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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">To Defend Humanity</h1>By Luis Britto García on January 8, 2022</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
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<p>Self-defense is the most undeniable right, that of our fellow man,
the noblest. The paradox of humanity is to find its most dangerous enemy
in the human race; it is indispensable to avoid annihilating ourselves.<span id="gmail-more-19396"></span></p>
<p>Resources</p>
<p>Humanity’s defense is that of the resources necessary for
subsistence. We are a single species on a single planet with limited and
largely non-renewable resources.</p>
<p>These have been voraciously appropriated by the elites of a small
group of developed countries that barely represent 12% of the world’s
population, for an orgy of waste, conspicuous consumption and pollution
that threatens even the survival of life.</p>
<p>To safeguard Humanity is to oppose the monopolization by
multinationals of land, subsoil, water, energy, food, genetic codes, for
the sole purpose of denying them to humans and accumulating dividends.</p>
<p>Demography and Society</p>
<p>Humanity is a single species; to harm one of its parts is to harm
all. To preserve humans is to prevent them from being discriminated
against on the basis of supposed differences of race, ethnicity, gender,
religious belief or class.</p>
<p>To defend Humanity is to oppose the collective genocides of forced
sterilization, wars of extermination, suffocating blockades, massive
deprivation of means of subsistence, acculturation, expulsion and
destruction of their habitats.</p>
<p>To defend Humanity is to achieve the recovery of the rights of the 80
million people who work in Special Zones for less than subsistence,
stripped of their entire social, trade union and labor rights.</p>
<p>Economy</p>
<p>Most of the economic production comes from social work: the fruit of
labor has to be socially distributed in proportion to the contribution
to create it.</p>
<p>According to the World Bank, by 2017 on the planet 689 million people
suffered from poverty; that institution calculates that the Global GDP
for the year 2020 was 84.680 trillion dollars (for the Anglo-Saxons one
trillion is one billion). That magnitude was more than enough to
eliminate hunger and misery, cover the fundamental needs of the human
race and make decisive advances in research and cures for the most
widespread diseases. On the contrary, the Bank estimates that in the
coming years another one hundred million people could fall below the
poverty line.</p>
<p>In the midst of this expansion of misery, in 2021 the 20 richest
people in the world almost tripled their fortunes by increasing them by
500 billion dollars. To protect Humanity is to correct an unviable
economic system that increases poverty for workers at the cost of
multiplying dividends for parasitic minorities.</p>
<p>Just as human beings cannot be slaves, Humanity cannot be enslaved by
an unpayable Public Debt that represents 256% of the Global GDP: more
than two and a half times what the entire planet produces in a year.</p>
<p>There will only be Democracy when the vote elects, not only those who
govern politics, but also those who manage the economy, the way they do
it and the way they distribute the wealth we all produce.</p>
<p>Policy</p>
<p>To safeguard Humanity is to make it possible for all of us to govern
the institutions that govern us. Political power cannot be inherited as
private property or assigned by invisible entities; every human being
has the right to elect, be elected and governed by elected human beings;
to choose the policies to which he or she will be subjected in the
social, economic and cultural spheres, and to control their execution in
real time. To prevent a country from ceding to foreign powers the
sovereign power to dictate its laws, to apply them or to judicially
interpret their application is to prevent it from becoming a colony, and
its citizens slaves.</p>
<p>Strategy</p>
<p>The excessive production of armaments is the most lethal way of
activating the economy, because it does not translate into consumer
goods, and in order to maintain itself it pretexts unjustified conflicts
that in turn destroy lives and goods.</p>
<p>According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in
2020 military spending rose by 2.6%, to 1981 trillion dollars, while
global GDP fell by 4.4%. Nearly half of this military spending
corresponds to the U.S. What would have happened if, instead of applying
such colossal figures to death, the U.S. had devoted them to its
growing problems of unemployment, poverty, health, to defend itself from
a pandemic that has cost over a million lives to its population?</p>
<p>To safeguard Humanity is to prevent it from using the splendid gifts
of intelligence and progress in mutual extermination or in the atomic
Holocaust.</p>
<p>Culture</p>
<p>The Stoics maintained that all humans are equal in that they are
endowed with the capacity to reason. To be on the side of Humanity is to
ensure that this capacity is developed and that it has the instruments
to become increasingly universal and fruitful.</p>
<p>Knowledge is the highest creation of the human race. To protect
Humanity is to make it accessible, to disseminate it through free
education at all levels, to prevent industrial, intellectual property
and patent regulations from monopolizing for a few what is indispensable
for all.</p>
<p>To protect Humanity is to defend the Truth. Just as there is
dictatorship when an unelected power applies discretionally and by force
the policies that suit it, there is despotism when the media power
monopolized by five consortiums determines at its discretion what is
communicated and what is kept secret from the vast majority of mankind.</p>
<p>To defend Humanity is to support those who defend the Truth. Those
who denounce the conversion of the media into vast networks of banality,
disinformation and espionage. Reporting crimes is not a crime. To
punish those who reveal the facts is a crime.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/opinion/defensa-de-la-humanidad-luis-britto-garcia/">Ultimas Noticias</a>, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English</p>
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