I’ve been a keen listener of Sergey Lavrov since the days before UK State banned RT News from the airwaves! He’s a brilliant, eloquent speaker that says it like it is. If only we had a statesman of his calibre in the UK Cabinet.
" The Outlaw US Empire's behind the scenes ruling Oligarchy has more power than POTUS and thus Trump is triply frustrated since he cannot have his way." and further down towards the bottom - "Putin saw the men with briefcases and wearing dark glasses coming to meet Trump before they arrived."
i don't think trump has much freedom or independence here.. he either gets killed, or follows orders..
Yes, Trump's constraints have yet to be noticed by Judge Napolitano and friends. However, today Ray McGovern said MI6 is "working hand in glove with the Nazis", which IMO is a very powerful condemnation. Indeed, their entire chat was focused on denazification and is worth watching, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS25z4xofIg
MI6 was also instrumental in the attacks against Trump from 2015 onward. Perhaps Trump will get pissed-off at them.
of course mcgovern is right... between M16 and CIA, and all the other intel agencies working for who? the elite?? sure looks like it... our own CSIS here in canada - a bunch of 2nd rate dodo's getting their walking orders from the first 2...
trying to chop off the head of these groups is going to be very difficult..
It's the same in Australia. These people circulate through the various think tanks/big four accounting firms/NGOs/universities that develop and deploy the programming. It's a top to bottom exercise with a uniparty, and state/local governments all aligned with these precepts of governance.
G'day dornoch, it goes back a long way, a supposed hero Hawke was a CIA stooge and his Rhodes thesis was on wage fixing way back in 1956. He was instrumental in getting rid of the Conciliation and Arbitration commission and regular CPI wage increases. He floated the dollar and deregulated the banking industry, legislated uranium exports just to name a few.
Now we have Mr Potatohead and Albo the hiding PM campaigning on anything but war in Ukraine and Gaza genocide.
Yes, Kim Beazley shuttered ODP to create ADI; the staff had a fifteen minutes heads up before Beazley's press conference. Fraser lost the election in 83; my guess is even he wouldn't push through all the Campbell Report recommendations so the fix was in for the drover's dog.
Thanks Karl; this is probably the best concise explanation of the how and why of "how the world works". It seems that JD Vance has a better understanding of the economic/financial dynamics than I'd given credit. However the men in black suits will have their way, or else. That means that the parasite class is going to turn inwards full cannibal.
Watch Prof Sachs tell the Judge how ignorant(stupid) beyond words how much(little) Trump knows about what he's going to do to the worlds economy via his "tariffs"
I watched and mostly agree with Sachs. However, the genuine, honest, US GDP is closer to $15 Trillion than the $30 Trillion Sachs cited. International trading system is unlikely to be "wrecked" by Trump's sanctions/tariffs, although they will negatively impact 90% of the Empire's populous. Sachs did name Trump's #1 policy goal--reducing taxes on the top 10%--that seems to be closely followed by being the Zionists's caddy in West Asia. I know Doctorow has a different spin on Trump's see-saw-ness--that he's doing it to throw his enemies off the scent. But it's already old hat and no longer seems to be fooling anyone. It's certainly not fooling the Russians or Chinese or the Iranians or the Indians. And the Europeans have their own broken record spinning the same tune.
Sachs did make one important point--The Empire buys more from the world than it sells. The world thus must tighten its belt and prepare to sell and buy less to the Empire as it should since it abets genocide. This political cartoon is perfect, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202504/1331341.shtml
Exports The top exports of United States are Crude Petroleum ($125B), Refined Petroleum ($107B), Petroleum Gas ($83.2B), Gas Turbines ($69.3B), and Cars ($65.3B), exporting mostly to Canada ($269B), Mexico ($243B), China ($154B), Germany ($94.8B), and Japan ($80.2B).
WRT an ultimatum worded thusly: "U.S. officials say the deadline for an Iran ‘decision’ is in the spring …", I can only point out that 'Spring' lasts three months. However I'm sure the public memory is substantially shorter!
Whole lotta posturing going on ... ... and then came Summer.
Each chapter in the Memoires tell a specific story, so the book isn’t chronological. I read his wife’s Preface then began with Chapters 8-10, then went to 3, which is where I stopped last night. It helps to have some knowledge of the wider context. The Preface is an excellent hook.
Every time I see another goddammm UkroNam flag around San Francisco I grow worried for this country.
Nazie pelosie bad. Nazie takeover might be worse than the demoRats already proved, but Trump couldn't get with God due to the men in suits with briefcases....sadly. oh well, hope he don't blow us all up since he couldn't give us peace, yarope wouldn't allow it.
First time I've seen the intention stated so clearly by Russia to wean off of the oil/gas as the anchor of the country's trade position. This is a direction looking to the future, and rightly, given China is building out renewable energy at light speed. That said, o/g remains a global strategic industry in the present. POS II pipeline advanced a step with Mongolia approval.
“According to Xinhua, Peng Guangrong, a geologist at CNOOC's Shenzhen branch, noted that 60 percent of the world's newly discovered oil and gas reserves have come from deep layers. With abundant resources and a low level of exploration, deep to ultra-deep layers are expected to drive future growth in oil and gas reserves and production.” https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/1331237.shtml
I cited that paragraph since Hubbert had predicted an unknown but potentially very large amount of recoverable oil and gas from very deep reservoirs that would cause Peak Oil’s actual peak very hard to predict, and that’s what we’ve seen happen. What still needs to happen is to wean the world from using oil as a transport fuel as there’re many more valuable products that can be made from oil than wasting it on ICEs.
Except here we have abnormal urban development that’s known as suburban sprawl that’s not conducive to efficient mass transit—a horse that was beat to death at The Oil Drum blog during the 2000s. And that development model is still going strong.
What I await is the coming Financial Depression when the music stops and everyone tries to find a chair with many unable to find one. IMO, Trump’s accelerating the process.
America's been hollowed out good but don't worry the parasites will jump ship and find another host and just like its predecessor Great Britain who sold the family silver long ago having overextended itself in decades of conflict, America learned nowt.
I am sure that the content of my article is not news for you, but it was for me and many of my readers. I would value any insights you may have on Igor Berkut.
I don't doubt for a moment that there's some Zionist intrigue going on in Ukraine because the "Jewish Question" within Russia and Eastern Europe has existed for hundreds of years. Rich people have intrigued often and for purposes of person greed most often, including Jews. Berkut fits the description of such a fellow. The well-founded idea that behind every massive family fortune lies a crime of similar proportions IMO applies to Berkut, and as with all such people isn't to be trusted.
The software b uses is called Typepad and will move comments to the moderation queue when they contain links that are considered malicious in some manner—all sorts many with ru or su domains but others as well. I always copy my comment before posting after which I refresh the page to see if it got posted. If it doesn’t, I refresh again. If it doesn’t, then I copy/paste it all back into the comment box and try one last time. If it still doesn’t post, I remove what I think are the offending link(s) or I post a note saying comment didn’t post—again. It happens more often than you might think, but then I post lots of links. Today, it was a threesome, and the comment didn’t make sense without them, so I posted a snarky comment and mover to my substack to compose my article.
Hello Karl, you don't know me yet, and I send you only a little observation concerning your refuted comment to MoA. One of your links seem to be malformed; we read an additional "<" "/" "a" ">" (without the quotes) in your introductory cite. Maybe this formal error was the reason for refusal by MoA - this might simply been checked. Good luck anyway for your super good work!
" It must be noted that the EU is in worse shape financially than the Empire, which is why the hysteria over war planning is so intense."
I stumbled over this statement. Actually, I'd have thought it's the other way round. Would you be so kind as to give some hint at what makes you think so?
What economy does the EU command? What is its tax base? How does the EU propose to create a manufacturing base for the army it wants to build? Currently, what’s the overall GDP direction of key EU states? How many are refusing to provide their portion of “support” for Ukraine? Hungary’s Orban today: “"They want to turn the EU from a peaceful into a military project. This is not evolution, this is decomposition. We must resist, even if they want to punish us." Warfare means no more welfare and an end to production of consumer goods in favor of military goods having zero utility.
G'day Karl, does the EU command any economy, I thought not as it is a supranational body and it only has foreign policy control bequeathed to it by servile nations in the hope of peace between previously belligerent nation states as expressed so well by Lavrov. Each nation state sets its own budgets and taxes its own economy separate from the EU though I am sure they pay levies for VDL and KK to make war.
Way back I thought the EEC was a wonderful idea and Schengen too, one visa only required for European travel and then only one currency instead of a dozen, but then it went off the rails.
I see the EU and NATO as mechanisms of control emplaced by the Outlaw US Empire. The problem is loss of sovereignty. Visa-free travel didn’t require the EU/EC as it could’ve been arranged through OSCE. The big problem confronting the United States of Europe conception is their longstanding animosities based on 1,000 years of war. Look at the ASEAN and how it operates. Yes, big difference in their histories. Even when young, the EU was still based on Zero-sum, not Win-Win. Seeking Harmony instead of Dominance makes a big difference.
Thanks for the reply Karl, ASEAN is often referred to as NATO, no action talk only. It is partly due to Asian culture of no offence to anyone where possible so no one ever challenges any undesirable actions by a particular country. Look at the Myanmar civil war, it is NATO 100%. Well that's what I have read anyway.
Myanmar’s an extremely complex combination of ethnicities having nation-state status but hasn’t ever really been settled. Its geography has made it Southeast Asia’s equivalent of the Balkans—far more fractured than New Guinea. The many ethnic factions make it ripe for Western exploitation to sow chaos in Eurasia’s rimland. Both China and India have a mutual interest in attaining a pacified Myanmar, and the two seem to have finally concluded they need to work together rather than not.
I’ve been a keen listener of Sergey Lavrov since the days before UK State banned RT News from the airwaves! He’s a brilliant, eloquent speaker that says it like it is. If only we had a statesman of his calibre in the UK Cabinet.
If you had Lavrovs in the UK, it wouldn’t be the UK. Welcome to the Gym!
Cheers, Karl.
I think you do us all an immense service by providing these documents and reviews as I personally would never have the time to search and read.
thanks karl.. a few quotes from your article -
" The Outlaw US Empire's behind the scenes ruling Oligarchy has more power than POTUS and thus Trump is triply frustrated since he cannot have his way." and further down towards the bottom - "Putin saw the men with briefcases and wearing dark glasses coming to meet Trump before they arrived."
i don't think trump has much freedom or independence here.. he either gets killed, or follows orders..
Yes, Trump's constraints have yet to be noticed by Judge Napolitano and friends. However, today Ray McGovern said MI6 is "working hand in glove with the Nazis", which IMO is a very powerful condemnation. Indeed, their entire chat was focused on denazification and is worth watching, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS25z4xofIg
MI6 was also instrumental in the attacks against Trump from 2015 onward. Perhaps Trump will get pissed-off at them.
of course mcgovern is right... between M16 and CIA, and all the other intel agencies working for who? the elite?? sure looks like it... our own CSIS here in canada - a bunch of 2nd rate dodo's getting their walking orders from the first 2...
trying to chop off the head of these groups is going to be very difficult..
It's the same in Australia. These people circulate through the various think tanks/big four accounting firms/NGOs/universities that develop and deploy the programming. It's a top to bottom exercise with a uniparty, and state/local governments all aligned with these precepts of governance.
G'day dornoch, it goes back a long way, a supposed hero Hawke was a CIA stooge and his Rhodes thesis was on wage fixing way back in 1956. He was instrumental in getting rid of the Conciliation and Arbitration commission and regular CPI wage increases. He floated the dollar and deregulated the banking industry, legislated uranium exports just to name a few.
Now we have Mr Potatohead and Albo the hiding PM campaigning on anything but war in Ukraine and Gaza genocide.
Yes, Kim Beazley shuttered ODP to create ADI; the staff had a fifteen minutes heads up before Beazley's press conference. Fraser lost the election in 83; my guess is even he wouldn't push through all the Campbell Report recommendations so the fix was in for the drover's dog.
Thanks Karl; this is probably the best concise explanation of the how and why of "how the world works". It seems that JD Vance has a better understanding of the economic/financial dynamics than I'd given credit. However the men in black suits will have their way, or else. That means that the parasite class is going to turn inwards full cannibal.
Watch Prof Sachs tell the Judge how ignorant(stupid) beyond words how much(little) Trump knows about what he's going to do to the worlds economy via his "tariffs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJezuheYPqY
I watched and mostly agree with Sachs. However, the genuine, honest, US GDP is closer to $15 Trillion than the $30 Trillion Sachs cited. International trading system is unlikely to be "wrecked" by Trump's sanctions/tariffs, although they will negatively impact 90% of the Empire's populous. Sachs did name Trump's #1 policy goal--reducing taxes on the top 10%--that seems to be closely followed by being the Zionists's caddy in West Asia. I know Doctorow has a different spin on Trump's see-saw-ness--that he's doing it to throw his enemies off the scent. But it's already old hat and no longer seems to be fooling anyone. It's certainly not fooling the Russians or Chinese or the Iranians or the Indians. And the Europeans have their own broken record spinning the same tune.
Sachs did make one important point--The Empire buys more from the world than it sells. The world thus must tighten its belt and prepare to sell and buy less to the Empire as it should since it abets genocide. This political cartoon is perfect, https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202504/1331341.shtml
There are some crazy numbers here about imports-exports
https://oec.world/en/profile/country/usa
Exports The top exports of United States are Crude Petroleum ($125B), Refined Petroleum ($107B), Petroleum Gas ($83.2B), Gas Turbines ($69.3B), and Cars ($65.3B), exporting mostly to Canada ($269B), Mexico ($243B), China ($154B), Germany ($94.8B), and Japan ($80.2B).
An oiler with nukes.
Excellent article! A lot to digest!
Thanks for the 'Archive' downloads.
WRT an ultimatum worded thusly: "U.S. officials say the deadline for an Iran ‘decision’ is in the spring …", I can only point out that 'Spring' lasts three months. However I'm sure the public memory is substantially shorter!
Whole lotta posturing going on ... ... and then came Summer.
Witte’s memoirs are a big WOW! It’s a wonder the Tsardom lasted as long as it did.
Cheers. That's an encouragement to read his memoirs asap.
Hat-tip to Mr Crooke for the mention of 'resource curse' and the 'dutch disease', which were new to me and worth investigating.
Each chapter in the Memoires tell a specific story, so the book isn’t chronological. I read his wife’s Preface then began with Chapters 8-10, then went to 3, which is where I stopped last night. It helps to have some knowledge of the wider context. The Preface is an excellent hook.
Every time I see another goddammm UkroNam flag around San Francisco I grow worried for this country.
Nazie pelosie bad. Nazie takeover might be worse than the demoRats already proved, but Trump couldn't get with God due to the men in suits with briefcases....sadly. oh well, hope he don't blow us all up since he couldn't give us peace, yarope wouldn't allow it.
Where did the Nazies come from ?
From crapitalism
First time I've seen the intention stated so clearly by Russia to wean off of the oil/gas as the anchor of the country's trade position. This is a direction looking to the future, and rightly, given China is building out renewable energy at light speed. That said, o/g remains a global strategic industry in the present. POS II pipeline advanced a step with Mongolia approval.
Global Times item from yesterday said this:
“According to Xinhua, Peng Guangrong, a geologist at CNOOC's Shenzhen branch, noted that 60 percent of the world's newly discovered oil and gas reserves have come from deep layers. With abundant resources and a low level of exploration, deep to ultra-deep layers are expected to drive future growth in oil and gas reserves and production.” https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/1331237.shtml
I cited that paragraph since Hubbert had predicted an unknown but potentially very large amount of recoverable oil and gas from very deep reservoirs that would cause Peak Oil’s actual peak very hard to predict, and that’s what we’ve seen happen. What still needs to happen is to wean the world from using oil as a transport fuel as there’re many more valuable products that can be made from oil than wasting it on ICEs.
Plus, for the US, the even simpler step of just using mass transit like most normal civilizations. Could even be coal powered, would come out ahead.
Except here we have abnormal urban development that’s known as suburban sprawl that’s not conducive to efficient mass transit—a horse that was beat to death at The Oil Drum blog during the 2000s. And that development model is still going strong.
What I await is the coming Financial Depression when the music stops and everyone tries to find a chair with many unable to find one. IMO, Trump’s accelerating the process.
America's been hollowed out good but don't worry the parasites will jump ship and find another host and just like its predecessor Great Britain who sold the family silver long ago having overextended itself in decades of conflict, America learned nowt.
I am sure that the content of my article is not news for you, but it was for me and many of my readers. I would value any insights you may have on Igor Berkut.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/igor-berkuts-plan-for-ukraine
I’ll need to comment later.
I don't doubt for a moment that there's some Zionist intrigue going on in Ukraine because the "Jewish Question" within Russia and Eastern Europe has existed for hundreds of years. Rich people have intrigued often and for purposes of person greed most often, including Jews. Berkut fits the description of such a fellow. The well-founded idea that behind every massive family fortune lies a crime of similar proportions IMO applies to Berkut, and as with all such people isn't to be trusted.
I don't understand. Anyone can post links in the comments on MoA. Comments are littered with them.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/ukraine-open-thread-2025-066.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3cfcfbc200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3cfcfbc200c
The software b uses is called Typepad and will move comments to the moderation queue when they contain links that are considered malicious in some manner—all sorts many with ru or su domains but others as well. I always copy my comment before posting after which I refresh the page to see if it got posted. If it doesn’t, I refresh again. If it doesn’t, then I copy/paste it all back into the comment box and try one last time. If it still doesn’t post, I remove what I think are the offending link(s) or I post a note saying comment didn’t post—again. It happens more often than you might think, but then I post lots of links. Today, it was a threesome, and the comment didn’t make sense without them, so I posted a snarky comment and mover to my substack to compose my article.
Hello Karl, you don't know me yet, and I send you only a little observation concerning your refuted comment to MoA. One of your links seem to be malformed; we read an additional "<" "/" "a" ">" (without the quotes) in your introductory cite. Maybe this formal error was the reason for refusal by MoA - this might simply been checked. Good luck anyway for your super good work!
oh, okay, thanks. I didn't know. hence 'didn't understand'. :)
" It must be noted that the EU is in worse shape financially than the Empire, which is why the hysteria over war planning is so intense."
I stumbled over this statement. Actually, I'd have thought it's the other way round. Would you be so kind as to give some hint at what makes you think so?
What economy does the EU command? What is its tax base? How does the EU propose to create a manufacturing base for the army it wants to build? Currently, what’s the overall GDP direction of key EU states? How many are refusing to provide their portion of “support” for Ukraine? Hungary’s Orban today: “"They want to turn the EU from a peaceful into a military project. This is not evolution, this is decomposition. We must resist, even if they want to punish us." Warfare means no more welfare and an end to production of consumer goods in favor of military goods having zero utility.
G'day Karl, does the EU command any economy, I thought not as it is a supranational body and it only has foreign policy control bequeathed to it by servile nations in the hope of peace between previously belligerent nation states as expressed so well by Lavrov. Each nation state sets its own budgets and taxes its own economy separate from the EU though I am sure they pay levies for VDL and KK to make war.
Way back I thought the EEC was a wonderful idea and Schengen too, one visa only required for European travel and then only one currency instead of a dozen, but then it went off the rails.
Would be interested to hear your opinion.
I see the EU and NATO as mechanisms of control emplaced by the Outlaw US Empire. The problem is loss of sovereignty. Visa-free travel didn’t require the EU/EC as it could’ve been arranged through OSCE. The big problem confronting the United States of Europe conception is their longstanding animosities based on 1,000 years of war. Look at the ASEAN and how it operates. Yes, big difference in their histories. Even when young, the EU was still based on Zero-sum, not Win-Win. Seeking Harmony instead of Dominance makes a big difference.
Thanks for the reply Karl, ASEAN is often referred to as NATO, no action talk only. It is partly due to Asian culture of no offence to anyone where possible so no one ever challenges any undesirable actions by a particular country. Look at the Myanmar civil war, it is NATO 100%. Well that's what I have read anyway.
Myanmar’s an extremely complex combination of ethnicities having nation-state status but hasn’t ever really been settled. Its geography has made it Southeast Asia’s equivalent of the Balkans—far more fractured than New Guinea. The many ethnic factions make it ripe for Western exploitation to sow chaos in Eurasia’s rimland. Both China and India have a mutual interest in attaining a pacified Myanmar, and the two seem to have finally concluded they need to work together rather than not.