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Bush Shills Neolib Nightmare in Brazil |
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by Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire Entered into the database on Sunday, November 06th, 2005 @ 20:50:19 MST |
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“President Bush acknowledged Sunday that he has more work to do to persuade
Brazil of the value of a vast proposed free-trade zone for the Western Hemisphere,”
reports ABC News.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has “got to be convinced,
just like the people of America must be convinced, that a trade arrangement
in our hemisphere is good for jobs, it’s good for the quality of life,”
Bush said. Of course, the exact opposite is true and a lot of people in Brazil
and elsewhere in Latin America realize it. In Bushzarro world, neoliberal schemes to steal natural resources and
reduce millions of people to slaves are portrayed as “good for jobs”
(or jobs that pay 60 cents an hour or less) and “quality of life”
(so long as the slaves don’t mind eking out a radically diminished existence
in sprawling, crime-wracked barrios, spending half of their income on clean
drinking water). Bush and ABC News, of course, never mention facts. Even the World Bank,
the neoliberal loan sharking institution now run by the neocon gangster Paul
Wolfowitz, admits “that since the inauguration of NAFTA (1994-2000) the
number of working people living below the poverty line [in Mexico] has risen
to 36 million persons or 62% of the economically active population. Over this
period the real minimum wage has fallen by 40.7%,” writes the political
economist John
W. Warnock. As a result, thousands of desperate Mexicans are streaming
over the U.S. border in search of work and creating a crisis in border states
from Texas to California. Mexico, however, is unable to compete with the massive forced labor camp in
China, where wages are one-fourth of Mexico’s. “China is doing nothing
but embracing globalization,” explains NewsMax.
In other words, the totalitarian state of China, where people are executed for
complaining, is the preferred template for neolib planners and multinational
corporations. So much for communism and its promised paradise for the working class. “The Chinese elites as well as the multinational corporations
are the real winners of U.S.-China trade relations,” explains
China
Labor Watch. “For example, a typical article of clothing produced
for one of the big multinational brands in a Chinese factory at a cost of $5
will be sold to the U.S. consumer for as much as $40. And the total compensation
for the labor of the Chinese worker who made it will be less than 80 cents.
For these reasons, it’s easy to understand why the multinationals are
so eager to move orders and production lines to China.” Bush’s “free trade zone” (or pirate zone for multinational
corporations) “will give unequalled new rights to the transnational corporations
of the hemisphere to compete for and even challenge every publicly funded service
of its governments, including health care, education, social security, culture
and environmental protection,” as Maude
Barlow characterized the so-called Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2001.
In other words, if Bush’s “trade bloc stretching from Alaska to
Argentina,” as ABC terms it, is accepted and ratified, millions of people
will be living in increased squalor and misery. But then, of course, that’s
what the New World Order is all about—reducing billions of people to peonage
and laboring away in abysmal conditions for 60 cents and hour (or less) on a
huge multinational plantation. It is, however, a tenuous peonage eventually
terminating in unemployment and abject poverty—and thus, eventually, reducing
millions of people to the status of throw-away humans. Pierre
Bourdieu writes of the “Darwinian world” of NWO neoliberalism:
The ultimate foundation of this entire economic order placed under the sign
of freedom is in effect the structural violence of unemployment, of the insecurity
of job tenure and the menace of layoff that it implies. The condition of the
“harmonious” functioning of the individualist micro-economic model
is a mass phenomenon, the existence of a reserve army of the unemployed. Neoliberalism is a form of global feudalism controlled and run by corporate
overlords who “manage” the “investments” of a tiny number
of super-rich investors. In the neoliberal nightmare envisioned by
the NWO planners, “[o]verall policies are to be set by non-elected, corporate-dominated
commissions; the world’s economy, information and working conditions are
to be managed directly by megacorps; governmental function is to shrink down
to administrative matters and police-management of the populace,” writes
Richard K.
Moore. “All this to be enforced globally by an elite-dominated strike
force built around the U.S. military and NATO.” As Moore sees it, the
“American people, in their habitual credulity, are the most effectively
mesmerized by the media mythology they are fed via television. America is a
kind of ’safe house’ for NWO operations.” In fact, America is not only a “safe house” for NWO operations,
it is the final destination of rapacious neolib economic policies, a coup de
grâce for what remains of liberty in America. Bush and his technocrats
had their mock trial run in New Orleans—a fascistic experiment of “contractors”
herding citizens into “evacuee” camps and taking away their guns—and
the bogus bird flu “pandemic” may provide additional hands-on training
exercises in totalitarian police state tactics. Of course, these tactics will be necessary if the neolib controllers, working
in tandem with multinational corporations under the aegis of “free trade”
(unrestrained piracy), are to eventually realize their nightmarish vision of
turning the planet into a global labor gulag where minerals are strip mined
ruthlessly and entire rain forests “harvested” for the benefit of
an infinitesimal number of super-rich vampires. When human life is thus
degraded and considered of little intrinsic value, the unmistakable result will
be mass extermination of the “useless eaters” created in the millions,
as their labor will no longer be of value and in fact the mere existence of
millions of unemployed and unemployable will be perceived as a dire threat by
the NWO managers. Even in China, where the vanguard of neoliberalism
flourishes, workers are beginning to revolt in increasing numbers. If there
is hope for humanity, it is in the fact people eventually rebel against inhumane
conditions, even against apparently insurmountable odds. |