Posted on 07/16/2002 7:10:25 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Globalization I was interupted in 1914 by WWI and then WWII... and the effort did not resume until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The old forces against Globalization (aka the old Germany, USSR, etc) had to be crushed over decades. The current push for globalization is largely the resut of the telecommunications and stock-market tools, which begain to emerge in the 1980s. Now the EU exists, and NAFTA will be expanded to Chile, and the Chinese are on board with the WTO... the big piece in need of control and stability is the oil-rich Islamic bases of N. Africa, the Middle East and the "stans" out there around the Caspian.
Patents on seeds and drugs will keep Africa and other poverty-bases under control. Global "mega-corporations" will be in charge, with market forces dictating the future much more than any political views, be it "left" or "right"... the crucial decisions will be at the hands of the markets, the central banking controls and the corporate captains.
PS Business, not governments, will rule under globalization. This is why there has been a slow, creeping marriage of views in the far-left (Chomsky) and the far-right (Buchanan) around the world. Both have realized that globalization cuts out the fat, cuts to the bone of the matter, and places lawyers, central banks and businesses in the role of world leaders.
The War on Terrorism also serves as a war on those against globalization efforts. Dissent will be crushed over time. Lawyers, guns and money always win.
From My Cold Dead Hands!
That is correct!!!! And, under the current "shareholder capitalism" system, it is the global financial services businesses, and other large financial manipulators that rule, NOT businesses that provide products and services.
Of course, the shareholder capitalist system (which is only around 15 years old) is having problems lately--they are grouped under the rubric of "Enronitis",and are responsible for the precipitous fall of the stock market. The Powers That Be are frantically scrambling for quick fixes that will keep the current system (with its evil New World Order implcations) in power. However, others (including some leading business people, consultants, etc.) see the real problem, and are seeking a return to a version of the stakeholder capitalist system that we more or less had in the early-to-mid 1980s. Socialists and anticapitialist liberals do not have enough knowledge to figure out how to fix the system, and are basically a bunch of hot air.
A "world government" cannot be democratic, mainly for logistical and cultural reasons ("all politics is local", etc.). The version of world "government" that we are getting is an only-economics-counts plutocracy, which is no government at all.
But the other version of "world government" waiting in the wings if things should collapse (or can be engineered to collapse) is some version of an islamic caliphate or collection of large islamic emirates. This is the form of world government desired by the ones we call "the terrorists". If these people should win out, that would mean wide-scale genocide and the coming of a Dark Age!!!! I say NO THANK YOU to BOTH versions of a New World Order!!!!
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Stock corporations date back to well before the founding of the Republic. Try again.
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