out of sight, out of mind

The recent Internet publication of old books and articles relating to the settlement of the American colonies has shocked many people, especially retirees, in their new found hobby of ancestry. Looking for ancestral pilgrims and martyrs in accordance with the story of America's glorious past they were taught, they found instead -- as Mikki did -- a convicted felon who evaded execution in the Old Country by transportation – a form of global offshoring of people - and worked as a slave alongside kidnapped Negroes on the tobacco plantations of Virginia.

“He survived, but many didn't, and while our times may be different the social issues are the same,” says Mikki. “Lies, felons, slave-drivers and profiteers (especially in far away places).”

"Reading the truth about our early colonists, even the so-called pilgrims and martyrs had blood on their hands and greed in their eyes so being related to any of the early Americans is nothing to be proud of," says Mikki. "The whole period of colonization from 1607 to 1775 was far from a glorious beginning -- it was tainted by convict transportation, white and black slavery, indigenous massacres, human misery, biblical greed and massive profiteering that makes our current global CEOs look tame."

"It's the curse of globalization, isn't it," sighs Mikki, "out of sight, out of mind. Evils happening in far away places tend not to bother us, and that's why offshoring is as popular now as it was in 1607 when white slavery to the colonies commenced.”

"By the 1800s, after two hundred years of profiting from slavery, the newly rich American bucks and debutantes descended upon Europe to make advantageous marriages and it was at this time, I think, that ancestry necessarily became a hushed affair."

"Neither the rich Americans nor the impoverished European nobility wanted the dirty facts of the American colonial period to become public knowledge and spoil their marriages of convenience -- tainted American money buying titles of distinction, bucks for baronets and that sort of stuff."

"It was, however, well known among the British gentleman's clubs in the 1800s that a lot of prominent Americans were tainted by convict ancestry and ill-gotten gains," says Mikki, "but these facts, along with others relating to the dissolute nature of some European aristocrats, just didn't become common knowledge."

"It was important in those days to keep up social appearances and maintain an absolute divide between the upper and lower classes," explains Mikki, "and if that meant allowing into gentile society some fabulously rich Americans of dubious birth then so be it."

‘Today, fabulously rich people of all cultures have arrived at that status by the same means – enslaving their own and others in the most heinous global trade of all.”

Read more by Mikki on this issue:

a nation built on white slavery

globalized slavery

whitewashing slavery

Britons never will be slaves?

so you think you’re a slave?

Tobacco and America's Convict Past

digging up your ancestors

is slavery the human condition?

the ghosts of slavery

kidnapped children

black v white slavery

slave migrations

Anglo Slavery

lies, felons, slave-drivers and profiteers

an offshoring victim

Roxy was doing very well as a single working mother until she lost her job due to an Indian offshoring restructure and with it she lost her dignity and faith in her government's abiity to do the right thing by its citizens.

"While being home to give more attention to my three children is a blessing we all enjoy," says Roxy, "it does not detract from the fact that my little family is heading for a financial crisis if I can't find work soon."

"I have a very strong work ethic but globalization confuses me," says Roxy. "I believe that everyone has a right to a job, but unfortunately no such right appears to be enshrined in any constitution, anywhere. Why? And why is providing an Indian with a job more important than providing me with one?"

"I am worried not just for myself, but also for my children when they reach working age," says Roxy. "If the world's population is increasing and the number of jobs is decreasing due to globalization, then the job market will become more dog eat dog than it is already."

"Globalization means that some of us are competing for jobs that receive applicants from around the world," says Roxy. "To make matters worse, people are living longer and staying longer in jobs, and they are doing so not just for personal satisfaction but also because of the necessity to provide financially for a lengthy retirement."

"And, because so many people are unemployed, the job selection process has become a ruthless exercise that treats job seekers - particularly single mothers - worse than cattle."

Roxy takes great pains over every job application. Her application presentations are top class, yet she maintains that at the resume cull - the first stage of the selection process - most of the resumes just don’t get read because there are too many of them.

"I believe that getting in first - applying for jobs immediately they become vacant - probably gives me the edge," explains Roxy, "but when employers look at my age, education, experience and out-of-town location I've more or less accepted that my application will get trashed."

Unfortunately for Roxy, she’s not only a single mother - something she doesn’t divulge at the start - but she’s also a bit older than most job seekers and although she has working experience her lack of education and out-of-town location do leave much to be desired for employers.

"There are hundreds of younger, better educated and better located applicants out there applying for the same job I am," sighs Roxy. "I don’t stand a chance."

"No," laughs Roxy, "I'm not being defeatist. I'm adopting a very realistic attitude towards the job market and I'm trusting in luck. Tons of it!"

Unless she is applying for a position specifically requiring maturity, Roxy believes that her chances of getting an interview decrease with every year her age exceeds 35. And it is a similar story for those under 21, which bodes badly for her children who will be leaving school soon.

"If you are too young," says Roxy, "it is almost as bad as being too old. Forget about age discrimination laws. Employers are going to find something about people other than their age to reject them outright for the position."

Roxy is smart enough not to lie about her age. Even if she looks twenty years younger than her 45 chronological years, she risks being fired for fraud if she gets hired.

"And yes, it does happen," says Roxy. "Better to omit your age, than lie about it, but even omitting my age on my resume definitely goes against me, too. They might think I am a lot older than I am!"

Roxy’s main strength is her solid working experience. Her working experience isn’t always specific to the position applied for, but she sees no harm in bluffing her way into an interview by saying that her experience is indirectly related to the position.

"Basically, though, if I cannot provide concrete evidence that I have experience in 50% of the required duties of the job," says Roxy, "I don’t waste my time applying for the job. There's only so much rejection any human being should have to face."

"Because I live in a semi-rural area on the outskirts of town I know that this works against me," says Roxy. "In an employee’s job market, when employers are desperate for workers, nobody cares where you live, but in today's highly competitive job market, employers are going to favor applicants residing close to the location of the company."

"Even though I state on my application that I am willing to relocate," says Roxy, "I don't think it makes any difference when there are younger and better educated and located applicants than me."

"Actually, I hate the prospect of having to relocate because it would mean uprooting my children," explains Roxy, "and I don't think I should have to destabilize my children in this manner just to get a lousy job when I am quite happy to commute up to 100 miles a day if I had to."

"Most of the industries around here have either closed down, cut back production or offshored their back-office jobs," sighs Roxy. "It's happening all over the country, isn't it?"

"What is our government doing about it or don't they care?"

"Being a single mother is a big barrier to employment," says Roxy. "You just can't pack up and leave when a factory closes down. In the past my status hasn’t been much of a barrier but it definitely is right now because a lot of employers are cutting costs by opting for casual or part-time workers rather than full-time staff - and this favors married women who work for pocket change rather than survival."

"I always saved for a rainy day," laughs Roxy, "but I never thought it would rain for this long. My savings are just about depleted and when that happens I guess it's off to the welfare office."

"It's a stange economic system that's willing to throw me and my kids on the streets by giving my job to someone in India to get them off the streets."

the social costs of globalization

Greta lost a full-time permanent job to offshoring and like thousands of other people since globalization took off, she is now casually employed -- having been unable to find another full-time job with the pay, conditions and security she once enjoyed. Initially, she was forced to apply for social security payments and while grateful for the pittance she received she is still very angry.

"Not all countries," she says, "have a safety net for its citizens. Families are still expected to take care of their own in many places in the world. In this respect I consider myself very lucky. However, I have been a taxpayer all of my life and I object to being forced onto welfare when I am fit and able to work."

"Having and holding a job is often a health risk, but not having a job poses a far greater risk to our mental and physical health," says Greta. "Once the shock of job loss eased, the future looked very grim for those of us who no longer had a job. Some sunk into deep depression, some succumbed to illness due to stress lowering their immunity and some just decided to say ‘goodbye cruel world’."

Greta believes that the cost of taking care of increasing numbers of unemployed, underemployed and depressed people is going to overtax our already woeful health-care systems.

"The first thing most sensible unemployed people do," says Greta, "is cut back expenses. Yet, I found that it doesn't take long for a nest-egg to be depleted just by basic expenses such as rent and food."

"If more jobs go offshore and the economy crashes, can we afford to pay for the health-care and living expenses of another mass of laid-off workers on top of the welfare people we already help?" she asks. "Take it one step further, should we when there are corporate cowboys now living in the lap of luxury who caused these catastrophes?"

Greta is part of a grass-roots movement gaining momentum that believes the companies that cause mass layoffs by offshoring should be footing the bill, not taxpayers.

"Why should the people who run these companies be allowed to maximize their profits by firing staff, and expect taxpayers to take care of the fired workers through whose labor these companies and their shareholders became rich?" she asks.

"If more tax dollars are necessarily going to be diverted to health-care and social security rather than to education and government incentives to create jobs," says Greta, "then the social implication of these mass layoffs has the potential to affect everybody."

"When people lose jobs to India or China, morale isn't high among those who retain their jobs," explains Greta. "Some worked shorter hours and took home less pay. Others accepted a pay cut and worked longer hours. A lot more took mandatory unpaid holidays. But the global corporation chiefs and their government stooges were riding it high!"

"I don't know anybody who feels rich any more," says Greta, "and I don't know anyone who feels secure in their jobs any more."

"If governments are going to divert funds or increase taxes to help pay for the health-care and social security of masses of unemployed and depressed people in the new global economy -- while allowing the corporate cowboys to get fatter and richer -- then something is very, very wrong with the way this country is governed and it needs to be put right."

"Globalization may bring the world together as one big happy family, though I doubt it," says Greta, "because when the big players get too greedy the domino effect on the rest of the world -- and on ordinary people everywhere -- is disastrous."

"Mostly, we left behind slave labor, soup kitchens and workhouses for the poor when we entered the 20th century," says Greta. "If global corporate greed is going to cause the welfare systems around the world to crash again and again, then God help all of us."

"When people are hungry and desperate they break the law and get put in jail," says Greta. "The people who really need to be put in jail are the filthy rich and their stooges in the government who are causing all this misery ."

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See also:

• global gnomes


• katholikos is Greek for global


• global corporation divide and rule


• start a global war, get rich


• globalization of the net


• disabled fear globalization


• global welfare heaven


• global financial disasters


• globalized money


• globalization promotes starvation


• globalized slavery


• global oil demand ends easy life


• a lower quality of life for all


• global horror stories


• global terrorism and scapegoats


• greedy grubby globalists


• global warmongering


• out of sight, out of mind


• a global chinese curse!


• globalized murder


• subprime winners and losers


• supporting the world is madness!


• the global war for oil


• going global on climate change


• the social costs of globalization


• an offshoring victim


• globalization and peanut wages


• globalization and cannon fodder


• the globalization buzz


• globalization creates refugees


• globalization threatens western civilization

globalization and peanut wages

Grace is 19 and says it's great to work for a global company but she fears that globalization -- the offshoring of jobs and importing of foreign workers -- is exacerbating rather than ameliorating interracial relations and jeopardizing the future of everyone in western nations.

"Every day I communicate with people from all over the world," says Grace, "and it's like we're all the same, but we're not!"

"Mostly, we all eat the same food, wear the same clothes and watch the same television programs by virtue of globalization," says Grace, "and yet when I see job auctions on the Net, and more and more workers in affluent countries being replaced by outsourced workers in less-affluent countries, I get to wonder. What's going on here? Is my job safe?"

On one hand, it seems reasonable to Grace that those who are willing and able to work for less money should be given preference by employers. And it should not matter where in the world you reside if the work is to be outsourced.

"Let's face it," says Grace, "when I go shopping for a particular item, I don’t head directly for the most expensive store in town. I shop around until I find exactly what I’m looking for at a price I can afford. If I get a bargain, I’m pleased. Most of us shop like this. Right?"

Using this argument, Grace felt that she had no right to chastise employers for applying the same bargaining principle to workers.

"But hang on," adds Grace, "there’s a huge difference between things and people."

Grace is mindful that the things we buy at bargain prices have undoubtedly been produced by people in Third World countries working at bargain rates of pay.

Grace is not so patriotic (but maybe she should be?) that she only buys goods produced by her fellow countrymen and women. To do so may ensure that her people retain their jobs and receive high wages, but it also means that she pays higher prices.

"We’re all familiar with the phenomenon of child slaves in Third World countries being paid peanuts by global companies for producing luxury goods sold to people in affluent countries," says Grace, "and it really pains me that the spiffy runners I’m wearing may have been produced by such a child and that he or she received a miniscule amount of the total dollars I paid for the footwear."

"The reality of the situation," explains Grace, "is that a handful of peanuts to us is like a handful of gold to people in Third World countries. Without the work that the global companies outsource, these people would starve. And this upsets me."

Bearing in mind that these countries are poor largely because their populations are not controlled - resulting in an astronomical ratio between available jobs and workers - the logical extension of globalization, according to Grace, is to outsource all work to Third World, or less affluent, countries.

"Already, call centers, IT work and manufacturing are going offshore," she says, "and there is very little that unions can do about it."

"So, where does that leave us?" asks Grace. "What sort of future do we have?"

Grace wants to know how we can compete for outsourced work with people in Kahazzipalitti or some other country that we have never even heard of. For a job that they may bid $100 to do - against our bid of $5,000 - they might be able to retire in luxury for the rest of their lives. For $100, Grace couldn’t even buy her lunch for a week, and yes, she knows that’s a hefty price to pay for lunch but living at home allows her to be a bit extravagant.

Grace asks: "When you consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars that my parents forked out to raise me and my brothers and sisters and send us to good schools hoping to ensure us a good future, it doesn’t seem fair that our jobs are disappearing and our futures aren’t looking good."

Grace is absolutely delighted that people in Kahazzipalitti can retire on $100. Good for them! But if their good fortune is going to mean her destitution - or maybe her children’s when she gets around to finding a guy and having some - then she feels that something is very, very wrong.

"And when workers from third world countries are actually hired on cheap contracts and brought out here by our employers to work alongside us in teams the situation is even more scary," says Grace. "How can we be expected to accept these people into our team when they are taking away our jobs?"

"Already, some of my friends are beginning to hate these foreign workers," says Grace. "Not because of the color of their skin or the language they speak, but simply because they are taking our jobs."

"Of course," says Grace, "it would be ideal if everyone in the world had the same benefits and opportunities that we do. Globalization definitely has the potential to bring that about. What’s more likely, though, is that globalization will continue on its merry way without checks and balances and ultimately we’ll all be reduced to the lowest common denominator - we’ll all be working for peanuts!"

"OK," says Grace, "so where in the world is Kahazzipalitti? Right now it’s looking like a pretty good place for me to retire at 25 in luxury! But then, of course, the good people of Kahazzipalitti would start hating us for taking over their country!"

"I don't think I'll be marrying and having kids like my parents did because the world is not the same place it was in their time," says Grace, "and it looks like I'm going to be living at home forever like the Kahazzipalitti kids do!"

globalization and cannon fodder

Angela is 52, married with four young adult sons at home and the whole family, including her husband, is struggling to make ends meet doing casual, menial work as a result of globalization.

"Last year, I was the only one in the family who had a job," sighs Angela, "and it broke my heart to see my husband and boys unemployed on welfare having lost their jobs to someone in India or China."

"Men need a decent man's job," sighs Angela. "Serving customers, answering phones, washing dishes or pushing a broom aren't decent jobs for able-bodied men, and it breaks my heart to see my men-folk doing this type of work. It's no wonder that so many young people are being forced into the army -- but I refuse to let my boys go down that route. Defending global oil supplies is certainly not defending one's country."

"Service jobs are the only type of jobs you can around here these days," says Angela. "Most of the manufacturing and technical jobs have gone offshore, and we're competing for jobs with immigrants who are willing to work for less money, too."

"If you're an immigrant, just starting off in a new country, you do this type of work because you can't speak the language or you don't know any better," says Angela, "but our families have been here for generations -- we're not immigrants!"

"What's worse is that these jobs aren't even real jobs - they're casual jobs," explains Angela. "I've been working 'on-call' for two years now and it's the most stressful working situation for anyone to suffer. You don't know if you'll have enough money to put food on the table from day to day. You just survive in the job because you have to."

"Who would have thought that people like us would end up like this in the new millennium?" asks Angela. "It's disgraceful and our government is just as much to blame as the global corporations for this globalization madness -- bringing in more immigrants than our country can support and offshoring our jobs."

"If I had known twenty-five years ago that not enough jobs would be available for everyone in the new millennium," says Angela, "I would have thought twice about getting married and I most certainly wouldn't have had children."

She quickly explains that she loves her husband and boys dearly, but seeing them unemployed or working in casual, menial jobs is too depressing for words.

"I was the youngest in a family of five children," explains Angela, "and I grew up with a hatred of poverty and hand-me-downs. I couldn't understand why my parents kept on having kids when they were so poor and I vowed that I would never have kids if I couldn't afford them."

"Don't accuse me of contributing towards overpopulation and corporate exploitation by having four kids," says Angela. "Twenty-five years ago this country didn't have enough people to fill the jobs available and the government gave us generous tax incentives to have more kids. How was I to know that the government would double-cross us - and serve the greedy corporations - by opening the floodgates to foreign immigrants?"

"I'm not against immigration or capitalism - I'm not a racist or a communist," says Angela, "but I thought the days of the robber barons ended after the great depression of 1929-1933. I'm angry that our government has allowed the corporate cowboys to bring my family, and thousands like us - including the immigrant families - down to dirt poor status."

Like most people, Angela believed that jobs would always be available for people willing to work and she would never have to worry about where the next penny would come from.

"Since we lost our regular jobs," says Angela, "I toss and turn every night worrying about how we are going to pay our bills, where we are going to find work and whether we'll be forced to sell our lovely house."

"Everyone complains about ageism in the workplace," says Angela, "but when a factory closes down - like ours did - both the young and the old lose their regular jobs."

"My husband keeps on telling me that as long as we have each other we are okay," sighs Angela, "but I'm a practical woman prone to worry about material things. I just hate being short of money to buy the things I want."

What most concerns Angela, though, is that her boys are growing up without job security and are likely to become cannon fodder, too.

"There aren't any real jobs any more," sighs Angela. "There's just a vast army of casual workers who are employed and dismissed by big and small employers alike according to profit demands.

"Back in the dark ages," explains Angela, "the kids of the poor people were just cannon fodder. There was always a war on somewhere, life was cheap and replacements were plenty. So, what happens when the corporate cowboys cut and run, leaving thousands of us jobless? Our government solves the problem by starting a war, rallying the religious right, and turns corporate fodder into cannon fodder. We're regressing, not progressing!"

"I don't want my kids to have that type of future," says Angela. "I didn't bring them into the world and make sacrifices to educate them just to see them begging for jobs and being grateful for a few weeks worth of work at some department store. And I certainly don't want to see them losing their lives in some war designed to fatten those greedy global parasites."

Angela sees the increase in social evils such as drug addiction, petty crime, youth suicide and murder sprees as being reflective of a sick society that churns out children for government and corporations to chew up and spit out.

"What else do these children have to look forward to?" asks Angela. "If you're not ivy league and belonging to an old money family, you're white trash these days."

Angela is telling her children, and anyone willing to listen, that the writing is on the wall and things are going to get worse.

"Western civilization as we knew it is in its death throes," sighs Angela, "and if you can't afford to buy your kids a secure job then you've no business having kids. It's a terrible situation for those of us who already have kids, and I want to warn young people to think twice before bringing another superfluous human being into the world to be used and abused by the corporate parasites."

"What decent parent would deliberately bring kids into the world knowing that they're going to become white trash and corporate cannon fodder?"

"I feel guilty when I listen to my kids' worries about the state of the economy and the terrible war being fought over oil and corporate greed for new markets and cheap labor," sighs Angela. "I brought them into the world and I'm responsible for their misery."

"This is not the type of world I want for my children," says Angela, "and we're toying with the idea of moving to the country and learning self-sufficiency. It's not the type of life I want for myself or my boys, but I'd rather they till the earth than operate the till at a dime store or bear arms against poor, blighted souls like us in some other land."

"In the meantime, we're taking a grassroots approach - we're hitting back at where it hurts them," adds Angela. "We're doing our bit for the type of world we want by refusing to buy the goods of the corporate fodder companies."

"If enough little people like us take a stand then it must make a difference," says Angela. "But the issue I really worry about is who is running the country - is it the government we elected to serve us, or is it the global corporations?"

"If our government isn't serving us -- and I truly believe it isn't," says Angela. "then the whole notion of democracy is a farce and we may just as well hand the reins over to the global corporations and make them, not stooge politicians and bureaucrats, responsible for the chaos and misery they've created."

the globalization buzz

Nanette, a 23-year-old student, maintains that globalization is not just about offshoring jobs and free trade agreements and it is no coincidence, either, that it took off astronomically after the fall of Soviet Russia.

"By the middle of the 20th century, the western world was crippled by endless wars and was totally against communism - the economic Marxism as practiced in Russia and China," says Nanette, "so endeavoring to unite the world by cultural means was a clever way of achieving the world domination that the Frankfurt School of Marxists wanted."

"We are all going to become drones in one big beehive, bowing and kowtowing and buzzing around one global master."

"It is ironic that economic Marxism - communism - failed to achieve its goals in both Russian and China and yet cultural Marxism conquered the world in one fell swoop," says Nanette. "Political correctness, for instance, is cultural Marxism as is globalization. The aim of the Frankfurt School of cultural Marxists is world domination and to achieve that end they need to obliterate all traces of nationalism, cultural, religious and racial pride, and break down all borders and distinctions of all types."

"Cultural Marxism also appears to be effectively replacing Christianity with multi-culturalism as the 'opiate of the masses'," says Nanette. "The whole situation causes me to wonder whether the ulterior aim of these gnomes is not to unite the world by a global economy but to destroy Western civilization, Christianity and the white Anglo-Celtic race."

"Bearing in mind that economic Marxism - ownership of the mode of production by communes - eventually failed in both Russia and China," says Nanette, "it will be interesting to see whether globalization and the other ideals of cultural Marxism will have a similar fate."

"Marxism in its economic and cultural expressions is barely 100 years old, so we are dealing with something that is very new," says Nanette. "My personal belief is that sanity and self-preservation will eventually prevail."

Read more by Nanette:

interracial cultural marxism

immigration and cultural marxism