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"The ideology of globalization, like
all "inevitable" utopian visions,
is being exposed as a fraud.
The
power elite, perplexed and confused, clings to the disastrous principles of
globalization and its outdated language to mask the looming political and
economic vacuum.
The absurd idea the marketplace alone should determine
economic and political constructs led industrial nations to sacrifice other
areas of critical importance – from
working conditions, to
taxation, to
child labor,
to hunger, to
health and
pollution – on the altar
of free trade.
A handful of
corporate oligarchs around the globe have everything - wealth, power and
privilege - and the rest of us struggle as part of a vast underclass,
increasingly impoverished and ruthlessly repressed.
There is one set of
laws and regulations for us; there is another set of laws and regulations for
a power elite that functions as a global
mafia."
Christopher Lynn Hedges
"American
economic hegemony has generated enormous hostility to an
American dominated process of
globalization, frequently on the part of close democratic allies who
thought America was seeking to impose its antistatist social model on them."-
Francis Fukuyama
1921 British and American elite
academics get together with major international banking interests to form two
"sister institutes" called the Royal Institute of International Affairs
(RIIA) in London, now known as Chatham House, and the Council on Foreign
Relations in the US.
Subsequently related
think tanks are amalgamated
in Canada, such as the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, now
known as the Canadian International Council (CIC), and other affiliated
think tanks in
South Africa,
India,
Australia, and more recently in the
European Union with the formation of the European Council on Foreign
Relations.
Following World War I, these powers sought to reshape
the world order.
Woodrow
Wilson proclaimed a right to "national
self-determination" which shaped the formation of nation-states throughout
the Middle East, which had been dominated by the
Ottoman Empire.
Proclaiming a
right to "self-determination"
for people everywhere became a means of constructing nation-state power
structures to exert hegemony
over.
To control people, one must
construct institutions of control.
Iraq,
Saudi Arabia,
Jordan,
Lebanon,
Syria,
Kuwait did not exist prior to World
War I.
Following
World War II, America became
the global hegemon, whose imperial impetus was
provided by the strategic concept
of "containment" in containing the spread of communism.
American
imperial adventures in Korea,
the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America became defined by
the desire to "roll back" the influence of
the Soviet Union and communism.
Council on Foreign
Relations originated the idea of "containment" as a central feature of
foreign policy.
Following World
War II, America took upon
itself the responsibility for overseeing and managing the international
monetary system and global political economy through the creation of
institutions and agreements such as the World
Bank, International Monetary
Fund, NATO, the
UN, and
GATT.
One central power
institution that was significant in establishing consensus among Western elites
and providing a forum for expanding global
western hegemony was the Bilderberg Group,
founded in 1954.
1972
Zbigniew Kazimierz
Brzezinski and David Rockefeller,
first present the idea of a "New World Order"
built upon idea of global governance under the direction of
transnational
elites at the annual Bilderberg
Group meeting.
David
Rockefeller is Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of
Chase Manhattan
Bank.
1973 Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski and
David Rockefeller forge the
Trilateral Commission, a sister
institute to the Bilderberg Group, with cross-over membership, to bring
Japan into the western sphere of
economic and political integration.
1975 The Trilateral Commission published a Task Force
Report labeled, "The Crisis of Democracy, of which one of the
principal authors was Samuel
Phillips Huntington, a close associate of Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski.
Samuel Phillips Huntington,
analyzing this "democratic surge," showed that throughout the 1960s and into
the early 1970s there was a dramatic increase in the percentage of people who
felt military spending was too high.
From 18% in 1960 to 52% in 1969,
largely due to the Vietnam
War.
People were becoming
politically aware of empire and exploitation.
Samuel Phillips Huntington
concluded that many problems of governance in the US stem from an "excess of
democracy," and that, "the effective operation of a democratic political system
usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part
of some individuals and groups."
Huntington explained that society has
always had "marginal groups" which do not participate in politics, and while
acknowledging that the existence of "marginality on the part of some groups is
inherently undemocratic," it has also "enabled democracy to function
effectively."
Huntington
identified "Blacks" as one such group that had become politically active,
posing a "danger of overloading the political system with demands."
"Following the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, American ideologues "politicians and academics" began
discussing the idea of the emergence of a "New World Order"
with power centralized in the US.
This laid the basis for an expansion
of elitist ideology pertaining to the notion of "globalization": that power and
power structures should be globalized.
The "New World Order" was to be
a global order of global governance.
The US was to be the central and
primary actor in constructing a new world
order and global government." - Andrew Gavin Marshall
"Persisting
social crisis, the emergence of a
charismatic personality, and the
exploitation of corporate
media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the
transformation of the
US into a controlled society.
Such a society would be
dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly
superior scientific know-how.
Unhindered by
the restraints of traditional liberal
values, this elite would not
hesitate to achieve its political ends
by using the latest modern
techniques for influencing the public consciousness and
keeping society under close
surveillance and control.
Under such
circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would
not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation.
The traditionally democratic American
society could, because of
its fascination with technical efficiency, become
an extremely controlled
society, and its humane and
individualistic qualities would thereby be lost." -
Zbigniew
Kazimierz Brzezinski
"The Technological Revolution has
allowed elites to redirect and control society in ways never before imagined,
ultimately culminating in a global scientific dictatorship, as many have warned
of since the early decades of the 20th century.
The potential for controlling the masses has never been so
great, as science unleashes the power of genetics, biometrics,
surveillance, and
new forms of modern eugenics;
implemented by a scientific
elite equipped with systems
of psycho-social control ." - Andrew Gavin Marshall
2005 Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski writes
an essay for The American Interest labeled, "The Dilemma of the Last
Sovereign," in which he explains the geopolitical landscape that America
and the world find themselves in: "For
most states, sovereignty now verges on being a legal fiction."
2009
Zbigniew
Kazimierz Brzezinski publishes an article based on a speech he delivered to
the London-based Chatham House in their academic journal,
International Affairs.
Chatham House, formerly the
Royal Institute of International Relations, is the British counterpart
to the US-based Council on
Foreign Relations.
His article, "Major foreign policy challenges for
the next US President" aptly analyzes the major geopolitical challenges for
the Obama administration in leading
the global corporate state at this critical juncture.
Zbigniew
Kazimierz Brzezinski refers to the "global political awakening" as "a truly
transformative event on the global scene:"
"For the first time in human
history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious
and politically interactive.
There are only
a few pockets of humanity left in
the remotest corners of the world that are not politically alert and
engaged with the political turmoil.
The resulting global political
activism is generating a surge in the quest
for personal dignity, cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world
painfully scarred by memories of centuries-long alien imperial
domination.
The worldwide yearning for
human dignity is the central challenge
inherent in the phenomenon of global political awakening." - Zbigniew
Brzezinski
unregulated trade
The
founding premises of unregulated trade is that it will reduce the temptation of
participating nation states to engage in armed conflict, an
opium pipe dream of international
merchants.
There are too many emerging signs of discontent from
across the face of the Earth toward
unfettered global
corporatism
Global free trade
black magic economists
claimed developed countries could export lowbrow jobs while retaining the high
paying creative skills work.
But that is
not what happens.
Creative work is easier to
outsource than manufacturing !
To remain
competitive on an Earth in which
billions of workers are paid one dollar a day and have absolutly no benefits,
and in which corporations need not worry
about the environmental
destruction of the Earth, requires Americans to drastically lower their own
standard of living.
"People do
lose their jobs as a result of globalization,
and it's painful for those
who lose their job." - George Walker
Bush
"Unemployment makes people very unhappy." - Carol
Graham, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics,
Brookings Institute
Globalization has built
interdependent systems spread
across the face of the Earth.
From food production to
financial transfers, the
electricity grid to the
internet, critical American infrastructures are linked to one another in an
interlocking web of connections.
Interdependent networks are
vulnerable to the
unintended consequences of
interdependence.
When one "domino" falls a cascading set
of "dominos" may fall in every direction.
As an example take the
interdependent
electricity grid.
Intelligent
problem solving suggests Americans encourage
"distributed energy production" which means having lots of small generating
plants rather than a few large plants.
This is one way to reduce the
"domino" effect from creating large scale power outages.
But then the
corporate interests of the transnational elites would no longer be able to
control resources.
China is the leading
consumer of basic
commodities.
"China's steady growth in oil demand has led it to
become the world's largest net oil importer, exceeding the US in September
2013. EIA forecasts this trend to continue through 2014." - Energy Information
Administration
2005 America consumes 260 million tons of
grain while China consumes 380 million tons.
2011
China harvestes the largest grain crop of any country in history.
Chinese eat an average of
84 lb (38 kilograms) of pork in a year, while Americans average 59 lb.
Smithfield Foods shareholders approve Chinese
purchase
Coal consumption in
China grows more than 9%.
China's coal use grew by 325 million tons accounting for 87% of the 374
million ton global increase in coal use.
Of the 2.9 billion tons of
global coal demand growth since 2000,
China accounted for 2.3 billion
tons (82%).
China
accounts for 47% of global coal consumption - almost as much as the entire rest
of the world combined.
Robust coal demand growth in China is the
result of a more than 200% increase in Chinese
electric generation since 2000,
fueled primarily by coal.
China's coal demand growth averaged 9% per year from 2000 to 2010, more
than double the global growth rate of 4% and significantly higher than global
growth excluding China, which averaged only 1%.
The inevitable conclusion is there are not enough
resources !Six centuries ago Icelanders
realized that overgrazing on their grass covered
highlands was leading to extensive soil loss from the inherently thin soils of
the region.
Rather than lose the grasslands and face economic decline, farmers joined together to
determine how many sheep the highlands could sustain and then allocated quotas
among themselves, thus preserving their grasslands and avoiding a tragic loss in value of
the commons.
The
Icelanders understood the
consequences of overgrazing and reduced their sheep numbers to a level that
could be sustained.
The early
Sumerian civilization of the
fourth millennium BC was an extraordinary one, advancing far beyond any that
had existed before.
Its carefully engineered irrigation system gave rise
to a highly productive agriculture, one that enabled farmers to produce a food
surplus, supporting formation of
the first cities.
Unfortunately there was a design flaw in the of
its irrigation system.
Salt accumulated and wheat
yields decline.
As land productivity declined, so did the
civilization.
Archeologist Robert McC. Adams
has studied the site of ancient Sumer on the
central flood plain of the
Euphrates River, an empty, desolate area now outside the frontiers of
cultivation.
He describes how the "tangled dunes, long disused canal
levees, and the rubble-strewn mounds of former settlement contribute only low,
featureless relief.
Vegetation is sparse, and in many areas it is
almost wholly absent.
Here lay the core, the heartland, the oldest
urban, literate civilization on Earth."
The
New World counterpart to Sumer
is the Mayan civilization that developed in the lowlands of what is now
Guatemala.
It
flourished from AD 250 until its collapse around AD 900.
Like the
Sumerians, the Mayans had developed a sophisticated, highly productive
agriculture.
As with Sumer, the Mayan demise was apparently linked to a
failing food supply related to
hydrology and climate change.
Today this region is covered by jungle,
reclaimed by nature.
One unanswerable question about these earlier
civilizations was whether they
knew what was causing their decline.
Did the Sumerians understand that
the rising salt content in the soil from water evaporation was reducing
their wheat yields?
If they
knew, were they simply unable to muster the political support needed to lower
water tables, just as the world today is struggling unsuccessfully to lower
carbon dioxide
emissions?
Early
civilizations that moved onto
an environmentally unsustainable path did so largely in
isolation.
But the
fate of all the peoples of Earth are intertwined now as
we face global
environmental decline.
And the dysfunctional global economy has been shaped by
distorted market prices that do
not incorporate environmental costs.
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