The old saying of “the chickens come home to roost” means the consequences of poorly made decisions must now be experienced. For many years the American way has been for one generation to put their consequences off onto the next one. It hasn’t mattered if this was high taxes, faulty or dangerous products, or stupid lifestyle choices, the buy now pay later consumer mentality has permeated every aspect of our existence.
When I analyzed Copenhagen in yesterday’s blog post, the following articles had yet to appear in the British press. However, given what had already been hinted at, I already felt that America had been given yet another “play ball or else” speech by a bloc of foreign powers which included China and its allies. I need to strongly emphasize that it does not matter who the public President of the USA is right now –despite the posturing in the domestic media, the situation we face does not hinge on the D or R behind the person’s name. This situation had built up under the leadership of many presidents and their respective patrons under America’s broken two-party system.
During the many years of the public leaders of US government and business spouting that America and China were building a symbiotic economic relationship, America has been sold out on a promissory note to China and other foreign governments. Given that this note to our economy and thereby the funding of our government and consumer lifestyle is now held by foreign factions, they are now increasing their demands on America’s domestic factions for concessions on other areas across the global game board. If the demands are not met in a civil manner via acquiescence (in a public and humiliating nature recently), then painful pressure can be applied by use of proxies.
Despite US domestic articles applauding Obama on health care reform (this is used to distract and/or placate the citizens inside this country), public evidence of the political pressure applied to America by foreign powers can be seen in these two articles.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6845952/Barack-Obama-denies-accusations-that-he-crashed-secret-Chinese-climate-change-talks.html
Barack Obama denies accusations that he ‘crashed’ secret Chinese climate change talks
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They portrayed the President as pulling negotiations back from the brink of collapse on a day that veered between chaos and farce.
Aides said that by standing up to the Chinese on the make-and-break issue of transparency, he helped force a deal, however flimsy.
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The President was desperate not to return to Washington empty-handed after his risky one-day dash to Denmark.
But his aides were forced to deny that Mr Obama “crashed” a meeting of the Chinese, Indian, South African and Brazilian leaders when he walked in unexpectedly on the gathering.
The US delegation was caught unawares by the session taking place behind its back involving the Chinese and their allies. Officials acknowledged that they had been frantically trying to keep track of other presidents and premiers.
Mr Obama thought he was on his way to a one-to-one meeting with Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, who had earlier snubbed him by skipping a session of world leaders.
But just before he entered the room, he was told that the other three leaders there too. “Good,” he told aides and strode in with the words “Are you ready for me?” The Americans were particularly taken aback by the presence of Manmohan, the Indian premier, as they were told he had already headed to the airport.
“I think there was no doubt there was some surprise that we were going to join the bigger meeting,” said a top Obama aide.
It was during the 80-minute meeting with the other four that the final details were hammered out.
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A senior US official said: “The President said to staff, I don’t want to mess around with this anymore, I want to just talk with Premier Wen”.
But the Americans were told that Mr Wen had left for his hotel and Mr Singh had already headed to the airport. The day meanwhile seemed destined for deadlock Mr Obama returned to the meeting with Gordon Brown and other European leaders.
Obama aides said that he courted support from the others present for pushing ahead with a deal, even without the backing of China and possibly India, South Africa and Brazil which shared some of Beijing’s concerns.
The White House argued that it was this approach that created the leverage that persuaded the four to have “make one more run at this” “The senior official said: “I think that’s why people stowed their luggage in their overhead bins and decided to come back [from the airport] to the negotiating table.”
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By the time [Obama] woke up in a snowbound Washington, the so-called “Copenhagen Accord” that he had brokered the previous evening was already unraveling.
There was nothing “secret” about the scheduling of this meeting. However, there was a surprise in store for Obama when he discovered he was meeting with a bloc instead of a single nation. Despite the posturing prior to the meeting and the domestic spin about its success, the US came away alone with nothing and China left showing the world it now intends to take the reins as the preeminent global power.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6962879.ece
December 20, 2009
Barack Obama’s climate deal unravels at last moment
The United Nations climate change conference ended in recrimination yesterday without reaching a clear deal on emissions targets.
After a stormy session in Copenhagen, in which a vociferous anti-American minority brought the talks close to collapse, most countries agreed simply to “take note” of a watered-down agreement brokered by President Barack Obama and supported by Britain.
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The deal was denounced when put early yesterday to a plenary session of the conference after Obama and other heads of state had flown home.
Delegates from Sudan, Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia — who form an anti-American front — led the attack.
And, like I did yesterday, here’s a supposedly unconnected event from the Middle East:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation_world/story/249050.html
U.S. praises Iraq for standing up to Iran
Published Sun, Dec 20, 2009 02:00 AM
BAGHDAD — Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border.
U.S. officials applauded Iraq for standing its ground against Iran – an uneasy ally that analysts said was aiming to remind its neighbor of its economic and political pull in its takeover of the oil well Thursday. The site is located in one of the largest oil fields in Iraq and has about 1.5 billion barrels in reserves.
The standoff was a dramatic display of the occasionally tense relations between the two oil-rich nations that fought an eight-year war in the 1980s but now share common ground in Shiite-led governments.
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The oil field, parts of which both countries claim, is located about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. It was unclear how many troops were involved.
U.S. officials, already worried about Iran’s growing influence in the region, praised what they described as Baghdad’s quick but measured response to the dispute.
“It does speak to the overall view here that they are not going to be pushed around by Iran,” U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said.
And by extension does this mean that the US won’t be pushed around by China? I have great respect for the Chinese people, but the “relationship” our leaders have had over the last 20+ years has not been one of long term benefit to the average American citizen. I can only hope at this point that the leaders of some of America’s domestic factions are now seriously reevaluating this relationship. Of course, this won’t be due to the loss of US jobs and the impoverishment of Americans over this past year and in those to come, but rather the threat of losing their position of power which will spur this soul-searching. In my opinion, this may be the best American citizens can hope for at this point until the elite get some red blood injected into their families and produce better leaders.
If this change does not happen in the so-called upper ranks, then you should expect to see a symbolic public event in the next few years as America completely concedes its sovereignty and becomes a tributary state to China. In the meantime the transfer of wealth is already taking place. If the transfer doesn’t continue and the public presentation of a symbolic Bunga mas doesn’t happen, then the escalation of hostilities commences.
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