13-02-14: ICANN:WIPO: Ron Paul v RonPaul.com: Ecocentric Amicus

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION CENTER

RON PAUL 122 West Way, Suite 301 Lake Jackson, TX 77566

) ) ) (Complainant) ) ) -v) ) WHOIS PRIVACE SERVICES PTY ) LTD ) DOMAIN HOSTMASTER, CUSTOMER ) ID: 95459852061642) lef430@whoisprivacyservices.com.au ) PO Box 923 ) Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006 AU ) ) REGISTRANT ID: TNTN-0000000002 ) WHOIS PRIVACY SERVICE ) PO BOX 501610 ) San Diego, CA 92150-1610 ) (Respondents) )

Disputed Domain Name(s): <RONPAUL.COM> <RONPAUL.ORG> Amicus Curiae Submission from Ron Paul Supporter: EcoFeminist Sustainable Security Guerrylla Law CommonSist

A. AMICUS CURIAE SUBMISSION [1] Amici, Lara Johnstone is an EcoFeminist CommonSist Ron Paul Supporter who hereby applies to this administrative body to appear pro hac vice for the limited purpose of being admitted as Amicus Curiae, in the form of written submissions.

[2] Permission to invoke1 cultural law2 as enunciated in S. 15(3), 30, 31, and 18 of the South African Constitution3; to enable the Applicant to honour the duty and responsibility to uphold the principles upon which her Radical Honoursty culture is Ex parte Minister of Native Affairs: In re Yako v Beyi 1948 (1) SA 388 (A) at 397: Appellate Division held that neither common nor customary law was prima facie applicable. Courts had to consider all the circumstances of a case, and, without any preconceived view about the applicability of one or other legal system, select the appropriate law on the basis of its inquiry.

2 SALC, Sept 1999: Report on Conflicts of law: P.22: „1.58. The Constitution now provides an entitlement for invoking customary law in legal suits. Because ss 30 and 31 specifically guarantee an individual and a group's right to pursue a culture of choice, it could be argued that application of customary law has become a constitutional right. Previously, the state had assumed complete discretion in deciding whether and to what extent customary law should be recognized, an attitude typical of colonial thinking, for Africans were subject to whatever policies the conquering state chose to impose on them. Now, however, the state has a duty to allow people to participate in the culture they choose, implicit in this duty is a responsibility to uphold the institutions on which that culture is based.‟ 3 http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm 1

based; and Psychological Integrity in Section 124; the former which may require the application of choice of law rules.

[3] If consented to by the complainant and respondent, this Ecocentric Amicus brief shall address alternative Ecocentric Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security (CommonSism) legal arguments deemed too far reaching for emphasis by Anthropocentric respondent parties intent on winning their particular Anthropocentric cases5; thereby enabling the panel„s final judgment to include both an Anthropocentric and an Ecocentric Wild Law Sustainable Security perspective.6 [4] Furthermore, Amici‟s Pro Se Ecocentric Amicus intends to meet the following general US laws Amicus requirements: restrictive „search for truth‟ (Jaffee v.

Redmond7), avoid argument duplication (Craig v. Harney8), „presents new ideas, arguments, theories, insights, facts and data‟, „speaks on behalf of an unrepresented party‟ (Sierra Club v. Morton9) and „presents a unique perspective and specific information‟ (The Voices for Choices v. Illinois Bell Telephone Company10) as required by United States Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit Court Standards11.

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Amici Contact Details: Name: Address: Telephone: Cell: Email:

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Lara Johnstone P O Box 5042, George East, 6539, South Africa +27-44-870 7239 +27-71-170 1954 jmcswan@mweb.co.za

Preferred Method of Communication:

[7] Amici prefers Email correspondence to avoid unrequited use of scarce planetary resources.

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Interest of the Amici:

12. Freedom and security of the person: (2) Everyone has the right to bodily and psychological integrity..

Luther T. Munford, When Does the Curiae Need an Amicus?, 1 J. App. Prac. & Process 279, 280 (1999).

6 Paul M. Smith, The Sometimes Troubled Relationship Between Courts and Their “Friends”, note 2, at 26 (1998).

7 518 U.S. 1 (1996).

8 331 U.S. 367 (1947) 9 405 U.S. 727 (1972): Justice William O‟Douglas dissenting 10 339 F.3d 542 (7th Cir. 2003).

11 Neonatology Assocs. at 133 “A restrictive policy with respect to granting leave to file may also create at least the perception of viewpoint discrimination. Unless a court follows a policy of either granting or denying motions for leave to file in virtually all cases, instances of seemingly disparate treatment are predictable. A restrictive policy may also convey an unfortunate message about the openness of the court.”

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[9] Although Amici does not share Complainant and Respondent‟s Libertarian Capitalism ideology; Amici has been a vocal supporter of Dr. Paul and his supporters, based upon the assumption that Dr. Paul, „practiced what he preached‟.

Put differently that he subjectively sincerely believed his „ideology‟, and was not deceiving his followers.

[10] Amici‟s support for Dr. Paul, was consequently based upon the fact that he was an „honest libertarian‟, or „honest capitalist‟; that if he was elected, he would be an honest representative of the specific ideologies he endorsed.

[11] Amici‟s support included setting up and running the following Facebook groups: Stop Foreign Aid to Africa 4 Ron Paul12; UFO Disclosure Truthers 4 Ron Paul13, South Africans 4 Ron Paul Revolution14, Peak Oil Survivalists, Ishmael Tribalists and Secessionists 4 Ron Paul15, Truth Doctors 2012: Ron Paul & Walter Williams16.

[12] Amici is the founder of CommonSism ideology, which considers the (a) foundation of WIPO‟s Negotiation and Arbitration procedures and doctrine, (b) Fundamentalist Unscientific Belief in the concept of „Intellectual Property‟ to be in error, and lacking in arbitration and problem solving credibility, in as far as its (c) legal principles and stare decisis jurisprudence is founded upon the Natural Law errors of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence. (Annex A: Draft of CommonSism Principles provides a reasonably comprehensive draft of CommonSism‟s principles and criticisms of the errors of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence) [13] In Amici‟s worldview, the problem is not left vs. right, or capitalism vs. communism, but the absence of honest liberals vs honest conservatives, or honest capitalists vs honest communists, not to mention honest arbitrationists and jurists.

[14] The problem is that we are drowning in Edward Bernaysian PR consumptionists: Bullshit the Public Relations liberals, conservatives, communists, capitalists, libertarians, etc. An honest capitalist has no problems resolving any problem with an honest communist. There is no need for „diplomacy‟ (deception) or Bullshit the Public Relations of their respective followers, between honest capitalist, communists, liberals and conservatives.

[15] Practice what you Preach/Honest [ideologists] are interested in brutal honesty with their followers, in followers who are adults and capable of hearing constructive criticism brutal honesty, who clearly and succinct in simple language, clarify their http://www.facebook.com/Stop.Foreign.Aid.4.RonPaul http://www.facebook.com/Truthers.4.RonPaul 14 http://www.facebook.com/ZA.4.RonPaul 15 http://www.facebook.com/POTUS.4.RonPaul 16 http://www.facebook.com/Truth.Doctors.2012 12 13

respective ideological perspective; so that there is no doubt about their ideological perspective. Practice what you Preach/Honest [ideologists] insist on only being elected by people who unequivocally understand their ideological platform. If any voting age individual lacks the intellectual, psychological or emotional capacity to hear constructive criticism, and the will to practice what they preach, to implement root cause problem solving, they should fuck off to be deceived, brainwashed, bullshitted, and betrayed by the worlds litany of Bullshit the Public Relations Capitalist, Communist, Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, Anarchist, etc Political Whores.

[16] Bullshit the Public Relations [ideologists] are interested in vagueness and ambiguity, in PR deception of their followers, so as to bullshit followers, who would not have supported them, if they had practiced brutal honesty. They intentionally avoid clarifying their respective ideological perspective, so that there is greater doubt and latitude for as many individuals as possible to be deceived into following them. Bullshit the Public Relations politicians insist on deceiving as many followers as possible with bullshit, in order to get themselves elected.

[17] Getting elected -- and egotistically or socio-politically profiteering from their election -- is the primary goal of Bullshit the Public Relations [ideologists]. Their ideology is no different from their underwear, It is their tactical propaganda arm. It means fuck all to them, except as a tactical propaganda bullshitting mechanism to manipulate and deceive the followers of any particular ideology to elect them to power.

[18] A majority of the worlds politicians are Bullshit the Public Relations [ideologists], whose only concern is getting elected, and parasitically sociopolitically benefiting from their (a) Bullshit the Public Relations Image management pretend problem solving rhetoric; and (b) divide and conquer emotional manipulation of followers into capitalism v communism, and liberals v conservatives camps.

[19] Ron Paul was considered to be possible â&#x20AC;&#x17E;honest libertarianâ&#x20AC;&#x;, who may possibly welcome a political revolution from Bullshit the Public Relations Parasitism, to Radical Transparent Brutally Honest Problem Solving.

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WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization:

[21] According to Wikipedia, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual

property throughout the world."17 WIPO currently has 185 member states,18 administers 24 international treaties,19 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Application and Implementation of Multicultural Law:

[1] The South African Constitution is founded on the Apartheid premise that South Africa is a multicultural country, hence neither common law, nor cultural customary law are prima facie applicable in any dispute before any court. The Constitution provides for all citizens rights to invoke20 cultural law21 in S. 15(3)22, 3023, 3124, and 1825. When any party invokes cultural law, the court is required to proceed in terms of application of choice of law rules, to determine the applicability of one or other legal system, or combination thereof, on the basis of its inquiry into the relevant parties particular cultures, as determined from their lifestyles26.

[2] For example: In Smit NO and Others v King Goodwill Zwelithini Kabhekuzulu and Others27 Judge Nic van Reyden of the Kwa-Zulu Natal High Court, ruled in favour of the revived Zulu cultural practice of barehanded killing of a bull at the Ukweshwama festival, satisfied with the evidence of cultural expert Professor Jabulani Mapalala28, who said that the animal‟s death was quick,

Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization, [1] signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, Preamble, second paragraph.

18 List of members states of WIPO. http://www.wipo.int/members/en/ 19 Treaties administered by WIPO. http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ 20 Ex parte Minister of Native Affairs: In re Yako v Beyi 1948 (1) SA 388 (A) at 397: Appellate Division held that neither common nor customary law was prima facie applicable. Courts had to consider all the circumstances of a case, and, without any preconceived view about the applicability of one or other legal system, select the appropriate law on the basis of its inquiry.

21 SALC, Sept 1999: Report on Conflicts of law: P.22: „1.58. The Constitution now provides an entitlement for invoking customary law in legal suits. Because ss 30 and 31 specifically guarantee an individual and a group's right to pursue a culture of choice, it could be argued that application of customary law has become a constitutional right. Previously, the state had assumed complete discretion in deciding whether and to what extent customary law should be recognized, an attitude typical of colonial thinking, for Africans were subject to whatever policies the conquering state chose to impose on them. Now, however, the state has a duty to allow people to participate in the culture they choose, implicit in this duty is a responsibility to uphold the institutions on which that culture is based.‟ 22 Freedom of Religion, Belief and Opinion http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm#15 23 Language and Culture http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm#30 24 Culture, Religious & Linguistic Comm: http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm#31 25 Freedom of Association http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm#18 26 In Ex Parte Minister of Native Affairs in re: Yako v Beyi 1948 (1) SA 388 (A) Schreiner J.A. said lifestyle of is a choice of law factor. “Aside from an express choice of laws all connecting factors with conflict of personal laws are designed to determine, in an objective manner, the cultural orientation of the parties. Because the laws involved are conceived in terms of culture .... the connecting factors must be conceived in like terms. The most direct access to a person‟s cultural leanings would clearly be his or her lifestyle.”

27 Smit NO and Others v King Goodwill Zwelithini Kabhekuzulu and Others (10237/2009) [2009] ZAKZPHC 75 (4 Dec 2009) 28 Mkhize: Bull-killing ruling promotes cultural tolerance, M&G, 04 Dec 2009; Court Clears Ritual, Bare Handed Killing of a Bull – Does the Judgement Threaten Wider Environmental Problems?, Dave Harcourt, EcoLocalizer, 6 Dec 2009; S.A. Judge Compares Zulu Bull-Killing to Holy Communion, by C Szabo, 2 Dec 2009, Digital Journal; [www.scribd.com/doc/34458079] 17

unpainful and that no blood was shed. (Others disagreed29: Mapalala‟s expert witness testimony contradicts Chief Mlaba (not submitted to the court), as quoted in an ANC newsletter of December 1995, that: “We must use our bare hands, It‟s cruelty, we agree, but it‟s our culture. We cannot change our culture.”30).

[23] Similarly, the common law reasonableness test has cultural applications, similar to that of a professional skill application. Where the „reasonableness‟ of an act is questioned that involves the skills or common practices within a particular culture/tribe, then the skills and practices of that particular tribe needs to be applied to determine the cultural/tribal „reasonableness‟ of the individual‟s circumstances31.

[24] Multi-Cultural Conflict of Laws: Multi-cultural Law Must (a) avoid Monocultural legal Hegemony, and (b) draw on legal cultural diversity: [25] The Opinion of Weeramantry J in Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v Slovakia) 32, clarifies multi-culti lawmaking: The need for International law to draw upon Worlds Diversity of Cultures in Harmonizing Development and Environmental Protection In drawing into international law the benefits of the insights available from other cultures, and in looking to the past for inspiration, international environmental law would not be departing from traditional methods of international law, but would, in fact, be following in the path charted out by Grotius.

Rather than laying down a set of principles a priori for the new discipline of international law, he sought them also a posteriori from the experience of the past, searching through a whole range of cultures available to him for this purpose33.

From them he drew the durable principles which had weathered the ages, on which to build the new international order of the Culture no excuse for cruelty: How soon before we start burning witches again?; Justice Malala, Sunday Times, 6 Dec 2009: “The argument put forward was that this bull must suffer because my ancestors made animals suffer. The argument is, with all due respect, stupid: my ancestors had not read the work of JM Coetzee and were not on Facebook. I know that I know more than they did, and that my practices must of necessity differ with theirs.”

30 ANC Daily News Briefing, Monday 11 December 1995: Zulu King revives ceremonies to build support, SapaAP, 10 December 1995; Court Clears Ritual, Bare Handed Killing of a Bull – Does the Judgement Threaten Wider Environmental Problems?, by Dave Harcourt, Eco-Localizer, 6 December 2009 31Smit NO and Others v King Goodwill Zwelithini Kabhekuzulu and Others (10237/2009) [2009] ZAKZPHC 75 (4 December 2009); S v Zuma (JPV325/05, JPV325/05) [2006] ZAGPHC 45; 2006 (2) SACR 191 (W); 2006 (7) BCLR 790 (W) (8 May 2006), at: p.98; Sandra Lovelace v. Canada, Communication No. R.6/24 (29 December 1977), U.N. Doc. Supp. No. 40 (A/36/40) at 166 (1981).

32 Opinion of Weeramantry J in the Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v Slovakia) (1998) 37 International Legal Materials 162 206.. See also: Smit NO and Others v King Goodwill Zwelithini Kabhekuzulu and Others (10237/2009) [2009] ZAKZPHC 75 (4 December 2009); Article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; Sandra Lovelace v. Canada, Communication No. R.6/24 (29 December 1977), U.N. Doc. Supp. No. 40 (A/36/40) at 166 (1981) 33 Julius Stone, Human Law and Human Justice, 1965, p.66: “It was for this reason that Grotius added to his theoretical deductions such a mass of concrete examples from history.”

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future. Environmental law is now in a formative stage, not unlike international law in its early stages. A wealth of past experience from a variety of cultures is available to it. It would be pity indeed if it were left untapped merely because of attitudes of formalism which see such approaches as not being entirely de rigueur.

I cite in this connection an observation of Sir Robert Jennings that, in taking note of different legal traditions and cultures, the International Court (as it did in the Western Sahara) case: “was asserting, not negating, the Grotian subjection of the totality of international relations to international law. It seems to the writer, indeed, that at the present juncture in the development of the international legal system it may be more important to stress the imperative need to develop international law to comprehend within itself the rich diversity of cultures, civilizations and legal traditions….”34 Moreover, especially at the frontiers of the discipline of international law, it needs to be multi-disciplinary, drawing from other disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology such wisdom as may be relevant for its purpose.

On the need for the international law of the future to be disciplinary, I refer to another recent extra-judicial observation of distinguished former President of the Court that: “there should be a much greater, and a practical, recognition by international lawyers that the rule of law in international affairs, and the establishment of international justice, are inter-disciplinary subjects35.

Especially where this Court is concerned, “the essence of true universality” of the institution is captured in the language of Article 9 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice which requires the “representation of the main forms of civilization and of the principle legal systems of the world.” (emphasis added)…. I see the Court as being charged with a duty to draw upon the wisdom of the worlds several civilizations, where such a course can enrich its insights into the matter before it. The Court cannot afford to be monocultural, especially where it is entering newly developing areas of law.

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Radical Honoursty Culture:

Sir Robert Y. Jennings, Universal International Law in a Multicultural World, in International Law and the Grotian Heritage: A Commemorative Colloquium on the Occasion of the Fourth Centenary of the Birth of Hugo Grotius, edited and published by the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, 1985, p. 195.

35 International Lawyers and the Progressive Development of International Law, Theory of International Law at the Threshold of the 21st Century, Jerzy Makarczyk (ed), 1996, p 423.

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[27] An assessment of the invocation of cultural law in South African court proceedings necessitates an understanding of the relevant cultural worldview – in this case Radical Honoursty culture -- and practices in South Africa.

[28] The Radical Honoursty culture is a combination of Radical Honesty cultural practices, combined with EcoCentric (a) CommonSism ideological perspectives, and (b) EcoFeminist matriarchal – among others, such as the Mosuo – problem solving practices and ecological principles.

[29] I am the only member of the Radical Honesty culture and religion, in South Africa. The Radical Honesty culture and religion are founded upon the Truth and Forgiveness Social Contract: Being Specific About Anger and Forgiveness; as excerpted from: Practicing Radical Honesty. Radical Honesty is a powerful process by which people can make corrections in the minds distorted and only partly conscious map of the world. Our maps of the world are distorted by our repressed anger and resentment; the greater the amount of repressed anger and resentment, the greater the distortion. The key to individuality, integrity, individual freedom, and free societies, lies in providing people with the skills and capabilities to get over their anger, and experience sincere forgiveness.

[30] Radical Honesty culture and religion was founded by Dr. Brad Blanton, who is: (1) President and CEO of Radical Honesty Enterprises Sparrowhawk Book Publishing and The Center for Radical Honesty, both dedicated to promoting honesty in the world; (2) former candidate for Congress in 2004 and 2006, on the platform of „Honesty in Politics‟; (3) Pope of the Radical Honesty Futilitarian Church; i.e. “Dr. Truth”; and (4) author of (a) Radical Honesty: How To Transform your Life by Telling the Truth; (b) Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Stay in the Present and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends, (c) Honest to God: A Change of Heart that Can Change the World, with Neale Donald Walsh (Conversations with God series); (d) Radical Parenting: Seven Steps to a Functional Family in a Dysfunctional World; (e) The Truthtellers: Stories of Success by Radically Honest People and (f) Beyond Good and Evil: The Eternal Split-Second-Sound-Light-Being; (g) Some New Kind of Trailer Trash.

Dr. Blanton asserts Radical Honesty is a cult (a small culture) and he wants to take over the world: i.e. create a more honest transparent world.

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[32] The motive for practicing radical honesty, by informing others of our honest possibly insulting or offensive opinions is forgiveness.

[33] A primary goal of Dr. Blanton‟s and Radical Honesty‟s Revolution of Consciousness is not only individual transformation from lying to telling the truth, but also social transformation: social institutions learning how to give up addiction to lying, public relations image management, in favour of sincerity: telling the truth.

“The work is to correct financial institutions lying, health care institutions lying, the justice system lying. Allot of the fundamental problems of our society is not just individual lying, but institutional lying.” – Brad Blanton on KSWB FOX 5 San Diego, “Reviewing the Occupy Movement” on March 8, 201236

ERRORS OF ANTHROPOCENTRIC JURISPRUDENCE ARGUMENTS: [34] WIPO’s ‘Intellectual Property’ doctrine is founded upon Memetic Tyranny Jurisprudence.

[35] According to Wikipedia, Ron Paul is best known for his libertarian views and is a critic of American foreign, domestic, and monetary policies, including the military–industrial complex, the War on Drugs, and the Federal Reserve.

[36] Generally American Libertarians “support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.”37 [37] Memetic Liberty, as enunciated, by among others, Susan Blackmore in „Waking from the Meme Dream‟38, is confronting the reality that: [37.1] Neurologically speaking, we believe in a „self‟ that does not exist: the central controller we commonly believe exists somewhere in our brain, and is “I” is an illusion. There simply is no one inside our brains, our brains are colonized by various meme-complexes, one of those meme-complexes being the ego-memeplex belief that there is an „I‟ in the brain, a central controller, a decider of decisions or an experiencer of experiences.

[37.2] Although our ego meme-complex has convinced us that there really is someone inside our brain to do our believing, thinking, decision-making, who needs to be protected; who „we‟ are, are just temporary conglomerations of ideas, moulded together for our protection. Our bodies are the creations of temporary genecomplexes, and our minds are the creations of temporary meme-complexes, which http://www.radicalhonesty.com/press/videos/reviewing-the-occupy-movement-on-kswb-fox-5-san-diego-onmarch-8-2012/ 37 Watts, Duncan (16 March 2006). Understanding American government and politics: a guide for A2 politics students (2nd Revised edition ed.). Manchester University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7190-7327-4.

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have come from previous creatures, and will, when we speak and write and communicate, go on into future creatures.

“The most obvious (and scary) conclusion from modern neuroscience is that there is simply no one inside the brain.

The more we learn about the way the brain functions the less it seems to need a central controller, a little person inside, a decider of decisions or an experiencer of experiences. These are just fictions - part of the story the brain tells itself about a self within (Churchland and Sejnowski, 199239; Dennett, 199140).” [..] Religions are, according to Dawkins (199341), huge coadapted meme-complexes; that is groups of memes that hang around together for mutual support and thereby survive better than lone memes could do. Other meme-complexes include cults, political systems, alternative belief systems, and scientific theories and paradigms.

Religions are special because they use just about every memetrick in the book (which is presumably why they last so long and infect so many brains). Think of it this way. The idea of hell is initially useful because the fear of hell reinforces socially desirable behaviour.

Now add the idea that unbelievers go to hell, and the meme and any companions are well protected. The idea of God is a natural companion meme, assuaging fear and providing (spurious) comfort. The spread of the meme-complex is aided by exhortations to convert others and by tricks such as the celibate priesthood. Celibacy is a disaster for genes, but will help spread memes since a celibate priest has more time to spend promoting his faith.

Another trick is to value faith and suppress the doubt that leads every child to ask difficult questions like "where is hell?" and "If God is so good why did those people get tortured?". Note that science (and some forms of Buddhism) do the opposite and encourage doubt.

Finally, once you’ve been infected with these meme-complexes they are hard to get rid of. If you try to throw them out, some even protect themselves with last-ditch threats of death, ex-communication, or burning in hell-fire for eternity. [..] We are in charge of our bodies, we run the show, we decide which ideas to believe in and which to reject. But do Churchland,P.S. and Sejnowski,T.J. (1992) The Computational Brain. Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press Dennett,D.C. (1991) Consciousness Explained. London, Little, Brown & Co. 41 Dawkins,R. (1993) Viruses of the Mind. In Dennett and his Critics. Ed. B.Dahlbom, Oxford, Blackwell. 13-27.

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we really? If you begin to think about selfish memes it becomes clear that our ideas are in our heads because they are successful memes. American philosopher Dan Dennett (1995) concludes that a "person" is a particular sort of animal infested with memes. In other words you and I and all our friends are the products of two blind replicators, the genes and the memes.

I find these ideas absolutely stunning. Potentially we might be able to understand all of mental life in terms of the competition between memes, just as we can understand all biological life in terms of the competition between genes.

Now we have a radically new idea of who we are. We are just temporary conglomerations of ideas, moulded together for their own protection. The analogy with our bodies is close. Bodies are the creations of temporary gene-complexes: although each of us is unique, the genes themselves have all come from previous creatures and will, if we reproduce, go on into future creatures. Our minds are the creations of temporary meme-complexes: although each of us is unique, the memes themselves have come from previous creatures and will, if we speak and write and communicate, go on into future creatures.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all.

The problem is that we don't see it this way. We believe there really is someone inside to do the believing, and really someone who needs to be protected. This is the illusion - this is the meme-dream from which we can wake up.

Dismantling the Meme-Dream There are two systems I know of that are capable of dismantling meme-complexes (though I am sure there are others). Of course these systems are memes themselves but they are, if you like, meme-disinfectants, meme-eating memes, or "meme-complex destroying meme-complexes".

These two are science and Zen. Science works this way because of its ideals of truth and seeking evidence. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always live up to these ideals, but in principle it is capable of destroying any untruthful meme-complex by putting it to the test, by demanding evidence, or by devising an experiment.

Zen does this too, though the methods are completely different. In Zen training every concept is held up to scrutiny, nothing is left uninvestigated, even the self who is

doing the investigation is to be held up to the light and questioned. "Who are you?"

[38] Consequently, it can be reasonably safely stated, that the majority of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence is based upon a false illusion of self, as a result of Memetic Tyranny colonization of our brains by thousands of frequently false, meme complexes.

[39] A WIPO Panel intellectually and psychologically capable of applying and enquiring into Memetic Liberty principles; would enquire into the question: “Who is Ron Paul and what is he famous for?”

[39.1] Is „Ron Paul‟ a self, that exists, a central controller that truly factually exists somewhere in his brain; or is „Ron Paul‟ an ego meme-complex, that has colonized his mind, and deceived him that „Ron Paul‟ is a self, that exists, a central controller that truly factually exists somewhere in his brain?

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Is „Ron Paul‟ famous for his physical being of legs, arms, eyes and ears?

[39.3] Is Ron Paul famous for allowing his mind to be colonized by the Liberty Revolution Memecomplex, to the extent that he was willing to become a public spokesperson for other minds to welcome colonization by the Liberty Revolution Meme-complex?

[39.4] Can the being, named Ron Paul neurologically prove that the „self‟ he believes in, as existing in his mind, the central controller, the decider of decisions, actually exists, and that his mind‟s concept of self – whom he believes „Ron Paul‟ to be – is not simply the deception the Ego-I-Self Meme Complex and the Liberty Revolution Meme-complex has convinced him he is?

[39.5] Furthermore, does Ron Paul‟s advocacy on behalf of the „Liberty Revolution‟, not extend towards an enquiry into the evidence for Memetic Liberty Jurisprudence? If not, why not?

[40] WIPO’s Treaties are not Credible Peace/Problem Solving Treaties.

WIPO Treaties – like all International Treaties -- are Parasitic ‘War is Peace’ Whore Treaties, to the extent that they ignore CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security and Sustainable Rights principles.

[41] WIPO treaties are not „credible‟ „peace treaty‟ or „arbitration resolution‟ legislation treaties.

[42] A „credible‟ judicial system, or peace treaty, or arbitration resolution system, is one which accurately applies the relevant natural or scientific laws, to attain a

specific related required result of inter-human and intra-species harmony and balance.

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For example:

[43.1] Anders Breivik and Carlos the Jackal were „credible‟ bomb making terrorists, in the sense of accurately following the recipe‟ for the laws of physics related to bomb-making and detonation.

[43.2] A chef who wants to make a Crème brûlée, is not going to have a „credible‟ Crème brûlée, if he used the ingredients and recipe – i.e. cooking laws -- for road kill stew.

[44] A credible legal system is one which (A) adheres to the laws of nature/ecology, recognizing that a healthy ecological environment, with due regard for carrying capacity laws of sustainability is a sine qua non for all other constitutional rights; and (B) adheres to the laws of human nature; recognizing that culture‟s 42 and subcultures43 whose members practice brutal honesty, self sufficiency, personal responsibility, transparency and commitment to root cause problem solving have far greater harmony amongst their members, than tribes or cultures whose members practice political correctness, sycophancy, hypocrisy, parasitism, denial of responsibility, secrecy masquerading as „privacy‟, and a focus on Public Relations Image Management Pretend problem solving.

[45] Anthropocentric International Law -- Patriarchal Anthropocentric Flat Earth jurisprudence is not credible, according to the aforementioned definition of „credible‟, because – among others – it: [45.1] Ignores the laws of nature/ecology reality that the Earth is NOT FLAT, and that resources are not infinite. Anthropocentric Jurisprudence refuses to confront the reality that a majority of the socio-political problems experienced in anthropocentric jurisprudence cultures: crime, violence, unemployment, poverty, inflation, food shortages, political instability, vanishing species, garbage and pollution urban sprawl, traffic jams, toxic waste, energy and non-renewable resources (NNR) depletion are a consequence of overpopulation and overconsumption induced scarcity. International Anthropocentric jurisprudence fails to legally (a) define the difference between sustainable and unsustainable procreation and consumption behaviour; and (b) provide legal rights to sustainable practices, and legal penalties to unsustainable individuals, corporations and organisations.

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[45.2] Ignores the laws of human nature; by discriminating against culture‟s 44 and sub-cultures45 whose members practice brutal honesty, self sufficiency, personal responsibility, transparency and commitment to root cause problem solving, whose lifestyle‟s do not contribute to overpopulation and overconsumption; whereas it legally rewards cultures and subcultures whose members practice political correctness, sycophancy, hypocrisy, parasitism, denial of responsibility, self deception masquerading as „privacy‟ and „dignity‟, and a focus on Public Relations Image Management parasitism.

[46] The socio-political problem solving/arbitration resolution system of the Matriarchal Mosuo culture in South West China is plausibly the most credible on planet earth. The people of Mosuo have no rape (not even a word in their language for rape, because it does not exist), no murder, no suicide and no unemployment; as a result of abiding by (a) the laws of nature and tribal control of population and consumption, and (b) the laws of human nature, in terms of public problem solving, where members are not allowed the luxury of self-deception and hiding from their self inflicted problems, behind fragile ego masculine insecurity definitions of „dignity‟ and „privacy‟ and „intellectual property‟.

[47] Metaphorically Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‟ political, legal and academic Emperor chefs‟ are following the cooking laws for road kill stew; while attempting to convince the citizens entering their court rooms, that the Justice being served is „credible‟ Crème brûlée justice; when in fact its just maggot filled road kill stew.

[48] The only citizens who consider Anthropocentric Jurisprudence „credible‟ are those who psychologically, emotionally and intellectually consider the cartoon bombs made by Wile E Coyote the Road Runner as „credible‟ applications of the laws of physics related to bomb making. National and International bodies applying concepts of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence to their „arbitration / problem solving‟ procedures, should be taken as „seriously‟ as Laurel and Hardy; in terms of their ability to accurately apply the relevant natural or scientific laws, to attain a specific related required result of inter-human and intra-species harmony and balance. If the consequences of Anthropocentric Naked Emperor Syndrome Jurists were not so tragic, it would in fact be beyond Laurel & Hardy hilarious.

[49] In our Post Peak Natural Non-Renewable Resources (NNR) world, any individual, organisation, panel, politician, political party, wanting to be considered a „Credible‟ advocate for Root Cause Problem Solving requires them to (a) confront geopolitical reality of Peak Non-Renewable Resources (NNR) and implement (b)

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Sustainable Environmental Security plan in accordance with the Scarcity as cause of Violent Conflict principle, by (c) Determining the answers to the questions: [49.1] If Peace and conflict are defined not as descriptions of behaviour between nations, but as trends describing social conditions. Put differently: Conflict is not defined as the violence between neighbours and nations, but as the unwanted intrusion of one person‟s existence and consumption behaviour upon another person.

[49.2] There are two kinds of conflict: Direct: he took my car, he enslaved me, he beat me, he raped me, he killed me; and Indirect. Indirect intrusions are the byproduct of other people's behaviour. „All the trees on our island were consumed by our grandparents,‟ is an indirect intrusion of a past generation on a present one. „The rich people raised the price of gasoline and we can't afford it,‟ and „The government is offering people welfare to breed more children‟ are current economic and demographic intrusions by one present group on another present group.

[49.3] System conflict is the sum of intrusions experienced by each constituent, summed over all the constituents. A measure of the existing global conflict is the sum of six billion sets of intrusions.

[49.4] Using this definition of conflict, to establish whether their nation and planet earth‟s socio-economic and political system is moving towards peace or towards conflict; based upon the questions: [49.5] How many children per family leads to peace; or conversely how many children per family, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals‟ „breeding war combatant‟ status? [According to the research of Dr. Jack Alpert46, the answer is one child per family leads to peace] [49.6] How much consumption relative to the nation‟s footprint carrying capacity leads to peace; or conversely how much consumption relative to the nations biocapacity per person, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals „consumption combatant status‟?

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COMMONSISM PRINCIPLES FOOTPRINT: PROCREATION & CONSUMPTION LIFESTYLE: o

Common Sense Guerrylla Laws for a Sustainable Commons

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Consumptionism: Consumption Vanity Disorder

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Cultural Capitalism: Where the very act of egotist consumption, already includes the price for its opposite

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Social Contract: Laws of Nature Sustainable Security Constitution or Breeding/Consumption War Suicide Pact?

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence in accord with the Laws of Nature would ensure a Sustainable Social Contract Constitution

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Innocence Indulgences for Sale to Scarcity Combatant Profiteers of Consumptionism Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s deliberate failure to differentiate between Ecological Procreation and Consumption Innocents (Leavers) and Combatants (Takers)

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s Conflict with Ecocentric Finite Resource Reality: Inaccurate Assumption: NNR Abundance:

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Global NNR Scarcity Analysis: Global Collapse by 2050: Scarcity: Our Next Normal: Catastrophe

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Masculine Insecurity: Foundation of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s Human Farming ‗Control of Reproduction‘ War Economy Racket:

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Foundation: Masculine Insecurity

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Eve‘s Seed: History and ‗Control of Reproduction‘ Religion of Masculine Insecurity

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s Denial of Masculine Insecurity‘s Use of the Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Denies Necessity for a Breeding Licence, thereby endorsing Masculine Insecurity‘s Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War

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Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Parasitism of the Control of Reproduction Human Factory Farming War Economy

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The Anthropocentric Socio-Political Elite Profit from the Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Cannon Fodder Population

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The Anthropocentric Socio-Political Socio-Political Elite Profit from the Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Vote & Poverty Pimp Fodder Population

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International Military Doctrine Environmental Security & Peace Strategies addressing Scarcity as an underlying Cause of Violent Conflict

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COMMONSISM: PROCREATION & CONSUMPTION LIFESTYLE: Common Sense Guerrylla Laws for a Sustainable Commons [1] Guerrylla Law -- or CommonSism (Common Sense Laws for a Sustainable Commons) -- is an ideology founded upon the Taker vs. Leaver ideas of the gorrilla Ishmael, in Daniel Quinn's books: Ishmael and My Ishmael; and the Tragedy of the Commons ideas, as enunciated by Garrett Hardin.

[2] CommonSism Guerrylla Laws regulate human procreation and resource utilization behaviour, by means of legally defining the procreation and consumption difference, and consequent related Sustainable Rights/Penalties, between a Leaver and a Taker, to ensure sustainability.

[3] CommonSism asserts that a majority of society's problems - crime, violence, unemployment, poverty, inflation, food shortages, political instability, vanishing species, garbage and pollution urban sprawl, traffic jams, toxic waste, energy and non-renewable resources (NNR) depletion and scarcity are symptoms of Ecological Overshoot, resulting from the Consumptionist Left and Right Wing's war against nature, and the failures of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence.

[4] Ecological Overshoot is a consequence of all other capitalist and communist ideologies and their adherents failure to legally (a) define the difference between sustainable and unsustainable procreation and consumption behaviour; and (b) provide legal rights to sustainable practices, and legal penalties to unsustainable individuals, corporations and organisations.

[5] CommonSismâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s Guerrylla Laws must (A) simply and very specifically clarify the difference between the consumption and procreation behaviour of an Unsustainable Taker (Scarcity Combatant) vs a Sustainable Leaver (Eco-Innocent); (B) be used in courts to (a) provide legal rights and sociopolitical rewards of recognition to Sustainable Leaver's for their Heroic Peacenik lifestyle choices and practices; (b) confront Taker Scarcity Combatants of their Breeding / Consumption combatant behaviours aggravation of Scarcity induced socio-economic problems, by means of aggravated legal penalties, in direct proportion to their 'Taker Scarcity Combatant' status.

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[6] Guerrylla Laws define the Eco/Ego Footprint1 procreation and consumption behaviour of an individual as a Sustainable Leaver (aka EcoInnocent) or Unsustainable Taker (aka Scarcity-Combatant), based upon a sustainable consumption bio-capacity of 1 global hectare (gha)2 (60 % of 1.8 gha)3 in accordance with the proactive conservation policies of Bhutan4; multiplied by an individuals Breeding footprint factor of 20 per child.

[7] Sustainable Leaver / Eco-Innocent: 0 children, consumption < 20 gha (Intn'l Biocapacity (1 gha) x 20); or 1 child, consumption < 1 gha.

[8] Unsustainable Taker / Scarcity-Combatant: consumption > 20 gha; or 1 child, consumption > 1 gha.

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[9] For example: My Consumption Footprint5 using Sustainable Economy's Myfootprint.org quiz, is 12.75 global hectares (gha). South Africa's average consumption footprint is 38.59 gha. I have no children, consequently my procreation factor is 0 x 20* = 0. [(Each Child increases a parents footprint by factor of 206)]. My Consumption (12.75) x Procreation (0) = Eco Footprint of 12.75/0 gha. If accurate, if everyone consumed and

EcoFootprint: The difference between the biocapacity and Ecological Footprint of a region or country. A biocapacity deficit occurs when the Footprint of a population exceeds the biocapacity of the area available to that population. If there is a regional or national biocapacity deficit, it means that the region is importing biocapacity through trade or liquidating regional ecological assets. Global biocapacity deficit cannot be compensated through trade, and is overshoot.

2 Sustainable Footprint Biocapacity: A biocapacity of 1 gha assumes that 40% of land is set aside for other species. 1 gha is 60 % of 1.8 gha, therefore .8 hectares is set aside for other species.

3 International Biocapacity: In 2006, the average biologically productive area (biocapacity) per person worldwide was approximately 1.8 global hectares (gha) per capita. In 2008, there were ~ 12 billion hectares of biologically productive land and water on Earth. Dividing by the number of people alive in that year (6.7 billion) gives 1.79 global hectares per person. This assumes that no land is set aside for other species that consume the same biological material as humans. If for example, there were only 3.5 billion people alive that year, that would have provided everyone with 3.5 gha. If there were only 1 billion people, their would be 12gha biocapacity for each persons needs.

4 Bhutan Proactive Conservation: Bhutan is seen as a model for proactive conservation initiatives. The Kingdom has received international acclaim for its commitment to the maintenance of its biodiversity. This is reflected in the decision to maintain at least sixty percent of the land area under forest cover, to designate more than 40% of its territory as national parks, reserves and other protected areas, and most recently to identify a further nine percent of land area as biodiversity corridors linking the protected areas. Environmental conservation has been placed at the core of the nation's development strategy, the middle path. It is not treated as a sector but rather as a set of concerns that must be mainstreamed in Bhutan's overall approach to development planning and to be buttressed by the force of law. "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund.

5 http://myfootprint.org/en/your_results/?id=2559685 6 Paul Murtaugh (7-31-09): Family Planning: A Major Environmental Emphasis, Oregon University http://sqswans.weebly.com/child--ecofootprint-x-20.html 1

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procreated like me, we would need 0.81 earths.7 Conversely, if everyone consumed and procreated like President Jacob Zuma, we would need 2090 earths8.

[10] Sustainable Security: Sustainability is Security: ―There is no security without sustainability‖9: In the absence of an international new moral order10 where Ecocentric laws are implemented to regulate and reduce human procreation and resource utilization behaviour, towards a sustainable, pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm; ―overpopulation‖11 and resource scarcity12 will result in conflict and war13 (perhaps nuclear14) confronting regions at an accelerated pace15, and ―collapse of the global economic system and every market-oriented national economy‖16 by 205017.

[11] Sustainable Rights: Law of Nature Procreation and Consumption carrying capacity Ecological responsibilities are the sine qua non18 foundation for all other rights19.

http://sqworms.weebly.com/lara-johnstone-eco-081.html President Zuma‘s consumption footprint using Sustainable Economy's Myfootprint.org quiz, is 65.66 global hectares (gha). President Zuma‘s Procreation Factor is 500 [President Zuma has 25 children. His procreation footprint factor is 25 x 20* = 500. (Each Child increases a parents footprint by factor of 20 )]. President Zuma‘s Net Consumption & Procreation Footprint is 33280 gha [Consumption (65.66) x Procreation (500) = Net Footprint of 33280 gha]. If accurate, if everyone consumed and procreated like President Zuma, we would need 2,090 earths. http://sqworms.weebly.com/jacob-zuma-ego-2090.html 9 Murphy (2006/10/24); Linkola (2009) 10 Hardin (1968/12/13); 1996: US Army War College: Parameters: The Culture of Future Conflict: Overpopulation & Resource Scarcity will be the Direct Cause of Confrontation, Conflict, and War: Major Ralph Peters | US Army War College: Parameters | Winter 199596, pp. 18-27.: ―Resource scarcity will be a direct cause of confrontation, conflict, and war. The struggle to maintain access to critical resources will spark local and regional conflicts that will evolve into the most frequent conventional wars of the next century. Gross overpopulation will destroy fragile possibilities for progress in much of the non-Western world, and much of this problem is the West's fault. .. Basic resources will prove inadequate for populations exploding beyond natural limits, and we may discover truths about ourselves that we do not wish to know. In the end, the greatest challenge may be to our moral order.‖ 11 Hardin G (1991); Simmons, M (2000/09/30) 12 Koppel (2000); US Joint Forces Command (2010/02/18); Parthemore (2010/09/27); US Army & TRADOC (2012); Peters (1996) 13 Peters (1996); Bush (1986/02); Homer-Dixon (1993) 14 Hardin (1968/12/13) 15 United States Army & TRADOC (2012) 16 Schultz (2010/09/01) 17 Clugston (2012): Preface, pg. ix 7 8

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“Environmental Protection as a Principle of International Law : The protection of the environment is likewise a vital part of contemporary human rights doctrine, for it is a sine qua non for numerous human rights such as the right to health and the right to life itself. It is scarcely necessary to elaborate on this, as damage to the environment can impair and undermine all; the human rights spoken of in the Universal Declaration and other human rights instruments.” -- Opinion of Weeramantry J in the Case Concerning the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary v Slovakia) (1998) 37 International Legal Materials 162 206.

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CommonSism Guerrylla Law Political Party/ies: [12] The currently unregistered Guerrylla Law Radical Honoursty Party, is the only known Political Party based upon CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security principles and values.

[13] The Guerrylla Law Radical Honoursty Party aim is to establish a Green License to Vote, to elect a Green President, to transition South Africa into a Sustainable Voluntaryist (Honourable Free Society of Men and Women capable of ruling themselves) Green Republic. It is founded on the Guerrylla Law Radical Honoursty Social Contract which include, among others, the aforementioned Guerrylla Law, Sustainable Security and Sustainable Rights, principles, including: [13.1] Radical Honoursty Problem Solving Communicator Status: Any individual who desires this ‗status‘ is required to follow the Radical Honoursty Problem Solving Communicator communication principles. All written communication for such members attention must be (a) acknowledged as received, (b) honestly answered or the questioner to be notified of a ‗by when‘ date, when honest answers shall be provided. (c) Brutal honesty is considered honourable respect; sycophancy or PR is considered passive aggressive, manipulative and insulting. (d) In any disagreement or misunderstanding with another member, to commit to remain in discussion, with each other, until it is resolved. (e) Any member who ignores or evades another member‘s attempts to resolve a disagreement, or to answer a question, will be put on the ‗Dishonourable Hit List‘ for Party assassination after two final warning notices to the member, from the party to either: (a) resign, or (b) resolve the disagreement, by a specific date, in accordance to their Radical Honoursty Problem Solving Communicator Status oath.

[13.2] A Green Voter is an individual whose procreation and consumption behaviour is sustainable, as defined by Guerrylla laws, as an Eco-Innocent20.

[13.3] Only Green Voters can elect the Green President, whose general duty is to (A) protect the Constitution from the Tragedy of the Commons material greed and psychological and political dishonour of the nations Scarcity (breeding and consumption) combatants, who wish to exploit the 19

Democracy Cannot Survive Overpopulation, Al Bartlett, Ph.D., Population & Environment, Vol. 22, No. 1, Sep 2000, pgs. 63-71; Bartlett (1994/09): Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment, Population & Environment, Vol. 16, No. 1, Sep 1994, pp. 5-35; Clugston, C (2009): Sustainability Defined (WakeUpAmerika) * 0 children, consumption < 20 gha ((1 gha) x 20) | * 1 child, consumption < 1 gha ((1 gha (2007)) * 2 children, consumption < 0.05 gha (1 gha ÷ 20) | * 3 children, consumption < 0.025 gha (1 gha ÷ 40) 20

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country‘s resources for short-term political and socio-economic profits, and (B) transition South Africa to a Sustainable Voluntaryist Green Republic.

[13.4] The Green President‘s sustainable security legislative duty is to veto all legislation that obstructs, or fails to reduce, the nation‘s Scarcity combatant‘s procreation and/or consumption path to sustainability, based upon Guerrylla law sustainable rights and sustainable security principles.

[13.5] The Green Presidents sustainable security executive duty is to protect the Constitution, root out all corruption, by taking over the duty of executive supervision of the Ministry of Police and Ministry of Justice, including the appointment of all Magistrates and Justices. Magistrates and Judges shall be required to ascertain, verify, and transparently declare – as part of the court record - the Eco-Innocent21 (sustainable) or Scarcity-Combatant22 (unsustainable) status of all parties (including the Judge, legal representatives and State Representatives) to any court proceeding; including consideration of such status, where relevant to the legal proceedings. Any Eco-Innocent is entitled to be tried by an EcoInnocent Prosecutor and Judge, and in any dispute with a Scarcity Combatant, may require the court to take notice of Scarcity Combatants behaviour as a relevant23 aggravating factor to Scarcity related sociopolitical problems, such as: crime, violence, unemployment, poverty, food shortages, inflation, political instability, loss of civil rights, conformism, political correctness, vanishing species, pollution, urban sprawl, toxic waste, energy depletion.

[13.6] An individual can only run for Green President, as (A) an Independent or from a Political Party, which practices 100% transparency disclosure of all campaign contributions, and (B) whose procreation and consumption lifestyle qualifies them as an Eco-Innocent24.

Consumptionism: Consumption Vanity Disorder: “Consumptionism: where State considers an individuals Eco-Innocent: * 0 children, consumption < 20 gha ((1 gha) x 20) | * 1 child, consumption < 1 gha ((1 gha (2007)) * 2 children, consumption < 0.05 gha (1 gha ÷ 20) | * 3 children, consumption < 0.025 gha (1 gha ÷ 40) 22 Scarcity Combatant: * 0 children, consumption > 20 gha ((1 gha) x 20) | * 1 child, consumption > 1 gha ((1 gha (2007)) * 2 children, consumption > 0.05 gha (1 gha ÷ 20) | * 3 children, consumption > 0.025 gha (1 gha ÷ 40) 23 Population Policy: http://sqswans.weebly.com/population-policy.html Scarcity and Conflict: http://sqswans.weebly.com/scarcity--conflict1.html 24 * 0 children, consumption < 20 gha ((1 gha) x 20) | * 1 child, consumption < 1 gha ((1 gha (2007)) * 2 children, consumption < 0.05 gha (1 gha ÷ 20) | * 3 children, consumption < 0.025 gha (1 gha ÷ 40) 21

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importance in terms of consumption, not citizenship” – The Century of the Self, Adam Curtis "We must shift America from a needs to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire. To want new things even before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America."

- Paul Mazer “Cultural Capitalism: where the very act of egotist consumption, already includes the price for its opposite.” – Slavoy Zizek

[14] Consumption-Vanity Disorder25 is a disease spread not through a mutating virus or genetic predisposition – but through cultural ―Memes‖ – turning the world into a reflection of the advertising images broadcast daily by 90% of all media - a world of mini-malls, fashion obsessions, fake tits and belligerent gadgetry.

[15] 1924: Samuel Strauss: Consumptionism: science of compelling men to use more and more things: Samuel Strauss was a journalist and philosopher writing in the 1920s. The November 1924 issue of The Atlantic Monthly carried Strauss' signature essay, "'Things Are in the Saddle.'" Following nineteenth century American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose ode he quotes, Strauss contemplates the empire of "things" and the ethics of "consumptionism" he felt had overtaken the country. He defines "consumptionism" as "the science of compelling men to use more and more things."

[16] Strauss was of the opinion that, despite their differences, both capitalism and socialism were moving society in the same damnable direction, in a competition to see "which can ensure the distribution of the most goods to the people."

[17] Samuel Strauss suggested the term consumptionism to characterize this new way of life that, he said, created a person with ―a philosophy of life that committed human beings to the production of more and more things—―more this year than last year, more next year than this‖—and that emphasized the ―standard of living‖ above all other values.

[18] 1929: Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied - Charles Kettering, General Motors Research Director, in Nations Business: Charles Kettering wrote that: ―We hear people complaining because of new models

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in automobiles. If it were not for these new models these same people would be paying more for what they have. Recognition of the fact that progress is inevitable forces us to recognize that we must have improvements in motor cars. We, as manufacturers, must offer those improvements after they have been found to be capable improvements.

The public buys and disposes of what it has. The fact that it is able to dispose of what it has enables us, as producers, to put a lower price tag on the new model. The law of economy in mass production enters here. We are permitted to turn out cars in volume because there is a market for them. If automobile owners could not dispose of their cars to a lower buying strata they would have to wear out their cars with a consequent tremendous cutting in the yearly demand for automobiles, a certain increase in production costs, and the natural passing along of these costs to the buyer. If everyone were satisfied, no one would buy the new thing because no one would want it. The ore wouldn't be mined; timber wouldn't be cut. Almost immediately hard times would be upon us.‖ [19] In The Century of the Self, Adam Curtis‗ BBC documentary documents how Edward Bernays26, the father of "Public Relations"27, developed public relations, by using his Uncle Sigmund Freud‗s discoveries concerning the unconscious "primitive sexual and aggressive forces"28, to change the focus of advertising from the facts of a product29, to implying the product would fulfill the individuals psychological/sexual insecurities30 (Insecurity about small penis: purchase a large car31; Female penis envy insecurity: start smoking32). "Public Relations‗ worked to psychologically engineer and manipulate citizens into the "All Consuming Self": the illusionary belief the power is finally in their hands, they live in a "democracy"33; they are in charge34, while their sense of

Curtis (2002): The Century of the Self (01/04) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmUzwRCyTSo 27 ".. If you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace .. propaganda got to be a bad word .. so I found another word .. public relations" (07:15-08:39) 28 "A hundred years ago, a new theory of human nature was put forward by Sigmund Freud.

He had discovered, primitive sexual and aggressive forces, hidden deep inside the minds of all human beings" (00:10-21, 04:28-05:47, 09:10-10:20) 29 ".. a products practical virtues, nothing more" (15:40-16:10) 30 "He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn‗t need, by linking mass produced goods to their unconscious desires." (01:21) 31 ".. tell car companies, they could sell cars as symbols of male sexuality" (14:20, 18:45-19:00) 32 "Bernays set out to experiment with the minds of the popular classes .. "cigarettes were a symbol of the penis and of male sexual power" .. "connect smoking cigarettes to idea of challenging male power, women would smoke to have their own "torches of freedom" penis .. hence irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional identity symbols" (10:22-:14:25) 33 "[At Versailles] .. we worked to make the world safe for democracy.. that was the big slogan .." (07:15-08:39) 26

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identity is subconsciously manipulated from citizen (individual authority/inner power of personal decision-making) to consumer (empty vessel addicted to consumption of external ideas and products for sense of identity and acceptance35), fueling the growth of the "Freedom is DebtSlavery" mass-consumer society36.

Cultural Capitalism: Where the very act of egotist consumption, already includes the price for its opposite: [20] In First as Tragedy, then as Farce37, Communist Philosopher and Economist Slavoj Zizek shares his perspective on the problems of ‗Ethical Consumption‘: ―Like Soros, in the morning he grabs the money; in the afternoon, he gives half of the money back to charity. In today's capitalism, more and more the tendency is to bring this tendency together.

So when you buy something, your anti-consumerist duty is to do something for others, for the environment and so on, is already included in the price. If you think I am exaggerating, walk around the corner, into any Starbucks coffee, and you will see how they explicitly tell you, I quote "Its not just what you are buying, its what you are buying into. When you buy starbucks, whether you realize it or not, you are buying into something bigger than a cup of coffee. You are buying into a coffee ethics. Through our Starbucks Shared Planet Program we purchase more fair trade coffee than anyone in the world, ensuring that the farmers who grow the coffee beans receive a fair price for their hard work.......‖ Its a good coffee karma.

This is cultural capitalism at its purist. You don't just buy a coffee. In the very consumerist act, you buy your redemption from only being a consumerist. You do something for the environment, you do something for starving children in Guatamala. ..... For every act of consumerism, within the price you pay, you purchase your redemption. This generates almost a kind of semantic over investment or burden. Its not just buying a cup of coffee, you are fulfilling a whole series of ethical duties. This logic today is "Out of this would come a new political idea about how to control the masses, by satisfying people‗s inner selfish desires, one made them happy and thus docile; which was the start of the All Consuming Self .." (01:30) 35 Paul Meyser of Lehman Brothers wrote "We must shift America from a needs to a desire culture. People must be trained to desire. People must want new things before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man's desire must overshadow his needs." (16:10-18:03) 36 Consumptionism.. where State considers individuals importance in terms of consumption, not citizenship (20:30-20:50) 37 http://youtu.be/hpAMbpQ8J7g 34

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almost universalized. Why? It makes you feel warm, it makes you feel like you are doing something for … My point is that, this very interesting short circuit, where the very act of egotist consumption, already includes the price for its opposite.‖ [21] Documentaries exploring the psychological and ecological consequences of the ideology of Consumptionism include: Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers38; On Modern Servitude39; The Good Consumer Slave40; The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Power and Profit41; Killing us Softly: Advertisings Image of Women42; Consuming Kids43; The High Price of Materialism44; Consumed: The Human Experience45; No Logo: Brands Globalization Resistance46.

COMMONSISM: ANTHROPOCENTRIC JURISPRUDENCE ERRORS: Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Social Contract: Laws of Nature Sustainable Security Constitution or Breeding/Consumption War Suicide Pact?

[22] Anthropocentric ‗Rule of Law‘ courts exist, or pretend that they exist, to enable law and order, where ‗law and order‘ are considered to be a state of community relations that contribute to social conditions which reduce conflict.

[23] If Anthropocentric legislation promulgates laws which contribute to social conditions of resource scarcity that increase conflict; then Anthropocentric legislation/jurisprudence cannot claim it exists to enable http://youtu.be/bXmuWecIQos http://youtu.be/SdToaJtVNJg 40 http://youtu.be/A_ut93YYZu8 41 http://youtu.be/Y888wVY5hzw 42 http://vimeo.com/48800829 43 http://youtu.be/2XSaaQjuuK0 44 http://youtu.be/oGab38pKscw 45 http://vimeo.com/13535207 46 http://youtu.be/Lmmnknt4mCg 38 39

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law and order or contributes to conditions which reduce conflict; and such legislation/jurisprudence is itself a ‗breeding war and consumption war combatant‘, upon nature and citizens who live in harmony with the laws of nature.

[24] When Anthropocentric courts constitutionally endorse legislation which contribute to, or aggravate, social conditions of resource scarcity that increase conflict; their lack of courage to nullify legislation which contributes to social conditions of resource scarcity that increase conflict, implies a constitutional interpretation that endorses a Taker war upon the laws of nature and Leavers.

[25] If or when a constitution is interpreted by courts as being at war upon the carrying capacity laws of nature, and those who obey the carrying capacity laws of nature (Leavers); such jurisprudence is no less than ‗breeding war and consumption war suicide freight train‘ jurisprudence, travelling full speed to its ‗suicide pact‘ collision with the Laws of Nature Ecological reality of finite resources.

Anthropocentric Jurisprudence in accord with the Laws of Nature would ensure a Sustainable Social Contract Constitution: “In order to achieve this goal [of world domination], we must introduce universal suffrage beforehand, without distinctions of class and wealth. Then the masses of people will decide everything; and since it [universal suffrage] is controlled by us we will achieve through it the absolute majority, which we could never achieve if only the educated and possessing classes had the vote.” -- Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 10th Sitting, Wallstein Pub. House, ISBN 3-89244191-x, p. 60

[26] Laws of Nature Jurisprudence refers to jurisprudence that demands a nations citizens live within the carrying capacity laws of nature, in terms of their procreation and consumption lifestyles.

[27] The tragedy of the commons is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to their long-term best interests. Ecologist Garrett

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Hardin famously explored this social dilemma in ―The Tragedy of the Commons‖.47 [28] Social Trap is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole; such as for example overfishing, energy "brownout" and "blackout" power outages during periods of extreme temperatures, overgrazing on the Sahelian Desert, and the destruction of the rainforest by logging interests and agriculture.

Social fence refers to a short-term avoidance behavior by individuals that leads to a long-term loss to the entire group.

[29] Laws of Nature Jurisprudence recognizes that the nations resources are a ‗commons‘ and that increased population and/or consumption of resources can only occur up to the point of ‗carrying capacity‘ tipping points. Once ‗carrying capacity‘ laws of nature tipping points are breached -- Peak of Production, referred to as Peak Oil, or Peak NNR, etc -- resource scarcity occurs which – in the absence of equivalent voluntary population and consumption reduction - triggers resource war violence, which exponentially increases the problems of those tasked with ‗national security‘.

[30] There is a fundamental difference between the resource war violence from temporary resource scarcity that results on the upward side of the Peak Oil/NNR resource curve, and the resource war violence on the downslope of the curve. If we use the analogy of a car collision, as the resource war violence, on the upward curve, the car has access to brakes (bring in resources from elsewhere) which reduce the force of the collision (violence); on the downhill slope the car has no brakes (cannot import resources from elsewhere, Global Peak Oil), which aggravates resource scarcity similarly to a foot on the car‘s gaspedal, and no brakes, driving it faster and faster to collision, the crisis of conflict.

[31] The ultimate consequences of the Tragedy of the Commons exponential growth of breeding/consumption war Takers – in the absence of a Military Coup to enact Guerrylla Laws to ensure a Sustainable Secure Constitution – is a ―Breeding War and/or Consumption War Social Contract Suicide Pact‖.

[32] For a nation to avoid Takers morphing their constitution into a ―Breeding/ Consumption War Social Contract Suicide Pact‖; they must establish either a ‗Sustainable Democracy/Republic‘ Licence to Vote for 47

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Leavers, where the only individuals licensed to vote, would be those whose procreation and consumption lifestyle is below carrying capacity laws of nature (Leavers in Ishmael Language). Leavers voters refuse to elect ‗Taker Politicians‘ who steal future generations resources, by bribing ‗Taker‘ voters with corporate or individual welfare, for their own short term political status gain. Leaver voters act as a fuse to stop resource scarcity from overheating the Constitution. When resource scarcity is getting too hot, they elect stricter Leaver politicians who bring population and consumption down to a cooler level.

[33] In a ‗Sustainable Democracy/Republic‘ system, no political party or politician who endorsed (a) the ―inalienable right to breed‖ (Human Farming of Economic and Military Cannon Fodder), or (b) corporate or military unsustainable use of non-renewable natural resources; would ever be able to get elected to legislate breeding/consumption war legislation that endorsed the long term extermination of the Democracy/Republic and its resources, for short-term corporate or sociopolitical status profits for the Cheating Taker Politicians.

Innocence Indulgences for Sale to Scarcity Combatant Profiteers of Consumptionism Anthropocentric Jurisprudence’s deliberate failure to differentiate between Ecological Procreation and Consumption Innocents (Leavers) and Combatants (Takers) [34] The 95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, is widely regarded as the primary catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.

Luther considered the doctrine of Indulgences to be religious corruption.

The sale by the church of indulgences (forgiveness) made the church huge profits. The archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, sponsored such a sale in 1517 to pay the pope for his appointment to Mainz and for the construction of Saint Peter's in Rome. He selected Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar, to preach the indulgences and collect the revenues. When Tetzel arrived in Saxony, Luther posted his famous 95 theses on the door of the church of All Saints ("Castle Church"), at Univ. of Wittenberg.

Copies of the 95 theses quickly spread throughout Europe and unleashed a storm of controversy. The Saxon Dominican provincial charged Luther with heresy, and he was summoned to appear in Augsburg before the papal legate, Cardinal Cajetan. Refusing to recant, he fled to Wittenberg, seeking the protection of the elector Frederick III, (Frederick the Wise) of Saxony. When the Wittenberg faculty sent a letter to Frederick declaring 13-02-14: DRAFT: Yshmael CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security Principles

its solidarity with Luther, the elector refused to send Luther to Rome, where he would certainly have met imprisonment or death.

[35] If Anthropocentric Jurisprudence has not been enabling, legislating on behalf of, and distributing ‗Innocence Indulgences for Sale‘ to the Scarcity Combatant Profiteers of Consumptionism; it should clarify its failure to confront what Dr. Jack Alpert refers to as Human Predicament: Better Common Sense Required: Social Conflict48, by answering the two questions Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Jurists sincerely concerned with the violent consequences of scarcity, have so far failed to ask themselves: [35.1] If Peace and conflict are defined not as descriptions of behaviour between nations, but as trends describing social conditions. Put differently: Conflict is not defined as the violence between neighbours and nations, but as the unwanted intrusion of one person‘s existence and consumption behaviour upon another person.

[35.2] There are two kinds of conflict: Direct: he took my car, he enslaved me, he beat me, he raped me, he killed me; and Indirect. Indirect intrusions are the by-product of other people's behaviour. ‗All the trees on our island were consumed by our grandparents,‘ is an indirect intrusion of a past generation on a present one. ‗The rich people raised the price of gasoline and we can't afford it,‘ and ‗The government is offering people welfare to breed more children‘ are current economic and demographic intrusions by one present group on another present group.

[35.3] System conflict is the sum of intrusions experienced by each constituent, summed over all the constituents. A measure of the existing global conflict is the sum of six billion sets of intrusions. A measure of South Africa‘s conflict is the sum of 50 million sets of intrusions.

[35.4] Using this definition of conflict, any Anthropocentric Jurisprudence legislator or Jurist sincerely concerned about whether and how South Africa‘s socio-economic and political system is moving towards peace or towards conflict; by determining the answers to the following questions: A. How many children per family leads to peace; or conversely how many children per family, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals‘ ‗breeding war combatant‘ status? [According to the research of Dr. Jack Alpert49, the answer is one child per family] 48 49

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How much consumption relative to the nation‘s footprint carrying capacity leads to peace; or conversely how much consumption relative to the nations bio-capacity per person, contributes to greater resource scarcity, and exponential increase in conflict, i.e. an individuals ‗consumption combatant status‘?

[36] In the absence of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence determining the answers to the aforementioned questions, and implementing Jurisprudence in accordance thereto; Dr. Alpert provides proof how Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Suicide Freight Train has as much chance of muddling through the coming ‗Falling Man Syndrome‘ (‗I‘ve fallen 90 stories in the past 5 seconds and nothing bad has happened yet‖ | ―In 200 years, our endorsement of the Inalienable Right to Breed and consume has resulted in the exponential consumption of over half of the Earth's resources, and nothing bad has happened yet...‖) Crisis of Conflict, as an individual sitting in an unbelted car crash. (Non-Linearity and Social Conflict50) [37] In Peace seekers have no plan for enduring peace51, Dr. Jack Alpert argues that Peaceniks failure to move society from conflict to peace, their establishment of never ending or honoured ―peace accords, moral codes, acts of economic justice, and environmental laws, are like traffic signals‖ which ―cause people to relinquish freedoms‖ but, ―do not stop (change) the behaviors that increase scarcity, conflict, and environmental destruction‖52: result from a faulty perception of what increases or decreases conflict. Where, peace seekers have acted as if conflict is caused by bad leadership maybe they should have acted as if trends in conflict are driven by trends in scarcity. Maybe they would have been more successful if they acted as if trends in scarcity are driven by the collective behaviors of 6 billion people. That while each individual acts benignly to achieve personal objectives the unintentional result is an increase in scarcity and conflict.

Another reason for ignoring the above view of human conflict, is that peace seekers, even when successful at restraining the military or mediating hostilities, do not change our course toward conflict.

They only delay it. In the process, peace seekers consume the very

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energy required to change the things that would make societies head toward peace.

Anthropocentric Jurisprudence’s Conflict with Ecocentric Finite Resource Reality: Inaccurate Assumption: NNR Abundance: “In the face of the basic fact that fossil fuel reserves are finite .. Fossil fuels resemble capital in the bank. A prudent and responsible parent will use his capital sparingly in order to pass on to his children as much as possible of his inheritance. A selfish and irresponsible parent will squander it in riotous living and care not one whit how his offspring will fare .. I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants--those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age.” – Admiral Hyman Rickover, 14 May 195753

[38] Anthropocentric54 Flat Earth Society55 Jurisprudence views the world from a firmly entrenched inaccurate anthropocentric (human-centred) perspective, where there is always a brighter future, because the implicit assumption of our anthropocentric political, economic and legal worldview is that there will always be ―enough‖ Non Renewable Natural Resources (NNR‗s) to enable a brighter future, and all politics and economics needs to concern itself with, is how to use these NNR‗s to provide ever improving material living standards for our ever-expanding global population56.

From a broader Ecocentric57 Finite Resource Scarcity perspective, beyond Peak NNR58, there is no hope for a brighter future, the future is one of Rickover (1957/05/14) Clugston (2012) (p.127): ―The anthropocentric perspective considers the philosophy, processes, and activities by which natural resource inputs to a society‗s economy are converted into goods and services outputs (wealth creation). It also considers the philosophy, processes, and activities by which goods and services (wealth) are allocated among a society‗s population.

The fundamental assumption underlying the prevailing anthropocentric perspective is that notwithstanding periodic temporary shortfalls, natural resource inputs and natural habitat waste absorption capacities will remain sufficient to perpetuate global industrialism indefinitely.‗ – Scarcity, Clugston Chris (pg. 127) 55 Bartlett (1993) (1996/09) (1999/01) (2002); Hardin (1999); 56 Hardin (1985); Bartlett (2006/09); Guillebaud (2007); Leahy (2003) 57 ―The ecological perspective considers natural resource inputs and natural habitat waste absorption capacities as the ultimate limiting factors governing a society‗s economic/political processes and activities, its attainable economic output (GDP) level, and its attainable level of societal wellbeing—i.e., the material living standards enjoyed by the society‗s population.‖ – Scarcity, Clugston C (127) 58 Bartlett (2006/09); Clugston (2012): Peak NNR: ―NNRs are finite; and as their name implies, NNR reserves are not replenished on a time scale that is relevant to humans. More unfortunately, economically viable supplies associated with the vast majority of NNRs that 53 54

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depletion, austerity, resource wars & socio-economic and political collapse;59 because the fundamental assumption of ever-increasing NNR‗s, underlying our limited anthropocentric jurisprudence perspective is inaccurate.60 Global NNR Scarcity Analysis: Global Collapse by 2050: [39] Peak Oil is the end of cheap oil, it is the point where every barrel of oil is harder to find, more expensive to extract, and more valuable to whoever owns or controls it. As early as 2000, geological experts warned Peak Oil would occur sometime between 2000 and 200761. Cheap oil is the oxygen of the ―economic growth‖62 global economic system and industrial food production63.

[40] Domestic (US) & Global NNR Scarcity Analysis is based upon Mr. Clugston‗s64 analysis of the criticality and scarcity associated with each of the 89 analyzed NNRs, using data from USGS, EIA, BEA, BLS, Fed, CBO, FBI, IEA, UN, World Bank, etc; and concludes in general that ―absent some combination of immediate and drastic reductions in our global NNR utilization levels, ... we will experience escalating international and intranational conflicts during the coming decades over increasingly scarce NNR‗s, which will devolve into global societal collapse, almost certainly by the year 2050.‖65 [41] Scarcity Global NNR Scarcity Analysis (pg.51-59) (pg 41-4966) summarizes global criticality and scarcity associated with each of the 89 analyzed NNR‘s: (a) An overwhelming majority, 63 of the 89 analyzed NNRs, were considered ―scarce‖ globally in 2008, immediately prior to the enable our industrialized way of life are becoming increasingly scarce, both domestically (US) and globally. While there will always be ―plenty of NNR‘s in the ground, there will not always be ―plenty of economically viable NNR‘s in the ground. In fact, there are ―no longer enough economically viable NNR‘s in the ground to enable continuous improvement in human societal wellbeing at historical rates.‖ –Clugston, C: Scarcity 59 Scarcity (p.4) 60 Clugston Chris: Scarcity: Humanity‗s Final Chapter: The realities, choices and likely outcomes associated with ever-increasing non-renewable natural resource scarcity, page 4 61 On February 11, 2006 Deffeyes claimed world oil production peaked on December 16, 2005 62 Deffeyes (2006): "The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground."

63 Ruppert (2004): p.24: ―We eat oil. It is a little known fact that for every 1 calorie of food energy produced, 10 calories of hydrocarbons are consumed.‗ 64 Clugston, Chris: Scarcity: Humanity‗s Final Chapter: The realities, choices and likely outcomes associated with ever-increasing non-renewable natural resource scarcity (Booklocker.com Inc 2012). Scarcity is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary assessment of the realities, choices, and likely outcomes associated with ever-increasing non-renewable natural resource (NNR) scarcity. NNRs are the fossil fuels, metals, and non-metallic minerals that enable our industrialized existence.

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Great Recession; (b) A significant number, 28 of the 89 analyzed NNRs have peaked: are ―almost certain‖ to remain scarce permanently going forward; and a sizeable number, 16 of the 89 analyzed NNRs, will ―likely‖ remain scarce permanently; and (c) Global extraction/production levels associated with 39 of the 89 analyzed NNRs, are considered ―at risk‖.

[42] At risk are: (a) Antimony: 8 yrs to Global Reserves exhaustion (used for starter lights ignition batteries in cars and trucks; (b) Bauxite: 40 years (only economically viable feedstock for aluminium); (c) Bismuth: 17 years (nontoxic substitute for lead in solder and plumbing fixtures); (d) Cadmium: 25 years; (e) Chromium: 26 years (stainless steel, jet engines and gas turbines); (f) Coal: 40 years (electricity generation); (g) Cobalt: 26 years (gas turbine blades, jet aircraft engines, batteries); (h) Copper: 27 years; (i) Fluorspar: 23 years (feedstock for fluorine bearing chemicals, aluminium and uranium processing); (j) Graphite (Natural): 23 years; (k) Iron Ore: 15 years (only feedstock for iron and steel); (l) Lead: 17 years; (m) Lithium: 8 years (aircraft parts, mobile phones, batteries for electrical vehicles); (n) Manganese: 17 years (stainless steel, gasoline additive, dry cell batteries); (o) Molybdenum: 20 years (aircraft parts, electrical contacts, industrial motors, tool steels); (p) Natural Gas: 34 years; (q) Nickel: 30 years; (r) Niobium: 15 years (jet and rocket engines, turbines, superconducting magnets); (s) Oil: 39 years; (t) Rhenium: 22 years (petroleum refining, jet engines, gas turbine blades); (u) Silver: 11 years; (v) Thalium: 38 years; (w) Tin: 18 years; (x) Tungsten: 32 years; (y) Uranium: 34 years (primary energy source, weapons); (z) Zinc: 13 years; (aa) Zirconium: 19 years (nuclear power plants, jet engines, gas turbine blades).

Scarcity: Our Next Normal: Catastrophe: [43] Scarcity concludes ―Our Next Normal is Catastrophe‖: Our Anthropocentric worldview does not recognize that ―from a broader ecological perspective, all human economics and politics are irrelevant,‖ to ―paraphrase Thoreau, we are ‗thrashing at the economic and political branches of our predicament, rather than hacking at the ecological root.‘‖67 [44] ―Because the underlying cause associated with our transition from prosperity to austerity is ecological (geological), not economic or political, our incessant barrage of economic and political ―fixes‖ – fiscal and monetary ―stimulus‖ – is misguided and inconsequential. Our national economies are not ―broken‖; they are ―dying of slow starvation‖ for lack of sufficient economically viable NNR inputs.

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[45] ―Our industrial lifestyle paradigm, which is enabled by enormous quantities of finite, non-replenishing, and increasingly scarce NNRs, is unsustainable – actually, physically impossible – going forward.68 [46] ―Global humanity‗s steadily deteriorating condition will culminate in self-inflicted global societal collapse, almost certainly by the year 2050.

We will not accept gracefully our new normal of ever-increasing, geologically-imposed austerity; nor will we suffer voluntarily the horrifically painful population level reductions and material living standard degradation associated with our inevitable transition to a sustainable, pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm.

[47] ―Ownership of the means of production—from private ownership to state ownership; the methods by which scarce resources are allocated— from free markets to central planning; and our forms of government— from democracy to autocracy—have no bearing on humanity‗s ultimate destiny.

[48] ―All industrialized and industrializing nations, irrespective of their economic and political orientations, are unsustainable and will collapse in the not-too-distant future as a consequence of their dependence upon increasingly scarce NNRs. [49] We can voluntarily reduce population and consumption, or NNR scarcity depletion will force it upon us, in our inevitable transition to a sustainable, pre-industrial lifestyle paradigm.

[50] Confronting Peak NNR Scarcity requires Anthropocentric Jurisprudence to Confront the Masculine Insecurity Foundation Control – or the claim of control – over the means of reproduction, which has been more fundamental to history, than the control of the means of production.

Masculine Insecurity: Foundation of Anthropocentric Jurisprudence’s Human Farming ‘Control of Reproduction’ War Economy Racket: Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Foundation: Masculine Insecurity “Masculine Insecurity: The moment in every man's life when he questions the size of his schlong.” -

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Urban Dictionary “The male does not have an erection .. The penis is in a state of erection, as long as the man is in a state of excitement. If something interferes with this excitement, the man has nothing. And in contrast to practically all other kinds of behaviour, the erection cannot be faked .. a man, after all, is a man for only a few minutes; most of the time he is a little boy .. in that aspect which for many a man is the proof that he is a man.” Erich Fromm69 “Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes: Masculine overcompensation is the idea that men who are insecure about their masculinity will behave in an extremely masculine way as compensation. I wanted to test this idea and also explore whether overcompensation could help explain some attitudes like support for war and animosity to homosexuals. I found that if you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to support the Iraq War more and would be more willing to purchase an SUV over another type of vehicle.” – Daniel Aloi70

[51] In an Anthropocentric Parasitic Culture, Gender (Masculine or Feminine) Insecurity result from cultural memes surrounding a demand for the individual to focus on external physical and material issues as the source of their ‗security‘: physical attributes, sexual attractiveness, and perception of their material wealth. For example: According to Dr. Nerd Love71, The five most common insecurities of men are: (1) Penis Size, (2) Sexual Ability, (3) Hair, (4) Finances, and (5) Body.

[52] In such a Parasitic Culture, its members are in a continual state of heightened insecurity; since no matter how much effort they invest into their physical attributes, sexual attractiveness, and material wealth; all of these ‗securities‘ are external, impermanent and can easily be lost. Even members who attain ‗security‘ in such a parasitic culture, thereby are Erich Fromm (2000): To Have or To Be (pg 115-116) Daniel Aloi (02 August 2005): Men overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened, Cornell study shows, Cornell University http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/aug05/soc.gender.dea.html 71 Paging Dr. Nerd Love (16 April 2012): The 5 Most Common Insecurities In Men (And How To Overcome Them) 69 70

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more insecure, related to the fear of losing their security, or it being stolen from them, by aging or socio-political circumstances.

[53] The members of such a culture are extremely easily manipulated, by the Political and Corporate elite of such a culture, who endlessly focus on aggravating their insecurities, to purchase new products, to get longer penises, improve their sexual ability, faster cars, more money, etc; for the financial and socio-political profits of the Socio-Political Parasitic Elite.

Socio-Political realities between the poor and the rich can be used to manipulate both the insecurities of the poor and the rich; the poor for being poor, the rich for losing their riches to the poor, if they do not abide by the cultural parasitic practices of the system.

[54] In an Ecocentric Spiritual Culture, Gender (Masculine and Feminine) insecurity are a result of cultural memes encouraging the individual to focus their energies upon issues of character and living in accordance to the laws of nature. Consequently an individual who attains psychological security, from developing their character into that of an honest, honourable man or woman of their word, practicing what they preach, is rewarded with inner psychological security; which is based – not upon external factors which can be taken away – but upon internal factors: critical thinking, reason, logic, understanding, self awareness, etc. An individual who is secure based upon ‗knowing him/herself‘ cannot have their security undermined. The greater their efforts at knowing themselves, the greater their security, from confronting their self deceptions, confronting all their unexamined beliefs to be examined for their authenticity and veracity; from their courage to confront any problem, valuing those who practice tough love, to provide them with constructive criticism feedback; so that they are capable of knowing themselves ever better, on their path of existential security.

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wrong. Class has, to be sure, been a major factor in history; but class itself is a derivative concept that is based on the ultimate causative power in history: sex. Marx‗s famous formulation must be revised: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of struggles based on the division of our species into two sexes, jealousies emanating from this division, exaggerations of the differences between the sexes, misunderstandings about sexual reproductive power, and metaphors derived from sex.

Together, these closely related matters constitute the most important, but largely neglected, set of motive forces in human history. Control -- or the claim of control -- over the means of reproduction has been even more fundamental to history than has control of the means of production...

[56] In Eve‘s Seed, Robert McElvaine ―throws down the gauntlet to academics and non-specialists alike, daring a radical rethinking of the basic 'truths' on which cultures have been constructed.‖ He argues that ―there is nothing unique to Islam about male insistence on the subordination of and male control over women and their bodies.‖ McElvaine says misogynistic rulers may be religious fanatics, but their religion is not Islam, but Woody Allen‗s religion in his 2001 movie, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion: ―insecure masculinity‖.

[57] Eve's Seed reviews ―some 94 centuries of human history, stretching from 8,000 B.C.E. and the invention of agriculture through the Middle Ages‖, to 20th century America, explaining how and why sexually insecure – ―not-a-woman‖ – men seek validation of their manhood by pursuing power, and have used their power to disproportionately influence the shaping of cultures.

[58] According to John Pettegrew, Deepening the History of Masculinity and the Sexes: ―Vitally important to early economic and political history (bringing such changes as the creation of substantial material surplus and the rise of large states and war), agriculture—what McElvaine describes as the first of two "mega-revolutions"—also sparked a massive male "backlash," as the female invention of planting crops and animal husbandry undermined the male role as hunter. Among the masculinist responses, men took over agriculture and invented war, as women became relegated to increasing the population needed for the new social order.‖ [59] Subsequent cultural consequences being the ―conception misconception‖, that men held all procreative power, and women were simply the dirt, wherein the seed was planted, which led to the assumption that the God-Creative-Force is male. The second mega13-02-14: DRAFT: Yshmael CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security Principles

revolution occurred in the 16th century with the rise of geographic mobility and the marketplace. Manhood became associated with possessive individualism, however this conflicts with mans natural state towards association and cooperation formed during humanityâ&#x20AC;&#x2014;s long history of hunting in groups.

[60] Women can do all the important things that men can (although, because of physical differences, in some areas not as well, on average), but there are some essential things that women can do that men cannot: bear and give birth to children and nourish them from their bodies.

[61] Because of this relative incapacity, many men suffer, largely subconsciously, from what might be termed "womb envy" and "breast envy," or even the "non-menstrual syndrome."

[62] To compensate for the things that they cannot do, men tell women that they may not do other things. Which activities women are excluded from varies from one culture to another, but some form of the procedure can be found in all societies. (A striking example of this practice in our own culture can be seen in a statement a Catholic bishop made in 1992: "A woman priest is as impossible as for me to have a baby.")

[63] Because they cannot compete with women's capabilities in the crucial realms of reproduction and nourishing offspring, men generally seek to avoid a single standard of human behavior and achievement. They create separate definitions of "manliness" which are based on a false opposition to "womanliness." A "real man" has been seen in most cultures as "notawoman."

[64] The "notawoman" definition of manhood leads men greatly to exaggerate the genuine, but small, differences between the sexes. Far from being gender-benders, men tend to be genderextenders. This produces the fallacious, but virtually universal, idea that women and men are "opposite sexes." This way of thinking can accurately be termed a bipolar disorder.

[65] Although this viewpoint actually begins with woman as the "standard" human and proceeds to define man by its supposed vast differences from that standard, people do not like to see themselves in negative terms, so men have generally sought ways to transform woman into a negative, thus making man positive.

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seemingly produced the children, nourished and cared for them, and also provided a large portion of the food for the group through gathering. Men provided meat through hunting and had the bulk of the responsibility for protecting the group from predators. This added up in many huntergatherer societies to some approximation of equality between the sexes.

[67] Human life -- and the situation of both sexes -- was radically changed by the invention of agriculture, which in all likelihood was accomplished by women. These changes were so dramatic that they comprise one of two mega-revolutions in human existence.

[68] Many ancient myths (including, most notably, chapters 3 of the Book of Genesis) constitute allegories for the invention of agriculture by women (Eve's eating from the Tree of Knowledge) and its long-term consequences (the loss of what seemed in distant retrospect to have been a preagricultural paradise in which people lived easily, without work, simply picking fruit from trees, and man having to go forth and till the soil to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow). The "Fall of Man" is a metaphor for an actual fall of men.

[69] Agriculture moved Homo sapiens from what ecologists refer to as a Kselected reproductive strategy (limited resources make it appropriate to have a small number of offspring and invest heavily in each) to an rselected reproductive strategy (abundant resources relative to population make it possible and desirable to have a large number of offspring).

[70] This meant that the development of agriculture greatly enhanced the importance of one of the traditional female roles. Women would now be called upon to spend more of their lives in reproduction and less in production of food and other resources.

[71] The development of methods for the intentional production of food (animal herding as well as agriculture) substantially devalued what men had traditionally done. Hunting was no longer needed and defense against other species declined in importance as groups of humans settled in growing numbers in farming areas into which predators ventured less frequently than their paths had crossed those of human hunter-gatherers.

[72] The loss of value in their traditional roles left men adrift, seeking new meaningful roles, and increasingly resentful of women. The result was what can accurately be seen as a Neolithic and early Bronze Age backlash or "masculinist movement."

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plow agriculture began (ca. 4000 BCE), men were displacing women in the fields.

[74] At this point there arose an almost irresistible metaphor, the very widespread acceptance of which has shaped (or, more accurately, misshaped) human life through all of recorded history. The apparent analogy of a seed being planted in furrowed soil to a male's "planting" of semen in the vulva of a female led to the conclusion that men provide the seed of new life and women constitute the soil in which that seed grows.

This metaphor has remained with us throughout history and it continues to mislead us in profound ways down to the present.

[75] The seed metaphor reversed the apparent positions of the sexes in regard to procreative power. What had always appeared to be a principally female power was transformed into an entirely male power. No longer apparent bystanders in reproduction, men now claimed to be the reproducers, while women were reduced from the seeming creators to the soil in which men's creations grow. Women were left with all the work of procreation, but men now took all the credit.

[76] During the Neolithic Age, then, women both ceased to be major producers (as men took over the production of plant food along with continuing their traditional responsibility for providing animal food) and ceased to be seen as having reproductive power.

[77] The woman-made world of agriculture had, paradoxically, become a man's world to a degree unprecedented in human existence. Hell hath no fury like a man devalued.

[78] The belief that men have procreative power led inevitably to the conclusion that the supreme Creative Power must also be male. The toxic fruit that grew from the seed metaphor was male monotheism.

[79] The combination of the belief that God (or the god who is the ultimate creator) is male with the notion that humans are created in God's image yielded the inescapable conclusion that men are closer than women to godly perfection. Thus the line from the misconceptions about conception emanating from the seed metaphor to the belief, given its classic expressions by Aristotle, Aquinas, and Freud, that women are deformed or "incomplete" men is clear and direct.

[80] As is suggested by the fact that the root of the word authority is author, it is the erroneous idea that men are the "authors" -- the creators - that has formed the largely unspoken but pervasive basis for male authority throughout history. A clear example is the patria potestas that 13-02-14: DRAFT: Yshmael CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security Principles

gave an ancient Roman man the power to "dispose of" his children. A father was thought to be the creator of "his" children and so he was granted the right to take away the life he was supposed to have given.

[81] The seed metaphor and the mistaken conclusions that followed from it enabled men to stand womb envy on its head. The reversal was given its most influential religious authority in the Bible. The human female is named woman (meaning "out of man") in Genesis 2 because we are told that the first woman was born from a man. And in Genesis 3 woman's creative power is reclassified as a curse and burden: "in pain you shall bring forth children."

[82] The reversal of womb envy found its strongest "scientific" authority in Aristotle's Generation of Animals, where he argued that the great defect in women is that they lack generative power. In earlier times, when the male role in procreation was not comprehended, men had seemed like "infertile women" or "deformed women." Aristotle asserted that it was the other way around. By contending that menstrual fluid is a weak form of semen, lacking in the male fluid's life-giving powers, he also reversed the non-menstrual syndrome. He was saying, in effect, that men have the good genital discharge and menstrual bleeding is just a weak, infertile form of the powerful male secretion.

[83] Once the seed metaphor had sprouted into the idea that God is male and so women are inferior, the original "notawoman" definition of manhood took on new and more menacing implications. Now what had been an essentially horizontal division became a clearly vertical one: traits and values associated with women were not simply classified as improper for men, but as inferior.

[84] The total subordination of women throughout recorded history is but the first part of the devastating legacy of the Neolithic backlash and the seed metaphor. Equally important has been the concomitant suppression in men of all values, ideas, and characteristics associated with women and so defined as inferior.

[85] Since many of the values classified as "feminine" (such as compassion, cooperation, nurturing, and self-sacrifice) are essential for the well-being of human societies, ways had to be found to bring them back, at least to a degree. This was accomplished principally through a series of male religious and philosophical figures, between the sixth century BCE and the first century CE, ranging from Confucius and the Buddha through the later Hebrew prophets and Jesus. These men preached the values that

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had been defined as feminine to men as well as women.

[86] Religion has played a paradoxical role in the shaping of history based on sex. On the one hand, most religions since the rise of male monotheism have provided major weapons in advancing the argument of male superiority and female subordination. The paradox lies in the fact that religions have also been the principal means through which the more "feminine" characteristics and values have been urged upon society (especially men).

[87] The need to appeal to men was at cross purposes with the objective of religions to restrain some of the maladaptive traits that are classified as "masculine" (e.g. quick resort to violence, hierarchical domination, and competitiveness). Men were unlikely to listen to women telling them to act in ways that had been defined as "feminine," so a male priesthood seemed essential. But the men who took over Christianity had by the fourth century gone a long way towards "efeminating" (removing its feminine characteristics) the religion.

[88] The basic problem insecure males have with sexual equality is that it threatens to re-establish a single human standard, one that includes areas in which men are unable to compete. Hence such men react fiercely and attempt to reinforce the wall they have erected between the sexes.

[89] The desperate attempts of some men to re-institute a sexual apartheid with clear ideas of hierarchical difference between the sexes can be seen all around us. Examples include the escalation of violent misogyny in popular music, the rise of anorexic chic for women and super bodybuilding as the ideal for men, the Catholic Church's reiteration of its insistence that women can never be priests, the redoubled efforts of the Nation of Islam, Promise Keepers, and the Southern Baptist Convention to subordinate women, widespread homophobia, the order of the Taliban government in Afghanistan that all women be veiled and all men grow beards, the immense sales of a book whose title asserts that men and women are from different planets, and the proliferation of vulgar sexual language that is rooted in the claim that men are superior to women.

[90] The first step in attempting to deal with the misshaping of the human experience that has been a direct consequence of the misunderstanding of reproductive power that took hold some six thousand years ago is to reject the idea that God is male. The second is to try, at last, to realize just how catastrophic the consequences of accepting the implications of the seed metaphor have been and to accept instead the conclusions about sexual

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equality towards which our modern understanding of the true nature of procreative power point.

[91] To confront how masculine insecurity‘s demand for the Control -- or the claim of control -- over the means of reproduction has been even more fundamental to our cultural history and cultural institutions, than has control of the means of production...

Anthropocentric Jurisprudence’s Denial of Masculine Insecurity’s Use of the Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War: “We must all understand that the most potent weapons of war are the penis and the womb. Therefore, if you cannot convince a group to control its population by discussion, debate, intelligent analysis etc., you must consider their action in using the penis and the womb to increase population an act of war.” - Former Municipal Court Judge Jason G. Brent, Humans: An Endangered Species72

[92] Insecure Male World Leader‘s advocacy/endorsement of the Control of the Means of Reproduction as a Weapon of War include President of Algeria: Houari Boumediene‗s ―wombs of our women will give us victory‖, PLO Leader: Yasser Arafat‗s ‗Palestinian womb is our greatest asset and weapon‘; ANC Leader: Nelson Mandela‗s ―Operation Production‖ forced sex and forbidden contraceptives policy; New Black Panther Party Member: Dr. Khalid Muhammad ―kill the women as they are the military manufacturing center‖; Nazi Party: Adolf Hitler‗s ―importance of fertility to breed an above average number of children‖.

[93] Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the United Nations, 1974: ―The wombs of our women will give us victory.‖ [―One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.‖ (Boumediene was an ardent supporter of the ANC and SWAPO)] [94] Yasser Arafat: Palestinian Womb is his people‗s greatest asset [Arnon Soffer, a geography professor at Israel's Haifa University and a lecturer at the Israeli Army's Staff and Command college, first warned of 72

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the impending Jewish demographic minority in the 1980s, but was widely dismissed. He predicted Arabs would outnumber Jews in both Israel proper and the occupied territories by 2010. In February 2001, the night of his election, Sharon sent an aide to ask Soffer for a copy of his 1987 treatise about the demographic threat to Israel; it was the same study that had led Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to declare in the late 1980s that the "Palestinian womb" was his people's greatest weapon.]

[95] Nelson Mandela‘s African National Congress (ANC): ANC ―Operation Production‖ Policy: During the ANC‗s ―liberation struggle‖ African women were forced (1) to have sex with ANC cadres, & (2) not allowed to use contraception. Any woman who refused sex from an ANC cadre or was caught using contraception was detained, accused of being an 'Apartheid agent', given a People‗s Court trial, the sentence was usually Necklacing, incl. broken bottles shoved up their vagina73.

[96] Johannes Harnischfeger, Witchcraft and the State in South Africa74: ―Especially evening assemblies girls had to attend as well: ―They would come into the house and tell us we should go. They didn't ask your mother they just said ―come let's go.‖ You would just have to go with them.

They would threaten you with their belts and ultimately you would think that if you refused, they would beat you. Our parents were afraid of them‖ (quoted by Delius 1996:189). All those opposing the wishes of the young men were reminded, that it was every woman‗s obligation to give birth to new ―soldiers‖, in order to replace those warriors killed in the liberation struggle. The idiom of the adolescents referred to these patriotic efforts as ―operation production‖. Because of exactly this reason it was forbidden for the girls to use contraceptives. (Delius 1996:189; Niehaus 1999:250)‖ [97] New Black Panther Party: Dr. Khalid Muhammad: Kill the White Woman as the White Man‗s Military Manufacturing Center rolling out reinforcement from between her legs: In Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad‗s 1993 'Kill the White Man' speech, at Kean College in Union Township, New Jersey, he stated among others: ―Kill the women cause the women are the military manufacturing center; cause every nine months they lay Maki Skosana was an ANC comrade who was accused – for no observable reasons – of being an apartheid spy, given a people‗s court trial and publicly executed by necklacing in July 1985. The TRC made no effort whatsoever to investigate the motives for shoving broken glass bottles up women‗s vagina‗s who were necklaced. TRC Report: ―Moloko said her sister was burned to death with a tyre around her neck while attending the funeral of one of the youths.

Her body had been scorched by fire and some broken pieces of glass had been inserted into her vagina, Moloko told the committee. Moloko added that a big rock had been thrown on her face after she had been killed.‖ www.doj.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/duduza/moloko.htm 74 German version of published in Anthropopos, 95/2000, S. 99-112 73

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down on their backs and reinforcement rolls out from between their legs.

So shut down the military manufacturing center, by killing the white woman.‖75 [98] Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: ―The selection of a racially highly worthy wife in itself still does not necessarily mean an improvement of the race. That only comes when the right mate selection is followed by the breeding of an above-average number of children. For what would the elimination of bad hereditary factors from the folk help, if simultaneously a reproduction of the good hereditary factors was not preserved and expanded? ... The birth rate will determine the future of our folk. The number of cribs must be much larger than the number of coffins. Only then can we offer successful resistance against all arising dangers and turn into deed our right, which is due us on the basis of our leading position in Europe. … Two weapons are at the disposal of each folk in the struggle for survival: Its ability to fight and its fertility. Never forget that the ability to fight of a folk alone can never make it possible for a folk to survive into the far future, rather that the inexhaustible fountain of its fertility is also necessary."76

Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Denies Necessity for a Breeding Licence, thereby endorsing Masculine Insecurity’s Control of Reproduction as a Weapon of War: “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.” ― Voltaire “Every right must be evaluated in the network of all rights claimed and the environment in which these rights are exercised. If we hold that every right, ―natural" or not, must be evaluated in the total system of rights operating in a world that is limited, we must inevitably conclude that no right can be presumed to be absolute, that the effect of each right on the suppliers as well as on the demanders must be determined before we can ascertain the quantity of right that is admissible. From here on out, ours is a limited world. Rights must also be limited. The greater the population, the more limited the per capita supply of all goods; hence the greater must be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdul_Muhammad www.metacafe.com/watch/456363/khallid_muhammads_speech_kill_the_white_man 76 SS Race Theory and Mate Selection Guidelines, translated from Original SS Publications by Libertarian National Socialist Green Party; original SS publication Glauben und Kampfen ("Faith and Struggle") 75

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the limitation on individual rights, including the right to breed. At its heart, this is the political meaning of the population problem.” – Garrett Hardin, Limited World, Limited Rights77 “It seems there is pretty much a consensus that when it comes to things that have the possibility to .. negatively impact the lives of people or society in general, regulation is desirable. Considering this, there is one sort of licence that is conspicuous by its absence: a licence to breed. .. Even the SPCA checks out prospective dog owners and their property before allowing them to adopt an animal. A system that requires prospective parents to demonstrate the necessary material means and parenting knowledge to look after children before being allowed to procreate would be the ideal solution to the problem. Unfortunately, uncontrolled breeding has left humanity far too stupid to implement something of the sort.” - Michael Coetzee, Licence to Breed78

[99] Anthropocentric Legal doctrine holds that individuals are issued licences - to own a gun, drive a car, practice Law, watch television, obtain credit, earn a living as a professional, fish, hunt, sell liquor, operate a business, get married – once they have fulfilled certain skills or informed consent commitment requirements required for the particular licence.

[100] The Journal of Economic Perspectives article Occupational Licensing79, states the motive of Occupational licensing to be to improve the quality of competency for the specific occupation, for the physical, financial, emotional or psychological benefit of the consumer80.

[101] The Department of Labour's 'Occupational Qualifications Framework" Draft Policy for the Quality Council for Trades and Limited World, Limited Rights, by Garrett Hardin, Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_limited_world_limited_rights.html 78 Coetzee (2009/08/12) 79 Morris M Kleiner (Fall 2000): Occupational Licensing; Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 14, Number 4, Pages 189-202 http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.14.4.189 80 ―Occupational licensing is defined as a process where entry into an occupation requires the permission of the government, and the state requires some demonstration of a minimum degree of competency. The state usually creates a nongovernmental licensing board with political appointees, public members and members of the occupation to oversee the regulated occupations. Generally, members of the occupation dominate the licensing boards. The agency must usually be self-supporting by collecting fees and registration charges from persons in the licensed occupations. [..] The main benefits that are suggested for occupational licensing involve improving quality for those persons receiving the service. Occupational licensure creates a greater incentive for individuals to invest in more occupation-specific human capital because they will be more able to recoup the full returns to their investment if they need not face low-quality substitutes for their services (Akerlof, 1970; Shapiro, 1986).‖ 77

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Occupations (OQF)81, states its purpose being to provide for the certification of: • Occupational competence; • Meaningful skills sets related to occupations.

[102] It states that ―An occupational qualification represents the achievement of a planned combination of learning outcomes which is intended to provide qualifying learners with the applied competence to practice an occupation, to perform occupationally-related skills sets and to provide a basis for further learning.‖ [103] Occupational qualifications developed under the auspices of QCTO contain three components: • Knowledge and theory component; • Practical skills component; • Work experience component.

[104] Finally: ―Occupations, which also include trades and professions, are defined by their position (classification code) and their descriptors in the Organising Framework for Occupations, which is maintained by the Department of Labour.‖ [105] The Food Beverage SETA Conference: Qualifications Council for Trades and Occupations82, says that an Occupational Qualification "means a qualification associated with a trade, occupation or profession resulting from work based learning and consisting of knowledge unit standards, practical unit standards and work experience unit standards."

[106] Dozens of occupations require licensing for everyday uses: whether it is driving, hunting, serving liquor, or representing an accused in court.

These licenses require the individuals to obtain a particular level of competency, before they are entitled to practice the particular occupation, with the aim of improved competency to benefit consumers.

[107] If parenting is a form of occupation; Anthropocentric Jurisprudence requires no level of competency, to be a parent, for the benefit of any individuals children. Most people who become parents, are poorly psychologically, emotionally, intellectually and financially prepared to parent, who have made little or no preparatory planning for the stresses and demands of the parenting occupation. Many parents who choose to become parents, bring life into the world knowing full well they are not capable of taking care of that life - they assume the government, teachers, or family will pitch in and do their job for them. Parenting should probably be considered one of life‘s most challenging and demanding jobs; since you are unable to quit from it and do not get paid for it. It is one of 81 82

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the most difficult jobs in the world, and the easiest to get, and the one that does not require you to get a licence, irrespective of the fact that you may have no emotional, psychological, intellectual skills to provide adequate parenting to your children.

[108] Put differently, when it comes to Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s concern for the consumer rights of children: Children have no rights to only be born to parents who ‗really want them‘. Children have no rights to parents who have made certain psychological, emotional, social and intellectual skills, prior to conceiving them. Children have no rights to be born to parents who have acquired a certain minimum level of responsible parenting.

[109] Anthropocentric Jurisprudence provides Accused criminals with rights to a qualified and licensed lawyer. Sick individuals have rights to a qualified and licensed doctor. Taxi consumers have rights to a qualified and licensed driver. Airline consumers have rights to a qualified and licensed pilot. Anthropocentric Jurisprudence however, provides children with no rights to a qualified and licensed parent, whatsoever.

[110] If, after having been born, it is deemed by Child Welfare services, that any child/ren are maltreated, then such child/ren, can be placed in foster care or sent to orphanages. However such parents are not legally restricted from breeding themselves more children to abuse. If such jurisprudence was applied to the rights of criminals, then any criminal would be entitled to the services of any individual who chose to call themselves a lawyer, who had no educational or practical experience for being a lawyer; who simply called himself a ‗lawyer‘, even though he was absolutely and utterly clueless about how to represent an accused. Only after the criminal had been maltreated by the unlicensed lawyer, would the lawyer be denied the opportunity of further representing that particular client; but the lawyer would not be denied the right to continue to practice being a lawyer.

Anthropocentric Jurisprudence Parasitism of the Control of Reproduction Human Factory Farming War Economy: [111] What would happen to the occupation of ‗social workers‘ and ‗child welfare‘ workers, if citizens decided to practice responsible breeding and parenting? What would happen to the occupation of ‗criminal lawyers‘; if all citizens obeyed the law?

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[112] If responsible parents chose to practice responsible breeding, eliminating the reality of abused children and surplus populations, which thereby eliminated the reality of a criminal underclass; such behaviour would eliminate the human misery source of profits upon which social workers, criminal lawyers and correctional authorities depend.

[113] Social Workers, correctional authorities and Criminal Lawyers, within such an Anthropocentric Socio-Political Jurisprudence Systems – are consequently faced with a conundrum. If they do their job professionally by working to eliminate the root causes of the problems, upon which their professions sustain themselves, they shall thereby eliminate the need for their profession. Consequently, in order to sustain and perpetuate the need for their profession, they must sustain the public relations image, that their actions are focussed upon solving the alleged problems resulting from irresponsible breeding and parenting practices, by endless focus on the symptoms and ignoring the root causes, thereby perpetuating the problems, while manipulating their customers into the false belief, that they are focussed on solving the problems.

[114] In Doctors analogy terms; they are Legal Doctors who have patients with legal brain tumour problems, who choose to give their patients an endless supply of legal Aspirins, thereby placing their legal patients in a false state of pain reduction; while ignoring addressing the root cause of the Anthropocentric Jurisprudence‘s brain tumour: socio-political and ecologically irresponsible breeding and parenting.

The Anthropocentric Socio-Political Elite Profit from the Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Cannon Fodder Population.

“War as a general social release. This is a psychosocial function, serving the same purpose for a society as do the holiday, the celebration, and the orgy for the individual---the release and redistribution of undifferentiated tensions.

War provides for the periodic necessary readjustment of standards of social behaviour (the "moral climate") and for the dissipation of general boredom, one of the most consistently undervalued and unrecognized of social phenomena. War fills certain functions essential to the stability of our society; until other ways of filling them are developed, the war system must be maintained - and improved in effectiveness.” - Report from Iron

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Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability for Peace (paragraphs found respectively on p45 & p4) In Valour of Ignorance, Homer Lea„s perspective of a nations traitor enemies, are (I) those “high or low” who only regard [the Nation] in a parasitical sense, as a land to batten on and grow big in, whose resources are not to be developed and conserved for the furtherance of the Republic„s greatness, but only to satisfy the larval greed of those who subsist upon it„s fatness; and (II) International Arbitrationists and Disarmamentists who advocate on behalf of disarmament and arbitration without understanding the true origins of war: “Only when arbitration is able to unravel the tangled skein of crime & hypocrisy among individuals can it be extended to communities & nations. As nations are only man in the aggregate, they are the aggregate of his crimes and deception and depravity, and so long as these constitute the basis of individual impulse, so long will they control the acts of nations.”

[115] The Anthropocentric Legal Matrix - Attorneys, Prosecutors, Academics and Judges - avoid implementing ―Sustainable Democracy Licence to Vote and Breed‖ legislation, as a result of their endorsement of, and socio-eco-political profit from, the Human Farming83 of Economic and Military Cannon Fodder Racket ―the breeding of surplus youth bulge84 populations, to be converted into ―dumb, stupid animal pawns‖85 cannon fodder soldier armies – ―possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious‗ international profiteering racket; where their ―profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in military families lives‖; by sending ―dumb, stupid animal pawns‖ cannon fodder soldier armies, as the ―high-class muscle men for Big Business, Wall Street and the bankers‖86; frequently to fight corporately profitable, but militarily unHuman Farming: Story of Your Enslavement youtu.be/Xbp6umQT58A Demographics & Violence: Youth Bulges: Numerous reports provide details how population age structures have significant impacts on a countries stability, governance, economic development and social well-being. Put differently, countries with large populations of idle young men, known as youth bulges, account for 70 – 90 percent of all civil conflicts.

Additionally a wealth of historical studies indicates that cycles of rebellion and military campaigns in the early modern and modern world tended to coincide with periods when young adults comprised an unusually large proportion of the population. Youth Bulge Reports: (1) The Shape of Things to Come: Why Age Structure Matters to a Safer More Equitable World,

by Population Action International; (2) YouthQuake: Population, fertility and environment in the 21st Century, by Optimum Population Trust.

85 "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns" – Henry Kissinger, August 9, 2005 86 War is a Racket by USMC General Smedley D Butler (1881-1940) 83 84

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winnable wars87.

The Anthropocentric Socio-Political Elite Profit from the Control of Reproduction of a Surplus Vote & Poverty Pimp Fodder Population.

THE POVERTY PIMPS' POEM88 Let us celebrate the poor, Let us hawk them door to door.

There's a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain.

Let us celebrate the poor.

Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction Flavor our songs and spice our fiction.

Their hopes and struggles and agonies Get us grants and consulting fees.

Celebrate thugs and clowns, Give their ignorance all renown.

Celebrate what holds them down, In our academic gowns.

Let us celebrate the poor.

“This is how the game works: public money levied in taxes from the poor of the rich countries is transferred in the form of „foreign aid‟ to the rich in the poor countries; the rich in the poor countries then hand it back for safe-keeping to the rich in the rich countries. The real trick, throughout this cycle of expropriation, is to maintain the pretence that it is the poor in poor countries who are being helped all along. The winner is the player who manages to keep a straight face while building up a billion-dollar bank account” – Lords of Poverty, Graeme Hancock

[116] Similarly vote or poverty pimp fodder armies are as beneficial to their political and poverty pimping academic and non-profit profiteering racket elite.

[117]

According to Graeme Hancock‘s Lords of Poverty:

[117.1] ―At $60 billion a year [in 1989]… aid is already quite large enough to do harm. Indeed, as this book has argued at some length, it is often profoundly dangerous to the poor and inimical to their interests: it Press TV, 26 May 2011: US military suicide rate exceeds combat fatalities www.youtu.be/J4SrziRCqyE 88 The Poverty Pimps Poem, by Thomas Sowell See: http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/politics/poverty/923-The-Poverty-Pimps-Poem.html 87

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has financed the creation of monstrous projects that, at vast expense, have devastated the environment and ruined lives; it has supported and legitimised brutal tyrannies; it has facilitated the emergence of fantastical and Byzantine bureaucracies staffed by legions of self-serving hypocrites; it has sapped the initiative, creativity and enterprise of ordinary people and substituted the superficial and irrelevant glitz of imported advice; it has sucked potential entrepreneurs and intellectuals in the developing countries into non-productive administrative activities; it has created a ‗moral tone‘ in international affairs that denies the hard task of wealth creation and that substitutes easy handouts for the rigours of self-help; in addition, throughout the Third World, it has allowed the dead grip of imposed officialdom to suppress popular choice and individual freedom.

[117.2] ―Aid has its defenders, not least the highly paid public-relations men and women who spend millions of dollars a year justifying the continued existence of the agencies that employ them. Such professional communicators must reject out of hand the obvious conclusions of this book: that aid is a waste of time and money, that its results are fundamentally bad, and that — far from being increased — it should be stopped forthwith before more damage is done.

[117.3] ―Whenever such suggestions are made the lobbyists throw up their hands in horror. Despite some regrettable failures, they protect, aid is justified by its successes; despite some glitches and problems, it is essentially something that works; most important of all — the emotional touch, the appeal to the heartstrings — they argue with passion that aid must not be stopped because the poor could not survive without it. The Brandt Commission provided a classic example of this line of thought: ‗For the poorest countries,‘ it told us flatly in its final report, ‗aid is essential to survival.‘ [117.4] ―Such statements, however, patronise and undervalue the people of the poor countries concerned. They are, in addition, logically indefensible when uttered by those who also want us to believe that ‗aid works‘. Through history and pre-history all countries everywhere got by perfectly well without any aid at all. Furthermore, in the 1950s they got by with much less aid than they did, for example, in the 1970s — and were apparently none the worse for the experience. Now, suddenly, at the tail end of almost fifty years of development assistance, we are told that large numbers of these same countries have lost the ability to survive a moment longer unless they continue to receive ever-larger amounts of aid. If this is indeed the case — and if the only measurable impact of all these decades

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of development has been to turn tenacious survivors into helpless dependents — then it seems to me to be beyond dispute that aid does not work.

[117.5] ―On the other hand, if the statement that ‗aid works‘ is true, then presumably the poor should be in a much better shape than they were before they first began to receive it half a century ago. If so, then aid‘s job should by now be nearly over and it ought to be possible to begin a gradual withdrawal without hurting anyone.

[117.6] ―Of course, the ugly reality is that most poor people in most poor countries most of the time never receive or even make contact with aid in any tangible shape or form: whether is it present or absent, increased or decreased, are thus issues that are simply irrelevant to the ways in which they conduct their daily lives. After the multi-billion-dollar ‗financial flows‘ involved have been shaken through the sieve of over-priced and irrelevant goods that must be bought in the donor countries, filtered again in the deep pockets of hundreds of thousands of foreign experts and aid agency staff, skimmed off by dishonest commission agents, and stolen by corrupt Ministers and Presidents, there is really very little left to go around. This little, furthermore, is then used thoughtlessly, or maliciously, or irresponsibly by those in power — who have no mandate from the poor, who do not consult with them and who are utterly indifferent to their fate. Small wonder, then, that the effects of aid are so often vicious and destructive for the most vulnerable members of human society.‖ [118] According to Ntokozo Khumalo, a business writer, producer & report who has been with CNBC Africa, Africa Bisiness Review and eNCA Africa Edition, in: The dirty -- breeding war -- games the South African government plays to win votes89, the African National Congress use welfare: child support grants to breed the ANC thousands of co-dependent poverty stricken ANC voters, or vote fodder.

[119] According to Meshack Mabogoane, the ANC pimps its own people into poverty by its conscious and deliberate ―abnormal government-sponsored population explosion of Malthusian poverty aggravation, moral degeneration and social disintegration‖.90 [120]

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and political policies, it is easy to conclude that it remains one of the most successful professional Poverty Pimp Political Organisations and Movements in the world. It continues to pretend to act as an intermediary on behalf of ―liberating‖ the black SA poor, disadvantaged and alleged ―victimized‖ groups, but it has no serious intentions whatsoever of addressing the root population policy or psycho-responsibility causes of these groups socio-economic poverty or psycho-political ―freedom/liberation‖ babble ignorance. In fact the ANC derives its political power from pimping ever more black Africans into poverty; i.e. from sustaining and in fact increasing its alleged disadvantaged and victimized political power base, while deflecting the blame for its poverty pimping Malthusian resource war consequences upon the proverbial scapegoat of ―apartheid‖.

[121] Succinctly: The poor are a commodity to ANC politicians and AntiApartheid religious and political activists, from those with impressive Archbishop titles to the Poverty Pimping Professors who suck up the research grants to ―support themselves and their cronies while they are studying, romanticizing or otherwise exploiting the [African] poor.‖

ECOFEMINISM: [122] Levantine -- Male God -- religious mythology holds the Earth to be profane & evil, and it‘s the duty of the faithful to study scripture to glean the least bit of truth. Ancient Aryan religion holds the Earth to be sacred & good, and its the duty of the Aryan to study nature, including the nature of people.

[123] Levantine religions were designed to pander to the alpha male warrior elites with an alpha male tyrant concept of the divine who justifies anything done in his name. History gives you the idea European religion also pandered to the warrior elites- which it did with the Levantine import. Prior thereto, however there were vast forests in Europe where semi-matriarchal Aryan tribal families lived worshipping nature, for thousands of years.

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Mosuo: Ecocentric Gender-Balanced Culture with no murder, rape, war, jealousy, jails or unemployment: “It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering, than it is to have sympathy with thought.

People find themselves surrounded by hideous poverty, ugliness, and starvation. It is inevitable they would be strongly moved by this.

Accordingly with admirable, but misdirected intentions, they very sentimentally set themselves the task of remedying the problems they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease, they merely prolong it. Indeed, they are part of the disease. They try to solve the problem of poverty, by keeping the poor alive, or in the case of an advanced school, by amusing the poor. But this is not a solution, it is an aggravation of the difficulty. The proper aim is to reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. It is the altruistic virtues which have prevented the carrying out of this aim. The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves. In doing so they prevented the core of the system to be realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it.

Charity degrades and demoralizes.” -- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

[124] The Mosuo language is rendered not in writing, but in Dongba, the only pictographic language used in the world today. The Mosuo language has no words for murder, war, rape, or jealousy, and the Mosuo have no jails and no unemployment.91 [125] Although the Mosuo culture is most frequently described as a matriarchal culture; in fact, its more accurate to refer to it as ―matrilineal‖, but still doesn't reflect the full truth. Accurately speaking have aspects of matriarchal culture, in that women are the head of the house, property is passed through the female line, and women tend to make the business decisions. Political power, however, remains in the hands of males, creating a gender-balanced society.

[126] Mosuo women carry on the family name and run the households, which are usually made up of several families, with one woman elected as

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the head. The head matriarchs of each village govern the region by committee.

[127] As an agrarian culture, much of the Mosuo daily life centers around tending to crops and livestock, with villages and households bartering between them for basic needs.

[128] A typical Mosuo house is divided in to four separate structures around an open courtyard. Traditionally, families share the building with livestock, and the living and sleeping areas are communal.

[129] Mosuo families have an incredible internal cohesiveness and stability; and Mosuo women do not (within their culture) face many of the struggles and barriers that women in many other cultures do.

[130] Probably the most famous – and most misunderstood – aspect of Mosuo culture is their practice of ―walking marriages‖ (or ―zou hun‖ in Chinese), so called because the men will walk to the house of their ‗partner' at night, but return to their own home, within their own tribal family, in the morning.

[131] The Mosuo generally live in large extended families, with many generations (great grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, etc.) all living together within the same house. For the most part, everyone lives within communal quarters, without private bedrooms or living areas. However, women between certain ages, after ―coming of age‖, can have their own private bedrooms.

[132] Traditionally, a Mosuo woman who is interested in a particular man will invite him to come and spend the night with her in her room. The man will walk to her house after dark (thus the description of ―walking marriage‖), spend the night with her, and return home early the next morning.

[133] Although it is possible for a Mosuo woman to change partners as often as she likes – and in fact, having only one sexual partner would be neither expected nor common – the majority of such couplings are actually more long term. In fact, few Mosuo women have more than one partner at a time, described by some anthropologists as ―serial monogamy‖.

[134] Even when a pairing may be long term, however, the man will never go to live with the woman's family, or vice versa. He will continue to live with and be responsible to his family, and the children of his sisters and

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nieces; she will continue to live with and be responsible to her family.

There will be no sharing of property.

[135] Significantly, when children are born, the father may have little or no responsibility for his offspring (in fact, some children may not even know who their father is). If a father does want to be involved with the upbringing of his children, he will bring gifts to the mother's family, and state his intention to do so. This gives him a kind of official status within that family, but does not actually make him part of the family. Regardless of whether the father is involved or not, the child will be raised in the mother's family, and take on her family name.

[136] This does not mean, however, that the men get of scot-free, with no responsibilities for children. Quite the opposite, in fact. Every man will share responsibilities in caring for all children born to women within their own family, be they a sister, niece, aunt, etc. In fact, children will grow up with many ―aunts‖ and ―uncles‖, as all members of the extended family share in the duties of supporting and raising the children.

[137] The result – as different as it may be from other systems – is a family structure which is, in fact, extremely stable. Divorce does not exist …there are no questions over child custody (the child belongs to the mother's family), splitting of property (property is never shared), etc. If a parent dies, there is still a large extended family to provide care.

[138] One particularly important result is the lack of preference for a particular gender. For example, in most Chinese and patriarchal cultures, the female will join the male's family when she gets married. The result is that if a couple has a lot of female children, they will lose them after marriage, and have no one to care for them in old age; but if they have male children, their sons (and their sons' wives) will care for them. So, in poorer populations in particular, there will be a strong preference for male children.

[139] However, among the Mosuo, since neither male nor female children will ever leave home, there is no particular preference for one gender over the other. The focus instead tends to be on maintaining some degree of gender balance, having roughly the same proportion of male to female within a household. In situations where this becomes unbalanced, it is not uncommon for Mosuo to adopt children of the appropriate gender (or even for two households to ‗swap' male/female children).

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children out of the home, and wash their hands, as to the sustainable future of those children. The family matriarch has the responsibility to make sure that the family does not procreate beyond its capacity to support the entire family through difficult times.

[141] Children are also raised with a gender neutral focus, where all the children dress the same and are treated in a gender neutral manner. At around the age of 12-14 years, the important event known as their coming of age ceremony occurs, where girls are given skirts, and men are given their pants; thus called the ―skirt ceremony‖ for girls, and the ―pants ceremony‖ for boys.

[142] After coming of age, Mosuo females are entitled to their own private bedroom; and, once past puberty, can begin to invite partners for ―walking marriages‖.

[143] According to patriarchal macho Argentinean writer Ricardo Coler92, who decided to find out and spent two months with the Mosuo in southern China: ―Men live better where women are in charge‖ and ―Women have a different way of dominating.‖ [144] Coler asserts that while he expected an inverse patriarchy, he experienced something totally different, because women have a different way of dominating: ―When women rule, it's part of their work. They like it when everything functions and the family is doing well. Amassing wealth or earning lots of money doesn't cross their minds. Capital accumulation seems to be a male thing. It's not for nothing that popular wisdom says that the difference between a man and a boy is the price of his toys.‖ [145] What astonished Coler the most, was that there was no violence in the Mosuo culture: ―I know that quickly slips into idealization -- every human society has its problems. But it simply doesn't make sense to the Mosuo women to solve conflicts with violence. Because they are in charge, nobody fights. They don't know feelings of guilt or vengeance -- it is simply shameful to fight. They are ashamed if they do and it even can threaten their social standing. [If there is an altercation] The women decide what happens. Some of them do it more strictly and others in a friendlier way.

They are strong women who give clear orders. When a man hasn't finished a task he's been given, he is expected to admit it. He is not scolded or

Ricardo Coler (28 May 2009): The Mosuo Matriarchy: 'Men Live Better Where Women Are In Charge'; Der Spiegel http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-mosuo-matriarchymen-live-better-where-women-are-in-charge-a-627363.html 92

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punished, but instead he is treated like a little boy who was not up to the task.‖ [146] The Mosuo economy is largely agrarian, and they are capable of producing most of what they need for daily living; and consequently are by and large self-sufficient. In the past, Mosuo men would take trading caravans to other parts of China, to buy/trade products they could not produce locally.

[147] The traditional Mosuo religion worships nature, is called Daba, with Lugu Lake regarded as the Mother Goddess and the mountain overlooking it venerated as the Goddess of Love. The Mosuo also practice Lamaism, a Tibetan variation of Buddhism. Most Mosuo homes dedicate a room specifically for Buddhist worship and for sheltering traveling lamas, or monks. Their focus is their close relationship to the land that supports them and with their neighbors, who also support them.

[148] International Military Doctrine Environmental Security & Peace Strategies addressing Scarcity as an underlying Cause of Violent Conflict93 ―There is also a new and different threat to our national security emerging—the destruction of our environment. The defense establishment has a clear stake in this growing threat... one of our key national security objectives must be to reverse the accelerating pace of environmental destruction.‖ - Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA), Senate, June 28, 1990 *** ―According to a growing body of literature, scarcity of freshwater to meet the many needs of Third World countries is rapidly escalating.

Furthermore, many of the remaining exploitable sources of freshwater are in river basins shared by two or more sovereign states. These facts present the potential for violent conflict over water unless affected states can develop and use their common water resources in a cooperative, sustainable, and equitable MAJ William E David, USA Military Intelligence: Environmental Scarcity as a Cause of Violent Conflict, School of Advanced Military Studies; United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA314878 93

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manner. The United States, in its National Security Strategy and Foreign Affairs Policy, has called attention to the problem of resource scarcity as having important implications for American security.‖94 *** ―The effect of environmental problems on national security, now commonly referred to as "environmental security," is important to the US military. The concept first appeared in the 1991 National Security Strategy (NSS), when President Bush recognized that the failure to competently manage natural resources could contribute to potential conflict.95 The 1993 National Security Strategy echoed this concern and included the environment as an element of economic power.96 When A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement was published in February 1996, it amplified the importance of the environment as a component of United States national security even further.97 The 1996 NSS recognizes that competition for natural resources "is already a very real risk to regional stability around the world."98 It also states that national and international environmental degradation poses a direct threat to economic growth and to global and national security.99 Thus, as one of the institutions charged with protecting our national security, the US military also should be concerned with all aspects of environmental security.‖ 100 *** ―Environmental issues can adversely influence our national security in two important ways. One of these is potential or actual conflict between nations or groups that can arise as a result of disputes over natural resources or transnational environmental problems. A second way that environmental issues can directly affect national security is by destabilizing governments or institutions in a country afflicted with environmental degradation.

Haiti is a good example. As early as 1978, the President's Council on Environmental Quality noted that deforestation in Haiti was almost complete and then predicted that social disruption and instability would soon follow.101 It took 16 more years and a military overthrow of duly elected President Aristide to spark renewed US military involvement in Haiti. However, it is clear that the environmental devastation of that country's forests, soil and water supplies created a cause and effect between environmental LTC Kurt F. Ubbelohde (10 April 2000): Freshwater Scarcity in the Nile River Basin, US Army War College http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA378148 95 National Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, DC, US Gov Printing Office, 1991.

96 National Security Strategy of the United States, Washington, DC, US Gov Printing Office, 1993 97 A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement, Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, February 1996.

98 Ibid., at 26.

99 Ibid., at 30.

100 Colonel Brian X. Bush (13 March 1997): Promoting Environmental Security during Contingency Operations; US Army War College http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA326869 101 Environmental Quality. 1978 Annual Report on the Environment Washington: Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1978.

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issues and Haiti's economic deprivation, massive migration and the basic instability of virtually every economic or governmental institution in the country.â&#x20AC;&#x2013;102

*** [149] 1974: NSSM 200: National Security Study Memorandum: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth For U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (The Kissinger Report)103: Rapid population growth adversely affects every aspect of economic and social progress in developing countries. It absorbs large amounts of resources needed for more productive investment in development. It requires greater expenditures for health, education and other social services, particularly in urban areas. It increases the dependency load per worker so that a high fraction of the output of the productive age group is needed to support dependents. It reduces family savings and domestic investment. It increases existing severe pressures on limited agricultural land in countries where the world's "poverty problem" is concentrated. It creates a need for use of large amounts of scarce foreign exchange for food imports (or the loss of food surpluses for export). Finally, it intensifies the already severe unemployment and underemployment problems of many developing countries where not enough productive jobs are created to absorb the annual increments to the labor force.

Even in countries with good resource/population ratios, rapid population growth causes problems for several reasons: First, large capital investments generally are required to exploit unused resources. Second, some countries already have high and growing unemployment and lack the means to train new entrants to their labor force. Third, there are long delays between starting effective family planning programs and reducing fertility, and even longer delays between reductions in fertility and population stabilization. Hence there is substantial danger of vastly overshooting population targets if population growth is not moderated in the near future. [..] Moderation of population growth offers benefits in terms of resources saved for investment and/or higher per capita consumption. If resource requirements to support fewer children are reduced and the funds now allocated for construction of schools, houses, hospitals and other essential facilities are invested in productive activities, the impact on the growth of GNP and per capita income may be significant. In addition, economic and social progress resulting from population control will further contribute to the decline in fertility rates. The relationship is reciprocal, and can take the form of either a vicious or a virtuous circle.

Implications of Population Pressures for National Security It seems well understood that the impact of population factors on the subjects already considered -- development, food requirements, resources, environment -- adversely affects the welfare and progress of countries in Colonel Brian X. Bush (13 March 1997): Promoting Environmental Security during Contingency Operations; US Army War College http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA326869 103 http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PCAAB500.pdf 102

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which we have a friendly interest and thus indirectly adversely affects broad U.S. interests as well. [..] A recent study* of forty-five local conflicts involving Third World countries examined the ways in which population factors affect the initiation and course of a conflict in different situations. The study reached two major conclusions: 1. ". . . population factors are indeed critical in, and often determinants of, violent conflict in developing areas. Segmental (religious, social, racial) differences, migration, rapid population growth, differential levels of knowledge and skills, rural/urban differences, population pressure and the special location of population in relation to resources -- in this rough order of importance -- all appear to be important contributions to conflict and violence...

2. Clearly, conflicts which are regarded in primarily political terms often have demographic roots: Recognition of these relationships appears crucial to any understanding or prevention of such hostilities." [..] Professor Philip Hauser of the University of Chicago has suggested the concept of "population complosion" to describe the situation in many developing countries when (a) more and more people are born into or move into and are compressed in the same living space under (b) conditions and irritations of different races, colours, religions, languages, or cultural backgrounds, often with differential rates of population growth among these groups, and (c) with the frustrations of failure to achieve their aspirations for better standards of living for themselves or their children.

To these may be added pressures for and actual international migration.

These population factors appear to have a multiplying effect on other factors involved in situations of incipient violence.

These adverse conditions appear to contribute frequently to harmful developments of a political nature: Juvenile delinquency, thievery and other crimes, organized brigandry, kidnapping and terrorism, food riots, other outbreaks of violence; guerrilla warfare, communal violence, separatist movements, revolutionary movements and counterrevolutionary coupe. All of these bear upon the weakening or collapse of local, state, or national government functions.

Beyond national boundaries, population factors appear to have had operative roles in some past politically disturbing legal or illegal mass migrations, border incidents, and wars. If current increased population pressures continue they may have greater potential for future disruption in foreign relations.

Perhaps most important, in the last decade population factors have impacted more severely than before on availabilities of agricultural land and resources, industrialization, pollution and the environment. All this is occurring at a time when international communications have created rising expectations which are being frustrated by slow development and inequalities of distribution.

Population growth and inadequate resources. Where population size is greater than available resources, or is expanding more rapidly than the available resources, there is a tendency toward internal disorders and violence and, sometimes, disruptive international policies or violence. The 13-02-14: DRAFT: Yshmael CommonSism Guerrylla Law Sustainable Security Principles

higher the rate of growth, the more salient a factor population increase appears to be. A sense of increasing crowding, real or perceived, seems to generate such tendencies, especially if it seems to thwart obtaining desired personal or national goals.

2. Populations with a high proportion of growth. The young people, who are in much higher proportions in many LDCs, are likely to be more volatile, unstable, prone to extremes, alienation and violence than an older population. These young people can more readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the "establishment," "imperialists," multinational corporations, or other ── often foreign ── influences blamed for their troubles.

3. Population factors with social cleavages. When adverse population factors of growth, movement, density, excess, or pressure coincide with racial, religious, color, linguistic, cultural, or other social cleavages, there will develop the most potentially explosive situations for internal disorder, perhaps with external effects. When such factors exist together with the reality or sense of relative deprivation among different groups within the same country or in relation to other countries or peoples, the probability of violence increases significantly.

[150] Butts, Kent (25 April 1994): Environmental Security: A DOD Partnership for Peace104; US Army War College: [Report on the Dept of Defense effort to create a Proactive Environmental Security Peace Strategy as part of the Fifth Senior Environmental Leadership Conference.] ―Environmental degradation imperils nations' most fundamental aspect of security by undermining the natural support systems on which all of human activity depends.‖ - Michael Renner, 1989105 The DOD environmental security mission has its roots in the fact that environmental problems that lead to instability and contention are being ignored, and U.S. combat forces are becoming involved in the resulting conflict. In addition, DOD's environmental security mission supports the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States and must be understood in that context.

As stated by the National Security Strategy, "The stress from environmental challenges is already contributing to political conflict."

Recognizing the importance of environmental issues to U.S. national security interests, the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security defined DOD's role in environmental security to include "mitigating the impacts of adverse environmental actions leading to international instability."106 Butts, Kent Hughes (25 April 1994): Environmental Security: A DoD Partnership for Peace http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB339.pdf 105 Michael Renner, National Security: The Economic and Environmental Dimensions, Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, May 1989. Another early and important effort to broaden the definition of national security to include environmental challenges was Jessica Tuchman Matthews, "Redefining Security," Foreign Affairs, Spring 1989, pp. 162-178.

106 Sherri Wasserman Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, (Environmental Security), Statement Before the Subcommittee on Installation and Facilities, May 13, 1993.

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Instability and conflict often result from the poverty created by the economic regression of resource depletion or scarcity. The abuse of power by the leaders of many developing countries has frequently manifested itself in exploitive resource management practices, a wasting away of the economic infrastructure, human suffering and ethnic-based competition for increasingly scarce resources, and, ultimately, to conflict. [..] The global population has grown geometrically and will double over the period from 1950 to 2000, bringing environmental issues to the fore. Rates of global population continue to increase, particularly in the vulnerable developing world, accelerating demand for food and a broad range of other natural resources. The global rates of consumption of natural resources are far greater than the ecosystem has previously endured.10 The world is rapidly moving beyond local shortages, which historically have created local conflict, to regional or transboundary resource shortages with the potential to escalate into far reaching hostilities involving U.S. forces. In numerous regions the ability of the earth to replenish its renewable resources, even with the human intervention of irrigation and fertilizer, has already been exceeded. Indeed, these very interventions often create unforeseen, adverse environmental consequences. Thus, the frequently ignored, long-lead-time environmental factors have reached their thresholds and are causing instability that security policy analysts cannot ignore. [..] The most notable environmental threats to U.S. security are: • Global: competition for or threatened denial of strategic resources; ozone depletion; global warming; loss of biodiversity; proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; effects of demilitarization of nuclear, chemical, biological and conventional weapons; space debris; and inability or unwillingness of countries to comply with international environmental agreements and standards.

• Regional: environmental terrorism, accident or disaster; vectorborne communicable diseases; regional conflicts caused by scarcity/denial of resources; cross border and global common contamination; and environmental factors affecting military access to land, air, and water.

• State: environmental degradation of the resource base on which governmental legitimacy depends; risks to public health and the environment from DOD activities; increasing restrictions on military operations and access to air, land, and water; inefficient use of military resources; reduced weapons systems performance; demilitarization of nuclear, chemical, and conventional weapons systems; and erosion of public trust.

Recommendations: • Appoint a special assistant to the National Security Advisor for International Environmental Security Affairs and create an interagency working group, chaired by the Special Assistant, to develop a Presidential Decision Document establishing U.S. environmental security policy.

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• Establish environmental security as a principal objective of the National Security Strategy and include environmental issues in National Security Council threat assessments and foreign policy planning.

• Emphasize the linkage between environmental security objectives and the achievement of current, primary congressional and administration interests of democratic reform, economic development, and conflict resolution.

• In conjunction with the United Nations, use DOD capabilities to enforce international treaties and agreements.

• Create a DOD Environmental Crisis Monitoring Center to warn the policymaking community of chronic environmental issues before political positions have hardened and policy options have narrowed.

[151] Department of the Army, Field Manual 100-23, Peace Operations107.

Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army, December 1994, p. 28.

The seventh principle of humanitarian action in armed conflict108 says: ―Contextualization: Effective humanitarian action should encompass a comprehensive view of overall needs and of the impact of interventions.

Encouraging respect for human rights and addressing the underlying causes of conflicts are essential elements. (own emphasis)

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1995: White House: National Security Strategy109: ―Increasing competition for the dwindling reserves of uncontaminated air, arable land, fisheries and other food sources, and water, once considered 'free' goods, is already a very real risk to regional stability around the world. The range of risks serious enough to jeopardize international stability extends to massive population flight from man-made or natural catastrophes, such as Chernobyl or the East African drought, and to largescale ecosystem damage caused by industrial pollution, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, ozone depletion, desertification, oceanic pollution and ultimately climate change.110

[153] April 1996: MAJ William E David, USA Military Intelligence: Environmental Scarcity as a Cause of Violent Conflict111, School of Advanced Military Studies; United States Army Command and General Staff College This monograph argues that the Army is unprepared for the implications of environmental scarcity as a cause of violent conflict. The http://www.bits.de/NRANEU/others/amd-us-archive/fm100-23(94).pdf Humanitarian Actions in Times of War, by Larry Minear & Thomas Weiss 109 February 1995: A National Security Study of Engagement and Enlargement http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/nss/nss-95.pdf 110 National Security Strategy of the United States. February 1995, Washington, D. C: Government Printing Office, 1995, p. 18 111 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA314878 107 108

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proof follows in the next three chapters. Chapter Tow provides a conceptual model for examining the causal relationship between environmental scarcity and violent conflict. It shows causation by answering two questions. First, does scarcity cause specific social effects, such as population migration and poverty? Second, so the social effects that result from scarcity cause violent conflict? [..] [This chapter concludes that conflicts arising from environmental scarcity will occur more frequently in the future and threaten U.S. national security interests. Third, does doctrine address conflicts caused by environmental scarcities? The doctrinal review reveals that the Army does not recognize environmental scarcity as a cause of conflict. Chapter Four synthesizes the findings from the preceding chapters, showing that the Army is intellectually unprepared for conflicts caused by environmental scarcity. The monograph ends with two recommendations. First, the Army should recognize environmental causes of war in its doctrine.

Second, the Army should adopt the Modified Conflict Causality Model as a doctrinal tool for predicting and evaluating future conflicts. [..] Humans adversely affect the environment. Contaminated water, deforestation, soil erosion, and the depletion of fisheries are but some of the outcomes. Although few people would disagree with the causation between human activities and environmental degradation, their reactions place them in one of two categories: cornucopians or neoMalthusians. Cornucopians do not worry about protecting any single natural resource. They believe that human ingenuity will always allow the substitution of more abundant resources to produce the same products and services. Neo-Malthusians put less faith in ingenuity, arguing that "renewable resources' is a misleading term. [..] The divergence between cornucopians and neo-Malthusians enters into the debate corcerning the causes of conflict. Corncopians remain prisoners of the industrial revolution. They assume that there are only social cuases for social and political changes, neglecting the role of nature. However, Robert Kaplan noted: "nature is coming back with a vengeance, tied to population growth. It will have incredible security implications"[1] Neo-Malthusians realize that humans cannot seperate themselves from nature. The following causality analysis adheres to the neo-Malthusian perspective. therefore, it takes a holistic approahc toward causality, combining conflict studies and the study of the physical environment. After providing a conflict causality model, this chapter uses six case studies to prove that violent conflicts can arise from environmental scarcities.

[154] 13 Mar 1997: Col BX Bush: Promoting Environmental Security during Contingency Operations112; US Army War College â&#x20AC;&#x2022;The effect of environmental problems on national security, now commonly referred to as "environmental security," is important to the US military. The concept first appeared in the 1991 National Security Strategy (NSS), when President Bush recognized that the failure to 112

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competently manage natural resources could contribute to potential conflict.[1] The 1993 National Security Strategy echoed this concern and included the environment as an element of economic power.[2] When A National Security Strategy of Engagement and Enlargement was published in February 1996, it amplified the importance of the environment as a component of United States national security even further.[3] The 1996 NSS recognizes that competition for natural resources "is already a very real risk to regional stability around the world."[4] It also states that national and international environmental degradation poses a direct threat to economic growth and to global and national security.[5] Thus, as one of the institutions charged with protecting our national security, the US military also should be concerned with all aspects of environmental security.‖ ―Environmental issues can adversely influence our national security in two important ways. One of these is potential or actual conflict between nations or groups that can arise as a result of disputes over natural resources or transnational environmental problems. A second way that environmental issues can directly affect national security is by destabilizing governments or institutions in a country afflicted with environmental degradation. Haiti is a good example. As early as 1978, the President's Council on Environmental Quality noted that deforestation in Haiti was almost complete and then predicted that social disruption and instability would soon follow.[6] It took 16 more years and a military overthrow of duly elected President Aristide to spark renewed US military involvement in Haiti. However, it is clear that the environmental devastation of that country's forests, soil and water supplies created a cause and effect between environmental issues and Haiti's economic deprivation, massive migration and the basic instability of virtually every economic or governmental institution in the country.‖

[155] Spring 1997: Canadian Security Intelligence Service Archived: Commentary No. 71: Environmental Scarcity and Conflict113, by Peter Gizewski, Project on Environment Population and Security, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, University of Toronto The past decade has witnessed growing recognition of the importance of environmental factors for national and international security. In 1987, the UN World Commission on Environment and Development pointed to environmental stress as "a possible cause as well as a result of conflict". In 1992, the UN Security Council warned that sources of instability in the economic, social, humanitarian, and ecological fields included military and political "threats to peace and stability". Two years later, the Clinton Administration observed that "terrorism, narcotics trafficking, environmental degradation, rapid population growth and refugee flows ...have security implications for present and long-term American policy".

A wealth of popular commentary in the past few years has asserted the existence of general links between environmental stress and violence and security concerns. But proponents of such linkages tend to sensationalise the issue, ignoring empirical research and exaggerating the importance of 113

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environmental pressures as a conflict-generating force. In fact, until recently, scholars and policy makers functioned with relatively limited understanding of the causal mechanisms by which environmental scarcity can lead to conflict.

Recent work has yielded results which partially fill this gap. Employing a series of detailed examples in which environment exhibits a prima facie link to social instability, such case studies carefully trace a causal connection between scarcity and conflict, and advance a set of key propositions which describe these links and the conditions under which they apply.

General Insights: Current work on linkages between environment and conflict emphasizes the conflict-generating potential of renewable resource scarcities (i.e. cropland, fresh water, fuel wood and fish). While the strategic significance of non-renewable resources (e.g. petroleum, minerals) has long been recognized, market forces which reduce their demand and stimulate substitution and technical innovation have served increasingly to mitigate their scarcity and conflict-generating potential. Such forces have been less effective in preventing scarcities of renewables-scarcities which, growing evidence shows, threaten the internal stability of a number of developing countries.

According to the University of Toronto's Thomas Homer-Dixon, scarcities of agricultural land, forests, fresh water and fish are those which contribute the most to violence. These deficiencies can be demand-induced, a function of population growth within a region; supply-induced, resulting from the degradation of resources within the region; or structural, the result of an unequal distribution of resources throughout the society. The three processes are not mutually exclusive and may-and often do-occur simultaneously, acting in tandem.

The degradation and depletion of renewable resources can generate a range of social effects. It can work to encourage powerful groups within society to shift resource distribution in their favour. This process, known as "resource capture" generates profits for elites while intensifying the effects of scarcity among the poor or weak. A process of "ecological marginalization" often follows with poorer groups forced to seek the means of survival in more ecologically fragile regions such as steep upland slopes, areas at risk of desertification, tropical rain forests, and low quality public lands within urban areas. The high population densities in these regions, combined with a lack of capital to protect the local ecosystem, breeds severe environmental scarcity and chronic poverty.

Other social effects can include decreased agricultural potential, regional economic decline, population displacement and a disruption of legitimized institutions and social relations. Most significantly, these scarcities can, either individually or in combination, generate forces and processes which contribute to violent conflict among groups within society.

Such scarcities may act to strengthen group identities based on ethnic, class or religious differences, most notably by intensifying competition among groups for ever dwindling resources. At the same time, they can work to undermine the legitimacy of the state and its capacity to meet

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challenges. As the balance of power gradually shifts from the state to the challenging groups, the prospects for violence increase. Such violence tends to be subnational, diffuse and persistent.

States may prove capable of avoiding suffering and social stress by adapting to scarcities. They can pursue programs and policies which encourage more sustainable resource use. Alternatively, a state may disengage itself from reliance on scarce resources by producing goods and services less dependent on such resources. The resulting products could then be traded for items which local scarcities preclude the state from producing. More often, however, countries lack the social and technical ingenuity needed to adapt successfully to the shortages they face.

[156] 10 Apr 2000: LTC Kurt F. Ubbelohde: Freshwater Scarcity in the Nile River Basin114, US Army War College ―According to a growing body of literature, scarcity of freshwater to meet the many needs of Third World countries is rapidly escalating.

Furthermore, many of the remaining exploitable sources of freshwater are in river basins shared by two or more sovereign states. These facts present the potential for violent conflict over water unless affected states can develop and use their common water resources in a cooperative, sustainable, and equitable manner. The United States, in its National Security Strategy and Foreign Affairs Policy, has called attention to the problem of resource scarcity as having important implications for American security.‖

[157] Sep 2010: Bundeswehr: Peak Oil: Security Policy Implications of Scarce Resources115 Effects of Peak Oil on Armed Forces Severe impediments to mobility as a consequence of peak oil would have a considerable effect on all German security bodies, including the Bundeswehr.

In the long run, not only all societies and economies worldwide but armed forces as well will be faced with the various and difficult challenges of transformation towards a ―post-fossil‖ age. Implications for Germany: A markedly reduced mobility of the German Armed Forces would have various consequences – not only for the available equipment and training, but also for their (global) power projection and intervention capabilities.

Given the size and complexity of many transport and weapon systems as well as the high standards set for qualities like robustness in operation, alternative energy and drive propulsion systems would hardly be available to the necessary extent in the short term. One of the consequences to be initially expected would be further cutbacks in the use of large weapon systems for training purposes in all services, thus raising the need for more ―virtualised‖ training. However, effects on current and planned missions would most likely be even more severe. Deployment to 114 115

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the theatre of operations, the operation of bases and the mission itself are considerably more energy- and above all fuel-intensive than the mere upkeep of armed forces. [..] Peak oil, however, is unavoidable. This study shows the existence of a very serious risk that a global transformation of economic and social structures, triggered by a long-term shortage of important raw materials, will not take place without frictions regarding security policy. The disintegration of complex economic systems and their interdependent infrastructures has immediate and in some cases profound effects on many areas of life, particularly in industrialised countries.

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2010: White House: National Security Strategy116: Challenges like climate change, pandemic disease, and resource scarcity demand new innovation. Meanwhile, the nation that leads the world in building a clean energy economy will enjoy a substantial economic and security advantage. That is why the Administration is investing heavily in research, improving education in science and math, promoting developments in energy, and expanding international cooperation. Transform our Energy Economy: As long as we are dependent on fossil fuels, we need to ensure the security and free flow of global energy resources. But without significant and timely adjustments, our energy dependence will continue to undermine our security and prosperity. This will leave us vulnerable to energy supply disruptions and manipulation and to changes in the environment on an unprecedented scale.

[159] 2012: January: Department of Defense: Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for the 21st Century Defense117: In this resource-constrained era, we will also work with NATO allies to develop a â&#x20AC;&#x2022;Smart Defenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2013; approach to pool, share, and specialize capabilities as needed to meet 21st century challenges. [..] Whenever possible, we will develop innovative, low-cost, and small-footprint approaches to achieve our security objectives, relying on exercises, rotational presence, and advisory capabilities. [..] A reduction in resources will require innovative and creative solutions to maintain our support for allied and partner interoperability and building partner capacity. However, with reduced resources, thoughtful choices will need to be made regarding the location and frequency of these operations. [..]

The balance between available resources and our security needs has never been more delicate.

[160] Dec 2012: U.S. Forest Service: Report Predicts a Strain on Natural Resources Due to Rapid Population Growth118.

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U.S. Forest Service report outlines how a growing population and increased urbanization in the next 50 years will drain the nation's natural resources including water supplies, open space, and forests.

Agriculture Under Secretary Harris Sherman had this to say about the report: "We should all be concerned by the projected decline in our nation‘s forests and the corresponding loss of the many critical services they provide such as clean drinking water, wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, wood products and outdoor recreation."

Credible Peace Treaty must include National Environmental Security and Peace Strategy, confronting Overpopulation and Overconsumption’s Role in Scarcity as underlying Cause of Conflict: Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Scarcity: 0 Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Overpopulation: 0 Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded for Reducing Overconsumption: 0 900 Vietnam119, 40 Iraq and Afghanistan120 Veterans returned their ‗bullshit‘ medals to U.S. Congress and NATO. Nobel Peace Laureates returned their War is Peace Whore Medals: 0 [161] The Norwegian Nobel Committee‘s Nobel Peace Prize is effectively a ‗War is Peace Whore‘ Prize. Its mandate is to award ‗Peace Prizes‘ to individuals who "work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

[162] Not one of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prizes has ever been awarded to any individual who addresses the root causes of war, by educating and advocating on behalf of Sustainable Security: living in harmony with nature‘s carrying capacity, by reducing overpopulation and overconsumption, which are the primary causes of resource scarcity.

[163] The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee has refused to consider the role of overpopulation and overconsumption as root cause factors of resource scarcity pushing society to conflict and war, where surplus populations are used as standing armies, and how those profiteering from overconsumption use their profits to promote pretend peace congresses and pretend Nobel Peace Prizes, awarding War is Peace Whore Prizes to

http://www.fs.fed.us/news/2012/releases/12/report.shtml Vietnam Veterans Throw their Medals at Washington www.youtu.be/j7jhs-bGyFQ 120 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return medals at NATO Summit www.youtu.be/YX9PVC0phhI 118 119

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perpetuate the ‗Control of Reproduction‘ Human Farming War Economy Racket paradigm.

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