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I finished reading Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski. This is the same guy that wrote the other book I read called The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. The librarian got me this book cause she said it’s cool.
He starts it off with something that is nice:
For Ian [Brzezinski], Mark [Brzezinski], and Mika [Brzezinski] (1)
For my students—to help them shape tomorrow’s world (2)
I didn’t know what “technetronic” meant before I started reading the book, but he says what it means in the book. Here is what “technetronic” means:
The post-industrial society is becoming a “technetronic” society: a society that is shaped culturally, psychologically, socially, and economically by the impact of technology and electronics—particularly in the area of computers and communications. (3)
Some cool stuff he talks about is:
Charles R. DeCarlo, in “Computer Technology” (Toward the Year 2018, New York, 1968, p. 102), describes the use of “holography” to create the sensation of living presence—as well as the actuality of conversations—by long-range laser beams from a satellite. (4)
The librarian said that Orson Welles did H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds on the radio. People thought that aliens were attacking when it was just a joke. It only frightened some people though.
So you could use the satellites to make it look like aliens are attacking to freak out a lot of people, and you don’t tell them it’s just a joke so it’ll be kind of funny.
Some other cool stuff:
Knowledge becomes a tool of power and the effective mobilization of talent an important way to acquire power. (5)
. . . the government has sponsored the transfer of many technological innovations from defense to private industry. (6)
As Earth Emperor you want to be far ahead of everyone else in technology. So you get the best talent, cause that is important for having power, and they’ll search for stuff that hasn’t been done before. You let government, businesses and schools have the lower quality talent cause they’ll just research what your high quality talent already searched for.
And you can tell people that what they are getting is the latest technology, but you had it a long time ago. You could have something and when it’s old, and you don’t want it anymore but you want the public to have it, you could then put it in science fiction so all the geeks would really want it. Then a couple years after that you make it expensive when you first bring it out so that only the rich and famous people can afford it, which makes the non-geeks want it. Then a few years after that you drop the price so everyone who can afford it can get it.
Many people will believe that your old stuff is “cutting edge” cause Karl Marx and Brzezinski says:
Writing almost a century ago, [Karl] Marx observed that . . .”. . . The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spread inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.” When to the press and telegraph is added the contemporary global role of radio and television, and to religion are added contemporary ideologies, Marx’s observations become even more pertinent. (7)
I looked up what “bourgeois cattle” meant and it means a lot of people.
Bourgeois:
n., pl.bourgeois 1. A person belonging to the middle class. 2. A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. 3. In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist. (8)
Cattle:
Humans, especially when viewed contemptuously or as a mob. (9)
This book is from 1970. A second printing with a copyright of 1970. I forgot to say that earlier.
This book talks a lot about the Internet:
. . . the United States has been most active in the promotion of a global communications system by means of satellites, and it is pioneering the development of a world-wide information grid. It is expected that such a grid will come into being by about 1975. For the first time in history the cumulative knowledge of mankind will be made accessible on a global scale—and it will be almost instantaneously available in response to demand. (10)
It talks about weather:
. . . techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm, thereby weakening a nation’s capacity and forcing it to accept the demands of the competitor” (Gordon J. F. MacDonald, “Space,” in Toward the Years 2018, p. 34). (11)
So like in the other book I read, The First Global Revolution, where they talk about making up man-made global warming, you could use these weather modification techniques to make weird weather out of nowhere and say, “That’s man-made global warming.” and people will believe it’s man-made global warming. So that’s cool.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. . . . The real enemy, then, is humanity itself. (12)
And then Brzezinski talks about:
. . . man has always sought to crystallize some organizing principle that would, by creating order out of chaos, relate him to the universe and help define his place in it. (13)
Being Earth Emperor means being Earth Emperor in the Universe. So creating order out of chaos is part of it, and you can do it with what Brzezinski talks about here:
Julian Huxley was perhaps guilty of only slight exaggeration when he warned that “overcrowding in animals leads to distorted neurotic and downright pathological behavior. We can be sure that the same is true in principle of people. City life today is definitely leading to mass mental disease, to growing vandalism and possible eruptions of mass violence.” (14)
G. N. Carstairs, in “Why is Man Aggressive?” (Impact of Science on Society, April-June 1968, p. 90), argues that population growth, crowding, and social oppression all contribute to irrational and intensified aggression. Experiments on rats seem to bear this out; observation of human behavior in large cities seems to warrant a similar conclusion. . . . (15)
So you can create chaos in large cities by just making taxes higher for the places outside the large cities. Increasing smaller city taxes will force the people from the smaller cities into the large cities, cause it’ll be too expensive to live in the smaller cities.
You can also increase immigration, cause immigrants aren’t going to go to a small city, cause they probably won’t find a job. They’ll go to the large cities where they have a better chance at finding a job.
So increasing taxes for rural areas and having more immigration will help create chaos, and you can create order out of that chaos.
Brzezinski talks about human control:
Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.” (16)
Then he talks about how hard it is to make judgments on stuff when you are around violence:
A society’s capacity for making such judgments [, discriminating between the necessity for order and the imperative of change,] is bound to be undermined by the degree to which it becomes psychologically inured to living with violence and to accepting violence as a means for solving its problems. (17)
. . . contemporary America is psychologically permeated by violence. (18)
Something else Brzezinski talks about:
Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. (19)
I guess Zbigniew Brzezinski likes Marxism:
. . . Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision. (20)
I was going to say other stuff in the video, but I was very hungry. So here is the other stuff I was going to say:
A certain measure of crime is accepted as unavoidable; for the sake of order, therefore, organized crime is generally preferred to anarchic violence, thus indirectly and informally becoming an extension of order. (21)
The projected world information grid, for which Japan, Western Europe, and the United States are most suited, could create the basis for a common educational program, for the adoption of common academic standards, for the organized pooling of information, and for a more rational division of labor in research and development. Computers at M.I.T. have already been regularly “conversing” with Latin American universities, and there is no technical obstacle to permanent information linkage between, for example, the universities of New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Mexico City, and Milan. Such scientific-informational linkage would be easier to set up than joint educational programs and would encourage an international educational system by providing an additional stimulus to an international division of academic labor, uniform academic standards, and a cross-national pooling of academic resources. (22)
Given developments in modern communications, it is only a matter of time before students at Columbia University and, say, the University of Teheran will be watching the same lecturer simultaneously. (23)
It is ironic to recall that in 1878 Friedrich Engels, commenting on the Franco-Prussian War, proclaimed that “weapons used have reached such a stage of perfection that further progress which would have any revolutionizing influence is no longer possible.” Not only have new weapons been developed but some of the basic concepts of geography and strategy have been fundamentally altered; space and weather control have replaced Suez or Gibraltar as key elements of strategy. (24)
In addition to improved rocketry, multi-missiles, and more powerful and more accurate bombs, future developments may well include automated or manned space warships, deep-sea installations, chemical and biological weapons, death rays, and still other forms of warfare–even the weather may be tampered with. (25)
In addition, it may be possible—and tempting—to exploit for strategic-political purposes the fruits of research on the brain and on human behavior. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a geophysicist specializing in problems of warfare, has written that accurately timed, artificially excited electronic strokes “could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth. . . . In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period. . . . No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades. (26)
Historical judgments aside, it is noteworthy that modern man is still educated in terms that promote aggressive feelings. In the West, films and television emphasize violence, and the teaching of history stresses wars, victories, defeats, and conflict between “good” and “bad” nations. These aggressive instincts are also expressed by children’s games as well as by adult forms of entertainment. In communist countries ideology similarly stimulates aggressive feelings and hostility toward “evil” forces, thus continuing the more fundamental dichotomies introduced by the religious tradition. (27)
The traditionally democratic American society could, because of its fascination with technical efficiency, become an extremely controlled society, and its humane and individualistic qualities would thereby be lost. (Such a society is the subject of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Player Piano.) (28)
Daniel Kemp
Footnotes:
1. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (New York : Viking Press, c1970), v
2. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York : BasicBooks, c1997), v
3. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (New York : Viking Press, c1970), 9
4. Ibid., 15
5. Ibid., 12
6. Ibid., 262
7. Ibid., 76
8. “bourgeois.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. 2006.
9. “cattle.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. 2006.
10. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (New York : Viking Press, c1970), 32
11. Ibid., 57
12. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), 115
13. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages : America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (New York : Viking Press, c1970), 65
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I just finished reading The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
What I got out of reading this book is that as an Earth Emperor you got to treat the world as a chess game on a chessboard. He calls this book The Grand Chessboard, but it’s mainly about Eurasia.
Some people recommended I check this Brzezinski dude out. I asked the librarian and she said that this guy is good. There were a few books by this dude at the library. I picked this book cause the book cover looked nice. It’s like a blue and green color.
I don’t really like playing chess. I’ve never really played it. I like playing Rock Band more.
So this book is like a passing down of knowledge to his students, cause at the beginning of the book Brzezinski says:
For my students–to help them shape tomorrow’s world (1)
That is cool. I wish my textbooks in high school said stuff like this.
So this is about Eurasia. Like he says:
Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power. (2)
. . . it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book.
Zbigniew Brzezinski Washington, D.C.
April 1997 (3)
So this book is copyright 1997 and a first edition.
Eurasia, I looked it up in my dictionary, is a big land mass of Europe and Asia.
The land mass comprising the continents of Europe and Asia. (4)
He talks about Eurasia:
For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia. (5)
. . . how America “manages” Eurasia is critical. Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent . . . About 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about 60 percent of the world’s GNP and about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources . . . (6)
Then he goes talking about the resources there:
Click the Map to See it Bigger (7)
. . . [The Eurasian Balkans] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold. (8)
. . . the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea. (9)
Then he talks about oil there:
Once pipelines to the area have been developed, Turkmenistan’s truly vast natural gas reserves augur a prosperous future for the country’s people. (10)
For Pakistan, the primary interest is to gain geostrategic depth through political influence in Afghanistan–and to deny to Iran the exercise of such influence in Afghanistan and Tajikistan–and to benefit eventually from any pipeline construction linking Central Asia with the Arabian Sea. (11)
Turkmenistan, for much the same reason, has been actively exploring the construction of a new pipeline through Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea, in addition to the energetic construction of new rail links with Kazakstan and Uzbekistan to the north and with Iran and Afghanistan to the south. (12)
Then it talks about how you stay in Eurasia:
. . . the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America’s status as a global power. (13)
. . . focusing on the key players and properly assessing the terrain has to be the point of departure for the formulation of American geostrategy for the long-term management of America’s Eurasian geopolitical interests.
Two basic steps are thus required:
- first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them . . .
- second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above . . . (14)
. . . it is in America’s interest to consolidate and perpetuate the prevailing geopolitical pluralism on the map of Eurasia. That puts a premium on maneuver and manipulation in order to prevent the emergence of a hostile coalition that could eventually seek to challenge America’s primacy. (15)
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitrating role. (16)
So that’s about enough of that.
Some other cool stuff is that he talks about China:
China’s growing economic presence in the region and its political stake in the area’s independence are also congruent with America’s interests. (17)
Other stuff . . . I don’t know when the European Union was formed, it could have been in 1955, but he talks about the European Union here:
Sir Roy Denman, a former British senior official in the European Commission, recalls in his memoirs that as early as the 1955 conference in Messina, which previewed the formation of a European Union . . . (18)
I have never heard of Breton Woods, but he talks about it:
. . . one must consider as part of the American system the global web of specialized organizations, especially the “international” financial institutions. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank can be said to represent “global” interests, and their constituency may be construed as the world. In reality, however, they are heavily American dominated and their origins are traceable to American initiative, particularly the Breton Woods Conference of 1944. (19)
Something cool that got me thinking was where he says:
Rome’s imperial power, however, was also derived from an important psychological reality. Civis Romanus sum–”I am a Roman citizen”–was the highest possible self-definition, a source of pride, and an aspiration for many. Eventually granted even to those not of Roman birth, the exalted status of the Roman citizen was an expression of cultural superiority that justified the imperial power’s sense of mission. It not only legitimated Rome’s rule, but it also inclined those subject to it to desire assimilation and inclusion in the imperial structure. (20)
So I was thinking, rather than just having Roman Citizenship, you could have World Citizenship. You could give World Citizenship to celebrities, like how fashion works where you get celebrities to wear clothing like Von Dutch and Ed Hardy and Affliction and then you get all these regular people wearing it thinking that they’re cool, then you would have regular people wanting to be World Citizens.
There is also where he talks about using fear to get power:
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America’s engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. (21)
Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. (22)
. . . the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. (23)
So I was thinking. It reminded me of a show I watched where cowboys would get wild horses so that they could profit off of them. They would go out into the wild, find wild horses, scare the wild horses, the cowboy would have a pawn horse that would lead the wild horses into a fenced cage trap and then the cowboy would profit off those wild horses.
That’s it.
Daniel Kemp
Footnotes:
1. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York : BasicBooks, c1997), v
2. Ibid., xiii
3. Ibid., xiv
4. “Eurasia.” The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. 2006.
5. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York : BasicBooks, c1997), 30
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This is about a book I just read called Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 by John Bryden, and it was written in 1989.
This book is about Canada’s secret war from 1937 to 1947, but it also kind of extrapolates (I think that’s the right word) up to 1989 a bit.
When I was talking to the librarian about not liking bees, cause I don’t like bees and I thought it would be a good idea to reduce bees, she got me this book to read to learn how to reduce the bees.
And this books talks about what Canada was up to like on:
Canada did not have the bomb, but it was a world leader in bacteriological warfare and very knowledgeable in chemical warfare. (1)
They [, Emlyn Llewelyn Davies and Otto Maass,] had built in Canada an impressive chemical and biological warfare establishment, and for the foreseeable future it was there to stay. (2)
And then the author goes into later on, like during his time when he was writing the book:
. . . the genetic research now being undertaken even in private labs poses dangers far greater than all the deadly organisms developed in the Second World War combined. Mutants similar to the AIDS virus can now be deliberately, or accidentally, created. (3)
When I was reading the book I learned about this dude Sir Frederick Banting.
(4)
It talks about this Banting guy in the book:
Nobel laureate, saver of hundreds of thousands of lives through the discovery of insulin, [Sir Frederick] Banting had written what turns out to be the blueprint for bacteriological warfare research for the next two decades. Even within four years, before the war was over, his ideas for infected bullets and shells, the rearing of disease-carrying insects and the aerial spraying of deadly bacteria became weapons of reality. (5)
His co-discoverer of insulin friend Charles Best also went into biological warfare:
Even Charles Best, Banting’s co-discoverer of insulin, became an adviser to the Defence Research on biological warfare after the war. (6)
I got the idea of doing spraying of the bees to reduce their population, like how it talks in The First Global Revolution about reducing the population, from Banting and his aerial spraying idea.
Population control, necessary as it is, must be planned in terms of human well-being. It is of paramount importance that all countries striving for development should design their population policies. These policies have to be based on detailed exploration of the demographic growth prospects in relation to resource availability and development aims, including the standard of living which each country hopes to achieve. Only through informed assessment of such prospects can development planning be realistic. If the public is to respond to population control needs, it must be given sufficient information to understand the dangers of overpopulation for the individual and the benefits that would flow from population growth restraint. Such conditions are necessary if population planning is to be implemented with humanity. (7)
[James] Craigie, [Richard] Hare, [Dudley] Irwin, [Colin] Lucas and [Philip] Greey all offered suggestions on how to dry and revive infectious bacteria, and what should serves as a carrier. Sawdust took the lead over powdered carbon, starch or sand, and within the week [Sir Frederick] Banting was back in Ottawa asking for an airplane for an experiment in aerial dispersal. (8)
Banting sounds kind of like a nut from reading some of his diary in this Deadly Allies book:
. . . [Sir Frederick] Banting scribbled in his diary about killing “3 or 4 million young huns — without mercy — without feeling” and watching the Germans “wriggle & stew in their own juice — even as they with cruel and evil eye would see us of inferior heritage and stock wriggle.” (9)
The idea of spraying bees can happen, cause it gives an example of being able to do aerial spraying in the 1940’s:
If retaliation was ordered, explained Dr. [Tom] King, the plan was to infect the peat and then fly the bomber in a series of hops — Vancouver, Hawaii — to Japan. There it would disperse its deadly cargo. Five years after Banting’s original sawdust experiment on Balsam Lake in Ontario’s cottage country, the weapon he had only imagined had become reality. (10)
So during World War II spraying weird stuff from planes was a reality.
It talks about other examples of spraying like on pages 95 and 96:
[William] Hagan spoke for the animal disease specialists and they put the cattle disease, rinderpest, at the top of the list followed by the sheep sickness, Rift Valley fever. The latter virus dried well and was very infectious to man. It might be spread by releasing infected mice and other small animals, it was suggested, and be confused in man with influenza or dengue fever. It was not deadly but it could be sprayed over a city and might incapacitate the population, or an army, for up to two weeks. (11)
So for the spraying of the bees I was thinking that you can’t just get rid of every bee, cause then you wont have them to pollinate stuff like apples. I don’t like apples, but I’ll just use an apple as an example.
Say you just have one apple to grow. You only need one bee to pollinate that one apple. All the other bees are just wasted space. So you got to use some of the modern sprays to reduce the population of bees to get rid of that wasted space.
. . . the genetic research now being undertaken even in private labs poses dangers far greater than all the deadly organisms developed in the Second World War combined. Mutants similar to the AIDS virus can now be deliberately, or accidentally, created. (12)
You can gets planes to spray stuff to eliminate the immune system of one type of bee so then they’re gone. Then carefully spray another spray to slowly knock off the other bees with something like cancer.
You don’t want to just dump all the spray on the bees cause then you might get rid of all the bees, which will cause problems for you and you don’t want that as Earth Emperor. So keep giving the bees cancer until you just got one bee to pollinate that one apple.
People might complain about it, but I don’t think it’ll happen, cause in The First Global Revolution it says that people get their thoughts from the media. So as long as the media doesn’t say anything about the aerial spraying going on then you’re pretty good.
. . . the media are one of the main agents in forming public opinion and the thinking of individuals. (13)
And in the Deadly Allies book it talks about that people in Canada don’t care. That’s why most Canadian people don’t know about Canada doing the bacterial warfare stuff. So if people don’t know about labs making AIDS then I don’t think they know about the aerial spraying going on above their own heads.
Perhaps the majority of Canadians do not really care. Surely the real disappointment is the fact that the situation has enabled Suffield to keep its secrets all these years. (14)
If people do start looking into the aerial spraying then you just have Freedom of Information Acts around the world, like Canada’s, where people have the right to request documents, but they don’t have the right to actually get the documents.
Unfortunately, Canada’s Freedom of Information Act defeats this principle. Under the avowed aim of giving citizens rights of access to government documents, both current and historic, it gives only the right to request documents, a right which people have always had. It does not give them the right to get them. It even systemizes secrecy. It allows government departments legally to withhold information indefinitely — forever — for specific defined reasons that cannot be challenged because the person seeking the document cannot see its contents and has no way of determining whether the withhold decision is appropriate or not.
. . .
One of the most effective ways of keeping historians from probing awkward corners of the past is to do what has been done in Canada, the United States and Britain: give the national archives of the country responsibility for looking after records that have not been declassified. Since the archives staff has first consult the department concerned before anything can be released, an extra layer of decision-making is automatically imposed on the retrieval of sensitive material. Add to that chronic understaffing and lack of expertise by access staff, and government agencies such as Canada’s Department of National Defence can prolong secrecy without having to take responsibility for it. The same situation exists in the United States. (15)
If people start asking questions about the aerial spraying then you can just lie to them. John Bryden gives a good example on how to lie to people:
Perhaps the most insidious principle of secrecy that operates in all three countries [, Canada, the United States and Britain,] is the requirement that documents received in confidence from other governments not be released without prior approval. With countries as closely allied as Canada, the United States and Britain, that means that the paperwork pertaining to any weapon exchange, or mutual research or defence planning, can remain forever secret if one party or the other forbids release. Theoretically, and perhaps with some probability, that enables the United States to store prohibited weapons in Canada, at Suffield, and then claim with some truth that it has no such weapons stockpiled. Canada, in turn, can also claim it doesn’t have the weapons because the United States owns them. Nixon set out to destroy all biological warfare weapons in 1972. Did that include whatever the United States might have had at Suffield?
. . .
Perhaps Canada has adopted Britain’s logic for claiming, as it still does today, that it has never had any biological weapons or toxins. Britain never had the anthrax because it was made in Canada; Canada never had the anthrax because it was made for Britain. The same probably applies to all that botulinus toxin; perhaps it has never officially existed in Canada because it belonged to someone else. The only way to eliminate this kind of nonsense among nations is by saving all documents, and having a policy of timely disclosure. (16)
If people start complaining about the aerial spraying then you can lie to them by saying that the spray coming out the back of the planes is normal. Or you can say it’s just to help stop man-made global warming, which was just made up by the people in the last book I read called The First Global Revolution.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. . . . The real enemy, then, is humanity itself. (17)
That’s it.
Daniel Kemp
Footnotes:
1. John Bryden, Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 (Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1989), 239
2. Ibid., 246
3. Ibid., 265
4. Ibid., First picture in the picture section
5. Ibid., 36
6. Ibid., 259
7. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), 167
8. John Bryden, Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 (Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1989), 47
9. Ibid., 50
10. Ibid., 219-220
11. Ibid., 95-96
12. Ibid., 265
13. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), 226
14. John Bryden, Deadly Allies : Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 (Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1989), 257
15. Ibid., 258
16. Ibid., 262-263
17. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), 115
I just read The First Global Revolution by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider.
On the back of the book it talks about The Club of Rome:
Alexander King, one of Britain’s most respected scientists, is a founding member of the Club of Rome, which includes among its one hundred members many public figures, business and industrial leaders, scientists, and heads of state. Bertrand Schneider, the Club’s secretary-general, is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. (1)
Near the front of the book it says that the book is A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome.
I guess The Club of Rome is pretty big cause they have royalty going to their meetings:
“No generation has ever liked its prophets, least of all those who point out the consequences of bad judgment and lack of foresight.
The Club of Rome can take pride in the fact that it has been unpopular for the last twenty years. I hope it will continue for many years to come to spell out the unpalatable facts and to unsettle the conscience of the smug and the apathetic.”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Message to the Twentieth Anniversary
Conference of The Club of Rome
Paris 1988 (2)
So from that Prince Philip quote I guess The Club of Rome started in 1968 (1988 - 20 = 1968).
They even got a quote by that Toynbee guy who influenced Milner and Rhodes and the Round Table Groups like was talked about in the Carroll Quigley books; Tragedy And Hope and The Anglo-American Establishment.
“The cult of sovereignty has become mankind’s major religion. Its God demands human sacrifice.”
Arnold Toynbee (3)
Toynbee can also be regarded as the founder of the method used by the Group later, especially in the Round Table Groups and in the Royal Institute of International Affairs. As described by Benjamin Jowett, Master of Billiol, in his preface to the 1884 edition of Toynbee’s Lectures on the Industrial Revolution, this method was as follows: “He would gather his friends around him; they would form an organization; they would work on quietly for a time, some at Oxford, some in London; they would prepare themselves in different parts of the subject until they were ready to strike in public.” In a prefatory note to this same edition, Toynbee’s widow wrote: “The whole has been revised by the friend who shared by husband’s entire intellectual life, Mr. Alfred Milner, without whose help the volume would have been far more imperfect than it is, but whose friendship was too close and tender to allow now of a word of thanks.” (4)
They say a couple members of The Club of Rome in the book like Maurice Strong and Wangari Maathai. So they have people in the UN and people doing grass-roots stuff.
On the initiative of Maurice Strong1 and the Club of Rome, a meeting was held in 1989 in Denver with some forty Colorado decision makers . . .
[Footnote on the page on the above stuff for Maurice Strong] 1Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, member of the Club of Rome. (5)
In Kenya a woman, Wangari Maathai — founder and President of the grass-roots Green Belt Movement and member of The Club of Rome . . . (6)
They have some cool quotes in the book:
“Ah love! Could thou and I with fate conspire,
to grasp this sorry scheme of things entire,
would not we shatter it to bits and then,
remould it nearer to the heart’s desire.”
Omar Khayyam (7)
“We must no longer wait for tomorrow; it has to be invented.”
Gaston Berger (8)
So its like you just think of the world you want to bring in, smash the current world to bits, and then rebuild the world to the way you want it to be.
Other cool stuff in the book is when they talk about three trading groups:
Neither can we ignore geostrategic change. We are currently witnessing the emergence of three gigantic trading and industrial economic groupings. The North American market in which Canada has now joined the United States and which Mexico is expected to join, will inevitably continue to be an industrial and postindustrial group of great power. Its immediate future, however, is clouded by the immense deficit which, amazingly, the United States has allowed to accumulate in recent years.
The development of the European Community, despite the years of hesitation, is now acquiring substance as its members see tangible economic and political advantages in co-operation and devise new mechanisms for it. As 1993 approaches, with its completion of economic integration, the Community has begun discussion of political unity. This has become especially urgent with the reunification of East and West Germany. A Community embracing the whole of Western Europe and later joined by its Eastern neighbours — whose transformed economies should make this possible — would constitute a second bloc of great strength. Despite present confusion, it is not impossible that the European republics of the Soviet Union will eventually follow the same road, thus constructing Europe “from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains,” as was expressed by Charles de Gaulle in 1960.2
[Footnote on the page for the above stuff] 2In a television interview during his visit to Paris in 1989, Michael Gorbachev quoted this same statement by de Gaulle when referring to Europe.
The third bloc consists of Japan and the ASEAN [, Association of South-East Asian Nations,] countries, including for example Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia, which are growing rapidly. Later, perhaps Australia and New Zealand, which have strong trading links with the other Pacific countries, may find themselves in this grouping. Even at this early stage of development, the existence of these three blocs signifies an utterly different world pattern of trade and industry. (9)
They also mention “Big Brother”, like that show on television, but I think this is something different.
It is not possible at this stage to foresee the consequences of these innovations with any clarity, but some trends are already visible. In the information society interdependence between individuals and between countries will increase through the immediate visibility of information. it will lead to a greater complexity of institutions and societies. It could enable a high degree of power and decision making, but it could equally well serve the will of unscrupulous leaders to consolidate centralized power. There will be the means for the electronic control of everyone’s activities by “Big Brother” dictators and societies, far more effective than myriads of secret police. (10)
They talk about population control. If I was Earth Emperor I would reduce the population of bees and those lady bugs that bite, cause I don’t like those.
Population control, necessary as it is, must be planned in terms of human well-being. It is of paramount importance that all countries striving for development should design their population policies. These policies have to be based on detailed exploration of the demographic growth prospects in relation to resource availability and development aims, including the standard of living which each country hopes to achieve. Only through informed assessment of such prospects can development planning be realistic. If the public is to respond to population control needs, it must be given sufficient information to understand the dangers of overpopulation for the individual and the benefits that would flow from population growth restraint. Such conditions are necessary if population planning is to be implemented with humanity. (11)
They talk about the media:
. . . the media are one of the main agents in forming public opinion and the thinking of individuals. (12)
They talk about Elite thinking and popular thinking. To be Earth Emperor you got to have thinking at a high point, like bringing in a single world government, where the popular thinking is just about stuff like politics.
Elites everywhere reconcile easily despite the surface controversy. The general public is not involved, only manipulated, in debates of this type. The gulf between elite thinking and thinking at a popular level is enormous. Here is where we find distortions and tensions difficult or even impossible to resolve. (13)
They talk about in the book how politics is a joke:
It is simply not good enough that access to leadership be achieved through good television performances and simplistic speeches aimed at manipulating the masses into enthusiastic support with empty promises and avoidance of realities. (14)
What got me thinking in this book was where they talk about the need of having an enemy to bring the world together:
It would seem that men and women need a common motivation, namely a common adversary to organize and act together; in the vacuum such motivations seem to have ceased to exist — or have yet to be found.
The need for enemies seem to be a common historical factor. States have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by designating external enemies. The scapegoat practice is as old as mankind itself. When things become too difficult at home, divert attention by adventure abroad. Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose. With the disappearance of the traditional enemy, the temptation is to designate as scapegoat religious or ethnic minorities whose differences are disturbing. (15)
So one thing I was thinking that you could do as Earth Emperor that would bring the world together is to have aliens attack the earth. Like U.F.O.s are just Unidentified Flying Objects. So you could build these weird airplanes that look like weird alien space ships, then genetically modify humans to look all messed up by putting animals into them, then send them out with their airplane space ships and have the media say that aliens are attacking the world.
Then I thought that that was hard work. A couple pages later they gave me another idea to bring the world together:
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. . . . The real enemy, then, is humanity itself. (16)
They talk about using CO2 as a way to blame humans for causing global warming:
The fundamental need is to reduce carbon dioxide emission . . . (17)
I don’t think people will believe that they are causing global warming, cause I learned in school that there have been a bunch of ice ages. So that would mean that there would have to be global warming between those ice ages, cause if there wasn’t then it would just be one ice age and we would still be in an ice age. So global warming is just a natural thing. So you would have to take that information out of school in order to be able to trick people to believe that they are causing the global warming.
So I was thinking that if you blame global warming on carbon, and that humanity is causing it, then it is a good idea, cause in the Carroll Quigley book one guy says that you have to tax everybody in order to have a single government.
He [, Lionel Curtis.] pointed out it [, the League of Nations,] could be a world government only if it represented peoples and not states, and if it had the power to tax those peoples. It should simply be an interstate conference of the world. (18)
So it would be cool to blame people, cause of carbon, for causing global warming, cause one thing everyone has in common is carbon dioxide.
And you can get people to believe that it’s carbon dioxide that’s causing global warming by doing that thing that Carroll Quigley talks about in his book where you get a bunch of people that the public think are separate (i.e. journalists, T.V. people, etc.), but they are all connected together, and you have them all saying the same thing; that people are causing global warming.
The greater part of its [, The Times,] influence arose from its position as one of several branches of a single group, the Milner Group. By the interaction of these various branches on one another, under the pretense that each branch was an autonomous power, the influence of each branch was an autonomous power, the influence of each branch was increased through a process of mutual reinforcement. The unanimity among the various branches was believed by the outside world to be the result of the influence of a single Truth, while really it was the result of the existence of a single group. Thus a statesman (a member of the Group) announces a policy. About the same time, the Royal Institute of International Affairs publishes a study on the subject, and an Oxford don, a Fellow of All Souls (and a member of the Group) also publishes a volume on the subject (probably through a publishing house, like G. Bell and Sons or Faber and Faber, allied to the Group). The statesman’s policy is subjected to critical analysis and final approval in a “leader” in The Times, while the two books are reviewed (in a single review) in The Times Literary Supplement. Both the “leader” and the review are anonymous but are written by the members of the Group. And finally, at about the same time, an anonymous article in The Round Table strongly advocates the same policy. The cumulative effect of such tactics as this, even if each tactical move influences only a small number of important people, is bound to be great. If necessary, the strategy can be carried further, by arranging for the secretary to the Rhodes Trustees to go to America for a series of “informal discussions” with former Rhodes Scholars, while a prominent retired statesman (possibly a former Viceroy of India) is persuaded to say a few words at the unveiling of a plaque in All Souls or New College in honor of some deceased Warden. By a curious coincidence, both the “informal discussions” in America and the unveiling speech at Oxford touch on the same topical subject. (19)
So that was what I was thinking. So carbon tax would be a good thing for being Earth Emperor cause then that would be the world tax for everybody.
That’s about it.
Daniel Kemp
Footnotes:
1. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), Back Cover
2. Ibid., xv
3. Ibid., 16
4. Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment : from Rhodes to Cliveden (New York, N.Y. : Books in Focus, 1981), 10
5. Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider, The first global revolution : a report / by the Council of the Club of Rome (New York : Pantheon Books, c1991), 249
6. Ibid., 253
7. Ibid., v
8. Ibid., 133
9. Ibid., 11-12
10. Ibid., 66
11. Ibid., 167
12. Ibid., 226
13. Ibid., 244
14. Ibid., 204-205
15. Ibid., 107-108
16. Ibid., 115
17. Ibid., 52
18. Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment : from Rhodes to Cliveden (New York, N.Y. : Books in Focus, 1981), 252
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