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Peter Thiel: Globalization is Over, ‘It Feels so Dated’
breitbart ^ | CHARLIE NASH

Posted on 03/09/2017 5:55:46 AM PST by davikkm

Billionaire tech entrepreneur and adviser to President Trump, Peter Thiel, declared globalization to be over on Tuesday, claiming it’s “so 2005, it feels so dated.” “I’m naturally inclined to think of it in those terms,” said Thiel on the topic of how Trump’s victory showed the American people’s dissatisfaction with globalization. “There’s something around globalization that’s not been working that well.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billionaires; first100days; globalization; maga; tech; thiel; trump45

1 posted on 03/09/2017 5:55:46 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Indeed! And immigration is an attempt to maintain a labor bubble to benefit companies with low wages because native populations aren’t reproducing because of poor economic prospects.


2 posted on 03/09/2017 5:56:35 AM PST by davikkm
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To: davikkm
“There’s something around globalization that’s not been working that well.”

well DUH!

Anyone who had spent even a few days in the Rust Belt over the past quarter-century could have told you THAT!


3 posted on 03/09/2017 6:02:35 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: davikkm

Don’t kid yourself. Globalization is the goal of the ruling elites and they won’t give up. Ever. Stay constantly vigilent.


4 posted on 03/09/2017 6:03:26 AM PST by circlecity
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To: davikkm
The reality behind the globalist utopian dream of free movement of people and capital is a net inflow of indigent people from the Third World into the First, and an outflow of production and capital from the First into the Third. Consequently, globalization is the ultimate form of wealth redistribution: it marginally raises the standard of living in Third World countries by drastically lowering them in developed countries.

Americans and Europeans are waking up to this reality, and if all goes well, Globalism will wind up in the same ideological rubbish heap as Marxism.

5 posted on 03/09/2017 6:04:02 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: davikkm

The insecure nature of real estate and other property ownership in most nations was always going to quash globalism.

Globalism is always predicated on some kind of universal totalitarianism. Lacking the will or money to impose totalitarian rule ends globalism dreams.


6 posted on 03/09/2017 6:04:29 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: davikkm

Globalists must be crushed to dust. It ain’t over until its over. No quarter.


7 posted on 03/09/2017 6:09:24 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: circlecity

Well said,

If by the power of the Holy Spirit we have rebuked it for a time or season, its not over, its never over,

They will regroup and we know they will (be allowed to) take the upper hand just before the end comes even if it takes them the next ten generations to reach their goal,


8 posted on 03/09/2017 6:14:28 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: circlecity

“Don’t kid yourself. Globalization is the goal of the ruling elites and they won’t give up. Ever. Stay constantly vigilent.”

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You are absolutely correct. It was a feature of late 18th century socialism and was brazenly out in the open with Wilsonian goals. It has been the dominant force in the West since the end of WWII. It is eroding, but the wealthiest, most connected, and most depraved elites in history cling tight to it, and their power base is America and the EU.

They won’t go quietly or easily, though they may go underground. Nation states have the power to neutralize them. A good start would be extraditing Soros to Russia.


9 posted on 03/09/2017 6:28:12 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain, the Songbird. Nearly sank an aircraft carrier all alone, now tender midwife to ISIS.)
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To: hal ogen

Globalists must be crushed to dust. It ain’t over until its over. No quarter.

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Agreed. Many of the individual proponents and supporters should face something like the Nuremberg trials for their bloody machinations in the world. Senator John McCain, as an example. “We came, we saw, he died, hahahahaha!” Hillary as another.


10 posted on 03/09/2017 6:30:56 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain, the Songbird. Nearly sank an aircraft carrier all alone, now tender midwife to ISIS.)
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To: jjotto

” . . Globalism is always predicated on some kind of universal totalitarianism”

True,

And that’s what the coming all-powerful global ‘Tower of Babylon’ style connected wired/wireless chipped surveillance state is for,

Where your every transaction, every internet word spoken, your every physical move, every vehicle mile, every doorway entered and exited, every private conversation will be watched, monitored, archived and regulated into compliance with the NWO globalist anti-Christ (Computer = 666) ‘Beast’ system,

Now imagine an unelected Obama/Clinton style corrupted sycophant bureaucrat managing your monthly compliance,

Its just a matter of time (maybe even decades away) before its legally required, and its all being done for the most altruistic of reasons, to stop crime, to prevent terrorism and its all ‘for the children’ /s

Its slowly coalescing around us year in and year out. Electing trump was like kicking their power plug out of the wall outlet,

They’ll soon figure out what happened and prevent it from ever happening again,


11 posted on 03/09/2017 6:38:40 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: davikkm

A big economic reason for globalization, was that the huge difference in labor costs was much greater than the transportation costs.

That fundamental factor is changing, as wages gradually rise overseas, and especially as robots reduce labor costs overall.


12 posted on 03/09/2017 7:00:47 AM PST by BeauBo
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