America claims ownership of 782,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean

by Dr. Samori Swygert

I hate saying, “I told you so,” so I’m moving along as planned…  A front page, above the fold article in the June 17th Washington Post, revealed the United States plan to expand our claim over the world’s oceans. According to the article, President Obama has addressed the plan at a meeting. He detailed how a vast portion of the Pacific Ocean will now be off limits.

The impetus that’s driving the proposal is to preserve a precious section of the Pacific Ocean. Supposedly, this section has some of the most purest water on earth, it’s devoid of pollution.  The proposal will also prevent fishing, energy exploration, and “other activities.”  There is an open comment period in which the public can submit concerns and issues for the administration to review.

The terminologies that the administration is using to refer to this vast expanse of water are “sanctuaries and monuments.” Currently, America has claim over 87,000 square miles of the ” Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.”  President Obama will expand this to 782,000 square miles.  The article also says, ” The ocean area under consideration, by contrast, encompasses uninhabited islands in a remote region with sparse economic activity.”

Early last week, I wrote an in-depth 2-part article called New World Water: Part 1 and Part 2.  I illuminated the fact that nations and multinational corporations are laying claim to the world’s water supply.  There was a 2014 Global Water Summit in Paris, France that the TV media failed to cover back in April, and the newspapers failed to give any fanfare or attention.  This only confirms my assertions and position about the summit.  This appears to be one of many sequential steps in complete global dominance.

It’s ironic that only two months after the 2014  Global Water Summit, President Obama seeks to expand the designation and demarcation of America’s “claim” in the Pacific Ocean.  The article I wrote addressed only a few topics from the Global Water Summit such as: purchasing water rights,  developing water management systems, imposing water restriction policies, and how to develop profitability policies.  I’m certain there was more to the summit, but it was an exclusive meeting, and the specific material would only be divulged to entities privileged or authorized to attend.

The Washington Post article also reports that the British government is also creating a “marine sanctuary’ in the Pacific, and the president of a Pacific Island nation of Kirbati said he will close an area “the size of California”  to commercial fishing by the end of 2014.  President Bush also set aside a claim in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands while he was in office.

The intentions appear noble and good because we are using terms like:  “conservation,” “preservation,” and “sustainability.” These terms sound good — they are audibly palatable and pleasing.  However, there is a fine line between conservation and imposing man-made limits of a natural resource required for human vitality. When America demarcates these geographical boundaries, who are we depriving of a resource?  Who gives us the authority to lay claim over the ocean, and who can/can’t fish in specific marine locales?  Why must other nations be restricted from one of the most purest portions of Earth’s oceans?

Understand Political Talk

We must specifically assess the verbiage in political speak.  What do they mean when they say “other activities” and “other threats”?  These are broad terms.  What will it entail, and require to enforce these boundaries?  Will this portion of the ocean be specifically untouched by everyone, or only our military and other governing bodies?  What’s the criteria for use if this section of water is needed?

I will attach the Washington Post article, my article on the NEW WORLD WATER  and the Global Water Summit of 2014, also note that the U.S. Military has developed a way to create Jet Fuel from seawater.

Are we exercising  “maritime manifest destiny”?…what are your thoughts?

 Click Here to Read New World Water Parts 1 and 2

Sources: 1, 2, 3

New World Water Part 2: The 2014 Global Water Summit (Click here to read Part I)

by Dr. Samori Swygert

What does it mean to you when heads of major hedge funds and private equity firm managers speculate on the profitability of water?

First, I’d like to be fair and address the current need for water management:

Reasons that water management should be exercised

We’ve witnessed oil spills like the Exxon Valdez and the BP oil spill. We’ve also seen millions of gallons of toxic coal ash leak into North Carolina’s Dan River and the toxic spill into West Virginia’s drinking water supply. We’ve also witnessed and continue to hear about the nuclear spill from the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor, which has made way to the west coast. Portions of Iowa and other states that rely on agricultural commerce have seen a pervasive infiltration of nitrates into their water supply from fertilizer. We’ve witnessed an increase in water deficits in drought-prone areas throughout the Midwest to California. Many remember Shane Snyder, an ecological toxicologist who elucidated the increase of feminized male marine life in Lake Mead (Nevada), the Potomac River (DC), Denver, and California.  This phenomena was occurring due to “traces of codeine, Prozac, Valium, common antibiotics, insect repellents and a host of chemicals termed endocrine disruptors into the Lake Mead reservoir.”

Lastly, the Supreme Court recently said that ex-military and North Carolina plaintiffs couldn’t be rewarded from a lawsuit against an electronics company that is responsible for toxic contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune. The water was tainted with benzene, Trichloroethylene,  and other chemicals that led to generations of individuals with rare forms of leukemia, liver, kidney and other cancers…….Yes, mater Management and oversight are needed!

The technology

Big corporations have procured the best scientists and engineers to devise water treatment systems that multinational corporations are investing in, encouraging nations to adopt, and develop international standards. According to the agenda of the Global Water Summit of 2014, they’ve designed bacteria that breaks down waste, ultrafiltration membranes, advanced desalination systems, nanofiltration technology, hydrolysis, reverse osmosis systems and a myriad of other “solutions”.

My issues

When have you ever seen the privatization of earth’s natural resources turn out good? Throughout the Global Water Summit agenda, a specific theme is: Repetitive, Ubiquitous, and Diffuse. The theme is maximization of profit and how to impose this technology on nations and local municipalities for profit. I wouldn’t have a problem if the approach was noble in effort, but money and profit always pervert noble motives.

I believe this will evolve into a system of “hoard and ration.” The major corporations have hundreds of billions of dollars to sway politicians to present logical arguments on water conservation, but it will ultimately lead to “hydro-austerity.” The fact that this summit wasn’t even in the news or the traditional newspaper outlets speaks volumes. The exclusivity of the summit allows the privileged, wealthy, and powerful conglomerates to posture themselves for windfall profits because water is mandatory for life.

Examples of my hypothesis

California has already initiated proposals and standards to be imposed on its citizens. An article in the Sacramento Bee highlighted future mandates. “All urban water districts in California must decrease water usage per person at least 20 percent by 2020. By 2017, all pre-1994 homes must be retrofitted with low-flow plumbing fixtures in showers and toilets. The city faces a 2025 deadline under state law to finish metering all customers.” Furthermore, they are shrinking lot sizes of properties that are on the market to regulate water consumption.

These are means to reduce water consumption, but this will also lead to increase in water bills and taxes. The forced adoption of new water efficient technology is a pat on the back to the designers of the technology that attended the conference. They will get rich by imposing new laws and standards centered on the science and technology they developed and marketed around the globe.

How can we apply this knowledge of the Global Water Summit as African Americans?

The EPA said that we will need to spend at least $380 Billion dollars to upgrade our water infrastructure. Maybe we can get finance expert and scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins to explain how to invest in Tax Free Municipal Bonds that are set aside for the upgrades nationwide. Also, now is the time to thoroughly survey your property and find out if you’re sitting on water, and look into purchasing water rights too.

For comedy sake

We may have more water available if they didn’t waste so much hosing us down during civil rights protests. I also know that these company executives are studying how to charge us for water as they smoke cigars in their jacuzzi. Maybe all this depletion of water will eventually result in the recovery of Malaysian Flight 370 (yeah right!). I project that the division between the rich and poor will produce a real “Watergate” — rich on one side, and poor on the other. We need Moses to come and tap some of these rocks to spew forth some fresh water. Man I miss water balloon fights and Super Soakers.

Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Part 1 of this article)

The New World Water part 1: The Global Water Summit of 2014

One of my favorite emcees is Mos Def. A while ago, he made a song titled “New World Water” on his first album. Now fast forward to 2014 and we realize that the record is more than just a song.

Water is a natural resource made available to all inhabitants on Earth. Many believe that the accessibility and availability of water is a human right. Now may be the time to reexamine these premises and assertions. Are you aware that the GLOBAL WATER SUMMIT OF 2014 just concluded this past April in Paris, France? Were you aware that they have GLOBAL WATER SUMMITS?

This summit is the “Who’s Who” of global executive leaders, private equity firms, hedge fund managers, technology strategists, and infrastructure development experts. Yes, the water we know, need, and love is currently being speculated on for venture capital investments as an emerging market.

The itinerary of the summit consisted of 45 sessions that addressed desalination, advanced water treatment technologies, water transport, developing public policies for urban water use, and devising sustainable water solutions in: Africa, Singapore, Israel, India, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Pakistan, and Bahrain.

Here are 5 titles of the 45 sessions that were presented

1. Water’s impact on Profitability, New Metrics Underpinning Investment in Water Management Programmes
2. Water conflict and peacemaking in Future Cities
3. Venture Capital Investments in Water: Ingredients to success
4. Technology investor focus: Which water treatment technologies are getting investors’ attention and why
5. Competition in the urban water supply chain: What are the emerging trends?

This is the lexicon of speculators. It sounds more than just sustainability and environmental conservation.

Why is this important?

Globally and domestically, there are companies and individuals that are buying up water rights. What are water rights?  When you purchase property, people typically think of acreage, square feet, and overall perimeters they will own. However, real estate savvy individuals recognize the importance of what is below your land. Your property may be pregnant with gold, oil, coal, water, and more. You can purchase the rights to own those resources below your property.

Some people own property but someone else may own the water rights to the H2O beneath it. Bloomberg Businessweek produced an article that detailed how the Royal Dutch Shell is buying groundwater rights in Colorado, Nestle is purchasing water rights throughout America, and investors in Australia are buying water rights and reselling it to farmers at a marked up value.

The article also details how an old Texas oil tycoon, T. Boone Pickens, owns 68,000 acres in the Texas Panhandle that sits on the Ogallala Aquifer that contains a QUADRILLION gallons of water. He projects that he will eventually sell 65 billion gallons a year to Dallas.

This is important because government agencies forecast that the demand for water will exceed the supply by 40 percent by 2030. The demand is based on increased population, climate change, urbanization, and industrialization. The principle basis of economics is scarcity. How do you manage scarce resources, and match it with the demand of the public, while making a profit? Throughout America, water rights are being purchased like home foreclosures. This is occurring in Florida, Texas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, and other states.

The proposed technology and infrastructure

The proposed and current technological processes deal with desalination of ocean and seawater. This process is similar to hemodialysis. Water filtration plants are being built and renovated throughout America. The filtration plants will suck up ocean water and filter out the salt content so that it’s suitable and safe for human consumption and redeposit the remaining salt back to the ocean.

There is also reverse osmosis. This process is being used and heavily proposed nationwide. This takes groundwater, sewage waste water and systematically separates the particulate matter, contaminants, microorganisms, pharmaceuticals, and carcinogens and then passes them through ultrafiltration membranes, ultraviolet lights, and ozone to “purify” it. I encourage you to read everything on your bottle of Dasani, that’s all I will say.

Furthermore, according to three different stories in USA Today, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Times, the U.S. Navy has confirmed that they’ve developed a method that can convert seawater into jetfuel. We all know our country’s thirst for war (no pun intended).

Proponents for reverse osmosis feel that it’s safe for consumption, but currently many companies and utilities use it for agricultural irrigation, toilet, bath, cleaning, industrial needs (thermonuclear energy, semiconductors, and etc.).

It’s all about the Benjamins Baby

The Environmental Protection Agency said that America will need to spend at least $380 billion to upgrade the nation’s water infrastructure. This is why you have Private Equity Firms like Blackstone in attendance at the summit. The Clark County Water Reclamation District is currently estimating spending $585 million to construct a 17 mile long water pipeline to supply Las Vegas. California constructed a $481 million Groundwater Replenishment System that conducts reverse osmosis. In the U.K., a water service provider was propositioned by a conglomeration of Kuwaiti, Canadian, and British investors for $8 billion. In Melbourne, Australia a company named Tandou Ltd has approximately $30 million in water rights. Nikko Asset Management, a Tokyo based subsidiary tried to raise $100 million from Australia for water funds. A utility company called, Canadian River Municipal Water Authority purchased 43,000 acres of water in Texas for $14.5 Million.

The story gets even deeper… Stay tuned for “The New World Water Part 2.” This is too much info for one article.

Global Water Summit 2014 Itinerary link: http://www.watermeetsmoney.com/agenda

Rapper Mos Def was prophetic (Youtube link) New World Water, listen closely: http://youtu.be/IxvQKZPb6Wo

Read Part 2 Here

China to build underwater railroad to United States

Reported by Dr. Samori Swygert

You have to marvel at China’s innovation, creativity, and ingenuity.  You have to respect China’s hustle.  They have brokered oil deals with Iraq and built their own airport in the desert to fly their oil workers into Iraq.  China has successfully maneuvered their way into Africa to build new infrastructure, mines, and hospitals.  They’ve also partnered with several Latin American countries for their resources (e.g. Lithium sands), and China is also pioneering new solar energy throughout Latin America.

However, the next item on China’s conquest is a Modern Marvel.  This new endeavor will be a monumental and historical record for the ages.  China has developed plans to construct an 8,000 mile railroad  that will travel under water from China to America.  Currently, the railroad is mentioned to traverse and possibly service: China, Russia, Canada, and America.

This is a big bold behemoth project that can throw a curve ball in the international economic balance. This can and will affect trade.  According to the UK Guardian, it will travel at a speed of 220 mph hour.  I haven’t read anything on the energy or source of fuel that would be required of it in a long term projection, nor have I run across information regarding the safety and environmental impact of it. However, I imagine they would be able to incorporate hydroelectric power somewhere in that scheme since it is water-based travel. I’m sure China’s engineers and physicists have contemplated the possibilities.

This presents an unprecedented alternative that China is wagering on.  Furthermore, how does this plan by China fit or disrupt the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) that is still being designed, weighed, and planned? The TPP is the Geopolitical Elephant in the room.   Several countries are involved in this agreement, and this just might be China’s Trump Card in the deal because America has expressed some skepticism about China’s role in the TPP.

Why would China plan to build such an extensive railway to America, unless it already has the “green light” from America to involve it as a destination on their blueprint?  You can’t unknowingly include people in your collaboration without their permission, unless you have sufficient power to leverage over them.  China owns a lot of America’s debt, manufactures the majority of America’s consumer-based economy, owns substantial real estate in America, and is the main supplier of Neodymium that America needs for its missile defense system, laptops, smartphones, and more. Maybe China will force America’s hand.

I mean Harriet Tubman worked the “Underground Railroad” (no not a real train) via intricate coordination among people along her trail, but this takes it to a whole new level.

What are your thoughts on this?  Click here to read a summary of China’s global developments that I wrote about last year on Kulture Kritic.com….Peace

President Obama condemns anti-gay African nations but not the Saudis

by Dr. Samori Swygert

Homosëxuality has become one of the most divisive issues in America. I want to address it from a different angle.  I want to address the infusion of homosëxuality with America’s foreign policy.  Many are aware of President Obama’s relentless assertion that African nations should abandon their “anti-gay” philosophy.  President Obama has mentioned that he is willing to impose economic sanctions on African nations that choose not to conform to homosëxuality reform.  However, is this stance a fake strategy for an ulterior motive, or is this a show of favoritism?

Why do I ask this question?

Many people that embrace a very liberal position on sëxuality condemn African nations for stern enforcement of anti-gay policies.  However, is this really about morality or more about money?  One of America’s biggest allies and economic buddies is Saudi Arabia.  Saudi Arabia does and has been practicing Sharia law for ages.  Homosëxuals in Saudi Arabia can be imprisoned or executed.  However, where is President Obama’s public condemnation of Saudi Arabia for their anti-gay position????

What is America’s discretionary criteria for global anti-gay condemnation?  How do we go to a foreign nation and demand them to change their philosophy?  If we don’t agree with another nation’s social practices, then we should end all commerce and trade with the nation.  However, our message must be consistent and constant at each and every endeavor.  President Obama is selectively picking on African nations, but is completely mute about anti-gay policies with Saudi Arabia.

Why is America silent about anti-gay legislation with our partner?

Let’s look at economic resources:

Saudi Arabia has the LARGEST PROVEN OIL RESERVES IN THE WORLD.    CNBC posted 2011-2012 Proven oil reserves for Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi’s had 262.6 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.  The United States had only 20.68 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.  According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Saudi Arabia is the 2^nd country on America’s list of oil suppliers that we import from.

Historically speaking, over the last three administrations, you can Google photos of former President Bush, Clinton, and now Obama, and you will see all three wearing gold chains from the Saudis, shaking hands, bowing, laughing, and smiling with the royal Saudi family.  President Obama has yet to publicly condemn King Abdullah about the anti-gay component of Sharia law.

This forces a needed discussion.  Why is Saudi Arabia exempt from American chastisement for anti-gay policy?  How does King Abdullah escape U.S. ridicule and critique, but African nations get lambasted and bold economic sanctions levied on them?  Is our foreign policy hypocritical or bipolar when it comes to homosëxuality, race, and economic power? Where is our consistency?

Can the Saudi’s economic might buy President Obama’s and America’s silence on anti-gay policies? Should America simply leave sëxuality out of its foreign policy and stick with trade, commerce, and military strategy if we can’t be consistent in theme?

Does sëxual preference belong in geopolitical affairs, if so, who legislates the criteria?  Is it fair to let a nation starve because they don’t share the same sëxual ideology?  How do we want resources from African nations, and negotiate development of drone bases in African nations but tell them how to govern sëxual activity?

I don’t have the answers, but these are very serious questions.  This is an international double standard imposed on African nations that isn’t discussed.  Is this really a matter of morality or money? Where is the tough guy talk with the Saudis?

What are your thoughts?

America sends ballistic missile destroyers to Japan

by Dr. Samori Swygert

“EVERYWHERE THERE’S WAR, RUMORS OF A WAR, WAR IN THE EAST, WAR IN THE WEST”–  ”War” by Bob Marley

Bob Marley was prophetic, observant, and just objectively sober.  He had a keen insight into the mind of mankind and how we address humanity when we interact with each other culturally, socially, and politically.  America could stand to sit down and listen intently to each word in his song titled “War.”

The United States government has an interesting way of choosing how to exercise and enforce our foreign policy and diplomacy.

America is at it again.  According to an article by the Guardian, the U.S. is sending in two additional ballistic missile destroyers to Japan.  This is a maneuver to “counter” North Korea’s military progression.

U.S. Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, said some things that seem rather hypocritical about how other nations handle their international affairs.

The Guardian quotes Hagel saying: “We must be very careful and we must be very clear, all nations of the world, that in the 21st century this will not stand, you cannot go around the world and redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation, whether it’s in small islands in the Pacific or large nations in Europe”.

He continued to criticize Russia’s move on Crimea, and China’s encroachment on smaller Pacific Islands.

I think we must be honest and admit that our government goes around and imposes, asserts, coerces, and exerts their authority on several nations and ignores the sovereignty of numerous countries.

We’ve seen how African nations are being bullied around by America’s ultimatum to accept homosexuality or face stiff sanctions.  We’ve had a propaganda based war in Iraq.  We have nuclear capability but yet we tell sovereign nations like Iran and North Korea that they can’t possess or develop equivalent weaponry.  We use treaties, resolutions, and U.N. reccomendations as a pretense to rationalize the disarmament of these nations.

We’ve been and still have a demographic within our nation that are warmongers that are hell bent on war and conflict.  We’ve just had a run-in with Syria less than a year ago; we’re trying to dictate policy to Russia; and we’re still trying to keep Iran disarmed.  The sad thing is that we invest so much in war. We study war; we develop biological and chemical weapons; and we engineer mechanical weapons for war.  We are obsessed!

This is a sick cycle in which a set group of individuals that own and invest in war are the only ones to gain from global conflict.  The citzenry are left to foot the bill, which is partly why we’re in a deficit now from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The insult  is the fact that the “powers that be” eagerly salivate over war, but never ever send their sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews into the harms of war.  They never have to deal with family members that return in bodybags, folded flags, PTSD, shell shocked syndrome, and physical disfiguration.  Our troops come back and cant find employment and typically face delayed benefits.

Private equity firms are poised to make billions from war and conflicts between the munitions industry, tech industry, metal/mineral industry, fuel industry, and more.

The paradoxical hypocrisy of freedom, liberty, and peace that we espouse in our sanctimonious posturing really humors me sadly.  I don’t know how we assume this position of moral superiority when we engage in some of the same war-based practices as the nations we condemn.

What would we do if other countries sent drones over here for surveillance?  However, we send our drones all over the globe just to watch or quell any inkling of offense.

We always find ourselves in some international war/conflict but never find the right things like: WMDs, Malaysian Airplanes, Peace, Zimmerman guilty, Relisha Rudd, or the $30 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens……..SMH

The Malaysian deception- what’s not being said

by: Samori Swygert

By now, everyone should be fully abreast of the circumstance surrounding the missing Malaysian airplane.  The news is obsessed with this airplane, and it has been sensationalized like the OJ Simpson trial. There is no question that people should have a spirit of humanity and empathy for the people who have loved ones on this aircraft that has gone off the grid.

However, I’ve learned that whenever this type of media coverage blankets the airwaves, it’s imperative to start examining what’s not being covered in the news.  Slight of hand tactics, diversions and distractions are always set in place to slide controversial issues under the radar.

Carefully look at global and domestic trends.  Apply a shrewd eye and keen analysis on forgotten matters. These are the type of questions you should be asking yourself now:

1) Was Syria ever truly resolved?

2) What is the Federal Reserve currently doing?

3) What is China doing?

4) What’s the status of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement?

5) What are the stock market trends, mergers, acquisitions, sell-offs?

6) What is the United Nations doing at this time?

7) What’s the latest news on North Korea and Iran?

8) What is truly at the root of Russia and Ukraine?

9) What legislation is being voted on, passed, or blocked in congress?

10) What is happening with your state pension plan?

11) What decisions are on the Supreme Court’s plate that deserve scrutiny and attention?

12) Who are the candidates that are getting groomed for the next election, and who are their supporters, allegiance, and who hosts their Super PAC?

13) What is really going on with the Keystone Pipeline, and will the president approve it?  Who has set themselves up to benefit from the Keystone Pipeline?

14) Why isn’t there anymore noise about the banks in Cyprus? What’s going on with the European Union and the world currencies?

15) Has your state’s voting eligibility requirements changed at all?

16) What educational policies have changed in your child’s school district that may affect their graduation, examinations, placement, and etc.?

17) What’s going on with your social security?

18) What will be the final call on longterm unemployment insurance?

It’s important that we look at both hands at this point in time.  Nothing new has really surfaced, they haven’t found the plane, but everything about the plane is “breaking news.”   That term is being abused. The only thing that would be remarkable at this point is if they found the  plane, people, or debunked a conspiracy.  However, this is primetime and all these “specialists” and “experts” are getting their paychecks for television appearances. The news is airing nothing but speculation.

Just like a good broadway play, the action lies behind the curtains.

You can also find this at: http://www.kulturekritic.com/2014/03/news/18-questions-every-american-should-be-asking-in-lieu-of-the-missing-plane/