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    Outsourcing 120711Extra on page 20, Van Jones at Davos

    In the last three and a half year, Obama has added debt to the tune of $5.6 trillion to makeour national debt $15.8 trillion.

    Hawker Beechcraft announces $1.79 billion sale to Chinas Superior

    Aviation

    Associated Press (Washington Post) ^ | 7/9/12 | Staff

    After Posting $70 Million Loss, French Company Lands $25 Million

    from DOE [Is this Insourcing?]

    heritage.org ^

    Leaked Pacific Trade Pact Exempts Foreign Firms From U.S. Law?

    Americans for Limited Government ^ | June 14, 2012 | Bill Wilson

    Former Pentagon Analyst Says China Can Shut Down All The

    Telecom Gear It Sold To The US

    business insider ^| Jun. 8, 2012 | F. Michael Maloof

    Panetta calls for deep U.S.-India defense ties, more arms trade

    Reuters ^ | June 6 2012 | David Alexander

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    Layoffs to Begin Monday at RG Steel(4th Largest U.S. Flat-Rolled

    Steel Company)

    WYTV.com ^ | June 3, 2012 | WYTV.com

    3 Years After Taxpayer Bailout, Bank of America Ships Jobs

    Overseas[Philippines]

    Mother Jones ^ | 29 May 2012 | Josh Harkinson

    Medtronic to cut 1,000 jobs, including 250 in Twin Cities

    pioneer press ^ | 5-22-12 | chris snowbeck

    But Medtronic officials also said on Tuesday, May 22, that the company plans to hire 1,500workers over the next 11 months. Many of the new hires will work in faster-growingmarkets overseas,

    California-based Apple to build $210-million new manufacturing

    plant. In China

    Orange Punch the political commentary blog of the Orange

    County Register ^ | 5-21-2012 | Mark Landsbaum

    Fake Chinese Parts 'Found In US Planes'

    Yahoo News ^ | 22nd May 2012 | Yahoo News

    General Mills to cut 850 jobs

    FT.com ^ | 5/22/12 | Alan Rappeport

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d3cac24-a42e-11e1-a701-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1vctpmQf0

    Wanda Group of China Buys AMC Entertainment [Second Largest

    US Theater Chain!!]

    LATimes ^ | May 20, 2012 | Richard Verrier

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    HP mulls cutting at least 25,000 jobs: sources

    Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 5/17/12 | Poornima Gupta

    Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workers

    Yahoo ^ | 05/16/12 | Richard Cowan

    Senator John Cornyn

    Facebook co-founder Saverin renounces U.S. citizenship ahead ofIPO

    CBS NEWS.com TechTalk ^ | May 11, 2012 1:58 PM | David Hamilton

    Chinese cities coming to America

    rightsidenews ^ | May 10, 2012 | American dream

    A Chinese group known as "Sino-Michigan Properties LLC" has bought up 200acres of land near the town of Milan, Michigan. Their plan is to construct a "ChinaCity" with artificial lakes, a Chinese cultural center and hundreds of housing unitsfor Chinese citizens.

    Here Comes the Made-in-China Cadillac

    American Thinker ^ | May 9, 2012 | Howard Richman & Raymond Richman

    Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban Buy American

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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/obama-trade-congress-buy-american_n_1475277.html

    WASHINGTON A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter toPresident Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element of the

    controversial free trade agreement currently being negotiated by the administration. Ifapproved in its current form, the pact would effectively ban Buy American policies ingovernment contracting.

    (http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/BuyAmericanTPPLtrtoAdmin.pdf)

    Although the deal, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, has received relatively littlemedia attention in the United States, it has sparked international friction among consumergroups and environmental activists who worry that terms demanded by the Obamaadministration will eliminate important public protections. Domestically, however, thedeals primary source of political tension is from a portion that could ban Buy American

    provisions a restriction that opponents emphasize would crimp U.S. jobs.

    US Companies Are Furiously Creating Jobs... Abroad

    Zero Hedge ^| 04/27/2012 | Tyler Durden

    Poor 1st quarter for Hasbro Games; company announces 150'temporary' layoffs now permanent

    The Republican ^

    U.S. Firms Add Jobs, but Mostly Overseas [Where's The RNC On

    This?]

    Wall St. J ^ | April 26, 2012 | SCOTT THURM

    GM to build 2013 Cadillac XTS in China

    IBTimes ^ | APRIL 23, 2012 | BENJAMIN REEVES

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    WHAT is Scytl & WHY Should You Be VERY, VERY Concerned?

    The Patriot Update ^ | April 10, 2012 | Ann-Marie Murrell

    The United States of America has a brand new private VOTE COUNTINGcompany that the Obama administration has personally handpicked. The companyis called Scytl and it is based in Michelle Obamas most favorite vacation spot,Barcelona, Spain

    Cessna, China's AVIC in JV talks to build Cessna jets

    Al Ja Reuters ^ | 3/23/12

    Hasbro cuts 170 jobs, mostly in U.S.

    Yahoo Finance ^ | March 6, 2012 | Dhanya Skariachan

    US Air Force cancels deal for Brazilian-made aircraft

    Agence France Presse (AFP) ^ | 29 February 2012

    Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China

    Wall Street 24X7 ^ | 01/24/2012 | Charles B. Stockdale, Douglas A. McIntyre

    Remember when Obama gave Brazil money for deep water drilling?

    Washington Times: China gets jump on U.S. for Brazils oil

    (Hussein fails again)

    Canada Free Press ^ | 1/22/12 | S Milloy

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    Apple's Jobs to Obama: "jobs aren't coming back" to U.S. [Not just

    for Geeks]

    NY Slimes by way of Herald Tribune ^ | January 23, 2012 | CHARLES DUHIGGand KEITH BRADSHER

    Job Killer: Obama Admin Hands Big Air Force Contract to Brazil

    (video)

    PJ Tatler ^ | 1/19/12 | fox news

    U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms

    ABC NEWS ^

    Cities hire Chinese instead of American workers for building projects.

    Chinese Rocket Lofts Maritime [surveillance] Satellite for U.S. Firm

    Space News ^| January 10, 2012 | Peter B. de Selding

    19 Facts About The Deindustrialization Of America That Will Make

    You Weep

    http://www.businessinsider.com/deindustrialization-factory-closing-2010-9?op=1

    The United States has lost approximately 42,400 factories since 2001. 75% of whichemployed over 500 people while in operation.

    Dell Inc. has announced plans to dramatically expand its operations in China with aninvestment of over $100 billion over the next decade.

    Dell has announced that it will be closing its last large U.S. manufacturing facility inWinston-Salem, North Carolina. 900 jobs will be lost.

    In 2008, 1.2 billion cellphones were sold worldwide. We made none.

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    If our trade deficit with China increases at its current rate, the U.S. economy will lose overhalf a million jobs this year alone.

    We have lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs since October 2000.

    From 1999 to 2008, employment at foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies increased 30percent to 10.1 million.

    In 1959, manufacturing represented 28 percent of U.S. economic output. In 2008, itrepresented 11.5 percent.

    Ford Motor Company recently announced the closure of a factory that produces the FordRanger in St. Paul, Minnesota.

    As of the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing. The lasttime less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in 1941.

    In America today, consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, overhalf is spent on services.

    The United States has lost a whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year2000.

    In 2001, the United States ranked fourth in the world in per capita broadband internet use.Today it ranks 15th.

    Manufacturing employment in the U.S. computer industry is actually lower in 2010 than itwas in 1975.

    Printed circuit boards are used in tens of thousands of different products. Asia nowproduces 84 percent of them worldwide.

    The United States spends approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1.00 that theChinese spend on goods from the United States.

    One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times largerthan the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

    The Census Bureau says 43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty, which is thehighest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been kept.

    GM announces EV development deal with Chinese partner

    Gasgoo/Automotive News ^ | January 9, 2012 | MSN Autos

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    U.S. Firms Keen to Add Foreign Jobs

    Wall Street Journal ^| November 22, 2011 | DAVID WESSEL

    U.S.-based multinational corporations added 1.5 million workers to their payrolls inAsia and the Pacific region during the 2000s, and 477,500 workers in LatinAmerica, while cutting payrolls at home by 864,000,

    Adobe to lay off hundreds of workers (750)

    Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:54:20 PM by Cardhu 21 replies

    Mercury News ^ | November 8th 2011 | Jeremy C. Owens

    "will result in the elimination of approximately 750 full-time positions primarily inNorth America and Europe," the company said in a news release. Adobe reported atthe end of its last quarter that it employed 10,040 people.

    Congressman: Science 'czar' giving China U.S. technology

    WND ^ | November 05, 2011 | By Bob Unruh

    Whirlpool Unveils Plans to Slash Workforce by 10% (another

    company closing an American plant)

    Fox News ^ | 10/28/2011 | Reuters

    Whirlpool Corp , the world's largest appliance maker, slashed its full-year profitforecast and said it would cut about 10 percent of its workforce in North Americaand Europe, to protect margins in a weak economic environment. The maker of

    Maytag and KitchenAid appliances will cut more than 5,000 positions and said itwould close down its plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and reduce its overallmanufacturing capacity by about 6 million units.

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    Al Gore wangled $529 million taxpayer loan for electric cars made

    in FINLAND

    Coach is Right ^ | 10/22/2011 | Doug Book

    Car Company Gets US Loan, Builds Cars In Finland --$529,000,000

    Abcnews ^| 10.20.11

    Stimulus money pays for street, traffic lights made largely overseas

    Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | October 16, 2011 | By Lou Kilzer

    Lockheed offers Japan F-35 final assembly

    Flight International ^ | 10/14/2011 | Siva Govindasamy

    GM and GE Go All-In for Chinese Subsidies

    National Legal & Policy Center ^ | September 26, 2011 | Paul Chesser

    GM expansion in China a threat to U.S. jobs?

    CBS News ^ | September 22, 2011

    San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Controversially Made in China(Union Cost too high)

    FOX News ^ | 9/20/2011 | Claudia Cowan

    General Motors , SAIC agree to develop electric vehicles in China

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    Economic Times ^ | Sept. 20, 2011 | Reuters

    Outsourcing Defense Contracts to Unfriendly Governments

    Pajamas Media ^ | September 14, 2011 | David Williams

    Obama to give 'jobs speech' at NC company that's shipping jobs to

    Costa Rica:

    The Daily Caller ^ | September 13, 2011 | Matthew Boyle

    Boeing gives guarantees to Brazil in fighters bid

    CBS news ^ | August 18, 2011 | AP

    W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr., is chairman of the board, president and chief executiveofficer of The Boeing Company.

    Bios of the following are at this link:

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-

    council/members/mcnerney

    Jim McNerney is a member of Presidents Council on Jobs and Competitiveness alongwith:

    Jeffrey Immelt, Chair, GE

    Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox,

    Steve Case, AOL co-founder

    Kenneth I. Chenault, CEO American Express,

    John Doerr, lawyer, on boards of Google and Amazon

    Roger W. Ferguson, CEO of TIAA-CREF,

    Mark T. Gallogly, co-founder of Centerbridge Partners, an investment firm

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    Joseph T. Hansen, International President UFCW, pushing global union movement since1994

    Lewis Hay, CEO NextEra Energy, renewable energy generator

    Gary Kelly, CEO Southwest Airlines

    Ellen Kullman, CEO DuPont, moving closer to international companies

    A.G. Lafley, former CEO Proctor & Gamble, board member of GE, GM and Dell

    Eric Lander, Director Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

    Monica Lozano, CEO of La Opinion and impreMedia

    Jim McNerney

    Darlene Miller, CEO Permac Industries, a machining co.

    Paul Otellini, CEO Intel,

    Richard D. Parsons, Chairman Citigroup,

    Antonio M. Perez, CEO Eastman Kodak, CEO of Diversity Initiative

    Penny Pritzker, CEO Pritzker Realty Group

    Brian Roberts, CEO Comcast

    Matthew Rose, CEO BNSF Railway

    Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer Facebook

    Richard Trumka, SEIU union boss

    Laura DAndrea Tyson, Professor of Global Management, Berkeley

    Robert Wolf, President UBS Investment Bank

    Christopher Che, CEO of Che International Group, creating a conducive culture ofsustainable growth and properly allocating capital resources (Invironazi bent on wealthredistribution)

    US Oil Giant Exxon Mobile Flees To Russia Over Obama Fears

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    pakalertpress ^ | 10Sep 2011

    Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India

    France 24 ^ | 09-06-2011 | AFP

    AT&T, T-Mobile Pledge to Bring 5,000 Jobs to US [But Only On

    Condition...Blackmail?]

    NYTimes ^ | August 30, 2011

    AT&T, T-Mobile Pledge to Bring 5,000 Jobs to US August 31, 2011

    WASHINGTON (AP) AT&T Inc. is pledging to bring 5,000 wireless call centerjobs, currently based abroad, back to the U.S. if it is allowed to proceed with itsproposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.

    Guess Where Coca-Cola Is Investing $4 Billion

    forbes.com/yahoo ^ | August 19, 2011 | Kenneth Rapoza

    George Stephanopoulos Scolds Companies Who Relocate Overseas

    Because of High Taxes:

    Newsbusters ^ | 8/17/11 | Scott Whitlock

    Obama's State-of-the-Art Tour Bus Made in Canada

    FOX ^

    Bailed-Out GM Creates 800 Jobs In Indonesia

    National Legal & Policy Center ^ | August 16, 2011 | Mark Modica

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    Honda to build Mexico car plant, opening 2014 (employing 3,200)

    reuters.com ^ | August 12, 2011 | Bernie Woodall, Ben Klayman, Kevin Krolicki

    Boston Scientific to lay off 1,200-plus

    boston ^

    In February 2010, Boston Scientific said it would pare 1,300 jobs worldwide, butsimilarly did not say where. Yesterdays move, a day after Boston Scientificdisclosed it was investing $150 million and hiring 1,000 people in China,...

    Baldwin Hardware closing, laying off 159 (Moving To Mexico)

    readingeagle.com ^

    Cessna, Others In Talks to Build Bizjets in China (more jobs

    outsourced)

    Flying Magazine ^ | 7/15/11 | Goyer

    Ford Investing $1.2B In Spain

    manufacturing.net ^| June 14, 2011 | AP

    Mazda to End Production in the U.S.

    Asahi Shimbun ^| 06/05/2011 | Yukio Hashimoto and Kazuhito Suwa

    Obama Adviser GE Shipping Jobs and Profits Overseas

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    http://nation.foxnews.com/general-electric/2011/05/23/obama-advisor-ge-shipping-jobs-and-profits-overseas ^

    Fellowes, American Stationery Giant, Brought to Its Knees in China

    theepochtimes ^

    Westinghouse surrendered next-generation nuclear plant specs

    PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW ^ | Monday, April 4, 2011 | Lou Kilzer

    Forget Obamatax. Are you ready for global taxes?

    Hotair ^ | 07/07/2012 | Jazz Shaw

    Is the Obama Administration Outsourcing Green Jobs to Africa

    Now?

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/townhallcomstaff/2012/07/06/is_the_obama_administration_outsourcing_green_jobs_to_africa_now ^

    Obama in a Big Hurry to Sign Oppressive UN 'Small Arms Treaty'

    (Next Month!)

    Reaganite Republican ^ | Reaganite Republican

    Clinton announces $20 million clean energy program for Africa

    The Hill ^ | June 23, 2012 | Julian Pecquet

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    Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned

    By China?

    http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com ^| 6.21.12 | Susanne Posel

    The U.N.'s Internet Power Grab

    http://online.wsj.com ^ | June 18, 2011 | Gordon Crovitz

    Pentagon Extends Kenya, Djibouti Military Support Contract

    U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor ^ | June 10, 2012 | Steve Peacock

    The U.S. Dept. of Defense says it awarded a no-bid military facility supportcontract in Africa as a critical move in support of global counter-terrorismactivities.

    Asian electric car consortium in deal to buy Saab

    AP ^ | June 13, 2012 | Staff

    Obama Trade Document Leaked, Reveals More Broken Campaign

    Promises

    Examiner.com ^ | June 13, 2012 | Mike Delrio

    A document posted online early Wednesday morning reveals the Obamaadministration intends to give new political powers to multinational corporations,contradicting prior campaign promises.

    WTO Wants to Replace Made in the USA with Made in the

    World Labels

    World Net Daily via thegatewaypundit.com ^ | June 4, 2012 | by RogerSimmermaker World Net Daily

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    Ex-Defense chief Rumsfeld to face off with military brass over Law

    of the Sea

    The Hill ^ | June 8, 2012 | Julian Pecquet

    Donald Rumsfeld is returning to Capitol Hill next week to testify against the UnitedStates joining the United Nations's Law of the Sea treaty, pitting him squarelyagainst the military brass that he used to command as former President George W.Bush's secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld's testimony before the Senate ForeignRelations Committee is especially relevant because he was former PresidentReagan's emissary against the treaty back in 1982, when international momentumwas for it. Proponents of the treaty have been trotting out former Reagan officials former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Deputy National SecurityAdviser John Negroponte...

    U.N. could tax U.S. - based Web sites, leaked docs show

    CNET ^ | June 7, 2012 | Declan McCullagh and Larry Downes

    Obama Lunges Toward Global Government

    Town Hall ^ | 6/5/2012 | Phyllis Schlafly

    China condemns U.S. gun ownership as human rights violation

    Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 29 May, 2012 | David Codrea

    Kenya Getting Navy SEAL Boats from Obama

    U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor ^ | May 28, 2012 | Steve Peacock

    Obamas 'Law of the Sea' Treaty Spreads the Wealth Around

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    fox ^ | 5/21/12 | Steven Groves The Heritage Foundation

    Fed clears China's first US bank takeover

    Yahoo! ^ | 5/09/2012 | Veronica Smith

    Is the guy that Obama made his Jobs Czar

    Jeffery Immelt, CEO of General Electric (GE) since 2001, parent company of NBC.

    In 2009, GEs number of U.S. employees dropped 18,000, GE has reduced the number ofU.S. employees by 31,000 since Immelt signed on.

    Head of President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. This position was created byExecutive Order, meaning, nobody but Obama had any say in this.

    Leader in the push for Cap and Trade, where businesses are fined for producing Carbonemissions and paid for reducing them.

    Delivered software and oil supplies to Iran until 2008

    Gave orders to NBC news reporters to not say anything negative about Obama duringelection year.

    Partnering with China to build high speed rail in the U.S.

    Partnering with China to build commercial airliners

    GE was the source behind the outlawing of incandescent light bulbs. We now get ourMercury filled bulbs from China.

    Sold GEs precious metals mine to China, Americas only precious metals mine, and Chinapromptly closed it. Now China is the major supplier of precious metals necessary forwindmills, efficient electric motors, magnets, and solar.

    Enrons former CEO Ken Lay was pushing the Clinton and Bush White Houses to ratifythe Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.When Enron collapsed, AES and General Electric absorbed Enrons assets.Ken Lay had set up a plan to build coal fired energy plants in third world counties, notaffected by the Kyoto Protocol.

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    The Kyoto Protocol would have closed the coal fired power plants in the U.S., increasingthe cost of natural gas and decreasing the U.S.s dependency on coal, making it cheaper fortheir operations in Asia, South America and Africa.

    In 2010, GE earned $14.2 billion in international profits, $5.1 billion in the U.S., they paid

    no taxes.GE was given $36 million from the Obama administration for their early retirees.Immelts compensation doubled to $15.2 million.

    April 1, 2011 a report comes out that Obama gave GE $36 million to help out GEs earlyretirements.

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    GE is closing its 115 year old X-ray business in the U.S. and relocating to China.

    In 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S.

    Ford is building three factories in Chongqing and another one in Nanchang.

    In 1979 there were 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S.Today, there are 11.6 million, a 40% decline.

    The U.S. has lost 32% of its manufacturing jobs since 2000.

    That sign: IF NOT US, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?That was Andy Sterns sign-off in this speech.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXlXwV_QNrE

    YouTube title: Andy Stern: Justice for All

    Andrew Stern, from the SEIU YouTube page dated April 10, 2008.

    Listen to this guy as he lays out the Obama administrations agenda for a union governedAmerica, a union governed world, with free healthcare for all. This is before Obama was

    elected. This shows you that the unions are running the country.

    3:30 We affirm SEIUs commitment to changing this country as well as the democraticand free debate.

    4:06 If we adopt the Justice for All program, by the end of four years, we will have wonhealthcare for every man, every woman and every child in the United States and PuertoRico.

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    If we adopt the Justice for All program, We will rebalance the power between bigcorporations and people that work by adopting the Employee Free Choice Act.

    If we adopt the Justice for All program, we will finally have a pathway to

    citizenship for every immigrant in this country.

    5:08 Ten percent of our members, nearly two hundred thousand people will be trained asleaders of our union to be the engine of change.

    5:48 The gap between the rich and the rest of us is growing far too wide. Our candidateBarack Obama has seized on the opportunity of change.

    6:45 Because if were going to win healthcare for every man, woman and child, and theemployee free choice act in the first 100 days after we elect a new president, then weregoing to have to take this SEIU effort to a new level.

    7:06 Thats why we are going to put ten million dollars in a bank account, to haveaccountability to every single politician who chooses to defy us on the pledges they madewhen they were running for office.

    8:27 Its your talent, your skill, your passion, your dedication to help us elect BarackObama and then win the changes we need for our country.

    9:12 Many of you came here, not just to take care of our members, but to be a part amovement to change our country. We are on the verge of building that movement forjustice for all, when we are on the verge of changing our country, we all come together and

    unite, and fight.

    And if not us, if not us, then who?And if not now, at this incredible moment of opportunity, an incredible moment of hope,then when?

    Van Jones

    Behind Enemy Lines: Inside the World

    Economic Forum

    By Van Jones

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    Van Jones founded the Bay Area Police Watch, which has been key in organizing effective

    challenges to police brutality. He is the national executive director of the Ella Baker

    Center for Human Rights and an organizer with Books Not Bars.

    Have you ever heard someone declare that the entire world is run by a small handful of

    people? You probably dismissed that person as a lunatic, right? Well, I have somedisturbing news for you: Yes, Virginia, there is a Global Ruling Class.

    I saw it myself, up close and personal, with my own eyes on the rich folks side of thepolice barricades that surrounded the Waldorf-Astoria hotel during the World EconomicForums (WEF) Davos gathering in New York City in February 2002.

    Having spent a few days in their company, I have two observations about the global elite.First: it is a remarkably self-confident class-absolutely assured of both the correctness of itsfree market course and its ability to carry forward that program on a world scale. Inperson, the global rulers maintain an easy confidence and grace, despite a global economic

    downturn. Despite the threat of terrorist violence from right-wing Islamic fundamentalists.Despite rising protests from anticapitalists on the Left. Despite the political and economicmeltdown in Argentina. Despite corporate implosions like Enron. Despite various shocks tothe system, the global rulers remain absolutely self-confident, genial, self-assured. One getthe impression that they are just a few hundred old chums, playing a fun and leisurely gameof golf-with the entire earth as their green.

    Second, the global rulers are not wed to any of the present institutions of global governance(WTO, IMF, World Bank) that we antiglobalizers have targeted. Thy are committed toone thing and one thing only: the continued success and long-term stability of capitalism asa world system. In fact, leading intellectual elites and business leaders were freely debatingat the forum how to reform or abolish all of those institutions-but for reasons that wouldhorrify most people of conscience.

    How I Got In

    Before I elaborate on these themes, let me explain how I gained access to one of the mostexclusive gatherings in the world. Every year the heads of the top 1,000 globalcorporations, members of parliament from dozens of nations, heads of state from severalcountries, and celebrities and notables from around the world gather in Davos, Switzerland,to mix and mingle over the course of an extended weekend. There are parties, galas,workshops, and speeches. And every year, the WEF selects 100 people (under the age ofthirty-six) from around the world, declares them Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLTs)and then invites them to attend.

    As someone who inhaled tear gas in Seattle and got hit by a police car protesting the WorldBank in Washington, D.C., I was shocked to be one of the few U.S. citizens to get theWEFs award in 2002. I did not seek out the honor, nor did I apply for it. (I dont think Ideven heard of the WEF before it sent me the award letter.) My only claim to fame is thatI earned a law degree from Yale University in 1993 and then helped to found a human

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    rights organization opposing U.S. police abuse and prison expansion. But most of the otherGLTs were successful business leaders or elected officials in their own countries.

    The selection process is highly secretive, so I dont know why the picked me. My bestguess: The selection committee wanted to add some token social justice flavor to the

    mix-and then picked my name off a list of people who have won other prestigious nationalor international awards.

    To Accept or Not to Accept?

    Whatever the rationale, I wound up with a coveted invitation to the ruling elites biggestschmooze-fest. Of course, given what the World Exploiters Forum stands for, it is notobvious that a Left activist like me should accept one of its awards. Many smart,hardworking progressives would just say no to any honors from the global rulers. And Ifully respect everyone who feels that way.

    But I took a different view. I looked at the award as a series of golden opportunities: to geton the other side of the barricades, to steal a first-hand look behind the ruling classscurtains. And possibly to use the WEFs own platform against it. Most activists have somedegree of privilege, which we use as best we can to help build the movement. I saw theaward as a special privilege that I could put to good use.

    Plain and simple: I knew that, in the eyes of the media, someone being honored by theWEF would have the perfect standing to criticize it. Some of my colleagues worried thatthe WEF would try to pimp the fact that it was honoring someone from the protestcommunity, to bolster its stodgy image. But the WEF never sent out one press release (ordid anything else) to single me out from the other ninety-nine awardees (most of whomwere mainstream political and business elites from around the world). Therefore, I was freeand clear to go to New York and single myself out-by loudly challenging corporate-ledglobalization, from inside the WEF.

    Media Coup

    In that regard, my colleagues at the Ella Baker Center and I succeeded beyond our wildestexpectations. My EBC colleagues worked overtime to get the media to spotlight my dissentat the super-elite gathering. Thanks to their efforts, literally millions of people around theworld heard a searing critique of the WEFs elitism and exploitative agenda-from someonewhom the WEF itself was honoring. Our little media coup has earned us a tidal wave ofpositive feedback from all over the country, as well as from Europe and Africa.

    I got spots on CNN, NPR, and national Pacifica radio. I got to call the WEF corporatecabal of economic royalists on National Public Radios Marketplace. And I sang thepraises of the progressive World Social Forum in Brazil on CNNs Business Unusual-which reaches an international audience of several million people. (A friend got a call fromhis wife in Ghana, who say she saw me on TB in the motherland!) And for my acceptancespeech, I challenged the delegation with a hard-hitting poem that compared cops to

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    cavemen and opposed the mass incarceration of youth. I did everything I could toforward the cause against corporate-led globalization, from the inside.

    Massive Security Lockdown, Inside and Out

    With practically the entire global ruling class in one building, security was tighter at theWaldorf-Astoria than anything Ive ever seen or heard of. There were 4,000 police activelyengaged in security for the event. To get into the Waldorf-Astoria, you had to have aspecial photo ID badge, with a computer chip embedded in it. After showing your badge atnumerous police checkpoints just to get to the building and then into the foyer, you thenhad to press your badge against a translucent white panel. Your photograph and all yourpersonal information would then somehow pop up on a computer screen that securityguards would scrutinize. Only then would they wave you through the metal detectors andinto the forum itself.

    Inside, I noticed that every one of the hotel security guards looked very formidable-and that

    each one had the same small, red emblems on their lapels. Hey, I said, pointing to thestarlike pin on one guards suit jacket. Whats the name of your security firm? He gaveme a sly smile. Secret service.

    Men in suits with bomb-sniffing dogs would come sweeping through the corridors of theultra-posh hotel at random intervals. Once, a swarm of Israeli secret service came rushingthrough the huge lobby, instantly parting the scores of people casually assembled there likethe Red Sea. In the center of the swarm: Shimon Perez.

    The massive security presence had a huge psychological effect on any would-be dissidents(like me) inside. For instance, at a big breakfast meeting. I wanted to publically challengeformer U.S. President Bill Clinton for doubling the U.S. prison population during histenure. But the session ended before the moderator called on me. And-finding myselfessentially alone in a strange place that was filled with hundreds of secret service agents,patrolled by dozens of police dogs and surrounded by 4,000 cops-I was too chicken-shit tojust stand up and yelling at him. Having been tear gassed in Seattle 1999 and hit by a policecar at the year 2000 anti-World Bank protests in D.C., I like to think of myself as a fearlessprotestera true bad ass. But inside the locked-down Waldorf, I found myself acting aspolite and cooperative as a choirboy.

    Comic Relief

    Of course, I saw all kinds of other famous people, the whole while. Bono, Bill Gates,Bishop Desmond Tutu, George Soros, Lauryn Hill, Andunforgettablyacting legendsSidney Poitier and Ossie Davis walking through the main lobby, arm in arm, like twoshining Black Gods in a sea of pale faces.

    And there are certain bizarre and laughable scenes that will be forever etched in my mind.For instance, I saw Bill Clinton bending all the way over at the waist to hug a small child. I

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    was touched. But then I reaized he wasnt embracing a kid. He was hugging sex expert Dr.Ruth. (No comment.)

    And, one time, I was standing at a urinal, between two older white guys. I looked to myright and recognized one of the guys as GOP Senator Orrin Hatch. The guy to my left:

    failed GOP presidential hopeful Steve Forbes. I couldnt decide which one to turn to andsalute first. So both of them escaped, high and dry.

    Political Observations

    As surprising as I found some of the sights inside the Waldorf-Astoria, the things that Iheard during the innumerable workshops, panels, and discussions were even moresurprising.

    First of all, the ruling class more or less understands itself to be a ruling class. Behind theclosed doors, there is no pretense to democracy or humility. Countless sessions and

    workshops started with a discussion leader standing before a room of thirty to fifty powerplayers and casually stating: Okay, so were here to make the world run better. Right nowweve got in this room together everybody who can make a difference on (issue X). Solegs get started. The idea that a few dozen CEOs and government officials should gettogether in a posh hotel and solve every problem from trade to AIDS did not seem to strikeanyone as odd or undemocratic.

    Second, everyone loved the protester. In fact, most attendees took the demonstrationsandthe huge police responseas an affirmation of their own self-importance. It was almost asif a bunch of really nerdy kids were chanting and marching around outside the coolest frathouse on campus. All the frat guys and gals inside would occasionally peek out the windowand chuckle. But mainly they just kept their own party going.

    While most attendees dismissed the demonstrations as festive irrelevance, they did feelsome need to speak occasionally to key issues raised by our movement. Clinton himselfsaid with a wry smile about the demonstrations: Ill be most of you sitting in here actuallyagree with about 80 percent of what the protesters out there are saying. I looked aroundand saw dozens of heads bobbing n vigorous agreement. Well, unlike them, you have areal opportunity to do something about it. So wha are you going to do? That was theattitude among a lot of the power elite.

    So it quickly became a clich for a speaker to say, You know, I must say that theprotesters have gotten a few tings right. (Dramatic pause.) For instance, we have to dobetter on the issue of (hunger, the environment, whatever). But the way to do that isthrough more free trade, not less. In other words, we are enough of a factor that the globalelite cannot ignore us. But we are too small and marginal still to make them really bite theirnails and worry about s. So they give us just enough attention to dismiss us.

    Third, I was surprised to hear repeated and very candid discussions of the problems withthe World Bank, IMF, WTO, and other institutions. A number of workshops began with

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    one dignitary or another saying, Well, clearly, the institutions of global governance are notworking properly. How do we fix them, or what do we replace them with? I had to remindmyself that these were the people who created these institutions in the first place. To us,organizations like the WTO are huge monsters that terrorize the globe. But they are housepets to the global elite and they could easily imaging themselves trading them in for

    something better, Just like they do with their luxury cars and spouses.

    But, lastly, I was horrified to learn the reason that the global rulers may seek real reformsof their institutionsbringing in civil society and labor unions, creating more transparencyin their dealings, better incorporating human rights and environmental standards. It is notbecause of a concern for justice, ecological sustainability, or anything else admirable. It isbecause the present system is too unstable for them to plan well and earn their profits. Itturns out that instability (their code word for everything from stock market crashes toterrorist attacks) is bad for business.

    One greatly respected Harvard professor summed it up: We can no longer export our

    capital to important parts of the Third World. But the Third World can still export terrorismand disease to us. Therefore, for our own safety and security, we must take serious steps toreduce hunger and poverty in the global south. (Truly heartwarming stuff, I know.)

    So be forewarned: we are not the only people saying fix it or nix it about the WTO andother institutions. Sections of the global elite are saying the same thing. But for verydifferent reasons. Remember that when they come offering us the peace pipe and a smile.

    Mainstream Media, Radical Message

    My mission, as I saw it, was not to play politics on the inside, I wanted to use the platformto get a subversive message out to as many people as possible on the outside. And I did mybest.

    On CNNs Business Unusual (worldwide broadcast), I said: if I were not invited on theinside, I would be on the outside [protesting] We are really I think at a point in history,we are going to look back and say, this was a point of global crisis in democracy. TheWorld Economic Forum, 3,000 people with more decisionmaking power than 6 billionpeople on the planet. Thats not democracy

    And I added: [The] mothers around the world who are trying to figure out ways to raisetheir children have as much wisdom or more than any CEO, but they are not being includedin this process at the World Trade Organization, or the World Economic Forum. Our pointis, include everybody. We need the wisdom of the whole human family to solve theseproblems. And thats the point were making on the outside and the inside.

    On National Public Radios Weekend Edition, I said: This is a tiny, elite gathering ofglobal, economic royalists. Three thousand CEOs sipping martinis do not have morewisdom than the working people and the mothers around the world who are solving real

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    problems every day with very few resources. Thats the wisdom that we need to solve theseproblems. And these CEOs need to take their place at the table with the rest of us.

    On Pacifica Radios Democracy Now show with Amy Goodman, I said: We have one,small, green soap bubble called planet earth. All of the life support systems are failing us.

    And we have 6 billion people who are locked out. We absolutely must speak truth topower. And we must build power to combat this global elite that is dominatingdecisionmaking for the rest of us.

    And I added: The World Economic Forum is a symptom of a global crisis in democracy.And the World Social Forum is the antidote. And I think that there are certainly somehonest people at the World Economic Forum. But the reality is that until the basic powerrelations have changed so that workers and ordinary people have the power to solve theirproblems at the grassroots level, the World Economic Forum is going to continue to be acorporate cabal, trying to run the planet, hoarding power at the top. And no amount ofpassing out awards and cookies and PR snow jobs is going to cover that up.

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