{"id":24543,"date":"2017-07-31T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24543"},"modified":"2017-07-31T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:18:37","slug":"the-race-against-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24543","title":{"rendered":"The Race Against Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Race Against Time<\/a><\/h3>\n
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For decades, in discussing the ever-increasing hegemony of the world\u2019s principal governments (US, EU, et al.), I\u2019ve been asked repeatedly, \u201cWhen will the governments understand that this obsession they have to become all-powerful is not in the interests of the people?\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer to this question has also remained the same for decades: never<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although most all thinking people will readily admit that they regard their government (and governments in general) to be both overreaching and corrupt, they somehow attribute political leaders with a desire to serve the people<\/em>. This is almost never <\/em>true.<\/p>\n

In my own experience in working with (and against) political leaders in multiple jurisdictions, I\u2019ve found them to be remarkably similar to each other in their tendency to be shortsighted, self-aggrandising, and almost totally indifferent to the well-being of their constituents. Indeed, it\u2019s a real rarity to encounter a political leader who does not<\/em> fit this description.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we should take as a given that all political leaders will continue to pursue their own power and wealth, at the expense of their citizenries.<\/p>\n

Well, here, history informs us that this is not the case. All governments will tax the people as much as they can, regulate them as much as they can, socially dominate them as much as they can, and remove as many rights as they can. However, they rarely totally<\/em> succeed and, even when they do, the clock is ticking against them.<\/p>\n

This, then, begs the question: \u201cIf they won\u2019t stop themselves in this progression, is there no other outcome than eventual total slavery to the government?\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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In 1999, I began to warn that the US military would steadily increase its warfare against other nations and would only cease their military expansion if and when economic collapse made it impossible to continue the expansion.<\/div>\n
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The Race Against Time For decades, in discussing the ever-increasing hegemony of the world\u2019s principal governments (US, EU, et al.), I\u2019ve been asked repeatedly, \u201cWhen will the governments understand that this obsession they have to become all-powerful is not in the interests of the people?\u201d The answer to this question has also remained the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[7740,6228,11658,524,4348,844],"class_list":["post-24543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-survival-2","tag-empires","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas","tag-militarism","tag-us-hegemony","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24544,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions\/24544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}