Mendacious War Criminal Obama’s Final Speech To The UN General Assembly
by Dr Gideon Polya (*) — CounterCurrents — September 24, 2016
http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/09/24/mendacious-war-criminal-obamas-final-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly/
America’s mendacious, serial invader, war criminal, climate
criminal and human rights-violating President Barack Obama made his
last speech to the UN General Assembly on 20 September 2016, a
speech characterized by massive lying by omission that is far, far
worse than lying by commission because the latter can at least be
refuted and subject to public debate. As revealed by Edward Snowden,
America spies on everyone in America and the world, but Obama
managed to comprehensively ignore a veritable Herd of Elephants in
the Room as detailed in the following analysis of his last UN
speech. As Dr Paul Craig Roberts has stated: “Washington lies about
everything”.
The transcript of President Obama’s final speech to the UN [1] is
reproduced below with key matters he has ignored set out succinctly
in square brackets, together with appropriate detailed
documentation.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:
- Mr. President; Mr. Secretary General; fellow delegates; ladies
and gentlemen: As I address this hall as President for the
final time, let me recount the progress that we’ve made these
last eight years.
[The atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased to 405 ppm CO2 and
is increasing at a record 3 ppm CO2 per year; a catastrophic plus 2C
temperature rise is now unavoidable, plus 1.5C may occur by 2020,
and the current plus 1C is already catastrophic for tropical Island
States and megadelta countries like Bangladesh [2]; the coal-to-gas
conversion by the US under Obama locks in disastrous long-term
greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution [3]; 17 million people die avoidably
from deprivation each year, about half of them children [4]; 7
million die from air pollution each year [5, 6]; the US Alliance has
invaded 20 overwhelmingly or significantly Muslim countries since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity, this being associated
with 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5 million) or from war-
or hegemony-imposed deprivation (27 million) [7, 8] ].
- From the depths of the greatest financial crisis of our time,
we coordinated our response to avoid further catastrophe and
return the global economy to growth. We’ve taken away terrorist
safe havens, strengthened the nonproliferation regime, resolved
the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomacy. We opened
relations with Cuba, helped Colombia end Latin America’s longest
war, and we welcome a democratically elected leader of Myanmar
to this Assembly. Our assistance is helping people feed
themselves, care for the sick, power communities across Africa,
and promote models of development rather than dependence. And
we have made international institutions like the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund more representative, while
establishing a framework to protect our planet from the ravages
of climate change.
[US-complicit military coups in Honduras, Ukraine and Egypt;
US-complicit parliamentary coup in Brazil; US Alliance military
intervention in 20 countries this century associated with the active
or passive killing of 32 million Muslims[4, 7, 9-12] ; after the
Global Financial Crisis the US rewarded the banker criminals whereas
Iceland sent them all to jail; the US Alliance devastated Libya,
formerly the richest country in Africa, and devastated secular
Syria, converting half the population to refugees in a country that
was formerly the world’s leading country for per capita hosting of
refugees [9]; the US Alliance created ISIS in Iraq [11] and backed
ISIS in Syria against the secular Assad Government in the interests
of Apartheid Israel, US hegemony and a “Sunni gas pipeline” from
Qatar to the Mediterranean [13]; while Iran has no nuclear weapons
and declares it does not want them, US-backed Apartheid Israel has
as many as 400 nuclear weapons and acquired them with US assistance
[14]].
- This is important work. It has made a real difference in the
lives of our people. And it could not have happened had we not
worked together. And yet, around the globe we are seeing the
same forces of global integration that have made us
interdependent also expose deep fault lines in the existing
international order.
[Under the existing international order 17 million people die
avoidably from deprivation each year on Spaceship Earth with a
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-beholden US
Government in charge of the flight deck [4]; America with 4% of the
world’s population consumes 25% of its resources; the variously
dissident BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa) have moved toward an alternative, radical proposition
derived from the American Declaration of Independence, specifically
that “all men are created equal”].
- We see it in the headlines every day. Around the world,
refugees flow across borders in flight from brutal conflict.
Financial disruptions continue to weigh upon our workers and
entire communities. Across vast swaths of the Middle East,
basic security, basic order has broken down. We see too many
governments muzzling journalists, and quashing dissent, and
censoring the flow of information. Terrorist networks use
social media to prey upon the minds of our youth, endangering
open societies and spurring anger against innocent immigrants
and Muslims. Powerful nations contest the constraints placed on
them by international law.
[There are 65 million refugees in the world today, half being
Muslims fleeing genocidal US Alliance wars in their countries [9];
the US and US Alliance countries are exceptionalist, ignore
international law and currently invade some 20 impoverished and
largely or substantially Muslim countries at will [7, 9]; the Obama
Administrations and their lackey US Alliance countries have been
complicit in “muzzling journalists, and quashing dissent, and
censoring the flow of information” as illustrated by the conduct of
US –backed regimes throughout the world, through the “manufacturing
consent” by compliant US and US Alliance Mainstream media [15-17],
and, notoriously, by the US in relation to remorselessly pursuing
the world hero whistle-blowers Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and
Julian Assange].
- This is the paradox that defines our world today. A quarter
century after the end of the Cold War, the world is by many
measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before, and
yet our societies are filled with uncertainty, and unease, and
strife. Despite enormous progress, as people lose trust in
institutions, governing becomes more difficult and tensions
between nations become more quick to surface.
[People have lost trust in the mendacity of governments that is well
illustrated by the comprehensive mendacity of the Obama
Administrations as outlined here; the US Center for Public Integrity
found that the Bush Administration told 935 lies between 9-11 and
the invasion of Iraq [18]; Pullitzer Prize-wining journalist Seymour
Hersh dismissed Obama’s “official story” of the extra-judicial
killing of Osama bin-Laden as a pack of lies except for the killing
[19] – Dr Paul Craig Roberts went one further and stated that even
the asserted killing of Osama bin-Laden was a lie [20]; numerous
science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and
intelligence experts reject the “lying Bush official version” of
9-11 [8] but Obama accepts it , strongly opposed release of
documents revealing Saudi complicity in 9-11, and is resolutely
opposed to legislation allowing the relatives of 9-11 victims to
sue foreign governments over their loss; lying and secrecy mean that
Obama and the US Establishment are accessories after the fact of
the 9-11 atrocity].
- And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice. We
can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation
and integration. Or we can retreat into a world sharply
divided, and ultimately in conflict, along age-old lines of
nation and tribe and race and religion.
[The US has long rejected “age-old lines of nation” in relation to
other nations, and since 1776 has invaded over 70 nations [21]; with
US troops on the ground in Syria, the US presently has military
bases in 75 nations [23]; the US Alliance has been invading and
devastating Muslim countries since the US Government’s 9-11 false
flag atrocity, this being associated with 32 million Muslim deaths
from violence (5 million) or from war- or hegemony-imposed
deprivation (27 million) [7, 9]; the Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted US backs nuclear
terrorist, racist Zionist (RZ)-run, genocidally racist,
democracy-by-genocide Apartheid Israel that is obscenely based
“along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion”;
the long-term accrual cost of US support for Apartheid Israel is
at least $40 trillion [24]; in one of his last acts as president,
Obama announced a $38 billion military package for serial war
criminal Apartheid Israel over the next decade [25]].
- I want to suggest to you today that we must go forward, and
not backward. I believe that as imperfect as they are, the
principles of open markets and accountable governance, of
democracy and human rights and international law that we have
forged remain the firmest foundation for human progress in this
century. I make this argument not based on theory or ideology,
but on facts — facts that all too often, we forget in the
immediacy of current events.
[The “open markets” espoused by Obama is theory and ideology;
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern has described climate change inaction
as the greatest market failure in human history [26]; the presently
dominant economic ideology of neoliberalism means maximizing the
freedom of the smart and advantaged to exploit natural and human
resources for private profit [27, 28], and has evidently failed, as
evidenced by a continuing financial crisis, a worsening climate
emergency (already catastrophic for some countries) and a worsening
climate genocide that will see 10 billion people perishing this
century if climate change is not requisitely addressed [29]].
- Here’s the most important fact: The integration of our global
economy has made life better for billions of men, women and
children. Over the last 25 years, the number of people living
in extreme poverty has been cut from nearly 40 percent of
humanity to under 10 percent. That’s unprecedented. And it’s
not an abstraction. It means children have enough to eat;
mothers don’t die in childbirth..
[According to World Hunger: “ The United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of
the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering
from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016. Almost all the hungry
people, 780 million, live in developing countries, representing 12.9
percent, or one in eight, of the population of developing counties”
[30], i.e. in 2014-2016 about 11% of the world suffered chronic
undernourishment. 17 million people die avoidably each year from
deprivation in the Developing World minus China , about half being
children [4]. According to the World Bank “According to the most
recent estimates, in 2012, 12.7 percent of the world’s population
lived at or below $1.90 a day. That’s down from 37 percent in 1990
and 44 percent in 1981. This means that, in 2012, 896 million people
lived on less than $1.90 a day, compared with 1.95 billion in 1990,
and 1.99 billion in 1981 ” [31] ].
- Meanwhile, cracking the genetic code promises to cure diseases
that have plagued us for centuries. The Internet can deliver
the entirety of human knowledge to a young girl in a remote
village on a single hand-held device. In medicine and in
manufacturing, in education and communications, we’re
experiencing a transformation of how human beings live on a
scale that recalls the revolutions in agriculture and industry.
And as a result, a person born today is more likely to be
healthy, to live longer, and to have access to opportunity than
at any time in human history.
[Obama’s optimistic Eurocentric vision does not apply to the Third
Word in which 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation and
deprivation-exacerbated disease each year [4]; there is a worsening
climate genocide that will see 10 billion people perishing this
century if climate change is not requisitely addressed [29]].
- Moreover, the collapse of colonialism and communism has
allowed more people than ever before to live with the freedom to
choose their leaders. Despite the real and troubling areas
where freedom appears in retreat, the fact remains that the
number of democracies around the world has nearly doubled in the
last 25 years.
[Obama as a serial war criminal and serial invader has an appalling
record of denying numerous nations “the freedom to choose their
leaders” – under Obama the US Alliance has invaded 20 overwhelmingly
or significantly Muslim countries since the US Government’s 9-11
false flag atrocity, this ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide being associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from
violence (5 million) or from war- or hegemony-imposed deprivation
(27 million) since the US Government’s 9-11 false-flag atrocity in
2001 [7-9]; under Obama the US has backed the removal of
democratically-elected government in Honduras and the Ukraine and of
a democratically-elected president in Brazil; under Obama the US
continues to subvert every nation on earth; most democracies are
faux democracies in which Big Money has replaced Democracy with
Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy, Corporatocracy
and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people, politicians,
parties, public perception of reality, political power and thence
more private profit – with much of this Big Money coming from
tax-avoiding US corporations].
- In remote corners of the world, citizens are demanding respect
for the dignity of all people no matter their gender, or race,
or religion, or disability, or sexual orientation, and those who
deny others dignity are subject to public reproach. An
explosion of social media has given ordinary people more ways to
express themselves, and has raised people’s expectations for
those of us in power. Indeed, our international order has been
so successful that we take it as a given that great powers no
longer fight world wars; that the end of the Cold War lifted the
shadow of nuclear Armageddon; that the battlefields of Europe
have been replaced by peaceful union; that China and India
remain on a path of remarkable growth.
[The overwhelmingly dominant One Percenter-owned Mainstream media
are still deceiving the people and “manufacturing consent” [15];
the nuclear threat remains – the upper estimates of stored nuclear
weapons are as follows: US (7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid
Israel (400), France (300), UK (250), China (250), Pakistan (120),
India (100), and North Korea (less than 10) [32]; under Obama the US
backed a neo-Nazi coup in the Ukraine and has escalated military
confrontation in Eastern Europe leading to serious fears of a
nuclear and terminal WW3 [33, 34]; the rapid economic growth of the
populous countries China and India means that CO2 pollution is
increasing at a record 3 ppm CO2 per year, although the annual per
capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in tonnes CO2-equivalent per
person per year is 8.9 (world average), 41.0 (US), 7.4 (China) and
2.1 (India) [35, 36].
- I say all this not to whitewash the challenges we face, or to
suggest complacency. Rather, I believe that we need to
acknowledge these achievements in order to summon the confidence
to carry this progress forward and to make sure that we do not
abandon those very things that have delivered this progress.
[See point #11. Obama is whitewashing the nuclear, poverty and
climate change threats [32, 33] – indeed Boycotts, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) should be applied against the worst GHG polluting
countries [35, 36] and all countries that refuse to join the present
127 nations who support the Nuclear Weapons Ban [34]].
- In order to move forward, though, we do have to acknowledge
that the existing path to global integration requires a course
correction. As too often, those trumpeting the benefits of
globalization have ignored inequality within and among nations;
have ignored the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian
identities; have left international institutions ill-equipped,
underfunded, under-resourced, in order to handle transnational
challenges.
[Obama is egregiously guilty of such “ignoring” e.g. ignoring the
17 million people who die avoidably from deprivation each year,
about half of them children [4] and, within the US, the over 27% of
African Americans who live in poverty [37]].
- And as these real problems have been neglected, alternative
visions of the world have pressed forward both in the wealthiest
countries and in the poorest: Religious fundamentalism; the
politics of ethnicity, or tribe, or sect; aggressive
nationalism; a crude populism — sometimes from the far left, but
more often from the far right — which seeks to restore what they
believe was a better, simpler age free of outside contamination.
[Under serial invader and serial war criminal Obama an
“exceptionalist” US has continued “aggressive nationalism” with
the US Alliance invading 20 overwhelmingly or significantly Muslim
countries since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity, this
being associated with 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5
million) or from war- or hegemony-imposed deprivation (27 million)
[7, 8] ]; “religious fundamentalism; the politics of ethnicity, or
tribe, or sect; aggressive nationalism; a crude populism” are
exhibited by US-backed, nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist-run,
genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide, neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel
in its ongoing Palestinian Genocide [10] and its powerful espousal
via the Zionist Lobby of the ongoing Muslim Holocaust and Muslim
Genocide [7-9, 11, 12]].
- We cannot dismiss these visions. They are powerful. They
reflect dissatisfaction among too many of our citizens. I do
not believe those visions can deliver security or prosperity
over the long term, but I do believe that these visions fail to
recognize, at a very basic level, our common humanity.
Moreover, I believe that the acceleration of travel and
technology and telecommunications — together with a global
economy that depends on a global supply chain — makes it
self-defeating ultimately for those who seek to reverse this
progress. Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison
itself.
[“Dissatisfaction among too many of our citizens” – the “too many”
have an awful lot to be dissatisfied about both globally and
domestically in the US. Thus globally nearly 1 billion live in dire
poverty and suffer chronic malnourishment [30, 31] with 17 million
dying from deprivation annually, about half being children [4], and
the Muslim world subject to a Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide
in which there have been 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5
million) or from war- or hegemony-imposed deprivation (27 million)
since the US Government’s 9-11 false-flag atrocity in 2001 [7, 8].
Domestically, 1.7 million Americans die preventably each year, this
carnage being inescapably linked to the fiscal perversions of the
$40 trillion long-term accrual cost of Apartheid Israel to America
[38] and successive Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist
(NAZI)-perverted Administrations committing trillions of dollars
to killing Muslims abroad in the War on Terror (the War on Muslims)
rather than keeping Americans alive at home [39]. American incomes
have flat-lined for decades of course, as for African Americans
under America’s first black president, 27% live in poverty,
African
American wealth is about 5 times lower than that of Whites,
millions of African Americans are excluded from voting, African
Americans are 8 times more likely to murder and 6 times more
likely to be murdered than Whites, Educational Apartheid has meant
return of Segregation with a vengeance, and African Americans and
Hispanic Americans have about half their “fair share” of
representatives in Congress and 5-6 times less Congressional
representation than Jewish Americans (despite being collectively
about 10 times more population-wise) [37]].
- So the answer cannot be a simple rejection of global
integration. Instead, we must work together to make sure the
benefits of such integration are broadly shared, and that the
disruptions — economic, political, and cultural — that are
caused by integration are squarely addressed. This is not the
place for a detailed policy blueprint, but let me offer in broad
strokes those areas where I believe we must do better together.
[“Global integration” means that manufacturing jobs go to where the
wages are lowest in a new version of slavery that ignores the
fundamental human right to a decent life. The British (a) abolished
slavery in Britain when rural Enclosures generated the effective
slavery of a minimum wage industrial working class; (b) later
replaced slavery in the British colonies by minimally paid
“indentured labour” (e.g. the “5-year slavery of Indian indentured
labour in Fiji that finally ceased in 1922 [40] ); and (c) today
exploit Third World labour by the effective slavery of “global
integration” ].
- It starts with making the global economy work better for all
people and not just for those at the top. While open markets,
capitalism have raised standards of living around the globe,
globalization combined with rapid progress and technology has
also weakened the position of workers and their ability to
secure a decent wage. In advanced economies like my own, unions
have been undermined, and many manufacturing jobs have
disappeared. Often, those who benefit most from globalization
have used their political power to further undermine the
position of workers.
[In the US the average wage has flat-lined in real terms for decades
but the One Percenter and Ten Percenter share of annual income has
steadily increased for decades, this phenomenon also obtaining
elsewhere in the Anglosphere [41-43].
- In developing countries, labor organizations have often been
suppressed, and the growth of the middle class has been held
back by corruption and underinvestment. Mercantilist policies
pursued by governments with export-driven models threaten to
undermine the consensus that underpins global trade. And
meanwhile, global capital is too often unaccountable — nearly $8
trillion stashed away in tax havens, a shadow banking system
that grows beyond the reach of effective oversight.
[US corporations are massively involved in egregious global tax
avoidance which contributes to the inequity that in turn drives the
Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust in which 17 million people die
avoidably from deprivation every year [4]. By backing
anti-democratic neofascist and neoliberal regimes around the world,
America, including the US under Obama, massively contributes to
suppression of labour organizations].
- A world in which one percent of humanity controls as much
wealth as the other 99 percent will never be stable. I
understand that the gaps between rich and poor are not new, but
just as the child in a slum today can see the skyscraper nearby,
technology now allows any person with a smartphone to see how
the most privileged among us live and the contrast between their
own lives and others. Expectations rise, then, faster than
governments can deliver, and a pervasive sense of injustice
undermine people’s faith in the system.
[But in harsh reality Obama is part of the One Percent, represents
the One Percent politically and is dedicated to the deceit,
manipulation and variously egregiously violent suppression of the
99%].
- So how do we fix this imbalance? We cannot unwind integration
any more than we can stuff technology back into a box. Nor can
we look to failed models of the past. If we start resorting to
trade wars, market distorting subsidies, beggar thy neighbor
policies, an overreliance on natural resources instead of
innovation — these approaches will make us poorer, collectively,
and they are more like to lead to conflict. And the stark
contrast between, say, the success of the Republic of Korea and
the wasteland of North Korea shows that central, planned control
of the economy is a dead end.
[Professor Thomas Piketty in his seminal book “Capital in the
Twenty-First Century” argues that gross inequity damages democracy
(Big Money buys votes) and damages the economy (the poor cannot
afford to buy the goods and services they produce) . Piketty argues
for wealth transparency and a global annual wealth tax of up to 10%
[41, 42], noting that France has an annual wealth tax of up to 1.5%
and Islam has had an annual wealth tax of 2.5% (zakkat) for 1,400
years [43]. It is estimated that an annual global wealth tax of
4% could abolish the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust and
prevent 17 million people from dying avoidably from deprivation
every year – an annual global wealth tax of about 4% would yield
US$16 trillion annually and enable raising all countries to annual
per capita incomes equivalent to the $6,000 per person per year of
China and Cuba, countries for which annual avoidable mortality is
zero (0) [44]. One can well understand why One Percenter Obama
ignores the wealth tax option. As for North Korea, it has been
subject to frightening military hostility from the genocidally
violent US for about 70 years, and US bombing in 1950-1953 killed
28% of the population [45]].
- But I do believe there’s another path — one that fuels growth
and innovation, and offers the clearest route to individual
opportunity and national success. It does not require
succumbing to a soulless capitalism that benefits only the few,
but rather recognizes that economies are more successful when we
close the gap between rich and poor, and growth is broadly
based. And that means respecting the rights of workers so they
can organize into independent unions and earn a living wage. It
means investing in our people — their skills, their education,
their capacity to take an idea and turn it into a business. It
means strengthening the safety net that protects our people from
hardship and allows them to take more risks — to look for a new
job, or start a new venture.
[Great rhetoric from a neoliberal, corporatist, One Percenter
president Obama under whom 1.7 million Americans die preventably
every year [39]].
- These are the policies that I’ve pursued here in the United
States, and with clear results. American businesses have
created now 15 million new jobs. After the recession, the top
one percent of Americans were capturing more than 90 percent of
income growth. But today, that’s down to about half. Last
year, poverty in this country fell at the fastest rate in nearly
50 years. And with further investment in infrastructure and
early childhood education and basic research, I’m confident that
such progress will continue.
[One Percenter Obama is boasting that the One Percenters “only”
captured 45% of income growth after the recession].
- So just as I’ve pursued these measures here at home, so has
the United States worked with many nations to curb the excesses
of capitalism — not to punish wealth, but to prevent repeated
crises that can destroy it. That’s why we’ve worked with other
nations to create higher and clearer standards for banking and
taxation — because a society that asks less of oligarchs than
ordinary citizens will rot from within. That’s why we’ve pushed
for transparency and cooperation in rooting out corruption, and
tracking illicit dollars, because markets create more jobs when
they’re fueled by hard work, and not the capacity to extort a
bribe. That’s why we’ve worked to reach trade agreements that
raise labor standards and raise environmental standards, as
we’ve done with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, so that the
benefits are more broadly shared.
[The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is supported by US corporations
but opposed by both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton because it
will export American jobs to low wage countries. The TPP is opposed
by thoughtful pro-environment people in the Pacific Rim because it
will enable US corporations to successfully sue governments for
losses due to pro-environment legislation and other pro-environment
actions].
- And just as we benefit by combating inequality within our
countries, I believe advanced economies still need to do more to
close the gap between rich and poor nations around the globe.
This is difficult politically. It’s difficult to spend on
foreign assistance. But I do not believe this is charity. For
the small fraction of what we spent at war in Iraq we could
support institutions so that fragile states don’t collapse in
the first place, and invest in emerging economies that become
markets for our goods. It’s not just the right thing to do,
it’s the smart thing to do.
[For the serial war criminal US to stop perverting, subverting,
invading and devastating “fragile states” would be an obvious way
of preventing them from collapsing. Thus the US Alliance under Obama
has been war criminally invading and devastating 20 substantially
or significantly Muslim countries, impoverished nations in which
32 million Muslims have died from violence (5 million) or from
hegemony- and war-imposed deprivation (27 million) since 2001 [4, 7,
9]. The US-led France, UK and US (FUKUS) Coalition devastated Libya
(0.1 million dead, 1 million refugees). Libya was formerly the
richest country in Africa [4, 7, 9]].
- And that’s why we need to follow through on our efforts to
combat climate change. If we don’t act boldly, the bill that
could come due will be mass migrations, and cities submerged and
nations displaced, and food supplies decimated, and conflicts
born of despair. The Paris Agreement gives us a framework to
act, but only if we scale up our ambition. And there must be a
sense of urgency about bringing the agreement into force, and
helping poorer countries leapfrog destructive forms of energy.
[The atmospheric CO2 concentration is now 405 ppm CO2 and increasing
at a record 3 ppm CO2 per year; the species extinction rate is now
100-1,000 times greater than normal, this giving rise to the term
Anthropocene to describe the present era and the speciescide and
ecocide, leading to omnicide and terracide – the killing of our
Living Planet; coral reefs are hugely important ocean ecosystems,
but they started bleaching worldwide when the atmospheric CO2
reached 320 ppm CO2, are endangered at the current 405 ppm CO2, and
are essentially doomed in a mere 15 years’ time at the 450 ppm CO2
predicted from the current increase at 3 ppm CO2 per year. The
annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in tonnes
CO2-equivalent per person per year is 8.9 (world average), 41.0
(US), 7.4 (China) and 2.1 (India) [35, 36]. Paris-recognized as
catastrophic, a plus 2C temperature rise is now unavoidable and the
present circa plus 1C is already disastrous for tropical Island
Nations and tropical mega-delta countries like Bangladesh [1, 2].
Indeed the lower Paris “target” of no more than plus 1.5C may be
exceeded as early as 2020 [46]]. Under Obama the US has embarked on
a massive coal-to-gas transition that locks in dirty energy for
decades and due to systemic gas leakage, gas burning for power
could be dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning [47-50].
- So, for the wealthiest countries, a Green Climate Fund should
only be the beginning. We need to invest in research and
provide market incentives to develop new technologies, and then
make these technologies accessible and affordable for poorer
countries. And only then can we continue lifting all people up
from poverty without condemning our children to a planet beyond
their capacity to repair.
[Not mentioned by Obama, we urgently need to stop burning carbon
fuels, deforestation, methanogenic livestock production and
population growth now. It is already too late to avoid massive
damage. “Condemning our children to a planet beyond their capacity
to repair” has effectively already happened. Thus assuming a
damage-related Carbon Price in US Dollars of $200 per tonne
CO2-equivalent (as estimated by Dr Chris Hope of 90-Nobel-Laureate
University of Cambridge), the World has n inescapable Carbon Debt
of $360 trillion that is increasing at $13 trillion per year, and,
for example, US lackey, climate criminal Australia, a world-leader
in annual per capita greenhouse (GHG) gas pollution, has a Carbon
Debt of $7.5 trillion that is increasing at $400 billion per year
and at $40,000 per head per year for under-30 year old Australians.
Young people will inescapably have to pay this huge and increasing
Carbon Debt – thus unless gigantic 20 meter sea walls are built,
coastal cities will drown [47]. Young people must wise up and
demand urgent climate action [51-55] and indeed a Climate Revolution
now! [55]].
- So we need new models for the global marketplace, models that
are inclusive and sustainable. And in the same way, we need
models of governance that are inclusive and accountable to
ordinary people.
[ What gross deception and hypocrisy by Obama. American policy
(“model of governance”) has always been “might is right” when it
comes to exploitable resources. To that end, the US has invaded 71
countries, has military bases in 75 and subverts every country on
earth. Thus the Iraq War continued under Obama and has now
transmuted into an endless War on Terror due to the US-provoked rise
of ISIS in Iraq and US Alliance support for this barbarous terrorist
organization in Syria against the secular Assad regime. The US
allies Turkey, Qatar. Apartheid Israel and Saudi Arabia contributed
significantly to the rise ISIS in Syria, this being consonant with
US policy to remove the secular Assad regime. Alan Greenspan on the
Right and Noam Chomsky on the Left both say that the Iraq War was
about oil. US Establishment intimate Robert Kennedy Junior says that
the Syrian War is in essence about a “Sunni gas pipeline” from Qatar
[13]].
- I recognize not every country in this hall is going to follow
the same model of governance. I do not think that America can —
or should — impose our system of government on other countries.
But there appears to be growing contest between authoritarianism
and liberalism right now. And I want everybody to understand, I
am not neutral in that contest. I believe in a liberal
political order — an order built not just through elections and
representative government, but also through respect for human
rights and civil society, and independent judiciaries and the
rule of law.
[Further egregious hypocrisy. America has repeatedly imposed its
“system of government” on other countries [4, 13, 21]. America has
invaded 71 countries, has military bases in 75 countries and indeed
subverts all countries in the world. Under war criminal Obama, the
US Alliance has invaded 20 countries [4, 21-23]. US drone
strikes, targeted with the help of US lackey Australia, are
presently being conducted against Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Indeed it seems likely that
world-leading US-Apartheid Israeli drone technology was involved in
the 9-11 attacks on the US itself (the alternative to this
hypothesis in the lying Bush “official version” of 9-11, to whit
that people learning to fly tiny, single-engined aircraft were
able to land huge passenger jets at high speed on a dime) [8]. How
the US has repeatedly “impose[d] our system of government on other
countries” was explained by former CIA operative Philip Agee in his
book “CIA Diary. Inside the Company” in relation to the US invasion
of the Dominican Republic [4] – invade, and then ban, imprison,
torture, kill or exile all those you don’t like and then hold
“democratic elections” [56]].
- I know that some countries, which now recognize the power of
free markets, still reject the model of free societies. And
perhaps those of us who have been promoting democracy feel
somewhat discouraged since the end of the Cold War, because
we’ve learned that liberal democracy will not just wash across
the globe in a single wave. It turns out building accountable
institutions is hard work — the work of generations. The gains
are often fragile. Sometimes we take one step forward and then
two steps back. In countries held together by borders drawn by
colonial powers, with ethnic enclaves and tribal divisions,
politics and elections can sometimes appear to be a zero-sum
game. And so, given the difficulty in forging true democracy in
the face of these pressures, it’s no surprise that some argue
the future favors the strongman, a top-down model, rather than
strong, democratic institutions.
[Obama’s “true democracy” in the West has degenerated into Big
Money-controlled Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Murdochracy, Lobbyocracy,
Corporatocracy and Dollarocracy in which Big Money purchases people,
politicians, parties, public perception of reality, political power
and thence more private profit. Fundamentally, democracy is about
practical expression of the will of the people and in 1-party Cuba
the desire of the people for good governance, health, and education
has been met – despite decades of war criminal US sanctions, Cuba
has excellent health services, female literacy is high and infant
mortality is the same as in the US [4]].
- But I believe this thinking is wrong. I believe the road of
true democracy remains the better path. I believe that in the
21st century, economies can only grow to a certain point until
they need to open up — because entrepreneurs need to access
information in order to invent; young people need a global
education in order to thrive; independent media needs to check
the abuses of power. Without this evolution, ultimately
expectations of people will not be met; suppression and
stagnation will set in. And history shows that strongmen are
then left with two paths — permanent crackdown, which sparks
strife at home, or scapegoating enemies abroad, which can lead
to war.
[War criminal Obama certainly knows about war – under war criminal
Obama the US Alliance has invaded 20 countries and civilized people
dread the prospect of a Hillary Clinton Administration in which she
will set out to prove that she is a “real man” by following and
indeed exceeding Obama’s murderous example].
- Now, I will admit, my belief that governments serve the
individual, and not the other way around, is shaped by America’s
story. Our nation began with a promise of freedom that applied
only to the few. But because of our democratic Constitution,
because of our Bill of Rights, because of our ideals, ordinary
people were able to organize, and march, and protest, and
ultimately, those ideals won out — opened doors for women and
minorities and workers in ways that made our economy more
productive and turned our diversity into a strength; that gave
innovators the chance to transform every area of human endeavor;
that made it possible for someone like me to be elected
President of the United States.
[A blood-thirsty Simon Legree rather than a subservient Uncle Tom,
One Percenter Obama is the willing servant of the Neocon American
and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-dominated One Percenter
Establishment running America. Indeed Obama is a classic example of
the embodiment of the dominant “Whiteness” culture of America. For
African Americans under America’s first Black president, 27% live
in poverty,
African American wealth is about 5 times lower
than that of Whites, millions of African Americans are excluded
from voting, African Americans are 8 times more likely to murder
and 6 times more likely to be murdered than Whites, Educational
Apartheid has meant return of Segregation with a vengeance, and
African Americans and Hispanic Americans have about half their
“fair share” of representatives in Congress and 5-6 times less
Congressional representation than Jewish Americans (despite
being collectively about 10 times more populous) [37]].
- So, yes, my views are shaped by the specific experiences of
America, but I do not think this story is unique to America.
Look at the transformation that’s taken place in countries as
different as Japan and Chile, Indonesia, Botswana. The
countries that have succeeded are ones in which people feel they
have a stake.
[However Obama’s asserted support for one-person-one-vote is
contradicted by his fanatical support for nuclear terrorist,
racist Zionist-run, genocidally racist, democracy-by-genocide,
neo-Nazi Apartheid Israel that denies 73% of its now 52% majority of
Indigenous Palestinians the right to vote for the government ruling
them. Obama is a genocidal racist, anti-Arab anti-Semite and
pathological liar in his support for Apartheid Israel in its
ongoing Palestinian Genocide [10]].
- In Europe, the progress of those countries in the former
Soviet bloc that embraced democracy stand in clear contrast to
those that did not. After all, the people of Ukraine did not
take to the streets because of some plot imposed from abroad.
They took to the streets because their leadership was for sale
and they had no recourse. They demanded change because they saw
life get better for people in the Baltics and in Poland,
societies that were more liberal, and democratic, and open than
their own.
[The neo-Nazi coup that overthrew the democratically elected
government in the Ukraine was backed by the US].
- So those of us who believe in democracy, we need to speak out
forcefully, because both the facts and history, I believe, are
on our side. That doesn’t mean democracies are without flaws.
It does mean that the cure for what ails our democracies is
greater engagement by our citizens — not less.
[See point #32 – racist Obama supports Apartheid in Palestine just
as his racist presidential predecessors supported Apartheid in South
Africa [4]].
- Yes, in America, there is too much money in politics; too much
entrenched partisanship; too little participation by citizens,
in part because of a patchwork of laws that makes it harder to
vote. In Europe, a well-intentioned Brussels often became too
isolated from the normal push and pull of national politics.
Too often, in capitals, decision-makers have forgotten that
democracy needs to be driven by civic engagement from the bottom
up, not governance by experts from the top down. And so these
are real problems, and as leaders of democratic governments make
the case for democracy abroad, we better strive harder to set a
better example at home.
[Under Barack “Simon Legree” Obama, millions of Black Americans are
denied the vote under anti-felony laws and according to Dr Michelle
Alexander of the NAACP, nearly 80% of adult male Black Americans in
Chicago are denied the right to vote [57, 58]].
- Moreover, every country will organize its government informed
by centuries of history, and the circumstances of geography, and
the deeply held beliefs of its people. So I recognize a
traditional society may value unity and cohesion more than a
diverse country like my own, which was founded upon what, at the
time, was a radical idea — the idea of the liberty of individual
human beings endowed with certain God-given rights. But that
does not mean that ordinary people in Asia, or Africa, or the
Middle East somehow prefer arbitrary rule that denies them a
voice in the decisions that can shape their lives. I believe
that spirit is universal. And if any of you doubt the
universality of that desire, listen to the voices of young
people everywhere who call out for freedom, and dignity, and the
opportunity to control their own lives.
[Unfortunately, that asserted “liberty of the individual” in the
ostensibly marvellous 1776 American Declaration of Independence in
reality was freedom to invade, conquer, devastate and ethnically
cleanse Indigenous American lands – indeed the real purpose of the
American War of Independence was not “no taxation without
representation” or “personal liberty” but freedom to exterminate
Indigenous Indians that had some protection from the British in the
context of the 18th century Anglo-French war. [4]. By 1844 the
United States, founded on the dream of genocide, had legislated to
remove all Indigenous Indians from East of the Mississippi [4]].
- This leads me to the third thing we need to do: We must
reject any forms of fundamentalism, or racism, or a belief in
ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities
irreconcilable with modernity. Instead we need to embrace the
tolerance that results from respect of all human beings.
[The ultimate expression of racism is war. Under war criminal
Obama, the US Alliance has invaded 20 countries [4, 21-23]. US
drone strikes, targetted with the help of US lackey Australia, are
presently being conducted against Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Obama is one of the worst warmonger
and war-making presidents and hence one of the worst racists in
American history [4]].
- It’s a truism that global integration has led to a collision
of cultures; trade, migration, the Internet, all these things
can challenge and unsettle our most cherished identities. We
see liberal societies express opposition when women choose to
cover themselves. We see protests responding to Western
newspaper cartoons that caricature the Prophet Muhammad. In a
world that left the age of empire behind, we see Russia
attempting to recover lost glory through force. Asian powers
debate competing claims of history. And in Europe and the
United States, you see people wrestle with concerns about
immigration and changing demographics, and suggesting that
somehow people who look different are corrupting the character
of our countries.
[The people of Crimea overwhelmingly voted for linkage to Russia
after the US-backed neo-Nazi Coup in the Ukraine. Anti-Semite Obama
backs the genocidally racist, colonizer, and Apartheid rogue
state of Israel in its illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing of
Arab lands].
- Now, there’s no easy answer for resolving all these social
forces, and we must respect the meaning that people draw from
their own traditions — from their religion, from their
ethnicity, from their sense of nationhood. But I do not believe
progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities
gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group.
If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if
we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to
prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the
basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of
civilization will fray. The world is too small, we are too
packed together, for us to be able to resort to those old ways
of thinking.
[Obama as a pluralist liberal simply doesn’t wash – he is a racist
warmonger heading a US Alliance that is making war in 20
impoverished countries [4, 7-13]].
- We see this mindset in too many parts of the Middle East.
There, so much of the collapse in order has been fueled because
leaders sought legitimacy not because of policies or programs
but by resorting to persecuting political opposition, or
demonizing other religious sects, by narrowing the public space
to the mosque, where in too many places perversions of a great
faith were tolerated. These forces built up for years, and are
now at work helping to fuel both Syria’s tragic civil war and
the mindless, medieval menace of ISIL.
[ISIL (ISIS) arose directly from the Iraqi Genocide under the Bush
and Obama Administration that involved destruction of a modern
state, 2.7 million Iraqi deaths from violence (1.5 million) or from
war-imposed deprivation (1.2 million), and massive disempowerment of
the Iraqi Sunni minority. The US created ISIS just as it created Al
Qaeda and the Taliban. ISIS in Syria has been enabled, funded and
backed by US Alliance members Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in
particular. Muslim-origin non-state terrorism is the greatest ally
of US imperialism – every mindless atrocity against Westerners is
used as an excuse for vastly more deadly US Alliance attacks on
Muslim populations in 20 countries from the Western Sahel to South
East Asia. ISIS and similar groups have enabled US or US Alliance
military domination over a huge swathe of the Muslim world.
- The mindset of sectarianism, and extremism, and blood-letting,
and retribution that has been taking place will not be quickly
reversed. And if we are honest, we understand that no external
power is going to be able to force different religious
communities or ethnic communities to co-exist for long. But I
do believe we have to be honest about the nature of these
conflicts, and our international community must continue to work
with those who seek to build rather than to destroy.
[ America under anti-Arab anti-Semitic warmonger Obama has
devastated a swathe of Muslim countries [4, 7-13]].
- And there is a military component to that. It means being
united and relentless in destroying networks like ISIL, which
show no respect for human life. But it also means that in a
place like Syria, where there’s no ultimate military victory to
be won, we’re going to have to pursue the hard work of diplomacy
that aims to stop the violence, and deliver aid to those in
need, and support those who pursue a political settlement and
can see those who are not like themselves as worthy of dignity
and respect.
[How disingenuous of Obama to say “and there is a military
component to that” in relation to his false assertion that the US
and its allies “seek to build rather than to destroy”. Obama seeks
to change the government of Syria and its efforts have killed 0.5
million Syrians, generated 12 million refugees, and devastated what
was once a peaceful, tolerant , secular society in which numerous
ancient faiths and sects got along peacefully with each other as
described in William Dalrymple’s superb book “From the Holy
Mountain” [59]].
- Across the region’s conflicts, we have to insist that all
parties recognize a common humanity and that nations end proxy
wars that fuel disorder. Because until basic questions are
answered about how communities co-exist, the embers of extremism
will continue to burn, countless human beings will suffer — most
of all in that region — but extremism will continue to be
exported overseas. And the world is too small for us to simply
be able to build a wall and prevent it from affecting our own
societies.
[The worst extremism being “exported overseas” is US imperialism
and US Alliance imperialism. The casus belli (excuse for war) is
provided by US-created or US-provoked Muslim-origin non-state
terrorists such as the barbarous ISIS whose outrageous conduct
(beheadings, sex slaves, forced conversions, religious fanaticism,
and religious intolerance) could not have been better scripted by
the CIA. One is reminded of US-lead terrorist groups in Ecuador who
would bomb Catholic churches so that the socialists would be blamed
[56] and similar US-led Gladio atrocities in Europe that were
designed to be blamed on “communists” [60]. Numerous science,
engineering, architecture, medicine, aviation, military and
intelligence experts conclude that the US Government was
responsible for the singular 9-11 atrocity in which 3,000 people
died [8, 22, 61-63]). However post-9-11 terror hysteria has been
used to attack civil liberties in the US and in the West in general.
Reality: 53 American residents were killed in America by
“terrorists” in the 14 years since 9/11 and the average US
population in this period was about 304 million (UN Population
Division data). Accordingly, the “empirical annual probability of an
American dying in the US from terrorism” is 53/(14 years x 304
million) = about 1 in 100 million per year. In contrast, 1.7million
American die preventably each year as the Neocon American and
Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-subverted US Government steadfastly
looks the other way and scares the population with saturation terror
hysteria propaganda [64]].
- And what is true in the Middle East is true for all of us.
Surely, religious traditions can be honored and upheld while
teaching young people science and math, rather than intolerance.
Surely, we can sustain our unique traditions while giving women
their full and rightful role in the politics and economics of a
nation. Surely, we can rally our nations to solidarity while
recognizing equal treatment for all communities — whether it’s a
religious minority in Myanmar, or an ethnic minority in Burundi,
or a racial minority right here in the United States. And
surely, Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if
Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of
Israel, but Israel recognizes that it cannot permanently occupy
and settle Palestinian land. We all have to do better as
leaders in tamping down, rather than encouraging, a notion of
identity that leads us to diminish others.
[Zionist lackey, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, pro-Apartheid, genocidally
racist, serial war criminal and pathological liar Obama obscenely
blames the victim with “Israelis and Palestinians will be better off
if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of
Israel”. The dishonest political fiction of a “2-state solution” is
now impossible with the Zionist colonizers having ethnically
cleansed 90% of Palestine in an ongoing Palestinian Genocide by a
nuclear terrorist, racist Zionist run, genocidally racist, democracy
by genocide Apartheid Israel that prevents 73% of its now 52%
majority Indigenous Palestinian population from voting for the
government ruling it. The racist Zionists are now considering only
2 options – (a) continued Apartheid with 73% of Occupied
Palestinians highly abusively confined to the Gaza Concentration
Camp or West Bank ghettoes or (b) outright genocidal expulsion of
all or most Indigenous Palestinian from Palestine (presently, of 12
million Indigenous Palestinians about 50% are already totally
excluded on pain of death from living in their own country). Obama
is committed to Israeli Apartheid and the ongoing Palestinian
Genocide as the front-man for the Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted US political
Establishment [10]].
- And this leads me to the fourth and final thing we need to do,
and that is sustain our commitment to international cooperation
rooted in the rights and responsibilities of nations.
[Obama as a serial invader and serial war criminal tramples on “the
rights and responsibilities of nations”, the UN Charter, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rights of the Child, The
UN Genocide Convention, the Geneva Convention …].
- As President of the United States, I know that for most of
human history, power has not been unipolar. The end of the Cold
War may have led too many to forget this truth. I’ve noticed as
President that at times, both America’s adversaries and some of
our allies believe that all problems were either caused by
Washington or could be solved by Washington — and perhaps too
many in Washington believed that as well. (Laughter.) But I
believe America has been a rare superpower in human history
insofar as it has been willing to think beyond narrow
self-interest; that while we’ve made our share of mistakes over
these last 25 years — and I’ve acknowledged some — we have
strived, sometimes at great sacrifice, to align better our
actions with our ideals. And as a consequence, I believe we
have been a force for good.
[Utter falsehood by a mendacious Obama who turns history on its head
and whitewashes decades of utterly evil American war crimes
throughout the world. Under Obama alone the US Alliance has invaded
20 countries in the ongoing Muslim Genocide in the 21st century
associated with 30 million Muslim refugees and 32 million Muslim
deaths from violence (5 million) or from hegemony- or war-imposed
deprivation (27 million) since the US Government’s 9-11 false –flag
atrocity [7-9]].
- We have secured allies. We’ve acted to protect the
vulnerable. We supported human rights and welcomed scrutiny of
our own actions. We’ve bound our power to international laws
and institutions. When we’ve made mistakes, we’ve tried to
acknowledge them. We have worked to roll back poverty and
hunger and disease beyond our borders, not just within our
borders.
[The US under Obama has backed military coups, been associated with
invasions of 20 countries, supported Apartheid and genocide in
Palestine, opposed nuclear disarmament, and grossly violated human
rights at home and abroad. Under Obama the coal-to-gas conversion
by the US under Obama locks in disastrous long-term greenhouse gas
(GHG) pollution and hence climate change inaction for decades [48,
49], 17 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year,
about half of them children [4], and 7 million die from air
pollution each year [5, 6]. The 3 key threats to humanity are (a)
nuclear weapons, (b) poverty and (c ) climate change but under Obama
(a) the US increased its nuclear threat, continued to back nuclear
terrorist Apartheid Israel and opposed the nuclear weapons ban
advocated by about 130 countries [14]; (b) the US supports
poverty-entrenching dictatorships, and of about $40 billion in
annual US economic plus military aid, about $10 billion is military
aid (40% to Apartheid Israel) and most of the remainder is linked
to destructive US military intervention; and (c) the pro-gas US is
one of the worlds worst countries for annual per capita GHG
pollution in terms of tonnes CO2-equivalent per person per year
(41.0 for the US, 8.9 world average, China 7.4 and India 2.1) and
for “income weighted annual per capita GHG pollution (US 207, China
5.2 and India 0.3) [35, 36]].
- I’m proud of that. But I also know that we can’t do this
alone. And I believe that if we’re to meet the challenges of
this century, we are all going to have to do more to build up
international capacity. We cannot escape the prospect of
nuclear war unless we all commit to stopping the spread of
nuclear weapons and pursuing a world without them.
[ While imposing deadly Sanctions on Iran (that has zero nuclear
weapons and repeatedly states that it does not want nuclear weapons
and wants a nuclear weapons-free Middle East), the US (7,315 nuclear
weapons) is boosting its nuclear and conventional forces in Asia and
Australia, opposes a nuclear weapons ban, and continues to pour
billions of dollars of military aid into the war criminal,
genocidally racist, ethnic cleansing and nuclear terrorist rogue
state of Apartheid Israel that reportedly has up to 400 nuclear
weapons, this having been acquired with US collaboration. . The
upper estimates of stored nuclear weapons are as follows: US
(7,315), Russia (8,000), Apartheid Israel (400), France (300), UK
(250), China (250), Pakistan (120), India (100), and North Korea
(less than 10) [14, 34]].
- When Iran agrees to accept constraints on its nuclear program
that enhances global security and enhances Iran’s ability to
work with other nations. On the other hand, when North Korea
tests a bomb that endangers all of us. And any country that
breaks this basic bargain must face consequences. And those
nations with these weapons, like the United States, have a
unique responsibility to pursue the path of reducing our
stockpiles, and reaffirming basic norms like the commitment to
never test them again.
[see #48. The US is a world leader in nuclear terrorism. Iran does
not have nuclear weapons. Obama does not mention Apartheid Israel’s
400 nuclear weapons [14, 34]].
- We can’t combat a disease like Zika that recognizes no borders
— mosquitos don’t respect walls — unless we make permanent the
same urgency that we brought to bear against Ebola — by
strengthening our own systems of public health, by investing in
cures and rolling back the root causes of disease, and helping
poorer countries develop a public health infrastructure.
[ The dominant neoliberal ideology in the US has ensured that
pharmaceutical advance is geared to highly profitable medicines for
“White folks” who can afford to buy them – however, the Ebola
scare illustrated how quickly US Big Pharma and medical research can
move when “White folks” are threatened. The efficacy of tens of
thousands of medicines have been determined in exhaustive trials
based on “White folks” but their efficacy has not been determined,
for example, for genetically diverse populations in Africa].
- We can only eliminate extreme poverty if the sustainable
development goals that we have set are more than words on paper.
Human ingenuity now gives us the capacity to feed the hungry and
give all of our children — including our girls — the education
that is the foundation for opportunity in our world. But we
have to put our money where our mouths are.
[In terms of net official development assistance as “a
percentage of gross national income in 2015”, Sweden ranks top
among OECD countries with 1.4% whereas the US ranks 20th at 0.17%
[66]].
- And we can only realize the promise of this institution’s
founding — to replace the ravages of war with cooperation — if
powerful nations like my own accept constraints. Sometimes I’m
criticized in my own country for professing a belief in
international norms and multilateral institutions. But I am
convinced that in the long run, giving up some freedom of action
— not giving up our ability to protect ourselves or pursue our
core interests, but binding ourselves to international rules
over the long term — enhances our security. And I think that’s
not just true for us.
[With breathtaking arrogance Obama is saying that some time in the
distant future the US might give up “some freedom of action” but it
is “not giving up our ability … [to] pursue our core interests”
i.e. an exceptionalist US will continue to subvert, threaten,
invade, and devastate other countries that reached an historical
high for America under Nobel Peace Prize winner but serial invader
and serial war criminal Obama].
- If Russia continues to interfere in the affairs of its
neighbors, it may be popular at home, it may fuel nationalist
fervor for a time, but over time it is also going to diminish
its stature and make its borders less secure. In the South
China Sea, a peaceful resolution of disputes offered by law will
mean far greater stability than the militarization of a few
rocks and reefs.
[Russia responded to the racist, anti-Russian neo-Nazi coup in
Ukraine that was engineered and backed by the North America-located
US; the re-incorporation of strategically vital Crimea into Russia
was overwhelmingly supported by the Crimean population. The South
China Sea is called such because it is off the coast of South China
and not off the coast of the North America-located US; under
anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic warmonger Obama the US
Alliance headed by the North America-located US invaded 20
impoverished and distant countries in pursuance of the
Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (War on Terror) that has been
associated with 30 million Muslim refugees and 32 million Muslim
deaths from violence (5 million) or from hegemony- or war-imposed
deprivation (27 million) since the US Government’s 9-11 false –flag
atrocity [7-9]].
- We are all stakeholders in this international system, and it
calls upon all of us to invest in the success of institutions to
which we belong. And the good news is, is that many nations
have shown what kind of progress is possible when we make those
commitments. Consider what we’ve accomplished here over the
past few years.
[Obama is using weasel words “stakeholders in this international
system” and “invest in the success of institutions” – what the US
under Obama should have been doing was obeying international laws
and conventions, instead of grossly violating these international
laws and conventions].
- Together, we mobilized some 50,000 additional troops for U.N.
peacekeeping, making them nimble, better equipped, better
prepared to deal with emergencies. Together, we established an
Open Government Partnership so that, increasingly, transparency
empowers more and more people around the globe. And together,
now, we have to open our hearts and do more to help refugees who
are desperate for a home.
[“US peace-keeping” is an oxymoron as evidenced by the
Zionist–backed US War on Muslims (War on Terror, Muslim Holocaust,
Muslim Genocide) that has been associated with 30 million Muslim
refugees and 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5 million) or
from hegemony- or war-imposed deprivation (27 million) since the US
Government’s 9-11 false –flag atrocity [7-9]].
- We should all welcome the pledges of increased assistance that
have been made at this General Assembly gathering. I’ll be
discussing that more this afternoon. But we have to follow
through, even when the politics are hard. Because in the eyes
of innocent men and women and children who, through no fault of
their own, have had to flee everything that they know,
everything that they love, we have to have the empathy to see
ourselves. We have to imagine what it would be like for our
family, for our children, if the unspeakable happened to us.
And we should all understand that, ultimately, our world will be
more secure if we are prepared to help those in need and the
nations who are carrying the largest burden with respect to
accommodating these refugees.
[ Syria was an oasis of peace and religious tolerance and hosted
more refugees per capita that any other country – and then the US
and the US Alliance intervened with bombing and supporting
terrorists to remove the secular Syrian Government, killing 0.5
million people, generating 12 million Syrian refugees, and
destroying this ancient country [9]].
- There are a lot of nations right now that are doing the right
thing. But many nations — particularly those blessed with
wealth and the benefits of geography — that can do more to offer
a hand, even if they also insist that refugees who come to our
countries have to do more to adapt to the customs and
conventions of the communities that are now providing them a
home.
[More breathtaking Obama dishonesty and implicit racism and bigotry;
see #51 – in terms of net official development assistance as “a
percentage of gross national income in 2015”, Sweden ranks top among
OECD countries with 1.4% whereas the US ranks 20th at 0.17% [66]].
- Let me conclude by saying that I recognize history tells a
different story than the one that I’ve talked about here today.
There’s a much darker and more cynical view of history that we
can adopt. Human beings are too often motivated by greed and by
power. Big countries for most of history have pushed smaller
ones around. Tribes and ethnic groups and nation states have
very often found it most convenient to define themselves by what
they hate and not just those ideas that bind them together.
[Obama actually tells the truth for once in admitting his gross
mendacity and saying that “I recognize history tells a different
story than the one that I’ve talked about here today” [4]].
- Time and again, human beings have believed that they finally
arrived at a period of enlightenment only to repeat, then,
cycles of conflict and suffering. Perhaps that’s our fate. We
have to remember that the choices of individual human beings led
to repeated world war. But we also have to remember that the
choices of individual human beings created a United Nations, so
that a war like that would never happen again. Each of us as
leaders, each nation can choose to reject those who appeal to
our worst impulses and embrace those who appeal to our best.
For we have shown that we can choose a better history.
[The UN was created to prevent wars like WW2 that was associated
with violent deaths and avoidable deaths from deprivation totalling
over 100 million. However US exceptionalism has meant that post-1950
US Asian wars have been associated with 40 million Asian deaths
from violence or war-imposed deprivation;1950-2005 avoidable deaths
from deprivation in countries occupied by the US in the post-1945
era have totalled 82 million [4]; Muslim deaths from violence or
imposed deprivation have totalled 32 million since 9-11, with Obama
being directly involved in much of this carnage; there are presently
65 million refugees in the world of whom 30 million are Muslim
refugees generated by a genocidally racist US or by US-backed and
genocidally racist Apartheid Israel [9]].
- Sitting in a prison cell, a young Martin Luther King, Jr.
wrote that, “Human progress never rolls on the wheels of
inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men
willing to be co-workers with God.” And during the course of
these eight years, as I’ve traveled to many of your nations, I
have seen that spirit in our young people, who are more educated
and more tolerant, and more inclusive and more diverse, and more
creative than our generation; who are more empathetic and
compassionate towards their fellow human beings than previous
generations. And, yes, some of that comes with the idealism of
youth. But it also comes with young people’s access to
information about other peoples and places — an understanding
unique in human history that their future is bound with the
fates of other human beings on the other side of the world.
[Mass murderer, serial invader, serial war criminal and genocidal
racist Obama and his similarly degenerate and Zionist-perverted
allies can hardly be called “co-workers with God”].
- I think of the thousands of health care workers from around
the world who volunteered to fight Ebola. I remember the young
entrepreneurs I met who are now starting new businesses in Cuba,
the parliamentarians who used to be just a few years ago
political prisoners in Myanmar. I think of the girls who have
braved taunts or violence just to go to school in Afghanistan,
and the university students who started programs online to
reject the extremism of organizations like ISIL. I draw
strength from the young Americans — entrepreneurs, activists,
soldiers, new citizens — who are remaking our nation once again,
who are unconstrained by old habits and old conventions, and
unencumbered by what is, but are instead ready to seize what
ought to be.
[How disgusting that racist mass murderer Obama links himself to
courageous young humanitarians].
- My own family is a made up of the flesh and blood and
traditions and cultures and faiths from a lot of different parts
of the world — just as America has been built by immigrants from
every shore. And in my own life, in this country, and as
President, I have learned that our identities do not have to be
defined by putting someone else down, but can be enhanced by
lifting somebody else up. They don’t have to be defined in
opposition to others, but rather by a belief in liberty and
equality and justice and fairness.
[When truthful history is written, Obama will be defined by his
participation in the post-9-11 Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide
associated with 30 million Muslim refugees and 32 million Muslim
deaths from violence – or from war - and hegemony-imposed
deprivation [9]].
- And the embrace of these principles as universal doesn’t
weaken my particular pride, my particular love for America — it
strengthens it. My belief that these ideals apply everywhere
doesn’t lessen my commitment to help those who look like me, or
pray as I do, or pledge allegiance to my flag. But my faith in
those principles does force me to expand my moral imagination
and to recognize that I can best serve my own people, I can best
look after my own daughters, by making sure that my actions seek
what is right for all people and all children, and your
daughters and your sons
[Gross hypocrisy by Obama who is currently the world’s number 1
pathological liar, serial invader, warmonger, war criminal, child
killer, climate criminal, and drug pusher. It is notable that Obama
did not mention illicit drugs in his speech. Also utterly ignored by
Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and
subverted Western Mainstream media are the 1.2 million people who
have died world-wide since 9-11 due to US Alliance restoration of
the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market
share in 2001 to 93% in 2007, the breakdown (as of 2015) including
280,000 Americans, 256,000 Indonesians, 68,000 Iranians, 25,000
British, 14,000 Canadians, 10,000 Germans, and 5,000 Australians
[12]].
- This is what I believe: that all of us can be co-workers with
God. And our leadership, and our governments, and this United
Nations should reflect this irreducible truth.
[This is what Obama blasphemously calls being “co-workers with God”:
the atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased to 405 ppm CO2 and
is increasing at a record 3 ppm CO2 per year; a catastrophic plus 2C
temperature rise is now unavoidable and the current plus 1C is
already catastrophic for tropical Island States and megadelta
countries like Bangladesh; the plus 1.5C target may well be
exceeded by 2020; the coal-to-gas conversion by the US under Obama
locks in disastrous long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution; 17
million people die avoidably each year; 7 million die from air
pollution each year; the US Alliance has invaded 20 overwhelmingly
or significantly Muslim countries since the US Government’s 9-11
false flag atrocity, this being associated with 32 million Muslim
deaths from violence (5 million) or from war- or hegemony-imposed
deprivation (27 million) [2, 4, 9, 67]. Of course the bottom line in
any human society is respect for children but Obama has an
appalling record of child killing. During the Vietnam War, decent
people chanted “Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today?” In
May 2009 I catalogued the answer for America under Obama as 1,000
[68]].
- Thank you very much. (Applause)
[Genuine gratitude one supposes by Obama who is currently the
world’s number 1 pathological liar, serial invader, warmonger, war
criminal, child killer, climate criminal, and drug pusher but is
free to operate as the world’s current number 1 serial killer for
another 3 months. Obama is lauded as America’s first Black president
but is complicit in the Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide that
has taken 32 million non-European Muslim lives since the US
Government’s 9-11 false-flag atrocity killed 3,000 people in 2001].
Conclusions.
Serial war criminal Barack Obama must be arraigned before the
International Criminal Court. There must be Boycotts, Divestment
and Sanction (BDS) against the United States and its war criminal
allies until their crimes are recognized and punished and America
and its allies undergo de-Nazification. The relatives, friends and
fellow citizens of the 1.7 million Americans who die preventably
each year must disempower the Neocon American and Zionist
Imperialists (NAZIs) who have subverted and perverted America and
crippled America with the $40 trillion long-term accrual cost of
nuclear terrorist Apartheid Israel and attendant wars.
In 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate, anti-racist Jewish British
playwright Harold Pinter declared that Bush and Blair should be
arraigned before the International Criminal Court: “We have brought
torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random
murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call
it “bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East”. How many
people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a
mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than
enough, I would have thought” [69]. 32 million? More than enough I
would have thought.