can watch or listen to the program by streaming video/audio over the internet for those of us outside the US without access to US cable TV channels. <br />
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Here's the blurb on the show from their web site:<br />
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The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future - and What It Will Take to Win It Back Jeff Faux<br />
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Description: Jeff Faux talks about the increasing power of the rich around the world and the economic policies that they favor. During his talk, Mr. Faux takes a critical look at the recently concluded annual meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the bi-partisan support for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the power of multinational corporations. He argues that much of the world's population is being left behind in the new global economy. Includes Q&A.<br />
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Author Bio: Jeff Faux is founding president and fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC (<a href="http://www.epi.org">www.epi.org</a>). He is the author of "The Party's Not over: A New Vision for the Democrats," "Rebuilding America" (co-authored with Gar Aleprovitz), and several other titles.<br />
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If you go to the link below, you'll see that they've got a button at the top of the page to "Watch Online." This also includes an audio only stream as well for those with low bandwith connections.<br />
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<a href="http://www.booktv.org/watch/">http://www.booktv.org/watch/</a>
Diogenes and I have discussed it many times. Wealthy
families who contorl large amounts of the big banks
control the destiny of government policy. American,Jewish,
British...it matters not the nationality,the fact
remains,whether we want to admit it or not,there are some
very powerful and influential families that pull the
strings of policy and commerce.
Until we ALL realize it and get fed up with it,our
siccors will never be strong enough to cut the strings
where they need to be cut.
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A little peice of heaven is found in good deeds.
As long as they're permitted to keep this power, we can moan and groan, it won't make any difference.
Ed Deak.