Part 3
the overall tone of this article seems to be "why can't we all just be commies again".
A former student of Vice-Admiral Andrew K. Cebrowski, former director of the Office of Transformations in the US Department of Defense, Barnett’s work focuses on integrating Cebrowski’s concepts of Network Centred Warfare, Colonel Boyd’s OODA loop theory, and Lind’s Fourth Generation Warfare, by ‘simultaneously seeking to relate their yin-and-yang interplay to the larger economic reality of globalization’s emergence as the dominant characteristic of today’s strategic environment’.
Cool buzzwords.
He mentions OODA loops once. probably wouldn't know an OODA loop if it bit him on the arse.
OK this (me wanking on about some prat in France) started as a critique of Gearheads concern for refos but its morphed into a more Fisky thing.
Talks about Barnett but gets the 5 flows of globalisation wrong and fails to link between the facts he presents and the conclusions he draws, although to be fair that isn't unique to this article alone.
The former Pentagon general has developed the theory of the ‘Five Flows of Globalisation’ — five flows which must come about if US Zionist imperialism is to dominate the world. These involve the free flow of money, security, food, energy and people. The ‘free flows’ theory means breaking down nation-state structures, thus freeing up resources for pillage by US multinational corporations.
Are they US or multinational corporations? They can't be both ultimately its one or the other. Free flow means breaking down borders sure, but not in the sense that the Euro refo crisis is a free flow of populations. People are sposed to be free to travel in search of better or more appropriate economic opportunities, whereas primarily the people "flooding" into Europe are doing so to escape violence. if free flow of info is such a good thing why are restrictive IP clauses such a feature of FTAs and multinational TAs?
The 5 flows are sposed to be goods, services, capital, people and information. This is not what the US, Israel or any other neo colonialist nation state wants. technically those 5 flows could be described as 3 - freight/services, people and info. This sort of thing is minor but if Gearhead was serious about anything polemicing he would be more concerned with accuracy.
Quotes "population bulges" then links to the Gates of Vienna.
From 1900 to 2000 the population of the Muslim World has grown from 150 million to 1,200 million, an increase of 800 percent. He argues that large families tend to produce ‘superfluous’ sons, who, unable to find work at home, emigrate.
Gets facts wrong and out of context. from 1900 to 2000 the population of the Muslim world increased from 200 million to 1,188 million, so actually less than 600%, and thats against an increase in the world population of 4 to 500%. Ignores declines of Muslim growth rates in the largest populations of Muslim countries.
Surely this sort of sensationalism promotes Islamophobia.
The youth bulge means boom time for imperialism’s merchants of death, who are harnessing youthful anger and hatred for the fomentation of proxy wars against geopolitical enemies. Heinsohn predicted that Europe would be overwhelmed with Southern Hemisphere youths by 2015.
Well that second bit didn't happen did it.
Heinsohn notes that Europe’s immigration policy contrasts markedly with that of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In Europe, there are no requirements that immigrants possess the qualifications needed by European economies, whereas in Canada and Australia those with the highest skills are given preference. The result of these policies is that 98 percent of immigrants in Canada have higher qualifications than the native population, whereas in Europe only 10 percent have higher qualifications. At the same time, the percentage of highly qualified Europeans leaving the continent for the Anglophone world is rising steadily every year. In this sense one can understand the logic behind Anglo-Saxon imperialism of flooding Europe with uneducated immigrants, while simultaneously siphoning off the continent’s brains and skills, thus ensuring Anglo-American/Zionist global hegemony. It is the ability to take into account these complex demographic realities which constitutes the importance of Thomas P.M. Barnett’s grand strategy of US globalisation.
Immigration policies and refugee movements are different things. they may sometimes intersect but they aren't the same. People are leaving Europe for better opportunities elsewhere. Are they just going to the "anglophone world" or to China, Singapone, Indo and other places where they have the opportunity to make heaps of "cash" and see the current "cutting edge" of human culture. Australia's immigration policy is disgusting and we deter refos and asylum seekers by locking them in concentration camps. This includes children. Despite the fact that some of those chldren will certainly be sexually and physically abused in those camps while nearly all of them will self harm or attempt suicide. This is called a "deterrent to a dangerous sea voyage".
What we are witnessing here is a covert war being waged by the Anglo-Saxon Zionist elite against the German Federal Republic. The low-intensity war is using people as weapons to create conditions of social chaos in order to prevent Berlin’s inevitable rapprochement with Moscow. The migrants cannot possibly integrate in German society if the German economy does inot integrate with Eurasia, as Germany will have no viable market for its exports.
Germany's main export markets are western Europe, US and china but not necessarily in that order. Germany doesn't need a rapprochment with Moscow to market its stuff. it markets to 200 countries around the world and gets premium prices for its products. the last sentence has taken leave of logic. What does it mean?
“There are now in the West only two movements of radical protest that claim to be ‘internationalist’: the antiglobalization movement and radical Islam. For a rebel, to convert is to find a cause”
Both of these movements, that of ‘human rights’ and ‘jihad’, represent petty bourgeois objections to the global order, but as they do not have a scientific analysis of the capitalist mode of production, they cannot possibly change that order.
Woo hoo - Commies!!! plus - the yoof bulge is really just a petty boushie objection to capitalism.
How does Vandana Shiva* fit that narrative Gearhead? Oh what - she is associated with an NGO or two. Shiva actually helped prevent the use of IP and patents to further corporate neo colonialisation. And of course Muslim Youth** wanting to go to war against the west because of 50 to 100 years of western fuckery is just a petty boushy whinge.
* I'm not saying she should be free of criticism either. i still don't have a firm opinion on whether Golden Rice is a good or bad thing but am tending to come down in support of it.
** Radical islam may be co opted but that doesn't mean the motivations of young people who are angry at injustice are wrong.
He mentions Gene Sharp and the Egyptian revolution.
Remember AliceK predicting the revolution here, in the years leading up to 2011. I do. Whatever her attitude now at the time she was strident in her condemnation of Egypt under Mubarak and she repeatedly said the regime was so brutal and unreasonable that it would simply take one straw to break the camels back. When the cops killed Khaled Saeed she specifically mentioned that might be the straw.
To lay all that potential unrest at the hands of foreign powers is wrong. Foreign powers are useless without massive dissatisfaction - without people seeing that their government no longer has legitimacy. No population overthrows a government they trust.
