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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 10:08 PM
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Adios American Empire
The Great Global Power Shift: It's Already Here

by Glen Ford



The American disinformation regime - a hermetically sealed "bubble" - convinces its citizens that the U.S. is and forever will be supreme on the planet. Ignorance may be bliss, but cannot alter the facts of rapid U.S. decline, a spiral that is the inevitable "blowback" of 60 years of undeserved, coerced, and artificially constructed dominance. The tools and traps that were designed to ensnare the planet in the U.S. corporate/military web, have instead led to American shrinkage in all things except military might. But weapons of war cannot replace a bulldozed manufacturing base, or reinvigorate a service sector whose services are increasingly unwanted, or repair a U.S.-led financial system that is terminally choked with worthless paper "instruments." The West-East, North-South shift is well underway - whether Americans know it or not.

Americans of all races behave as if the United States is the center of the world. This is quite dangerous, not just to the 95 percent of the world's people who do not live in the United States, but to the U.S. population, as well. The planetary financial pyramid atop which the U.S. has perched its over-fat and undeserving butt for over 60 years, is in a state of transformation. The countries that actually produce things - oil, gas, manufactured goods, minerals, and most of the planet's agricultural commodities - can no longer support the dead weight of artificial and pretentious U.S. claims to supremacy.



Corporate globalism was supposed to open up vast new markets to U.S. companies and money-masters, and to hopelessly entangle foreign governments and elites in a system controlled by U.S. financial institutions and their servant organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The United States wouldn't have to manufacture anything anymore, but would remain top dog by "servicing" the world economy - at a premium, of course. That's why all those office skyscrapers have replaced factories in American cities.

"The era of U.S. domination is coming to a close, whether the American people know it or not."

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_glen_for_080220_the_great_global_pow.htm
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 10:18 PM
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1. One of the best ways to judge an empire is the value of its currency.
Edited on Wed Feb-20-08 10:18 PM by roamer65
By the time Rome was finished, the denarius wasn't worth crap. What's been happening to the dollar lately?:yoiks:
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Orwellian_Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 10:24 PM
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2. Shrinking
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better tomorrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 10:25 PM
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3. which of the ten regions...
is the US going to become? Anyone know the name of the North American continent one yet?

The Illuminati are running out of time....moving faster and faster....and not that Hillary can't continue NAFTA......their girl let them down.....
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