Posted on 11/08/2010 12:55:13 PM PST by bestintxas
Implicitly acknowledging the decline of American dominance, Barack Obama on Sunday said the US was no longer in a position to "meet the rest of the world economically on our terms".
Speaking at a town hall meeting in Mumbai, he said, "I do think that one of the challenges that we are going face in the US, at a time when we are still recovering from the financial crisis is, how do we respond to some of the challenges of globalisation? The fact of the matter is that for most of my lifetime and I'll turn 50 next year - the US was such an enormously dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the US remains the largest economy and the largest market, but there is real competition."
"This will keep America on its toes. America is going to have to compete. There is going to be a tug-of-war within the US between those who see globalisation as a threat and those who accept we live in a open integrated world, which has challenges and opportunities."
The US leader disagreed with those who saw globalisation as unmitigated evil. But while acknowledging that the Chindia factor had made the world flatter, he said protectionist impulses in US will get stronger if people don't see trade bringing in gains for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
OMG!Can’t someone shut this idiot up?
Obama contributes to decline of U.S. Great job, Brownie.
Uh, $10,000,000 is more like it.
Jes*s H effing CH**ST! An American hating piece of filth! He hates this country. How the eff could we elect him!!!!
Obama Tells India America Is In Decline...
Obama acknowledges decline of US dominance - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Implicitly acknowledging the decline of American dominance, Barack Obama on Sunday said the US was no longer in a position to “meet the rest of the world economically on our terms”.
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Whoa the politico article ulster man posted on his FB page is cut throat.
The Hillary post; being ahead of Obama by 20 points makes me ill.
We do not need the Clintoons. I would have to cringe and get sick watching them play fake moderates again.
EVEN NOW... the NYSlimes for Obama reports this a little late but covers for Obama saying how poor the kids were and it was JUST NATURAL to follow the religion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/world/asia/09indo.html
The DNC are sick of him but they don’t have the nads to stop the monster they created. They are just hoping the loon slips up on camera or starts flying over the coo coo nest LIVE on camera.
Clinton and Albright have spoken about when the US is no longer a super power. Watch them pin this one on BO, when it was the Clintoon’s objective all along. Hillary! to the rescue!!!
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Warming up to an attack on capitalism
Santa Maria Times (CA) - Thursday, May 10, 2007
Author: Andy Caldwell/Commentary
Last week, I wrote of a plan I learned about in college, published by the Club of Rome, that outlined more than 30 years ago a goal to redistribute the world’s wealth from the industrialized countries of the northern hemisphere to the developing countries of the south.
The original plan, as outlined in that report from a think tank, called for a voluntary redistribution of wealth. The ostensible purpose of the plan was to avoid global hostilities between the industrialized northern-hemisphere countries and the Third-World and developing countries of the south.
But because nobody stepped forward to volunteer to give up their wealth and lower their standard of living, an impetus had to be created to encourage cooperation. That impetus is the modern-day environmental movement, as manifest in our current obsession with global warming.
Back in 1993, the late Dr. Dixie Lee Ray wrote a book called, “Environmental Overkill.” The accuracy with which this great woman pegged Al Gore then, and now, is just short of the magnitude of biblical prophecy.
What did she predict as a result of the pre-Kyoto Protocol summit, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil? She singled out Gore’s unbridled enthusiasm and support for the U.N. plan, which called for the literal reduction of progress and economic growth in the industrialized countries of this world in order to save the planet.
Specifically, what are we talking about? The secretary general of the U.N. summit in Brazil was Maurice Strong . Ray quotes Strong as indicating his belief that “In this transition to a more secure and sustainable future, the industrialized countries must take the lead. They have developed and benefitted from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma.
“And they primarily have the means and responsibility to change them ... It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class- involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, ownership of motor vehicles and small electrical appliances, home and work air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”
Ray quotes the observations of Ron Bailey of Reason magazine who observed that the activists have a solution to the problem: “Let the government divest you of your excess goods, such as your carbon dioxide-emitting automobile; your alienating, too-big house or apartment; and foods imported from outside your ‘bioregion’ ... The assertion by many Third World representatives that ‘because you are rich, I am poor’ was never doubted in the discussions.”
As I indicated in last week’s column, the protocols being established by the U.N. don’t eliminate greenhouse gases. Instead, they simply redistribute the ability, means and permission to pollute from the industrialized countries to the developing nations.
So what is really going on here?
Maybe we should back up here for a moment before Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” becomes the all too convenient demise of the U.S. economy! Is our planet truly warming? Is global warming a bad thing? Does mankind significantly contribute to and affect the temperature of the planet? Can the temperature of the planet be controlled by man? Or, is the threat of global warming being used as a ruse to simply redistribute the world’s wealth?
Science and history tell us, in no uncertain terms, that global warming and cooling have been going on for as far back in time as we can measure. As Ray notes, the entire history of Earth is one of climatic change. The planet has had some 17 ice ages, which by definition were each preceded by global cooling and proceeded by global warming.
Nobody can explain the ice-age phenomenon! Science and history also indicate that within these larger cycles of emerging and retreating ice ages, there are smaller cycles of warming and cooling. Science also can serve to rate the production of greenhouse gases from man as compared to that which is produced by Mother Nature and the fact is natural production dwarfs that of man. The fact is, 98 percent of greenhouse warming comes from water!
The point here is that climate change occurs naturally and nobody to date has been able to explain what caused the ice ages to come and go, and yet now we think we can control them by giving up our air conditioners, frozen foods, SUVs and factories? Yet, that is not really the point, is it?
Consider these two quotes to get the real point in all of this. In 1991, many years after the publication of the initial report by the Club of Rome I read in college, Ray cites a new announcement to come forth from this same think tank: “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 ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention. ... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
And this, from Judi Bari of Earth First!: “I think if we don’t overthrow capitalism, we don’t have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don’t think it is possible under capitalism.”
Andy Caldwell is executive director of COLAB and a 39-year resident of the Central Coast. His column appears every Thursday. You may reach him at 929-3148, or on the web at
www.colabsbc.org.
http://recyclewashington.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/unraveling-the-club-of-rome-part-1/
Some current members of the Club of Rome or its two siblings:
Al Gore – former VP of the USA, leading climate change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner. Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC in 1997.
Javier Solana – Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.
Maurice Strong – former Head of the UN Environment Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth Council, devout Baha’i.
Mikhail Gorbachev – CoR executive member, former President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.
Diego Hidalgo – CoR executive member, co-founder (with Gorbachev) of the Club of Madrid, founder and President of the European Council on Foreign Relations in association with George Soros.
Ervin Laszlo – founding member of the CoR, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, founder and Chairman of the World Wisdom Council.
Anne Ehrlich – Population Biologist. Married to Paul Ehrlich with whom she has authored many books on human overpopulation. Also aformer director of Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, and a member of the UN’s Global Roll of Honor.
Hassan bin Talal – President of the CoR, President of the Arab Thought Forum, founder of the World Future Council, recently named as the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth‘.
Sir Crispin Tickell – former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.
Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Javier Perez de Cuellar – former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Gro Harlem Bruntland – United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change, former President of Norway
Robert Muller – former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, founder and Chancellor of the UN University of Peace.
The Dalai Lama – The ‘Spiritual Leader’ of Tibet. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Father Berry Thomas – Catholic Priest who is one of the leading proponents of deep ecology, ecospirituality and global consciousness.
David Rockefeller – CoR executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United Nations stands.
Stephen Schneider – Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports.
Bill Clinton – former President of the United States, founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.
Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Bill Gates – founder of Microsoft, philanthropist
Garret Hardin – Professor of Human Ecology. Originator of the ‘Global Commons‘ concept. Has authored many controversial papers on human overpopulation and eugenics.
Other current influential members:
(these can be found on the membership lists of the COR (here, here, and here), Club of Budapest, Club of Madrid and/or CoR National Association membership pages)
Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of CNN
George Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the UN
Tony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deepak Chopra – New Age Guru
Desmond Tutu – South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Timothy Wirth – President of the United Nations Foundation
Henry Kissinger – former US Secretary of State
George Matthews – Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation
Harlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary of State and NATO Ambassador
Barbara Marx Hubbard – President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Betty Williams – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Marianne Williamson – New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’
Robert Thurman – assistant to the Dalai Lama
Jane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary Biologist
Juan Carlos I – King of Spain
Prince Philippe of Belgium
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of Spain
Karan Singh – Former Prime Minister of India, Chairman of the Temple of Understanding
Daisaku Ikeda – founder of the Soka Gakkai cult
Martin Lees – CoR Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of Peace
Ernesto Zedillo – Director of The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Frithjof Finkbeiner – Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan
Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the Global Marshall Plan
Eduard Shevardnadze – former Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia
Richard von Weizsacker – former President of Germany
Carl Bildt – former President of Sweden
Kim Campbell – former Prime Minister of Canada and Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation
Vincente Fox – former President of Mexico
Helmut Kohl – former Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi – former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission
Vaclav Havel – former President of the Czech Republic
Hans Kung – Founder of the Global Ethic Foundation
Ruud Lubbers – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mary Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Jerome Binde – Director of Foresight, UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of UNESCO
Federico Mayor – Former Director General of UNESCO
Tapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning, United Nations
Konrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Johnston – Director General of European Commission
Jacques Delors – Former President of the European Commission
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Thomas Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto
Hazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary economist’
Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary General, current President of the World Wildlife Fund
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movement
and many more….
The America hater thinks "wishing" will make it so.
"When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true."
Let’s hope and pray that the same people that exposed FAKE GLOBAL WARMING that ruined the scare tactic to force global currency/communism. Will speak up again and thwart the people in our government behind this.
The GOP had best put in a 2012 candidate that appeals to the Independent voter AND CAN WIN or we will be screwed with the Clinton’s,Bloomberg or some other operative.
The Tea Party/ grassroots America waking up is a real threat to the obvious ultimate plan of global communism AKA global government utopia that Soro’s,Clinton’s Obama et al dream of.
American decline is “fair” according to Obama, who intends to be the main culprit in our decline.
If Rs have any brains or courage, they will tie 0bastard in with Hitlery any time they get a chance. They could find statements by each one that state the same things, for one, and put a list together.
That would be a great add: “0bastard said: etc” and “Hilary said: etc”. Mirroring each other. And dig up as many photos of Hitlery and 0bastard together as possible, and any praise each one said about the other.
They need to be “one” in the publics’ mind.
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