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<p>Subject: "THE GLOBAL ECONOMY" TRIUMPHS OVER earthday, JUST ANOTHER birthday
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"The Global Economy" Gobbles Up the World's Wealth and Human Dignity</p>
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<p>Every day, I get to observe the bizarre disparity between
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what I deem to be reality and the unreality that is carefully
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concocted for us (via CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc.) by the world
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powers who are secretly and systematically getting ever richer
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and more powerful by confiscating both our money and our freedom.</p>
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<p>I am fortunate enough to be able to hear an independent source
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of information -- Pacifica Radio, WBAI-FM, 99.5 in New York City.
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The reality vs. unreality contrast was strikingly obvious this morning.
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On my way to work, I was listening to a Swedish environmentalist.
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Helen Norberg Hodge is probably how her name is spelled.
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These are some of her points that I can recall:</p>
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<p> ** All the nations of the world are bankrupt. Consequently,
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THEIR logical solution to OUR problem is to amalgamate all the
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national economies of the world into one global economy under
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the domination of the giant multinational, transnational
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corporations.</p>
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<p> ** GHETTOIZATION OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY'S WORKFORCE (that's you,
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me, and our children when they eventually join the workforce.
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How much worse will it be for them when they reach that point?)
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INTO LARGE, URBAN LABOR CENTERS **
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The consequences to us are that we common people will be
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forced into traveling longer distances to work at urbanized
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industrial centers which they are creating as a part of their
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master plan. This will demand more sacrifices from us in terms of
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travel time and travel expenses. </p>
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<p> ** SIPHONING OFF THE PLANET'S NATURAL RESOURCES OF ENERGY TO FUEL
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LARGE ENERGY GENERATING CENTERS **</p>
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<p> ** INTER-LOCKING THE DISCRETE NATION-TOWNSHIPS OF THE
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GLOBAL ECONOMIC STATE INTO A TIGHT WEB OF STREAMLINED
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TRANSPORTATION THROUGHWAYS **
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We consumers will be forced to pay much higher prices for food
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and goods because the global expressway will bring us bananas
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from Australia and oranges from Israel. Naturally, we consumers
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will pay the transportation costs. Volvo of Sweden is just one
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of the corporate cogs in that multinational wheel of fortune. </p>
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<p>I leave the car and go into the cafeteria for morning coffee at the
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place where I work. And on the omnipresent big-screen that invades
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our lives nowadays, media giant CNN is booming out its expensive
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presentation. CNN happened to report on Earth Day. And this was
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what they told and showed to their viewers:</p>
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<p> Nothing at all about the environmental disasters that have been
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and continue to be inflicted upon our only planet by the logging
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industry, the oil industry, the automobile industry, the chemical
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industry, the U.S. Government/nuclear industry, and I could go on
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and on, but the point is already made.</p>
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<p> Oh, but they did show a guy taking a car battery and recycling it.</p>
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<p>Now that pack of lies-by-omission was brought to you by a media giant.
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Conversely, the broad, deep coverage presented by that media pauper,
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listener-financed, non-commercial WBAI on environmental crises alone
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(not to mention their political and social reportage) would be too
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vast for me to even summarize in numerous posts to these newsgroups.
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What does that tell you about the motives of the mass media?
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They don't want you to know any more than a meaningless tidbit about
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these literally earthshaking environmental issues.</p>
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<p>The relentless trend toward slavery is supposed
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to be gradual. You're not supposed to notice it. First you
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are eased into servitude, and then, when you're acclimated to
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servitude, you will more readily accept being eased into slavery.
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But it has to be done slowly so as to avoid mutinizing the people.
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Ideally, it should proceed over more than one generation. As one
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who lived through the war -- both the one in Vietnam and the one
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at home that accompanied it -- I can attest to the sedation of
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the American people from that generation to this one.</p>
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<p>Now why would anyone want to get richer by making us poorer?
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Why would anyone want to rob your apartment or house?
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Why would anyone want to rob one-point-two trillion dollars
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from the American people's paychecks to repay the $1.2 trillion
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that they robbed from the people's S & L savings accounts?
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That was the Reagan-Bush looting decade of the 1980s wherein
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the robber-barons got wildly wealthier by making us much poorer.</p>
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<p>If you're ignorant of that fact, then you need to turn off
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that goddamned television, because it is the instrument of your
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ignorance, your delusion, your anesthetization and your
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compliance in our slow but discernible slide into slavery.
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Just turn it off, because it is your enemy and it is out to
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ruin you. That's the same advice I give to my sister-in-law
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and brother-in-law about smoking, as they sit there passively
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coughing their guts out. Fight the TV addiction and vanquish it.
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Your human dignity and liberty depend upon it. Indeed, our
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children and our grandchildren are depending upon us. If we
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let them down, the consequences will be far worse for them.
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Don't deny high probability. Soon enough, you'll probably be
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taking on the responsibility of bringing them into this world
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and looking toward their well-being. </p>
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<p>So fight the TV addiction and vanquish that hypnotic force which
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dominates your mind and your life in so many subtle, yet powerful ways.</p>
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<p>And when you realize how hard it is to abstain from it, you'll
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finally realize the extent of its power over you. But THAT is
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your first step in fighting back -- in liberating yourself
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and your people. Turn off that damned Svengali that holds you
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spellbound. You can't imagine the price we, as a society,
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are all paying for so-called free television.
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Turn off the damned thing, and seek out the truth through many
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printed sources which you can access by asking your librarian to
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borrow specified books and photocopies of magazine and newspaper
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articles through the nationwide inter-library loan network.</p>
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<p> Ranting by:
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John DiNardo</p>
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