{"id":41687,"date":"2018-12-15T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41687"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T14:56:36","slug":"the-war-against-globalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41687","title":{"rendered":"The War Against Globalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/p>\n

The War Against Globalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
We are the Little Folk\u2014we!<\/em><\/div>\n
Too little to love or to hate.<\/em><\/div>\n
Leave us alone and you\u2019ll see<\/em><\/div>\n
How we can drag down the State!<\/em><\/div>\n
-A Pict Song, Rudyard Kipling<\/em><\/div>\n
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Belgium has joined the list of countries that are rebelling against their elected leadership. Over the weekend the Belgian government\u00a0fell<\/a>\u00a0over Prime Minister Charles Michel\u2019s trip to Morocco to sign the United Nations Migration Agreement. The agreement\u00a0made no distinction<\/a>\u00a0between legal and illegal migrants and regarded immigration as a positive phenomenon. The Belgian people apparently did not agree. Facebook registered\u00a01,200 Belgians agreeing that the Prime Minister was a traitor.<\/a>\u00a0Some users expressed concern for their children\u2019s futures, noting that Belgian democracy is dead. Others said they would get yellow vests and join the protests.<\/p>\n

The unrest witnessed in a number of places is focused on some specific demands but it represents much broader anger. The French yellow vests initially protested against proposed increases in fuel taxes that would have affected working people dependent on transportation disproportionately. But when that demand was met by the government of President Emmanuel Macron, the demonstrations continued and even grew, suggesting that the grievances with the government were far more extensive than the issue of a single new tax. Perhaps not surprisingly, the French government is seeking for a scapegoat and\u00a0is investigating<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRussian interference.\u201d The US State Department inevitably agrees, claiming that Kremlin directed websites and social media are \u201camplifying the conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some commentators looking somewhat more deeply at the riots in France have even suggested that the real issue just might be regime change, that the Macron government had become so disconnected with many of the voters through both its policies and the rhetoric justifying them that it had lost its legitimacy and there was no possibility of redemption.<\/p>\n

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The War Against Globalism We are the Little Folk\u2014we! Too little to love or to hate. Leave us alone and you\u2019ll see How we can drag down the State! -A Pict Song, Rudyard Kipling Belgium has joined the list of countries that are rebelling against their elected leadership. Over the weekend the Belgian government\u00a0fell\u00a0over Prime […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[1957,15342,281,284,333,4670,17108,694,8203,827,23287],"class_list":["post-41687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-belgium","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-globalism","tag-philip-m-giraldi","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-yellow-vest-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687","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=41687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41688,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41687\/revisions\/41688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}