John Pilger - The New Rulers Of The World [2001]
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'The New Rulers Of The World (2001) analyses the new global economy and reveals that the divisions between the rich and poor have never been greater - two thirds of the world's children live in poverty - and the gulf is widening like never before. The film turns the spotlight on the new rulers of the world - the great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them such as the IMF, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation under whose rules millions of people throughout the world lose their jobs and livelihood. The West, explains Pilger, has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of these powerful financial institutions to control their economies. "A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa," he says, "just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world's economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company's products in Indonesia received." To examine the true effects of globalisation, Pilger travels to Indonesia - a country described by the World Bank as a model pupil until its globalised economy collapsed in 1998 - where high-street brands such as Nike, Adidas, Gap and Reebok are mass produced by cheap labour in 'sweatshops' and sold for up to 250 times the amount received by workers. He films secretly in one of the biggest sweatshops in the capital, Jakarta. Over footage of hundreds of mostly women and children in the camp, with its open sewers and unsafe water, Pilger reports that workers are paid the equivalent of 72p a day - about one American dollar - which is the legal minimum wage in Indonesia but acknowledged by that country's own government as only just over half a living wage. Many children there were undernourished and prone to disease. While filming, Pilger himself caught dengue fever. He also recounts the previously untold story of how globalisation in Asia had begun in Indonesia and how Western politicians and businessmen sponsored the dictator General Suharto, who brutally seized power in the mid-1960s. "The great sweatshops and banks and luxury hotels in Indonesia were built on the mass murder of as many as one million people, an episode the West would prefer to forget," he reveals. "Within a year of the bloodbath, Indonesia's economy was effectively redesigned in America, giving the West access to vast mineral wealth, markets and cheap labour - what President Nixon called the greatest prize in Asia." 'The New Rulers Of The World' is a collision of two of Pilger's continuing themes - imperialism and the injustice of poverty. It observes the parallel between modern-day globalisation and old-world imperialism. "There's no difference between the quite ruthless intervention of international capital into foreign markets these days than there was in the old days, when they were backed up by gunboats," says Pilger. "Much of my global view has come over years of seeing how imperialism works and how the world is divided between the rich, who get richer, and the poor, who get poorer, and the rich get richer on the backs of the poor. That division hasn't changed for about 500 years, but there are new, deceptive ways of shoring it up and ensuring that most of the world's resources are concentrated in as few hands as possible. What is different today is there is a worldwide movement that understands this deception and is gaining strength, especially among the young, many of whom are far better educated about the chameleon nature of capitalism than those in the 1960s. Moreover, if the intensity of Establishment propaganda is a guide, at times bordering on institutional panic, then the new movement is already succeeding."
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The IMF and World Bank are the mafia of the world, they have created a modern day colonialism. They serve the wealthy countries and Wall Street, it is a secretive institution with no accountability. These bastards make up rules along the way, they promote corporate welfare, the IMF mantra " labor flexibility" permits corporations to fire at whim and move where wages are cheap. And they always hurt the environment, and of course they bail out the rich bankers, creating a moral hazard and greater instability in the global economy. IMF bailouts deepen, rather than solve, economic crisis.
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Those jobs keep nations with 5,000-10,000-30,000 USD per capita GDP from becoming poor like most African nations. US military can't be everywhere. 7,000,000,000 men women boys and girls. What do you want Pilger???????????????
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like you said...coz of luck of other job opportunity...
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may god bless this man
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He is very good in sumarizing the raw data, making it easily accesible.
By the west is ment former imperial colonial powers and USA.
PLEASE MAKE DISTINCTION AND EXCLUDE SLAVIC COUNTRIES. Kolonized exploited and also sucked dry by Austria and Germany. Betrayed by the same western powers and gave as a plunder to NAZI germany even in this century!!! -
I've been wearing homemade and fair trade clothes for many years. When I relent, it hardens my heart and the stuff joins the shame bag in the closet. Obviously I'm no activist, only a Christian grandmother wanting to show love and fast from slave products. It's so hard...and even here in the American deep south with so many descendants of slaves it is only the long dead slaves that are pitied. The living are never given a thought.
I can't but wonder at the toll this grind is taking on the hearts of the customers...the cool burying of those labels into the unconscious day after day, taking them from the dryer and hanging them up, wearing them....
But now in 2016 my own country has prison factories...so Made in USA no longer means much. Made in Italy can mean a free trade zone full of immigrants making $2 a day or less.
I find that this very humble fast affects my personality...Flo Zigfield insisted his lovely dancers have only the finest underwear. When asked why the expense, since no one ever saw it, Flo famously replied, "Oh yes they do...it shows on their faces!!" Perhaps these women who obsess over their aging could save money on creams and try my fast!!! Hee! Hee! -
IMF, World Bank, and ADB are tricky tools by which the Western Powers enslave the poor nations. Since these banks' formation after WW2, the Western Powers have been able to impose their power, control, and corruption over the poor nations while enriching themselves of the natural resources and cheap labor at the expense of the local people. Instead of lifting the standard of living of the indigenous people, these Western banks kept them perpetually poor addicted to debt, essentially turning them into de facto slaves. The lesson for 3rd world nations: beware of the Western Man who comes courting bearing gifts and money.
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Trade unions are not the panacea. Trade unions are corrupt as well. 1/3 of loan is not lost by the IMF/World Bank; the bank had to pay the corrupt government officials to implement pro-west policies.
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This aussie was telling the truth since the 80's he gives credibility to the stuff you watch on YT ..world trade organization.
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It is a difficult exercise: to watch Pilger documentaries and not grow disheartened by our predatory treatment of our own brethren...
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39:55... "You are indebted and I am indebted." There is an underlying pretense here that bypasses us so easily. Money is memory. If nobody is counting, or rather 'accounting', or memorizing so as to account for units or quanta, there is no money. But the trick is simple. Only a character in a story is in-debt to the story... has lines, scripts, and programs to play out... to remember, to account for. The argument is a trick of language, to lock the awareness in us into a character with lines to play out; so as to keep the awareness in us 'locked down'. Ditch the pretense, and the whole argument falls apart.
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What brands can we buy that is sure not to exploit these poor workers.
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Actually, if people really look close, the U.S. taxpayer is paying off perpetual debts to bankers for the Civil War (USA) & the two big wars of the 20th century. The USA is no longer a republic but a corporation with a balance sheet with liabilities that will never be paid down. Search 1871 and 1933.
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Great independent journalist
God bless you -
thank you Sir Pilger!
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32:20 World Bank fellow ....... moral bankruptcy in action!
39:10 IMF fellow ....................... " " " " " "
The latter - 'economic systems are based on.... debt'
There's one word this prize turd left out of this sentence: SOME
Some economic systems are RESOURCE based - of which, Indonesia
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It all goes back to Zionist Jews , they are controlling USA , to fight their wars in the Middle East in these times, next it will be serfdom.
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all the. money. you make will. never buy back your soul
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countries aren't poor. people are
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it's simple economics Indonesia has a massive oversupply of workforce that's why they are poor, that's not any companies fault.... stupid documentary
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