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[aid] => mick
[title] => TRADE WINDS
[time] => 2004-12-03 04:18:11
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[bodytext] => Are these the new battle currents In a stormy sea? The trade winds blowing hot and cold Free or not so free? What is the intent, the REAL intent Behind breaking trade barriers down? Who benefits most from this Who wears the smile, who the frown? Can they sell as much to US as we to THEM? No, of course they cannot But that’s the pretence behind the scenes And the reason for the rot Western markets will begin to saturate So the planners have been thinking We need to break out and start to sell Raise up what has been sinking So how do they approach all this? Well, they must find a plausible front Something no one can disagree with A deception they can punt “It’s to bring their wealth up to us.” (lol! Oh yeah, sure!) “It’s to enable them all to join.” (Yeah right, of course…) “It’s to create jobs in foreign lands.” (Oh, how selfless!) “And then WE can mint more coin!” (Ah, honesty at last!) Can you read the dollar signs behind their eyes? The REAL motives for their action? Just look at the markets they drool to win Bringing stockholder satisfaction And then there’s Bush and the Neo Cons They need new levers to coerce New ways to twist new arms And new bribes through commerce And in the direction these trade winds blow THEY help US all the more With cheap labour and resources too To make our profits soar Look out Third World, be ready for this Corporations want you re-shaped In the gaudy image of the West And all the PR’s taped Globalization, that’s the word It’s a pretty ugly one, true But the marketing men have got the gloss So FACTS will be real few Look out! You’re in their sights! Well and truly in the frame For them it’s all win as you’re taken in The trade winds now a hurricane [comments] => 2 [counter] => 167 [topic] => 41 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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