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The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted.
The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China are starting to design a new monetary and financial system bypassing the U.S. dollar, supervised by Sergei Glazyev and intended to compete with the Bretton Woods system.
Saudi Arabia – perpetrator of bombing, famine and genocide in Yemen, weaponized by U.S., UK and EU – is advancing the coming of the petroyuan.
India – third largest importer of oil in the world – is about to sign a mega-contract to buy oil from Russia with a huge discount and using a ruble-rupee mechanism.
Riyadh’s oil exports amount to roughly $170 billion a year. China buys 17% of it, compared to 21% for Japan, 15% for the U.S., 12% for India and roughly 10% for the EU. The U.S. and its vassals – Japan, South Korea, EU – will remain within the petrodollar sphere. India, just like China, may not.
Sanction blowback is on the offense. Even a market/casino capitalism darling such as uber-nerd Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Poznar, formerly with the NY Fed, IMF and Treasury Dept., has been forced to admit, in an analytical note: “If you think that the West can develop sanctions that will maximize the pain for Russia by minimizing the risks of financial stability and price stability for the West, then you can also trust unicorns.”
Unicorns are a trademark of the massive NATOstan psyops apparatus, lavishly illustrated by the staged, completely fake “summit” in Kiev between Comedian Ze and the Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, thoroughly debunked by John Helmer and Polish sources.
Poznar, a realist, hinted in fact at the ritual burial of the financial chapter of the “rules-based international order” in place since the early Cold War years: “After the end of this war [in Ukraine], ‘money’ will never be the same.” Especially when the Hegemon demonstrates its “rules” by encroaching on other people’s money.
And that configures the central tenet of 21st century martial geopolitics as monetary/ideological. The world, especially the Global South, will have to decide whether “money” is represented by the virtual, turbo-charged casino privileged by the Americans or by real, tangible assets such as energy sources. A bipolar financial world – U.S. dollar vs. yuan – is at hand.
There’s no surefire evidence – yet. But the Kremlin may have certainly gamed that by using Russia’s foreign reserves as bait, likely to be frozen by sanctions, the end result could be the smashing of the petrodollar. After all the overwhelming majority of the Global South by now has fully understood that the backed-by-nothing U.S. dollar as “money” – according to Poznar – is absolutely untrustworthy.
If that’s the case, talk about a Putin ippon from hell.
It’s gold robbery time
As I outlined the emergence of the new paradigm, from the new monetary system to be designed by a cooperation between the EAEU and China to the advent of the petroyuan, a serious informed discussion erupted about a crucial part of the puzzle: the fate of the Russian gold reserves.
Doubts swirled around the Russian Central Bank’s arguably suicidal policy of keeping assets in foreign securities or in banks vulnerable to Western sanctions.
Of course there’s always the possibility Moscow calculated that nations holding Russian reserves – such as Germany and France – have assets in Russia that can be easily nationalized. And that the total debt of the state plus Russian companies even exceeds the amount of frozen reserves.
But what about the gold?
As of February 1, three weeks before the start of Operation Z, the Russian Central Bank held $630.2 billion in reserves. Almost half – $311.2 billion – were placed in foreign securities, and a quarter – $151.9 billion – on deposits with foreign commercial and Central Banks. Not exactly a brilliant strategy. As of June last year, strategic partner China held 13.8% of Russia’s reserves, in gold and foreign currency.
As for the physical gold, $132.2 billion – 21% of total reserves – remains in vaults in Moscow (two-thirds) and St. Petersburg (one-third).
So no Russian gold has been frozen? Well, it’s complicated.
The key problem is that more than 75% of Russian Central Bank reserves are in foreign currency. Half of these are securities, like government bonds: they never leave the nation that issued them. Roughly 25% of the reserves are linked to foreign banks, mostly private, as well as the BIS and the IMF.
Once again it’s essential to remember Sergei Glazyev in his groundbreaking essay Sanctions and Sovereignty: “It is necessary to complete the de-dollarization of our foreign exchange reserves, replacing the dollar, euro and pound with gold. In the current conditions of the expected explosive growth in the price of gold, its mass export abroad is akin to treason and it is high time for the regulator to stop it.”
This is a powerful indictment of the Russian Central Bank – which was borrowing against gold and exporting it. For all practical purposes, the Central Bank could be accused of perpetrating an inside job. And subsequently they were caught flat-footed by the devastating American sanctions.
As a Moscow analyst puts it, the Central Bank “had delivered some volumes of gold to London in 2020-2021. This decision was motivated by a high price of gold at that time (near $2000 per ounce) and could hardly be initiated by Putin. If so, this decision can be qualified as very stupid, or even part of a diversionist tactic (…) Most of the gold delivered to London was not stored but sold and transferred into foreign currency reserves (in euro or pounds) which were frozen later.”
No wonder a lot of people in Russia are livid. A quick flashback is in order. In June last year, Putin signed a law canceling requirements for the repatriation of foreign exchange earnings from gold exports. Five months later, Russia’s gold miners were exporting like crazy. A month later, the Duma wanted to know why the Central Bank had stopped buying gold. No wonder Russia media erupted with accusations of “an unprecedented [gold] robbery”.
Now it’s way more dramatic: RIA Novosti described the American-dictated freeze as – what else – a “robbery” and duly predicted global economic chaos. As for the Central Bank, it’s back on the gold buying business.
None of the above though explains some “missing” gold that de facto is not under the possession of the Russian Central Bank. And that’s where a somewhat shady character such as Herman Gref comes in.
Let’s check this out with State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin, who had a few things to say about the gold-exported-to-London bonanza:
“This process has been going on for the past year. Exported, according to some estimates, 600 tons. [Head of Russian Central Bank] Nabiullina said – whoever wants to sell gold to get cash, or if you mine gold and trade it, keep in mind that the state, in my person, will not buy gold from you at a market price. We will take it at a big discount. If you want to get honest money for it, please export it. The world center of gold trading is London. Accordingly, everyone began to export and sell gold there. Including Mr. [Herman] Gref. The head of the formally state-owned Sberbank sold a huge part of his gold reserves.”
Look here for fascinating details about Sberbank’s Gref shenanigans.
Watch for the gold-backed ruble
It may be a case of too little too late, but at least the Kremlin has now established a committee – with authority over the Central Bank nerds – to handle the serious stuff.
It boggles the mind that the Russian Central Bank does not answer to the Russian constitution as well as to the judicial system, but in fact is subordinated to the IMF. A case can be made that this cartel-designed financial system – implying zero sovereignty – simply cannot be tackled head on by any nation on the planet, and Putin has been trying to undermine it step by step. That includes, of course, keeping Elvira Nabiullina on the job even as she duly follows the Washington consensus to the letter.
And that brings us back to the ultra high stakes possibility that the Kremlin may have wanted from the start to go no holds barred, forcing the Atlanticists to reveal their true hand, and exposing their system in a “The King is Naked” spectacular for a worldwide audience.
And that’s where the EAEU/China new monetary/financial system comes in, under Glazyev supervision. We can certainly envision Russia, China and vast swathes of Eurasia progressively divorcing from casino capitalism; the ruble reconverted to a gold-backed currency; and Russia focused on self-sufficiency, productive domestic investment and trade connectivity with most of the Global South.
Way beyond its confiscated foreign reserves and tons of gold sold in London, what matters is that Russia remains the ultimate natural resource powerhouse. Shortages? A little austerity for a little while will take care of it: nothing as dramatic as the national impoverishment under the neoliberal 1990s. And extra boost would come from exporting natural resources at premium discount prices to other BRICS and most of Eurasia and the Global South.
The collective West has just fabricated a new, tawdry East-West divide. Russia is turning it upside down, to its own profit: after all the multipolar world is rising in the East.
The Empire of Lies won’t back down, because it does not have a Plan B. Plan A is to “cancel” Russia across the – Western – spectrum. So what? Russophobia, racism, 24/7 psyops, propaganda overdrive, cancel culture online mobs, that don’t mean a thing.
Facts matter: the Bear has enough nuclear/hypersonic hardware to shatter NATO in a few minutes before breakfast and teach a lesson to the collective West before pre-dinner cocktails. There will come a time when some exceptionalist with a decent IQ will finally understand the meaning of “indivisibility of security”.
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What’s to prevent ((Jews)) and Zoglodytes from infiltrating China and setting up their virtual, turbo-charged casino there? Only a massive, permanent, international order that the Zionists and Zoglodytes call “anti-Semitism.” Every ZOG conspiracy and all of its little ZOG stooges must be hunted to the ends of the earth on a permanent bases. The opposite of “permanent revolution.” Call it “permanent stability,” contra agitated ZOG jihadis and psychopaths like Soros, Goldman Sachs, Hillary, McCain, Trotsky, the Cousinhood, etc.
Excellent analysis. What better and more honest way to show the world that the knaves running the west can’t be trusted than to allow some treasure to remain vulnerable to their depradations?
The long term benefit to Russia and the east will be definitive and massive.
One of the peculiarities of the Spanish Civil War is that Stalin demanded gold from the Republicans in Spain in exchange for military hardware, fuel and assistance. While Franco was able to fight on Credit from London and Freebees from Germany and Italy.
The Republicans lost, partly because their Moscow sponsor really wasn’t being as generous as needed and systematically plundered Madrid’s treasury.
Long term the Communists were winning though. By 1965 they looked like they were going to win the globe. They were handing out Ak47s for free and RPG7s as gifts. The British and French lost Africa because of the AK.
It’s interesting to note this. If Russian banks don’t confiscate wealth like London just froze accounts, it’s possible that Moscow would be trusted with bank vaults. If they show they don’t break contracts with money and accounts they will be a destination for lucre from Africa. If they give out weaponry and oil cheap they will be leading the non aligned third world all over again.
What is the track record of banks in post Soviet Russia? Have they fucked over investors account holders from abroad in any cases? London really did something odd by freezing accounts of Russians like this. Who’s going to open accounts there anymore? Have Russian banks ever renigged as bankers?
Money, even during ww2 flowed almost uninterrupted around the world even as bombs fell. When the Japanese were invading Malaya the British army was told not to fight in the rubber tree grove plantations by the controlling industrialists.
If the Germans keep getting their fuel oil and gas from Russia after they’ve spunked their load sending PzF 3 and other weapons to Ukraine and Russia doesn’t seize German citizen assets, what will Germans think about the level of Anglosaxon blackmail? Even if the Germans fear Moscow, how much do they really fear them, and in which way?
We know the Russian military gear can’t operate more than 200 miles from their own border in a hostile population Center. So the US response of total sanctions now looks paranoid and OTT.
“Unicorns are a trademark of the massive NATOstan psyops apparatus, lavishly illustrated by the staged, completely fake “summit” in Kiev between Comedian Ze and the Prime Ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, thoroughly debunked by John Helmer and Polish sources.”
So even that summit was a fake. I was myself very surprised when I read about it. Three foreign prime ministers venturing into a war zone that is more than half encircled by Russia sounded extremely fishy.
The amount of lies and disinformation that the West have started spewing since the start of the conflict is absolutely comical. Ghost of Kiev, martyrs of Snake Island, several Russian generals dead or captured, Russia bombing hospitals and theatres like savages… forget about “a grain of salt”, basically everything the mainstream media says about this conflict should be assumed to be a complete lie or fabrication.
pepe nails it again. all of the russian response has been being planned for eight years, very methodically and addresses not only western thieves and mass murders but the fifth column, oligarchs and banking scum at home. p.c.r. can’t seem to grasps this concept and has been peeing himself over the “dumbshit russians”. i’m very grateful for pepe’s insightful perspective on all of this.
hell freezes over
This isn’t really true. While most people don’t care for stuff like women’s basketball, women’s swimming is pretty popular.
Sergey Glazayev is notorious for running schemes that don’t really matter except as gestures and delivering half baked results that are at best inefficient. Not a sign of serious involvement. If a real result was needed Nabullina or Mishushtin would be in charge.
Escobar and Gold
You are skating my friend, you are making figure eights on ice. Ask your friend M. Hudson to come true on gold, and what has happened. Many will see through this hocus-pocus article. Heavy handed creation of a new junk bond …pardon junk explanation.
The British and the French lost Africa because independence was cheaper than colonial rule. Certainly the case for Britain. Mines and plantation didn’t go away. Occupying large areas of land inhabited by peasants in a Malthusian trap didn’t have much going for it for a trading Empire. The Russian/Soviet model of tribute extraction, worked because Russian colonies were wealthier.
90 miles.
Don’t worry, Western banks are also missing most of their gold. Moldbug said it has been ‘leased’ away. Regardless, it’s all been sold one way or another.
Should have a BTC-backed currency instead.
Here, the fact BTC is fully transparent is a benefit: independent auditing is simply a matter of looking at the banknote’s bank address on the block chain. A massive benefit. A colossal benefit.
BTC-backed is just gold-backed, but better in every way.
You do want BTC-backed, though, since frequent small transactions are far too expensive to carry out on the block chain. You want a bank token which can be traded easily but converted to BTC on demand, with one (1) transaction fee, instead of dozens per month.
I have argued before, that Putin’s Ukraine “special military operation” was extremely ill-timed, and has had many parallels to Bush 43’s Iraq “special military operation”: https://www.unz.com/isteve/lindsey-graham-putins-henchmen-need-to-step-up-to-the-plate/#comment-5215977 or https://archive.ph/PSoOj#selection-33393.0-33419.13
Image Source: Bush Regrets ‘Mission Accomplished’ Banner https://archive.ph/e85bC
Was today Putin’s “Mission Accomplished” moment? Just as fallen Russian soldiers are starting to return back home.
Hear what Putin told large crowd amid invasion
Mar 18, 2022
Video Link“Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a massive celebration in Moscow marking the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea as Russia.”
Funerals for 3 Russian police officers killed in U[k]raine
Mar 16, 2022 via AP Archive
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“(12 Mar 2022) Dozens attended a funeral on Friday in the Russian city of Perm for three police officers who died during Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. […] Perm’s Governor Dmitry Manokhin confirmed in a statement published on March 6 that the three men had died “while fulfilling their service duty as part of the special operation in Donbass.” Manokhin called on those in attendance at the funeral to unite to make Russia strong and independent, so that “the bravery of these men is not in vain.””
Escobar’s promo for Putin misses the possibility Putin & Zelensky worked together to stage this war … whose consequences of global economic crisis, hunger and poverty from lower wheat etc supplies, quite enable the Klaus Schwab – George Soros ‘Great Reset’ upcoming, plus help to demonise all nationalists & tradition-supporting lgbt-restricting cultures
The war ‘going slowly’ with ‘humanitarian corridors’ enables Soros-desired huge migrant waves into the EU, 3 million already, 7 million more coming, 30% of those migrants non-Ukrainians, Africans & Muslims heading into the EU thru the open door in Ukraine … more Muslims & Africans in Europe than Merkel could even dream about, with existing non-legal migrants in the EU already rioting because of ‘racist preference’ for ‘Ukrainians’ getting instant papers & benefits … whilst politicians talk of 100 million more migrants soon from countries ‘affected by Ukraine-war-associated poverty & hunger’
But Escobar does link above, the hilarious proof that the alleged ‘brave train trip to visit Zelensky in Kiev’, by high ministers of Czechia, Poland and Slovenia, was fake … for example, the paving stones on the ‘Kiev railway platform’, looking like those in Przemysl in Poland, not like Kiev or Lvov in Ukraine … also outdoors and sunny like in Przemysl, whereas in Kiev and Lvov the platforms are covered
What’s to prevent them? They just don’t blend with the Chinese landscape. They could blend only in white environments and they destroyed all white environments. They can indulge themselves with their delusion of “chosenness” ad nauseam, so-called PoC hate them waaay more than whites hate them and guiltmongering just doesn’t work with PoC as it works with whites.
I believe India is being offered discounted oil from Russia by bypassing the US dollar. Pakistan – ironically – also just agreed on a gas pipeline from Russia… I would surmise it would be somewhat discounted too…
Yes this is a big deal… The UAE has increasingly been showing that it is balancing against the US in all geopolitics. They are now friends with Israel but also realizing Russia saved Assad – and he is going to remain there. Wouldn’t be surprised if we next hear they are also going to take other currencies (they already refused US requests to ban Huawei)…
Here is what the banner behind Putin states, via Richard B. Spencer’s Twitter account:
“For a World without Nazism. For Russia.”
Image Source: https://archive.ph/Xfql0
This is what I commented over 5 years ago:
– December 2, 2016 at 3:00 am GMT • 5.4 years ago • 400 Words https://www.unz.com/article/npis-spencer-vs-politcos-hirsh-etc/#comment-1669380
It’s truly awesome to witness his evolution on these matters, and have him so openly come to terms with and correct them:
“In all honesty, my ex-wife did have a major effect on my attitude towards Putin and Russia in 2014, as she remains a Russian ultra-nationalist. I’ve rethought a lot of my assumptions since then—and we’re in a critical moment now—but I’m not “trolling” anyone.” – 11:59 PM · Mar 7, 2022·Twitter for iPhone https://archive.ph/m8ApR#selection-1293.0-1319.18
Highly recommended listening:
“The most important Space I’ve done thus far.”
That would be 3D chess.
If you worked it backwards, where the theft of the gold and other reserves, is like a red hot poker in the brain; then the brains of everyday Russians were just branded and seared with the prospect that they were robbed. They were robbed in a most blatant harmful and egregious way. It is something like getting raped and then robbed. Then there is the inevitable Ruble inflation, and everyday Russians will blame it on the West.
Sometimes knaves and fools are protected. It could just be an accident that the branding and searing happened in a beneficial way to secure the average Russian mind. The average Russian is walking around thinking, “Hey, we just took it in the rear.” We took it in the rear, and there wasn’t even a kiss.
My position is that the Russian Central Bank is festooned with Atlantacists, and it needs to be fumigated. I wouldn’t be devious enough to come up with such a 3D chess move.
No country is sovereign, unless the money power is sovereign. I was also surprised when Putin didn’t deal with the bank when the Constitution was updated.
That’s a very important point.
If you are the leader of a white country, then you have to understand that whites are easy to guilt-trip. This is a function of evolution, especially the last ice age period.
Whites evolved for guilt, and north east asians (who also are ice age adapted people) evolved for shame.
I doubt any of our (((friends))) could pin Holocaustianity guilt onto the Russian people. Russian victim narrative at the hands of the Nazis, insulates them from being guilted as an evil whitey.
This latest round of being raped and abused by the west fits well into being victimized…in alignment with Great Patriotic War narrative.
The brains of whiteys in Russia are now well insulated for the upcoming trials.
Now … only if Russia can find a way to prevent women from voting, then the future will be better secured.
“…the Russian Central Bank is festooned with Atlantacists,…”
Otherwise why would the Jewish chair raise the base rate to 20 % (meaning around 40 % for the consumer) the moment Russia really needs to switch into top war gear and extend production of everything?!
https://www.rt.com/business/510789-nabiullina-breast-pins-economy/
https://www.rt.com/russia/372678-award-nabiullina-russia-inflation/
https://www.rt.com/business/214747-ruble-central-bank-nabiullina/
Somewhere a commentator explained how she an her board are untouchable by Russian Law.
“Compete with Bretton Woods” describes it exactly.
One could also write “an alternative to Bretton Woods”, because it will be the same or a similiar construct based on power players and not the individual productivity as it ought to be to be right:
Opposing Bretton Woods and anything and everything evil with the dissolution of peoples and the tabling of peoples’ economies and economics for the chosen ones to devour.
To really get down to it, it would need that screwed up, i.e. jewed up metal, namely gold to be put into its true place (in the production of goods).
(There is a reason why jewellery is called jew-eller-y).
“The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted.”
“After all the overwhelming majority of the Global South by now has fully understood that the backed-by-nothing U.S. dollar as “money” – according to Poznar – is absolutely untrustworthy”
Many Europeans know it too, just as many medical experts knew there were inexpensive and effective treatments such as hydroxychloroquine soon after the Corona Virus broke out, masks are ineffective and children don’t get the virus. Despite experts knowing this, the world’s western media and its sheepish leaders convinced all but one or two countries they must all do the same thing and they did, mismanaging the virus and doing great damage to their economies.
In November 1989 when East Germany announced it would let its citizens cross over into West Berlin freely on their own, I think I first heard it reported on the radio in a calm and curious voice without any additional commentary. At that moment the USSR was still one country, the Warsaw Pact was still an alliance and there had been no reports in any media prior to the opening of the Berlin Wall what would happen over the next two years and it took a little while before it was realized this was much bigger than letting East Germans cross over to West Germany.
One year later Germany was reunified and two years later the Soviet Union broke up and the Warsaw Pact was disbanded. Until that day in November 1989, as far as most people in the world were concerned, the USSR and Warsaw Pact was as solid as ever and might be around for another 200 years or so.
Considering the above, I would say there is no telling how far this will go. The assumption that the ninnies that run the EU and countries like Germany will remain in power forever could be wrong. It’s not impossible that western Europe will look to the so called “far right”, which actually are identical to ruling European parties of the 1970’s and 80’s, it’s just that they are not radical, far left parties. As Europe becomes less and less competitive and falls behind in everything, there are still intelligent people there that know something is terribly wrong and when their grandparents were alive, Europe still led the world. It is not impossible that Europe will wake up from its slumber.
….My position is that the Russian Central Bank is festooned with Atlantacists, and it needs to be fumigated…..
Ditto for the Chinese, Indian, South East Asian, and South American Central Banks. De Dollarization will take 3-7 years.
The freezing of assets without due process was the end of Trust in the Dollar.
Hitler was urged to attack England right away, but doodled until the American joined and used England as a launching pad to invade Europe. Hitler didn’t and died of suicide.
Similarly, Putin is urged to cut off the energy to Europe and collapse Western economies, which are interlinked and based on derivatives, based on energy which Russia provides, but he doesn’t. Putin will also die of suicide just as Hitler.
Why should anyone listen to that clown Richard Spencer, who’s either a complete moron, or if not on the CIA payroll? People are really stupid… No wonder Jews always win.
No Golds Barred
Speaking of gold…
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What’s to prevent ((Jews)) and Zoglodytes from infiltrating China and setting up their virtual, turbo-charged casino there?
They can’t do the “well met fellow Chinese person”-routine.
I don’t “Buy” that Russia had to show the World, how the USA and it’s Jew bastard friends/masters in London, Brussels, Berlin etc. are the Grand Thieves of the Century. Venezuela already showed it quite vividly when they lost their gold and trading funds to the One Jew Order Crime Syndicate. Notice who the OWO gave Venezuela’s money to – Juan Goydo – Notice who will get Russia’s money- Ukraine and Nato.
For years now honest economists and observers were saying that Russia is going to get Screwed , if they don’t sack the Pro Wall Street- Pro Western banking systems, Employees. No one would dare mention if these ” Treasonists ” are Jews or not, but I’d make a wager that they are Jewish Russians – not Russian Jews. Big F….n Difference.
I’m no economist, but I know about moving my money around the world and an “Honest” lol Swift syst. is all that is needed in trading – There is no need to keep so much money for trade or currency exchanges in all these foreign banks, that are known to be as corrupt as Kiev is. Or how bout just keeping a ledger on foreign trade and every 3 months – pay up or send the funds. The more complicated the Crime Syndicate makes it – the more theft – just like that 1000 page IRS Rules – BS.
Looks all the way like it. Indeed. There is ample more evidence (central banker confirmation @Moscou), which is exponentially stronger, and utmostly invisible when put next to the war porn part. Coming just as after the “Putin Strong Speech” the day before.
Now I decided to visit the website of Russian pirates ( rutracker.org ). This is a phenomenally huge collection of programs, books, films, and information. I decided to start with matlab, a terribly expensive program. There I saw in the discussion
We also have licenses for very expensive software at work. If these Western idiots create problems for us, they will have serious consequences here in Russia. If one of them gets on the list – https://всезапомним.рф/
there will be consequences.
If you are going to use a rutracker in the West, it is recommended to block the torrent sharing to Western countries in the settings and take it only from Russia.
You are being too timid. Evidently so, the real consequences of the whole of the shit show about Ukraine is all wins: Kremlin (lockdown of the Russian population fodder), EU (immigration directed as desired), US (weakened as compared to Russia). The global population blob induced into accepting “hard” times, fear mongering into acceptance and more submissive, cowardly behavior. Two continents minus China, indirectly the rest of the territorial world are nailed to bigger inequality. Grandstands of arrogance of the International Real Powers Cabal? Not really, not when they come out the winner, then it all becomes legitimate spoils.
The International Cabal, the real powers of this world win on both continents, across all parties (three: WE, US, and Russia). China in all this? That is the question. Are they next? All it takes is a collaborating Xi, who in exchange for some bargaining fits China into the “International” de facto power channeling. Harder bargain, but doable to the satisfaction of both parties (China, International Cabal).
As Russia now is eased into a slightly corrected Kremlin – International Power entente, Western and Russian population blobs should not fear for “nuclear war” any longer, back to Covid, vaxxing et al., welcoming another wave of immigrants for the Western Europeans, diluting any resistance to more oppression. Opening up Ukraine for plunder, now neatly shared and partitioned as to who and who’s spoils. A detail (Ukraine), not the main moat of the matter as signaled.
Always, everywhere to the expense of the “We the People” dumb, in-organized public. Especially WE middle classes including their low IQ elites are grand losers. WE natives should be ashamed of their own race, having references and accomplishment in history to the contrary of being submissive slaves, having owned individual excellence, having had a hand in shaping earlier history, they should loath their sub-human behavior in a matter that is set up to span the next thousand years. Putin made a bargain, the WE elites did not bother to make a hard sell. Definitely the WE powers that be are the misery losers of the quest for globalism. The game being what it is, the quest for consolidation, the WE politicians, including Bart de Wever, Charles Michel, aunty Merkel, the sorry Macron, the list is endless, they all traded the shores of the Eastern Atlantic for the price of individual spoils, as any third world politician (Kosovo, Haiti, Nigeria) would do.
Again, you are being too timid. The game is ongoing, let’s focus on new elements brought in. Your methodology is correct. Keep your eye on the big picture. The acceleration of globalism, for now in re-invigorated entente between Putin and the International Cabal (as ordered and executed, not ruled, by US, EU, and Russia) is most noticeable.
Find yourself some agenda, some agency, for now, while you can, that option might not any longer be there in half a generation.
Hard to find some-one to agree on above, thus, as democracy goes, i must be dead wrong!
As in waiting it out, being a neutral element in the power balance? Would that make good for Putin incompetence. These 3-7 years, are only a fraction of “Putin in power” stretch. How much longer will he need? Implausible.
Indeed! Well played Russkies, and Russki central bankers. That sure showed them Zoglodytes!
Germany is not reunified.
More than 1/3 of German homelands are still occupied by Poland and Russia.
That miraculous “Mr. Garbachov tear down that wall” BS was long in the planning (as early or as late – depending on insiders’ place in the Kabal – as 1986, the carving up of the East was in planning. “The East” was not broke at all. That is another great myth thoroughly refuted (and covered up by MSM).
Every “revolution” in memory has the Jewed hand in it and before it and after it; including that nasty Moscow Maidan and everything that followed thanks to the Jewed Gorbachov (and the Jelzmans in any case).
(A German baker and soldier of the Wehrmacht, whom I knew personally, met Gorbachov and his family when they came through his village and inspected his parents’ house like any building in the village to be secured. Gorbachov denied that the Wehrmacht had ever reached his village or even entered his parents house. Why? Because it would have ousted him and he would have not been allowed into high office in the USSR (and also Russia today) because he would have been automatically a suspect of collusion like anyone who came in contact with our WH).
Just wanted to say that nothing is accidental. They are forever scheming and anal-icing their nasty BS.
https://humansbefree.com/2022/03/boom-ukraine-becomes-the-first-country-to-implement-the-great-reset.html
Wait, what? So Putin has been trying to undermine it by re-appointing the traitor to her post? This is senseless gibberish.
As is this whole “4D chess” idea in which Russia deliberately allows large chunk if its reserves to be plundered in order to show the world the Globohomo’s kleptomania and lawlessness. It would have been a ridiculously expensive lesson on a topic the world was already familiar with. This is not the first time the Globohomo simply confiscated assets of disobedient nations in broad daylight.
Now, I’m not one of those morons/shills who keep posting that Putin is working for the Globohomo. This is obviously untrue. If that were the case, there would be no need to pretend and spin this decades-long charade in virtually every aspect of Russia’s behaviour. The same goes for China and Xi. People who repeat that “theory”are either brainless, shills or brainless shills.
That said, the robbery certainly looks like a Russian mistake. I can’t be 100% sure since I’m not privy to all the details and possible undisclosed considerations but I’m definitely not buying Pepe’s explanation. It just sounds like almost childish wishful thinking.
We may have dug a hole vis a vis Russia but that business about China and India teaming up to hurt the American monetary hegemony is farfetched, given that both those countries, not to mention Pakistan, can’t get along for a squat.
From the very beginning America had no gold, we had no money. Gold, It’s a fiction imposed upon us by the financial geniuses of the 19th century, the British, to squeeze juice from their possessions. America can easily transition back to a physical economy; if it weren’t for the corrupted Wall St. owned two party system, the Establishment powers that be, and the International Financiers, fronted by the IMF, BIS, etc. Texas has all the oil we need and there’s more. The US just prefers to buy oil for dollars; it’s a good deal. We have enough convertible nuclear waste to power our national economy for a thousand years; nuclear power can easily bring on the Hydrogen economy. Just as the US fiat money system beat two fascist powers in two hemispheres at once, (when we had no money) a war time effort to Redevelop North America while reforming the Fed/Wall St. system, should be no problem. Since Alexander Hamilton, the real American system of political economy never relied on gold but credit that could command the increase in the human, brain powered, always increasing, productive powers of labor, that relied on creativity, innovation, and vision. Always Manifesting Destiny.
Our focus has been stolen. America is going the way of India, in submission to the British Imperial system, we now call Globalization. Any nation must depend on its Army, Navy, Air Force, and Work Force. Instead we have several giant human garbage heaps, the sick, unemployed, and homeless, serving as monuments to Sec. Kerry’s ideal solution to Climate Change. A real nation makes its own steel. The new structures built to replace the 9/11 WTC buildings were erected with Chines steel. That’s corruption at our core national status.
The Globalists foist this ‘necessity’ to simultaneously, radically reduce the world’s population, wipe out the middle class everywhere, small businesses, paper currency, along with the organization of the nation-state; it’s at the crux of the many threats to our survival we now face. Once you know that a Radical Population Reduction policy is baked into our now neoliberal monetary system, the political system, and the MSM blowhard, broadcast organs, we can begin to confront and rectify the present and apparent genocidal system, that now has ‘serious’ men contemplating thermonuclear war. A decision that cannot be left to the obviously insane, very few.
Thanks Petr- You are ahead of me in the Globalist outlook and I try to figure out too many things that are happening at once. I figure that Yep, the Globalists/NWO Financiers etc. are having fight over this One World Order business which like a sewer – heads downhill to the rest of us.
I don’t see the big fist of the Russian Gov. coming down on the Russian people, like it is the States. Foreign companies and newsies- are getting a warning but many foreign companies are closing down because they’re in bed with Washington’s OWO and the warmongering media lies about Ukraine.
I don’t see the POlice state in Russia like is in the US, but I see the WHO, which is just as bad. One would think, that after the dozens of Globalist BioWeapons labs found in Ukraine, that Russia would have known that nothing like this could happen without the WHO/ Gates Boyz signatures.. But WHO is still incountry – minus any masking, lockdowns , codes etc. which is very suspicious. Time will tell is all I can say. There are Pro Western snakes in Moscow.
As far as banking goes, Russian citizens/residents that must deal with Swift, Visa etc. and the US – are screwed. They will not get their money out. But like we say – Shit runs downhill and the peasants are always at the bottom of the Hill.
You are right. The alliances that are forming now are unnatural. Past alliances between Russia and China have fallen apart twice in the past. This one will as well. As to India and China trading etc aren’t these guys fighting each other over a some remote area that;s always 50 below and covered snow and ice ? Kind of like two bald men fighting for a hairbrush. Curry slurpers India and Pakistan also have nukes aimed at each other.
On the other hand, these alliances may last long enough to cripple the US for a long time and perhaps permanently. This situation, in real politik, gives a US President the excuse to deport every East Indian and Chinaman. The Joos, now that they have ruined this country can now move to India and China. It looks like many of them are marrying into those races. Oh wait, I dont think China and India wants them.
The whole world seems lost in a massive cluster fuck. The conditions that now exist in the US mirror those of the Weimar Republic before “Dolph arrived on the scene. If history does not repeat itself but rhymes (M. Twain) we wonder if a dictator will arise in the west who will deport all these mongrels and restore the place to what it used to be. Recently, we saw this again with the rise of Putin in Russia.
Time will tell but in the meantime it is wise for those who can, to have some money outside the US, some money in a shoe box under the bed and a bug out bag. In my opinion, anything is possible at this time and in hoping for the best we should prepare for the worst, short term or a number of years.
Interesting article–ignore the beginning, carefully read all the details at the end:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-03-18/will-russian-gold-sanctions-finally-reveal-emperor-has-no-clothes-part-ii
The gold markets are stranger than you can imagine.
The simple version is that the same gold bars are being sold multiple times and used as collateral a few more times in a hilarious Ponzi Scheme.
It is amazing the world financial system has held together this long.
A persistent myth
Pepe Escobar implies that 79% of Russia’s gold is stored outside Russia…
And yet, Escobar’s source for this says that all of Russia’s gold is stored inside Russia.
Likewise, Paul Craig Roberts claims that Russia’s gold is stored outside Russia. Roberts’ “proof” for this is a dubious and ambiguous comment made by Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov.
Last Sunday (13 March 2022) during an interview by Russia’s Rossiya 1 TV channel (which is owned by the Russian government) Finance Minister Siluanov said, “Sanctions have deprived us of access to $300 billion of our $640 billion in gold and foreign exchange reserves. We have part of our gold and foreign exchange reserves in Chinese currency, in yuan.”
This is gibberish.
Finance Minister Siluanov is falsely confusing gold with currency. How can Russia “have its gold in yuan”? Gold is a physical commodity. Currency is not physical, and consists of computer entries and tokens (i.e. coins and currency notes, which represent money, but are technically not money).
Countless web sites repeated Minister Siluanov’s confused statement, and used it to claim with no justification that much of Russia’s gold was stored outside Russia, and was confiscated.
Paul Craig Roberts is screaming about this, and has based his last few articles on it. Roberts asks how the Russians could be so stupid as to let their gold be stored outside Russia where it could be stolen. The answer is they didn’t. Every online source about gold and bullion says that all of Russia’s gold is inside Russia.
Finance Minister Siluanov’s comment about Russia’s gold is vague, confusing, and highly dubious. He made it in order to further inflame the Russian public against the West. “They stole half of our foreign gold currency reserves!”
Huh? The West stole half of Russia’s physical gold, like it stole Venezuela’s and Libya’s gold?
No. The West froze half of Russia’s foreign currency reserves that had been logged in foreign computers, and which was digital, not physical. Meanwhile Russia’s physical gold remains in Russia.
QUESTION: Okay, but how could Russia be so stupid as to let the West steal half of Russia’s foreign currency reserves?
ANSWER: Much of these currency reserves existed in the form of US Treasury securities, for example, which Russia could only dump by selling them. There was no time for this, as Ukraine’s savage invasion of the Donbas region was imminent. Besides, Russia assumed (wrongly) that the West would not commit suicide by destroying global trust in the U.S. Fed system and dollar hegemony. Now the world sees that the West will steal anyone’s money at will. No one is safe. The USA is a rogue state. The Saudis won’t even take Brandon’s phone calls, or accept any visit by Sec. of State Blinken.
The West is committing suicide as fast as it possibly can. Very soon the foreign currency reserves that the West stole will be worthless anyway, as the dollar crashes.
Stripped of its details, a few core lessons should stand out.
(1) only gold will ever be as good as gold. Ideally in your physical control.
(2) While it’s not the first time in history, in the old days it took formal Declarations of War to invoke emergency Powers. The present situation should serve as a lesson to all, whether a sovereign government or private entity, that their assets may be frozen or confiscated merely at the whim of foreign governments or even private corporations, whenever it suits their political agendas as the winds may blow.
Sep 28, 2021 Who Owns the USA?
Check out this shocking data from Mike Maloney that shows exactly how much of USA’s economy the Federal Reserve now owns. Now bear in mind that this has happened so quickly, and by a form of counterfeiting…any sane person might ask ‘Are we living in the Twilight Zone?’
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June 17th, 2021 CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: CRIMINALS ARE RUNNING THE WORLD GOVERNMENTS & FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Maybe so. But Russian gas is still flowing into Germany. Which is being confiscated? Not so much.
They want “targeted” sanctions that don’t work “too” well, too quickly. And do they really want to stop the Indian oil deal? As long as oil flows thru global markets, supply isn’t disrupted. Of course it’s disruptive, but mitigated by exceptions.
China has always traded with US sanctioned countries. So the system chugs along. And Ukraine is just a sideshow. Polish cops broke up the demonstration/blockade.
From Cold War to Gold War
Quote: “Kremlin may have certainly gamed that by using Russia’s foreign reserves as bait, likely to be frozen by sanctions, the end result could be the smashing of the petrodollar.”
If that were true it would be the deception of the century. It would stand forever as the most shining example of ZOG inferiority in their thought process, intellect and integrity. We’ll see.
“I sometimes have the impression that most politicians are still unaware of how much they are already under the control of the financial markets and even dominated by them.”
Hans Tietmeyer, former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, (which is not allowed to issue money directly but always obliged to cover bonds and “instruments” of any foreign caller with interests the peoples have to work for).
The impression remains that not only European lackeys but also Russian politicians are unable or unwilling to understand the predominant monopoly-manipulations of the money royals and how a peoples’ money works or at least should work (without “interests”, without inflation, with objective distribution, useability/availability).
The Jews’ Federal Reserve does not own physical gold, only gold paper derivatives.
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/bank_crisis_1933.shtml
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/march-9-1933-fdr-signs-emergency-banking-act-launching-new-deal/
https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/emergency-banking-act-of-1933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
On March 9th in 1933 that infamous Roosevelt proclaimed that the national emergency still exists and that the continued private hoarding of gold and silver by the citizens of the United States poses a serious threat to the peace, justice, and welfare of the United States. (And Roosevelt needed Hitler really badly then, just the way they need a bad Russia now).
Roosevelt ordered the possession of gold and silver prohibited and everyone had to surrender coins, bullion, or other gold and silver property within fourteen days to official agents of the United States Government for refund at the official price in official Government currency.
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions had been sealed and were awaiting forthcoming legal action. Any sale, purchase, or movement of such gold or silver within the borders of the United States and its territories was prohibited, as any exchange transaction or movement of such metals across the border.
Possession of the prohibited metals of gold and silver and maintenance of a safe deposit box for their storage was known to the Government through bank and insurance records. Safe deposit boxes remained sealed and only opened in the presence of a representative of the Internal Revenue Service.
Allowed per holder remained five ounces of gold, collector coins, wedding rings and gold jewelry. The quantity in excess of this was compensated at US$20.67 per ounce. Since the dollar was still a gold-backed currency, there was initially no financial loss. About a year later, when the gold had been withdrawn, the price of gold was reset and was then US$35.
This was the desired revaluation for the gold hoard now owned by the government of the Jews. A special feature of the procedure was “Bank Holiday” and meanwhile sealing of all vaults and money boxes at banks, which could then only be opened in the presence of a governmental thief. If there were bars or bullion coins in them, they were confiscated.
So, all those great people who exported gold from Russia and failed to take the dollars back to Russia are now facing the reality that their dollar holdings are frozen?
Overall lesson? Russian oligarchs, please note your wealth is not safe in the West. Either you migrate to the West, or bring your wealth back to Mother Russia.
I guess Putin intentionally relaxed that law to let them face the consequences of their stupidity.
The BOE concept was formed in Amsterdam, by Sephardic Jews who had infiltrated the stock market.
The British Brain was parasitized. Prior to the BOE, the British did not have a gold fixation, they operated on the Talley Stick System.
London became a gold center only AFTER the country became debt spreading. When a debtor cannot pay in BOE credit, then gold is confiscated to pay for closing out the debt relations.
This pirate action inherent to debt spreading transferred gold worldwide to London. London finance center, a square mile, on an island that has no gold.
So, it wasn’t the British who were the financial geniuses, it goes back further to Amsterdam and the big bang. That big bang was the formation of stock market capital, and double entry hypothecation. It also included the first corporations, who then on-sold their stock into the stock market. Stock market manipulations were used to swing prices, and harvesting said prices for sophisticated usury PRE DATES London.
Any monetary historian who does not follow the Jew, or looks the other way, is being dishonest.
The giant piles of gold that our Sephardic friends had amassed in the previous 2000 years on the caravan routes were used to finance their operations in the 200 years before the BOE in 1694.
The big bang events that so shook up our (((friends))) were losing the usury methods on the caravan routes after Vasco De Gama Southern Route cape of good hope expedition in 1494. This shipping method of moving precious metals overcame the overland caravans.
Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, Spanish expulsion of Jews 1492, Portugal acquires the gold/silver mechanism after Vasco De Gama 1494. Sephardic Jews move to Portugal, and then to the lowlands.
Jews convince the Dutch lowlanders to have “freedom of religion” and soon work out schemes for incorporating burgers (cities) to then debt spread across entire regions.
Parliamentary government is then created, as the “people” of the burgers need to sanction their debt status post facto by voting.
The British did squeeze juice from their victims. but the “genius” did not originate in British brains. There was a lot of pre-history that has been ignored because historians are too chicken shit to take on the Jew.
Yes, the American colonial experience was bills of credit, and NOT GOLD. This then meant that the American system credit was not disenfranchised from American labor. If American credit were based on gold, then the “credit” would have been to those who labored and died and bled to dig gold out of the ground, in some place “international” and hence divorced from America.
Storing gold outside of Russia is not an alien concept.
The New York Federal Reserve, has an enormous pile-o-gold, probably bigger than Fort Knox.
Why?
The former fractional reserve system was an inverted pyramid, with private bank credit riding on top of said gold in a 10:1 ratio.
With dollar as reserve, then the big piles of gold amassed after WW2, became the reserve basis for the world wide dollar creation.
Many countries just sent their piles of gold to the New York Fed.
If there were balance of payment difficulties, say imports/exports became imbalanced, then gold would flow to settle the imbalance.
Within the New York Fed, they would move signage around as the piles composition would become less owned or more owned by the various players within the dollar as reserve network.
Nobody knows how much physical gold is stuck in reserve piles and subject to signage, and where are the “promises” to pay inside of computer ledgers.
Roberts claim is not dubious and ambiguous, it is as much proof as anybody is likely to get, because nobody really knows. Roberts claim does tell us that some debts were paid, and probably with gold, and hence there was physical possession.
Germany has been reclaiming its gold stealthily from the New York Federal Reserve, that also tells us that possession is no longer required, that there is ledger mechanics operational now, within computers. The insiders should tell us what is going on, but they probably won’t because their schemes are secretive on purpose.
All I can say it that I own several of those kilo bars in the picture. They are the best insurance against this insanity. You won’t make money with them, but you will have something left after the shit hits the fan. Literally solid value. Buy gold, people, even if it’s just coins. Buy gold and hold onto it.
Siluanov used the phrase ‘gold and foreign exchange reserves’ to refer to the Russian Central Bank reserves which consist of 1). physical gold, and 2). foreign currencies.
When he said: “Sanctions have deprived us of access to $300 billion of our $640 billion in gold and foreign exchange reserves. We have part of our gold and foreign exchange reserves in Chinese currency, in yuan.”
What he meant: $300 billion in foreign currencies of the Russian Central Bank reserves (out of $640 billion in physical gold and foreign currencies) have been frozen in foreign Central Banks and international financial institutions and thus rendered inaccessible while part of the Russian Central Bank reserves in Chinese currency have not been frozen and are still accessible.
That’s not what Escobar wrote: “As of February 1, three weeks before the start of Operation Z, the Russian Central Bank held $630.2 billion in reserves. Almost half – $311.2 billion – were placed in foreign securities, and a quarter – $151.9 billion – on deposits with foreign commercial and Central Banks. Not exactly a brilliant strategy. As of June last year, strategic partner China held 13.8% of Russia’s reserves, in gold and foreign currency.”
“As for the physical gold, $132.2 billion – 21% of total reserves – remains in vaults in Moscow (two-thirds) and St. Petersburg (one-third).”
In summary, the Russian Central Bank reserves consist of the following foreign currencies and physical gold:
$311.2B in foreign securities held by foreign financial institutions outside Russia
$151.9B in foreign currencies (other than CNY) deposited in foreign banks outside Russia
$87B in Chinese currency (CNY) deposited in Chinese banks inside China
$132.2B in physical gold stored inside Russia
As of today, the ‘West’ has frozen almost half of all the Russian Central Bank reserves consisting of foreign securities held by foreign financial institutions and foreign currencies deposited in foreign banks outside Russia, with few exceptions such as the Chinese currency (CNY) deposited in Chinese banks inside China.
This looks like the ‘Collective West’ has just committed financial hara-kiri.
Minor technical quibble – there has long been some gold mining activity in Britain.
Hi Buzz,
I am not dead. I had Covid (not recommended but not a death sentence to a unit like me). Plus I was sick of dealing with the crazies.
Stay safe.
In a world filled with fraudsters, it is only a fool that does not have physical possession of their gold.
A computer ledger is absolutely meaningless–the same gold could have an almost infinite number of “ledger entries” against it.
As long as the music keeps playing, everybody is fat, dumb and happy.
But–when the music stops and it is time to find a chair–watch out….
While this Hanania creature’s tweet on Billy the gay swimmer is obviously a troll, I don’t trust his judgment. It’s not just because he is a small hat person. Here is a nice overview on him from counter-currents.com appropriately titled “Conservatives are from Mars, Liberals are from Uranus”. He’s guilty (of globohomotude) until proved innocent.
https://counter-currents.com/2021/11/conservatives-are-from-mars-liberals-are-from-uranus/
Same plans revealed just now by Canada+US and Russia+China
https://www.corbettreport.com/putin/
Hmmm…..
The assessment of the Duran is way to optimistic given Russia lost half its gold to the Jews, whom Russia is too chicken to name. Slavs sure are dumb as Pavel Craig Robertsky has said.
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Hi !
Glad you are OK. I hope you are feeling well. My brother-in-law in Romania and his wife had it last year, but their now-11-year-old son never got sick at all — and they live together in a little apartment.
Welcome! Stay away from the crazies as much as you want. I understand, and sometimes I try.
I try…
Good to hear from you.
“Hard to find some-one to agree on above, ”
That might be because half of it is incoherent.
“That includes, of course, keeping Elvira Nabiullina on the job even as she duly follows the Washington consensus to the letter.”
Escobar would have us believe that Putin/Russian leaders will risk nuclear war, and thus their own lives and country, to keep Russia sovereign, but he won’t risk firing the head of the Russian central bank.
Escobar would have us believe that Putin/Russian leaders just stupidly ‘forgot tons of their gold was not in Russia’ while they were planning to invade Ukraine, risking nuclear war and no holds barred economic war.
Something tells me Escobar doesn’t really know what is going on. If Nabiullina is not helping Russia, why keep her? If you’re going to invade Ukraine, why put your gold in your enemies’ hands?
The Republicans lost because they were a bunch of brutal shits who committed unnecessary brutality, you know putting nuns in churches and burning them down. Also the Trotskyite-Stalinist infighting. The NKVD was more interested in killing off heretics or Trotshyites. Franco had just got pissed from all the bullshit going on in Spain during the Red Terror, especially ghastly foreigners, a lot of the gutter folk from the World had come in to support the Commies. Those shits of the International Brigades who were not smart enough to escape Spain when everything was burning down for them, were left to be brutally killed off by Franco’s Moroccan troops who relished it. One need not be sympathetic for these shits as they enjoyed brutally killing others.
And the Republicans sure had support from some members of the British establishment.
7 December 1938, the British Battalion arrived home from Spain. See silent footage of their arrival in Newhaven and then at London’s Victoria Station, where they are welcomed, first by Fred Copeman, a previous commander of the British Battalion, then by Labour Party leader Clement Attlee and Sir Stafford Cripps. The volunteers then left the station, passing through cheering crowds, and are taken by bus for dinner at the headquarters of the Cooperative Wholesale Society in Prescot Street, Whitechapel. Again they are addressed by prominent supporters, including Charlotte Haldane and Ellen Wilkinson.
Attlee would later become the PM of the UK while Sir Richard Stafford Cripps would become the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Can you imagine, British volunteers of the Legion of St George of the German SS would get such a welcome. The truth is British society was already quite leftist. Now it enjoys Pakistani and Jamaican gangs running wild, playing their part to eventually extinguish real Britain. This is the fate of countries who act like idiots, nature has a strange way of weeding them out.
LOL, none of those pathetic movements could defeat the British or French military. Movements funded by American Wall Street and armed by Communist regimes, many of them themselves supressing populations inside their boundaries. Wall Street slimeballs considered those European Empires as major threats to trade. Anyways, those colonies were not that important, economically quite a drain in many cases. And there were traitors to Empires in these European countries. They left easy. In most cases they just walked out of those Imperial possessions, nothing like the military power used against the Germans or Japanese.
And Putin will not “meet” with Zelenskyyyy until a deal is completed, typed up and approved by all necessary parties.
No stupid, phony photo-ops for Vlad.
Many such Empires eventually become a scheme by which the elites of the empires, squeeze out their own commoner populations to recycle the wealth through the Empires to the Elites, mostly jew elites.
Britons during the height of the Empire, were some of the highest taxed population on Earth (to pay for the vast Empire), while Indians of the British Empire, one of the least taxed population on Earth, because most Indians (and Africans) were already extremely poor when the Europeans first conquered them. In most cases these Empires grew out of inter-European (incl Russian) and later American+ Japanese competition and insecurities w.r.t each other over CONTROL of some resource location, market (mostly very small-all of Africa was only 2.4% of British trade) or most importantly Global Strategic location wr.t the other powers.
The USA after WW2, cooled the Europeans and Japanese down (they are a very capable, intelligent and martial lot) with the Freedom of the Seas thingy, so there was no mutual fears of some rival Euro power cutting you off. The American Navy would take care of everything so that the Western Europeans and Japanese do not need to worry anymore. This way the USA smoothed it’s way into global dominance.
Saudi Aramco profits soar on oil price rise: Update
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2313658-saudi-aramco-profits-soar-on-oil-price-rise-update
“We are currently working on a number of opportunities with Sinopec… [and exploring opportunities with] other players in Asia, all for mainly highly integrated complexes with more than 50pc liquid to chemicals,” Nasser said. “That would represent huge growth opportunities as we would ensure placement of our crude over the long-term.”
Anglo-US bankers’ jealousy:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/03/cost-ceding-advantage-russia-far-reaching
”A victorious Putin would mean that the best chance in 22 years for the Kremlin to organically self-destruct had been lost as he would purge any remaining non-believers, promote yes-men, and dive further into a strategy where waging war – and even committing war crimes – are an acceptable means to an end.
It has taken the extremity of war to unite the EU behind a common cause, which highlights the importance of self-reflection among the regional mechanisms designed to avoid this situation
Ordinary Russians would also suffer because their country’s emboldened leadership would continue to pursue its policy of undermining Western values, meaning the necessity to escalate sanctions would wreak continued havoc on the Russian economy – a heavy price to be paid for personally by the population.
As Russia becomes increasingly isolated through the continuing increase in the number of international businesses and organizations cutting ties with it, ordinary Russians are facing a further fall in their already long-stagnating living standards.”
Where will you safely sell your gold (and for what?) after the SHTF?
Reasonable question.
“Barter” or Trade is a better concept than Sell.
If you were desperate for food, or rent, will someone more likely exchange a cart of groceries or a flat for a wheelbarrow of paper notes or a piece of land in the boondocks, or an ounce of gold?
Which has greater possibility of being accepted in trade another time?
Sure, you can grow crops & raise chickens on land, but only if you started last year.
Yep, the creditor class will squeeze labor in order to make their capital perform.
Marx talked about estranged labor, but the concept can be extended to the notion that capital can extend past borders and time.
Ancient piles of gold were created by ancient labor, and then that gold becomes capital in the future, and may even jump national borders.
For example, in the first Colonies in the new world, usurers wanted their gold to become the money. In this way they could extract a continuous rental stream on others labor value.
Their “gold” represented past capital formation, which fell into the hands of the usurer, who then wanted to make claims on the future labor of colonials.
The Colonials instead used bills of credit, which matched colonial labor value in both time and place. High quality bills of credit are examined to make sure goods are produced in direct relation to the new credit as money. In this way, they avoided the gold usury claims, which in turn was disenfranchised capital from another time and place (and labor pool).
Roosevelt wanted dollar creditocracy to supplant sterling zone creditors. The U.S. was at war with other systems, so the dollar as reserve system could become the creditocracy to the world.
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/beyond-the-dollar/
Creditocracies are a creditor class, trying to make their form of “credit” the coin of the world realm. The creditors want their “money” to perform and create a revenue stream for them. They then manipulate government to their ends, including making world war.
https://www.unz.com/mhudson/beyond-the-dollar/
Governed by central banks that in most countries represent the interests of the financial sector, they generate vastly more private debt than public money. The results have been international rentier elites and world creditocracies, first centred on sterling and then the dollar. Their power extends through networks of institutions offering private credit to the world’s households, firms and governments and dealing in financial assets, such as stocks, bonds and other securities and their derivatives, especially for real estate and natural resources. The network is ultimately protected by the international power of that state.
The better way to have developed India would not have been through Sterling on a balance sheet, which ultimately led to busting out China with opium (because Chinese insisted on Silver, creating a balance of trade crises.)
Sequestering national credit through a trading bank would leave all of the debt instruments in one place, to then be negotiated annually. For example, if India needed steel factories and rolling stock for trains, then the dollar credit could be posted in the trading bank (In India), and then Indians can make dollar demands on American labor.
Later, the Americans can make demands on Indian labor and productivity, providing claims never leave the trading bank, and is subject to ongoing legal negotiation. Exponential claims are not allowed. No “stock market” type of person is allowed to post his or her credit into the trading bank. There are only sovereign political authorities on both sides of the trade.
Schacht’s trading bank scheme could have developed India, and hence Germany was a threat to the Creditocracies, who in turn were string pulled by privateers hiding out in markets.
Is it no wonder that Germany was attacked so viciously, as her economic system was a large departure from the international (Atlantacist) creditor.
This type of ‘sovereign’ line of credit is already being implemented by the PBoC via ‘bilateral swap agreements’ (BWA) with other Central Banks using the CNY paired with their respective national currencies. Those BWAs serve as a type of ‘sovereign’ line of credit which is restricted to the current account for the exclusive purpose of financing and settling bilateral trade with China. Those CNY bilateral lines of credit bypass the USD capital markets in financing and settling China’s bilateral trade with those foreign countries whose Central Banks have BWAs with the PBoC. The key concept here is the word ‘sovereign’ due to the fact that the PBoC extends to its sovereign counter-parties its CNY bilateral lines of credit which can not be hypothecated into new debt instruments which are then commoditized and traded by financial speculators in privatized capital markets. Contrast this ‘sovereign’ CNY credit-based bilateral system with the USD debt-based capital markets where US debt instruments are hypothecated based on US T-bills which are then traded as USD gambling chips in hyper-speculative casinos.
It seems like the National People’s Congress is sorting for a higher level human than in the western hierarchy systems.
Greed and intent to deceive seem to be the defining characteristic of the western finance capital casino.
Do you know of any formal debt release mechanisms built into the PBoC counterparty swap system?
I would imagine there is as the intent seems to be win win, and fair dealing.
There’s no formal method to release those ‘sovereign’ debts as they are predicated upon trade-based credits. The PBoC does not turn around and hypothecate those ‘sovereign’ debts into new financial instruments which are then on-sold to capital markets worldwide. Instead, the usual way to release those ‘sovereign’ debts sequestered in the current account is to buy more stuff from those countries, thus canceling those debts via bilateral trade. In addition to the current account, China has also opted to negotiate debt-for-equity deals, such as buying stakes in local companies or acquiring physical assets in those countries, which effectively transform the debts incurred in the current account into equity invested in the capital account. These financial moves are ‘sovereign’ acts undertaken by Chinese State-owned entities in conjunction with Chinese State-owned banks led by the PBoC.
The key concept here is the word ‘sovereign’ as in the nature of the CNY which has allowed China to become the number one bilateral trade and foreign investment partner of some 160 developing countries. Unlike the privatized USD which has turned into the gambling chip of financial speculators in the hyper-speculative casino of capital markets worldwide, the ‘sovereign’ CNY serves the dual roles of trade finance and infrastructure investment which are desperately needed by developing countries all over the non-Western World.
You write:
I beg to differ.
There is NO question whatsoever that you’ll make a HUGE gain in nominal terms, as the USD (in particular) and other currencies (to a lesser extent – as they have been less reckless), crash through the floor.
But, seeing as gold is undervalued from manipulation, I expect a huge windfall gain even in real (adjusted for inflation) terms.
Let’s look at gold’s performance in the last inflationary wave of note in the western world.
Gold went from USD $35 to $850 in the eight years and a half years leading up to Jan. 1980 (a twenty four fold increase).
Now, bear in mind that the all time record high for inflation for the last 100 years in the U.S, that occurred during this period, was around 13 %.
Well, right now in the U.S the government tells us inflation is 7.9%. That’s utter B.S.
They changed the way inflation was measured from the way it was 40 years ago and incorporated sleight-of-hand manipulation through hedonics and substitution to give an artificially much lower figure.
If inflation was measured the same way as in previous decades, the ACTUAL RATE of INFLATION would be north of 15% right now.
Moreover, it is going to get far worse as the U.S enters an inflationary depression in the years to come.
Bottom Line: Don’t listen to the defenders of the Zionist owned Federal Reserve and their reasons for staying on a fiat system (and UR appears to have more than a few of these Zio apologists in the commentary).
Those that don’t have a reasonable holding of the two historical monetary metals (Gold and Silver), will rue the day that they listened to these fiat currency peddlers of foolishness.
I’ll leave you with the words of the prescient Bill Bonner (from a week or two ago – gold has slipped below $2K in the last week):
It’s a hedge against inflation. There will still be gold dealers when bread costs $50 a loaf.
To let the whole world know that you’re up against a cabal of gangsters and that using their currencies and entrusting them with your savings is a very bad strategy. The message is that the world needs to break free from Western bonds.
“Kind of like two bald men fighting for a hairbrush.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Thank you Nancy!
Once again we have positive PROOF that ALL of the political (and financial) players of this game are actually playing us/we-the-people.
James Corbett, as always, evidences and lays it bare for all to see.
Fond regards,
Kali.
Welcome to the first day of spring (northern hemosphere).
Plant them today and you’ll have a crop of spuds in just 3 months.
Happy Solstice. Happy New Year!
Regards,
Kali.
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OK, but let’s hope that when bread hits $50 a loaf there is still a functional government to protect you from the gangstas that will steal your gold on the way to the store, OK?
BTW, came across this. There was no need for UKR to officially become part of NATO. It was already infested with NATO sites, now being degraded. Pretty clever, no?
https://sonar21.com/russia-is-systematically-destroying-nato-sites-in-the-ukraine/
I think the moderator should set apart your comment by giving it a gold border, or whatever they do to flag it. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
The idea of converting debt to equity is a fairly benign way to allow developing countries (and their people) access to desperately needed investment.
Developing countries need access to the latest machine tools and procedures to lift their own labor up, to where said labor becomes productive. Machines + Energy + Labor + Earth = Goods.
The idea is to boot strap yourself to the extent possible, and it sounds like China is willing to give them a hand-up.
By contrast, the western “Casino” makes developing economies into single commodity (like Banana plantations) and then consolidates all the land into ownership by a comprador elite. The Western Casino (((Usury))) finance system deserves to die, and the sooner the better.
Hopefully, there is a reverse mechanism, where the developing country can buy back their equity in the future, after they have been given the breathing space to develop their own industry, and become productive. It could easily take a generation or two for the development to take hold.
Also, I purposefully mentioned the national people’s congress. Presumably, to be a member, you cannot be an ass, sociopath, or be driven by pathological desire to acquire money and power.
Deformed types of people would never consider win-win and fair dealing. They are always self-obsessed, and cannot fathom that others are different from them. Hence they reverse project their own warped personality onto others. China could devolve if they allow the wrong types of people into the governing hierarchy.
The West (I’m American) is always reverse projecting about how China is using debt mechanics to take over the world. It is fairly sickening to watch, especially when people like me are embedded with these deformed creatures who are running our civilizations.
It is not the West, it is India. The thing is, the concept of P.R. China as the new British Imperialist and Chinese companies as the new East India Company has been spreading far and wide among old fashioned Indian nationalists for many years. As I had said before, India’s extreme rebellious anti-colonial mentality crashed into China (with China’s own anti-colonial mentality). During the time of the British Raj, rumour spreading about the British was common to rile up the placid masses against the Government, which was solidified as “historical truths” in our anti-British propaganda history books after Independence. Now China is the victim of Indian hyper Nationalist fake news making. And it was later solidified by an Indian think tank. The Chinese foolishly think it is India’s Anglo-ness which is against it, no, it is India’s anti-Angloness element, which is against China.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337816614_A_critical_look_at_Chinese_%27debt-trap_diplomacy%27_the_rise_of_a_meme
A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: the rise of a meme by Deborah Brautigam from
Johns University
“In 2017, a meme was born in a think tank in northern India: Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’. This meme quickly spread through the media, intelligence circles and Western governments. Within 12 months it generated nearly 2 million search results on Google in 0.52 seconds and was beginning to solidify into a deep historical truth. Stories can contain truths and falsehoods. ”
As for The Ukraine being all along virtually part of NATO, I am not surprised. And I am certain the people inside the Russian high command knew this better than you or I could have.
When the neocons like Jack on this site hit me with “what was so special about the date of the Russian invasion of The Ukraine,” I just throw my hands up and don’t respond, because, if you are going to invade a place, you don’t want any rhyme or reason to give a clue. I say Putin’s invasion was spot-on, and these clowns here are going nuts dealing with it.
You don’t tell the world when or why you are going to invade. You would think “smart” people like Jack D. would understand that. But “smart” people like Jack D. have other agendas. They clearly do, and this issue, this very story, has made that more than clear. We have no reason whatsoever to take them seriously here, ever again.
Regardless, none of us here, them or us or anyone, wants any of this to happen. This too is one of their misinterpretations. Our only point in the face of all their pissing and wind-blowing in our direction, is that the whole reason for this terrible war is the manipulations by “our” leaders and “The West.”
Thank you for your response. Clearly you know what you are talking about. All my words come from a man, me, who really does have a significant number of his “dollars” stored in real, physical gold.
I hope you are correct, because that would mean that my wife and I will not only survive the possible, coming, massive inflation, but that we also will profit from it. I only hope to survive it.
Apparently the only difference between your perspective and mine is the degree of difference between dollar-loss and the realtive gold-gain.
I am only banking on gold holding value, not increasing in any real sense. If it does increase in a real sense, so much the better for me, because I am well-prepared.
Thank you for your thoughtful and detailed response.
Did you read the article? These strikes have been very precise & very deadly. All the shiny hardware that NATO has given Ukraine is now scrap.
I think so too, but it doesn’t make me feel any better. That’s what the NATO-freaks at Sailer don’t get. I think that these events are a horrible, overwhelming tragedy, more so because this whole business was avoidable.
I liked the fact that Russia was integrating with the West. I don’t care what anyone on either “side” thinks – I liked that. It’s all off now, forever, and the world is the worse for it.
These people just don’t get that.
There is NOTHING ‘Green’ about ‘gas’ ie methane, a worse greenhouse gas by far than CO2. The lunacy of the various currents of ecological catastrophe denialism will amuse future alien intelligences as they dissect our willful self-destruction.
Both Pakistan and India are now in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. 20 years ago anyone would have claimed that was impossible. Do you know what one of the new initiatives is??? For all the countries to trade more in their own currencies.
Guess what – Pakistan just signed up for a new gas pipeline from Russia – and India just decided to buy Russian oil in rupees… It’s not about what anyone thinks – it’s about what is actually happening. Countries don’t have to like each other to work for their best interest.
Sorry – but your answer is incorrect… Those reserves that were seized were mainly euros and foreign equity investment… Russia because divesting from US dollars since the 2014 sanctions. And gold are counted as currency reserves in every major country.
I have to add that this is one of the saddest things about this. Like you, I see, to the best of my limited ability, that indeed Russia was ripe for integration into the West.
And “our” West cast it away. Terrible. A terrible thing with perhaps centuries-long implications into the future.
And I am a man who thinks that “The Soviet Union” was indeed a pretty bad thing — and bad thing that “our” West helped take half of Europe, including my wife’s people, and subject it to communist suffering. (Believe me if you don’t know first hand: Communism in Eastern Europe meant suffering and finding one’s own way around the absurdity and shortages of it all. I could tell you stories…)
After all that collapsed, after ostensibly “we” won that “cold” war, what did “our” leaders do? Rather than welcome the East, they looted it, and they have done everything they can since to cut it at the knees.
Short anecdote (heh, short story): On my first day in Romania to meet my wife’s parents, on the way down the four flights of stairs from their concrete, communist bloc apartment, my new father-in-law — a retired army colonel — said to me in broken English, “[Buzz] we have waited half-a-century to meet you.” I nearly cried, and I told him I understood.
Yes I did see the Qatar and Germany deal… Of course there is no coincidence that Qatar was just named a US – non NATO ally…. Because you know the US and EU just love those middle eastern democracies and paragon of liberal values (eyes rolling – LOL)
The problem with the Russian integration into the West was/is pretty much what Trump said about Mexico, IMHO:
“When [Russia] sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”
The West is actually better off for it, because “Russia’s (and Ukraine’s) best (intelligentsia)” (scientists, intellectuals, etc.) will now be brain-drained by the West, while “Russia’s worst (brutes)” (unscrupulous, ruthless business people, apparatchiks, etc.) will increasingly frequent and “enrich” countries and places like China, Israel and the Middle East (Dubai, etc.), instead of NYC, London, Paris, etc. This is a clear win for the West, in my book.
‘Complete lack of normal human morals’: Oligarch’s ex-partner on life around Putin
Mar 18, 2022
Video Link“CNN’s Erin Burnett speaks with Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, the former partner to Russian oligarch Sergei Pugachev, about their relationship with Vladimir Putin.”
Just one anecdotal example what a pest upper-class Russians can be (I know of another example like this from from an Australian school, where the Russian upper-class kids even terrorized the teachers, not just fellow students):
“During the 1990s, the children of Russian oligarchs, who made up a third of the student body, gained notoriety for “terrorizing” other students, something that is disputed, resulting in the withdrawal of at least one non-Russian student.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Le_Rosey#History
Putin made the same mistake many other short-sighted, absolute rulers before him have made for millennia; I speak from (family) experience since I have Huguenot ancestry:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots#Effects
“I know of another example like this [] from an Australian school, where the Russian upper-class kids even terrorized the teachers, not just fellow students”
Addendum:
Really interesting article:
Life with the Russian Émigré Community of Australia
https://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/life-with-the-russian-emigre-community-of-australia/ or https://archive.ph/AoyRy
“I grew up in New York, bred by its strong Russian White Émigré community, which consists primarily of descendants of White Army soldiers who left Russia in the 1920s after their defeat by Soviet communists. […] we often still refer to ourselves as zarubezhniki, or, “those beyond the border” […] Australian Russians do not particularly care about such things. In fact, they seem less intense about everything: etiquette, education, even politics. […] As I discovered in time, the history of Russian émigrés in Australia followed a different trajectory than that of their American counterparts. Their route abroad had not taken them through Europe, but through China.”
Also, even though Russia is a commodities super power, it is still dependent on the West (Australia in this case) for some of its commodity needs, not just the West’s advanced technologies, etc.:
Australia bans the export of aluminum ores to Russia
March 20, 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/20/1087781560/australia-alumina-ban-russia
“Australian officials said the restrictions, which include a ban on bauxite, is designed to curtail Russia’s ability to produce aluminum, which it in turn exports to buyers across a range of industries, including automotive and construction. It is also a vital ingredient in arms and munition manufacturing. […] According to the government, aluminum is a critical export for Russia, which relies on Australia for 20% of its alumina needs.”
I recently read that Tesla’s Elon Musk had started sourcing aluminum from Russia a year ago or so, for the new Berlin manufacturing plant: https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/tesla-bought-russian-aluminum-make-body-shells-model-y
There’s one tiny bit of hope in all of this: I do not sense one iota of war fever in NYC. Not a jot or a tittle. If I didn’t trawl Twitter, I wouldn’t know that there’s a war on.
No one gives a shit.
What about your neck of the woods?
India will never work against American power much until their “Chinese threat” is neutralised. In the long term, yes. Deep inside, most Indians hate the West, the West became popular only very recently only because of the anti-China nature of Indian nationalism. Indians are comparatively more pro-Russian, pro-Japanese, pro- French, pro-Israeli (at the same time pro-Iranian!!!), pro-German than they are pro American. And American culture entered India only since the 1990s, before that among old time Indians, it was more traditional British influence. Indian nationalism is anti-Pakistan, to a lessor extent anti-China and to a much lessor extent anti-Turkish.
However if the the USA puts sanctions on India because of recent events, Indian Nationalism will again go anti-West like it was just two decades ago. The West must realise, that the recent positive attitude towards the West is a recent and thus weak phenomenon, it is weak feeling, while being pro-USSR/ pro-Russia is far deeper in the Indian conscious. Indians considered the USSR their respected “elder brother nation” because the USSR had really given India a blank cheque in the past, kid you not. Most Indians are Putin fans (as well as Trump fans). Since President George W Bush junior (who was also very popular in India), India has had better relations with the USA during Republican Governments. India was very friendly to President Barack Obama at first but later Indians felt he did nothing to help India.
But even though most Indians are pro Russia and pro Putin, most Indians support giving humanitarian aid to Ukraine despite Ukraine having a more pro-Pakistan stance in the past and the “cursed” Erdogan (hated in India) is supporting Ukraine. So Indian people are a bit confused at the moment, staunchly pro-Russia by tradition but at the same time feeling the pain of Ukraine.
But many Indians who had gone to study medicine in Ukraine are extremely pro-Ukraine. I was watching the interview of many Indian students returning from Ukraine and many of them were cheering the Ukrainian people against the Russian invaders which puts them at odds with the majority pro-Russian Indians. Many of them are joining the Ukrainian International Brigades to resist the Russian invaders.
https://thefederal.com/international/more-than-500-indians-volunteer-to-join-ukraine-legion/
More than 500 Indians volunteer to join Ukraine defence legion
More than 500 Indians have applied to join the “international legion” created to fight Russian forces in Ukraine, with at least one Indian having already joined the war effort on the side of Kyiv, according to a report.
Hey MBS is taking Saudi Arabia there, towards liberal values. Not Classical liberal values but Cultural Marxist values masquerading as Liberalism today. So after many decades, we can look forward to see Saudi women twerking butt on social media to gibberish ghetto rap of thugs.
Very interesting comment; thanks, Malla!
Interestingly enough, I just discovered that one of the chief architects behind the Russia, and potential, future China, sanctions is of Sikh descent, Daleep Singh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleep_Singh
Deputy NSC adviser on diplomacy with Russia still being an option
Mar 21, 2022
Video Link
Also, since I consider you to be the most knowledgeable UR commenter vis-a-vis India, what do you make of a potential Japan-India alliance (backed by the West) to counter a China-Russia alliance, is there any substance to it, or is the following pronouncement below just hot air? Would Indian nationalists consider Russia/Putin to be betraying the long-standing alliance between the Hindu and Orthodox civilizations, if Russia were to cozy up too closely to China? Thanks again!
Japan, India will not tolerate attempts to alter status quo by force
Mar 20, 2022
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/03/4f15c124a540-kishida-to-meet-indias-modi-seek-alignment-on-ukraine.html
“The talks came as Japan is trying to seek that India, which has traditionally had close ties with Russia, aligns with it, the United States, Europe and others in condemning the Russian aggression in Ukraine that began on Feb. 24.”
Thanks. Due to your post I just spent 30 minutes reading up on Huguenot history. Wikipedia and few other places. A very interesting and clever people, as they were forced out of France, into Holland, South Africa, the New World. You have a fine ancestry with them. (I had always been curious about them. Now I know)
Blue and yellow signs and ribbons on random front lawns here. One town held a vigil. It’s the latest suburban cause célèbre, like “Hate Has No Home Here” and “Thank You First Responders,” but on a small scale.
I’m not polyannaish as you’re but for the sake of relative peace and harmony in the world, I hope you’ll be proven right.
Are those Indians who joined up to fight on the side of the Ukraine, Muslims? Being that a lot of the ISIS jihadists are heading over there too…
I suspect most of them to be Hindus or Sikhs, but there could be Muslims among them. Most Indian students who have studied in Ukraine (mostly medicine) overwhelmingly love Ukraine/ Ukrainians and are taking Ukraine’s side. Very interesting as most Indians are hardcore pro-Russia but they have had a change of heart there, they felt Ukraine is a victim country. So nothing specifically Muslim if you ask me.
These are new age third rate jew worshiping Indian shits who have gone to the USA and joined the power structure. American influence on Indians is more recent, mostly from the 1990s. Earlier it was British. Especially among our more civilized old school Westernised Middle Class, before 1990s, it was more British influence. Even today, some of our official documents use Victorian era English language which even the British don’t use today.
For example check out this old Indian advert before the 1990s liberalisation of India. From old Socialist India, advert directed at the old school Middle Classes/ Upper classes. Check out the accent of English at the end. British right?
Nescafe Instant Ice Shake Advert, India (1988)
After liberalisation/ privatisation in 1990s, actually a lot of third rate barbaric Indians joined the Middle Class, ready to sell anything for a buck.
Very unlikely. The truth is Indo-Japanese relations are independent from the West in Indian eyes.
Indian Nationalism is very pro Japanese but also pro Russian. Indians will never give up its pro-Russian tendency or even pro-Putin tendencies. Trump and Putin could win elections in India, masses would come in their rallies.
Won’t work. The west is smart for sending Japan for such a proposal, since India is very pro Japan. But Indians will not betray Russia. Not gonna happen.
“A case can be made that this cartel-designed financial system – implying zero sovereignty – simply cannot be tackled head on by any nation on the planet . . ”
Knowledgeable people in the gold sphere will remember the story of the Nazis stealing the Czech gold and needing it to be cleared through the BIS. One of the people running BIS and who was needed to clear the transfer was a British official, and his role was exposed in the British media. The transfer went through anyway providing the Nazis with more funds to finance their war against England et al. Zero sovereignty indeed.
The Russians have admitted to three generals killed. Ukraine claiming a fourth a week ago unconfirmed. The bombings are visible on video. Ukrainian checkpoints have intercepted agents in civilian vehicles planting radio devices to attract bombs to the mentioned targets. You can put your head in the sand and ignore things but they won’t ignore you.
I don’t sense enthusiasm….
Anyway Buzz, this is it for me here. I’ve never been comfortable with some of the company here & I’m depressed again. This war is going to grind on. Say hello to Syria in Europe.
Stay safe.
Re: Hugenots
This was the same thing said in the book Le Mal Francais by Alain Peyrefitte, a French journalist and minister under De Gaulle. He went further and said the religious persecution of Hegenots lead to a vast drain of skills, tools and capital to other countries notably Belgium, Holland and Switzerland, going so far as to say that the outsized proportion of Nobel prizes going to Swiss citizens was because of French Protestants fleeing France. The rule on only Catholics in good standing being allowed in New France was probably what led Napoleon to finally sell the asset in the Louisiana Purchase, since it was an underpopulated and underperforming asset and would have taken decades to reverse and undo the previous policy.
Re: Russian morals
There was a story in a weekly paper here around the time of the 2008 housing collapse and foreclosure epidemic. A Russian having his house foreclosed ripped out all the fixtures, plumbing, wiring, etc. and offered to sell it to the bank for $10,000. No crime involved since until the foreclosure date he was the legal owner of the property.
Thank you for your contributions here. I am sad to hear you’re leaving. Please drop back in if you ever feel like it. In the meantime, when you’re feeling down, remember all that Chuckles the Clown ever asked for out of life was:
a little song,
a little dance,
a little seltzer down your pants.
Go well.
Seems so – but I think he will have a serious problem with extremists if he does so. Assad and Saddam were able to work with more secular elements – but I don’t think MBS is as skillful. We shall see though. He has enough problems with the Houthis.
India accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. Previously that might have been enough to start a war…. But it didn’t this time. A lot of rhetoric yes – but no fighting…
OK, I came back, but just this once to say:
LOL
and
Why now, Buzz? Who benefits? Why did the NY Times confirm the Laptop From Hell story NOW? Is the Big Guy being blackmailed?
Stay safe.
My family ended up settling in Prussia, which generously offered refuge to them. I still have some family in Germany today. Some of us moved to the U.S., others moved farther north and served the Danish-Norwegian royal family. This is the church they worship(ed) in: “When Huguenots settled in Uckermark, the church was restored and used by them between 1699 and 1788.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Peter_and_St._Paul,_Angerm%C3%BCnde
The town the church is located in is not far from one of Germany’s biggest oil refineries, that is for now majority-owned by Rosneft: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/rosnefts-purchase-shells-schwedt-refinery-stake-under-review-econmin-2022-03-21/
We sometimes joke that the “P” in Prussia stands for/means Protestant Russia, and that Russia under Protestantism would likely be more protestantly prosperous, like Prussia 😉
Interestingly, Emmanuel Macron actually had a Huguenot mentor, “Around 1999 Macron worked as an editorial assistant to Paul Ricoeur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ric%C5%93ur the French Protestant philosopher who was then writing his last major work, La Mémoire, l’Histoire, l’Oubli.” , and I consider Macron philosophically to be more Huguenot/Protestant than Catholic, which gives me great hope for France, as long as he is in power. We are big supporters of Emmanuel.
Thanks very much for your feedback!
SOCIOLOGY – Max Weber
Thank you. I like knowing that you are somewhere there in NYC. You stay safe too.
Goodbye.
Thank you very much for your feedback, Malla!
I figured you would reply something along those lines and in that vein, since one of my gurus is the late Samuel P. Huntington and I’m a devout disciple of his “Clash of Civilizations” framework/philosophy/doctrine, that also comes to a very similar conclusion to yours, namely that the Hindu and Orthodox civilizations are practically inseparable/undividable.
Rajiv Mehrotra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra IN CONVERSATION – LATE SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
It was good to see that good man Ed Asner in that clip you posted.
Ed Asner died last year. He was a committed activist in pursuit of 9/1 Truth.
In the video below, he narrates this piece produced by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
For those of you reading this that still believe any part of the official U.S government narrative on 9/11, please take the time to watch these 15 important minutes, and be thankful that men like Ed Asner lived amongst us:
Yes agreed. MBS is moving too fast on Saudi society. Could backfire.
Thanks, yeah Huntington is great. Interestingly in the interview he says that the West will face a challenge from China and the Islamic world but Russia (Orthodox Civilization), Japan and India will be swing states. Interesting.
Very true, and hope it always remains that way, Interestingly, of all the forms of Christianity, Hindus (including even anti-Christian including Hindu fundamentalists!!) tend to find Orthodox Christianity the most interesting and attractive. The type of worship, the icons, incense, the deep solemn faith and prayers etc….
Now Hindus consider themselves as a very deep spiritual people, part of this is true but it also partly bullshit. But many Indians, who have travelled the world have told me that they have sensed this deep spiritual nature in Russia and Japan. Orthodox Christianly, icons, Shinto shrines, Kami etc…. Even though both societies, Russia and Japan are overall very secular today and not as religious as in the past. This also explains why Indians are so pro-Russian and pro-Japanese. Comparatively many Hindus have told me that they find the Western World, China and even the Islamic World very “spiritually bland”, “too plastic” civilizations. Whatever that means.
‘India is very pro-Japan..’. What about the Indian people? All ‘united in joy etc’ are they?
Goa, Sikkim and Kashmir anybody? Do you call Singh’s type ‘coconuts’ ie brown on the outside, white inside, like we do here?
The biggest trade item between Russia and the UK is gold. It flows in both directions. The Bank of England accounting system for gold is more trusted than anything Russian offers, so buyers and sellers of Russian gold prefer it to be located in London.
Regarding such ‘civilisational’ thingies, let me repeat what I h’ve posted here and there:
China is the most secular/irreligious major civilisation:
–Although ‘confucianism’ have played a major role, it was just one of the political philosophies during the lifetime of Confucius. It was picked during the Han Dynasty as the state philosophy because of some of its positive aspects like though it recognised the class system, it also emphasized class mobility through merits/education(regardless of class background of students) ….and it observed imperial hierarchy…
**Confucius himself was an agnostic and he asked his followers to respect the gods and spirits but stay away from them. He also had the utopian vision of a welfare society(..my hi school history teacher,an anti-communist, called him a primeval communist).
**Confucius was a male chauvinist pig.
**Confucianism could became quite inert towards the decaying end of a dynasty
–Some feature of chinese secularity and irreligiousity:
**Chinese religions to the non-clerics are not institionalised; there’re no initiation/conversion rituals like baptism in christianity. Switching religion is not uncommon; most religious chinese, with moslems being exception, do not inherit their religions from their parents.
**Confucius and Jesus had one thing in common: both had parentage issue; Christians tell you Jesus is the Son of God but ancient chinese historians told us Confucius was a bastard/illegit child.
…..
In the year 1919, there started a major civilisational retrospective self-appraisal movement know as the May 4th Movement in China to study why China was in such bad shape. All the early chinese communist leaders were May 4th adherents. Lu Xun, the most then prominent chinese leftist writer/intellectual labelled Confucist morality “Cannibalism”. The Cultural Revolution in the 1960s could be considered the last stage of May 4th Movement.
—It’s equivalent to:
*** Ex-muslim arabs give their holy prophet Mohamed(PBUH) the worst(pick yours)possible name/title
*** Indians declare the hindu caste system the worst ever racial apartheid in human history.
……
Radical it may sound, it shows chinese are successful civilisational darwinist survivor.
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**As with the Sunni arabs, it’s unthinkable to abandon Islam for simple reason: Mohamed is their greatest tribal ethnical hero and through Islam, Arabia became a major civilisation. That civilisational torch was once seized by the turks, so they allied with the anglo&french infidels to fight against the muslim ottoman turks in WW1. Fine with the religious Saudis
**What could hold hindustan together? –Same race? Ever heard of the ‘aryan-dravidian’ divide?
–Same Language? You’re kidding me, india has 16 official languages — Same lineage? Ever heard of the ‘Out of India’ push to replace ‘Aryan Invasion’ ?
Ha ha, but wait, 80% of indians belong to a religion known loosely as Hinduism; so here you’re: It is inevitable that indian Nationalism evolves into Hindu nationalism. Hinduism is the only big pillar of the indian nation/civilisation
** Judea has the same civilisational feature that a single religion plays a paramount role. The main difference is that most of the jewry live in diaspora and they must adopt to survive. The black hasidic costume actually is of polish origin. Though the old testament has anti-homo passages, Israel is the most gay- friendly country. Judaism has become an ethnic tag more than a religion.
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