American Global Hegemony in Crisis!

American global hegemony - a core reality of the last 50 years - is under threat. Changes within the US, both techno-economic and political, and the rise of genuine alternative power centres are combining to threaten US dominance. Recent developments, especially the ongoing, messy war in Iraq, the failure to deal a telling blow against global terrorism, and the new fragility of the US dollar are all indications of imminent change.

The US ended World War II as the only clear winner. Not only was the US in great shape in terms of industrial, financial and military capability, but other developed nations were in bad shape. Britain was financially wrecked, France, Germany, Italy and Japan were physically devastated, and the Soviet Union was very weak except for its huge land army. The subsequent global hegemony achieved by the US was built on military power expressed by its nuclear deterrent and powerful conventional forces, industrial power increasingly in the form of large corporations, and the central role of the dollar in international economics.

While its nuclear deterrent kept the only real enemy, the Soviet Union, at bay, US industrial power translated into American transnational corporate penetration in an international economy based on the Bretton Woods financial regime. This set the scene for a revitalised global finance system, dominated by American or American-run institutions, including private banks, the IMF and the World Bank. By the mid- 1980s, the mix of transnational corporate activity (now including firms from Japan, Europe and even some less developed nations) and global finance markets were so well developed and integrated the term “globalisation” came to be used to describe the emerging new world order.

By this time US industrial decline was well advanced, with firms from Japan, Europe and the fast developing East Asian “tigers” out-competing American firms in core markets like automobiles, white goods and even computers. Increasingly, however, American corporate activity was shifting into “knowledge-based” production and finance, exploiting the still central position of the US in global financial and institutional (for example WTO) arrangements.

The end of the Cold War in 1990 allowed the US to rethink its global military posture, which was already undergoing constant change to due to rapidly evolving technology. The US military opted for ever more high-technology solutions, and a renewed advance into space, focused around ballistic missile defence.

A series of events have shown the underlying weakness of the US position, now based so firmly on the twin pillars of the central role of the dollar and ever more technology-based global military power. It is telling that this situation parallels the predicament of the previous global hegemon, Britain, which relied more and more on the Royal Navy and sterling to maintain its global role as Germany and the US undermined its industrial leadership at the turn of the century.

First, the increasingly volatile oil supply situation as the US became dependent on Middle East oil (which is likely approaching peak production) led to a long entanglement with Iraq, the last, and ongoing, military phase of which showed the problems with the small, high-tech army policy. Secondly, there is the questionable willingness of the rest of the developed world to support huge US deficits and maintain the strong dollar. This has been exacerbated by the current Bush administration’s fiscal and international relations policies, which indicate a growing unilateralism. That is, the US seems increasingly unwilling, or unable, to accept the global systemic responsibilities of global hegemony.

The Middle East, and especially Iraq, is the prime site of the American dilemma. First, the intention of the Iraq government to opt out of the system where oil markets traded in US dollars in favour of the Euro, announced in November 2000, was a serious blow to the role of the dollar as de facto global currency, with all the privileges that entailed. The way in which the US subsequently invaded Iraq, and the overall failure of the occupation to achieve peace, has greatly damaged US credibility. This has eroded its capacity to form military and diplomatic alliances and may be behind the growing lack of confidence in the dollar, reflected in its volatility over recent times. In effect, with a strong Euro there are now two currencies vying for global primacy.

Whether this erosion of American hegemonic position is structural, and had to happen sooner or later, or was brought about by inept leadership, is debateable. The rise of a united Europe, with a bigger GDP than the US, and the continuing growth surge of China, in themselves present challenges to US supremacy. Furthermore, there are signs that an alliance of less developed countries, led by Brazil, is emerging to challenge the US-based “Washington consensus” which governs global economic relations. It would seem inevitable that the relative position of the US - to a certain extent the result of the extreme exigencies of global war from 1914 to 1945 - would have to decline.

But there can be little doubt that the attitudes of the current American leadership - led by a president heavily influenced by simplistic, religion-based notions and largely run by ideological extremists (known as “neocons”) - has made the possibility of a reconstruction of global conditions around more equitably negotiated arrangements much less likely.

Of course, the need to find global solutions to global problems like climate change, disease and unbalanced economic development demand more than ever a functioning global system. The question is whether the US can step down from its position of unique power and join such a project. After all, American global military reach is undiminished, and provides a powerful card to play. But a century ago the then hegemon, Britain, found that once the basic advantages arising out of economic primacy had gone, hegemony could not be maintained by military power alone.

Microsoft are Watching and Listening!!!

~STOP PRESS~

I am writing this blog to make those of you who want to live, or believe they live, in a free democracy to WAKE UP!!

Below are a list of words taken from the ECHELON Communication and spying computer system.

I have previously posted other words, some may be repeated, but they're are hundreds, if not thousands more words that are triggering the computer system to begin recording your every move.

I am being watched!

Following a decision to ascertain whether some of these words were really of any significance, I browsed some of the obscure abbreviations.

Most of what I discovered were fairly standard government run ministry of defence websites, websites, for ALL to view. Nothing too riske, nothing really TOP SECRET, but clearly places and websites that the Western Corporate Controllers like Microsoft and Google, RIAA, MIAA, NSA, CIA etc DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT!!!

Shortly after browsing a few of these websites, my home telephone rang......

What I heard was silence, computer silence, not too dissimilar to those telephone sales computers that ring you randomly. I heard a click, and foolishly said, "hello, hello....."

I traced the number of the call to discover it was an international number. I swiftly got out my phone book and searched through a list of international dialing codes. What I was to discover horrified me, and I felt I must blog this to warn anyone out there to be very careful....

What I discovered was that, firstly, the number did not exist!!!!
Secondly, I traced the code and the number via the internet to discover, the telephone call was made by MICROSOFT!!!! NO JOKE PEOPLE!

They were making attempts to hack my computer, and no doubt extract information, and try there very hardest to make me look like a TERRORIST!

I AM NOT A TERRORIST!

I am a legally consenting adult with rights to freedom of speech (remember that?!), I have the right to be Innocent until proven guilty (at least until the fucking PATRIOT ACT was passed, which by the way removes any rights you thought you had), and I will read whatever I feel is appropriate to discover what the NEW WORLD ORDER is all about.

I will not bomb parliament, nor will I bomb the White House, nor will I cause any act of terror to any human being or corporation. I am not a BAD Person, I am not an EVILDOER! Yet, because of the books I buy, the websites I browse, the opinions I hold, the morals I hold, the ethics I believe in , MAY be translated to the powers that be, that I am a potential threat to NATIONAL SECURITY!!!

The world IS being controlled, and to control us and manipulate us further, they need to introduce, yes, you guessed it, THOUGHT CRIME!!

Yes, you are right, I would like to see George. W. Bush fry, as so many other people would, but that does not mean I can be arsed getting of my settee at home, I would never willingly hurt anyone, I am a fucking pacifist for christs sake, but to INFER that I am a potential risk, is PURE BULLSHIT!!

The problem lies in THEM SPYING ON US!! If they weren't spying on us all the time, then the list below of keywords, or trigger words, or spook words, whatever you want to call them, simply wouldnt exist. Therefore, I would not have typed them into Google.

Yes, I still use GOOGLE because I AM INNOCENT! You FUCKS!!

You think GOOGLE and MICROSOFT are going to control the people???? Do you think we will all sit back and be listening in on, and watched, and micro-chipped, and simply DO NOTHING!!!

You are the fools, you will INCREASE TERRORISM, by oppressing the populous, we overcome slavery, the feminist movement, and introduced a supposed DEMOCRACY. Do you really think we will all go ahead with your master plan?

You may be able to pull the wool over your illiterate majority, but there are too many free thinkers, me being one, to allow you to run the world.

Money equals power, this is true, but how long do you think you have got to reign supreme?
How many human rights will you remove before people wont take anymore?
How much lies and corruption do you think you can get away with in an ever increasing movement of freedom of information?

In America, you can control the five leading news channels and use continuous propaganda, and keep the intelligence of the masses down by under- funding the education system but overpopulating the prison system. But how long do you think that will last??

People, on the whole, around the world are getting wise to your societal INFLUENCES, they are understanding more and more about how you run things, what the future has in store i.e Verichip and SoMark, and VeriPay, but you WILL meet RESISTANCE!!!!!

WE THE PEOPLE WILL NOT BE CHIPPED!!!!!!!!!!! (http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/)

You sit there in your luxurious offices, with a glass of champagne and your smug, fat cat faces, assuming that your BIG PLAN, is going to work.

Hey, lets get their pets chipped, and then make all babies be electronically tagged, then the prison inmates, then the soldiers, then the stupid Joe public, will accept a micro chip because they will realise what a GOOD IDEA it really is, and how we could never imagine living without it.

Your big plan is to install these chips into ALL human beings, then if you REBEL or go against the carefully constructed societal rules and regulations, you are going to SWITCH THE CHIP OFF. Thus, rendering that citizen an outcast, unable to buy provisions, unable to buy anything or go anywhere, they will have no option but to conform to WHATEVER you pass through parliament, or congress, for FEAR that the Chip will be switched off. IS THAT ACCURATE ENOUGH???/

I would much rather become totally self sufficient, grow my own veg, make my own wine, grow my own weed, fuck it, i would even go back to candle light, and burn my fucking pc and television, its polluted anyways will your corruption and your CENSORSHIP!!

We all know that CHINA suffers appalling censorship and almost totalitarianesque dictatorship, which by the way, GOOGLE has helped to do, but WE ALSO HAVE SERIOUS CENSORSHIP.

Some I can understand, such as various pornography sites, I think most of us agree with that one, but important information is being censored, and my argument is this:

"If we don't have the information, or knowledge of what is going on in our world, How can we call it a FREE WORLD?!?!"

"How can we know if the way our society is heading, is the best route for society, just because big multi-billion dollar corporations say so??? I dont think so, they are looking at how FINANCIALLY VIABLE the future society is, not what is morally and ethically RIGHT!!!

I will end now, but just remember THEY ARE MONITORING AND RECORDING YOUR EVERY MOVE!!

I should advise you not to type those words in the ECHELON program into your search engine, but hey, I am too much of a believer in what is RIGHT!!!

Exercise your right to freedom, and remember, if you don't you may as well become a slave to Capitalism.

Don't Have Nightmares!!!

Peace and Love in a Revenue Obsessed World xxxxx

Please dont give us any of your ADVISE!!!!

The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans (and secretly, the UK), such as flight and hotel reservations.

Similar to a Pentagon program killed by Congress in 2003over concerns about civil liberties, the new program could take effectas soon as next year.But researchers testing the system are likely to already have violated privacy laws by reviewing real information, instead of fake data, according to a source familiar with a congressional investigation intothe $42.5 million program.

Bearing the unwieldy name Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization,Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), the program is on the cutting edge of analytical technology that applies mathematical algorithms to uncover hidden relationships in data. The idea is to troll a vast sea of information, including audio and visual, and extract suspicious people,places and other elements based on their links and behavioral patterns.

The privacy violation, described in a Government Accountability Office report that is due out soon, was one of three by separate government data mining programs, according to the GAO.
"Undoubtedly there are likely to be more," GAO Comptroller David M. Walker said in a recent congressional hearing.
The violations involved the government's use of citizens' private information without proper notification to the public and using the data for a purpose different than originally envisioned, said the source, who declined to be identified because the report is not yet public.

The issue lies at the heart of the debate over whether pattern-based data mining -- or searching for bad guys without a known suspect -- cansucceed without invading people's privacy and violating their civil liberties.DHS spokesman Larry Orluskie said officials had not yet read the GAO report and could not comment.

Another DHS official who helped develop ADVISE said that the program wastested on only "synthetic" data, which he described as "real data" made anonymous so it could not be traced back to people.
The system has been tested in four DHS pilot programs, including one at the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, to help analysts more effectively sift through mounds of intelligence reports and documents.

In another pilot at a government laboratory in Livermore, Calif., that assessed foreign and domestic terror groups' ability to develop weapons of mass destruction, ADVISE tools were found "worthy of further development," DHS spokesman Christopher Kelly said.The DHS is completing reports on the privacy implications of all fourpilot programs.
Such assessments are required on any government technology program that collects people's personally identifiable information, according to DHS guidelines.

The DHS official who worked on ADVISE said it can be used for a range of purposes. An analyst might want, say, to study the patterns of behaviorof the Washington area sniper and look for similar patterns elsewhere,he said. The bottom line is to help make analysts more effective atdetecting terrorist intent.ADVISE has progressed further than the program killed by Congress in2003, Total Information Awareness, which was being developed at theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Yet it was partlyADVISE's resemblance to Total Information Awareness that led lawmakerslast year to request that the GAO review the program. Though Total Information Awareness never got beyond an early research phase,unspecified subcomponents of the program were allowed to be funded underthe Pentagon's classified budget, which deal largely with foreigners' data.

The Disruptive Technology Office, a research arm of the intelligence community, is working on another program that would sift through massive amounts of data, such as intelligence reports and communications records, to detect hidden patterns.
The program focuses on foreigners.Officials declined to elaborate because it is classified.Officials at the office of the director of national intelligence stressed that pattern analysis research remains largely theoretical.
They said the more effective approach is link analysis, or looking for bad guys based on associations with known suspects. They said that theyseek to guard Americans' privacy, focusing on synthetic and foreigners' data.
Information on Americans must be relevant to the mission, they said.

Still, privacy advocates raise concerns about programs based on sheer statistical analysis because of the potential that people can be wrongly accused.

"They will turn up hundreds of soccer teams, family reunionsand civil war re-enactors whose patterns of behavior happen to be thesame as the terrorist network," said Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute.

But Robert Popp, former DARPA deputy office director who founded National Security Innovations, a Boston firm working on technologies for intelligence agencies, said that research anecdotally shows that pattern analysis has merit.

In 2003, he said, DARPA researchers using the technique helped interrogators at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, assess which detainees posed the biggest threats.

Popp said that analysts told him that "detainees classified as 'likely a terrorist' were in fact terrorists, and in no cases were detainees who were not terrorists classified as 'likely a terrorist.'

"Some lawmakers are demanding greater program disclosure. A bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J.Leahy (D-Vt.) would require the Bush administration to report toCongress the extent of its data-mining programs.

SOMARK - SO Very Wrong!

Somark’s ID system is based on a biocompatible ink tattoo with chipless RFID functionality.

When applied, the ink creates a unique ID that can be remotely detected without line of sight.

The technology creates a synthetic biometric or fake fingerprint with Biocompatible Chipless RFID Ink.

So basically, Somark are responsible for the ominous, and long-feared Human Barcode system.

Somark Innovations are the evil twin of VeriChip, the company behind Human micro-chipping. Between the two corporations, which incidentally, have the financial backing of vast multi-billion dollar conglomerates, and the American and British governments, they can remove any notions of freedom for mankind in the future.

Somark, alongside Verichip, will gradually use propoganda and fear to ensure that you MUST have their technology otherwise you will be in great danger, and if you refuse their technologies in the future, YOU will be perceived as a TERRORIST, or SOCIAL DEVIANT, a DANGER, and a THREAT to, the all important, NATIONAL SECURITY.

Please; The World Of EyeCeyE begs you to watch out for these companies, and study how quickly they gain approval from the FDA and the WHO, the quicker these technologies are approved and deemed safe for humans, the more money has been exchanged under the table.

WE are NOT SAFE! WE ARE in DANGER! But NOT from Terrorists, Muslims, or any others opposed to Christian Westerners, We are in Danger from our own Governments, our supposedly free countries, our liberal democracies!

DON'T BE A SHEEP! In the words of Bob Marley, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!!!!!

Peace and Love to all those who believe in our basic human rights to be free! xxx