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.They are forming agreements and jointventures among themselves to achieve their goal of independence from the cabal.The OPEC countries know that the cabal has set up its Caspian Sea pipelines in aneffort to undercut it, and the European Union countries have experienced continual threatsand assaults on their economies from the cabal.The U.S.Treasury Secretary, for example,threatens to weaken the dollar whenever the European Union nations are perceived to begetting out of line with cabal policy.A weaker dollar is a direct attack on the othereconomies of the world.Many regimes throughout the world are equally fascistic and dictatorial in thetreatment of their people.However, in numerous ways average Americans are far worse offthan our European counterparts in this age of dollar imperialism.Though there have beenrecent cutbacks, most Europeans still have free health care, free education through theuniversity level, adequate retirement for the elderly, an average of five weeks paidvacation, and sick leave and parental leave.Spending for social programs in Europe runsabout 50 percent above that in the United States.Alternate energy development (wind,hydro, tidal and hydrogen cell power), food safety, organic and anti-GM laws, and laborlaws are already in place--the envy of ecology activists in the U.S.Many of the ways in which Europe is forging ahead of America, in this era of the Bushjunta, have been described by Steven Hill in a January 2006 essay titled "Europe Leavesthe U.S.Behind" on the Common Dreams Website.In the political realm, Europe utilizes full representation electoral systems thatgives representation to voters across the political spectrum, public financing of53 elections that fosters debate, universal voter registration, voting on a weekend or ona holiday, and national electoral commissions that establish nationwide standardsand practices.Women and third parties have far greater representation at all levelsof government.In the U.S., we are still stuck with our 18th-century winner-take-allsystem, privately financed elections, poor voter participation, poll-tested sound bitesaimed at undecided swing voters, voting on a busy work day, and haywiredecentralized election administration left to over 3000 counties scattered across thecountry.In the media realm, Europe boasts a robust public broadcasting sector (radio andTV) and subsidized daily newspapers, leading to more media pluralism, a better-informed citizenry, more people reading newspapers, and a higher level of whatpolitical scientist Henry Milner calls "civic literacy." In the U.S., we are still stuckwith corporate media gatekeepers, media monopolies, an astonishing loss of politicalideas and a poorly informed citizenry.In the economic realm, Europeans have developed practices such as'codetermination,' which provides meaningful worker representation on corporateboards of directors, and powerful works councils in the workplaces.There is moreof a balance of stockholder and stakeholder rights, forcing business leaders toconfer more extensively with their workers and labor unions.There also arecontinent wide minimum labor and environmental standards, including moreunion-friendly laws.Taken together, these fulcrum institutions work coherently to form the basis of a'European Way' that is distinctly different from the 'American Way.' This providesa rough blueprint of where institutional development in the United States needs togo in the 21st century.Those who care about the future of our country should taketheir cues from Europe.Coalition Energy and Military MightThese coalition nations wield political and economic clout because of their vast energyreserves and their growing military might.In 2006 Russia is likely to surpass Saudi Arabiaas the world's largest oil exporter.Both Japan and China are trying to negotiate withRussia to build a pipeline that would serve their energy needs.Iran is currently producing about 4 million barrels per day, but is thought to becapable of boosting its output by another 3 million barrels or so.According to Oil and GasJournal, Iran has an estimated 940 trillion cubic feet of gas, or approximately 16% of totalworld reserves.Only Russia, with 1,680 trillion cubic feet, has a larger supply.As it takes approximately 6,000 cubic feet of gas to equal the energy content of 1 barrelof oil, Iran's gas reserves represent the equivalent of about 155 billion barrels of oil.This,in turn, means that its combined hydrocarbon reserves are the equivalent of some 280billion barrels of oil, just slightly behind Saudi Arabia's combined supply.At present, Iran54 is producing only a small share of its gas reserves, about 2.7 trillion cubic feet per year.This means that Iran is one of the few countries capable of supplying much larger amountsof natural gas in the future.China's is aggressively pursuing oil and gas supplies, and has already signed deliverycontracts with Angola, Canada, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudanand Venezuela.In November 2004, a mega-gas deal between Beijing and Tehran worth$100 billion was finalized.Billed as the "deal of the century" by various analysts, thisagreement is likely to increase by another $50 to $100 billion, bringing the total close to$200 billion, when a similar oil agreement, currently being negotiated, is completed.The gas deal between China and Iran entails the annual export of some 10 million tonsof Iranian liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a 25-year period, as well as the participation, byChina's state oil company, in such projects as exploration and drilling, petrochemical andgas industries, pipelines, services and the like.The export of LNG requires special cargoships, however, so Iran is currently investing several billion dollars in adding to its smallLNG-equipped fleet.Putin is now contemplating the possibility of being supplanted by China if Russia losesthe confidence of Tehran and appears willing to trade favors with Washington over Iran [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.They are forming agreements and jointventures among themselves to achieve their goal of independence from the cabal.The OPEC countries know that the cabal has set up its Caspian Sea pipelines in aneffort to undercut it, and the European Union countries have experienced continual threatsand assaults on their economies from the cabal.The U.S.Treasury Secretary, for example,threatens to weaken the dollar whenever the European Union nations are perceived to begetting out of line with cabal policy.A weaker dollar is a direct attack on the othereconomies of the world.Many regimes throughout the world are equally fascistic and dictatorial in thetreatment of their people.However, in numerous ways average Americans are far worse offthan our European counterparts in this age of dollar imperialism.Though there have beenrecent cutbacks, most Europeans still have free health care, free education through theuniversity level, adequate retirement for the elderly, an average of five weeks paidvacation, and sick leave and parental leave.Spending for social programs in Europe runsabout 50 percent above that in the United States.Alternate energy development (wind,hydro, tidal and hydrogen cell power), food safety, organic and anti-GM laws, and laborlaws are already in place--the envy of ecology activists in the U.S.Many of the ways in which Europe is forging ahead of America, in this era of the Bushjunta, have been described by Steven Hill in a January 2006 essay titled "Europe Leavesthe U.S.Behind" on the Common Dreams Website.In the political realm, Europe utilizes full representation electoral systems thatgives representation to voters across the political spectrum, public financing of53 elections that fosters debate, universal voter registration, voting on a weekend or ona holiday, and national electoral commissions that establish nationwide standardsand practices.Women and third parties have far greater representation at all levelsof government.In the U.S., we are still stuck with our 18th-century winner-take-allsystem, privately financed elections, poor voter participation, poll-tested sound bitesaimed at undecided swing voters, voting on a busy work day, and haywiredecentralized election administration left to over 3000 counties scattered across thecountry.In the media realm, Europe boasts a robust public broadcasting sector (radio andTV) and subsidized daily newspapers, leading to more media pluralism, a better-informed citizenry, more people reading newspapers, and a higher level of whatpolitical scientist Henry Milner calls "civic literacy." In the U.S., we are still stuckwith corporate media gatekeepers, media monopolies, an astonishing loss of politicalideas and a poorly informed citizenry.In the economic realm, Europeans have developed practices such as'codetermination,' which provides meaningful worker representation on corporateboards of directors, and powerful works councils in the workplaces.There is moreof a balance of stockholder and stakeholder rights, forcing business leaders toconfer more extensively with their workers and labor unions.There also arecontinent wide minimum labor and environmental standards, including moreunion-friendly laws.Taken together, these fulcrum institutions work coherently to form the basis of a'European Way' that is distinctly different from the 'American Way.' This providesa rough blueprint of where institutional development in the United States needs togo in the 21st century.Those who care about the future of our country should taketheir cues from Europe.Coalition Energy and Military MightThese coalition nations wield political and economic clout because of their vast energyreserves and their growing military might.In 2006 Russia is likely to surpass Saudi Arabiaas the world's largest oil exporter.Both Japan and China are trying to negotiate withRussia to build a pipeline that would serve their energy needs.Iran is currently producing about 4 million barrels per day, but is thought to becapable of boosting its output by another 3 million barrels or so.According to Oil and GasJournal, Iran has an estimated 940 trillion cubic feet of gas, or approximately 16% of totalworld reserves.Only Russia, with 1,680 trillion cubic feet, has a larger supply.As it takes approximately 6,000 cubic feet of gas to equal the energy content of 1 barrelof oil, Iran's gas reserves represent the equivalent of about 155 billion barrels of oil.This,in turn, means that its combined hydrocarbon reserves are the equivalent of some 280billion barrels of oil, just slightly behind Saudi Arabia's combined supply.At present, Iran54 is producing only a small share of its gas reserves, about 2.7 trillion cubic feet per year.This means that Iran is one of the few countries capable of supplying much larger amountsof natural gas in the future.China's is aggressively pursuing oil and gas supplies, and has already signed deliverycontracts with Angola, Canada, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudanand Venezuela.In November 2004, a mega-gas deal between Beijing and Tehran worth$100 billion was finalized.Billed as the "deal of the century" by various analysts, thisagreement is likely to increase by another $50 to $100 billion, bringing the total close to$200 billion, when a similar oil agreement, currently being negotiated, is completed.The gas deal between China and Iran entails the annual export of some 10 million tonsof Iranian liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a 25-year period, as well as the participation, byChina's state oil company, in such projects as exploration and drilling, petrochemical andgas industries, pipelines, services and the like.The export of LNG requires special cargoships, however, so Iran is currently investing several billion dollars in adding to its smallLNG-equipped fleet.Putin is now contemplating the possibility of being supplanted by China if Russia losesthe confidence of Tehran and appears willing to trade favors with Washington over Iran [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]