At Davos, Canadian PM Mark Carney admitted that the West's imperialist "rules-based international order" was "false", hypocritical, & exploitative. What does his criticism of "American hegemony" mean?
Seriously, nice words I guess and what we all call a limited hangout. Carney has been at the heart of the decision making which created the '08 '09 financial crisis causing wide spread poverty and hardship. His job is to continue the empire and its eugenics and anti-humanism. This is nothing to get excited about.
Brilliant breakdown of Carney's Davos confession. The admission that they always knew the rules-based order was exploitave but went along because "the fiction was useful" basically confirms middle-power complicity isn't ideological but purely transactional. I saw this firsthand working in policy circles where countries would privately scoff at US double standards but publicly endorse them when it meant trade access. The moment these power dynamics shift, suddenly everyone discovers thier principles.
It's really funny how much this part of the speech got ignored in mainstream write-ups and blog posts. This is by far the most interesting and honest part of the speech, but most journalists and commentators either don't have any understanding of hegemony and imperialism, or understand it and are made too uncomfortable by these dynamics being stated openly.
I've stated the exact same dynamic many times, just as clearly, and received nothing but eyerolls and dismissive responses from centrists. They think that calling something imperialism or pointing out the hypocrisy of the "rules based order" is some kind of edgy teenager stuff. When Carney says it, I think they just malfunction or their eyes glaze over and they fully ignore it.
"Behold, the Spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!
Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land.
Yet, hear me, people, we have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.
They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. The nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all that are in its path.
We cannot dwell side by side. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that away from us. My brothers, shall we submit or shall we say to them: 'First kill me before you take possession of my land.... " Sitting Bull
The exorbitant privilege. Created at their own insistence at Bretton Woods. It was so easy to take what they needed from others without paying for it that they got out of the habit of working for a living. It had to crash eventually.
"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically."
Carney is just as big a hypocrite as are all the leaders of the Western nations. But perhaps the fear of the fast approaching collapse of the petrodollar and the rise of BRICS is causing these sorts of "confessions". Nobody wants to be linked to a loser like the US.
Yes, "given Canada's track record." I would believe Carney's address if he had the guts to mention tRump by name, or if he had the guts to say those things to his face, rather than grovelling at every visit to the White House. The American flag draped over Canada on tRump's map says i all, Canada has been a colony for 100 years, a guaranteed second American vote at the UN, and an enthusiastic enabler of NATO's advances against Russia.
Did you know that the reason Canadian government initially welcomed the Nazis after WW2 was to have them as "Strike-breakers" against the workers' Unions?
Great links, thank you! Yes, I know that the air-head Freeland had some family history and her love for whatever Ukraine is, has completed her life, which might literally be so if she is in Kyiv when the final blow arrives. Glad she's out of Canada, sparing us from another dork as PM.
"In the future, the world might witness the emergence of two major blocs: One, centered around Beijing, that emphasizes free trade and technological innovation, probably called the New Asian Trade Order, or NATO.
The other, centered around Washington, raises external trade barriers, closes markets, and, internally, arranges the division of industrial chains under the leadership of dominant nations—a Washington-led Alliance for Restrictive Sovereignty And Walled Markets (the Warsaw Pact).
After the United States annexes Canada and Greenland, it becomes the world's largest country by land area, officially named the" United States Supervised Realm, " abbreviated as USSR."
It was a monumental speech. I don’t want to dwell on the hypocrisies of the past when such an important admission has been made. Anyway, there is a kernel of truth that nations accept limited fictions for practical reasons. But the lie grew too great and for Canada to expose it so bluntly is magnificent. Now is not the time for purity tests or nitpicking. Now is the time to build momentum against the bullying and exploitation that has become standard. That speech took courage. It was direct and perfectly articulated. Bravo Carney!
FRAUDulent MisRepresentation to Voters is a PROSECUTABLE CRIME against the SOCIAL CONTRACT and against SWORN DUTY to Moral Legal and FIDUCIARY Constitutional Representation.
To prove fraudulent misrepresentation has occurred, the following six conditions must be met:
1. A representation was made
Obviously, a representation must be made in a case alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
The representation must be a factual claim. Mere puffery does not count as a representation. So a factual representation could include a
car dealer saying a certain car gets 30 miles per gallon, but would not include a more subjective claim, such as "This car will change your life!"
2. The claim was false
Furthermore, the representation that was made must be shown to be false. So if, returning to
the above example, a car that is advertised as getting 30 miles per gallon actually only gets 25 miles per gallon,
evidence needs to be provided of the car's actual fuel efficiency.
3. The claim was known to be false
The person or business making the claim also must have known the claim was false or should
have known the claim was false. Furthermore, the party making the claim cannot deliberately avoid finding out the truth of a claim and then claim ignorance because he or she failed to verify the claim.
4. The plaintiff relied on the information
It is not enough that a false claim was made by the defendant in order to prove
fraudulent misrepresentation. Furthermore, the plaintiff in the case must show that the false claim was also an important factor in his or her decision to complete the transaction. Again, the consumer alleging fraudulent misrepresentation against a car dealer would have to show that the car's gas mileage was a factor in his or her decision to purchase the vehicle.
5. Made with the intention of influencing the plaintiff
Likewise, the claim must also have been made with the intention of convincing the plaintiff to
take a certain course of action. In cases involving businesses, such false claims are often made with the intention of getting people to agree to a deal they would not have otherwise agreed to, such as overvaluing a business that is up for sale.
6. The plaintiff suffered a material loss
Finally, the misrepresentation must have led to a loss for the plaintiff. Proving that
a loss occurred is very important, especially since it allows the plaintiff to claim damages to compensate him or her for that loss.
Thank you Ben, for shining a light on Canadian foreign policy. 🇨🇦Author Linda McQuaig, in her 2007 book,
Holding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire,
documented Canada’s OTHER turning point—— AWAY FROM what was our once sincere rhetoric as peace keeping diplomats TOWARDS a partnership with military industrialists. The 🇨🇦Military Industrial Complex is not a term we hear on 🇨🇦mainstream media, Canada became an arms-dealer in earnest. Canada’s weapons exports grew more than 89 per cent under Harper, is an article to follow up on McQuaig’s book, published Jan. 20th, 2016, in iPolitics.ca by Elizabeth Thompson.
Well said! 👏🏽
Seriously, nice words I guess and what we all call a limited hangout. Carney has been at the heart of the decision making which created the '08 '09 financial crisis causing wide spread poverty and hardship. His job is to continue the empire and its eugenics and anti-humanism. This is nothing to get excited about.
Brilliant breakdown of Carney's Davos confession. The admission that they always knew the rules-based order was exploitave but went along because "the fiction was useful" basically confirms middle-power complicity isn't ideological but purely transactional. I saw this firsthand working in policy circles where countries would privately scoff at US double standards but publicly endorse them when it meant trade access. The moment these power dynamics shift, suddenly everyone discovers thier principles.
It's really funny how much this part of the speech got ignored in mainstream write-ups and blog posts. This is by far the most interesting and honest part of the speech, but most journalists and commentators either don't have any understanding of hegemony and imperialism, or understand it and are made too uncomfortable by these dynamics being stated openly.
I've stated the exact same dynamic many times, just as clearly, and received nothing but eyerolls and dismissive responses from centrists. They think that calling something imperialism or pointing out the hypocrisy of the "rules based order" is some kind of edgy teenager stuff. When Carney says it, I think they just malfunction or their eyes glaze over and they fully ignore it.
Everything out of white Man's mouth is lies.
"Behold, the Spring has come; the earth has received the embraces of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love!
Every seed is awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land.
Yet, hear me, people, we have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.
They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. The nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all that are in its path.
We cannot dwell side by side. Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that away from us. My brothers, shall we submit or shall we say to them: 'First kill me before you take possession of my land.... " Sitting Bull
The exorbitant privilege. Created at their own insistence at Bretton Woods. It was so easy to take what they needed from others without paying for it that they got out of the habit of working for a living. It had to crash eventually.
"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically."
Carney is just as big a hypocrite as are all the leaders of the Western nations. But perhaps the fear of the fast approaching collapse of the petrodollar and the rise of BRICS is causing these sorts of "confessions". Nobody wants to be linked to a loser like the US.
Yes, "given Canada's track record." I would believe Carney's address if he had the guts to mention tRump by name, or if he had the guts to say those things to his face, rather than grovelling at every visit to the White House. The American flag draped over Canada on tRump's map says i all, Canada has been a colony for 100 years, a guaranteed second American vote at the UN, and an enthusiastic enabler of NATO's advances against Russia.
Just look up who Freeland's grandfather was..
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After WW2 British government welcomed thousands of Ukrainian (Galicien) SS OUN/B members..
youtube.com/watch?v=UB_Gs-0dhOo
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Between May and June 1947 the British government secretly transported 8,000 Ukrainian Nazi SS soldiers to Britain and Canada.
The "Rimini list" details their names and Ranks.
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youtube.com/watch?v=ASPoFzmDteg
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One of them was recently given a standing ovation in Canadian Parliament:
youtube.com/watch?v=vezCq5KcC5c
youtube.com/watch?v=ASPoFzmDteg
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Canada admits letting in 2,000 Ukrainian SS troopers, 1997:
jweekly.com/1997/02/07/canada-admits-letting-in-2-000-ukrainian-ss-troopers/
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Did you know that the reason Canadian government initially welcomed the Nazis after WW2 was to have them as "Strike-breakers" against the workers' Unions?
youtu.be/aTd8HovAG0I?t=305
Great links, thank you! Yes, I know that the air-head Freeland had some family history and her love for whatever Ukraine is, has completed her life, which might literally be so if she is in Kyiv when the final blow arrives. Glad she's out of Canada, sparing us from another dork as PM.
True, tho if you check the links you'll see it goes well beyond Freeland..
Carney to Davos:
“I have a Greenland New Deal”.
Well…this means Canada will be next on the list
However, I don’t believe anything out of those liars mouth. Nothing!
😀 😃
Fred Gao translated and updated this one:
"In the future, the world might witness the emergence of two major blocs: One, centered around Beijing, that emphasizes free trade and technological innovation, probably called the New Asian Trade Order, or NATO.
The other, centered around Washington, raises external trade barriers, closes markets, and, internally, arranges the division of industrial chains under the leadership of dominant nations—a Washington-led Alliance for Restrictive Sovereignty And Walled Markets (the Warsaw Pact).
After the United States annexes Canada and Greenland, it becomes the world's largest country by land area, officially named the" United States Supervised Realm, " abbreviated as USSR."
The “liberal international rules-based New World order” was always just imperialism with better marketing.
It was a monumental speech. I don’t want to dwell on the hypocrisies of the past when such an important admission has been made. Anyway, there is a kernel of truth that nations accept limited fictions for practical reasons. But the lie grew too great and for Canada to expose it so bluntly is magnificent. Now is not the time for purity tests or nitpicking. Now is the time to build momentum against the bullying and exploitation that has become standard. That speech took courage. It was direct and perfectly articulated. Bravo Carney!
https://open.substack.com/pub/captainfransentim/p/sabotage-by-design-how-americas-power?r=5jmmex&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
FRAUDulent MisRepresentation to Voters is a PROSECUTABLE CRIME against the SOCIAL CONTRACT and against SWORN DUTY to Moral Legal and FIDUCIARY Constitutional Representation.
To prove fraudulent misrepresentation has occurred, the following six conditions must be met:
1. A representation was made
Obviously, a representation must be made in a case alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
The representation must be a factual claim. Mere puffery does not count as a representation. So a factual representation could include a
car dealer saying a certain car gets 30 miles per gallon, but would not include a more subjective claim, such as "This car will change your life!"
2. The claim was false
Furthermore, the representation that was made must be shown to be false. So if, returning to
the above example, a car that is advertised as getting 30 miles per gallon actually only gets 25 miles per gallon,
evidence needs to be provided of the car's actual fuel efficiency.
3. The claim was known to be false
The person or business making the claim also must have known the claim was false or should
have known the claim was false. Furthermore, the party making the claim cannot deliberately avoid finding out the truth of a claim and then claim ignorance because he or she failed to verify the claim.
4. The plaintiff relied on the information
It is not enough that a false claim was made by the defendant in order to prove
fraudulent misrepresentation. Furthermore, the plaintiff in the case must show that the false claim was also an important factor in his or her decision to complete the transaction. Again, the consumer alleging fraudulent misrepresentation against a car dealer would have to show that the car's gas mileage was a factor in his or her decision to purchase the vehicle.
5. Made with the intention of influencing the plaintiff
Likewise, the claim must also have been made with the intention of convincing the plaintiff to
take a certain course of action. In cases involving businesses, such false claims are often made with the intention of getting people to agree to a deal they would not have otherwise agreed to, such as overvaluing a business that is up for sale.
6. The plaintiff suffered a material loss
Finally, the misrepresentation must have led to a loss for the plaintiff. Proving that
a loss occurred is very important, especially since it allows the plaintiff to claim damages to compensate him or her for that loss.
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Thank you Ben, for shining a light on Canadian foreign policy. 🇨🇦Author Linda McQuaig, in her 2007 book,
Holding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire,
documented Canada’s OTHER turning point—— AWAY FROM what was our once sincere rhetoric as peace keeping diplomats TOWARDS a partnership with military industrialists. The 🇨🇦Military Industrial Complex is not a term we hear on 🇨🇦mainstream media, Canada became an arms-dealer in earnest. Canada’s weapons exports grew more than 89 per cent under Harper, is an article to follow up on McQuaig’s book, published Jan. 20th, 2016, in iPolitics.ca by Elizabeth Thompson.