*THEY* also control who gets taxed and who doesn't. From: "knarftheriault
I agree with your analysis of this, Christine. It's all about economics, wealth, money and who controls it. G8, G20, the World Bank, IMF, they control how public money (ie: tax dollars) are spent. These organizations are incredibly powerful yet (in the case of the World Bank and IMF) not elected or in any way democratic. They are not answerable to "the people". That's scary. They tell elected governments what to do. That, too, is scary. Since so much of the public purse is spent on the military, NATO is a big piece of the puzzle. I'm sure that it's fair to say that many if not most of the protesters at these conferences worldwide would prefer to see at least some public funds diverted from the military to social and other programmes. Of course another big reason for these protests is that the world is watching; they have a huge platform from which to publicize their causes and the media is only too happy to oblige. Cheers, frank
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