'Global Trading Practices and the Impact on American Industry'

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.uaw.org/news/newsarticle.cfm?ArtId=454

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Text of speech by UAW President Ron Gettelfinger on 'Global Trading Practices and the Impact on American Industry'

The following is a speech on "Global Trading Practices and the Impact on American Industry” by UAW President Ron Gettelfinger. It was given on April 10, 2007 at Michigan State University's School of Labor and Industrial Relations in East Lansing, Mich.

Thank you for the kind introduction Dean Baba and to all of you for the warm welcome.

It is a pleasure to be here with Dean Baba, Director Curry and all of you. I am especially pleased that Board of Trustees members Faylene Owen, George Perles and Colleen McNamara are in attendance as well. And, I would like to express my appreciation to Bill Cooke for the invitation to be here today. The UAW appreciates this opportunity and we hope that the bridge Bill has begun to construct between the UAW and the School of Labor & Industrial Relations at MSU will become a strong and lasting one.

It is an honor to be in Lansing which is part of our UAW Region 1C under the responsibility of our very capable Director, Duane Zuckschwerdt. We appreciate his leadership and the support we receive from our staff and local unions in this region as well as from our other three Michigan regions.

It is also my pleasure to bring to all of you the greetings from the men and women of the UAW as well as from our union’s International Executive Board. I am pleased that Vice Presidents General Holiefield, Cal Rapson and retired Vice President Dick Shoemaker as well as so many of our local union leadership are in attendance. I also appreciate the fact that retired General Motors Vice President Guy Briggs is in attendance.

It is important to recognize and understand the role of labor not only in the workplace, but in all of society. And, MSU’s School of Labor and Industrial Relations is helping to do that.

The UAW thinks it is imperative to have open dialogue and public debate on issues of importance and it is through forums such as this that makes those opportunities available.

FULL speech at link.

[Larry Ogg]

1. I’m not prone to panic attacks but I read this the other day and it scared the shit out of me.

AMERICA PLUNDERED BY GLOBAL ELITE

Patrick Wood
December 13, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

?http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick9.htm
In 1978, this writer's book Trilaterals Over Washington revealed the global strategy of the Trilateral Commission and it's co-founders David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, in particular, provided the intellectual reasoning and political strategy for the "New International Economic Order".
Brzezinski was also an astute political operator. He is credited as the first person to take interest in Jimmy Carter, to mentor him in globalism starting in 1973 when Carter was chosen to be part of the Trilateral Commission. Upon Carter's election victory in 1976, Brzezinski was appointed National Security Advisor. By the end of 1976, Carter had appointed no less than 19 members of the Trilateral Commission to high-ranking government positions. These 19 members represented just under 20% of the entire U.S. delegation of the Trilateral Commission.
The stage was now set for their power to become permanently embedded. Each successive Administration has been disproportionally dominated by members of the Trilateral Commission: George H.W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, Richard B. Cheney. Each administration filled top posts from the Trilateral Commission. Think-tanks connected to the Trilateral Commission cranked out volumes of studies that droned on and on about the New International Economic Order, interdependence and the need for political change.

Looking backward to Brzezinski, however, is necessary because he most clearly and lucidly embodied the heart and soul of the rush to globalism. He created the watershed that initiated the plundering of America and the buildup of the global corporate elite. This issue intends to quantify the extent of this plundering.


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