Globalization

Globalization gutted Canada’s manufacturing. Here’s how we make things ourselves again

Globalization gutted Canada’s manufacturing. Here’s how we make things ourselves again

For decades, Canadians have assumed that, as a mid‑sized, high‑wage economy, we are simply too small and too expensive to make much of anything ourselves. It is best to instead focus on our inherent comparative advantage. We ship out natural resources and buy back electronics and most of the manufactured goods we consume from lower‑cost countries. That belief in outsourcing manufacturing has shaped our trade deals, our industrial policy and even our economic self‑image.

Now, as free trade comes under attack and the world order fractures, it is time to shed the assumption that we cannot make things ourselves. In fact, we can do so with the aid of a new wave of “physical AI” and by advanced manufacturing technologies.

“Free Trade” was a lie.

The people that shipped Canadian jobs overseas are the same ones importing cheap 3rd World labour to steal what’s left from you.

Policy for profit has impoverished Canadians but made our business and political class wealthy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

Globalism Is Totalitarianism

Globalism Is Totalitarianism

Consider these recent news stories from Europe and North America:

(1) Germany’s government is considering a new law that would allow its spy agency to investigate and block citizens from buying homes if the would-be owners hold political views that conflict with the government’s official policies.  In effect, political dissent would disqualify a person from owning a home.

(2) London Mayor Sadiq Khan is pushing for a government-run “disinformation unit” to investigate and silence online criticism of the mayor’s policies.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

Starmer, Carney and the twilight of the globalists

‘The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.’ Opinion writers have once again been dusting off Thucydides’ ancient dictum, in a desperate attempt to understand the new world another tumultuous week in international affairs has left us in… and to find a vaguely intelligent-sounding opener to a column. A crime – I guess – of which I am also now guilty.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Globalism, Globalization

Lutnick’s speech slamming Europe at Davos leads to Lagarde’s abrupt exit: sources

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde abruptly walked out of an invitation-only sit-down dinner in Davos after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick started laying into Europe, according to people familiar with the matter.

The VIP event on Tuesday evening was attended by more than 100 people and featured Lutnick as the final speaker, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing private matters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

Keir Starmer to admit globalisation has failed millions

The prime minister will declare an end to globalisation and admit that it has failed millions of voters as the fallout from President Trump’s tariffs reverberates around the world.

In his first significant intervention since the United States imposed sweeping charges on imports, Sir Keir Starmer will say tomorrow that the seismic global economic effects prove the government must “move further and faster” to boost growth with supply-side reforms.

Carney is a globalist profiteer who carries water for the folks that shipped your jobs out of the country and imported cheap labour to depress wages and impoverish your family.

Carney is so despicable that he will keep Canada’s oil in the ground so he and his pals can exploit the “energy transition” for personal gain.

Carney has also invited fellow globalist predator Mark Wiseman of the Century 100 Initiative to assist in Canada’s destruction through mass immigration.

Carney is your enemy not Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Globalization, UK, USA

Where Was ‘60 Minutes’ and the Rest of the Liberal Press When America’s Industrial Heartland Became the Rust Belt?

The people here, it seems, were expendable to the elite. They had no college education, did not live in the right ZIP codes, and besides, someone overseas could do what they do.

CAMPBELL, Ohio — September 19 marked 47 years since thousands of employees, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River for the early shift.

Within an hour of the laborers’ shift, Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 of them in a single day. Within months, 16 more plants owned by U.S. Steel shut down, including Youngstown-based Ohio Works.

Make no mistake this is Carney’s ideal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

Global Elites Think You Are an Idiot. Don’t Let Them Control Your Life

To fight globalism, we need more sovereignty — strong nations. Nations that are great again.

National leaders need to be far enough away that they can’t stick their snouts in your business, but close enough that we can give them a good ass-kicking. All the globalist pretensions from a world government presuppose the idea that they would do it better. Governing is like driving. We always think we drive better than the guy next to us. And they think that, being rich or powerful, they know better how to decide — from Washington, from Geneva, or from Brussels — what a farmer from Illinois, a car mechanic from Berlin, or a cattle farmer from Almeria needs and wants for his life. Why? For the same reason you think you drive better than everyone else — because everyone else is an idiot.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Globalism, Globalization, World Economic Forum

The next awful decades

Perhaps because no place makes us more anxious than the future, there’s a bottomless appetite for predictions about what happens next. Last year Peter Zeihan broke from the usual pack of prognosticators with The End of the World is Just Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, a thick but very readable book about the world-changing crisis he says has already begun, and which we neglected to avoid over a decade ago.

Zeihan was raised in Iowa and began a career in diplomacy before joining Stratfor, a “geopolitical intelligence firm” based in Austin, Texas, in 2000. I probably began reading him there without knowing his name, during the months and years after 9/11 when I was desperate to understand what was happening and why.

Zeihan left Stratfor to found his own consulting firm in 2012, and he became a regular on the corporate speaking circuit while writing books like Accidental Superpower (2014) and The Absent Superpower (2016), focusing on America’s rise to global hegemon and gradual abdication of that role, and Disunited Nations (2020), about the collapse of postwar globalism – what Zeihan calls the Order, an unprecedented explosion of trade and technological advance guaranteed by America’s protection of the world’s sea lanes.

Demographics Part 2: The Canadian Treadmill…Stops

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalization

Terry Glavin: Trudeau’s naive foreign policy shredded by reality of Ukraine invasion

With Vladimir Putin’s ghastly war of conquest in Ukraine approaching its first anniversary and Canada’s assistance to the gallant Ukrainian resistance marking a rare point of national pride, here’s something about how much the world has changed lately that’s both disturbing and darkly amusing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Globalism, Globalization

The retreat from globalism

People don’t want to be squelched by big business or big government.

In the wake of liberal globalism’s failings, a nationalist tide is rising today, not only in China and Russia but also throughout the West. It is a dynamic eerily similar to 100 years ago, when war, pandemic and economic insecurity brought national tensions to the surface. Yet today’s undoubted turn against globalism need not herald a return to the dark days of aggressive nationalism. Instead, we are seeing the rise of a new community-based and self-governing model of localism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

The twilight of globalism

This anti-democratic ideology is unravelling before our eyes.

Until recently, politicians, academics and journalists assumed that globalisation had rendered the nation state redundant. As they saw it, superior transnational institutions had displaced national forms of governance. And superior globalist values had superseded narrow-minded nationalist sentiments.

But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended such assumptions. Globalisation is now fast unravelling before our eyes. Foreign Affairs asked last month if this is ‘the end of globalisation?’. Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investment corporations, warns that the war ‘has put an end to the globalisation we have experienced over the past three decades’.

But while the war in Ukraine may have exposed and exacerbated the unravelling of globalisation, it did not cause it. The integration of different parts of the world into global systems has been slowing down for some time. Indeed, global capitalism has still not recovered from the financial crisis, with world trade relative to global GDP falling by five per cent between 2008 and 2019.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

Klaus Schwab Tells Global Leaders to Collaborate for World Governance

The time has come for world governments to unite as one and tackle global problems such as climate change, trade, and economic disruption without hinderance or delay, World Economic Forum (WEF) founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab announced Wednesday.

The unelected globalist issued his demand during a keynote speech on the opening day of the World Government Summit (WGS2022) in Dubai, saying the world can only be improved by more government cooperation at more levels.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGlobalism, Globalization

The Globalists are becoming more reckless

Americans are being ruled by corrupt and incompetent elites who ruiin countless lives when it suits their globalist, left-wing agenda.

Just as the Chinese Flu was getting ineffectual in preventing global economic recovery, the globalist elites decided to escalate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into a global war. Like their “two weeks to flatten the curve,” the 15 days to flatten the Tsar was deceptive.

Anthony Blinken, whom President Joseph Biden called the US “Foreign Minister,” recently toured Eastern Europe in a bid to get Poland to give its decrepit Soviet MiGs to Ukraine, because Ukrainian pilots already could fly them. In return, the Biden administration would give Poland a new fleet of US-made F16s, along with intensive training of Polish pilots. Thus, the US military-industrial complex would get billions of dollars of new orders, but decrepit Soviet-era planes would do the fighting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Globalism, Globalization

How globalisation cheated America – The West’s opening up to China came at a big cost

Globalisation is becoming an increasingly dirty word — and for good reason. Over the last two to three decades, the West’s opening up to low-cost, export-oriented economies like China has hurt the working class and made us worryingly dependent on distant and fragile supply chains.

But did all that free movement of labour, capital, goods and services make us as rich as we were promised? A stunning set of charts from American Compass provides part of the answer (and from a US perspective, obviously).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", "The China Class", Globalization, USA