foreign ownership of carriers

Anyone see the movie "Network".? Remember the scene at the dining hall table where Howard Beale, the network anchor, sits listening to the Chairman of the Board? Remember the "there are no foreign currencies" argument? Well, here it is again.

And here, just to refresh your memory, is the text of that scene, if only to remind you, it is the artist who warns us:

From the Movie “Network”., by Paddy Chayefsky, where Beale is the Anchorman and the Speaker is the Chairman of the Board of the Broadcast Network:

Begin Speaker:(Chairman of the Board of Broadcast Network)

"You have meddled with the primal forces
of nature, Mr Beale,
and I won’t have it. Is that clear?
You think you’ve merely stopped
a business deal. That is not the case.
The Arabs have taken billions out of this
country and now they must put it back.
It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity.
It is ecological balance.
You are an old man who thinks
in terms of nations and peoples.
There are no nations.
There are no peoples.
There are no Russians.
There are no Arabs.
There are no Third Worids.
There is no West.
There is only one holistic system
of systems.
One vast and immane,
interwoven, interacting,
multivariate, multinational
dominion of dollars.
Petrol dollars, electro dollars,
multi dollars.
Reichsmarks, rins, roubles,
pounds and shekels.
It is the international system of currency
which determines the totality
of life on this planet.
That is the natural order of things today.
That is the atomic...
and subatomic
and galactic structure of things today.
And you have meddled with
the primal forces of nature.
And you will atone.



Am I getting through to you, Mr Beale?



You get up on your little 10 -inch screen...
and howl about America and democracy.
There is no America.
There is no democracy.
There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T...
and DuPont, Dow,
Unión Carbide and Exxon.
Those are the nations of the worid today.



What do you think the Russians talk about
in their councils of state? Karl Marx?



They get out linear programming charts,
statistical decisión theories,
and compute price-cost probabilities of
their transactions and investments just like us.
We no longer live in a worid
of nations and ideologies, Mr Beale.



The worid is a college of corporations...
inexorably determined by
the immutable bylaws of business.

The worid is a business, Mr Beale.


It has been since man
crawled out of the slime.



And our children will live, Mr Beale,
to see that... perfect worid...
in which there’s no war or famine,
oppressión or brutality;
One vast and ecumenical
holding company,
for whom all men will work
to serve a common profit.
In which all men will hold
a share of stock,
all necessities provided,
all anxieties tranquillised,
all boredom amused.



And I have chosen you, Mr Beale,
to preach this evangel.


Howard Beale:
But. . .Why me?



Broadcast Chairman:
Because you’re on televisión,(the internet) dummy."


Separately.