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Date Posted: 22:08:47 03/05/02 Tue
Author: Grumpy�
Author Host/IP: 155-41.poccpe.cableone.net / 24.116.155.41
Subject: Excelsior!

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"Globalization and the permeability of borders to the flow of people, goods, and information are all combining to erode state sovereignty. The state�s power is shifting in three directions: outward to nonstate actors, downward to subnational and local levels of government, and upward, to a certain degree, to regional and international institutions and legal regimes. The information technology revolution will allow widely dispersed but globally connected groups to communicate more freely, facilitating new transnational networks built around shared values and interests of all kinds. Nonstate actors will pose a much greater threat to the US homeland than ever before. Aided by technology, terrorist groups, criminal organizations, and narcotraffickers are expanding their operations and sometimes forming "alliances" of convenience.

We are particularly concerned with the emergence of a new breed of terrorist has emerged that is skilled in conventional explosives, interested in weapons of mass destruction, and able to maintain international networks. Even small groups are using laptop computers, establishing Websites, becoming increasingly mobile, and using sophisticated encryption."

It doesn't help when government leaders connive at the diffusion of control of the globalization process. The people have very little say as it is, and current policy indicates that they will have even less to say as quickly as it can be arranged.

I was absolutely astounded at the rise of gated communities a few decades ago, but that development was a mere shadow of what the future holds; if the present course is held to, the "haves" will wall themselves off in fortresses which enable them to avoid all contact with the hoi polloi, and jet from pleasure spot to pleasure spot never seeing the common herd.

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Re: Excelsior! -- Southern Gent, 22:08:20 03/06/02 Wed
Re: Excelsior! -- Normal, 09:46:49 03/07/02 Thu