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Historical emergence of climate change, gender equity, and anti-racism as State doctrines. (Denis G. Rancourt)
This is a lightly edited, highly abridged version of a recent paper by Denis G. Rancourt; possibly the most important piece of political reasearch of the last half-century.
During the Bretton Woods period, from 1945 to 1971, the USA experienced a growing deterioration of its preeminence as the main trade-surplus nation, and projected a difficulty in honouring the gold redeeming arrangement if confidence in the USA dollar were to falter. “On August 15, 1971, without prior warning to the leaders of the other major capitalist powers, US president Nixon announced in a Sunday evening televised address to the nation that the US was [unilaterally] removing the gold backing from the dollar.” Unlocking the dollar from gold freed the USA to print as much money as it wanted, and to disregard any trade deficit (or “debt”) that it might accumulate, as long as the dollar kept its place as the de facto world currency.
Excluding gold itself, oil became the first global commodity to acquire a constant and significant value, as long as OPEC could control its price. Fossil fuels, today, comprise 87 % of all energy used in the world. Another major global commodity that tends to be valued in “gold” prices is opioid drugs. The USA has an “existential” interest to ensure that opioid drugs are traded in USA dollars. From a world-currency-based empire perspective, the USA war in Afghanistan is not an “error”, nor is it a “failure”: “After 16 years and $1tn spent, there is no end to the fighting – but western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state.” The ultimate over-priced item in the present non-system is USA military hardware sold, like any mafia sells “protection”, to all “allies” under the USA umbrella. To buy Russian military technology is a fatal or near-fatal transgression, as Saudi Arabia recently discovered with a contract for S-400 missiles, which almost caused a regime change.
The 1991 fall of the Soviet Union spurred accelerated “globalization” that restructured Western domestic societies to a degree comparable to the magnitude of changes occurring in a war period. This fact is evident from many global parameters. The USA could not invent wars fast enough, to enforce its will and its currency: a renewed war on drugs, the Gulf War, wars to “prevent genocide”, NATO expansion, the war on terror, wars to bring “democracy” and “human rights”, war to “protect transportation routes”, and so on. An aggressive financial “globalization” ensued. Investment revenues went through the ceiling and elite salaries became stratospheric, at the same time that targeted influential professional orders (teaching and civil service) were gutted of professional independence, and the support structures of the working class were decimated, including their jobs. In contrast, lawyers and doctors were elevated to the highest corporate-service levels.
With effective industry pressure to deregulate, and given the accelerated post-Soviet Union (1991-) globalization, new markets were created that transformed the agriculture, food, and public-health realms. This occurred with GM crops, pesticide use, and vaccines. All three had surges clearly starting in the early 1990s. Regarding vaccines, the USA National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) was enacted in 1986 and its National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) became operational in 1988. The program shielded the vaccine industry from liability litigation. It is a national limited-liability publicly funded litigation-insurance program, with its own claims tribunal. Since 1988, it has received over 20 thousand claims, and paid out approximately 4 billion US dollars to over 6 thousand determined victims of vaccine injury. The corresponding average risk of determined injury is approximately 1 in 1 million vaccine doses. Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide introduced by Monsanto in 1976. The increased use of glyphosate did not start until 1993, but prior to the 1996 introduction of GM crops. Glyphosate is used in massive quantities, especially now in combination with GM crops, which are modified to be glyphosate-resistant, and which are imposed globally by the USA development-fund loan managers.
The post-9/11 war campaigns protected the US dollar from abandonment, showcased USA military strength and aggressiveness, destroyed nations seeking sovereignty from USA dominance, secured the opium trade, increased control over oil, frustrated Eurasian integration, created CIA-managed terrorist proxies from the devastation of war, and created a strong demand for USA military hardware. Oil and gas are tricky commodities to control, because Russia, Venezuela, China… have oil, gas, coal… and because the USA domestic energy sector (shale) is developing, causing a glut, lower energy prices, and less demand for the US dollar. Whereas a high price of oil helps USA shale, it also helps global opponents Venezuela, Iran and Russia. One “solution” is military or financial (“sanctions” based) destruction of all energy-producing centers that the USA does not control.
On May 6, 2002, the USA withdrew its signature from the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which established four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The empire seeks to turn our attention away from actual crimes with actual victims — whether the weapons are depleted uranium or economic sanctions or debt devastation or capital flight — and instead asks us to look up to the sky for the threat (CO2) that could end the human species, no less, unless we are sufficiently good, active, and cooperative. This, in our opinion, is the process of how the global-warming “religion” was born. Like any proper religion of an empire, it must be taxable, exploitable by a large layered array of power players, and useful in motivating massive restructuring campaigns. The alleged danger must be gigantic, involving humanity and the planet itself, in order to focus attention, and for personal investment in the religion to be rewarding.
Fears of Cold War destruction were displaced by those associated with climate change, prompting the observation at the time from cultural theorist Andrew Ross that, “apocalyptic fears about widespread droughts and melting ice caps have displaced the nuclear threat as the dominant feared meteorological disaster”. The international legal structure to monitor and control CO2 emissions was created immediately following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was an integral part of the United Nations (UN) (USA) response to the Soviet Union. Climatologists did not, in 1991, suddenly start using climate models to simulate the effects of increasing CO2, or suddenly develop more sophisticated global circulation models. On the contrary, radiative and heat-transfer atmospheric physics and global circulation models of the planet were essentially as advanced as they are today as early as the 1960s, and were being used to make essentially the same CO2-effect predictions as today. In 1967 leading theoretical climatologists Manabe and Wetherald calculated a 2 degree C increase in mean global near-surface temperature from a doubling of CO2 atmospheric concentration. No one batted an eye. The media was silent. No one got excited about a coming end of the world.
Those model calculations suffered from the same shortcomings as they do today: unknown cloud response, unknown atmospheric water-vapour response, unknown “dirty snow” albedo response, unknown surface-humidity emissivity response, etc. Curiously, climate and environmental scientists did not flock to research the coming CO2 induced possible end of the world. Suddenly, in 2000-2010, 68 % of the scientific articles on “climate” showed “global warming”; which is a surprisingly high number that would never occur from spontaneous organization of scientific truth-seeking without political influence, in our opinion. Such a high degree of polarization of scientific research, we suggest, was produced by two mechanisms: alignment of scientific public funding-agency goals with the goals of the UNFCCC, and the media and societal-status appeal of the topic. By 2008, “global warming” was of ten times more concern or interest than “nuclear winter” at its peak during the Cold War. That is phenomenal when one considers the imagery associated with a global nuclear war, the memory of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the strength of the civil societal movements to reduce the risk of nuclear war, and the history of media attention for arms reduction negotiations and protocols.
read the whole thing here..https://culturalanalysis.net/2019/0...i-racism-as-state-doctrines-denis-g-rancourt/
This is a lightly edited, highly abridged version of a recent paper by Denis G. Rancourt; possibly the most important piece of political reasearch of the last half-century.
During the Bretton Woods period, from 1945 to 1971, the USA experienced a growing deterioration of its preeminence as the main trade-surplus nation, and projected a difficulty in honouring the gold redeeming arrangement if confidence in the USA dollar were to falter. “On August 15, 1971, without prior warning to the leaders of the other major capitalist powers, US president Nixon announced in a Sunday evening televised address to the nation that the US was [unilaterally] removing the gold backing from the dollar.” Unlocking the dollar from gold freed the USA to print as much money as it wanted, and to disregard any trade deficit (or “debt”) that it might accumulate, as long as the dollar kept its place as the de facto world currency.
Excluding gold itself, oil became the first global commodity to acquire a constant and significant value, as long as OPEC could control its price. Fossil fuels, today, comprise 87 % of all energy used in the world. Another major global commodity that tends to be valued in “gold” prices is opioid drugs. The USA has an “existential” interest to ensure that opioid drugs are traded in USA dollars. From a world-currency-based empire perspective, the USA war in Afghanistan is not an “error”, nor is it a “failure”: “After 16 years and $1tn spent, there is no end to the fighting – but western intervention has resulted in Afghanistan becoming the world’s first true narco-state.” The ultimate over-priced item in the present non-system is USA military hardware sold, like any mafia sells “protection”, to all “allies” under the USA umbrella. To buy Russian military technology is a fatal or near-fatal transgression, as Saudi Arabia recently discovered with a contract for S-400 missiles, which almost caused a regime change.
The 1991 fall of the Soviet Union spurred accelerated “globalization” that restructured Western domestic societies to a degree comparable to the magnitude of changes occurring in a war period. This fact is evident from many global parameters. The USA could not invent wars fast enough, to enforce its will and its currency: a renewed war on drugs, the Gulf War, wars to “prevent genocide”, NATO expansion, the war on terror, wars to bring “democracy” and “human rights”, war to “protect transportation routes”, and so on. An aggressive financial “globalization” ensued. Investment revenues went through the ceiling and elite salaries became stratospheric, at the same time that targeted influential professional orders (teaching and civil service) were gutted of professional independence, and the support structures of the working class were decimated, including their jobs. In contrast, lawyers and doctors were elevated to the highest corporate-service levels.
With effective industry pressure to deregulate, and given the accelerated post-Soviet Union (1991-) globalization, new markets were created that transformed the agriculture, food, and public-health realms. This occurred with GM crops, pesticide use, and vaccines. All three had surges clearly starting in the early 1990s. Regarding vaccines, the USA National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) was enacted in 1986 and its National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) became operational in 1988. The program shielded the vaccine industry from liability litigation. It is a national limited-liability publicly funded litigation-insurance program, with its own claims tribunal. Since 1988, it has received over 20 thousand claims, and paid out approximately 4 billion US dollars to over 6 thousand determined victims of vaccine injury. The corresponding average risk of determined injury is approximately 1 in 1 million vaccine doses. Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide introduced by Monsanto in 1976. The increased use of glyphosate did not start until 1993, but prior to the 1996 introduction of GM crops. Glyphosate is used in massive quantities, especially now in combination with GM crops, which are modified to be glyphosate-resistant, and which are imposed globally by the USA development-fund loan managers.
The post-9/11 war campaigns protected the US dollar from abandonment, showcased USA military strength and aggressiveness, destroyed nations seeking sovereignty from USA dominance, secured the opium trade, increased control over oil, frustrated Eurasian integration, created CIA-managed terrorist proxies from the devastation of war, and created a strong demand for USA military hardware. Oil and gas are tricky commodities to control, because Russia, Venezuela, China… have oil, gas, coal… and because the USA domestic energy sector (shale) is developing, causing a glut, lower energy prices, and less demand for the US dollar. Whereas a high price of oil helps USA shale, it also helps global opponents Venezuela, Iran and Russia. One “solution” is military or financial (“sanctions” based) destruction of all energy-producing centers that the USA does not control.
On May 6, 2002, the USA withdrew its signature from the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which established four core international crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The empire seeks to turn our attention away from actual crimes with actual victims — whether the weapons are depleted uranium or economic sanctions or debt devastation or capital flight — and instead asks us to look up to the sky for the threat (CO2) that could end the human species, no less, unless we are sufficiently good, active, and cooperative. This, in our opinion, is the process of how the global-warming “religion” was born. Like any proper religion of an empire, it must be taxable, exploitable by a large layered array of power players, and useful in motivating massive restructuring campaigns. The alleged danger must be gigantic, involving humanity and the planet itself, in order to focus attention, and for personal investment in the religion to be rewarding.
Fears of Cold War destruction were displaced by those associated with climate change, prompting the observation at the time from cultural theorist Andrew Ross that, “apocalyptic fears about widespread droughts and melting ice caps have displaced the nuclear threat as the dominant feared meteorological disaster”. The international legal structure to monitor and control CO2 emissions was created immediately following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was an integral part of the United Nations (UN) (USA) response to the Soviet Union. Climatologists did not, in 1991, suddenly start using climate models to simulate the effects of increasing CO2, or suddenly develop more sophisticated global circulation models. On the contrary, radiative and heat-transfer atmospheric physics and global circulation models of the planet were essentially as advanced as they are today as early as the 1960s, and were being used to make essentially the same CO2-effect predictions as today. In 1967 leading theoretical climatologists Manabe and Wetherald calculated a 2 degree C increase in mean global near-surface temperature from a doubling of CO2 atmospheric concentration. No one batted an eye. The media was silent. No one got excited about a coming end of the world.
Those model calculations suffered from the same shortcomings as they do today: unknown cloud response, unknown atmospheric water-vapour response, unknown “dirty snow” albedo response, unknown surface-humidity emissivity response, etc. Curiously, climate and environmental scientists did not flock to research the coming CO2 induced possible end of the world. Suddenly, in 2000-2010, 68 % of the scientific articles on “climate” showed “global warming”; which is a surprisingly high number that would never occur from spontaneous organization of scientific truth-seeking without political influence, in our opinion. Such a high degree of polarization of scientific research, we suggest, was produced by two mechanisms: alignment of scientific public funding-agency goals with the goals of the UNFCCC, and the media and societal-status appeal of the topic. By 2008, “global warming” was of ten times more concern or interest than “nuclear winter” at its peak during the Cold War. That is phenomenal when one considers the imagery associated with a global nuclear war, the memory of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the strength of the civil societal movements to reduce the risk of nuclear war, and the history of media attention for arms reduction negotiations and protocols.
read the whole thing here..https://culturalanalysis.net/2019/0...i-racism-as-state-doctrines-denis-g-rancourt/
