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Learning to Mix Apples and Oranges
to End the Free Market
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Nipawin - Monday, January 14, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis |
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amoral
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We are living in dangerous times. After centuries of imperial colonization we have
now the new form of colonization in the Free Market with its amoral guiding principle
of making money with money. |
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theoretical
absurdity
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- The Free Market has become a gambling casino run by the big corporations and
fortunate sons. We must reflect on what has happened to our world in the last twenty
years of corporate globalization. The ideology of the Free Market is a theoretical
absurdity as the gap between the rich and the poor has been widening along with greater
violence, wars and the erosion of democracies.
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bubbles
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- The freeing of capital markets has turned financial markets into a gambling casino.
It was just yesterday that we commented
that 95% of the six trillion dollars moving around the world every day is just an
economic bubble with no supportive real wealth. The Free Market is full of economic
bubbles ready to explode as we experience the current burst of the Argentina's bubble.
The Free Market is a Big Bubble and big corporations and fortunate sons are defending
this Big Bubble with their media propaganda, their wars against terrorism along with
a further erosion of democracies.
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incongruity
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- Last
week, Saskatchewan journalist Doug Cuthand wrote an article sympathetic to
the plight of Palestinians and his employer Canwest Global Communications
didn't publish it as the media has become an expression of corporate propaganda.
We have been told that the war in Afghanistan has been won but we hear news of further
American bombing in this country. We have Canadian Minister of Public Works Alfonso
Gagliano ordering the hiring of his friends by governmental agencies and we hear
that this behaviour is legal and that it is called lobbying. We turn our attention
to the collapse of the Bush friendly Enron Corporation and we notice among
the alleged many fraudulent practices that this corporation had some 874 subsidiaries
located in officially designated offshore tax and bank havens while the Bush Administration
is supposed to be waging the financial war against money laundering.
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learn
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- We are used to saying that we should not mix apples and oranges, but we have
reached such a level of erosion of our democracy that to further fragment our issues
and make them specific for the interest of our conventional wisdom is not enough
anymore. Let us learn how to mix apples and oranges and take back our freedoms from
the Free Market, that is the big corporations and fortunate sons.
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----------------References: |
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The Mirage of Progress,
by Mark Weisbrot, The American Prospect, Volume 13, Issue 1. January 1 - 14 2002
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/1/weisbrot-m.html
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Axing of column sparks controversy, Bill Schiller, January 12, 2002, The Torornto
Star |
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Blind Faith: How Deregulation
and Enron's Influence Over Government Looted Billions from Americans. Sen. Gramm,
White House Must Be Investigated for Role in Enron's Fraud of Consumers and Shareholders,
December 2001, Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/documents/Blind_Faith.pdf
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Before Debacle,
Enron Insiders Cashed in $1.1 Billion in Shares, By LESLIE WAYNE, January
13, 2002, The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/business/13SELL.html
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