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Re: Nations rise and fall in the world setting due to their ability or
Saul, but what about the long history of great nation states undergoing total collapse...from the Mayans and Incas to the Ottoman Turks to Great Britain, France, and Germany...Do you really think we have entered the new age when corporations rule the world and not governments??? I could buy that view...in which case we are all pawns to the interests of the super rich who have no real earth bound ties...
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Cynthia
on September 23, 2007 at 7:35 AM
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Nations rise and fall in the world setting due to their ability or
inability to conduct commerce, voluntarily or forcefully. International exchanges and multinational companies, corporations, and/or business alliances play a large part in this also. It is the extranational interests and their operations outside the legal mandates of any one government that affect much of the world's economies in subtle but very telling ways. Companies, corporations, and business alliances aren't beholden to their home country, nor do they answer to the will of the people. They answer to marketability. That is why countries like Zimbabwe and El Salvador are in constant political and economic flux -- no marketability. You don't have to worry about the U.S. or the dollar, Cynthia, because America is extremely marketable, even if it's just our lifestyle, and it is in the world's leading businesses interests to make certain the United States remains strong...
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saul_relative
on September 21, 2007 at 11:52 AM
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