Putin's Antiglobalism and Trump Looking For Global Deals

President Putin of Russia is being called regularly by the American media and politicians a “thug”. American businessmen and diplomats deal every day all over the world with dictators of diabolical persuasions who could be similarly labeled but of course they are not since money and favors passing between devilish persons must not be blocked by mere words. So something big must be up between Putin and the Americans using the power behind the scenes. It looks like president-elect Trump is a problem too. Trump is a globalist like all billionaires and he wants globally whatever his new power can get him. He is stacking the jobs in his administration that deal top-down with vast amounts of money with wealthy successful with-it financial people. It looks like he is a danger because he may be setting such men in important financial jobs so he can be free behind the scenes to look for deals. It is absolutely certain he will make deals. Big global deals. But Putin is an antiglobalist. Russia under him has advanced economically at a fast rate. Russians have succeeded in adapting all available technologies to speed up the prosperity of their economy despite the sanctions imposed on them. The overall possibilities for the expansive and rapid development of Russian economic potential are enormous but only if Putin opens up Russia, as did China, to unlimited foreign investment. For now, Putin has based his power on Russian nationalistic pride which is deep and genuine. The entrance into Russia of foreign corporations with endless supplies of capital and advanced technologies would enrich Russians but radically change their perspective. They would become more global in outlook, freer and less nationalistic. The present Russian business corporations supplying cash to Putin and his supporters would be in danger of being purchased by foreigners and restructured to make money competing globally. This is where Trump might be a danger, Suppose instead of trying to globalize and restructure Russian businesses, he supports Putin's antiglobalism and just makes deals here and there in Russia for himself? Something is up. We’ll see what happens. Russia has enormous economic potential and one way or another it will change. We can hope it will be done peacefully but it certainly does not promote peace calling President Putin a “thug”.

Daniel McNeill

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Two Out-of-control Worldwide Phenomena

Donald Trump is now the leading politician in a gigantic blob of well-paid bureaucrats and elected representatives in charge of hundreds of departments, agencies and commissions financed with an enormous supply of thousands of billions of dollars. His government has a large military and a great supply of hydrogen bombs, but the really frightening thing about Washington and its worldwide activities is that it was not set up as a central government directly responsible to and under the control of one specific people in one state. Even as far back as 1790 when the American Constitution was ratified by 13 states, Washington was designed with the characteristics of an international government. The fifty American states collectively send representatives to Washington and exercise a degree of control but no one American or foreign state controls it. Washington roams the world using its power to control states for what it conceives its interests which are certainly not exclusively national. What makes its power awesome is that at this point in world history the economies of most states are both national and global and the world must rely on Washington’s power for worldwide economic security. Washington's power is largely uncontrolled and at the same time indispensable for world prosperity.

   The second worldwide phenomenon that escapes control is the new extraordinary reach of international businesses and corporations. First, corporations in the colonial period went global to steal primary resources in foreign territories. Then colonial territories became states and their resources were bought cheaply with prices set by the most powerful states. In the next stage of globalism after the Second World War, corporations began transferring their activities globally but mainly to rich and developed states. The present form of economic globalism is new. It is no longer a question of corporations seeking only advantages like cheaper wages in foreign countries. The world now has so many developed countries that corporations can now achieve economies of scale and larger profits by penetrating and establishing themselves in many states with the goal to eventually be in all of them. And amazingly many of these global corporations are providing not industrial development but services.

   No one state anywhere can escape at least partial control by both Washington and international corporations. New ways of doing business are operating everywhere worldwide and before our eyes in our states. Our states must form new political structures to help their citizens deal with two worldwide phenomena now far removed from state control.

Daniel McNeill

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The American Revolution Can Happen Anywhere

    In 1790, 13 independent states in North America accepted a Constitution that limited their sovereignty. The document made a provision in Article IV Section 3 to admit new states and the Federal Congress admitted 37 new states over 170 years up to the state of Hawaii in 1959. A people composed of no one race and of no one religion was free forever to live and work and worship and vote in any state out of 50 simply by freely choosing to reside in one.

    The freedom to go anywhere to any state at will across any border produces a groundlessness in the soul. Americans are nationless. A Man Without a Country, published in 1863 by Edward Everett Hale, was a popular tale about an American man condemned by a court to live out his life on ships at sea without any knowledge of happenings in the United States. Great American writers like Poe and Thoreau sought what was substantial only within themselves. No nation outside of themselves attracted their hearts and minds because none existed.

   But now the world is becoming American. Nation-states  are either collapsing because of civil wars or wobbling towards disintegration because of corruption and gross mismanagement caused by unworkable political systems chained to outdated, top-down nationalistic central.governments. Peoples worldwide are becoming groundless like Americans and their states can not become stable, free and prosperous unless they take upon themselves new and more advanced political structures. Nation-states should petition the Congress in Washington to be admitted as new American states and escape as Americans did in 1790 the slavery inflicted on commerce and people by national borders. The American revolution of 1790 can also happen right now in any state worldwide.

Daniel McNeill

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American Liberals Are Lincoln Centrists

Americans who were once for “states rights” have morphed into brute nationalists. Their man is in the White House and they want him to prove to the world that the US is nothing more than a nation by building a wall on the Mexican border and expelling 3 million illegal immigrants. Liberals must now become passionate about demanding “states rights” because a nationalistic Federal Government would be a drastic perversion of our union’s history. American liberals can be characterized as “Lincoln centrists”. The only government they focus on is the one in Washington and they have something like a holy fear of ever mentioning in their talk and writings that the Constitution grants the Washington government limited sovereignty and does not set it up as a state. There are 51 governments in the US and 50 of them actually are governments of states but for liberals the one that is not is alone august and sacred. Before for a liberal it was a moral and political gaffe to refer to America as a union of states even though on every bill of our money our society is called The United States of America, not just America. Liberals will be forced now to recognize at last that they live in a union of states if the strongest legal defense they possess against an extreme right-wing government in Washington is “states rights”.

Daniel McNeill

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Weird Nationalistic Sentiments

The shroud of nationalism now wrapped over America since the victory of Donald Trump is weird. Protrumpists feel nationalistic power hating non-whites and antitrumpists feel nationalistic power championing with shouts and protests the freedom to live with any identity and any skin color any way at all. One of the big cries on the left is the demand that the government in Washington not have control of what a woman does with her body. Those on the right demand that their multicolored nation ruled by Washington belong only to white bodies.The greedy group in Congress plotting to gobble up  public wealth from federal taxes by passing laws with little or nothing to do with genuine national goals is weird also since whatever it does is accepted by all as the legal and normal action of a nation. Woe to all Americans who believe because we created Washington that it belongs to us! Woe to any of us who believe Washington bureaucrats and politicians are our champions exercising  national power for us! We created Washington with limited sovereign powers that if exercised justly would make our union of states more perfect. But history and men acting dishonorably and imperfectly assigned to Washington more powers than the Constitution intended and so here we are all of us, politicians, bureaucrats, trumpists, antitrumpists forced to have weird nationalistic fantasies and to pretend that the weird and selfish acts in Washington are normal. What is the bottom line, what is the real truth? It is that Washington can never purify itself and act normally unless it uses its gigantic power exclusively for the good of all humanity. That of course would include us Americans and make us normal too.

Daniel McNeill

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America Cannot Hide in a Nationalistic Castle

Donald Trump  does not know in any detail what he wants to do as president. People with power will make proposals to him and he will consider them. Every proposal, even one exclusively for America, will also be global simply because of the great size of the American economy. He will have total military and diplomatic power but Congress, not the  president, has the Commerce Power. It will always back up however any president by voting for bills that produce prosperity globally. Neither the president nor the congress have any choice but to operate for the world. If the world goes down, America goes down with it.

  What a contrast there is between governments in Washington and London! London, once responsible for 25% of the people on earth, has pulled up its bridges and isolated itself behind a moat in a nationalistic castle. Every decision it takes will be for the benefit only of the UK. Its central bank can carefully regulate the money supply and the value of the pound to the advantage of the UK without regard to the state of the world. The Washington government borrows so much money daily worldwide to help pay for its global operations that the amount if revealed would shock Americans who send tax money to Washington to pay interest to its foreign lenders. The American economy itself is already a garden of infinite delights for entrepreneurs who have easy access to huge amounts of capital and an enormous labor supply of workers forced to work at low wages. A general rule for any US president is to let America alone and concentrate on the world. It is not so much that the world offers tremendous opportunities for the huge supply of American capital. It is rather that the oversupply of capital has nowhere else to go except globally and thus America and the world can progress smoothly only together. They have no choice any longer but to be together. Americanism and Globalism are now permanently linked. America can never hide like the UK safe behind a moat in a nationalistic castle.

Daniel McNeill

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Real Financial Freedom For Former Colonies

Colonialism has always been about who owns the capital. The colonizer owned it all. The colony owned no capital and, more important, had no means to produce it. The central bank in the colonizer’s state produced money and capital. Capital was transferred to the colony and had the same power and efficacy there as in the home country. The former colonies as new independent states were forced by international financial practices to set the value of their currencies in direct relationship to what it was worth in pounds or francs or other monies of developed countries. Their power to create  their own capital was severely restricted.     

   The central government established in America in 1790 by the American Constitution  was not a fully sovereign government like those in European states who became the masters of colonies. Washington had no central bank with the power to create the money supply for its union of 13 states. It was not a state and it had no power to rule its 13 states as colonies. It acquired new territories for its union of states not by ruling them as subservient colonies but by accepting them as new states of its union.The banks of the newly admitted states became automatically part of an established interstate banking system with the right just like the older states to create new money for their businesses in the same currency, the dollar, which already existed. This was a completely new and revolutionary way to develop new territories. Independent states today can best obtain the power to create their own capital by applying to the Congress in Washington to become new states of the American union. Only by becoming an integral part of a highly developed banking system and an integral part of a well developed economy in a union of states can they create as freely as possible their own capital.

Daniel McNeill

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