Don't waste your time testifying. Remember, it's the "military-industrial-congressional-media" complex.

I've been finding the whole concept of 4th generation warfare - between the global elite and the rest of us suckers - particularly explanatory of late. Warfare extends in depth throughout all of society. Think Lebanon.

There is no end to which the global corpos will not go, said a relatively conservative member of Maine's Fair Trade Commission recently.

"We" just are not doing a good enough job competing, that's how the corpos would frame it. And if we are not matching the Yergins appropriately, well, it sucks to be us. We lose.

Lifeboats - the global corpos will smash them. Unless we build community defenses and use the states (at least here in US) to protect the communities. But testifying doesn't cut it, because you leave the decision making in the hands of those who profit by smashing your lifeboat. Via the Commerce Clause in US Constitution, WTO or GATS. And we need to get much more creative about taking the offense - best defense is a good offense. You might want to debate Yergin on the facts, but he is only one of the many points of attack on the cultural front. There's economicfare, legalfare and real warfare. And borders don't matter, because it's not state vs state, but class vs class. Oh, now I'm depressed.

cfm