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Republicans trade U.S.A. to Multinational Corporations

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Forwarded from the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: –  SNETNEWS  Mailing List Republicans trade U.S.A. to Multinational Corporations May 26, 2000 It’s official: 164 Republicans and 73 Democrats in the House of Representatives sold the birthright of America for a mess of corporate pottage. Lincoln had it all wrong. It’s now a nation of corporate profits, by corporate profits and for corporate profits. Millions of dollars in corporate advertising and congressional lobbying paid off. The House approved permanent Most Favored Nation trade status to Communist China. Did I say lobbying? Bribery might be a better word. At least one congressman has already come forward to say, "I have turned down over $200,000 in multinational corporation PAC money if I would change my vote." He went on to say, "I came to Congress for a reason, and there is not enough money in the world to sway my vote. I will not sell out America’s interests." That man is Republican Representative Merrill Cook, who represents Utah’s 2nd congressional district. It’s too bad the rest of the Republican Party doesn’t feel the same way. By contrast, Speaker Dennis Hastert led the effort in the House to bring the Republican Party in line with Bill Clinton’s China trade deal. Interestingly, the world’s largest maker of construction equipment operates plants in Hastert’s 14th Illinois district. Caterpillar Corporation is a major Hastert donor and lobbied hard for PNTR for China. Caterpillar cut a deal with China to set up a plant on the mainland in order to help them build highway-paving equipment. All it needed was PNTR from Congress. They went to Hastert. He is credited with convincing many Republicans who were straddling the fence to get on board. I’m sure Denny Boy can look for a nice token of Caterpillar’s appreciation in his Christmas stocking this year. At the same time that Republicans are imitating Neville Chamberlain, Jiang Zemin is imitating Adolf Hitler as China is engaged in the largest military buildup of its history. China seems determined to conquer Taiwan and is quite emphatic that it is willing to risk war with the United States to do it. Meanwhile, U.S. corporations and their co-conspirators in the U.S. Congress are supplying the tools and technology necessary to augment Red China’s war machine. One of my favorite quotations comes from the great German reformer, Martin Luther. He said, "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all battlefields beside is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point." There is no doubt in my mind that the main political battlefield for America today is the fight for independence and national sovereignty. America is quickly forsaking its autonomy to a bunch of indifferent internationalists determined to create a global economy and the global government that goes along with it. In this battle, George W. Bush and the entire Republican leadership are AWOL. In fact, neither political party has a red blooded, America-first, better-dead-than-red, "don’t tread on me" champion leading it. What they have are a couple of bought-and-paid-for errand boys whose sole purpose in life is doing the bidding of the global elite. All this talk of a "global economy" might sound good at the moment, but just remember this: it wasn’t a "global economy" that caused our American forefathers to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor in a brutal revolutionary war. It wasn’t a "global economy" that caused our stalwart soldiers to endure that hail of death and destruction on the beaches of Normandy. It wasn’t a "global economy" that put our brave patriots on a thousand battlefields. Americans don’t bleed and die for money-obsessed, multinational corporations and their dreams of global commerce! Americans know but one country. We are not citizens of the world; we swear no allegiance to any other flag. It’s time our nation’s leaders remembered that we are Americans first, last and always and will never surrender our independence to any global, New World Order! NOTE: My editorials are published Tuesdays & Fridays on Gulf1.com and are sent via email to anyone who requests them. If you have friends whom you would like to receive these editorials please ask them to send their E-maill Newspapers, periodicals, journals and newsletters also carry my editorials. Editors or Publishers interested in running these editorials may contact visit my web site at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com http://www.gulf1.com T O P I C A  The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics

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Those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. It was not Americans’ dedication to freedom and national sovereignty that created the material wealth of this country.  Our elite have always known  how to manipulate citizen’s emotions to convince them to hand over their children to go fight for more wealth for rich people. Of all the military adventures, excursions, wars, etc that the US has engaged in the past two hundred years, how many were really defensive?  How many, if the US had sat out, would have resulted in the loss of American freedom and lives?  Even the Civil War was not really necessary.  So what if some of the states wanted a divorce?  Was it worth killing the kids for?  Maybe WWII, if the US had not intervened, might have resulted in a strong enough Axis power to cross the ocean, but it seems like if we can cut a deal with the Chinese Communists, we would have been able to expand on the deals Bush’s grandfather was making with the Nazis. And if we can consider Turkey an ally, and supply them arms for bombing and destroying the Kurds, I don’t see where we have a lot of moral high ground on the Germans. All I’m doing is pointing out that average Americans just do what they are told.  For a while, that resulted in a better standard of living.  But that was because we had a huge continent protected by the indigenous cultures, that took several centuries to devastate.  Its’ still not as bad as what was left behind in Europe, but will be soon.  So, until that natural resource was used up, we were able to fool ourselves into thinking that our elite were looking out for our interests, because we had clean water, clean air, lots of wood to burn for heat, food for the hunting, gathering, or growing.  But as we use up the resources we were handed, and need to start replenishing them, we find out that our rulers are not so generous as they pretended to be. When the global capitalists’ money poured out of England, at the turn of the century, and poured into North America, leaving behind an obsolete industrial base, and a devastated economy, Americans smugly assumed that all the wealth we saw was due to our moral superiority. Now, those same monied interests are making plans to take their money out of the mature American economy, and move it into another place on the planet that provides a better return.   That money is mostly invested in the US Stock Market.  I think that is the real push behind getting Social Security monies in the stock market, otherwise, there isn’t enough money in the US to buy out their interests. The American worker has just gone along with the program, and unless something drastically different happens, and workers turn off their TV sets and get out in the evening and go to meetings, and share ideas, and start to support each other, our economy will go down the tubes, just as England’s did.

[snip]  Republicans trade U.S.A. to Multinational Corporations – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – There is no doubt in my mind that the main political battlefield for America today is the fight for independence and national sovereignty. America is quickly forsaking its autonomy to a bunch of indifferent internationalists determined to create a global economy and the global government that goes along with it. In this battle, George W. Bush and the entire Republican leadership are AWOL. In fact, neither political party has a red blooded, America-first, better-dead-than-red, "don’t tread on me" champion leading it. What they have are a couple of bought-and-paid-for errand boys whose sole purpose in life is doing the bidding of the global elite. All this talk of a "global economy" might sound good at the moment, but just remember this: it wasn’t a "global economy" that caused our American forefathers to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor in a brutal revolutionary war. It wasn’t a "global economy" that caused our stalwart soldiers to endure that hail of death and destruction on the beaches of Normandy. It wasn’t a "global economy" that put our brave patriots on a thousand battlefields. Americans don’t bleed and die for money-obsessed, multinational corporations and their dreams of global commerce!

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