I haven't heard of the thread topic, but I immediately thought of Alex Jones. I listen to him about once/week for a half hour or so for the total and unadulterated lols. It's like you cannot even get on AM radio unless you're insane.
But the fact is still I find him quite entertaining.
I have yet to have anybody clearly identify what the globalist agenda is or who they are or why they want it, though.
Actually, there is a 'globalist agenda', it's just not what people think.
It's not a secret group sitting in a room plotting evil.
What it is, is the simple fact that there are pressures, economic presures, efficiencies, that create pressure towards things like centralization and tyranny.
What's the world history? Always towards consolidation. In earlier times, you saw warlords in England consolidate to an English King, and then to a United Kingdom, while you had warlords in Japan consolidate to a Shogun, or you had provincial kingdoms in China, always warring, consolidate to China.
More recently, you see more and more 'free trade agreements', you see the Americas have NAFTA, you see Europe pursue the EU, you see predictions of consolidation in Asia.
And more globally than that, you see the once arch-enemy cold war US and Red China going from a hair trigger to thousands of nukes launched to interdependence - with globalization greatly affecting both economies and always incentives towards more and more centralized, global organizations (World Bank, IMF have been around a while), the only issue being the selfish interests of the regional powerful interests versus the benefits of centralization.
But of course, with that centralization comes the likelihood of tyranny - powerful interests tend to prefer their own interests at the expense of the people, anywhere.
And the world is becoming ever more able to control populations - with ever greater military technology, propaganda, monitoring, security systems, and much more.
So, I think this is a reason for the appeal of the concern about 'globaly tyranny', though the people who follow it are often just nuts and quite wrong about the actual issue.
It's not about any conspirators.
The closest there is I see in the US is ALEC, which is simply the organization of corporate interests to very effectively take over our politics to pursue a selfish agenda.
Nothing more sinister than that - though that's plenty sinister.
The old Rick Santorum weekly meetings under Bush where right-wing corporatist figures in government, corporations and media met to pursue an agenda, was similar.
Frankly, what a few guys thought in the 18th century about human rights and wrote down becomes under increasing pressure not to be the law of the land under these pressures.
This is why the statism of China is more the model of the furutre threatening us, with globalization helping pressure the US to compete by giving things up.
The wealthy interests, in China or the US or anywhere, are able to pursue short-sighted policies cutting their costs by making 'labor cheaper' - and that requires reducing political rights of the people to prevent them from successfully opposing that shift towards more poverty for them.
That's why the history of 'banana republics' has been to create economic slavery at the same time as installing a dictator with a police force to keep dissent under control.
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