The Rules Based Order: “do as I say not as I do”
THE UNITED STATES CONSTANTLY FAILS TO SIGN OR RATIFY TREATIES THE REST OF THE WORLD SUPPORTS.?
“For a country frequently looked to as a global leader, the United States has consistently failed to step up in international partnerships. In fact, the United States has one of the worst records of any country in ratifying human rights and environmental treaties.”
" To build that future, we must defend and reform the rules-based international order – the system of laws, agreements, principles, and institutions that the world came together to build after two world wars to manage relations between states, to prevent conflict, to uphold the rights of all people."
Antony J. Blinken, SECRETARY OF STATE
Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
For example, one may find and ultimately conclude, that – often – what a politician, religious leader, or other leaders tell you? they believe and the policies they will implement does not often correlate after they secure the office which they seek. More often than not, you are left to conclude – from prevailing policies, that the message is: do as I say not as I do.
Recent media revelation of world leaders hiding wealth in foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes and other methods for accountability tend to highlight this point:? The release of a vast trove of documents and other data on offshore financial dealings of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world is raising questions over the widespread use of such tactics to avoid taxes and skirt financial oversight.[23]?
Thomas Jefferson observed that very point when he wrote, "In questions of power, then, let not more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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?Prior to the advent of the printing press, all religious information was written in Latin and could only be interpreted and taught by Roman Catholic officials and the educated elite. ?Dissemination and control of church doctrine was exclusively guarded within the hierarchal domain of the Pope. Here again we can see the early attempts to keep the people illiterate and in darkness. We have also seen how illiteracy has been used by Europeans in the New World to gain advantage over the indigenous people and the slave populations.
The opportunity to learn, understand and disseminate information – without fear - outside of traditional? hierarchy systems, is crucial to the free flow of ideas and will generally lay bare the inherent flaws of human society. ?In present day America, we see constant examples of such revelations in the video/audio taped cell phone recordings provided by newly empowered citizens in their interaction with local law enforcement officers all over this nation. Though often controversial, these devices help protect citizens from unlawful searches, seizures, imprisonment and even shootings. Another important benefit is that the recordings can be used to obtain legal redress against unlawful actions by government officials.
To gain a better understanding of the European’s insatiable appetite for riches, vast estates and power, we have only to look at a few examples that history provides.
One of the more glaring is King Henry VIII, 1491-1528.? Henry accumulated castles, palaces, large houses, hunting lodges and numerous other properties.? He loved lavish palaces, in which he hung 2000 very expensive tapestries.? Hampton Court, a property originally of The Order of St. John of Jerusalem - was owned by Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, who fell out of favor with the king who seized the palace. The Archbishop spent 200,000 gold crowns (valued at five shillings, each) to build the finest palace at Hampton Court in England. ?A set of tapestries in Hampton Court cost as much as a fully armed ship.
Whitehall Palace was one of the largest palaces in Europe with an unbelievable 1500 rooms; it was destroyed by fire in 1698.
History records that Henry inherited a prosperous economy, but his heavy spending and high taxes damaged the economy.? When he died he had accumulated for himself over 60 properties.
King Louis XVI of France, (1638-1718), is another example of European over reach.? The Palace at Versailles boasted 87,728,720 square feet (world’s largest royal domain).? This also included 280 acres of gardens, while many in France wallowed in poverty.
The Apostolic Palace Vatican City is a modest 1,743,753 square feet, 110 acres...
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