Seattle: Trade, Power and Defense i

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Subject: Seattle: Trade, Power and Defense issues

> First and last I say Shut down Seattle and technocrats and >multinational experts, go back home to your think tanks and think >again.
>Rather, go visit some Burmese prisons...
> This is pretty horrific, dont you think so? Its not just about the
> consumption and growth priorities of multinationals, its also about
> power and who rules the world in the 21st century, and its going to
> be a very strange world until it cools down and people decide to live
> together in harmony and peace. Multinationals thrive on war, in selected
> foreign sectors, proxy war, like in Burma, where the junta is doing the
> dirty business of domination under conditions of war, civil war, where
> the ordinary people get destroyed, to bring the gas back home or where
> they must deliver it to fulfill their energy and budget estimations.
> 
> Dont ever expect a multinational to give you a break. They would sooner
> fire than hire, if it cuts costs, and improves the bottom line.
> 
> Remember George Fernandez, India's current Defense Minister and friend
> of Free Burma. He used to be anyway, and I cannot see him changing
> alliances despite what some people have said. George and his small band
> told me once how they banned Coca Cola from India, kicked the country
> right out of the continent. Well, if you had invested in the company
> back in 1975, by 1990 you could have retired on your profits. But thats
> not what its all about. Alot of americans want to get rich, now here in
> France, they are pushing the get rich stock market craze. The French are
> naturally cynical, appreciate their way of life, wine and cheese and a
> good chat with friends. They know Mac Do is shitfood, and they know the
> craze for consumer wealth is a bottomless pit of deception and
> unhappiness. But they dont know how to stop it, while the Prime mInister
> Jospin surfs on the captialist wave, also, unsure of what to do or where
> they are going or when its going to crash. But the wave will roll out,
> and the passion for consumption can just make you so fat that its just
> downright disgusting.
> 
> Modesty, dignity and fellowship, should be the call for today. But dont
> count on the French leaders, they dont know whats going on, they dont
> follow the details, they too do business just like yesterday, only now,
> with the global rush for bucks. And who is behind that, capital, the
> banks, and maybe the big bankers and their friends.
> 
> And who can stop it? That's what Seattle is about. Asking the questions,
> and its just the beginning...
> 
> A hundred years ago they were shooting strikers, Rockefeller and Frisk
> would have them gunned down by thugs. Capitalism has changed its form,
> and there are many new members, but the old school is very much the
> same...a hundred years later...people are worried about the risk, the
> loss, the damage of capitalism, the trade off for quality and a life in
> harmony and peace. It all seems like a lot of talk to me. I think most
> of these corporations should be taken to court, with their political
> friends.
> 
> So in the meantime, lets hope the Supreme Court does the right thing,
> and that in the next year we move closer to sanctions in Europe.
> Because, as far as sanctions go, in Europe, its been a disaster.
> And next year could even be worse, if we let things go the same way.
> 
> Seattle shows how corrupt and deceitful is multinational greed, how
> organised the economists rules and measures, and just how arrogant they
> have become in their ruthless competition for profits and resources.
> 
> Wouldnt it be instructive if the top 100 corporate presidents spent two
> weeks in a Burmese jail, under normal jail conditions, just to get a
> good understanding of life in their time ? Maybe they would then
> appreciate the consequence of the nature of what they do and what they
> dont do to make the world a better place for one and all.
>
 THAT IS WHY I SAY SHUT DOWN SEATTLE AND SEND THE TECHNOCRATS AND
MULTINATIONALS BACK TO THEIR THINK TANKS TO THINK AGAIN.
 
> ds
> 
> -  Chemical and Biological Defense: Chemical Stockpile Emergency
>    Preparedness Program for Oregon and Washington. NSIAD-00-13. 19
>    pp. plus 4 appendices (10 pp.) October 26, 1999.
>    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns00013.pdf