THE SHADOW WORLD GOVERNMENT

The tyrannical police actions against protesters at the Copenhagen, Denmark Climate Change Conference are the same as actions in the United States against Globalization at the World Trade Organization in Seattle several years ago and many others, as at recent political party conventions. We used to think that most developed European nations were more respectful of rights, but it looks like when major international conferences happen anywhere in the developed world the same police actions will be expected. Peaceful protesters will be surveilled, harassed, arrested on spurious charges, denied expression of speech. Who's behind this?

I think we're seeing the shape of a shadow world government connecting the developed nations and subsuming and exploiting the underdeveloped ones. This secret government consists of governments, their intelligence organizations, the United Nations, big international corporations and some other powerful elites who don't make news headlines. This government isn't democratic by a long shot. It doesn't care about justice or rights or the people, especially the poor or just the average wage earner. It is totalitarian through and through. It cares only about power, elites and the survival of that cadre of privileged people. These are very savvy people, not denialists of the dire issues facing humanity. They may realize that climate change will lead to ecotastrophe and it is making sure that when the millions die of starvation and other environmental catastrophes and social collapse that they will survive. They may even have plans to encourage this die off, fully realizing that the earth is overpopulated, although they don't like people to talk about this grave problem because that would likely cause panic.

We also see the machinations at the Climate Change Conference that undermine any real effective solutions to climate change. That would force us to change our ways of life and the world economy would suffer a drastic change. Too many people have too much to lose in the short term, but humanity will lose in the long term.

NAFTA, the proliferation of secret treaties, the increase in power and scope of the security state, preventive and possibly perpetual wars and failure to get a national public healthcare are other signs that project the outlines of this dark shadow. It's all about exploitation of the common people for the advantage of the few. We have already seen this in the so called conservative (read Republican) political programs that allow more and more corporate control over society in the name of freedom, the free market and other emotional buzzwords that hide nefarious intentions. Primarily, these intentions are driven by greed, not a rational motivation.

A world wide police state and empire, led by the United States, has been created over the past few decades. And it is growing. However, the current world-wide economic crisis may demonstrate that the empire is already in decline. That makes it even more dangerous.

This screed may sound paranoid, and I hope it is, but it is entirely too plausible. It can easily exist because governments and large corporations have the power and means to make it so. Whether it can be brought to heel by mass actions of people remains to be seen. It may be too late. Any popular action will probably result in the deaths of thousands of people in the name of national security, law and order. And the police state will at least have shown its ugly head.

Why the majority of us aren't outraged by these government and police actions that violate our rights should be disturbing. It appears that the majority of people around the world don't realize that the current world-wide government and financial policies portend the end of civilization as we know it. If we don't act this outcome is almost a certainty within the next century. If this happens there is one positive effect ameliorating the suffering: that the environment will recover. Then, we can hope that a more sane civilization might arise from these fertile ashes.