World Unity 43

 Everyone believes that democracy is the best form of government and that everyone should live in a democratic state. But the terrible disruptions of civil peace going on all over the globe demand more than democratic governments with democratic leaders. We need holy democratic leaders, saintly leaders, men who will not take any action with the power voted to them by their fellow citizens unless it is good, honest, pure, moral and in the best interest of all. Down with all leaders who are merely pragmatic! We need leaders who really believe that every human being has universal rights that must be supported and respected and that humanity possesses a divine purpose for living on earth. It is an illusion to believe that because the bourgeoisie took control of states in the 19th century and used governments exclusively to make laws to support their selfish economic goals that humanity is condemned forever to suffer dominated by greedy and selfish leaders who never consult the grace to do good that God put in their soul. 
Daniel F. McNeill
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A New Union of English-Speaking People

Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can  because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out  of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world.
Daniel McNeill
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The United English-speaking States of the World 2

Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can  because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out  of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world. Some of the best minds in the UK are advising the young in Britain to emigrate because the solid British identity of the past is gone crushed by globalism and excessive immigration. The Prime Minister of Canada, Trudeau, has said that a Canadian no longer has a national identity. Well, the children of immigrants to Canada and Britain and to all the other English -speaking states do have a solid cultural identity. We as well as they all speak English as our native language, the language of great writers and thinkers from the four countries of the UK as well as from the United States, Canada and everywhere else that people learn English natively. Just a few years ago I taught in an urban high school where the majority of my students were not white Americans and had all possible skin colors. They had an identity already that had nothing to do with national identity except that being born in one of the 50 English-speaking states of America made them English speakers. They could already communicate with one another as easily as can all English-speaking persons. English speaking has nothing to do with Chauvinism. It opens people to one another in a way that nothing they may ever experience  can ever change. They know who they are when they talk in the same language to others of any race from any country who also discover who they are by receiving an identity by speaking English natively.

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The United English-speaking States of the World 1

England united by military force Britain and Ireland and with a secure  base at home proceeded to conquer and rule one quarter of the globe. The sovereignty of England was the fatal flaw that ruined the continuation of the British Empire. England, the state of England, has not been a separate national state for over 400 years, but the sovereignty of England, of the English element in Britain, has been a power fiercely guarded by the English down to our time. The King or Queen are sovereign. They are the power behind Parliament. The power behind the royal sovereign has always been the English. The royalty combined with the English  equals the sovereignty of the English element in Britain over Britain. The British Empire was lost for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that sovereignty could not be transferred to its many conquered dominions. It remained always in London as though permanently closed and guarded in a castle completely isolated from the rest of the world’

   But one thing does remain from the British Empire: 70 English-speaking states scattered geographically from the north of Scotland to the south of Australia. The amazing thing about them is that none of them are completely sovereign. The 10 provinces of Canada are under the sovereign power of a parliament in Ottawa itself under a representative of the queen. The 50 states of America have constitutionally limited sovereignty as does the government in Washington. The governments of New Zealand and the 6 states of Australia are under the sovereignty of the crown in Britain. The three states of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, are not fully sovereign because they are also under a parliament exercising the sovereignty of the crown.The Republic of Ireland appears to be the only English-speaking state fully sovereign although it is subject to the European Union government in Brussels.

   We are now in a postnational period of history. If nationalism no longer works and the 70 English-speaking states are not fully sovereign nations because they were all once parts of the British Empire, why should they not be politically unified in a great global union of states all speaking the same language and all with common political and legal customs? One principle of such a union would be that they be united again by a central government, as they  once were during the British Empire. The other principle would be that they yield to a central government a few of their sovereign powers which they once yielded completely during the British Empire which kept total sovereignty for itself locked up tight in London.

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A Stumbling Federal Government

The terrible pains Trump is inflicting on immigrants fleeing poverty forces us because of the incompetent actions of the Federal Government to consider something also terrible. The Federal Government is not only incapable of governing Americans (which all of us know already in our heart of hearts), it is also losing the sense of being a world leader for the world’s good. The loss of this role means that our whole American political system is now in jeopardy. Why? Because from the Civil War until Trump the Federal Government worked well because it supported 50 American states and states throughout the world. Now it is beginning to lose control of itself and nothing could be more dangerous for the future of the world, and for America’s future, than a stumbling government in Washington that no longer knows where it is going.

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The New Italian and British Empires

Point 5 of the 29 points of the contract for the new government of Italy agreed to by its two leaders DiMaio and Salvini is a new radical step towards a revolutionary new role for all states. It sets up a “bank for investments” that finances “initiatives of public and strategic national interests” and supplies “credit for companies operating in developing Countries”. This is what China is already doing globally on a massive scale. The Chinese government itself is creating the capital and investing it globally through companies under its direct control. If China can do it, any state can do it. And if we read the trends correctly, every state now must do it. Why should Italy not use its banks and tax collections to create capital for profitable investments worldwide that benefit Italians? Why should not the American state I live in, Massachusetts, do the same? Up till now, the game of looking everywhere for profitable investments has been exclusively under the control of private individuals directing corporations. Point 5 looks like a game changer for Italy. Remember when Italy under Mussolini found it profitable to invade Ethiopia? That game is over. China has already invaded Ethiopia with investments using capital created by its government. Italy’s government can now do the same. It can fund enterprises run by Italians and send them off worldwide looking for profits for Italians. The only problem is that Italy or Massachusetts, as states in unions of states, do not have their own currency like China and their money supplies can not easily be increased to create new capital for investment. This means that neither Italy nor Massachusetts can be major players in the new game like China unless they are given the power by the central governments of their unions to freely create and invest new capital. This also means among other things that Britain, the UK, with its own currency and the freedom to act in its own interest by its brexit from the European Union may be the only honcho that can fight meaningfully with the Chinese for the new empires of the future created by state-supplied capital. The political leaders of the UK are in a position to create a new British Empire by providing their citizens with state-created capital to invest globally rather than as in the past by invading foreign states using gunships.

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How Richard Nixon Saved Communism

Richard Nixon won a seat in Congress in 1948 by denouncing the communist threat in California where there were very few communists. His hatred of communism came across to us as sincere even though we all knew that America was so diverse with so many governments that communism would never succeed here. As President during the last years of the Vietnam War, history gave him a chance to kill communists. His massive bombing of Cambodia killed a lot of them. Then in 1972 he spied a chance to kill a whole communist system. He visited China and opened it up to capitalism and free enterprise. Massive cheap Chinese labor and industrial technologies imported or stolen from developed economies was the knife needed to lop off the head of the red menace. We are now almost 50 years into Nixon’s anti communist foreign policy in China and a capitalistic tool invented in America is now being used successfully by the communist Chinese government to buy up corporations globally. Tricky Dick Nixon gave China along with free enterprise the trick America used to produce gigantic economic growth: keep increasing the country's money supply even though the new capital created is not based on some prior real collateral value.. The trick worked. America advanced titanically by using money created freely based on nothing to finance production that justified the free expansion of the money supply by producing real wealth by real industrial output. Every foreign nation received the American capital-raising trick as a working part of free-enterprise capitalism by relating the value of its currency to the dollar. Everyone could create all the money they wished as long as they were willing to take the consequences if they used it badly. While China created a money supply only for its local national business enterprises who cared how they created it or who controlled the use of the new supplies of capital?  Corporations develop in advanced economies with new money based on nothing but that’s okay. That’s how the trick works. That’s how capitalism frees businessmen to be creative and along with their economic freedom political freedoms are supposed to follow. So let’s ask a simple question: how does a Chinese businessman, Mr. X, buy a technologically-advanced German manufacturing business for say 55 million euros? Has Mr. X climbed his way up the free enterprise competitive ladder so successfully that he has 55 million (speaking figuratively) in his pockets? Well, the story of how Mr. X got such deep pockets is long and complicated but the answer is true and short, no. His pockets are full because behind him is a chain of financial organizations and interconnected agencies that are difficult to pin down exactly but do in fact go back at some point directly to the dictatorial communist government that tricky Dick majestically adorned with capitalism and free enterprise. It’s still capitalism but free enterprise is out the window because the playing field is no longer level if corporations must compete without government aid to acquire fresh capital while a powerful central Chinese communist government can effortlessly create all the capital it needs and ship it all over the globe where there are enormous opportunities for any organization with a lot of capital to create a lot more by buying up technologically-advanced local corporations.State capitalism on a grand scale was first tried in Germany under Hitler. It showed the world that capitalism works fine when a central government creates most of the capital and distributes it to its carefully selected subordinates. Political freedom is out the window in China along with President Nixon’s naive belief that free enterprise was enough to defeat a tyrannical communist political system.

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