Reply #35: You touch on a good point... [View All]

... in that globalism, in and of itself, is not an evil concept, quite the contrary in my opinion.

Wiki's treatment of the term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization


Here's a Clinton speech from Fall of '02 given in the UK where he speaks to the concept of globalism:

http://karlandkinggeorge.com/Clinton_Speech.html

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What does that tell you about the time in which we live? That whether you are British or American or some other nationality the number one task of the world today is to move from interdependence, which can be good and bad, to an integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most important, shared values; one that says, "Hey, these differences are interesting". It would be boring if we were all the same. Britain and America are more interesting countries than they were 30 years ago because they are more diverse, but the only way we can really live together is if we say that the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more.

There are a lot of obstacles in the road towards that kind of world. There are terrorists, there are tyrants, there are weapons of mass destruction, there are all these people who are not part of our prosperity and there are a lot of people on our side who think that we can for ever claim for ourselves what we deny to others; there are a lot of obstacles in the way. But let us be realistic; none of you believe that we will ever be completely defeated by terrorists. We will not allow ourselves to be defeated by tyrants with weapons of mass destruction; that will not happen. But we could reduce the future that we can build for our children if we respond to the challenges in the wrong way.

Whatever we do, we have to have a care for the security of our nation, the character of our people and the future of our children. We must respond in a way that is consistent with the larger obligation we all have to build a more integrated global community. It means, among other things, of course we have to fight terrorists but we also have to build a world with more partners and fewer terrorists. Of course we have to stand against weapons of mass destruction but if we can we have to do it in the context of building the international institutions that in the end we will have to depend upon to guarantee the peace and security of the world and the human rights of all people everywhere . . .

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I don't doubt that some of the Bilderberg attendees sincerely share and embrace Clinton's concept of globalism.