What is a globalist? The working definition thread

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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:05 pm

AlicetheKurious » 27 Feb 2016 01:11 wrote:
Harvey » Fri Feb 26, 2016 3:12 pm wrote:A globalist is one who successfully defers the real costs of his own activities upon somebody else.

Edit: In that sense, there are no long term globalists.


Wait, that's the definition of a Zionist....um.


So that prick dumping asbestos in this area from housing demolitions on the Gold Coast is a Zionist! That explains it.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby tapitsbo » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:17 pm

Jokes aside, do they have a popular mandate to do so like the one kool maudit noted the absence of at the start of the thread?
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:51 pm

tapitsbo » 28 Feb 2016 09:17 wrote:Jokes aside, do they have a popular mandate to do so like the one kool maudit noted the absence of at the start of the thread?


Yeah they do*. Tho "popular mandate" is a loaded term. The ideas that go with "free trade" and an end to protectionist national economies are usually repeated ad nauseum thru society and favoured by the upper middle classes who set media agendas. parties that campaign on a platform that rejects "globalisation" never get mmore than 20% of the votes at elections in Australia.

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Postby tapitsbo » Sat Feb 27, 2016 8:04 pm

I would agree with you completely, that there is a taciturn popular mandate in many areas (maybe an uninformed one), certainly in Canada, behind what many people would call undemocratic globalism, technocracy, etc.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sun Feb 28, 2016 3:34 am

To me it seems most people see all humans as one global tribe these days.

its really only fundamentalists of varying types that see humans as separate to each other.

I think this is a good thing but its also an easy emotion/worldview to exploit if you're looking to fuck people over for fun and profit.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby kool maudit » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:55 am

The past few centuries have seen many nations establish representative governments, tempting Fukuyama to propose, near the end of this cycle, that "liberal democracy" might represent the "end of history".

If we have truly come to see humans as a global tribe, and I do believe that interconnectedness of various kinds (trade, travel, venues for diplomacy) has helped this worldview to increase, then it seems we have neglected to bring the victories of our last consciousness shift with us.

The bodies that propose to speak for the globe, or even for vast groupings of nations (the European Union, for example), are conspicuously undemocratic.

The bodies that blithely send representatives forth to declaim this or that "new direction" can usually not point to a popular mandate.

This is my problem with globalism.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby Occult Means Hidden » Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:00 am

I'm a globalist because I've lived in 6 countries and I discovered people's passions and drives are fundamentally the same around the world, despite cultural differences. I guess more accurately, I'm a universalist.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:38 am

kool maudit » 28 Feb 2016 18:55 wrote:The past few centuries have seen many nations establish representative governments, tempting Fukuyama to propose, near the end of this cycle, that "liberal democracy" might represent the "end of history".

If we have truly come to see humans as a global tribe, and I do believe that interconnectedness of various kinds (trade, travel, venues for diplomacy) has helped this worldview to increase, then it seems we have neglected to bring the victories of our last consciousness shift with us.

The bodies that propose to speak for the globe, or even for vast groupings of nations (the European Union, for example), are conspicuously undemocratic.

The bodies that blithely send representatives forth to declaim this or that "new direction" can usually not point to a popular mandate.

This is my problem with globalism.


Empires have always have globalist ambitions and no regard for democracy or any sort of mandate. What is happening now is no different. However for the first time there is some sort of agreement that "globalism" is some manifestation of the universal good.

And it probably is, but its also something that has been hijacked by the "rich and corporate", who (as always) do whatever the fuck they feel like in the pursuit of cash and other peoples stuff.
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Postby tapitsbo » Sun Feb 28, 2016 1:50 pm

In practice universalism usually comes with a plethora of built-in exceptions, I would reckon this is one of its universal features.
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Postby Elihu » Fri Jun 17, 2016 8:32 am

A globe




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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby American Dream » Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:55 pm

Ann Coulter is getting anti-Semites all excited once again

Far-right political commentator Ann Coulter excited her many racist fans Friday morning, repeatedly using the word "globalist" as a term to describe Jewish people.

Coulter, who has previously attended events organized by racist groups, took to Twitter to mock a story from HuffPost which criticized some Trump administration officials and a Fox News reporter referring to outgoing White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, an Ohio native who is of Jewish descent, as a "globalist."

Instead of stating her opinion that "globalist" isn't synonymous with "Jew," Coulter repeatedly used the former word as a stand-in for the latter one.

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Coulter's tweets inspired much praise from her legions of white nationalist fans on the internet. Finally, several argued, the conservative author had embraced her inner racist.

"I've been waiting for this moment for so long," one member of 4chan's /pol/ forum wrote. "Pray for Anne. She's a huge public figure and is going to get attacked for this. I can already see it. I'd be surprised if they don't delete her Twitter after today."

Others on the fringe argued that Coulter has agreed with their viewpoints for some time but has merely kept her views hidden for fear of not getting booked on cable news shows.


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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby JackRiddler » Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:43 pm

Originally, the term was coined on the left (Ulrich Beck, I believe) to distinguish between "bad" globalization (what we have) and "good" globalization (the ideals of one world of peoples at peace, fair-trading, ending oppressions, universal human rights, caring for the ecological base, developing economies for the common good, acknowledging that we are all stuck with each other and it can be good, etc.). It was like, no, we're not "anti-globalization," we're just against the globalists' version of it. Like many terms, it has been rendered pretty much useless and added to the bestiary of the right-wing imaginary, like what Coulter uses it for.

It's at best a poor and biased substitute for two real things that it is occasionally used to describe, which would be a) the capitalist ruling class, or b) the Davos class or power elite running the current international institutions of capitalism. (Those two are not quite the same but that I even bother to distinguish in the present discursive atmosphere is more evidence of my quixotic tendencies.) Basically, it distracts from the reality of capitalism as a concentrated world system of power with many subset national systems (mostly in competition with each other) and subset industrial systems largely integrated on a global scale. In part because it confuses an imputed philosophical stance with a real-existing system. For example there are global billionaires who aren't "globalist" in their thinking. What they do is more important than what creed they think they do it for.
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby JackRiddler » Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:04 pm

I liked Quinn Slobodian's book Foreign Front, and this coming one sounds interesting based on the outline:

https://www.amazon.com/Globalists-End-E ... 0674979524

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism – March 16, 2018
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Re: What is a globalist? The working definition thread

Postby American Dream » Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:28 pm

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Campaigns On A Platform Of Anti-Semitism And Xenophobia

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Xenophobic rhetoric is now commonplace in Orbán’s speeches, including a March 15, 2018 address commemorating the 170th anniversary of the Revolution of 1848.

Orbán told his audience, “The situation, dear friends, they want to take away our country. Not with a stroke of the pen, like they did 100 years ago at Trianon; now — in just a couple of decades — they want us to hand it over willingly to others.” And who are these “others”? According to Orbán, they’re “strangers from another continent.”

“The situation is such,” he warned, “that those who do not stop the migration at their borders will be lost. Slowly but surely they will be consumed. All of this by external forces, international powers that are trying to force it upon us, with the help of their local allies, and they see the upcoming election as a great opportunity for this.”

And he cast the blame for this migration on some very familiar scapegoats:

Never before have the national and globalist forces so openly strained against each other. On one side: us, the millions with national sentiments. On the other side: the elite world citizens. On one side: us, who believe in nation states, the defense of borders, in the values of family and work. And on the opposite side: those who want open societies, a world without nations and borders, who want new types of families, devalued work, and cheap labor. Above them rules an army of inexorable, impenetrable, and unaccountable bureaucrats. The national and democratic forces on one side, [and] supranational, undemocratic forces on the other side.


The use of the term “globalist” is particularly striking, since white nationalist groups use it as an anti-Semitic dog whistle. The far-right website Breitbart News — which was formerly led by ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon — has been criticized for bracketing the names of prominent Jews like Gary Cohn with globe emojis.

Which makes what Orbán said next all the more fitting — and dangerous. He denounced an “international network” of foreign-financed media, “professional activists” and “agitators,” and a “chain of NGOs paid [for] by international speculators, which can be summed up with George Soros’ name.”

The Hungarian-born Soros is a left-wing billionaire and philanthropist who funds a number of liberal and humanitarian causes. This, along with his Jewish heritage, has made him a target of far-right, racist conspiracies about the secret funding of Black Lives Matter activists, gun control rallies, and coup d’etats both foreign and domestic.


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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:52 am

What Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Joseph Misfud, George Nader, the Saudis, Russians, and Emirates have in common.

THE VERY GLOBALIZED FORCES MANIPULATING THE ANTI-GLOBALIST PRESIDENT

March 22, 2018/2 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, Financial Fraud, Mueller Probe, Neoliberalism /by empty wheel

I want to consider three stories related to the conspiracies that got Trump elected and have influenced his policy decisions.

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK PRIVATIZES INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS BEHIND “DEMOCRATIC” ELECTIONS

First, there’s the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Here are some of the most scandalous tidbits:

Likelihood Facebook failed to abide by a 2011 FTC consent decree and certainty that Cambridge Analytica and Facebook failed to abide by British and EU privacy law, respectively. While Facebook and other big tech companies have sometimes publicly bowed to the onerous restrictions of more repressive regimes and have secretly bowed to the invasive demands of American spies, the public efforts to rein in big tech have had limited success in Europe and virtually none in the US.

In the US in particular, weak government agencies have done little more than ask consumers to trust big tech.

As privacy advocates have long argued, big tech can’t be trusted. Nor can big tech regulate itself.

Cambridge Analytica used legally suspect means — the same kind of illegal means intelligence agencies employ — to help its customers. Channel 4 reported that Cambridge Analytica at least promised they could set honey traps and other means to compromise politicians. The Guardian reported that Cambridge Analytica acted as a cut-out to share hacked emails in Nigerian and a Nevis/St. Kitts elections. Thus far, the most problematic claim made about Cambridge Analytica’s activities in the US are the aforementioned illegal use of data shared for research purposes, visa fraud to allow foreign (British) citizens to work on US elections, and possibly the illegal coordination between Rebekah Mercer’s PAC with the campaign.

Internet Research Agency used the same kind of methods advertising and marketing firms use, but to create grassroots. The IRA indictment laid out how a private company in Russia used Facebook (and other tech giants’) networking and advertising services to create fake grassroots enthusiasm here in the US.

All of these means undermine the democratic process. They’re all means nation-state intelligence services use. By privatizing them, such services became available to foreign agents and oligarchical interests more easily, with easy ways (many, but not all, broadly acceptable corporate accounting methods) to hide the financial trail.

RUSSIA BUYS THE NETWORK BEHIND JOSEPH MIFSUD

Then there’s the Beeb piece advancing the story of Joseph Mifsud (ignore the repetitive annoying music and John Schindler presence). It provides details on the role played by German born Swiss financier and lawyer Stephan Roh. Roh has three ties to Mifsud. In 2014, Roe started lecturing at the London Academy of Diplomacy where Misfud worked. In the same year, he bought the Roman institution Misfud helped manage. And then, in 2016, when George Papadopoulos was being targeted, Roh was on a panel with Papadopoulos’ two handlers.

That same month, Mifsud was in Moscow on a panel run by the Kremlin-backed Valdai Club with Timofeev and the third man, Dr Stephan Roh, a German multi-millionaire.

Mifsud and Roh interlock: in 2014, Roh became a visiting lecturer at the London Academy of Diplomacy. Roh bought Link Campus University, a private institution in Rome where Mifsud was part of the management and Mifsud became a consultant at Roh’s legal firm.

The Beeb piece goes on to describe how Roh bought a British nuclear consultancy too. When the British scientist behind it balked at cozying up to Russia, he was fired, but it appears to still be used as a cut-out.

Again, none of this is new: Russia just spent a lot of money to set up some fronts. The amount of money floating around and the ability to buy into a title by buying an old castle do make it easier, however.

GEORGE NADER PURCHASES US FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE SAUDIS AND EMIRATES

Then there’s NYT’s confirmation of something that was obvious from the first reports that the FBI whisked George Nader away from Dulles Airport before he could meet Donald Trump at Mar a Lago earlier this year. Nader got an immunity deal and has been cooperating with Mueller’s team to describe how he brokered US foreign policy decisions (most notably, and anti-Qatari stance). He did so by cultivating GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy, turning him into both an asset and front for foreign influence. Those activities included:

Securing hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts for Broidy’s private security firm, Circinus, with the Saudis and Emirates, and offering several times more.
Working with Broidy to scuttle the nomination of Anne Patterson to DOD and to orchestrate the firing, last week, of Rex Tillerson, in both cases because they were deemed too supportive of diplomacy towards Iran.
Offering financial support for a $12.7 million Washington lobbying and public relations campaign, drafted by a third party, targeting both Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Paying Broidy $2.7 million to fund conferences at both Hudson Institute and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies attacking Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood; Broidy provided a necessary American cut-out for the two think tanks because their fundraising rules prohibit donations from undemocratic regimes or foreign countries, respectively. The payment was laundered through an “Emirati-based company [Nader] controlled, GS Investments, to an obscure firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia, controlled by Mr. Broidy, Xieman International.”
Unsuccessfully pitching a private meeting, away from the White House, between Trump and Emirates Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.
Obtaining a picture of Nader with Trump, effectively showing the president in the company of a foreign agent and convicted pedophile.
Effectively, Nader provides Mueller what Mueller has been getting from Rick Gates: details of how a foreign country purchased American policy support via cutouts in our easily manipulated campaign finance system.

Nader brings two more elements of what I pointed to last May: what is ultimately a Jared Kushner backed “peace” “plan” that is instead the money laundered wish of a bunch of foreign interests. While we’ve seen the Russian, Saudi, and Emirate money behind this plan, we’re still missing full details on how Mueller is obtaining the Israeli side, though I’m sure he’s getting that too.

Note, Broidy has claimed the details behind his work with Nader were hacked by Qatari hackers. That may be the case; there have also been a slew of presumably hacked documents from Emirates Ambassador to the US, Yousef al Otaiba, floating around. So while this is important reporting, it relies on the same kind of illicitly obtained intelligence that was used against Hillary in 2016.

Importantly, the Nader story generalizes this. Nader has worked with both the Clinton and the Dick Cheney Administrations, and the laundering of foreign funds to US think tanks has long been tolerated (in some cases, such as Brookings, the think tank doesn’t even bother with the money laundering and accepts the foreign money directly). Democrats are not immune from this kind of influence peddling, in the least. It’s just that Trump, because of his greater narcissism, his ignorance of real foreign policy doctrine, and his debt and multinational business make Trump far more vulnerable to such cultivation. Given Cheney’s ties to Halliburton and the Clinton Foundation, it’s a matter of degree and competence, not principle.

GLOBALISM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR FIGHTING OVER WHICH OLIGARCHS WILL BENEFIT FROM GLOBALIZATION

Which brings us to Trump’s claim (orchestrated by Steven Bannon, paid for by the Mercers) to oppose “globalists,” a racialized term to demonize the downsides of globalization without actually addressing the forces of globalization in an effective way. Little Trump is doing (up to and including the trade war with China he’s rolling out today) will help the white people who made him president (the demonization of immigrants will have benefits and drawbacks).

What it will do is foster greater authoritarianism in this country, making it easier both to make Trump’s white voters less secure even while channeling the resultant anger by making racism even more of an official policy.

And it will also shift somewhat which oligarchs — both traditionally well-loved ones, like the Sauds, and adversaries, like the Russians — will benefit as a result.

Importantly, it is being accomplished using the tools of globalization, from poorly overseen global tech companies, easily manipulated global finance system, and a global network of influence peddling that can also easily be bought and paid for.
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