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26 February 2006

 

The Global Class War: How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future

This is a book you don't want to miss. In this great new book, Jeff Faux explains how globalization is creating a new global political elite - "The Party of Davos" - who have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens. Their so-called trade agreements (like NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization act as a global constitution that protects only one kind of citizen - the corporate investor. The inevitable result will be a drop in American living standards that will have dramatic political consequences.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: NAFTA: Class Reunion
Chapter 2: "Good Jobs" and Other Global Deceptions
Chapter 3: The Governing Class: America's Worst-Kept Secret
Chapter 4: How Reagan and Thatcher Stole Globalization
Chapter 5: A Bipartisan Empire
Chapter 6: Alan, Larry, and Bob Save the Privileged
Chapter 7: NAFTA: Who Got What?
Chapter 8: The Constitution According to Davos
Chapter 9: America Abandoned
Chapter 10: After the Fall
Chapter 11: Imagining North America
Chapter 12: Toward, and Beyond, a Continental Democracy

posted by Lorenzo 3:23 PM

21 February 2006

 

Outsourcing the U.S.A.
If outsourcing control of U.S. ports to foreign companies (like the British company that now controls six major ports on the East and Gulf coasts) why not go a step further and outsource Congress to some other country. And why stop there? Let's outsource the Courts and the Executive branches also. I don't see how this could make things any worse than they already are. If it's such a good idea to outsource all the jobs in the U.S., the country should start by outsourcing its lousy politicians.

posted by Lorenzo 10:59 AM

20 February 2006

 

Seeking Truth Among So Many Lies
The link above will take you to Harold Pinter's acceptance speech when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Here is a sample:

The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.
-- Harold Pinter

posted by Lorenzo 1:57 PM

11 February 2006

 

Thought for the day
The most preposterous notion that Homo Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that God, the Lord of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.
-- Robert Heinlein

posted by Lorenzo 3:52 PM

05 February 2006

 

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The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.
-- Albert Einstein

posted by Lorenzo 8:17 AM