PIPE DREAM OF ECONOMIC GLOBALISM
THE HELL IS IN THE ATTEMPT

By: SARTRE

One of the most perceptive financial thinkers and real world practitioners 
of economic policy is Paul Craig Roberts. In one of his most observant 
essays he stated: "For globalism to work, there needs to a single 
currency and a single tax system -- a one world political system. 
Trade between countries is not like trade within a country. Trade between 
countries involves different currencies whose values change if there are 
persistent trade deficits or surpluses. A country that runs up a large 
trade imbalance due to its importation of cheap manufactured goods 
suddenly finds the goods are no longer cheap when the value of its 
currency declines. The companies that outsourced to benefit from 
cheap labor suddenly find their profits impacted when the currency 
in their home market devalues."

The menace of globalism has hung over our heads for decades. Its 
objective has been well known for even longer. But its been a relative 
recent reality that the prospects for coordination among the world's 
pecuniary elites has achieved the potential of total domination. The 
drive for world government has long attacked the national sovereignty 
of countries. Trade agreements are designed to integrate international 
trade, at the expense of individual nations. Interdependency became the 
Trilateral mantra, for a collective globe. Think that it's just bankers, 
economists, politicians and media behind this effort? Think again, they 
are not alone!  

Who offered this view back in 1936?

"In an age when international interdependence and integration are 
increasing on all fronts, a "uniform and universal system of currency" 
is one of a number of complementary measures that will help to "simplify 
and facilitate intercourse and understanding among the nations and 
races of mankind."  

From an online publication that carries on the same work, we get this 
directive of their reasoning:

"A single currency would in some respects be like a world language, 
improving communications around the globe. It would eliminate the 
present problems of speculation, instability and uncertainty and would 
provide a strong foundation for the growing world economy. It would 
reduce a significant cost and risk of doing business internationally."  

"A global currency would also be an important step in promoting 
economic justice in the world, removing the advantage of a few 
favored countries whose currency is seen as stronger or more secure 
and preventing the poor from being hurt by the impacts of currency 
fluctuations. In the long run, such a step would do much to counteract 
the local harm that is sometimes induced by economic globalization by 
putting everyone, everywhere, on a more "level" economic playing
field."  

Need a hint - just who are these people? Does Shoghi Effendi sound 
familiar? OK, that's not much help . . .  

So look at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank from the 
standpoint that economics is not their primary purpose. Imagine guru 
John Maynard Keynes, not as an economist but as a covert mystic. 
Ponder upon the character of globalism in light of wholesale social 
integration. The objective is uniformity for the sake of efficacy. 
Isn't that what productivity is all about?  

Is universal equality a healthy goal or is it nothing more than a 
treacherous nightmare? If peoples, cultures and commercial methods 
were inherently equivalent, then maybe there would be some substance 
to the argument. However, all of human history offers overwhelming 
empirical evidence that societies have never been uniform in motives, 
dreams, abilities and techniques. So why should any sensible person 
expect that platitudes can become practical substitutes for real 
solutions?  

Back in the real world of economic materiality, Roberts' insight 
hit a grand slam.  

"There are no corporate protectionists. Corporations oppose protection, 
because tariffs and quotas would reduce or eliminate the gains to their 
bottom lines from their use of inexpensive foreign labor to manufacture 
goods for the American market. High- and low- tech U.S. firms are not 
moving to Asia because the U.S. government refuses to protect their 
American markets. They are moving their plants to Asia because they 
can drive up their earnings by hiring efficient Asian labor at a lower 
price per week than Americans demand per hour."  

That "so called" economic justice and level economic playing field, is 
more akin to feeding the bloated beasts that control access to capital, 
than to distribute the seeds to grow one's own sustenance of economic 
independence. At that is the kernel of the worldwide economic famine. 
It's not about the money, but how and what it takes to acquire it.  

Establishing a single world currency doesn't protect anyone; except, 
those who control the process of selective distribution. Equality in 
economic opportunity can never be achieved through the favoritism of 
Free Trade. The only thing FREE in the consolidating global economic 
system is the ride that the barons of manipulation enjoy. While they 
preach the virtues of wealth creation, they advance their own dominance 
over any remaining or persistent competitors.  

The utopian goal of a single currency would talk in a language of 
complete submission. That group that advocates this profane union is 
the Bahai's International, a cult that disguises itself as a religion. 
They share their paradise with the autocrats of the global penal colony. 
When author Tom Wolfe states that "a cult is a religion with no political 
power", he fails to recognize the nature of the globalists. They conjure 
up an occult sacrifice each time they impose their conception for social 
order. A world currency plays directly into the hands of the Free Traders 
and certainly would not lift wealth creation or expand its benefits. 
All it would do is to curtail our output, as it squeezes our treasure 
and disperses it among the forces that redistribute.  

The move to completely centralize the global economy will fail and 
implode because it requires, as Dr Roberts correctly points out: "a one 
world political system". All the advanced technology imaginable will not 
supplant the will to be and remain free. That's why religious cults are 
used to spread the gospel of a deadly compassionate globalism. The 
beliefs of heretics are invaluable in proclaiming the goals of global 
political extremists. In the end, the days shorten as the conflict 
quickens. The Hell is in the attempt . . .  


"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this 
notice and hyperlink intact."  

Published in the July 9, 2003 issue of Ether Zone.
Copyright (c) 1997 - 2003 Ether Zone. 

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Cheers, Steve..

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