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Who has the Key? Workers are Handcuffed in Flat World of Globalism

To people of Philadelphia and all men and women of good will, tell the world Brotherly Love can replace the new barbarianism of our times.

Thomas Friedman, elitist writer for the New York Times and a point man for the Globalist Free Traders with his book The World is Flat, is challenged by Ray Tapajna, editor and artist from Tapart News and Art that Talks by those who did the walk before they talk. See Exploring the lost worlds in the Flat World of Thomas Friedman Fables at
http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and its annex site
Flip the Flat World of Friedman over and see what is underneath at
http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld/
It is not pretty. Underneath, there is an underclass, the unemployed, the underemployed, the underground economy, the undernourished, the underprivileged with no voice in the process of Free Trade and the underworld in many ways. And note the parasites who feed off the working poor in this country and the impoverished workers abroad.

Friedman uses periods in history which he calls flatteners which supposedly paved the way to Globalization and Free Trade. He confuses cause and effect and uses statistics to compare with the past that do not match up with the past. For example, people would laugh and then call their Congressman in the 1970s if a person making only a $100 a month were recorded as employed in the employment rate. They would also respond radically to the fact that only about 38% of all workers qualify for unemployment insurance in our times.

For real flatteners that caused the problems of Free Trade and Globalization see http://tapsearch.com/flatworld.
For the Real World and news from the streets of USA see the main site for Tapart News and Art that Talks these issues at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews/
Please pass on this site to the world. ( They are even passing it on in Asia). Help restore the American Dream for all in the world.
After World War 2, the Marshall Plan helped restore local value added economies in Europe and Asia in just a few years. It was based on the awesome industrial might of the USA that won the war. Now local value added economies have been chopped up into pieces and sent across the globe. This has caused total imbalances at home and a new kind of colonialism that is being challenged abroad in many ways including terrorism and wars.

Friedman and the Free Traders ignore the main fact. Workers have no voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade and many are outside looking in at the party with others missing in action from any kind of reporting as the "unnetted" - "if you are not part of any network, you do not exist". ( See http://unnetted.truefresco.net )

View the Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror artwork below by Ray Tapajna ( or at http://cross9-11.filetap.com ) - asking who will now untangle the terror Globalzation and Free Trade have bred. Pass on Tapart News and make your political leaders mouth the words NAFTA and GATT as the unfair tools of raw Capitalism which has even merged with Communism State run economies. Don't let them cover the situation with platitudes that mean nothing - make them mouth the terms of betrayal. Let your voice be heard.

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