The global corporatocracy is nearing completion
The Global Corporatocracy Is Nearing Completion
Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 3:54PM
By Don Quijones at Testosterone Pit.
The main driver of this change are the bilateral and multilateral trade and investment treaties being negotiated in complete secrecy and behind closed doors between corporate lobbyists, free trade activists and our own elected “representatives” (a term I use in the loosest possible sense, especially given the context). The ultimate goal of these treaties is to reconfigure the legal apparatus and superstructures that govern national, regional and global trade and business – for the primary, if not exclusive, benefit of the world’s largest multinational corporations.
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As I warned in early November 2013, the global corporatocracy is almost fully operational. The intentions of those negotiating the multiple trade treaties are now crystal clear: to place complete power and control over our economies in the hands of the largest global corporations, many of which bear the lion’s share of responsibility for the economic and environmental mess we’re already in.
In the meantime, the clock continues to tick down. At any moment, a few quiet strokes of a pen behind the tightly closed doors of a luxury conference room could usher in a new age of corporate domination. With it will come a new kind of dystopia, bearing an uncanny likeness to the inverted totalitarianism foreseen by Sheldon Wolin.
His earlier essay on the subject I posted here. I happen across his writings at NakedCapitalism. His latest, on tax havens, is very insightful once again. The referenced interviews on Democracy Now just cost me a good two hours. But did you know that HALF the world trade passes through a tax haven?
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and not just the pathological mirror image that is shoved in our face through media and culture. An image that indeed is an illusion, and one that we unknowingly support through limited awareness.
Thanks for the K&R, mother earth. Gonna watch that vid.
We have a saying: only the light (of the sun) is free. So one should use it wery well 
and ability. The global shift, IMO, is that we are seeing things (finally) exactly as they are.
The end of illusions, the awakening that things do not have to be this way.
It's nice to "see" you again, BMC. 
man will see things as they truly are: infinite.
A driveby post, mother earth, but I'm following. Good to "see" you too!
but in this case, the better the belgian team does, the stronger the "belgian" feeling gets, and at this point in time that's an antidote to flemish-centered nationalism, which is carried forward by a neoliberal antisocial party (imho). So I had a great night watching the game, whilst I normally don't even watch TV (or believe in borders).
