The Lima Declaration, Destroying Australian Sovereignty and People’s Livelihoods. Supported by your Politicians

We hear it all the time. Manufacturing against the wall, the car industry surviving on government handouts, retail and other industries surviving on cheap imports, and businesses, industries and livelihoods are being reduced to nothing. And that’s just a footnote from a growing narrative of Australians doing it tough due to internal and international trade regulation. The Lima Declaration is one of many agreements which reduces Australian sovereignty and devastates Australian industries, businesses and families, endorsed and enforced by both major parties.

In 1975, the second general conference of the United Nations industrial development organization (UNIDO) was held and signed by the Developed nations. Almost every developed country, including Australia, signed the Lima Declaration. This sowed the seeds of the Globalization process, and only in the last decade are we beginning to realize the magnitude of what this means for us. Labor, Liberals, the Nationals and Greens all have subscribed and endorsed this economic genocide; few have taken a hard line against it.

Globalization is the belief that wealth and resources should be distributed evenly across the world between countries. The Declarations signed are aimed at doing exactly that. Approximately 99% of Australians do not know what these under-the-table treaties are about and their full implications on their livelihoods, and they are not told, deliberately. There are currently hundreds of such agreements between Australia and the UN, which is turning Australia into a dependant nation, reliant on cheap imports and heavily pesticided food products.

Some of the declarations include;

-Section 28, reducing exports from developed nations by 25-30%, Increase exports in developing countries by 350%, so that by the year 2000, at least 25% of global trade will come from third world countries.

-Section 35-36; ‘Advocating the net transfer of resources in the form of technical and financial resources, as well as capital goods.’

-Section 59: ‘A Progressive elimination or reduction of tariff and non-tariff barriers and other obstacles to trade.’

-Section 60l. ‘Preference should be given by the more industrialized developing countries, as far as possible, to imports of goods produced by the less industrialized countries.’

There has been no consideration what would happen to these industries, and people’s livelihoods, that have been deliberately and methodically destroyed by these globalization policies supported by BOTH major parties.

Free trade agreements and tariff protection removals can only work when both countries have a near-equal currency and cost of labour is the same. This framework which Australia now operates under does not take into account differences in currencies and costs of workforce, where some countries their people get paid the equivalent of a few dollars a day.

There is even one section which became a precursor to the global warming fraud by government, Section 39. ‘That the international community, and especially the developed countries, must mobilize human and material resources in order to cope with problems which threaten the environment. In this connection, the developed countries should intensify their efforts to prevent environmental pollution and should refrain from actions which according to scientific knowledge would create pollution problems or cause upheavals in developing countries’. How would they know, in 1975, based upon no evidence, that there would be a man-made climate change catastrophe drama in the near future? It again calls into question the validity of their scare-mongering campaign that so far the only people benefiting are bankers, governments and the scientists they employ (No conflict of interest, right?) The losers have, predictably, been the producers and exporters in the developed nations. Developing nations, for the most part, have been exempt from these obligations, making an already-unlevelled playing field even worse. This is despite these nations still having industries in place which contribute to so called global warming, but for them they don’t pay for environmental damages because they are poor. What? Isn’t this supposed to be about the environment? Or something much more sinister.

A recent interview in November of Bob Katter, the Federal member of Kennedy who formed his own political party to fight for manufacturing and production industries details what has been happening in Australia’s dairy industry, yet another example showcasing the effects of the Lima Declaration enforced by both major parties.

‘THE Federal and WA Governments have betrayed their own people by subsidising an overseas sell-off of untapped valuable northern agriculture’ said KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter today.

“Wake up Australia, they’re selling your country out from under you,” said Mr Katter, regarding the overseas deal for a sugar mill producing ethanol biofuel in the Ord irrigation area.

“And this time they’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a golden handshake for foreigners.”

Mr Katter blamed major party government policies that had made farming unprofitable for Australians for leaving the entire nation up for sale to overseas bidders.

“In every agricultural area in Australia, they’re rolling up their swags and getting out because they can’t make money. The dollar has doubled in value, which has halved the income of every Australian farmer, and if they’re selling on the home market it’s a joke because Woolworths and Coles will pay them what they feel like paying. And of course our farmers are also up against an average global subsidy of 41 per cent when Australia’s average is 4 per cent.

“These are all factors which overseas companies pay little, if any, regard to. Their market is secured and protected, and Australian fools are willing to subsidise their Australian activities.

“Ask any Australian if it’s good idea to spend $500m of taxpayers’ money to subsidise a foreign company to come in so the profits can go overseas, most of the wages I’ll bet will go overseas. And what do we get out of it? We get nothing.’

Currently, only 13,000 people are now employed in the live-export industry, according to the ABC. This is out of a population of over 22 million people. Our Car industry survives on government handout program, smelting is no longer done within Australia, our largest cotton farm was sold to the Chinese government, our minerals are quarried and exported to be processed overseas, with agriculture left completely unprotected and ignored. Yet still, this is only scratching the surface. 90% of agriculture and manufacturing jobs are gone in Australia.

A combination of a skyrocketing Australian dollar and a removal of protection tariffs have greatly diminished many Australian industries. These include mining, manufacturing (particularly cars), agriculture, dairy, tourism, and many other forms of production and processing industries, with the goal of turning our nation into a service industry which imports everything. Everything is being affected. This has not occurred by accident. Both parties supported the Lima Declaration, both are very supportive of pro free-trade spread-the-wealth-internationally policies. Both have enacted legislation that are slowly and meticulously strangling our industries to death, and closing down people’s livelihoods.

Remember, this did not happen by accident! Politicians aren’t stupid. Both major parties know exactly what they are doing, with only the extreme-left environmental Communists, the Greens, as previously the only alternative. But many minor parties are rising quickly, created to stop globalization and corruption and attempting to breathe life into our industries again. Parties like Katter’s Australian Party, One Nation, etc, are taking a stand. It is truly a David vs. Goliath battle. It’s up to our citizens to educate themselves, educate others, mobilize, and take a stand. If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. It’s your country’s sovereignty and peoples livelihoods at stake.