Globalization

The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one world government combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control.... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent. - Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976.

The economic approach seems today more important than ever, there should be a shift from prophecy to philosophy, from Church to Global Organization, from God to Multinational as the veil of mysticism comes off and power is slowly transfer with every treaty and every agreement to surrogate organizations that by definition are not accountable to anyone, operating under a separate set of rules in the name of human rights and free trade.

It is in this environment that they are trying to achieve the New World Order, a continuation of dynamics set in motion over a hundred years ago. Globalization is the materialization of the temperament or speed of the metaphysical currency, a more basic or ignorant generalization connecting to a larger demand and generating pressure on the world and its resources. The magnifying glass empirical abstraction that consumes energy and reduces the spaces, replacing cooperation with one single prerogative and all kinds of cultural exchanges with financial proceeds, setting the countries in direct competition with each other for the bottom line.

In 1989 after The Tiananmen Square incidents the United States broke relations with China and enter into a twelve yearlong protracted period of economic and political pressures. The U.S. imposed a number of sanctions and called for reforms in mainland China citing “human rights” violations. After the attacks of September the 11th on the World Trade Center where many Chinese citizens died the relationship between the United States and China changed drastically reducing significantly the traditional anti-Americanism, and the Chinese Government offered public support for the war on terrorism, voted in favor of Unite Nations SCR 1373 and the campaign in Afghanistan, and contributed $150 million of bilateral assistance to Afghan reconstruction. The U.S. and China also commenced a counterterrorism dialogue, holding the third round of the talks in Beijing on February 2003. 

By 2006 The China-U.S. Strategic Economic Dialogue was initiated by President George W. Bush and President Hu Jintao to establish a “framework” to discuss topics related to economic relations between both countries. Leaders of both countries would meet twice a year at locations alternating between China and the US. A total of five meetings were held between 2006 and 2008. The First meeting to place on December 14th of 2006 in Beijing and second on May 22th of 2007 in Washington, DC. The Strategic Economic Dialogue was eventually expanded to give the U.S. State Department a bigger role by the Presidency of Barack Obama. The creation of the S & ED was announced on April of 2009 in London at the G-20 summit. The upgraded mechanism replaced the former Senior Dialogue and Strategic Economic Dialogue started under the George W. Bush administration.

But these were only the last events in the ongoing process and long pursued strategy of “carrot and stick”, triple doses of economic pressures, human rights manipulations and dual morality diplomacy executed in the tradition of very old strong arms tactics to pressure China into position. In 1969, the United States initiated measures to relax trade restrictions and other impediments to bilateral contact, to which China responded.

 

On April 6, 1971 the young American ping pong player Glenn Cowan missed his U.S. team bus and was waved by a Chinese table tennis player onto the bus of the Chinese team. Subsequently at the 31st World Table Tennis Championship in Japan, Cowan spoke with the Chinese players in a friendly fashion once again, the Chinese player a three-time World Men’s Singles Champion, presented him with a silk-screen portrait of the famous Huangshan Mountains. According to sources of information from China, the friendly contact between Zhuang Zedong and Glenn Cowan as well as the photograph of the two players in Dacankao had an impact on Mao, who had earlier decided not to invite the U.S. team along with teams of other western countries, and the American ping pong team was invited to tour mainland China.

In July 1971 Henry Kissinger, while on a trip to Pakistan, faked an illness and did not appear in public for a day. In fact, he was actually on a secret mission to Beijing to open relations with the government of China. On July 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon revealed the mission to the world and announced that he had been invited to visit China and he had accepted. In May of 1973, the United States Liaison Office was established in Beijing and a counterpart Chinese office in Washington, DC. George H. W. Bush and Leonard Woodcock served as chiefs of the United States Liaison Office with the personal rank of Ambassador.

In 1975 President Gerald Ford visited China and reaffirmed the U.S.’s interest in normalizing relations with Beijing.  Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and senior staff member of the National Security Council Michel Oksenberg encouraged Carter to seek full diplomatic and trade relations with China. Brzezinkski and Oksenberg subsequently traveled to Beijing to work with Leonard Woodcock, then head of the liaison office, to lay the groundwork to do so.

The United States and the People’s Republic of China announced on December 15, 1978 that the two governments would establish diplomatic relations. In the Shanghai Communiqué the United States transferred diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing and reiterated acknowledgment of the Chinese position that there is only one China. Beijing on his part acknowledged that the American people would continue to carry on commercial, cultural and other unofficial contacts with the people of Taiwan. On March 1, 1979 the United States and the People’s Republic of China formally established embassies in Beijing and Washington, DC, outstanding private claims were resolved and a bilateral trade agreement was concluded.

The Unite States retained independent relations with Taiwan which would become very significant. The Taiwan Relations Act produced the changes in U.S. domestic law to permit such “unofficial relations”. In June 1981 then Secretary of State Alexander Haig visited China in an effort to resolve Chinese questions about America’s irregular relationship with Taiwan. Eight months of negotiations produced the U.S.-PRC joint communiqué of August 17, 1982 in which the U.S. stated its intention to gradually reduce the level of arms sales to Taiwan.

Following the Chinese authorities’ suppression of demonstrators in June 1989, the U.S. and other governments enacted a number of measures to express their condemnation of the China’s violation of human rights. The U.S. suspended high-level official exchanges with China and weapons exports from the U.S. to China and imposed economic sanctions.

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency suspended new activities in mainland China from June 1989 until January 2001, when President Bill Clinton lifted this suspension. Overseas Private Insurance Corporation also suspended new activities starting June 1989.

Development Bank Lending/International Monetary Fund Credits - the United States does not support development bank lending and will not support IMF credits to the PRC except for projects that address basic human needs.

Munitions List Exports - subject to certain exceptions, no licenses may be issued for the export of any defense article on the U.S. Munitions List. This restriction may be waived upon a presidential national interest determination.

Arms Imports - import of defense articles from China was banned after the imposition of the ban on arms exports to China. The import ban was subsequently waived by the Administration and re-imposed on May 26, 1994. It covers all items on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’ Munitions Import List.

In 1996, China conducted military exercises in the Taiwan Strait triggering the Third Taiwan Straits Crisis. The United States dispatched two aircraft carrier battle groups to the region in spite of the Shanghai Communiqué. Subsequently, tensions relaxed and relations between the U.S. and Taiwan improved, with increased high-level exchanges and progress on numerous bilateral issues, including human rights, nonproliferation, and trade.

In June 1998 President Clinton visited China. He traveled extensively and had direct interaction with the Chinese people including live speeches and a radio show, allowing the President to convey first hand a sense of American ideals and “values”.

In May 1999 NATO’s bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade severely straining relations temporarily; the “accident” was accredited to an intelligence error. On January 2001, right before leaving office, President Clinton reestablished relations with China, after twelve years of sanctions and harassment.

In April 2001, a Chinese J-8 fighter jet collided with a U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft flying south of China, in what became known as the Hainan Island incident. The EP-3 was able to make an emergency landing on China’s Hainan Island despite extensive damage; the Chinese aircraft crashed with the loss of its pilot, Wang Wei. It was widely believed that the EP-3 recon aircraft was conducting a spying mission on the Chinese Armed Forces before the collision.

Coinciding with these pressures two lines of dependency were extended between the two countries, the relocation of manufacturing industries to China and the transfer of most of American’s external debt, along with the additional loans at an exponentially higher cost. Completely unreasonable but serving as a shock absorbent for the load about to be dropped on the world, making it temporally viable only to continue streamlining the supply lines and generating higher demands. Holding America’s debt also provides China with a false sense of security inhibiting the will to discuss matters that might affect the “supply lines”. China who has basically been coerced into buying insurance, becomes the new beacon of hope, and goes to the moon as the United States grounds its shuttle program, and we see a past and a future, blame ourselves and continue to believe.

   The Strategic & Economic Dialogue

At the Strategic Track under the framework of the Second Round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue the two sides discussed major bilateral, regional and global issues energy security, climate change, United Nations peacekeeping, counterterrorism and law enforcement. The Dialogue produced 26 specific outcomes; the word nuclear is repeated 8 times, energy 16 times of which 5 in the context of security or intellectual property restrictions and radioactive threats. Human rights are mentioned 3 times and The United Nations 4 times, 37 references that set the tone of the conversation. There is no direct reference to trade or economy related issues other than the extending of funds to corporations, no mention of poverty, training or education, taxes or safety nets, actually the word economy does not come up in the economic dialoged. The only agencies involved are Department of State, Health and Homeland Security, no mention of The Department of Commerce either.

Taking advantages of the need cooperation especially in the face of adversity the good will is harnessed to advance the second front in the offensive triggered by 911. A similar strategy of misinformation was used to manipulate public opinion and invade Iraq; we even came out with a new celebrated product, “shock and owe”, and a new low in the competition for dehumanization. In addition to the conflict of interest created by the codependency and the huge debt, these issues cannot be dealt with due to the abnormal nature of an economic system that is not subject to the political scrutiny and social structures. The negotiations take place in a different forum where the conditions of trade and the details are worked out, including the realignment that needed to take place in the U. S and China; the agenda moves on out of the public eye. In addition, other measures were taken to preempt concerns about the treaty and reinforce the false sense of security on a global scale.

# 4 Signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China Concerning Bilateral Cooperation on Supply Chain Security and Facilitation.

# 5. Renewed the Memorandum of Understanding for the Collaborative Program on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases between the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States of America and the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China.

# 6. Welcome the progress made on implementing the U.S. China Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Cooperation on Climate Change, Energy and Environment and the Ten Year Framework on Energy and Environment Cooperation, and are to enhance practical cooperation in areas such as climate change, energy, and environment.

#19 Are to cooperate to fight corruption, including bribery of public officials, through the U.S.-China Joint Liaison Group’s Anticorruption Working Group, the APEC Anticorruption Task Force and other multilateral.

The United Nations and “human rights concerns” set the general tone of the conversations and dictate the agenda; controlling the world’s energy decisions and climate related issues, protect the strategic goals and insure we remain committed to fossil fuels. Finding fresh grounds is an existential condition of the systems; hidden in the performance adjustment will be the pressures on Chinas political system. The political structures are reduced to the role of watch dogs in charge of peripheral activities, developing law enforcement protocols and legal matters, protection of the means of exchange, the supply lines and other “vital interests”.  China’s government cut sales taxes on smaller, fuel-efficient cars and spent $730 million on subsidies for buyers of larger cars, pickup trucks and minivans. Stimulus spending on building highways and other public works also helped to boost sales of trucks, which was not expected to exceed the US market until 2020 but the speed with which the recession affected consumers in the States combined with incentives from the Beijing government accelerated the trend. For the first time more cars were sold in China than in the United States. 

The threat of an arms conflict is also used to generate pressure and coerce “cooperation” under specific conditions.  On January 2010, the US proposed a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan. China threatened to impose sanctions on US companies supplying arms to Taiwan and suspend cooperation on certain regional and international issues. On February 19, 2010 President Obama also met with the Dalai Lama, whom China has accused of “fomenting unrest in Tibet”. After the meeting, China summoned the U.S. ambassador to China.

This is clearly an unadulterated continuation of the American project, and an example of the true nature of the expansionist nature of the system once again. These deals are taking place behind closed doors as usual, society gets lip service on the important matters and phrases such as fuel-efficient and economic prosperity calm the anxiety amidst the efforts to increase the car population in the billions, serving too as an anesthetic loan. In terms of investing in the future it is the worst possible alternative, beyond the immediate activity generated by these maneuvers it will leave China with a negative return. The huge dependency on oil, interest rates, cars’ short lifespan, maintenance and infrastructure requirements, as well as utter inefficiency as a form of transportation will gradually offset the initial gains and the well-placed funds, and will start absorbing much of the productivity. Those connections will be tied to a constantly rising cost of living caused by the empiric negation and low coefficient capitalization, forcing China into a similar “rat race” and perpetual expansion and environment pollution patterns just to keep up.

Previously optimistic estimations of peak oil production had forecasted the global decline to begin by 2020. At 2006 consumption levels the world oil supplies would have been down to zero by 2056. A study published in the journal Energy Policy predicted demand would’ve surpassed supply by 2015 and that major investments in alternatives would have to occur before a crisis. Amazingly, so far The United Nations approach has been creating a fund that will start off in the year 2020. The United States has some of the highest relative poverty rates among industrialized countries. The top 10% possess 90% of the wealth, Americans constitute 5% of the world’s population but consume 24% of the energy; as much oil as the United Kingdom, Iran, France, Mexico, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Brazil, Russia and India together, hardly a success. There are about 800 million cars in the world compare to 400 just a decade ago, over 300 million in the United States. Oil consumption is 2.67 gallons per person a day; compare to 1.3 for Europe and .53 the rest of the world, and greenhouse emissions are 24.5 tons per capita for a total of approximately 7 trillion tons a year (no other country with over 30 million people surpasses 15 tons per person).

Asia, which accounts for over 60% of the world population with more than four billion people grew by 237.771 million between 2000 and 2005. China accounts for about one fifth of the world’ population, being conservative it would need between 70 and 80 million barrel a day, doubling today’s global demand, which at the current $120 per barrel would costs them over 8.5 billion dollars a day, over $3 trillion a year, and gas emissions would go from about 4.5 trillion tons to 33 trillion tons a year, almost the world’s total of 40 trillion.

Green House Gases Emissions per capita CO2 Equivalent.

 

Country (population over 100 million) Tons

United States……………………………...24.5 

Russia………………………………………13.2

European Union…………………………..10.5 

Brazil………………………………………...5.0 

Mexico………………………………………. 5.2 

China ………………………………………..3.9 

Qatar………………………………………. .67.9 

United Arab Emirates…………………….36.1 

Kuwait……………………………………….31.6 

Barrain………………………………………24.6

 

In 2008 the big oil companies were worried about the impact of huge profits on their images, since Americans were bearing the burden of record prices in the middle of an economic crisis. To soften the public’s perception, they launched a green public relations offensive to convince society that they were part of the energy solution, instead of the problem. But a CAP analysis of their investments reveals that the big five oil companies invested just 4 percent of their total 2008 profits in renewable and alternative energy ventures. This reality contrasts with their ads that promote greener, cleaner images. Despite being the highest earner of all the oil companies, ExxonMobil invested the least, less than 1 percent of its 2008 profits.

Recently, employees in BP’s renewable energy division in the United Kingdom were laid off with the cancellation of several clean energy projects, such as two power plants that would have captured and stored their carbon dioxide emissions in spite the $125 billion made since 2001. It is expected that global operations will be affected as well, and proposed wind farms in the United States may be delayed. Interestingly, the apparent investment caution has not prevented BP from pursuing a tar sands project in Canada, announced at the end of 2007. Oil from Canada’s tar sands is the most expensive form of crude oil to produce. The extraction and conversion of tar sands to a usable energy source can cause as much as five times the greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional crude oil, and contamination of waterways by pollution from tar sands development is suspected of causing bizarre mutations of marine organisms.

 

Globalization is displacing the axis trumping all other structures. This means is relocating the center of gravity and creating a new giant production line that will magnify the problems and redistribute consumption, an increasingly alienating concentration of resources and cascade of information. In America excess labor will grow and become increasingly evident generating more of the speculative activities and financial bubble. Reducing the capabilities and expanding the customer base which undermines the potential, causing the rush to the bottom that keeps us from the right development and defining the standard of wellness. In other words, improves the Multinational’s leverage and hinders society’s ability to respond, producing a bigger deficit and exacerbating the dependency (raising the stakes). Forty-two thousand factories closed in the United States in the last decade, one third of all the manufacturing. 

The economic entities with their financial systems supersede all political structures and continue to displace relative value to create a more unstable vortex, limiting the options and mobility further and accelerating the compensating factors, environmental degradation and the introduction of more money to the world. With this change of gear an increase in velocity can be justified while temporarily reducing the tension and the burden, generating the massive pressure on the environment as well. The question is only what’s going to give first, society as we know it, civilization or the habitat? What does the promised rapture look like? One thing we know for sure is that we cannot catch up before destroying the planet.