MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
AND THE LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY
PART 1
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
August 5, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
[Note: On June 14, Hassan Rouhani was elected president of Iran. In 2006, he had said "a nuclear weaponized Iran destabilizes the region," and therefore the U.S. government is hopeful his election will mean Iran will not pursue development of nuclear weapons. However, since Rouhani was once a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, his election is probably an attempt to lure the West and Israel into a false sense of security.
Another newly-elected leader, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's new prime minister, announced early in June that his country would no longer allow U.S. drone strikes on their land. The Obama administration, not wanting to be told what not to do, launched a drone strike on northwest Pakistan late on June 7. Pakistan complained these strikes are a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty. Apparently, Sharif doesn't realize undermining national sovereignty is a key component in the Power Elite's (PE's) plan to bring about a World Socialist Government.
Several days ago, the U.S. government announced that the U.S. Missions in 22 countries were being closed due to a significant Al-Qaeda threat, which we learned about because we intercepted their "chatter." What an amazing coincidence! At the very time the U.S. National Security Agency is coming under fire for data collection on Americans, the NSA intecepts this terrorist "chatter." What's the message? Americans better not complain about what the NSA is doing, or we might be successfully attacked by terrorists.
Another key component in the PE's plan is undermining morality. Relevent to this, ABC television recently began a new Sunday night show called "Mistresses" about 4 women having affairs. This would have been unheard of several decades ago. WASHINGTON POST TV critic Hank Stuever on June 2 reviewing the program said: "I kept thinking about how much I have heard their word 'truth' come up lately when people talk about television's "iffy future."
So why are people more willing today to produce and view such "trash"? It is because morality has been redefined as just being a "basically good person." In other words, if one is otherwise a generally good person, it doesn't matter anymore if they violate the Biblical admonition against fornication and adultery. They can still go to heaven, according to the new morality. In case you doubt that this is the "new morality, on May 29, an NPR (National Public Radio) spokesperson said "last week" the new Catholic Pope Francis said "good people," even atheists, will all meet in heaven. Thus, according to Pope Francis, Christ's statement that He is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," and that "no man cometh to the Father but by me," is no longer applicable! This may be one reason THE HOLY BIBLE in 4 different places says that "only a few" will be chosen or saved!]
In 1967, Business International issued a research report stating: " ...the nation-state is becoming obsolete: tomorrow...it will in any meaningful sense be dead---and so will the corporation that remains essentially national."
Until this time, American political parties, even the business-oriented Republican Party, had been concerned about protecting American jobs. In the 1972 Republican Party platform, there was the following provision: "We deplore the practice of locating plants in foreign countries solely to take advantage of low wage rates in order to produce goods primarily for sale in the United States. We will take action to discourage such unfair and disruptive practices that result in the loss of American jobs." However, this plank in the 1976 platform was omitted! What had happened?
In GLOBAL REACH: THE POWER OF THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (1974), authors Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller quote IBM French spokesperson Jacques Maisonrouge as commenting: "In the forties Wendell Willkie spoke about 'One World.' In the seventies we are inexorably pushed toward it." In 1973, David Rockefeller formed the Trilateral Commission.
And the next year, Trilateralist Richard Gardner wrote in the Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR's) FOREIGN AFFAIRS (April 1974) that to build the "house of world order...an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more that the old-fashioned frontal assault." Barnet and Muller also quote Trilateralist and CFR member George Ball (former Undersecretary of State and chairman of Lehman Brothers International) as saying the nation-state "is a very old-fashioned idea and badly adapted to our present complex world."
As examples of the globalists' mindset of multinational corporate executives, Barnet and Muller relate that Dow Chemical Company chairman Carl Gerstacker indicated that he had "long dreamed of buying an island owned by no nation, and of establishing the World Headquarters of the Dow company on the truly neutral ground of such an island, beholden to no nation or society." Then the authors quote a company spokesperson for Dow's principal competitor, Union Carbide, saying: "It is not proper for an international corporation to put the welfare of any country in which it does business above that of any other."
The year after Barnet's and Muller's book was published, Saul Mendlovitz edited ON THE CREATION OF A JUST WORLD ORDER (1975), containing an article, "Toward a New World Order: Modest Methods and Drastic Visions" by CFR member Richard Falk, who wrote that "the existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive role in shaping a new world order or is doomed to await collapse in a passive posture. We believe a new world order will be born no later than early in the next century and that the death throes of the old and the birth pangs of the new will be a testing time for the human species."
And in October of the same year (1975), Trilateralist and CFR member Henry Kissinger delivered an address to the U.N. General Assembly, stating: "My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order."
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MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS
AND THE LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY
PART 2
AND THE LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY
PART 2
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
August 19, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
Through the 1980s, a global economy was developing, and there was increasing pressure from multinational corporations and their globalist political allies for initiatives such as NAFTA and GATT. Though Herman Daly (formerly a senior economist with the World Bank) and theologian John B. Cobb, Jr., didn't like the direction NAFTA and GATT were taking, in their 1989 book, FOR THE COMMON GOOD, they wrote: "The World Court needs to be strengthened so that in the future, nations such as the United States cannot ignore its judgments with impunity....If the economy becomes more and more global with economic decisions not controlled by any political body, then World Government in a strong sense will be needed....The transferable birth quota plan (Boulding 1964; Daly 1974; Heer 1975) proposes that scale and distribution of the rights to bear children be determined by the community at large, but that these rights then be traded in the free market.
This plan is based upon the perception that the right to reproduce can no longer be treated as a free good. It must be seen as a scarce good in a full world. As with other scarce goods, reproduction rights must be subject to distribution and allocation....Foremost is the problem of appropriate punishment for those who have children without certificate. The alternatives range...to forced surrender of the child for adoption....The United States should accept the rulings of the World Court and the judgments of the United Nations....This is a vision of a shift of power from the nation-state both upward to regional and global agencies and downward to similar communities. It is a vision that is increasingly gaining acceptance and seems in some ways likely to be realized."
By 1992, a former Citicorp chairman, Walter Wriston, wrote THE TWILIGHT A SOVEREIGNTY, in which he claimed: "A truly global economy will require...compromises of national sovereignty....There is no escaping the system." And on July 20 of that same year, Strobe Talbott (Rhodes scholar) in TIME magazine wrote: "Perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all....But it has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government."
President Clinton would make Talbott number 2 at the State Department. Talbott's brother-in-law, Derek Shearer, had earlier (1980) co-authored ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, promoting what many understood to be a move toward Socialism in America. In the book was outlined a plan for a Democrat, who would implement the plan's policies, to run for the presidency. In that regard, it should be noted that many commentators have spoken and written about the similarity between many of President Clinton's policies and those of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is also a vice-president of Socialist International. Derek Shearer has been associated with the leftist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS, founded by Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin), and he has been a friend and advisor to Bill Clinton, who as president appointed a number of people associated with the IPS to positions in his administration.
Whenever the concept of a ruling global elite, especially in terms of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) or Trilateralists, is mentioned, individuals such as Rush Limbaugh pointed to CFR members like William F. Buckley, Jr. and George Will and say they are not part of some organized effort diminishing American national sovereignty. In this regard, the words of CFR member Richard Barnet himself in his 1972 book, ROOTS OF WAR, are instructive: "In recent years a few symbolic policy critics have actually been recruited, but failure to be asked to be a member of the Council has been regarded for a generation as a presumption of unsuitability for high office in the national security bureaucracy." Thus, it seems fairly clear that the power elite within the CFR and their global allies are largely in control.
Because the power of the multinational corporations has grown over recent decades, the matter of their ownership has become very important. According to an August 2008 Reuters report, "foreign ownership of U.S. companies more than doubled from 1996 to 2005...." And in March 2011, based on projections from a 2005 Grant Thornton Report and other related IRS data receipts, Citizens for Equal Trade projected that Foreign Controlled Domestic Corporations (FCDC) will reach 51% as a percentage of the whole by the year 2033, if current trends keep occurring along with large yearly U.S. trade deficits.
In my NewsWithViews column titled "Looming Economic Disaster," I noted that "Amoco's profits go to England; Purina's and Gerber's profits go to Switzerland; and Transamerica's profits go to The Netherlands. Sound-recording industries in the U.S. are 97% foreign-owned, metal ore mining 65%, motion picture and video industries 64%, book publishers 63%, plastic products 51%, etc."
Because foreign owners do not have any loyalty to the U.S. as a nation or to American workers, this can have a negative impact upon their business and employment decisions. This, in turn, can impact negatively our national sovereignty which, of course, the Power Elite wants to undermine in order to establish a World Socialist Government.
© 2013 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved
LOOMING ECONOMIC DISASTER
By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
May 30, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
It’s a fundamental principal of economics that if one person knows far more than another about a job and will work for much less, that first person will be awarded the job. Currently, relatively few American high school students are taking such subjects as both physics and calculus. However, according to Bob Compton (producer of the DVD “2 Million Minutes”), there are in China and India about 50 million high school students who are taking four years of each of the following: biology, chemistry and physics, with the senior year integrating all three subjects. Moreover, they take four years each of algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus, with the subjects integrated every year!
Other nations are serious about education and we are not. At least one high school in China with 10,000 students begins at 6 A.M. with calisthenics, and students don’t leave until 10 P.M. This is while American youth seem more interested in playing video games.
What is actually happening is a global transformation to a techno-feudal Socialist future, depicted by this photo taken
recently in China showing a modern skyscraper occupied by a technical or business elite while two women cut the building’s grass with scissors. On the one hand, a Chinese company, BYD, after making cars only five years beat Detroit with the first mass-produced electric car and at only about half the cost. While at the same time another Chinese factory making baby clothes for an American company maximizes productivity by incentivizing workers to remain at their work stations even when they need to go to the restroom (there were no restrooms on site and the place reeked of urine).
recently in China showing a modern skyscraper occupied by a technical or business elite while two women cut the building’s grass with scissors. On the one hand, a Chinese company, BYD, after making cars only five years beat Detroit with the first mass-produced electric car and at only about half the cost. While at the same time another Chinese factory making baby clothes for an American company maximizes productivity by incentivizing workers to remain at their work stations even when they need to go to the restroom (there were no restrooms on site and the place reeked of urine).
Just as American companies have specialized divisions within them, in China entire towns have specialized. Shengzhou produces half the world’s neckties, and Putian is the largest shoe manufacturer in the world. One Chinese city, Shenzhen has 100,000 factories producing a majority of the world’s laptops, cell phones, jeans, etc. The U.S., however, is losing control over its industries. Amoco’s profits go to England, Purina’s and Gerber’s profits go to Switzerland, and TransAmerica’s profits go to The Netherlands. Sound-recording industries here are 97% foreign-owned, metal or mining 65%, motion-picture and video industries 64%, book publishers 63%, plastic products 51%, etc.
Why is all this being allowed to happen? First of all, Americans are woefully ignorant when it comes to economics, and I have covered this in an article on the Internet titled “Suckernomics.” Secondly, in an era of globalization, it is almost impossible for Americans to compete with the wages paid forced or child labor in countries like China, India, Myanmar, Brazil, Bangladesh and the Philippines. According to a recent CNN report, “The United States has lost a staggering 32% of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000…. Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than it was in 1975.”
There has been a plan for some decades to link regional economic arrangements (e.g., the EU, NAFTA, ASEAN) into a world government. As Zbigniew Brzezinski (an advisor to President Obama) revealed at the first State of the World Forum in 1995: “We cannot leap into world government through one quick step…. The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.” Brzezinski was first director of the Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller who wrote in hisMemoirs (2002): “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
In case you think this “One World” concept is only held by a few elites, reflect upon the fact that on June 25, 2001 the U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed the Earth Charter, which has a goal to “promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations,” a clearly Socialist concept.
Only ten years ago, the U.S. economy was three times the size of China’s, but in April 2011 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted that by 2016 the Chinese economy will surpass that of the U.S. in real terms. Also, by the end of March 2011 China’s foreign exchange reserves reached over $3 trillion, but in April 2011 Xia Bin, a member of the monetary policy committee of China’s central bank, said they should reduce that by 2/3rds to only $1 trillion. This will have a negative impact upon the value of the dollar, which in April fell to its lowest point since 2008. The U.S. dollar is being devalued as a step on the way to a global currency. On the cover of the January 9, 1988 edition of The Economist, you can see a picture of this currency, called “the Phoenix,” planned for 2018 A.D. More recently, Robert Fisk wrote “The demise of the dollar” (The Independent, October 6, 2009), in which he referred to “secret meetings [that] have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme [to have a basket of currencies for oil], which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars…. Chinese financial sources believe President Barack Obama is too busy fixing the U.S. economy to concentrate on the extraordinary implications of the transition from the dollar in nine year’s time. The current deadline for the currency transition is 2018.”
Similarly, the next year on September 1, 2010, Dr. Alessandro Sassoli was interviewed by Coin Update regarding his idea beginning in 1996 for a new global currency, a project of the United Future World Currency (UFWC) organization. And in this interview, he stated: “The world is evolving very fast. Maybe in just eight years time, it might be possible to introduce a new super-national currency like the UFWC by 2018.
Thus, the timetable for a world currency by 2018 announced by The Economist in 1988 is still proceeding on schedule. And as occultist Alice Bailey in 1933 said, according to “The Plan,” the outer structure of the World Federation of Nations will be “taking rapid shape by 2025.” This will result ultimately in a synthesis of Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism into a World Socialist Government.
© 2011 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved
Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian and political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science). Dr. Cuddy has taught at the university level, has been a political and economic risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been a Senior Associate with the U.S. Department of Education.
Cuddy has also testified before members of Congress on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has authored or edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on numerous radio talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC Radio in New York City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.
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