Across the U.K. animal-rights vandals pulled such stunts as jamming NatWest's cash machines with superglue.

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Another example: the Coalition to Protect Americans Now, which is funded by conservative Superglue heiress Helen Krieble.

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It stirs the pot, creates revenue and not so gently guides the willing to superglue themselves to the television, radio or computer screen.

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Globalised production lines, globalised labour markets, commodity markets, culture - all this acts like social superglue preventing any politician from even contemplating an overt protectionist or state-capitalist response.

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