(This article first appeared in Multinational Monitor in 1992 and also appears in Chapter 12: Zootown: The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries. The article remains timely though Burlington Northern has gotten yet more powerful, swallowing up Sante Fe RR to become BNSF – the largest railroad corporation in the US)
Burlington Northern (BN) gave pink slips to 190 out of 250 workers at its locomotive repair shop in Havre, Montana. Eight percent of the locomotive repair workers at BN’s Glendive, Montana shop were also given notice. Similar job cuts occurred at BN facilities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Illinois and Washington – saving the company about $9 million a year. The cuts were made in the wake of General Electric’s production of new high-technology locomotives that are able to traverse the entire High Line between Chicago and Seattle without any en route servicing. Read the rest of this entry »







When I crossed the border from Botswana into Zimbabwe in 2009 I had travelled to 50 countries. This odyssey is chronicled in my book
The global elite have, over the centuries, refined the techniques they employ to assure continued dominion over the resources of the planet. In the early days they simply crucified certain rebellious citizens, whilst sprinkling in the occasional peasant massacre to ensure a climate of fear and to thwart any challenge to their hegemony.
Last column I asserted that the global Money Power controls people nowadays through psychological warfare. Put simply, they lie to people. As long as enough “sheeple” believe the lie, they can then be counted on to police the thoughts of any dissenters. This is a much easier control mechanism than the open violence that had marked the Money Power’s rule from the Dark Ages up until quite recently.

