Our Current Brand of Globalism

What’s wrong with our modern economics?

What’s wrong is that the vision of globalism that is commonly prosecuted by our elites is wrong.

The current brand is inefficient.

It’s a thinly disguised justification for sweatshop imperialism.

It doesn’t benefit anyone except the super rich.

Why barge materials and goods from continent to continent when each continent within reason has the materials necessary to manufacture its own goods?

Why does India need anyone? They have no shortage of fisheries, farmland, and mountains to extract ores.

Why does South America need anyone? They have no shortage of fisheries, farmland, and mountains to extract ores.

The same can be said for any other continent or subcontinent.

So where is the beef?

There isn’t any continent that doesn’t have oil, or farmland, or fisheries.

Given this reality, why are we barging materials all over the world?

We are doing so because the super rich want to exploit the Third World for cheap labor.

This is the only way that they can build and maintain their mansions around the globe.

In the United States today we currently have shortages of goods on the shelves.

We are told that finished goods are piling up on the docks of California.

Why should that be?

Why should we be importing these goods to begin with.

We have plenty of resources in the United States.

We have no shortage of lumber, oil or raw materials.

Nor do we have a shortage of manpower.

If we can’t make it on one continent, then we don’t deserve to make it at all.

The same can be said for the peoples on other continents.

Our current brand of globalism is flawed.

It’s inefficient.

And what is this nonsense about needing foreign investment in order to build up the economy?

Foreign investment is another tool of imperialism.

It’s just another landlord who charges high rent.

Often what Third World countries need is expertise and education.

A better option than paying rent is for the Third World country to charge rent.

The people of Jamaica will now charge you rent for mining bauxite.

The people in the Caribbean will now charge you rent for growing and refining sugar cane.

The people in Vietnam will now charge you rent for making textiles.

You will now pay rent for using our land.

You will now pay us dearly in rent for using our labor.

You will not own anything.

You will pay a licensing agreement for the harbors, the infrastructure, the works.

You will not own one building in our country.

You will not own one piece of land.

You will not own a tractor, a ship, or a truck.

You will not own so much as a pencil.

There will be no loans from you to us.

You will possess no equity in our country.

Bye bye.

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Copyright 2022 Archer Crosley All Rights Reserved

Flawed Models

What’s wrong with our modern economics?

What’s wrong is that the vision of globalism that is commonly expressed by our elites is wrong.

The current brand is inefficient.

It’s a thinly disguised justification for sweatshop imperialism.

It doesn’t benefit anyone except the super rich.

Why barge materials from continent to continent when each continent within reason has the materials necessary to manufacture those goods?

Why does India need anyone? They have no shortage of fisheries, farmland, and mountains to extract ores.

The same can be said for any other continent or subcontinent.

So where is the beef?

There isn’t any continent that doesn’t have oil, or farmland, or fisheries.

Given this reality, why are we barging materials all over the world?

We are doing so because the super rich want to exploit the Third World for cheap labor.

This is the only way that they can maintain their mansions around the globe.

In the United States today we currently have shortages of goods on the shelves.

We were told that the finished goods are piling up on the docks of California.

Why should that be?

Why should we be importing these goods to begin with.

We have plenty of resources in the United States.

If we can’t make it on one continent, then we don’t deserve to make it at all.

Our current brand of globalism is flawed.

It’s inefficient.

And what is this nonsense about needing foreign investment in order to build up the economy?

Foreign investment is another tool of imperialism.

It’s just another landlord who charges high rent.

Often what Third World countries need is expertise and education.

A better option than paying rent is for the Third World country to charge rent.

The people of Jamaica will now charge you rent for mining bauxite.

The people in the Caribbean will now charge you rent for growing indigo.

The people in Vietnam will now charge you rent for making textiles.

You will now pay rent for using our land.

You will now pay us dearly in rent for using our labor.

You will not own anything.

You will pay a licensing agreement for the harbors, the infrastructure, the works.

You will not own one building in our country.

You will not own one piece of land.

You will not own a tractor, ship, or a truck.

You will not own so much as a pencil.

There will be no loans from you to us.

You will possess no equity in our country.

Bye bye.

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Copyright 2022 Archer Crosley All Rights Reserved

Joseph McCarthy and Perspective

Let’s put Joseph McCarthy in perspective.

Did Joe McCarthy burn down cities?

Did Joe McCarthy import drugs into the United States of America?

Did Joe McCarthy fight useless wars abroad that killed thousands of Americans and millions of Third World inhabitants.

Did Joe McCarthy outsource jobs?

Did Joe McCarthy tear down statues of Ulysses Grant and Abraham Lincoln?

No, Joe McCarthy didn’t do any of these things.

But, my friends, the CIA, the thug agency of the wealthy elite, did help accomplish these things.

So who is worse? Joe McCarthy or the CIA?

It’s important to put Joseph McCarthy in perspective.

All Joseph McCarthy did was reveal names that were compiled by other congressional committees as to who might be undermining the United States of America.

As it turns out, he was largely right.

So let’s keep that in mind as we evaluate Joseph McCarthy.

It has become all too convenient in America to decry McCarthyism, to condemn Joseph McCarthy.

It’s almost become a habit.

It’s time to stop that bad habit.

Joe McCarthy was not a bad guy.

Joseph McCarthy was a regular guy just like us who was looking after the best interest of the nation.

There were elitists in our nation who were undermining and betraying the United States of America.

In Joseph McCarthy‘s day we called those people communists.

Today we call these people globalists.

Personally, I call them corporate fascists. Calling them communists might give them the veneer that they care about people.

Joseph McCarthy was pulling back the curtain on the corporate fascists of the day.

That’s why our elites punished him.

Joseph McCarthy was revealing who they were and what they were.

It was Joseph McCarthy who revealed what was going on at Fort Monmouth, a military installation in New Jersey.

He wasn’t the first one to notice that Fort Monmouth was a beehive of espionage, but he was the first who had the guts to bring this harmful activity into public consciousness.

He probably thought Dwight Eisenhower might be interested in knowing that his beloved Army was being used in this manner.

Not only was Dwight Eisenhower not interested, Dwight Eisenhower tried to shut the whole thing down by shutting down Joseph McCarthy.

That should tell you much about Dwight Eisenhower.

Dwight Eisenhower was not our friend.

Dwight Eisenhower was an American Quisling. Dwight Eisenhower, with the CIA, helped conduct all sorts of naughtiness against the nations of the world.

Many of the problems that we face today are a result of Dwight Eisenhower’s actions.

Dwight Eisenhower was a criminal.

Dwight Eisenhower’s collaboration with the CIA set the table for the Vietnam war.

Dwight Eisenhower trashed the Geneva Accords which called for an election and reunification of South and North Vietnam in 1956.

Ike created SEATO, established a country that didn’t exist, supported a thug named Diem, labeled a national hero, Ho Chi Minh, a communist (he was a nationalist), and backed it up with a silly, unproven pseudo-theory called “The Domino Theory.”

Eisenhower did all this at the behest of the greedy businessmen who were after the enormous resources in the region.

And there were many of those: oil, gas, palm oil, rubber, latex, gold, copper.

Hah, the media hardly discusses that at all.

Instead our nation’s press, the agent of the empire, gather together to demonize Joe McCarthy.

Of course they do. They have to promote a whipping post to take your mind off the real criminals in our country.

If they do criticize Dwight Eisenhower, they refer to him as an aloof out of touch golfer.

He was nothing of the sort. Dwight Eisenhower was actively involved with the shenanigans of the CIA.

He approved every mission, and there were plenty of them.

To give him credit for exposing the potential harms of the military industrial complex when he was on his way out of office is a joke.

Here is a ticket on the clue train: Dwight Eisenhower was the military industrial complex.

He was just another puppet of the wealthy elite.

If he was so aghast at the increasing power of the military industrial complex, why didn’t he resign?

He didn’t resign because he wanted the glory, the power, and the money that goes with being President.

Ergo, he sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver.

Everything that you have heard about him from the main stream media is propaganda.

Oh, I hear you say, but Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of the armies in World War II.

Yes, he was, and that was a war that never should have existed.

To give the people who caused the war credit for winning the war is outrageous and unwarranted.

Moral leaders, which we have never had, would have prevented that war.

Moral leaders would never have crafted a Treaty of Versailles which ultimately led to the rise of fascism.

Moral leaders on Wall Street would never have financed Adolf Hitler which they did do.

Moral leaders would never have outsourced jobs to Southeast Asia and China.

Moral leaders would not have fought imperialist wars in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Joe McCarthy did none of these things.

On the other hand, American Quislings like Dwight Eisenhower did.

So let’s put Joe McCarthy in perspective.

Joe McCarthy was pulling back the curtain on the corporate fascists in our country.

What Joe McCarthy didn’t understand was how pervasive their globalist agenda was.

What Joe McCarthy didn’t understand was how these globalists had invaded and infected our elected representatives.

What Joe McCarthy didn’t know was that these communist regimes and movements were being occultly bankrolled and sustained by the American corporations who he was defending.

Today, we have what Jim McCarthy didn’t have: 60 years of experience after his time in Washington.

You see, he lived in an era in which it was inconceivable to an American that its government would be hijacked by corporate fascists whose goal was to create a nation of compliant serfs.

But that is exactly what happened.

Joe McCarthy was the first victim of political correctness.

He defied the orthodoxy.

And that is why he was demonized then and today.

It’s time for that to stop.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Copyright 2022 Archer Crosley All Rights Reserved

Dwight Eisenhower, American Quisling

No one did more damage in the modern era to the American experiment than Dwight Eisenhower.

He was and is an American Quisling.

He betrayed the values of the Founding Fathers which are rooted in a decent Christianity that respects and values other people.

Throughout the 1950s when Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles were tear-assing around the globe committing much naughtiness against sovereign nations, Dwight Eisenhower stood by and gave his tacit approval.

In 1953 we overthrew the government of Iran.

In 1954 we overthrew the government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

Throughout the 1950s Ike set the table for what would become the Vietnam war in which millions of people died.

He aggravated the government of Indonesia which was finally replaced in 1965. The man, Suharto, that our CIA installed, killed one million communists. The CIA was not ashamed.

Ike tried like hell to kill Patrice Lamumba of the Congo. Who cares about the Congo? Everybody cares about the Congo. The Congo is the most valuable piece of real estate in the world.

When Lamumba leaned (you only need to lean) toward the commies, our leaders decided to deep six him.

Many of the problems that we face today, such as our ongoing conflict with Iran, our massive immigration problems coming from Central America, can be laid at the feet of Dwight Eisenhower.

The entire debacle of Vietnam could have been avoided had Eisenhower taken an enlightened approach to their desire for independence.

Eisenhower though became another President in the long line of Presidents who kneeled before corporate power.

That Ike warned us of the military industrial complex is a joke.

Sorry, my friend, you don’t get points by fucking me over and then warning me about yourself when you’re ready to retire.

Ike was the military industrial complex and had been his entire life.

He was groomed to lead.

In the Philippines he was Douglas MacArthur‘s assistant.

In World War II he was commander of the armies.

For crying out loud, he became the President of the United States.

In short, Ike was the military industrial complex.

When Joe McCarthy reported on communists at Fort Monmouth, what was Ike’s response?

Was Ike gratified that Joe McCarthy had exposed an espionage ring at Fort Monmouth?

Not at all.

Not only did Ike not appreciate McCarthy’s efforts, he worked behind the scenes to destroy Joe McCarthy.

What Joe McCarthy was really revealing to the American people was that our government was acting contrary to the positions they would state publicly, contrary to the dreams and aspirations of the American people, and contrary to the principles of the Founding Fathers as they embodied them in the Constitution.

It’s fair to say that the American people are primarily interested in the welfare of the American people, as they should be, as any citizen of any country should be regarding their own country.

Ike betrayed the American people.

Like Truman, like George C Marshall, Ike bowed down to corporate interests.

He and his ilk were globalists.

In those days we called them communists.

Today we understand more fully that there is no real difference between communism, fascism, crony capitalism and corporate socialism. It’s all the same.

Ike placed corporate money above the welfare of the American people.

He ruthlessly prosecuted an unnecessary and fruitless Cold War that expanded the government, enlarged the military, and enriched the corporations and their leaders far beyond what any actual war could produce.

If Franklin Roosevelt was the architect of corporate tyranny, surely Dwight Eisenhower was its general contractor.

He was an American Quisling.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Copyright 2021 Archer Crosley All Rights Reserved

The Wrong Brand of Globalism

Our elites vision of globalism is wrong. Of course, their vision is intentionally wrong, but it is wrong nonetheless.

Our elites claim they are for free trade, but this claim is false.

Our elites are for free imperialism.

Free trade is when I make a product in my country, and you make a product in your country, and then we meet in the middle to exchange those products.

That is not what is going on in our economic global system today.

What the elites have given us is the following: I set up a factory in your country in order to exploit your workers while escaping the oversight of the United States government, while you import cheap products from your country so as to wipe out my competition here in industries that I do not currently control. To cement the deal, I will give you part ownership in my companies while you give me part ownership in your companies. In essence, we will run a global cartel that no one will notice. No one will notice because we will disguise ownership through a dizzying maze of holding companies and hedge funds.

Everybody’s a winner, except, for the worker.

In the elite’s brilliant global system, products are barged and shipped all over the world 15 times before they find their way to your house.

Some parts of the products are manufactured in Argentina, others in France, still others in Russia, still others in Africa. Then all of it is put together In India before it is barged to the United States.

It is done this way in order to get the maximal exploitation of worker’s wages.

That’s not what we want.

The globalism that we want is where each country makes 80% of its products in entirety within reason.

The products that a country cannot make, they can trade for.

What we want to achieve is self-sufficiency and maximum labor wages.

This is the most enlightened way.

When we do this, more people have more money to purchase more goods. They also have more power to make the decisions that they want to make.

Under the current system laborers receive the least amount of wages, have the least amount of power, and make the least decisions that they need to make.

Of course, this is what the elites want, because the elites know that if people have more power and more money, they, the elites, will be out of a job.

The only way to transform the world for the better is to defeat the current brand of globalism.

What is used to sell free trade to the people is the concept of cheap products – commonly sold at Walmart. The elites tell us that the cost of products will go up if goods are manufactured here in the United States.

This is true.

What they don’t tell you is that if products are manufactured here in America, Americans will have more money with which to purchase those products. In fact, they will have a hell of a lot more money.

Furthermore, these newly empowered Americans will be less likely to rely on the federal government for assistance.

Currently, because jobs are shipped out to China, many Americans have to rely on the federal government in one form or another.

These are the hidden costs of free trade.

When workers here have more money, and a hell of a lot more of it, there will be less necessity for the federal government.

Many of our social ills such as drug use, drug abuse, delinquency, theft, psychiatric illness, murder and divorce will evaporate.

This will necessarily decrease the need for the federal government to fix things.

This is of course precisely what our entrenched federal government does not want. The federal government does not want it because the corporations who control them do not want it.

Corporations make a fortune off the prison industry. They also make a fortune helping the political parties run their welfare plantations.

Who supplies all the office buildings necessary for running the welfare plantation?

Who builds those buildings?

Who prints up all the identity cards?

Who handles the payment processing?

Who builds and maintains the computer processing software?

Who sells the abstruse and labyrinthine quality improvement programs?

Who makes a fortune in consultancy fees?

It is Corporate America who benefits.

Corporate America benefits vastly off free imperialism.

The losers are the American people.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

Copyright 2021 Archer Crosley All Rights Reserved

Bethlehem Steel

 

What you see above you is the great Bethlehem Steel plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Or at least it was.

It can be again.

But now it sits vacant.

Just to the side of it, out of the camera’s sight, sits the Sands Casino.

That’s the story of America in the latter half of the 20th century.

Replacing meat with cotton candy was what our leaders gave us.

Replacing muscle with flab is what happened to America.

Free trade was the philosophical  bullshit that was sold to us.

With free trade and open markets everyone would prosper.

That’s what they said.

Sure.

The people who prospered were the people at the top.

They shut down the factories in America and transferred their operations to China.

Why?

Cheap labor, baby.

As one executive told me many years ago, one US worker was equal to 10 Mexican workers or 25 Chinese workers when it came to cost overhead.

Cheap labor boosts profits, and increased profits boosts stock share value.

Viola!

Do the math.

Free trade is a winner if you’re a CEO.

If you’re a worker at Bethlehem Steel, well, look at the picture above you.

Now, of course it wasn’t just free trade that did in Bethlehem Steel.

It’s a nice narrative to believe such, but Bethlehem Steel went a long way to doing itself in.

In a nutshell what also contributed to the demise of Bethlehem Steel was its own failure to adopt new technologies that were introduced into steelmaking.

One such technology was continuous casting which made steel production cheaper and more efficient.

But who ultimately is responsible for failure to adapt?

Is it the 9 to 5 worker?

Or is it the CEO?

It was failed leadership that doomed Bethlehem Steel and not just at the company level.

The blame must be shared by the leadership in Washington, who are entrusted to protect the general welfare of the people of the United States.

It’s the captain who runs the ship.

It’s the captain who goes down with the ship – except in this case.

In this case the captain made a secret deal with his lieutenants and abandoned a debilitated ship in the middle of the night when no one was looking.

He and his buddies took a sweet, shiny new yacht to safety while the passengers took a one-way trip to the bottom of the sea.

Why fix an old ship when a new one with a luxury cabin suits the captain just fine?

Maybe the captain wasn’t all that motivated to fix the old ship, do you think?

Ironically, after Bethlehem Steel closed and was sold to make way for the new casino, a problem arose.

When building the new casino, steel was difficult to find due to a global shortage of steel.

It figures.

Now the rationale for closing these plants is that they can’t compete on price.  Well, of course, they can’t compete.  Why would they be able to compete when Chinese workers get paid a few dollars a day?

Free traders argue as if the American worker is somehow inefficient or being a cheat by demanding a fair wage.  But even if we accept that flawed conclusion for the purpose of this argument, the cost of Chinese steel far exceeds the cost of manufacturing steel here in America when we add in the costs of unemployment and the social ills – increased crime and drug addiction – that functional unemployment yields.  Further factor in the absent ripple effect to the local economy that ensues when well-paid steel workers purchase goods from strong local retailers rather than multinational big box retailers who siphon money out of the local economy into their one-way piggy bank in New York, and you will see that Chinese steel is not cheap at all.

 

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Surviving the Globalists

Can Earth survive globalism? 

Let’s leave humanity out of the question. Can Earth survive globalism?

It’s doubtful.

It was the current leadership that gave us Fukushima.

Yes, I know, it was a tsunami that did in the reactor.

Agreed.

But it was the doofuses in charge who put the reactor next to the ocean in the first place.

Doesn’t everyone know not to a put a radio near a bathtub?

Not these guys.

It was the doofuses in charge who took us down the road to nuclear power.

It was the doofuses in charge who failed to prosecute alternative pathways such as liquid molten salt reactors.

Why?

Breeder reactors gave them the option of producing weapons-grade plutonium that they can use to bomb the daylights out of people.

Had enough?

It was the doofuses in charge who have failed to resolve the Sword of Damocles aka Fukushima which hangs over us still.

That’s right.  We are sitting on the edge of the precipice today holding our breath that another earthquake does not strike Fukushima.

If it does, you can say goodbye to fish in the Pacific Ocean.

Thank you doofuses in charge.

But of course it’s not just radiation that we have to worry about but plastic also.

The Pacific Ocean is quickly becoming a Sargasso Sea of plastic crap courtesy of Corporate America.

Slowly, slowly this plastic is contaminating and killing the fish in the oceans.

Its toxins are making their way to you.

And what is our leader’s response?

Nothing other than more power to the globalists who created the mess in the first place.

Huh?

You mean you create the mess,  then fail to clean it up; and you want more power?

How does that work?

Serious questions are put aside or never asked in the first place as celebrity-stooges dance and sing the song of globalism.

They hold hands, sway and sing: We are the World.

Be afraid; be very afraid.

It’s more than just radiation and plastic that we have to worry about.

There’s plenty of chemicals that are dumped into the seas also.

Europeans can’t even legally buy fish unless the toxicity content is labeled properly.

And that requirement exists because their fish is toxic.

That comes about courtesy of Corporate Europe which has been polluting oceans like the Baltic Sea for over 100 years.

Corporate Europe dispenses dioxin and other chemicals like ethoxyquin (courtesy of everybody’s buddy, Monsanto) into the Baltic Sea  which finds its way into eels which serves as fish food which is shipped out to fish farms around the world which then finds its way into fish which then finds its way into you.

Of course that’s just the indirect route.  Regular fish eat this stuff also.

Isn’t that special?

Had enough?

Keep reading.  Here and here.

I could go on all day.

Suffice it to say, that this was but one of the reasons why JFK was killed.  You see, he threatened their greedy world, and they knew it.  He threatened their world by existing, by talking about responsibility, by placing controls on corporate greed, by desiring the United States to enable other nations rather than exploit them.

Such a leader was definitely not in their plans.

So they killed him and Earth in the process.

So, no, we won’t survive globalism because these globalists are greedy, blind and stupid.

 

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Fixing Camden

Camden apparently is lost.

Chris Hedges, an author on American values, has given up on it.

No industry exists in Camden except crime and drug consumption.

The people are there, but hope is gone.

Fortunately we don’t need hope. We don’t need positive thinking either, or slogans, or “We Care” buttons.

What’s needed in Camden and many other troubled areas, like Newark and Trenton, are things for people to do.

If there is land, there’s opportunity.

Camden has land, doesn’t it?

Upon land, people can build their own factories, farms and shops for the people in Camden.

What’s needed is protection from predatory corporations who would prefer no competition.

If people are living in Camden, they must be eating; they must be wearing clothes.

If people are doing both, no reason to doubt that, then there is no reason why the people of Camden, Trenton and Newark can not do for themselves what others refuse to do.

What these people could use, instead of arming themselves, is protection from outside entities.

What they need are not enterprise zones which benefit the rich, but enterprise-free zones which benefit the people.

They needs tariffs and walls – and lots of them.

In other words, goodbye Nike shoes.

Say hello to local shoes.

When people can make and sell their own stuff, they can buy stuff and take ownership of the community.

When they have a stake in the community, they take pride in the community and help clean it up.

They are no longer renters waiting for the landlord to show up.

The poverty of Camden can be eliminated in a generation by giving people what they need as surely as they need to breathe – a chance to contribute meaningfully to their community.

The Beauty of Globalism

Why doesn’t globalism work, and why do globalists not desire a unified world?

Globalism as currently envisioned by the corporatists does not work because it is inefficient and exploitative.

An efficient economy would within reason manufacture 80% of a nation’s goods there in that country.

An efficient economy provides the maximum meaningful productivity for its citizens.

Instead globalists barge goods back and forth all over the world creating inefficiencies not to mention potential points of disruption in case of war or conflict.

Which leads us to why they do it – exploitation.

By placing manufacturing in different countries than that country in which the product will be consumed, manufacturing escapes the oversight of the consuming country.

This allows the corporation to mistreat and exploit foreign workers who are often brutalized by dictators the corporations control.

That is why CIA and MI6 exist – to help the dictator control his people.

The globalist thus steals from the citizenry in terms of a meaningful productive life.

The country that is outsourcing loses quality of life through lesser employment, higher drug use, greater criminality, higher suicide rates, lesser sense of self-worth and greater loss of time by compelling adults to waste precious time at government benefit stations.

The country that is being exploited loses quality of life through poorer pay, greater workloads, backbreaking child labor, poorer health and greater loss of time by compelling adults to work 16 hour days.

In addition to exploitation, globalism places the country that is to receive goods at the mercy of the globalists should there be a conflict which of course there will be.

There will be conflicts because conflicts are mandatory in a world run by corporations.

War makes corporations and their owners fabulously rich.

War is a perpetual motion machine of choice which the globalist has no desire to stop.

It’s too perfect a scam.

In a unified world where people respected each other as citizens to be respected, there would be no exploitation of third world countries because there wold be no third world counties to exploit. There would also be no war because people who are meaningfully employed have no motivation to go to war.

Which means, my friend, that all the talk you hear from the corporations and their media shills about a global world where people come together is bullshit.

The Irish potato famine affected one crop – the potato. There were still plenty of grains being produced and exported out of Ireland by globalists, enough grains to prevent the catastrophe that ensued. So much for a global economy. So much for holding hands and singing “We are the World.”