The end of white supremacy
But we should take heed of the fact that deindustrialization will mainly happen in the West and in the former Soviet Union, and that this dramatic trend will mark the end of 500 years of European domination of the world. In a very pertinent book, Pierre Lellouche wrote in 1992 that, when the USA and the Soviet Union were confronting each other, mankind was witnessing the encounter of two ideologies, the democratic and the Marxist, created by our white reigning civilization. When capitalism and democracy collapses in the West, as I predicted it will following the bankruptcy of our financial system after the disintegration of Marxism in the Soviet Union, we will very possibly be witnessing the twilight of the white race—provisionally we hope.
As is now generally recognized, the centre of world trade has moved from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In 1982, the volume of trade across the Pacific overtook that across the Atlantic. The developing countries in the Far East grew in 1993 by 7.4 per cent compared with the world’s 0.6 per cent. Nevertheless, when Wall Street crashes, triggered off perhaps by a sharp fall of shares in Tokyo, Hong Kong or Singapore, the Pacific Basin will suffer an economic deceleration. But in the long run the Far East will recover progressively, achieving world economic supremacy while the former countries of our once glorious civilization will become, in their turn, developing countries.
China will progressively dominate the Pacific Basin and beyond and, for the second time in her long history, she will have entered an era of growth in which her psychological drive and her technological evolution will rise in parallel curves. China is at the beginning of a cycle that could last a millennium, while Western Civilization stands at the end of a cycle that is already 1,000 years old.
Jean Gimpel, The End of the Future: The Waning of the High-Tech World (1995)
Asia In Focus As U.S. Expands Australia Defense Ties
November 17, 2011
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and President Obama hold a joint news conference in Australia on Wednesday. The U.S. is sending some 250 U.S. Marines to the country next year, a number that will later grow to 2,500.
November 17, 2011
President Obama traveled early Thursday to the Australian city of Darwin, a base for past U.S.-Australian military cooperation. Now it will be one of several military bases from which the U.S. operates as it seeks to reassert itself in Asia.
Some 250 U.S. Marines will arrive in northern Australia next year, a number that will later expand to about 2,500. U.S. jets and warships will also train with the Australians.
Abraham Denmark, a China specialist at the Center for Naval Analyses, sees the new focus on Asia as a natural evolution of U.S. interests.
"It has half of the world's population, three of the world's largest economies, it represents one-third of world trade, and it has several of the world's largest militaries, including some potential adversaries," Denmark says. "So it's very important for the United States to be there."
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/17/142421443/asia-in-focus-as-u-s-expands-australia-defense-ties
A Repositioning
The decision to increase military cooperation with Australia has been in the works for several years. It's part of a broader strategy calling for more diplomatic and economic cooperation with the region, a repositioning of U.S. troops based in northern Asia, and a downgrade of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Patrick Cronin, a senior Asian analyst with the Center for a New American Security, says placing military assets in Australia was also a response to concerns by U.S. allies in Asia.
"The region was watching the United States over this last decade get deeper and deeper into this so-called war on terrorism and involved in counterinsurgencies and said, 'Don't you understand that this region is changing daily?' "Cronin says.”China's military modernization is affecting everybody's calculations."
The buildup of China's modern military forces has been paid for by its economic success. Denmark, with the Center for Naval Analyses, says China has the right to invest in its military, but its neighbors — and the U.S. — have grown concerned about Chinese efforts to deny access to critical commercial waterways. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/17/142421443/asia-in-focus-as-u-s-expands-australia-defense-ties
US Bases in the Pacific Rim
Obama In Bali For East Asia Summit
by Anthony Kuhn
November 18, 2011
As President Obama meets with world leaders on the Indonesian island of Bali, the U.S. is proclaiming a strategic "pivot" towards Asia. Asian nations appear split as to whether increased American involvement in the region will lead to more stability or conflict.
University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer views the U.S.'s strategic pivot towards Asia as an ominous move in a zero-sum contest between two hegemonic powers.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: I think it's a major step forward in implementing a policy of containment. President Obama has said on this trip that the notion that we fear China is wrong. I think that's obviously not true. We fear China. And virtually all of China's neighbors in Asia fear it.
KUHN: Our greatest unspoken fear, says Mearsheimer, is that China will eventually become powerful enough to station military forces in our backyard, much as the U.S. stations troops on China's doorstep in Japan and South Korea.
MEARSHEIMER: What we prefer is for China to be pinned down in Asia, worrying about the balance of power in its neighborhood. We do not want China to be free to roam. And of course, this is the principal reason that the United States will go to great lengths to make sure that China does not dominate Asia the way we dominate the Western Hemisphere.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142494954/obama-in-bali-for-east-asia-summit
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AUSTRALIAN AMERICAN BACKSTORY
On 1 January 1901 federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation, and voting.[60] The Commonwealth of Australia was established and it became a dominion of the British Empire in 1907. The Federal Capital Territory (later renamed the Australian Capital Territory) was formed in 1911 as the location for the future federal capital of Canberra. Melbourne was the temporary seat of government from 1901 to 1927 while Canberra was constructed.[61] The Northern Territory was transferred from the control of the South Australian government to the federal parliament in 1911.[62] In 1914, Australia joined Britain in fighting World War I, with support from both the outgoing Liberal Party and the incoming Labor Party.[63] Australians took part in many of the major battles fought on the Western Front.[64] Of about 416,000 who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 152,000 were wounded.[65] Many Australians regard the defeat of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) at Gallipoli as the birth of the nation—its first major military action.[66] [67] The Kokoda Track campaign is regarded by many as an analogous nation-defining event during World War II.[68]
Britain's Statute of Westminster 1931 formally ended most of the constitutional links between Australia and the UK. Australia adopted it in 1942, [69] but it was backdated to 1939 to confirm the validity of legislation passed by the Australian Parliament during World War II.[70][71] The shock of the UK's defeat in Asia in 1942 and the threat of Japanese invasion caused Australia to turn to the United States as a new ally and protector.[72] Since 1951, Australia has been a formal military ally of the US, under the ANZUS treaty.[73] After World War II Australia encouraged immigration from Europe. Since the 1970s and following the abolition of the White Australia policy, immigration from Asia and elsewhere was also promoted.[74] As a result, Australia's demography, culture, and self-image were transformed.[75] The final constitutional ties between Australia and the UK were severed with the passing of the Australia Act 1986, ending any British role in the government of the Australian States, and closing the option of judicial appeals to the Privy Council in London.[76] In a 1999 referendum, 55 per cent of Australian voters and a majority in every Australian state rejected a proposal to become a republic with a president appointed by a two-thirds vote in both Houses of the Australian Parliament. Since the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972,[77] there has been an increasing focus in foreign policy on ties with other Pacific Rim nations, while maintaining close ties with Australia's traditional allies and trading partners.[78]
ARMAGEDDON ~ WORLD WAR I AND THE IDEOLOGY OF AUSTRALASIA
Lothrop Stoddard
The story of Australia and its relationship with China and its other Asian neighbors for this article begins in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference, where its colonial expansionism was vented.
According to historian Margaret MacMillan in Pari1919:s Six Months That Changed the World (2001), at the Paris Peace Conference Australia was not moderate on anything colonial. Its delegation was led by its prime minister, Billy Hughes, a scrawny dyspeptic who lived on tea and toast. A fighter on the Sydney docks, where he became a union organizer, and a veteran of the rough-and-tumble of Australian politics, Hughes made Australia’s policies in Paris virtually on his own. He was hot-tempered, idiosyncratic and deaf, both literally and figuratively; to arguments he did not want to hear. Among his own people, he usually listened only to Keith Murdoch, a young reporter whom he regarded as something of a son. Murdoch, who had written a report criticizing the British handling of the landings at Gallipoli, where Australian troops had been slaughtered, shared Hughes’s skepticism about British leadership. (Murdoch’s own son Rupert later carried on the family tradition of looking at the British with a critical eye.)
On certain issues, Hughes probably spoke for public opinion back home: he wanted leeway to annex the Pacific islands which Australia had captured from Germany, and nothing in the League covenant that would undermine the White Australia policy, which let white immigrants in and kept the rest out. (48)
WHITE HEGEMONY AND FINANCIAL REVERSALS
However, the true story behind Australia’s desire for its neighbor’s land is told in Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide Of Color: Against White World-Supremacy (1920). Australia is a White Settler “enclave.” According to Lothrop, these enclaves have become thoroughly white by settlement, yet they are so distant from the main body of the white world and so contiguous to colored race-areas that white tenure does not possess that security which settlement and displacement of the aborigines normally confer. Australia typifies this anomalous class of cases.
Because Australia, along with other Asian neighbor New Zealand, is what Lothrop Stoddard calls a White colonial “enclave,” it has always claimed White Privilege in the Asian Pacific area; however with the rise of the Asian Tigers and its losses in Vietnam, it lost financial status. Underlying these falls from grace is the expectations that go along with Eurocentric race ideology that Stoddard wrote about in The Rising Tide of Color.
Stoddard wrote post WWI that surveying the regions of white political control over non-white peoples that the white man will have to recognize that the practically absolute world-dominion which he exercised during the nineteenth century can no longer be maintained. Largely because of that very dominion, colored races have been drawn out of their traditional isolation and have been quickened by white ideas, while the life-conserving nature of white rule has everywhere favored colored multiplication. These factors have combined to produce a widespread ferment which has been clearly visible for the past two decades, and which is destined to grow more acute in the near future.
This ferment, he states, would have developed even if the Great War (WWI) had never occurred. However, the white world’s weakening through Armageddon (Stoddard’s favorite name for WWI, i.e. the First White Civil War) has immensely accelerated the process and has opened up the possibility of violent “short cuts” which would have mutually disastrous consequences. Especially has it evoked in bellicose and fanatical minds the vision of a “Pan-Colored” [W.E.B. Dubois headed up this movement at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919], alliance for the universal overthrow of white hegemony at a single stroke—a dream which would turn into a nightmare of race-war beside which the late struggle in Europe would seem the veriest child’s play. (228-9)
White men must get out of their heads the idea that [the] Asiatic are necessarily “inferior.” The Asiatic have by their own efforts built up admirable cultures rooted in remote antiquity and worthy of all respect. They are to-day once more displaying their innate capacity by not merely adopting, but adapting, white ideas and methods. That this profound Asiatic renaissance will eventually result in substantial elimination of white political control from Anatolia to the Philippines is as natural as it is inevitable. (229)
Stoddard declares that this does not mean a precipitate white “scuttle” from Asia. Far from it. It does mean, however a candid facing of realities and a basing of policy on realities rather than on prepossessions or prejudices. Men worth of independence will sooner or later get independence. If, then Asia deserves to be free, she will be free.
Stoddard writes that the only question is how she will attain her freedom. Shall it be an evolutionary process, in the main peaceful, based upon mutual respect, with mutual recognition of both increasing Asiatic fitness and white [Western] vested interests? Or shall it come through cataclysmic revolution? This is the dilemma which those imperialists should ponder who object to any relaxation of white political control over Asia because of the “value” of the subject regions. (230)
Stoddard writes that White (Western) control over Asia is political, and can thus be judged by the criteria of material interest undisturbed by the categorical imperative of race-duty. The need for sympathetic open-mindedness toward awakening Asia if cataclysmic disasters are to be averted becomes all the clearer when we realize that on important issues lying outside Asia, the white world must resolutely oppose Asiatic desires. We whites should be the more generous in our attitude toward Asia because imperative reasons of self-protection require us to deny to Asiatic some of their best opportunities in the outer world.
Unfortunately, the white world cannot permit this rising tide free scope. White men cannot, under peril of their very race existence, allow wholesale Asiatic immigration into white race-areas. This prohibition is already a serious blow to Asiatic aspirations.
POSITIONING OF ANGLO-SAXON AUSTRALASIA FOR THE 20TH CENTURY
Stoddard posits that with such grim warnings before their eyes, it is not strange that the lusty young Anglo-Saxon communities boardering the Pacific—Australia, New Zealand, British Columbia, and our own “coasts”—have one and all set their faces like flint against the Oriental and have emblazoned across their portals the legend: “All White.” Nothing is more striking than the instinctive and instantaneous solidarity which binds together Australians and Afrikanders, Californians and Canadians, into a “sacred union” at the mere whisper of Asiatic immigration.
Everywhere the slogan is the same. “The ‘White Australia’ idea,” cries an antipodean writer. In fact, the White Australia doctrine is based on the necessity for choosing between national existence and national suicide. “White Australia!” writes another Australian in similar vein. “Australians of all classes and political affiliations regard the policy much as Americans regard the Constitution. (281)
Stoddard declares that so the Australians, [then numbering] 5,000,000 whites in a far-off continent as large as the United States, defy clamoring Asia and swear to keep Australia a white man’s land. Says Professor Pearson: “We are guarding the last part of the world in which the higher races can increase and live freely, for the higher civilization. We are denying the yellow race nothing but what it can find in the home of its birth, or in countries like the Indian Archipelago, where the white man can never live except as an exotic. (282)
Australia has raised drastic immigration barriers conceived on the lines laid down by Sir Henry Parkes many years ago: “it is our duty to preserve the type of the British nation, and we ought not for any consideration whatever to admit any element that would detract from or in any appreciable degree lower, that admirable type of nationality. We should not encourage or admit amongst us any class of persons whatever whom we are not prepared to advance to all our franchises, to all our privileges as citizens, and all our social rights, including the right of marriage.; and share in our august and lofty work of founding a free nation. (283)
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WHYS60: Will the year 2011 become historic?
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History is dotted with years which are more than the sum of the days they are made up of: 1848, 1968, 1989. With the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street will 2011 be a year that will stand out in the long march of history?
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There were very few investors who realised the world was heading into financial turmoil.
Sarah Montague talks to one who did see it coming and made a fortune from it.
First from America's sub-prime mortgage crisis and then from betting that Greece would default.
Kyle Bass reckons, next, it will be France and Japan whose economies collapse.
But is the behaviour of speculators like him partly to blame for the mess the markets are in?
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Occupy Protests Spread Across College Campuses
by Beenish Ahmed
November 17, 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement is planning a series of strikes and protests on college campuses Thursday. The movement and its encampments are proving to be a challenge for administrators at some schools.
Occupy Demonstrators Mark Two Months Of Protests
by Margot Adler
November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
From New York to California and places in between, Occupy protesters are in the streets Thursday, exactly two months after the movement began. Police in riot gear were deployed in lower Manhattan Thursday morning as hundreds of demonstrators marched with the aim of shutting down Wall Street. http://www.npr.org/2011/11/17/142462305/occupy-demonstrators-mark-two-months-of-protests
Thousands Participate In Occupy Wall Street Protests
by Margot Adler
November 18, 2011
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the country Thursday to mark two months since the Occupy Wall Street movement began. There were mostly peaceful demonstrations in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C. and Portland. There were arrests in Los Angeles and New York, where protesters tried to shut down Wall Street.
OFF TOPIC BUT RELEVANT
As I was putting this pasthe of world events together a thought occurred to me that was sparked by Neal Stephenson’s latest cyber punk creation Reamde.
September 29, 2011 - 7:00pmIowa City Public LibraryNeal Stephenson
In a special event co-sponsored by The Iowa City Public Library, Prairie Lights brings science fiction writer Neal Stephenson to read from his new novel, Reamde. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace—not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton—once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science, science fiction and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high—and a new world—for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.
I was listening to disc 10 of the 32 disc set of the audio of Reamde when the subject of a government recruting its spies. Then I thought of the “hikers” caught by the Iranians that had been “hiking” in the warzone along its border with Iraq. Then it occurred to me that the Iranians were paid a million dollars in “bail” to get back these “innocent people.” Then it dawned on me how naïve the American public really and truly is.
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