Comments On: A Reason for Global Governance by Charles Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/05/21/a-reason-for-global-governance Comments On: A Reason for Global Governance by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> Posted by Post_Mortem]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:40:26 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]>
One of the things that has hurt this country is ignoring our principles and whether our actions are moral. Instead we often ask what are the gains or damages involved. The end result is since we can't predict the future, our actions cause significant amounts of blowback. Most of our main adversaries in the world today were created because there were short term gains to be granted by supporting oppressive governments.

We really need to stop supporting tyrants because it lower the price on gas or keeps socialists out of power. If we consistently acted on our morals, then our condemnation of oppressive governments would carry more force and the citizens of those governments wouldn't feel like they would be betrayed by us at a moments notice. And then our adversaries would disappear and we wouldn't have to live in this periodic cycle of war.
Posted by delirian]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:14:17 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> Posted by Proteus]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:38:16 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> Posted by Vince]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:15:24 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> Posted by Spindles]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:01:02 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]>
More, it seems bizarre to call for a universal government at the same time as decrying the advantage of one country's companies over another's.

But nice attempt at making people reassess knee-jerk reactions to things they probably hadn't thought about.
Posted by Post_Mortem]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:57:52 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> You have a point. Dodd-Frank reminds me of the Sullivan Principles. They provided an ethical framework for American and eventually global corporate behavior vis-a-vis companies working and/or invested in South Africa during it's later time of apartheid (70s & 80s).

Not sure of the call for "global governance" though. I doubt that will ever happen. But indeed, America is not the whole world but merely a part of it.
Posted by lark]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:39:33 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> Posted by also]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 10:35:16 -0700 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: A Reason for Global Governance]]> You can't have Dodd-Frank rules just for America.

You may wish to read the news occasionally; Dodd-Frank was supposed to have ended JPMorgan Chase's proprietary trading, which has been in the news quite a bit recently (officially they claimed to have lost only $2 billion, immediately after Jamie Dimon's shareholder meeting he corrected that to $3 billion --- and most likely the lowest loss will be $5 billion, but prop $5 billion to $8 billion).

Dodd-Frank was supposed to have ended Goldman Sachs' naked short selling --- read Taibbi's column recently about that shyster in California who screwed the pooch and accidentally released data explaining how GS was doing exactly that?

Welcome to the Wonderland


Warren Buffett has enjoyed tons of publicity recently as a fantasy tax advocate (as if either Warren’s company, or his daddy, Sen. Buffett, ever attempted paying their share of taxes? ? ).

Strange for a guy whose company has been in tax court forever, battling to avoid paying back taxes?

Strange for a guy who heavily and successfully lobbied against any oversight on credit derivatives when Dodd-Frank legislation was being formulated; credit derivatives are not only involved with ultra-leveraging (shadow banking) and ultra-leveraged speculation, but also tax evasion and tax avoidance, off-balance-sheet equals untaxed as does offshore translate to untaxed; and swaps are routinely used to avoid the paying of capital gains tax.

Just doesn’t make any sense, now does it?

Whatever in creation Warren Buffett is, he ain’t no tax advocate!

Nick Hanauer has recently made some noise about inequality, writing about it along with a friend, Eric Liu (Skull & Bones, Yale). Now Hanauer is the founder of the League of Education Voters, yet another Gates Foundation-funded privatization of education ploy for the upper 1%.

Just doesn’t make any sense, now does it?

Sorry, but Hanauer’s concern sounds far more like the typical re-posturing for economic warfare reasons.

Paul Krugman’s appearance at Seattle’s Town Hall was immediately sold out --- but why?
Oh lordy, the fools and witless ones believe Krugman to be a liberal, because he writes a column with a title claiming to be one?

Sorry, Charlie, but Krugman has long been in that group promoting the offshoring of America: offshoring jobs, offshoring technology, offshoring R&D work, offshoring investment --- that is, the dismantling of the American economy.

Now Krugman repositions himself as a “liberal” – sure he’s against austerity; anyone who isn’t has self-identified as the enemy of the people, either a member of lackey of the banksters!
Except, what good does more stimulus do without addressing the structural problems which resulted from the offshoring of everything --- the disinvestment and defunding and privatizing of America?

Just doesn’t make any sense, now does it?

Actually, it really primarily aids the banksters.

The last federal stimulus, a goodly portion going overseas thanks to waivers signed by then-Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, now Ambassador to China, went to keeping public service employees employed (police, firefighters, teachers, etc.), and those people who earned over $50,000 per year tended to vote Tea Party goons, who then stopped the revenue sharing, causing those public service union people to become unemployed! (Just examine the exit polling data from the Wisconsin voters who elected Gov. Walker --- sure hope they finally learned their lesson, but I seriously doubt it!)

We definitely do require a massive federal stimulus --- along with a massive restructuring of the US economy --- it was dismantled and restructured away from a consumer-based society to a fantasy finance structure, benefitting the banksters --- high time people realized this!

Finally, a few years back, there was publicity around President Kennedy’s assassination for some reason, and NPR ran one of those purely propaganda snarky stories of theirs.

A columnist from South Carolina was retiring from writing his “The Rambler” column and related a supposedly “chilling” anecdotal vignette about how, one time among his ramblings, he met a woman who said she had been stationed in Japan with Lee Harvey Oswald and she stated that Oswald spent all his spare time practicing at the Marine Corps rifle range.

Besides being at complete variance with statements of those who really were stationed with Oswald in Japan, there is simply no way in Hell that females were allowed at USMC firing ranges in the 1950s --- NO WAY, NO HOW, NO EVER!

Just never happened --- yet NPR was pushing that fictional piece as fact!

Just doesn’t make any sense, now does it?

It's called co-opting, whereby the bad guys, the fraudsters, take over and frame the discussions, which inevitably leads to their framing of the "solutions."

Sadly, it works when everyone remains ignorant!

Welcome to the Wonderland!

Sources:

http://techrights.org/2012/03/05/privati…

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gat…

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/16/p…

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