Ed,
As we all know, we and our entire world are currently facing the most extensive political, economic, monetary, physical and social change since the Industrial Revolution 300 years ago. The big question arising from all this, however, is just how and why all this is happening in a way is causing so much concern among so many people and particularly among certain lesser countries.
As a Yamba resident now in his nineties, I can see a direct correlation between what was happening years before the Second World War and what has now beset us in the way of a pandemic; six major wars in different parts of the world, stifling inflation, higher costs of living everywhere and serious political unrest in at least 32 different countries.
Just how has this state of affairs come about? I continually ask myself — a question which a number of your readers have also asked of me as an impartial retired journalist and economist.
It appears to me that we are being overtaken by overbearing pressures from certain big business areas, including certain IT organisations and their determination to wrest all our personal information from us for controlling commercial purposes; by the growing pressures between East and West for new territories and world leadership; by the threats of continued terrorism and the need by some other big corporations for exorbitant never before known profits.
All this activity goes against the face of the United Nations Organisation which has 17 little known global goals in place to be achieved within the next seven years.
By 2030, the U.N. requires the world to empower and promote peace and the social inclusion of all people, irrespective of gender, race ethnicity and political persuasion.
It also aims to regulate and assist the migration and mobility of people between countries and to demand improvements to all global finance markets and allied institutions by means of new and much stronger and more stringent regulations.
Within the next seven years, all countries are being urged to create a “new-look digitalised education” system. They also have to award reparation monies to all indigenous populations and ensure that these indiginees receive fair financial and material payments for having experienced Colonialism. In addition to this, all indiginees everywhere have to be awarded full sovereign ownership over their traditional homelands.
According to the U.N., only those companies, interests and territories which are “inclusive” to the U.N. demands will in future be favoured in the new world order. Countries of this inclusive ilk are also required to “campaign to gain maximum numbers of voters, particularly among minorities” within their borders.
The overall U.N. plan is also aimed at eliminating the use of all fossil fuels by 2030 and to further assist poverty-stricken African countries with additional financial and material aid in addition to the U.S.$3 trillion already paid into their national coffers since achieving Independence in the 1960s.
The present moves towards a cashless society in Australia also stand as a severe warning about the future. This fear was recently enhanced by one of this country’s top telco companies going offline for an entire day with people, shops and business houses throughout Australia being prevented from obtaining any ready cash or doing deals by means of their bank cards and digital bank accounts.
An added problem to a cashless society is, of course, the fact that more criminals will be openly invited to steal our card and banking information at a rate already expected to quadruple that of current $1.01 billion bank card thefts.
Can one or more of your readers please explain to me how we ordinary folk on the Clarence should secure our personal futures in the face of so many changes in such a short period of time.
Oscar Tamsen, Yamba