Stopping Global Warming 
In Africa

Clinton Targeting African Industrialization

That actions speak louder than words is an old adage that should be especially applied when it is a 
politician that is talking. That caveat must be particularly adhered to when the talker is Bill Clinton.
As he began his tour of Africa today, (3/23/98), he rather appropriately made his first appearance at
Accra, an ancient slave port. And given Clinton's political orientation, that is even more
appropriately taken as a warning -- of the potential of the neo-colonialism that his visit heralds. It is
curious that his visits are to the very countries in which the winds of market economy spring breezes
have been blowing -- Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Congo -- as he sets his course of spreading his
tired collectivist vision to contravene the direction they have set. If that seems too cynical, it will only
be so to the most unseasoned and naive observors. 

Even today, the real message of Clinton's visit was not very far beneath the surface in his words.
After announcing that the US would provide aid in the form of two hydro-electric generation units to
Ghana, a token that dredges up memories of the IMF's appropriate technologies in its substance and
its inadequacy, he couched his 'threats' to the new experiments in capitalism in 'popularized' slogans
which must be understood for their real meaning. Together, Africa and America, he told them, must
"preserve the magnificent environment," and we "must live in harmony with other species." Platitudes
are one thing, but behind them are the ravings of Al Gore's radical environmentalism as expressed in
his "Earth in the Balance." Preserving the environment becomes a much less innocuous warning
against industrialization and modern technology, and living in harmony with other species becomes a
cry against alledged overpopulation which must be contained.
 
This is the same Al Gore and Bill Clinton

who have decried the overpopulation and industrialization

of the Third World for contributing 

so much to the ficticious problem of global warming.

Without flinching, he adds that we

"must learn how to fight against drought and famine," nevermind that the curses he is sighting are the
result of conscious policy choices of governance and international financial powers. But to this he
attaches a call for us working together to fight the mythical 'global warming,' itself a cry against
population and industrialization. Clinton went on to say that we "must share with you the technology
that will enable you to preserve your environment." That, once again, reiterates the same threats. But
he turns the screws up a notch as he refers to diseases and other problems which don't stop at
national borders. In Clinton-speak, this is code for supra-national authority which renders the
governance of the nation-state as subservient. The answer he is advocating is abrogation of the
nation-state to world government. Nations are to be satrapies of the new world order of the UN and
international financial powers. The course they have set upon is in error, and must be replaced by
their obedience to that regime. This policy orientation is not the sort of thing that Africa needs to
continue its incipient capitalism, and will only negate or diminish the impact of the positive moves
toward investment from the United States, such as that by black Detroit millionaire Don Barden in
pouring $13 million into Namibia to build an auto manufacturing and processing plant to convert GM
vehicles from left to right hand drive, the only real US investment there, though but a drop in the
bucket toward what is needed.

There is more, however. In concluding, Clinton perhaps appropriately makes reference to Kwame
Nkrumah, but the reference he is making is striking in its content. In sighting Nkrumah's 'democracy,' 
he is calling forth the spectre of collectivism. Nkrumah's 'democracy' is of the breed of that of Mao
and Stalin, at best. At worst, it approaches the 'democracy' of the fascists. The American President
has arrived on the shores of the continent Europe looted and kidnapped by threatening incipient
capitalism with internaional fascism. 

With that, Clinton confronted the huge crowds gathered to greet what they perceived as the
representative of the great American republican experiment. And he moves on to spread his venom
to other parts of the continent which have begun to shake off the yoke of collectivist international
looting.

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