A Dismal Scientist’s India

Indian Ocean – the third biggest on the planet (picture: CIA)

India is the middle kingdom in this new theatre for military investment. 

India signed a co-operation treaty with Russia in 1971, the same year Nixon abolished the USD-gold standard.

J.G. Olsen / Financial Expositor

“A powerful declaration for the shared future between India and Australia” proclaims Andrew Charlton’s team captain, Penny Wong, on the cover of his book, “Australia’s Pivot to India” released in 2023, by coincidence the same year ChatGPT became available to the public. Notice there is no claim by Wong to have read the book. Apologies to anyone who paid for the book that this review is so tardy, reading the book was not a pleasant assignment.

One might assume that as a PhD economist, Charlton would have predicted the recession Australia is currently sliding into and would have come up with a way to get out of it but instead he has written a book about India. His electorate is filling up with Indians so whether he likes it or not he has to love it. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers is another fish out of water, having no economics background, he is a political scientist. It doesn’t matter, the party is run from “the top”.

Charlton’s disjointed intro-preface pages (apart from a few flattering words about India and his electorate) don’t say much before descending into an extensive acknowledgements’ rave, which oddly doesn’t feature one of his foremost mentors, the celebrated Dr. Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. Ten years ago Charlton was on the China bandwagon but his enthusiasm for this seems to have fizzled out somewhat along with the China resources boom (starting around 2010) and nowadays all we hear about from China is communist repression, military expansionism and very high levels of unemployed university graduates.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/andrew-charlton

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/07/chinas-impact-on-australias-economy

The value of the Chinese domestic building boom to the citizens is questionable especially in light of the prison-style lockdowns policies. What is the use of an apartment if you aren’t allowed out? Old courtyard style houses in Beijing were famously and tragically demolished for the new hi-rise era. The principle of hi-rise living is that every time you step outdoors your activities potentially become taxable. In an older style housing arrangement people are more self-reliant with kitchen, pantry and garden. The principle extends globally, which must be why Charlton repeatedly celebrates the invasion of Coca-Cola into India.

Young Global Leader

Why is is that graduates of the WEF do not wish to celebrate and boast of their success; others in the Australian Parliament are Sarah Hanson-Young, Clare O’Neil and Andrew Bragg, none of whom seem to wish that we learn of their eminence, let alone discuss the achievement of their basic Globalist qualification. Surely this is integral to who they are and what they expect to achieve, for the WEF. Nor do we ever hear of them possibly having formed a cross-party clique, a conduit for strategies to coordinate the three major parties. These minions, which Klaus Schwab describes as having “infiltrated the cabinets” must form a significant link in the command chain. A nation’s wealth is syphoned off, effectively to the BIS in Basel (north west Switzerland), then the directives and funding come back through the UN in Geneva (west Switzerland) and Davos (east Switzerland) with the private banking done in Zurich (central north Switzerland), all in an arc shape roughly 200 km from Milan in central north Italy, around where, going back to antiquity, many of these forces rose and eventually congealed.

1000 year old map of Swabia with Basel in the middle, lake Geneva toward south-west, photo Marco Zanoli, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=440990

The Young Global Leaders’ mission is therefore to elevate themselves politically as far as possible before qualifying for the big payoff, working directly under Klaus Schwab or his successors, and guaranteeing themselves a place at the injections-exempt feasting table of the depopulation survivors.

While YGL’s SH-Y and C’ON have both blown their cover and are more unappealing with every TV appearance, Bragg plays the game very cautiously, always precisely crafting the most reasonable position, this at least until his status has risen or he is required to act for his masters. At present he is clamouring for an unwinding of superannuation, saying the super funds now own 38% of the sharemarket, at least since “Australian Super” (BlackRock) entered the arena, and now ordinary shareholders are being squashed “like bugs” (Bragg). BlackRock has already been using its blunt force to control boards in various ways. Who controls BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink? Globalists of course, who put him there, just as they put Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates. Branson et al. Andrew Bragg wants to trim super investments in Australian companies to 10%. So, who will take up the slack? Other Globalists we presume, or else the Australian companies will have to seek alternative funding, presumably more expensive. Is he just doing groundwork, providing an excuse for a future Australian sharemarket rout?

The usual clamour for superannuation to be released to first home buyers springs up from time to time, most first home buyers won’t have much super but now with Bragg’s angle it’s a two-pronged attack. Superannuation may be the best way to save up a deposit. The quickest first home buyers, typically aged over 30, will be able to seize a house before the price goes up again and the whole industry problem is kicked down the road again. Ultimately the aim is to get people into hi-rise apartments, which in Melbourne at least, used to be funded by government, stabilising the housing market, and getting the lowest class of service personnel closer to their menial jobs. That was before the decades of privatisations and the throttling of government revenues.

“Failure to launch” syndrome

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/andrew-charlton-accuses-coalition-of-focusing-on-treaty-because-the-partys-voice-scare-campaign-has-run-out-of-steam/news-story/d3da95bdfa28367ee49953bd8fbf9d36 (from 2023)

Joint Standing Committee on Treaties

Like Bragg, Andrew Charlton is working to try to appear to be on the right side of history. Taking a break from desperately ingratiating himself with the local Indian communities, economics doctor Charlton seems to have developed another Globalist focus, this time on treaties policy. These treaties as they have been called may be simply contracts with the United Nations to surrender sovereignty in return for nothing. In fact we pay for the privilege, with the Australian Government donating huge sums to very dubious UN agencies, who repay us with obfuscation, ineptitude, delays and failures of every type. One of these objectives is to tie “Carbon Credits” to the Globalist CBDC’s.

Joint Standing Committee Members:

Josh Wilson, Fremantle WA ALP

Philip Thompson, QLD LNP

Sam Birrell, VIC NAT

Matt Burnell, Gawler SA ALP

Matt Canavan, QLD NAT

Claire Chandler, TAS LIB https://www.senatorchandler.com.au/op-ed_labor_s_censorship_bill_must_be_canned ( Blocked by Google )

Dr. Andrew Charlton, ALP (WEF)

Lisa Chesters, ALP VIC

Dorinda Cox, GREENS WA

David Fawcett, SA LIB

Nita Green, Cairns ALP QLD

Dr Daniel Mulino, ALP VIC (another economist)

For the time being we will put aside these mysteries so as to try to focus on the latest wave of all-conquering migrants to reach Australian shores, as Charlton indicates, the Indians seem to be outnumbering all other groups.

We will also for now pass over the interesting announcements by CCP Chairman Xi that following 100 years after Japan, the Chinese financial empire is being birthed.

Tedium

Charlton’s book eventually picks up slightly after nearly 60 very dull pages, with the accepted Indian-victim historical view of the British colonisation. He showcases that India historically, like Australia more recently, was dismembered by the Empire into a simple resources and commodities producer while manufactured goods poured in from England. Essentially this means England had the tech and human resources, the wealth was thus concentrated, and England sold back the processed primary resources to the colonies at a profit. He is suggesting England strangled India’s natural growth in the same way as Australia’s advancement has been sabotaged by a succession of federal governments going back at least to the Whitlam government’s Lima Declaration, leading to the current mining and espresso machine based economy, with huge “health” and “administrations” liabilities bolted on.

All along Charlton plays to the India Victim narrative, popular amongst some, while showing that under their longest enduring leader Nehru (16 years) India turned inwards with import replacement policies, symbolised by the traditional spinning wheel on the flag. Not really a victim at all, just a self-reliant rejection of outsiders, something previously tried more energetically in China and Japan, and more successfully in Thailand. All however were eventually invaded or infiltrated and India is currently being infiltrated, not least by Coca Cola. 

Strategically, going second or later in the rat-race, as China did, can lead to spectacular growth. India may be called a straggler but is in a position where it can learn from everyone else’s wasted efforts. India is shamed by Charlton, not for quality of life but for export statistics, and maintaining import tariffs. The reason for this may be that Globalists profit from international trade, they have monopolies on it, and the next step following is Global hegemony, the dream of every empire, the ability to print money for the world, currently being implemented by Switzerland, and already in use as CBDCs in the Bahamas, Jamaica and Nigeria, with many others scheduled to follow including for example, e-money converted Sweden; the US, where Trump mysteriously put the (private) Federal Reserve under control of the US Treasury, cancelling its supposed independence; UK, Ukraine, China and Russia:

“Initial testing began in 2022, and in early 2023, the Bank of Russia announced the April launch of a retail CBDC pilot, to trial peer-to-peer transfers and the purchase of consumer goods” (Google).

And:

“India is set to launch a state-backed digital currency by next year, the government announced last week. The “digital rupee” will be … [token or account based]” (Euronews).

Vitality and focus produce dynamism

Disappointment

England, the primary villain in the Andrew Charlton India story, demonstrates the pre-Globalist principle well, with a corporate hegemony via private banks, backed by a significant national military and gaining de-facto control over parts of the US military, while the now redundant underclass population of the UK slowly backslides into ignorance, ill-health and poverty. At its most basic, an empire requires only banks and enforcement.

Halfway through this dismal treatise the reader could be forgiven for wondering if we will ever get to “Australia’s Pivot to India”. Unsurprisingly, as a PhD economist, Charlton champions simple “growth”, expressed by a history of exports in Japan and Korea, Chinese expansionism (obviously militarily as well as by vertical extrusion into hi-rise towers), while downgrading Indian traditions including good natural health to a close to zero-value proposition. He celebrates the successful invasion and domination by Coca-Cola, on the basis that the local substitute “tasted bad”. Unsurprisingly, as an emissary from the World Economic Forum, Charlton would be expected to hold or parrot these views.

While pushing international trade and economic growth (ironically in a depopulation era) Charlton fails to inform us of even simple things, such as, for a random example, why bottled drinking water has to be imported and exported senselessly all around the world.

Finishing Part 1 was a relief but poring over the rest of the book turns out to be an impossibility. After procrastination, a half hour of focussed speed-reading gets the  reader through all the categorised statistics and random anecdotes, which had most likely been saved up in some file over a few years, such is their irrelevance to any real synthesis, in fact there is little or no synthesis anywhere in the book and the actual “Pivot to India” seems almost entirely in the author’s mind, as he enthuses about potential trade and investment, just as he did about China some years ago, belatedly, as the China boom was already ageing and levelling out. 

India was mooted as the next big thing 25 years ago but those futurologists had backed the wrong horse. India of course enjoys a great rapport with Russia (refer previous essay, search Gumshoe News site for j.g.) but obviously this continuously blossoming relationship is outside the scope of the Charlton book, as our government officials dedicate themselves to lambasting Russia on behalf of the Obama-Clinton-Biden administrations.

Failure

A fairly lacklustre effort and most likely effort is the wrong word as only something like ChatGPT could produce some of these tedious and insipid pages, however ChatGPT alone would obviously avoid much of the repetiton. Anyone would be better served by looking up subjects of interest in wikipedia or the broader internet. 

A filing cabinet full of scraps does not qualify as a good book, let alone “a powerful declaration” (Wong). Charlton should give up writing and focus on his next career move, as it seems like it might not be long before he is replaced in the senate by an Indian.

All this doesn’t mean the subject itself is not interesting, with the competition over the control of the Western Indian Ocean heating up, India’s bipartisan position means it could to some, potentially large degree, become the power broker between Russian and NATO blocs. This suggests, in terms of geo-politics, we could see a lot more Indians coming to Australia, a soft invasion is of course preferable to anything else.

Map of Iran showing Caspian Sea to Persian Gulf Canal, promoted by Iran (about 700km). This would confirm the biggest oil export route in the world, with Russia adding to the traffic.

According to Charlton, Rajiv Gandhi (PM 1984-9) said India must control the sea lanes to the Indian Ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru%E2%80%93Gandhi_family

Proposed alternative to Suez canal (about 300km). Ben Gurion was a Polish immigrant who became a leader of the Jewish community in British Palestine and President (1946-1956) of the World Zionist Organisation (Basel, Switzerland).