Right. Below are a pair of Worldmapper cartograms for 2018 population and GDP - each country's area on the map is relative to the magnitude of these factors.
Each country, no matter how geographically large or small, no matter how big its population, no matter how great or insignificant its wealth, has one vote in the UN General Assembly, an equal chance of a rotating seat on the Security Council and a fair go at all the lucrative posts. Indeed, since its inception (the original United Nations were the allies who defeated German fascism and Japanese militarism, the permanent SC members) its Secretary-Generals have all been drawn from the smaller nations; Norway, Sweden, Burma, Austria, Peru, Egypt, Ghana, South Korea and Portugal.
Given that there are far more small, poor nations than large, rich nations how would you imagine an organisation so constituted would evolve, over time, its mission, objectives and strategy? Yep. It's not some tinfoil conspiracy theory or lizard takeover plot - the natural progression for the UN since 1947 has been towards making smaller poorer countries richer and more powerful. Unfortunately, the consequence over the past twenty years has been the economic decimation of the working and middle classes in the higher-GDP lower-population developed world.
Two factors are at play - often confused but actually quite separate. Globalization and Globalism. Globalization is a change that has come about through advances in communication technology, trade, transport, education, and aid and outreach programmes that have spread medicine, infrastructure, agrarian science, and post-Enlightenment culture across the globe. Globalism is a movement to establish government, legal systems, economic systems and corporate entities without hindrance of national borders across the globe. It is therefore Globalism that drives the agenda of the UN - in concert with other supranational bodies working to the same ends; the EU, World Bank, IMF and WTO.
Lost in the noise of Brexit, the UN endorsed the Global Migration Compact in December 2018. Several nations refused to sign up - Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, Czech Republic, Dominica, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and the USA. Our own government agreed it - on the basis that it is 'non-binding' under international law. However, as New Zealand's law officers have warned, non-binding does not mean legally irrelevant - and "courts may be willing...to refer to the Compact and to take the Compact into account as an aid in interpreting immigration legislation". This applies also to both UK courts and the ECHR and ECJ.
The migration compact is an unashamedly Globalist policy instrument - to the disadvantage of the peoples of the developed nations, but to the benefit of both Globalist corporations and organisations. In addition, it will shape future EU legislation, which will be framed so as not to contradict or act against the intentions of the Compact.
I do apologise for the uncharacteristic 'Globalism 101' tone of this post - this is for the benefit of our new readers, who have only the most basic notion of how political policy evolves into action. In the past few weeks I've realised how my old dad felt in trying patiently but unsuccessfully to teach somewhat dim young subalterns the difference between the contour lines of a spur and a gully.
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I wonder what its critics would say if the EU went flatly against UN proposals?
Not on the Migration compact it won't - as Senior Unelected Official Stylianides said on behalf of Senior Unelected Official Mogherini in November last year
"The EU took an early lead in the discussions on the Global Migration Compact and participated actively in the preparatory work.
Our delegation in New York has been working closely with Member States in order to ensure that the EU priorities were reflected in the final text. We have done so, together with the 27 Member States that have been actively negotiating and speaking with one voice.
Over the past years, the EU has built a comprehensive approach to address migration .. Our approach is based on solidarity, shared responsibility, multilateralism and engagement. And this is exactly what the UN Global Compact for Migration is about"
Aren't the two similar words inextricably linked?
To the purveyors and manufacturers of products that engender globalisation, globalism is an awfully handy assistant.
To ordinary human folk, regardless of how they benefit from globalisation, the concept of the "new world order" is surely very suspect.
Which is why I continue to extol the virtues of citizen driven direct democracy. After all, in the places where it is used effectively like Switzerland and California to name two, neither can be accused of putting a brake on technological progress.
People just like to think that they can have some influence in **"the way of things".
NB: ** A line from a nice little film called "Mr. Turner"... Turner's missus explains her world with that little homily, and it is human, it fits.
The sun is God!
One of the many nonsensical things about Brexit to my mind (and the minds of some of the deeper thinking brexiteers) is leaving the EU without first UN-xiting. I'm not even convinced a seat on the Security Council is actually a boon.
"economic decimation of the working and middle classes in the higher-GDP lower-population developed world."
Can you give examples of which countries you are talking about ? I don't see this in Britain, where the economy is in an exceptionally healthy state and employment is very high.
On your map, is that total GDP, or GDP per person ?
Don Cox
Don - see
http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-causes-of-revolution.html
http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-post-globalist-capitalist.html
Total GDP - I can't find one for per capita / PPP
rightwrite. "Citizen driven direct democracy"?
Like the EU's Citizens Initiative? The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) is a European Union mechanism aimed at increasing direct democracy by enabling "EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies", introduced with the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007. The initiative enables one million citizens of the European Union, who are nationals of at least one quarter of the member states, to call directly on the European Commission to propose a legal act in an area where the Member States have conferred powers onto the EU level. This right to request the Commission to initiate a legislative proposal puts citizens on the same footing as the EP and the Council, who enjoy this right according to Art. 225 and 241 TFEU, respectively.
It actually has teeth, unlike the UK's paltry non-binding vote twaddle.
I'd stick to those ad-hominem tweets at James O'Brien, old son.
The 'progress' of UN policies has been cleverly crafted to avoid too much public attention and surreptitiously (i.e. slowly) introduce it in the full face and knowledge of what they intend to do in a manner such that they can't be accused of disabusing anyone.
Under the articles of Agenda 21 (and the newer Agenda 30) the UN have slowly undermined democratic control and neither the media - as usual - nor our politicians have stood fast and either highlighted the potential problems UN policies would introduce or held them to account for their 'deception'.
The Migrant Compact is perhaps the first of the main UN Agenda that has seen the light of day as far as public perception is concerned. Their push for the MMGW falsehood is perhaps the most widely 'known' agenda although you rarely hear of the UN's direct promotion of this policy.
There are so many issues of public concern that have been deliberately(?) avoided as far as media attention is concerned that there should be far, far more discussion on those that seek to divert (and/or lie-by-omission) to cover for them.
I'd like to see much more emphasis placed on the (seemingly) deliberate efforts of the media to cover for the UN (and .gov) and exposure of those that make the decisions to enable this deception.
As with many of the contentious issues of the day, failing to (first) acknowledge the problem exists is the main hurdle to overcome. Secondly is convincing people that there definitely IS a deliberate deception under way and thirdly exposing those that control this deception is critical.
I have no doubt in believing that this is a rabbit warren of issues that will lead to cries of conspiracy theory and various 'anti-isms' to cloud or divert attention but without STARTING the conversation we can't make headway.
Whether or not the rise of Populism is the feedback control mechnism is debatable as such protests tend to be on single-issue topics at the moment but I'd like to think that the movement is based on even a sub-conscious recognition that it's time to take back control.
Anon - "It actually has teeth, unlike the UK's paltry non-binding vote twaddle"
BULLSHIT - show me where the EU's statement makes the 'public' proposals mandatory to discuss let alone implement. They won't even allow the MAJORITY of EU members a vote on the EU itself......
to call directly on the European Commission to propose
and
This right to request the Commission to....
Where is the word 'force', 'ensure' or 'guarantee' etc. It's no different from the pointless and "non-binding voting twaddle" (to use your own words) as we 'enjoy' in the UK.
Ah yes - the ECI
What an amazing and astonishing outcome this had so far - every single one, without exception, of the handful of initiatives that have passed their hurdles, is actually fully in line with EU aspirations in these areas! Not one calls on the EU for something it doesn't want to do anyway!
How lucky is that? Miraculous!
Of course cynics might say this proves that the whole process is just a giant PR con, that the EU is able to deflect popular anger for an inability to initiate an ECI for actions that people really want by weasel reasoning that such matters are national, not EU matters - then driving anti-citizen policy in the way candidly admitted by the Senior Unelected Officials in the quote I've given above
For the avoidance of doubt, the buggers are on record MANY TIMES for claiming credit for EU migration policy -
Senior Unelected Official Stylianides said on behalf of Senior Unelected Official Mogherini in November last year
"The EU took an early lead in the discussions on the Global Migration Compact and participated actively in the preparatory work.
Our delegation in New York has been working closely with Member States in order to ensure that the EU priorities were reflected in the final text. We have done so, together with the 27 Member States that have been actively negotiating and speaking with one voice.
Over the past years, the EU has built a comprehensive approach to address migration .. Our approach is based on solidarity, shared responsibility, multilateralism and engagement. And this is exactly what the UN Global Compact for Migration is about"
But whenever criticised for co-ordinating an EU wide migration policy, the lying hounds retreat to saying "Migration is not an EU competence - absolutely nothing to do with us - totally down to national governments"
The sheer bare faced mendacity of the corrupt, fraudulent, crooked swine is beyond belief
Good post R.
"Our own government agreed it - on the basis that it is 'non-binding' under international law. However, as New Zealand's law officers have warned, non-binding does not mean legally irrelevant - and "courts may be willing...to refer to the Compact and to take the Compact into account as an aid in interpreting immigration legislation"
i.e. perfect for lawyers...and what are a very high number of the UK's MPs?
If the ECI were mirrored in the UK, then any proposal resulting in an Act would have to get by our Parliament, just like any other Act. So it would reflect the will of our sovereign Parliament.
We don't generally allow mob rule, so why should the EU?
But back on topic, yes US supremacists hate the UN, or anything else which might temper or rival its world domination.
Ah, the deceitful lexicon of Brussels
'Mob rule' - democracy
'US Supremacists' - supporters of democracy
And the true indicator of an almost paranoid delusion, at a time and under a President who is retreating as fast as he can from US foreign involvement in many spheres, and of a nation coming to terms with a multi-polar world, is those poor fools who still believe in 'american hegemony' or 'american world domination'. Utterly pathetic.
Just an aside:
I understand Australians get a bit upset about being missed off world maps.
Uhm, Australia is on both of these maps - just above the '2' in 2018.
The shapes of countries have been shrunk or expanded to represent the size of their population or GDP rather than their geographic area.
Look, this education that I'm providing is free of charge.
Make better use of it than you did your teachers' time eh?
The EU Commission is *compelled* to obey a request arising from ECI.
The EU Parliament did its job in rejecting about half of the proposed new laws. Nothing gets anywhere near that in the UK.
Ah, 'education' as in Moonies propagandising the Divine Principle?
Or 'education' as in 're-education camp'?
All you zealots are the same - blind, stupid and utterly divorced from reality. The fact that you're actually *proud* that the lickspittle expenses-sump you call the EU Parliament threw out half the measures that 1m people wanted is breathtaking
"Nothing gets anywhere near that in the UK." Thank Christ.
So you're thanking Christ, that the people of the UK do not have the same right as MPs to put a Private Member's Bill before the House?
I thought that you believed in direct democracy?
You make no sense as ever.
PS. 1 million is 0.2% of the population of the EU.
You apparently think that they should be allowed to impose their will on the other 99.8% unmoderated.
If half the Bills that came before Parliament were rejected in the UK, the government would fall.
Of course in the fairyland play Parliament the EU has, in which everything is decided well in advance by the unelected officials and the MEPs just put on a pantomime to fool the public, it doesn't surprise me at all that proposals are created with the sole intention of being rejected; it adds a whiff of authenticity to the whole toxic sham.
Stop Vivisection
On 3 March 2015, the third European Citizens' Initiative to gather the required number of signatories, Stop Vivisection, was submitted to the Commission. The campaign collected 1,326,807 signatures. On 11 May 2015, a public hearing at the European Parliament took place. On 3 June 2015, the European Commission adopted the Communication on the European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Vivisection".
Active ECIs:
More initiatives have later been registered by the Commission and include, among others, the following initiatives active as of July 2018:[19]
"Permanent European Union Citizenship"
"Stop starvation for 8% of the European population!"
"We are a welcoming Europe, let us help!"
"Stop Extremism", demanding an EU directive combatting extremism in all of its forms"
"Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart!"
"Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe"
Rejected ECIs:
While the first few ECIs have been approved, a few have been rejected. Among these are:
A European Citizens Initiative campaigning to phase out nuclear energy in the EU - My voice against nuclear energy;
A European Citizens Initiative to recommend singing the European Anthem in Esperanto;
A European Citizens Initiative to stop TTIP.[25] The alliance of organisations behind the petition have submitted a complaint in the European Court of Justice against this decision of the European Commission. On 10 May 2017, the European Court of Justice ruled the petition legitimate.] The European Commission approved the initiative's registration on 4 July 2017 and reopened the signature collection on 10 July 2017.
Withdrawn ECIs:
A number of ECI's have decided to withdraw after being approved. Among them for example:
Happy Cows, on animal welfare of dairy cows;
Abolish Freedom of Movement for Swiss People, also known as Swissout, on repealing the agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the free movement of persons.
It's rather more than the UK public have managed here all told.
Swissout,-Anon
Huh? What has anyone got against the Swiss for God's sake? Has all our favourite Shock Jock von Farage or any of his European 'colleagues' been spewing the airwaves full of 'bleedin Swiss comin over 'ere an taking our Toblerones!'?
Indeed, Jack, and the "rubber-stamping" EU Parliament had the good sense to sling it out, as they did TTIP and plenty more.
Well hello to you too Jennifer.
Now piss off like a good spammer.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Stop Vivisection
On 3 March 2015, the third European Citizens' Initiative to gather the required number of signatories, Stop Vivisection, was submitted to the Commission. The campaign collected 1,326,807 signatures. On 11 May 2015, a public hearing at the European Parliament took place. On 3 June 2015, the European Commission adopted the Communication on the European Citizens' Initiative "Stop Vivisection".
Active ECIs:
More initiatives have later been registered by the Commission and include, among others, the following initiatives active as of July 2018:[19]
"Permanent European Union Citizenship"
"Stop starvation for 8% of the European population!"
"We are a welcoming Europe, let us help!"
"Stop Extremism", demanding an EU directive combatting extremism in all of its forms"
"Let us reduce the wage and economic differences that tear the EU apart!"
"Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe"
Rejected ECIs:
While the first few ECIs have been approved, a few have been rejected. Among these are:
A European Citizens Initiative campaigning to phase out nuclear energy in the EU - My voice against nuclear energy;
A European Citizens Initiative to recommend singing the European Anthem in Esperanto;
A European Citizens Initiative to stop TTIP.[25] The alliance of organisations behind the petition have submitted a complaint in the European Court of Justice against this decision of the European Commission. On 10 May 2017, the European Court of Justice ruled the petition legitimate.] The European Commission approved the initiative's registration on 4 July 2017 and reopened the signature collection on 10 July 2017.
Withdrawn ECIs:
A number of ECI's have decided to withdraw after being approved. Among them for example:
Happy Cows, on animal welfare of dairy cows;
Abolish Freedom of Movement for Swiss People, also known as Swissout, on repealing the agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the free movement of persons.
It's rather more than the UK public have managed here all told.
Radders has gone very quiet
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