Clean and Dirty: Make My Day Book 29

About the Book, "CLEAN AND DIRTY" Here Henares starts with the all-important Earth Summit Life in Rio de Janiero where in June 1992, 120 heads of state and representatives from all nations attended the Rio Summit, the greatest global meet in history. They signed the Rio Declaration, the Agenda 21, the treaty on global warming (watered down by the USA under George W. Bush), the world's greatest polluter) and the treaty on Biodiversity (with the US as the sole objector). It's been said that the Rio Summit is a qualified failure, since it produced nothing but ambiguous statements of intentions, rather than a firm and committed schedule of performance. But like Human Rights in the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, it has provided the people of this world a rallying point for for revolutionary action. In perspective, on 12 December 2015, 196 Parties, including the two greatest polluters of the planet, China and the USA (under President Obama), to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted the Paris Agreement, a new legally-binding framework for an internationally coordinated effort to tackle climate change, under intense international pressure to avoid a repeat failure of the Copenhagen conference in 2009. The Agreement establishes a global warming goal of well below 2°C on pre-industrial averages. It requires countries to formulate progressively more ambitious climate targets which are consistent with this goal. To achieve this goal, all Parties to the Paris Agreement will need to make profound changes to their economies. However, newly elected US President Trump announced on June 1, 2017 that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord, ending any pretentions to world leadership. Henares continues by recounting his observations and experiences on what its is to be a Communist in Romania (whose embassy rented his house in Dasmariñas Village) and in the Soviet Union, where in 1971, President Marcos sent him to negotiate a Treaty of Commerce and Friendship. In 1967, he was invited by Mao Zedong to observe the Cultural Revolution in China. He observed that these three nations were able to industrialize rapidly and give their people security from the cradle to the grave, which they couldn't do if they adopted the Capitalist system. In the case of the Soviet Union (and China), these two nations were able to to develop the nuclear bomb and assert their right to sit among world leaders in the United Nations Security Council. Later he asserted that the Capitalist System survived because it adopted the Socialist practices of Medicare, Welfare State, and laws prohibiting the exploitation of women and children... just as Communism in China survived and prospered because it adopted Capitalistic practices of free market and private initiative. Communism in the Soviet Union failed because its rigid bureaucracy could not adjust to the demands of the times. Swedish Socialist system succeeded because it adopted Volunteerism as a motivating force as Catholic religious organizations did during the 2,000 years of the Christian era. Henares also wrote of what he feels the Supreme Court should be. But the biggest part of this book narrates the early years of the President Cory Aquino Administration, full of high hopes and great expectations in the aftermath of the EDSA Revolution of 1986. Alas it was not a Revolution, but a Restoration of the prewar oligarchic feudal society, and the Continuation of the American domination of our economy and political system. He details how that Opus Dei headed by Bernie Villegas and Jesus Estanislao, and the so-called Council of Trent headed by Father Joaquin Bernas SJ and Jaime Ongpin the Constitutional Commission appointed by Cory to draft the new 1987 Constitution, and the entire economy, and political life of the nation, despite nationalistic forces under Joker that manned Malacañang Palace and leftist forces under Bobbit Sanchez in the Labor Department. Read on.