The Nation State
&
Email from a listener --- WHO
pandemic agreement is non-binding
by Not Sure
28 Jan 2024
This is the
poem that Alan Watt wrote to accompany his November 11, 2010
talk for Republic Broadcasting Network:
Those Who Guide Fate End the Nation State:
“Van Rompuy Lenin, Gloating with Hate,
Proudly Announced End of the Nation-State,
Mission Accomplished, Pleasing his Masters
Who Own the E.U., Bringer of Disasters,
Suit and Tie Revolutionaries, Socialist Lovers,
Screwed Whole Peoples, Under the Covers
Of Pretences and Lies of "Just Free Trade",
As They Gobbled in Taxes what People Got Paid,
For Years These Commissars Worked Undetected,
Media Gave Cover so No-One Suspected,
Amalgamation was Always the Destination,
Leaders Signed “Closer Ties” Binding Each Nation,
He Who Caught On was Branded the Fool,
Suffering Haughty Sneers and Much Ridicule,
The World is a Stage, Politicos are Actors,
Plying Deception to Hide Any Truth Factors”
© Alan Watt November
11th, 2010
“Van
Rompuy Lenin” was Alan’s name for Count Herman Van Rompuy was prime minister of
Belgium from 2008-2009, and the first permanent president of the European
Council from 2009-2014. In that
capacity, at a G20 summit in 2010, Van Rompuy (Lenin) said, “The time of the
homogenous nation state is over…” [and the idea that countries can stand alone
is an] “illusion” and a “lie.”
As Alan Watt often pointed out, the Nation-State is
something which is trotted out when necessary and put back on the shelf to
gather dust when not needed.
Working on another project this morning, I investigated
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), and specifically what
René A. Wormser wrote about it in his 1958 book, Foundations: Their Power and
Influence. Wormser described Andrew Carnegie
as an “internationalist,” and the first head of the CEIP was Alger Hiss, an
American government official who was involved in the establishment of the
United Nations and was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. A CEIP publication from 1934 complained about
the “economic nationalism which is still running riot, and which is the
greatest obstacle to the reestablishment of prosperity and genuine peace.”
At the southern border of the United States, illegal
immigration has swelled to the point where many days more than 10,000 migrants
cross into the U.S. Last month, a record
302,034 tried to cross the border. President
Biden said Friday that if a bipartisan bill “were the law today, I’d shut down
the border right now and fix it quickly.”
Some Republicans have said that they will not sign off on the bill’s
request for additional aid for Ukraine until a deal is reached on border security.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered that U.S. Border
Patrol can take down razor wire which the state of Texas has used to defend its
border with Mexico, a right the state’s governor claims he is asserting under
the U.S. Constitution. A convoy called
Take Our Border Back (God’s Army) is headed to the southern border and aims to
stop illegal immigration.
Alan Watt often pointed out that Free Trade was the free
flow of goods and services, but the catch is of course, it isn’t a free
flow. What goods and services flow are
tightly controlled by “trading bloc” associations of member states. In the 1970s, the European Union was famous
for its butter mountain, a government intervention created surplus, leading to
great waste. The surplus has disappeared
since at least 2017, leaving us with shortages and high prices.
Immigration, illegal and otherwise, is a problem across
Western Europe. A recent Telegraph
article entitled “Ireland’s pro-immigration elites are driving the country to
the brink.” The piece starts off:
“Pro-immigration
elites have turned Ireland into a powder keg. The fuse was lit last November
when riots broke out in Dublin after three young children and a woman were
stabbed by a man of Algerian origin. Angry locals took to the streets. Buses
were set alight, shops were looted and police were
viciously attacked, in an outpouring of violence unlike anything the city has
seen in modern times. Since then, a migrant hotel in Galway and a planned
homeless shelter in Dublin have been put to the torch – and Irish politicians
and media have been quick to finger “far-right” hooligans as the villains of
the story.”
The World
Economic Forum met in Davos, Switzerland earlier this month, with the promise
to “rebuild trust.” After the heads of
state and business moguls returned home, we are told that the conference worked
diligently to address the war in Ukraine, the Middle East crisis, gender
equity, and Artificial Intelligence.
Most bankers and billionaires weren’t the least bit troubled by the
prospect of another four years of Trump.
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase and Co. said, “Be
honest, Trump is “kinda right about NATO. Kinda right
about immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked. ... I
don’t like how he said things about Mexico, but he wasn’t wrong about some of
these critical issues, and that’s why they’re voting for him.” Dimon has been
positioned as the people’s banker, a rough-edged character, when in fact, he has
the education and connections of the East Coast Establishment. Other bankers at Davos didn’t offer that kind
of endorsement, but several of them said that it didn’t matter at all who the
president of the United States was, business would continue without
interruption.
The
Nation State was given a nod with the much-publicized speech by the new
president of Argentina, Javier Milei, who lambasted the WEF members for their
socialist bent. Described as an
anarcho-capitalist, Milei is the latest populist in the Trump vein. He decries the left and “cultural Marxism.”
In
an age where internationalism and its geopolitical and trading goals is our
operating system, we are still given national concerns to fight for (borders)
and national figures to champion and vote for.
We live under internationalism, but the destruction of nations and
national identity is not complete. Part
of the strategy of war on the Nation-State is the constant repetition that we
no longer have a say in long-planned outcomes. This we must fight against when we can. Our main weapon is knowledge of The Agenda,
and the commitment to stay focused on the big picture. In an information war, we inform ourselves of
what rights remain. We share that
knowledge. This is an email I received
from someone commenting about statements I made about the World Health Organization
push to make a new pandemic agreement, set to finalize in May of this
year. The author makes good points, and
it is a reminder to pay close attention to the details of these big stories as
they unfold.
© Not Sure
Email
from a listener --- WHO pandemic agreement is non-binding
Whereas treaties are binding, they only regulate
international relations, i.e. relationships between governments. You need an
act of Congress that obtains the president’s signature for a statute that
regulates, “we the people”, so:
a) Governments are free to not ratify the treaty.
b) The treaty (if we are constitutional), has no impact
on citizens at all, but can be implemented by an Act of Congress.
Whereas the President’s government may well ask Congress
to pass a law and he may claim he is bound by treaty, Congress
cannot be coerced by the President to enact any treaty.
A great example in the UK is that we signed up to the
European Convention on Human Rights in the 1950’s. However, Human Rights and
the jurisdiction over them by the European Court of Human Rights only occurred
after the treaty was incorporated with the 1998 Human Rights Act of Tony Blair.
What we have discovered here, is
that the 1980 Public Health Act in the UK has a provision that allows the
relevant Secretary of State to enact a regulation to implement international
health regulations. Absent that, they would need an Act of Parliament, a
Statute consented to by both Houses of Parliament receiving Royal Assent from
the King. I've been a lone voice saying that the treaty is not binding on how
we the people are governed, and that we should focus instead on repealing
section 45B and in particular subsection (C) of the
Public Health Act 1980 so that incorporation of the regulations does not
by-pass the democratic statutory process.
Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/22/section/45B
The focus on the treaty being binding distracts people
from regulations like the one I mentioned. You most likely have similar
statutory provision in USA and Canada that delegate powers to the Secretary of
State to incorporate these treaties into domestic law, but nobody is discussing
this.
Ultimately, the WHO and a treaty
cannot alter or bypass the constitution, only a constitutional convention can
do that, so for that reason the treaty cannot bypass normal national
legislative channels. My fear is that the psychic driving of saying over
and over that the treaty is binding will cause people to believe that the
constitution allows this or that the constitution has somehow been altered.
That way they get it via the development of a new informal custom that is
illegitimate, but which will impact our lives.
Additional reading:
WHO calls for
world pandemic treaty to prepare for deadly ‘Disease X’
Governments
continue discussions on pandemic agreement negotiating text
Proposal for
negotiating text of the WHO Pandemic Agreement - PDF of proposed agreement
https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb7/A_INB7_3-en.pdf
The Death of
Nationality
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/01/26/the-death-of-nationality/
Texas
governor asserts state right to self-defense in response to escalating southern
border tensions
Protest
Convoy Headed to Southern Border Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’