DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / February 5, 2014
At the recent Davos World Economic Forum Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used his speech to foment disinformation, likening rising tensions between Japan and China to relations of Germany as a rising power against the United Kingdom 100 years ago.
Foreign Affairs Committee of China’s National People’s Congress chairman Fu Ying while attending a session of the Munich Security Conference last Feb. 1, responded saying “Now is the era of peace and development… the ‘Chinese dream’ can’t be realized without a good external environment and in return the ‘Chinese dream’ will add to peace and prosperity of the region and the world.”
China’s Ambassador Fu Ying, assigned to Manila in the late 90s and who pointed out then the National Bookstore sold maps of the Republic of the Philippines (based on government maps) that did not include the now dubbed “West Philippines Sea,” is indeed correct that 2014 has no comparison to 1914 as today is the Era of Globalization that has set down the rules of international trade to obviate the use of force in economic and trade relations; i.e. to paraphrase the late British leader, “To jaw-jaw and not war-war” on economic and trade issues.
However, there are similarities between England and Japan as financial and economic crisis beset them then and now. Prof. Richard Roberts, of King’s College London, and author of Saving the City — the Great Financial Crisis of 1914, writes, “It was the most serious systemic financial crisis that has ever overtaken Britain — or indeed the world. There were something like 50 countries which had stock exchange crashes and runs on banks.”
Behind the scenes the global bankers manipulating the financial crash of that time prepared to push the world into war as they have done since the Napoleonic Wars, for untold profits.
Mujahid Kamran writing in the Nation last April 2012 quotes F. William Engdahl from his book “A Century of War:”
“By 1920, Morgan’s partner, Thomas W. Lamont, noted with obvious satisfaction that, ‘as a result of four years of war and global devastation, the national debts of the world have increased by $210,000,000,000 or about 475 percent in the last six years, and as a natural consequence, the variety of government bonds and the number of investors in them have been greatly multiplied... but nowhere, perhaps, in greater measure than in the United States’.” The past decade that led to the 2008 Financial Crash, the Western global bankers find themselves in the same crisis-and-opportunity moment as 1914 at the turn of the 20th Century.
Japan’s right wing ultra-patriots, with assistance from the US “pivot to Asia” started the drum roll with the Japanese government purchase of the Diaoyu Islands in September 2012 from private owners effectively “nationalizing” the issue and giving the Chinese government no choice but to officially act on the provocation.
It is vital and fundamental to keep this timeline in mind to keep the proper and just perspective on this. Provocations after provocations followed, leading to Abe’s visit to the War Memorial, Yasukuni Shrine and now at Davos this misinterpretation of World History is made to conform to the war-mongers’ perspective.
On Europe, Stefan Steinberg reports in “Germany, US Push Aggressive Policies at Munich Security Conference (MSC)” appearing in Global Research and the World Socialist Web site:
“The MSC featured a series of speeches by top German officials announcing an aggressive military policy, effectively repudiating the traditional restraints on German militarism that have existed since the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II... (the tone) laid down by the former East German pastor and current president of Germany, Joachim Gauck... Called for the country’s armed forces to be used more frequently and decisively…”
The US of course has long put pressure on Russia’s western front with missile defense system being deployed in East European countries on the ridiculous excuse that they are to defend against Iranian missiles. A few days ago the US added another provocation, the deployment of ballistic missile defense destroyer USS Donald Cook to Spain to add to Nato’s “anti-missile,” “shield” (of spear) that reaches Russia territory.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a former anti-war activist, said this is “An important posture enhancement is European missile defense in response to ballistic missile threats from Iran,” of course Iran has missiles that can only reach the Gulf region and Israel.
Russia may consider withdrawing from Strategic Arms Reduction if the US continues boosting its anti-missile systems in Europe. Like China, Russia’s economy is looking up and sees no benefit in conflict.
It is the US, Nato and their puppets aching for conflict to save their economies. The People of the World must not be lured into the trap.”
(Watch GNN’s TNT with HTL, “R.P. Fried by Rice Smuggling” on Chanel 8 Destiny Cable and Chanel 213 SkyCable, Sat. 8 p.m. and Sun. 8 a.m.; tune to 1098AM, DWAD, Tues. to Fri. 5 p.m to 6 p.m. “Sulo ng Pilipino;” e-mail at htlnow@fastmail.fm; login to www.newkatipunan.blogspot.com)
At the recent Davos World Economic Forum Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used his speech to foment disinformation, likening rising tensions between Japan and China to relations of Germany as a rising power against the United Kingdom 100 years ago.
Foreign Affairs Committee of China’s National People’s Congress chairman Fu Ying while attending a session of the Munich Security Conference last Feb. 1, responded saying “Now is the era of peace and development… the ‘Chinese dream’ can’t be realized without a good external environment and in return the ‘Chinese dream’ will add to peace and prosperity of the region and the world.”
China’s Ambassador Fu Ying, assigned to Manila in the late 90s and who pointed out then the National Bookstore sold maps of the Republic of the Philippines (based on government maps) that did not include the now dubbed “West Philippines Sea,” is indeed correct that 2014 has no comparison to 1914 as today is the Era of Globalization that has set down the rules of international trade to obviate the use of force in economic and trade relations; i.e. to paraphrase the late British leader, “To jaw-jaw and not war-war” on economic and trade issues.
However, there are similarities between England and Japan as financial and economic crisis beset them then and now. Prof. Richard Roberts, of King’s College London, and author of Saving the City — the Great Financial Crisis of 1914, writes, “It was the most serious systemic financial crisis that has ever overtaken Britain — or indeed the world. There were something like 50 countries which had stock exchange crashes and runs on banks.”
Behind the scenes the global bankers manipulating the financial crash of that time prepared to push the world into war as they have done since the Napoleonic Wars, for untold profits.
Mujahid Kamran writing in the Nation last April 2012 quotes F. William Engdahl from his book “A Century of War:”
“By 1920, Morgan’s partner, Thomas W. Lamont, noted with obvious satisfaction that, ‘as a result of four years of war and global devastation, the national debts of the world have increased by $210,000,000,000 or about 475 percent in the last six years, and as a natural consequence, the variety of government bonds and the number of investors in them have been greatly multiplied... but nowhere, perhaps, in greater measure than in the United States’.” The past decade that led to the 2008 Financial Crash, the Western global bankers find themselves in the same crisis-and-opportunity moment as 1914 at the turn of the 20th Century.
Japan’s right wing ultra-patriots, with assistance from the US “pivot to Asia” started the drum roll with the Japanese government purchase of the Diaoyu Islands in September 2012 from private owners effectively “nationalizing” the issue and giving the Chinese government no choice but to officially act on the provocation.
It is vital and fundamental to keep this timeline in mind to keep the proper and just perspective on this. Provocations after provocations followed, leading to Abe’s visit to the War Memorial, Yasukuni Shrine and now at Davos this misinterpretation of World History is made to conform to the war-mongers’ perspective.
On Europe, Stefan Steinberg reports in “Germany, US Push Aggressive Policies at Munich Security Conference (MSC)” appearing in Global Research and the World Socialist Web site:
“The MSC featured a series of speeches by top German officials announcing an aggressive military policy, effectively repudiating the traditional restraints on German militarism that have existed since the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II... (the tone) laid down by the former East German pastor and current president of Germany, Joachim Gauck... Called for the country’s armed forces to be used more frequently and decisively…”
The US of course has long put pressure on Russia’s western front with missile defense system being deployed in East European countries on the ridiculous excuse that they are to defend against Iranian missiles. A few days ago the US added another provocation, the deployment of ballistic missile defense destroyer USS Donald Cook to Spain to add to Nato’s “anti-missile,” “shield” (of spear) that reaches Russia territory.
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a former anti-war activist, said this is “An important posture enhancement is European missile defense in response to ballistic missile threats from Iran,” of course Iran has missiles that can only reach the Gulf region and Israel.
Russia may consider withdrawing from Strategic Arms Reduction if the US continues boosting its anti-missile systems in Europe. Like China, Russia’s economy is looking up and sees no benefit in conflict.
It is the US, Nato and their puppets aching for conflict to save their economies. The People of the World must not be lured into the trap.”
(Watch GNN’s TNT with HTL, “R.P. Fried by Rice Smuggling” on Chanel 8 Destiny Cable and Chanel 213 SkyCable, Sat. 8 p.m. and Sun. 8 a.m.; tune to 1098AM, DWAD, Tues. to Fri. 5 p.m to 6 p.m. “Sulo ng Pilipino;” e-mail at htlnow@fastmail.fm; login to www.newkatipunan.blogspot.com)
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