By Richard Milne in Amsterdam

Manufacturers are abandoning global supply chains for regional ones in a big shift brought about by the financial crisis and climate change concerns, according to executives and analysts.

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  2. The courts only acknowledge corporations. PERSONS are corporations. Our entire system is fraud stacked on top of fraud stacked on top of fraud. Honest Abe said it best.

    “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”

  3. You know maybe the answer to it all lies with this simple statement from Ludwig Erhard, Germany’s Minister of Finance at the close of World War 2:

    “Give us depression or problems, but not inflation, for it spells eventually certain death to any economy.”

    So maybe this is what the powers that be are afraid of?

    Jerry

  4. Richard,

    “But, my yellow brick road just led me to the man behind the curtain and, he’s laughing his ass off……”

    LOL!!

    I totally agree. I watched “The Corporation” last night. Corporations are totally out of control today. Funny, in the film they went through the diagnosis of mental disorders(DSM) and the diagnosis of corporations today is psychopathy.

  5. @Richard: Historically the answer to your unknown reason corporations have “person” rights dates back in the USA to 1886: the SCOTUS case– Santa Clara County V. Union Pacific RR(1886); the clerk, a former RR employee, included a headnote to the decision where a corporation had legal standing before the court on an equal status as a person…Subsequent, a majority of the cases that relied heavily on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments ruled upon since the Civil War before the SCOTUS, were filed by corporations rather than that of former negro slaves whom the Amendments were meant to liberate. This embedded the corporation and the Robber Barons thoroughly with the government and we can see the MONEY TRUST since has a lock on the system that was originally meant solely by, with, and for the people…The Congressional Record pre-1913 lists hundreds of interlocking directorates that favored the 16th Amendment and the IRS ACT of 1916….power was vested to the Morgan( Rothschild??), Rockefeller, Loeb, Schiff, Warburg, Carnegie, Hearst( and so many more) faction of America’s economic strata (elite) and have remained there ever since…The advent of the BofE here was a constant threat since the American Revolution….the tea party tax incident was just the visible result of the money trust losing it’s grip on the colonists…Former President Andrew Jackson also repelled the central European banking system ( denying a euro-centric national bank) from encroaching on American soil…Today we are mostly blinded that the Federal Reserve Bank ( a euro-centric private bank )has always been the system we uphold…with all rights reserved…Since it is now under scrutiny ( the proposed H.R 1207 Audit) and Mr. Bernanke’s road show may pose this otherwise secretive organization to be somewhat exposed for the monster it really is..

  6. “Companies are increasingly looking closer to home for their components, meaning that for their US or European operations they are more likely to use Mexico and eastern Europe than China, as previously.”

    * This dovetails well with the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America where trade barriers are decreased between the North American Community(prosperity) while quelling any thoughts of resistance stoked by uppity leaders such as Morales or Chavez, pesky indigenous people or disgruntled American workers(security). We have to be careful – these folks aren’t just gonna change and do something better, they are adapting to new constraints and re-inventing themselves.

  7. From where I sit, this is good news. Our industrial base began leaving our shores after Nixon removed us from the gold standard and “normalized” trade with China. By 1976 high skilled jobs were leaving the country but, not only did the jobs go overseas, so did the machinery needed in the manufacturing process. I call that treason, pure and simple.

    For far too long, this country has decided against the use of corporate charter renewal. Early in our history, corporations were prohibited. There was good cause, too much power concentrated in one group of people with financial means. For some unexplained reason, our courts decided that a corporation deserves the same protections as a person. Yet, they do more harm to people, places and things than any single person could do. Maybe it’s time to renew our corporations charters and, if they have been found to act in a manner that is contrary to the general good of the population, the charter would not be renewed. If the offenses were severe enough, all board members would be prohibited from acting in any official capacity for any corporation in the future. But, my yellow brick road just led me to the man behind the curtain and, he’s laughing his ass off……

    Let’s shorten the supply c

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