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Hi all…some radical thoughts on radicals,

Yer, this following stuff stresses me to no ends. How about CHOGM and how
the self-appointed ‘radicals’ are now planning to attack democratically
elected governments of some of the World’s poorest countries. Sure, I was
at S11, I backed the blockading of the WTO and I even supported the
activists are Genoa. But now they have lost the plot. Since when have the
grandmothers of the commonwealth been part of the global elite? Maybe in
1910. It was this institution that was the main cause that apartheid was
defeated in South Africa.

The WEF and the WTO are not democratically elected, but governments are.
They are representative, they are not corporations and to say that they are
is nihilistic stupidity, we should target the things beyond governments.
Australia was one of the few (or even only country) in the world that
through referendum actually voted to be a democracy. Sorry, I like
democracy, it has served us well.

It is not government and corporations that are the same thing, it is some
servile activists who are pawns in the global game plan. Many activists now
are just doing what the corporates want them to do, attack democratically
elected governments, be ‘deregulated’ citizens only out for them selves,
clocking Blair’s ‘Third Way’ politics in anarchist drag.

Many citizens are interested in the globalisation debate, problem is that
it has been hijacked by the Nike brownshirts, the hitler McYouth, the bored
undemocratic political margins who think that kicking the grandmothers at
CHOGM is somehow radical. The corporate elite want us to attack our
governments because they will ultimately profit from it. Since when has
being misinformed and targeting the wrong people been radical? Targeting
CHOGM is just a cynical attempt to keep the show on the road by a section
of bored activists that need a good spanking by their grand mothers. The
GDP of all the CHOGM countries is about the same as the US’s top 5
corporations, but these activist 60’s throw backs wouldn’t dare think about
attacking the real mutha country would they?
Rehashed American elite baby-boomer radicalism from the 60’s used to target
our own democratic institutions, this smells like imperialism to me.

radically yours,

Date: Friday, November 19, 1999, 9:00:15 AM

Subject: The 20th Century

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At the end of the Twentieth Century there are a few stark realities.

Australia’s Gross Domestic Product, that is every thing that

the entire 20 million of us produce and have taken over two hundred years

to reach, is worth obout 300 billion. Our government

controlls about a quarter of this sum. Universities in Australia cost maybe

2 billion.

Investors have placed more than 640 billion dollars into MicroSoft, almost

twice Australia’s annual GDP. MicroSoft was founded

in 1982. (General Electric is worth 290 billion, IBM, 150 billion, Exxon

110 billion, Wal-Mart 100 billion.) 50 of the world’s largest economies are

now corporations.

more to come…