Who are the Globalists?

Take a look at this article on the 13th round of talks to conclude the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive NAFTA-like expansion of offshoring of US jobs. It includes backdoor agreements that will put SOPA like controls in place on data sharing over the Internet. Little in the treaty actually relates to trade. Much of it’s 26 chapters deal with a huge extension of corporate rights and privileges and limitations on government’s right to regulate or control how corporations behave. The negotiations were begun by George W Bush and have been proceeding under the cover of secrecy ever since.

Who is behind the drive for these changes? With all the power and wealth multinational corporations already have, why do they want so much more? If the world’s billionaires and multinational corporations succeed in turning 99.9% of the entire Earth’s population into wage slaves living on starvation diets so they can have all the wealth there is, who is going to buy the stuff they try to sell?

Here’s a guide to further reading.