Brits to Indebted Nations: Sell Us Your Country In Order to Pay Down Your Debt

June 26, 2010 (LPAC)—British imperial policy has long considered the sovereign nation-state as an annoying obstacle to their intended Malthusian world order. What better way to get rid of that pesky institutional problem, than to drive desperately indebted nations into selling off chunks of their national territory, in order to pay off their British financial creditors?

In the past, British Nazi agencies such as the World Wildlife Fund have promoted the idea of "debt for nature," handing over parts of a country's territory as a "nature preserve" in exchange for debt reduction. But now, under the excruciating pressure of the global breakdown crisis, the Brits are trying to go all the way.

Take Greece, for example, which is preparing to sell, or offer long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 islands—"in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debt," the June 24 London Guardian snickers. Greek Island Properties Director Makis Perdikaris said: "I am sad—selling off your islands or areas that belong to the people of Greece.... The point is to get money."

Same thing in Haiti. A U.S.-based consortium of developers is proposing to lease or buy outright the entire island of La Gonave, 287 square miles of prime real estate just off the coast from Port-au-Prince. They hope to establish an oil port and refinery, a huge jatropha plantation to produce ethanol, upscale tourism, gambling casinos, an executive jetport, and so on. All of this would be run as a private plantation under Turks and Caicos (i.e., British Commonwealth) law—not Haitian law.

And the two million Haitians still displaced by the earthquake, and the millions more facing hunger and disease? Sorry—they're not on Obama's, or the British, agenda.