What is the corporate vision of the future? What is our own vision?

[Dover]

How do WE THE PEOPLE counteract the corporate mindset and vision of our future? They want to fill the power vacuum that now exists due to an as yet incomplete development of a new infrastructure of global governing bodies, and the dissolution and restructuring of national governance to meet with rapid changes.
They have a powerful tool at their disposal for promoting and creating their desires.

So, what IS our alternative paradigm for governance in a globalizing nation? Is anyone giving it any thought, because if we don't then the prevailing paradigm will become the reality.

And is the Democratic Party onboard with the corporations to create this corporate world governance or what is the alternative vision that they are putting forth. I don't believe they have ever defined their position or relationship with corporations.

Remember these headlines? Well you hardly need to read between the lines to figure out what they have in mind...though these windows into their agendas don't make the headlines very often.

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FLASHBACK: TIMEWARNER HEAD LEVIN WARNS OF 'AMERICAN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM'; SEES CORPORATIONS TAKING 'GOVERNMENT ROLES'

AOL chief executive Steve Case and TIME WARNER chief executive Gerald Levin
testified Thursday before a complete panel at the Federal Communications
Commission.

But candid comments made by Levin earlier this year during a media
roundtable have some lawmakers in Congress concerned that something is foul
with the latest greatest media marriage.

Levin recently warned: In the post-Cold War era there is only "American
cultural imperialism."

"There's no countervailing force, that's a significant problem," declared
the man who will become the most powerful media executive in history if the
AOL/TIME WARNER merger is approved by federal regulators.

Levin sees a future where major media corporations take on responsibilities
currently administered by governments.

"We're going to need to have these corporations redefined as instruments of
public service because they have the resources, they have the reach, they
have the skill base, and maybe there's a new generation coming up that wants
to achieve meaning in that context and have an impact, and that may be a
more efficient way to deal with society's problems than governments,"
predicted Levin.

A summary of Levin's past comments were circulated behind committee doors
this week, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including Levin's belief that an
"old-fashioned regulatory system" has to give way to a new "global concern."

"It does appear that Mr. Levin has greater designs than simply running an
entertainment conglomerate," said one Republican lawmaker who would like to
question Levin on his feelings about "American cultural imperialism."

At the TIMEWARNER Global Forum gathering in Shanghai last year, Levin
introduced Communist China's President Jiang Zemin, calling him "my good
friend."

Levin presented him with a bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Levin, who refused to meet with human rights representatives during the
trip, told vaunted visitors that Jiang can reel off the Gettysburg address
from memory.

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WHITE HOUSE GAME SHOW: MURDOCH NET PLANS 'AMERICAN CANDIDATE'; WINNER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT '04

Move over American Idol. Here comes American President:

A Rupert Murdoch TV game show that may choose the outcome of the next White House race!


Cable channel FX is set to mount an ambitious two-year endeavor that will culminate in the American public voting on -- a "people's candidate" to run for president of the United States in 2004!

100 candidates will start the series.

During subsequent episodes, candidates will square off in numerous competitions, like debates.

The number of semifinalists will be whittled down each week, based on live audience response and telephone/Internet voting.

Each episode will originate from all-American locales such as Mount Rushmore or the Statue of Liberty.

But the final episode of the series will be an "American Candidate" convention, held live on the National Mall in Washington around July 4, 2004!

Viewers will determine the winning candidate from among three finalists.

The series will be seeking "the Jesse Venturas of the world, finding messages people want to hear," added Kevin Reilly, FX's president of entertainment. "Hopefully, we'll find some very qualified civil servant who lacks a power base and maybe also a plumber from Detroit who (tells) it like it is." ..>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2255546.stm

[ClassWarrior]

1. Wrong link.

Can you post the one to the article you cite, please?

NGU.

[Dover]

2. The links are here:

On edit: found the original links -

http://www.drudgereport.com/matt91m.htm

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2002/09/22/20020922_210932_urgentm.htm

[necso]

3. Globalization is not

a monolithic thing. Nor all corporations the same.

The driving "vision" behind the economic globalization that is taking place now is essentially one of a group of international corporations (and more generally, the elite) being free to produce (invest, engage in economic activities) wherever they want and sell wherever they want. And it is natural for these international corporations to produce in countries with masses of cheap labor, low standards of living, lax regulations, and stable (read "police state") and cooperative governments (etc).

Of course, these international companies will, in practise, try to exert as much influence as they can on the countries in which they operate (or wish to). And this can be expected to create a loose organization of countries that support this economic model. And it can be expected to put tremendous pressures on developed nations whose "market imbalance" (and the source of their "uncompetitiveness") is that their citizens have a high standard of living, governments that attend better to pollution, etc.

But it works both ways, and while the developed nations are being squeezed to "compete", the developing nations are often being squeezed into serving the "vision" in a most direct way (along with the trickle-down economic policy that is part of it). (It is a most useful lever that levers both ends at the same time.)

As for our vision of globalization, I don't know. But mine certainly doesn't entail some sort of economic free-for-all for the ordinary citizens of the world, while the various elites are free to take advantage everywhere (and are everywhere working in conjunction). -- This isn't some sort of liberal globalization, it's corporatist global oligarchy.