Tapsearch Com EditorPopulism needs Philosophy and Religion
June 2nd 2008 02:21
Free Trade is a savage response to Populism. In our recent The Rationale post, Global Corruption Spreads , we noted that 299 unionists were killed worldwide during the late 1990s with 160 of them being from Columbia. We thought this was bad until we found out more than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Columbia over the past six years, by goverment count, with hardly none of the murders solved.
Columbia is the major South American trading partner of the U.S. President Bush praises their leaders for this while Chavez of Venezuela is cast as an enemy. The Populist Morales of Bolivia drives forward for democratization and yet his he is presented as a leftist ready to take over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserve. The dominate pattern in both the U.S. and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the "human capital" (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities. In Bolivia, 55 percent of the population reflects a indigenous population and mixed race people account for another 30 percent. Bolivia's shift from military rule to democratic politics has gradually grown for the last 20 years - bringing empowerment to more an more people. It's democracy on the move. In Peru, Alejandro Toledo is that country's first indigeneous president. The dynamics of freer societies is alive but the U.S. tends to ignore these things while ignoring the murders of 800 trade unionists in Columbia. U.S leaders use the communist are coming refrain instead.
Columbia is the deadliest place in the world to be a labor organizer as President Bush praises President Alvaro drive towards Free Trade. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that a civil suit could go to trial against Drummond Co Inc, whose local president is alleged to have played a role in the killings of three mining union leaders in 2001. The suit says two union leaders were taken off a Drummond bus and shot to death by assassins hired by the company while a replacement union leader was also gunned down by paramilitaries.
Where is Philosophy and Religion in all of this. Why is labor and work the stepchildren of Philosophy an Religion? The Philosophy directories online will not even note this post on their sites as being related to Philosophy.
The Phillipines are also a bloody place for labor activists. The Philliphines is the second most lethal environment for union activists next to Columbia.
Marco Tulio Ramirez was the fifth Guatemalan labor leader murdered this year. The U.S. ignores this too in the passing of Free Trade agreements like CAFTA. Abuses are common across the Guatemala economy, especially in textile factories known as maquilas, where workers put in long hours for little pay. Activists say companies often close factories whe workers try to form unions. In January, Pegro Zamora, head of Guatemala's port workers union, was murdered in front of his two sons in the middle of contentious negotiations between the union and company bosses. Two leaders of the municipal vendors union were killed a month later.
Free Trade and Globalization play off the killings in a new war on labor and work. When will Philosophy and Religion counter this?
References include PBH Columbia, The Tyee, a feisty one online, Reuters and Economist View plus Tapart News and Art that Talks by Ray Tapajna See Tapsearch Com Globalization
Columbia is the major South American trading partner of the U.S. President Bush praises their leaders for this while Chavez of Venezuela is cast as an enemy. The Populist Morales of Bolivia drives forward for democratization and yet his he is presented as a leftist ready to take over Bolivia's vast natural gas reserve. The dominate pattern in both the U.S. and Latin America has been the resistance of the dominant white communities to sharing in the financing of public investments in the "human capital" (health and education) of the black and indigenous communities. In Bolivia, 55 percent of the population reflects a indigenous population and mixed race people account for another 30 percent. Bolivia's shift from military rule to democratic politics has gradually grown for the last 20 years - bringing empowerment to more an more people. It's democracy on the move. In Peru, Alejandro Toledo is that country's first indigeneous president. The dynamics of freer societies is alive but the U.S. tends to ignore these things while ignoring the murders of 800 trade unionists in Columbia. U.S leaders use the communist are coming refrain instead.
Columbia is the deadliest place in the world to be a labor organizer as President Bush praises President Alvaro drive towards Free Trade. A federal judge in Alabama ruled that a civil suit could go to trial against Drummond Co Inc, whose local president is alleged to have played a role in the killings of three mining union leaders in 2001. The suit says two union leaders were taken off a Drummond bus and shot to death by assassins hired by the company while a replacement union leader was also gunned down by paramilitaries.
Where is Philosophy and Religion in all of this. Why is labor and work the stepchildren of Philosophy an Religion? The Philosophy directories online will not even note this post on their sites as being related to Philosophy.
The Phillipines are also a bloody place for labor activists. The Philliphines is the second most lethal environment for union activists next to Columbia.
Marco Tulio Ramirez was the fifth Guatemalan labor leader murdered this year. The U.S. ignores this too in the passing of Free Trade agreements like CAFTA. Abuses are common across the Guatemala economy, especially in textile factories known as maquilas, where workers put in long hours for little pay. Activists say companies often close factories whe workers try to form unions. In January, Pegro Zamora, head of Guatemala's port workers union, was murdered in front of his two sons in the middle of contentious negotiations between the union and company bosses. Two leaders of the municipal vendors union were killed a month later.
Free Trade and Globalization play off the killings in a new war on labor and work. When will Philosophy and Religion counter this?
References include PBH Columbia, The Tyee, a feisty one online, Reuters and Economist View plus Tapart News and Art that Talks by Ray Tapajna See Tapsearch Com Globalization
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Both major parties in the U.S. are one and the same when it comes to free trade, globalization and unfair trade.
I have felt disenfranchised for most of my life. I have no one to really vote for. I worked in several factories while going to college and the void between the factory floors and the college class room especially in the business schools are vast.
Lech Walesa, who led the Solidarity movement in Poland and who rose from the ranks of labor to top position in Poland says - I know very little abour economics and business but I do know that something is very wrong when ten percent of the population controls 100 percent of the wealth.
We have had this situation inside and outside the so called Constitution Republic.
Adam Smith who is used by globalist and free market powers to defend free trade ( which is not really trade) held labor and workers as something sacred and the core of all society.
Pope Leo's Rerum Novarum set the standard for labor movements for more than a 100 years based on workers having a right to organize.
Even when unions were strong and arrogant , all workers - union and non union workers were better off in the USA.
If you want to go after unions, you need to go after our current make up of government where only about 15 percent of the AFL CIO are private sector production workers with more than 50 percent being government workers. The production worker union members have virtually vanished from our economic landscape and we now are experiencing a financial crisis because of it.
Our economy based on making money on money instead of making has fallen apart because there is not real tangible value in money products.
Only labor and workers represent a real tangible value to back up our money standard and a this value has been deflated for years.
Now Big money is being bailed out buy Small money and in no way does any of this reflect a Constitutional Republic.
Teddy Roosevelt said it all when he said his worst fear was when big government and big business are joined together as one. This is what we have now and it is turning into some sort of odd Socialist Capitalism.
Read The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins to see who is doing what to who.
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Thanks for your followup.
Let us pray that God will take the matter in his hands.
I read the Bloomberg overview about the South American 'trade" meeting and sent this feeback to them. I think it says what you said in your first response in a similar fashion.
South America and Bloomberg reporting
From: Ray Tapajna
Sent: Tue 12/16/08 10:15 AM
Re.: South American trade meetings.
All overviews about free trade should begin with a disclaimer.
Free trade is not trade as historically defined or practiced. Free trade today is based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. Factories are in essence portable and mobile ready to be moved again and again seeking the lowest levels of labor costs.
Now we have economies based on making money on money instead of making things burning out. There was no real tangible value behind the many money products. In the end it is only printed images on paper called money. This money has to be manipulated in transactions to grow a value.
Today, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank had more printed and added a trillion dollars to a money on money economy that is burning out.
This will only cause more inflation.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke actually provided a solution to this mess when he told Congress the best way to stimulate the economy with stimulus money is to buy "domestically produced goods". This tells the whole story of our problems in a nutshell.
Only local value added economies work where there are several levels of added value from raw product to the end user or retail levels. This has to happen in balance geopolitical settings where populations have grown with entitlements on hand. The overhead was woven into the particular geopolitical settings.
When free trade came, this overhead was attacked as something bad and not good. Competition took over by cutting out this overhead leaving behind burn out communities.
In South America, we have a new type of Socialism more based on a Populist front to rescue what was lost and to gain a better life for the multitude. This Socialism can go either way depending on the way, outside powers play their game.
The U.S. most likely will drive it to the far left because of it is hooked on taking advantage of the underclass to make their goods.
For more , visit our sites. We are an advocate for workers dignity knowing that workers and labor ultimately are one of the real tangible values and assets left in the world and for the sake of human dignity in the work day and for a more practical way to save economies, we need to do everything to upgrade this value.
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