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"Today there is a tendency towards globalization, which seeks to include countries that had fewer restrictions like The Netherlands, England and the United States. In the USA there are even efforts to forbid giving testimonials. Testimonials one day will be permitted to print only when backed by exact studies - double blind studies - which are very expensive and time-consuming and sometimes nearly impossible. There is a tendency to make it harder and harder to sell other products than those of the pharmaceutical industry." "How is the pharmacist dependent upon the pharmaceutical industry? " - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"We are moving beyond civilization, in its literal sense of "making into towns," into globalization. We are moving into a world without walls, where distance is no separation. Today I can call up a friend on another continent and have as close a conversation as I could with someone in the same room —so close, in fact, that I can easily forget that our bodies are separated by thousands of miles. The most obvious example of this global integration is the Internet. Originally intended for military use, it was quickly adopted by scientists as a means of exchanging ideas and research." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Michael Mandel, writing in Business Week in 1996 in an article entitled "The Triumph of the New Economy," listed five reasons for his belief that the market was not crazy: increased globalization, the boom in high-tech industries, moderating inflation, falling interest rates, and surging profits.29 A prominent theory during this boom was that low inflation makes for a strong market outlook. In the 1990s, theories about inflation dominated discussion of the market outlook just as they did in the 1960s, but now the prevalent theory had been reversed." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Steven Weber, with his 1997 article "The End of the Business Cycle" in the public policy journal Foreign Affairs, argued that macroeconomic risks were lower now: "Changes in technology, ideology, employment and finance, along with the globalization of production and consumption, have reduced the volatility of economic activity in the industrialized world. For both empirical and theoretical reasons in advanced industrial economies the waves of the business cycle may be becoming more like ripples." Weber presented a number of reasonable-sounding arguments." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Spiritual malnourishment has reached epidemic proportions in the Western world, with the rest of the world following close behind as modernity and globalization continue to encroach with their life-killing ways. The commodification of nature is a direct reflection of our separation from our own true nature, the aspect of ourselves that knows our connection to spirit through the Earth, and this blatant disregard for the Earth and her sustaining ways indicates a great disease is among us." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"To enter the coffee section of a supermarket is to be confronted with the products of an especially raw form of globalization in action. Coffee is the prototype of a commodity produced by farmers in the poorest of developing countries for the benefit—economic as well as social —of people living in much wealthier nations. At the moment, this particular manifestation of globalization works just the way it is supposed to: you can buy coffee at relatively low cost, but at the expense of the poor farmers who produce it." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Europe was about to become the vanguard in a transatlantic environmental battle. globalization was shaking up traditional patterns of influence in everything from music to manufacturing. I interviewed Bo Manderup Jensen, a Dane who is the European Commission's chief liaison to the European Parliament (in America he would be a White House congressional relations officer), in his office in the upper floors of the Spinelli Building, who was intent on explaining how fundamentally the European Union was transforming the old imperatives of the single nation-state." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"We can't talk about globalization without mentioning McDonald's, the company that has come to symbolize American food abroad. Currendy boasting more than 30,000 outlets in 119 countries, McDonald's already earns (along with KPC) the majority of its profits outside the United States. Classes at McDonald's Hamburger University are taught in twenty different languages. McDonald's currendy has 730 oudets in China and plans to reach 1,000 by 2008.9 Riding on McDonald's coattails is another American icon, Coca-Cola, whose soft drinks are sold at Golden Arches oudets worldwide." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Whether syncretization is the natural outcome of cultural coexistence or an early example of globalization is debatable, but few major religions have been untouched by the phenomenon. We approached the house of Andres, the ak-jun (priest) of Cofradia Santa Cruz (the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross). Since the sixteenth century, the brotherhood (it's all men) has been in charge of caring for the effigy of Maximon. Each year the Cofradia selects one of its own to be the telinel (dresser/attendant) to Maximon, to care for the Mam or the Old Man, as he is variously known, in his home." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"We have no idea yet what the Internet's impact is on the local and global nature of medical categories and treatments, but it is a safe assumption that medicalization will increase with globalization. Professional and public concern about medicalization may be growing as well. The British Medical Journal devoted nearly an entire issue (2002) to medicalization topics, and we increasingly see the term "medicalization" used in the popular press." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"Or maybe even unfettered corporate globalization and the increasing homogenization of the world's culture? Many of us are deeply concerned about these problems, but most of us don't really know what we can do personally, or even what the world as a whole can do to solve these global dilemmas. Yet our concerns continue to grow. In fact, the more our consciousness develops, the more our sense of morality—our estimate of the scope of those worthy of moral consideration—expands to encompass the world. Indeed, a worldcentric morality is a clear marker of higher consciousness." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "While we can recognize that the state of the world's consciousness is not yet ready for global governance, we can also see that globalization of the world's economy and culture is nevertheless racing ahead. From an integral perspective the world may never be fully ready for global governance—by the time consciousness has evolved to the point where everyone is responsible and worldcentric, we may not need government at all." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"This was necessary to confront the erosion of the tribal fabric brought about by television, globalization, and the influx of miners, colonists, geologists, and roughnecks (oil workers) into U'wa lands. Upon hearing of the kidnapping, I went to New York to work with an impromptu group of activists, family, and friends to find Ingrid, Lahe, and Terry. It took days of back and forth with the Red Cross, the Cuban government, several churches, and the FARC representatives in Geneva before we could confirm who had grabbed them." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Codex is acting as part of the overall elite agenda for globalization and control of people. German Government and FDA Collusion Dr. Rolf Grossklaus is the current chairman of the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU). He is also the chairman of the board of BfR, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, which is a German federal-government agency. These groups are trying to prove that anything above a minuscule amount of a nutrient is toxic and so must be eliminated from the market." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Integral philosophy's attempt to assert universal truth claims is a pretentious (and potentially dangerous) fiction designed to justify Western capitalism's neocolonial globalization. Integral philosophy is essentially attempting to resurrect the now discredited Enlightenment worldview, and by doing so it becomes complicit in the ongoing sins of modernist oppression. Despite paying lip service to postmodern insights, integralism ignores the fact that modernism's reality frame has been effectively deconstructed and unmasked." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Their globalization agenda has never been voted upon or agreed to by the American people. The American people never authorized an attack on the families of the world. We do not need this kind of government secrecy. CHAPTER All 9 The rise of corporate globalism The driving force that connects the people of the world is the trading of goods. Profit is generated by producing goods, trading goods, and financing production and trading. Various political and economic philosophies, such as capitalism, socialism, and communism, have sought to explain the best way to do this." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"In addition to the problematic life conditions caused by the increasing conflict between the stages, integral consciousness also finds its animating life conditions in the growing global problems that are increasingly affecting everyone: environmental degradation, injustice and oppression, terrorism, unfettered corporate globalization, hunger, poverty, disease, and war. Now, these global problems have already been well identified by postmodern consciousness; post-modernism's worldcentric morality naturally sees the urgent need to protect the environment and care for the needy." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Everywhere, governments have lost a degree of economic influence in the face of globalization —the increasing mobility of capital across borders. In the United States, government is especially weak. Taxes are low, so the government has limited ability to undertake infrastructure projects (say, transit lines) that help to shape urbanization. The United States has also created a set of legal "property rights" that limits the ability of communities (at all levels) to determine how land will be used." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The FDA wants globalization so it can regulate out of existence natural-health options, including many nutritional-supplementation options that help people stay well or get well. This is done strictly to eliminate competition for drug company profits and to fortify the drug company monopoly on health care. In the elite system of logic, profit is always more important than human health and life. The World Trade Organization is a massive fraud, a lie so big it is hard to comprehend. CHAPTER 10 The logic of moral righteousness The elite ruling class uses a system of logic based on humanism." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"If you're looking for information on the dark costs of globalization and how we might pursue fairer, more sustainable economies, look no further. Creating Healthy Homes No substance is more pure than mother's milk, right? Maybe that was true a few centuries ago, but today breast milk usually contains a whole host of toxins, including contaminants found in things like paint thinner, fungicides, and gasoline. The chemicals of industrial production that lurk everywhere make their way into our babies' bodies with every gulp." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Many are made in China as part of globalization's dive to the bottom of the labor pool. A yellow school bus (Evanston School District) juggled me over to Solola in twenty minutes. Solola is a bustling town of fifty thousand souls, 90 percent of whom are indigenous Cakchiquel. The streets are littered with discarded newspapers, food, and plastic bags. Diesel fumes laden with dirt swirl down many streets." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"But in an era of economic and political globalization, confining our strategy to U.S. borders makes little sense. Corporations must continue to grow or they will die. The only place left to go after companies have saturated the U.S. market is abroad. Even if we could somehow "ban" domestic sales of junk food, food corporations would simply carve out new markets overseas—as tobacco sellers have been doing for years. Thanks in part to tobacco-control initiatives here, the United States now makes up only 4 percent of the global tobacco market.6 There are already clear signs that U.S." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "India Resource Center Supports movements against globalization in India; particularly active in opposing the environmental destruction caused by Coca-Cola. Avww.indiaresource.org International Food Policy Research Institute Working to achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries; publishes numerous reports and resources. www.ifpri.org Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming A UK-based coalition that advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, www. sustainweb." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"It has taken us more than two hundred years and globalization to go from "Joe and Tim" to "Tang and Song." The stories we are told are not always about fictional inventions such as Joe and Tim. Sometimes snippets of real personal detail come to us through a clinical report or from the transcript of an official commission of inquiry. For example, a pivotal twentieth-century industrial research experiment gives us considerable personal details of one the workers who was a key participant, although we are not told her first or last name: No." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"The shift will reflect a dramatic turnaround in the multidecade march toward globalization, as faltering growth and widespread financial and social upheaval induce governments everywhere to fence domestic economies away from unfolding turmoil. Despite those efforts, collapsing demand in the United States will reverberate far and wide, especially in regions such as Asia, which have become overly dependent on seemingly insatiable American consumer spending." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "In no time at all, the economic malaise will spread throughout the domestic economy and, by way of various trade links, international financial markets and other nodes of globalization to the rest of the world. Hardest hit initially will be countries that depend on the free-spending ways of the overburdened American consumer. They will be the same nations that accumulated massive reserves of dollars and holdings of U.S. assets in an expensive yet ultimately failed strategy to maintain an export market for their rapidly expanding output." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "Moreover, few Americans understood how and to what degree globalization, consolidation, innovation, and technology had altered the financial landscape. It was also hard to grasp the paradoxical idea that long periods of stability, which many viewed as inherently positive, were actually destabilizing. As economist Hyman Minsky once noted, the good times tended to foster the complacency and risky behavior that lay the groundwork for upheaval." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"By dismantling the barriers of national prerogative, globalization created an imperial power of the market. The EU offers an example of the power that can be wielded in the realm of the environment. But the market can cut both or in multiple ways. It is inherently undemocratic." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "Regulations might seem the realm of paper-pushing bureaucrats—hardly the realm of glamorous diplomacy—but it is here where clashes over values ripple through the international system. globalization was supposed to bring greater uniformity to the rules governing the flow of capital and labor, and to a great extent it has done so. But few of the architects of that system, and fewer still among its many critics—who appeared on the streets of Seattle or Montreal or Doha in the hundreds of thousands—could have imagined that regulations protecting citizens might actually be made stronger." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "This phenomenon is being triggered, unexpectedly enough, by the mechanisms of free trade. globalization unleashed new sources of power with centripetal force; from Europe to emerging economies like China, Brazil, and India, trade flows are shifting and new forms of leverage emerging that the architects of a harmonized global economy may never have anticipated. During the cold war, power lay in the finger that held the trigger. In today's multipolar world, driven in the long run more by economic than military imperatives, the finger that writes the rules is the one with real power." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

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