A Foggy Chameleon Worse than Terrorism

FOGH THE CHAMELEON

Translated by Bent Lorentzen from the respected Copenhagen daily, BT, of Berlingske Media

Bracket notations mine, as is the commentary below.

Please note: this article is a preface to a nearly completed 17-minute documentary, coming here at Gather and elsewhere. It will include a live interview with Mogens Lykketoft, once the Danish equivalent of a US Vice President. It will clarify the very unique partnership between Fogh and Bush, which has led to great suffering in the world, and will focus on real solutions already in the pipeline.  The documentary actually is highly inspirational and optimistic even though it begins with the Mumbai Massacre in India.

Left Party Chairman [currently Prime Minister] Flip-flopping on Climate Change Politics is just the Latest in a Series

[Left in Denmark = Right in America; Liberal in Denmark = Conservative in America]

Once upon a time, we knew what the Left and the Left Party's chairman stood for. [in Denmark, the organized Left Party is actually what Americans would consider Right-wing]

The human evolution of going from caveman to Santa Claus took long enough historically, for most humans to follow along without confusion.

But prior to Prime Minister Fogh Rasmussen's latest [the day after Obama's election] befuddling act of going from a skeptic of Global Warming to a virtual green environmental freak, he has changed his stated policies on so many core values, that it gets impossible to understand what is going on.

Tomorrow [Nov. 20^th] marks the 7^th anniversary of the Fogh government election in Denmark, and the consequential implementation of the most monumental shift in Danish government policy in many years. These seven years of his power have also frayed the government's ideological profile.

This is expressed through the many examples of significant about-faces, which BT is now presenting.

Two of the [Danish] government's most renowned critics, the liberal [conservative] debater, Martin Ågerup, and the Social-democratic Party spokesperson, Henrik Sass Larsen, generally never see eye-to-eye on any subject..

But from each of their diametrically opposing viewpoints, the two share an opinion that Fogh has betrayed his liberal roots on critical regions of policy. [Again, in this context, liberal in Denmark politically equates to conservative in America.  But that generally is not the case.  It can be confusing for American journalists, since liberal and conservative values would often translate correspondingly to the US values.]

Martin Ågerup, director of the liberal [conservative] think-tank, elucidates Fogh's tax and Climate Change policies.

Ågerup states: “Fogh has moved away from his Borgelige [conservative] benchmark on key issues. For example, he has brought attention to social inequalities, despite Denmark being the most socially equal nation on Earth.”

[wait... I still haven't explained what's going on beneath the surface in this paradoxically most intelligent play about Denmark since Shakespeare's time... on this Chameleon Matrix Act – this is one reason for why this article is so challenging to convey to a mostly American readership].

Continuing with Ågerup: “The government wants to transform our tax structure so that it is more fair in its distribution. Fogh ought to plan lowering the highest tax bracket of 63% to ensure economic growth and wealth for the future [trickle down.]. Even if we eliminated this top tax bracket, Denmark would continue to be the world's most socially equal land.”

Martin Ågerup also goes on to suggest how the conservatives ought to tackle the issue of Climate Change.

Henrik Sass Larsen [center left in the USA fashion] suggests that - in perspective - it has became confusingly impossible to find any issue at all, where Fogh HAS NOT [emphasis is Larsen's own] changed his expressed opinion.

Larsen stated, “Fogh is totally and absolutely lacking any principle. He adapts the facade of government such that they appease whatever is publicly fashionable in the moment. Only on one issue has he not stated that he regrets an earlier stance, and that is his continuing engagement of war in Iraq. But he will likely also shift his expressed opinion on that.”

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Commentary by Bent Lorentzen

This article is a preface to a coming documentary I am working on – coming here to Gather and elsewhere in the world - which scientifically and philosophically engages current socioeconomic issues with its historical backdrop. In an interview within this documentary, the former Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and once the Danish equivalently of a US Vice President will personally explain why Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen presents a clear and present danger to Denmark and the world.

There may come an election in the coming year, due to a growing dissent within our parliament about our government's treatment of refugees in concentration camps and a recent cascade of economic and social issues, but it is not mandated for at least another two years. As we can remember in America in the 2004 election, the electorate tends to be easily manipulated into forgetfulness. Fogh's Denmark, even more so than Great Britain, has grown temporarily wealthy for a very select few through its reciprocal absorption of Bush's multilateral policies, both economic and militarily, via, among other enterprises, the AP Møller Mærsk multinational monopoly on food and even energy, and its container shipping line which is contracted by the US DoD to supply the Iraq war machine. Please see this recent article at Gather, where I provide the links.

Many of the social services and other public interests in Denmark, which once was our internationally recognized hallmark, have become partially or fully privatized, often via US multinationals, including corporate hospitals.  It has wrought chaos on Denmark and the world community.

Much of the even conservative criticism of the Fogh government is actually nothing but a feature of this very intelligent manipulation machinery against the electorate in our democracy.. spil for galleriet, we call it in Danish .. illusions and shadow play to make the electorate in Denmark feel like Fogh (and his Borgerlig government) is a man for all seasons, and also to push forward his private ambitions at the European Union level of multinational influence and politics. It is the ultimate ´The Emperor has no Clothes” game I have ever analyzed in my entire life of professionally (both as a Washington DC region journalist/newspaper associate editor and anthropologist) observing politics on this planet.

And it has generated incredible suffering for this world. For every dollar that Denmark supposedly gives to poor nations, ten dollars is ripped away from the local economies. These economies already are strained by the Reagan--->Bush policy of forcing stressed local resources onto the world market, but on the capitalistic terms of Western G-8 stratified agendas. This often makes the limited local resources out of reach for local populations. The United Nations stated last year, that the death of a human being each and every 3 seconds (85% of them children under 5) due to starvation is tantamount to murder, since our world of 6.7 billion people produced enough food to feed 12 billion. These moneys often go directly into the pockets of local dictators who thrive on this sort of human suffering, since it gives them great power and brief wealth, and this relationship reciprocally brings wealth back to a wealthy few within the G-8 structure.

Starvation Vs Terrorism

Imagine a world where we utilized the capital resources going into the battle against terrorism to fight starvation.  We'd literally kill two birds with one stone.  Please don't go killing any birds to prove or disprove this theory.