Sunday, December 31, 2017

Sputnik — Transnational Networks are 'Disempowering Parliaments' - 'Shadow Powers' Author

Does a country like Germany actually need a real government and a proper parliament? For global business, at least, the answer is no. Transnational structures have long taken over the tasks of parliaments and governments, telling them what they should do. Politicians, who are officially responsible, are no more than discussion partners and implementers.
This is the situation described by commentator Fritz R. Glunk in his new book, "Shadow Powers: How transnational networks determine the rules of our world" (Schattenmächte: Wie transnationale Netzwerke die Regeln unserer Welt bestimmen).
Sputnik International
Sputnik Deutschland interviews Fritz R. Glunk, author of Shadow Powers: How transnational networks determine the rules of our world

8 comments:

Matt Franko said...

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/26/investing/deutsche-bank-stock-troubles/index.html

Yo, stock in the toilet....

Noah Way said...

The US only needs a government to perpetuate the illusion that citizens have some influence.

Tom Hickey said...

The purpose of government is to provide security and order. Under liberalism, this is supposed to be according to the rule of law rather than the dictates of powerful men, where all are equal before the law and the law applies equally to each.

The question then becomes how the law is made and how it is applied.

In republics that are representative "democracies," this is a function of social and political power, and in societies dominated by economic liberalism, this is decided by ownership of property (wealth) and the social, political and economic power this conveys.

The result is not democracy as government of the people, by the people and for the people but rather oligarchic plutonomy by and for elites.

This is "bourgeois liberalism."

Matt Franko said...

"Does a country like Germany actually need a real government and a proper parliament? For global business, at least, the answer is no. "


So govt should decide how to design and build a BMW? Or a Mercedes Benz? Porche? Seimens motors and controllers?

c'mon this is absurd....



Matt Franko said...

So this new stadium in Atlanta:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Stadium


Should more appropriately be called "The Government of Germany Stadium" ??????

Tom Hickey said...

Said as transnational corporate totalitarianism looms.

Matt Franko said...

Let the firms do their material systems job and govt do their non-material systems job...

What is all of this obsession with material systems and the government???

Matt Franko said...

So is this guy saying the non-material people should properly be working in material????

they are not qualified....