Neoliberalism: a source of lies, corruption, and civilizational collapse.

When one hears high-ranking military officers, fully enjoying their rights as citizens, claim that communism is the great enemy, the biggest problem in Brazil, one can only conclude that they are either charlatans or imbeciles. This is not a defense of Marxist socialism, but rather an observation of the harm that neoliberal ideology has been causing not only in our country, but throughout the world. 

Take, for example, the annual circus held in the commune of Davos, in the German-speaking canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, with fewer than 15 inhabitants, called the World Economic Forum (WEF). What is it about? Promoting neoliberalism, influencing and/or corrupting people with some kind of power to adopt it in their country or area of ​​influence. Nothing more than that. 

Usury, typical of neoliberalism, and the selfishness that drives its agents, have led much of the world, especially those dominated by the North Atlantic context, in these decades of the 21st century, to a situation of penury, losses, wars, and misery that technological development seemed to have banished from human civilization. 

However, neoliberalism is in crisis, and the farce of this 2023 meeting is titled: "Cooperation in a Fragmented World." Ironically, 30 years ago, the World Economic Forum brought together Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in Davos, leading people to believe it was the place for resolving differences. And globalization, its discourse and goal, inaugurated a new world of peace. What charlatans! 

How many crises, how many wars has the world suffered in these 30 years?! 

Consider Libya, the African country with the highest Human Development Index (HDI), according to the United Nations (UN), now regressing centuries into a state of conflict between tribes and religions of Islamic origin, long before King Idris declared the country's independence on December 24, 1951, under the name United Kingdom of Libya. And Muammar Gaddafi, son of nomadic Bedouins, founded the Union of Free Officers in 1966, seized power, and at the age of 27 created a government run by the Islamic, Nasserist, and socialist Revolutionary Command Council, closing US and British military bases and imposing severe controls on transnational oil companies established in the 1960s. This was the new nationalist and developmentalist period, which ended in 2011 with the neoliberal invasion coordinated by the United States of America (USA) and its mentor, the United Kingdom (UK), under the auspices of the UN. 

A veritable mental breakdown is taking hold of people, imposing ignorance, fraud, hypocrisy, and fallacies through education systems, mass communications, and especially virtual networks controlled by neoliberals and stateless finance, who, since 1920, have witnessed the power of information through the technology that emerged with data processing machines. 

Today, the entire complex of communication equipment, software, and hardware is in the hands of BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Allianz, BNY Mellon, Amundi, and the Swiss firm UBS, among other smaller asset managers. 

And it is they who use the WEF to dictate what they want from governments and companies that submit, like trained pets, to the annual meetings. 

So, what kind of cooperation do they expect from a world they intended to be globalized but instead created a fragmented one? 

Initially, it is important to verify the state of health of these asset managers, previously mentioned as examples of holders of the digital communication system, and the resources of national treasuries and the international financial system itself. 

The resources gained from privatizations, which took place worldwide under neoliberal ideology, quickly evaporated due to errors and speculations that only accelerated the concentration of wealth and income. To such an extent that European countries are re-nationalizing services essential for the preservation of their national societies, such as transportation, urban sanitation, and energy supply. 

Even using "crises" to receive money from national treasuries, public companies, and even private national companies, especially from less developed nations, neoliberals continued accumulating unbacked securities in their speculations, reaching today, in this decade of the 2020s, the amount of hundreds of trillions of US dollars (USD), close to, if not already reached, a quadrillion USD. 

Hence the "cooperation" required, that is, "fiscal responsibility" and "clean energy," across the planet, in every country. 

What does "climate protection through energy use" mean, something similar to "human weight loss through exposure to moonlight"? 

Primary energy sources were not chosen by chance, nor by divine inspiration. They represent those with the greatest amount of energy and industrial applicability per unit of investment, that is, those that provide the highest return on investment. And these are those of fossil origin, especially petroleum, in liquid or gaseous forms (oil and gas). 

At USD 200 a barrel, oil is still economical compared to other primary energy sources. But, and here's the key point, where is oil found? Fundamentally in three regions: in Russia, including some countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), now called the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); in the Middle East, extending across North Africa; and in Latin America, especially in Venezuela (the world's largest oil reserves) and in Brazil, with the pre-salt layer. 

So, this fallacy of oil, and not of the Earth's geological changes, is invented to explain climate change. Remember that the Sahara Desert was once a forest, that the Amazon is partly oceanic, and even Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is held, was once a sea. And without any pollution from oil use, they underwent these radical changes. But anyone who dares to expose these realities will be considered crazy or an imbecile. Meanwhile, Ms. Marina Silva can impede Brazilian development by reproducing partial information and obstructing the construction of hydroelectric power plants because of a stage of evolution of a certain type of fish, which she is incapable of determining, but she has, behind her speeches, bankers who honor and sponsor her. 

What is the reality of energy? According to a company belonging to asset managers, which has been publishing energy statistics for over 70 years, we have (2021 data) that oil is used by 55,37% of the world's population, the sum of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) by 82,25%, nuclear 4,25%, hydroelectric sources requiring rivers with adequate water volume 6,80%, and those classified as renewable (wind, solar, tidal, agricultural production sources) 6,70%. Would renewables be so little used if they guaranteed the same amount of energy and applications as fossil fuels, producing fertilizers and petrochemicals? 

The climate issue is a way of keeping these oil-producing regions under some form of control and subordination. The war that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a belligerent organization, is waging against the Russian Federation in the Slavic territory of Ukraine, and with sanctions of various kinds from countries in its coalition, after the change of the Ukrainian leader through a coup d'état, is a clear demonstration of what oil, from an important supplier to European countries, means for stateless finances. 

 The 2016 coup in Brazil was primarily aimed at controlling Petrobras, at a time when the reality of the pre-salt reserves, with over a hundred billion barrels of oil, became undeniable. The sanctions against Venezuela and the constant threats of color revolutions in the Arab world find their origins there. Gentlemen members of the General Staff and Command of the three armed forces should return to their studies and re-examine geopolitics, because their understanding is seriously harming Brazil. 

However, this cooperation in a fragmented world doesn't end there, in the climate issue. It is necessary to combat the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its influence on the construction of a multipolar world, on the real possibility of nations achieving their objectives of national sovereignty. Financial colonialism is in crisis and can no longer corrupt leaders and governments around the world as it did in the 1980s and 1990s. 

After having Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who sold Petrobras on the New York Stock Exchange, we had to settle for Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who made a mess of things, doing more for his military colleagues than for financial leaders. After all, the scope of his insight is limited. And Paulo Guedes was not up to his mission of destroying the Brazilian state, although he tried hard, he only managed to make the Central Bank dependent solely on stateless finances, independent of Brazilian national interests. 

And there is a real crisis about to explode, as the strikes in the United Kingdom, the street demonstrations in Germany and France, the most populous, rich and developed European countries clearly demonstrate. Nor can one ignore the development of Asia and the CIS, members of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) or New Silk Road, which, under the shared leadership of the PRC, and the growing participation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, among countries interested in cooperation for security – against terrorism, separatism and extremism – as well as economic and cultural issues, threaten financial colonization. 

Therefore, once again, the WEF proves to be a form of colonization by stateless finance entities that dominated the West with the deregulations of the 1980s, and after the triumphs of the 1990s, are experiencing collapse in the 21st century. Brazil does not need this desperate embrace.