YouTube | February 04 2010

Sir James Michael “Jimmy” Goldsmith (26 February 1933 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French financier. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in Britain.

In this interview, Sir Goldsmith discusses the ramifications of free-trade agreements that were about to take place in 1994 (GATT), as you can retrospectively see, he correctly predicted many of the things that happened after that.

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  1. ‘The Trap’ is Sir James Goldsmith’s book. Plenty of copies available for one federal reserve note at http://www.ABEbooks.com

    He hit many nails on the head! Thanks for the post Katherine. He died in 1997 but his money is working to combat GMO foods today.

    Global trade accelerated global economic collapse which will lead to a global currency and total control. It seems likely that the global currency will be ‘digital gold’, as touted on CFR’s own website. The banksters/governments will own the gold.

    Katherine, why don’t you promote Ellen Brown’s ideas about money expresses so eloquently in her book ‘Web of Debt’? Here is a link to a brief and well written banking proposal: http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/state_bank_option.php

    Thanks, Ramsay

  2. OMG… Sir James Goldsmith was a British establishment member who was exposed to the establishment’s long term plans and had the guts and the soul to tell the public the truth, even testifying at the US Senate in attempt to stop the passage of Clinton’s GATT treaty in 1995. This is critical folks. This is when the cabal secured their Globalization plans, and it is still buried today by people like Peter Schiff and other so-called financial guru’s who somehow fail to leave the most critical part of recent economic history out of any discussion.

    Folks, this is how they did it. This is how they moved the USA’s economic engine offshore. NAFTA was a minuscule test run. GATT was the grand daddy of them all!

    No one tells the full story of how the USA has found itself in this financial peril. Well, the truth of the matter is that all the wealth that we have built through our hard labor has been allowed to freely move offshore. In fact, in some cases the US Taxpayer made guarantees to reduce the risk of industry’s costs of this move and ramp-up operating expenses.

    It’s the great heist ever, and to listen to Peter Schiff tell the story of our economic history, it sounds as if fat dumb Americans are trying to live high on the hog while industrious Asians do all the work. Well, the fact of the matter is that the Americans gave the Asians all of our know how, all of our tooling, an established market place, all the financing, and even guaranteed operating expenses. All the Asians had to do was supply cheap labor and their elite would be granted huge profits and the global market place. We’ve been lied to by everyone, even those who pretend to have our backs. And to add insult to injury, they insult us and blame us for this predicament. It’s like we’re the rape victim and the rapist is telling the world that it is our fault for wearing short skirts, being healthy and pretty, and walking down the sidewalk.

    It’s an outrage! Please listen to Goldsmith’s Senate testimony. This audio file was recorded by an individual at the time using very poor equipment, so the audio quality, while it has been digitally improved, is still a challenge to hear. But this simply confirms the efforts to squander Goldsmith’s words, as to my knowledge no other recording of his testimony is available (a transcript of the recording has also been created by other interested individuals).

    Audio of Goldsmith’s US Senate Testimony
    http://www.filefreak.com/files/30222_njnlb/Sir%20James_Goldsmith_US_Senate_Speech_GATT.mp3

    Transcript of Testimony
    http://www.alanwattsentientsentinel.eu/english/transcripts/Alan_Watt_Blurb_Sir_James_Goldsmith_US_Senate_Speech_Oct192007.html

    @Perma, the reference you most likely recently saw to Goldsmith and this video was from me in “The Missing Money” article comments:

    http://markinthepark.net/blog/?p=3208#comments

    @Catherine: Sir James Goldsmith in his book called “the Trap” discussed how Globalization would lead to the total destruction of society. Goldsmith disagreed with this approach to create global disarray and chaos, remaking society into a totally new system.

    The Book: The Trap
    Sir James Goldsmith
    http://www.amazon.com/Trap-James-Goldsmith/dp/0786701854

    Book review of “The Trap”
    http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc0504/article_480.shtml

    Discussion of Goldsmith & The Trap
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/16830077/Sir-James-Goldsmith-Argues-That-Free-Trade-and-Modern-Agriculture-Are-Destroying-Society

  4. Catherine,

    I think he’s referring to the book by Goldsmith:
    http://www.amazon.com/Trap-James-Goldsmith/dp/078670263X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246039027&sr=1-3

    According to one reviewer:

    ‘He describes how the shift from locally produced goods to goods produced anywhere in the world could destroy the prosperous economies of the developed world that were built up over centuries. This will happen, according to him, because global free trade will create unbridgeable divide between the rich over the ordinary people.

    The rich will stay rich by investing their capital into Multinational Companies. In order to compete and make profits, these companies will exploiting ever cheaper sources of labour in developing countries.

    In the other hand, the ordinary people in developed countries will lose their jobs because the cost of their salaries are too expensive in a global economy that include 4 billion people wiling to work for “almost nothing”.

    Mr. Goldsmith not only lays out arguments against global free trade. He also gives his rationale for why industrial agriculture and nuclear power are bad ideas. While many see these three issues as defining visions of modern progress, Mr. Goldsmith, suggests that there is a dangerous “inversion of values” behind these three issues. Instead of measuring progress in term of mankind’s well-being and social stability, our modern industrial society has made economic growth and the development of new technologies the key goals for society. This “inversion of values” is the root cause for modern problems such as urban slums and enviromental deterioration.

    “Rising long-term unemployment, increasing violence, growing proverty in urban slums, environmental deterioration and a general realization that something fundamental has gone wrong…” ‘

  6. great find. i had seen this referenced somewhere else recently, byut never saw this. hindsight is always 20/20, but man he was pretty on it. so many of his predictions were DEAD on and we are living the repercussions.

    might we say that coup was just as alive in 1994?

  7. Brilliant chap, foretelling our plight with economic eloquence. Catherine, have you read The Trap?

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