I know that when people push their party's website on a list, one should not
pay attention, but I have, and this is what I've discovered:
The Simultaneous policy seems to be based on acceptance of the lies of the
ruling class, like:
"In de-regulating capital markets, nations have therefore unleashed a force
they can no longer unilaterally control"
"only through global co-operation between nation states can meaningful
changes be implemented"
"Global financial markets have engineered strong leverage over the
economic, social and environmental policies adopted by any country
ensuring that only market and corporate-friendly policies are pursued -
regardless of the party in power."
"the virtual absence of any foreign direct investment leaving them to the
consequences of rebel warfare, poverty, disease, increasing numbers of
refugees and so on"
It's goal seems to be waiting for global consensus. It waits because it fears for
the "competitivity" of any progressive country. It has mistaken the cause of the
problem from the smoke that the ruling class is making around it. Those
measures that hurt "competitivity" in fact hurt the ruling class. If you oppose the
ruling class, you may just as well forget about "competitivity".
It wants genuine democracy to be *resotored* to nation states (it's their
wording). Those of us who believe that very few nation states have ever seen
genuine democracy will obviously be disgusted by such a political outlook.
That said, equality and sustainability are nice things, of course. To each his
own way I guess. The policies pushed by Simultaneous Policy like are
obviously politicaly correct and progressive.
But, and this is a big but, it's "3rd stage measures" are imperialistic and
probably anti-ecological as well. They say "In exchange for canceling their
debt mountain, these nations would have to commit themselves as a matter of
national policy to a development programme carried out by professional
organisations such as Intermediate Technology Development Group or
others who are committed to helping such countries achieve economic growth
..." My guess is that no progressive nation will accept your rule, folks. If they
have a truly progressive government, they'll default without conditions (while
maybe accepting formal conditions). And they won't care about growth.
The Simultaneous Policy even support "responsible" intellectual property!
So even a tactical agreement is limited to the sort-term as far as I'm
concerned.
Now, for those who haven't still hit delete, here's two quotes from the
Simlutaneous policy showing the extent of the problem:
"Monetary reform generally entails the restoration to state control of the
issuing of credit by removing it from the commercial banks. Unilateral action of
this type, ISPO suggests, remains highly unlikely due to the banks threatening
to move jobs abroad."
"one measure which could be implemented would be to abolish corporation
tax and substitute it with governments holding a percentage (say 30%) of
shares in all major companies worldwide. By dint of its shareholding, a
government would be entitled to appoint a similar or possibly greater
percentage of "special directors" to the board. [...] To ensure independence
and an even-handed approach worldwide, special directors would be
responsible to ISPO or to an appropriate UN organisation"
And how I love the last argument of this website: there's no alternative to
Simultaneous Policy anyway!
I also wonder how old these texts I've read are. It is said that:
"No nation is seeking to re-regulate financial markets because such action
would cause capital flight, devaluation and inflation if not outright economic
collapse."
Then how does one call what Malaysia has done?
This is only my personal opinion. Others on this list believe ruling class lies
while posturing as extreme radicals and I have not been able to generate
much debate on this. Please don't take this too personally folks. And rest
assured that I'm open to discussion.
BTW, this website tries to connect to some 11xx and 12xx ports of my
computer for apparently no reason. I wonder why.
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