Exactly. And Iran must rid itself of both the West's (US) comms hardware, from phones to comms infrastructure and uproot western big tech software. This applies to any nation that wants to exercise its sovereign rights. Huawei is the pre-eminent supplier and innovator which is why it is sanctioned, and now the extra territorial US sanctions against Huawei and Chinese tech (AI+services) is so fierce. It's not compromised for exploits and essentially is immunized against western terror ops. Remember the US demanded by diktat that its vassals remove all Huawei comms from their networks, that's the clearest signal that the US wants to implant handcuffs on all its vassals, which is proceeding apace. Hopefully ASEAN got the message and is removing Ericsson or refuses to install this into their network space.
Excellent as always. I think it can be further boiled down to private banking versus public banking. Nothing much has changed in 200 years, the money men behind the British Empire are still calling the shots.
I'd agree that the clearest difference is in who issues credit, private banking has learned to hide itself behind legislation and legalese as the ownership of central banks (outside the US FED constellation) is often presented as government owned and controlled, but effectively is captured via appointments to boards. What to make of Alex Krainer's claims Trump vs the City, hmm, I don't believe that Wall St is subordinate to the City of London.
6/29/1997, US taxpayer cash entices Eastern European nations to join NATO: "To entice those same nations to buy American weapons, the Pentagon has laid out a smorgasbord of grants, discount loans and free leases. The Air Force and the Navy have offered Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland five-year leases of F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, free of charge. That offer came after the three nations asked the Pentagon about the individual prices and availability of more than $8 billion in jets, according to documents obtained by Arms Trade News.
Eight billion dollars exceeds the three nations' combined annual defense budgets.
Last month [May 1997], Romania became the first country to tap into a $15 billion defense export loan guarantee fund, created by Congress in 1995 at the urging of executives like Mr. Augustine. The Romanians want the money to buy $23 million in unmanned reconnaissance planes. And this year, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland received $30 million from a $60 million Pentagon grant program."..."Arms Makers See Bonanza In Selling NATO Expansion," NY Times, Gerth, Weiner...
This is interesting. Thank you, Karl, esp., the end — “a conflict between different political-economic philosophies as during the Cold War: Neoliberal Financialized Capitalism versus an Industrialized Social Sustainable Capitalism, which could be distilled further to Rentier Capitalism versus Industrialized Socialism.”
The European Union was constructed to prevent war. It is now, sadly, being weaponised using false propaganda, to act as the West Eurasian outpost of the Evil Empire to wage full-scale war in the near future against the Russian Federation on instruction from its Evil Empire masters. This, of course, also forces RF to expend resources to counter this threat - resources which could be better spent on welfare. The big losers are the citizens of the EU whose welfare, and national sovereignty, is being sacrificed to this end,
Medvedev is simply taking account of this new reality - no RF objection to Ukraine joining the old EU previously - now joining the EU is simply equivalent to joining NATO - Brussels is now a threat to RF.
As a European who had long advocated a security and trade agreement between the EU and RF to the benefit of both this is a bitter pill to swallow.
Wise words indeed Karl, what I believe many are missing about the collapse of American domination & capitalist structure in the West. Is who & what are the Western Worlds greatest adversaries. I believe the Western elites have totally taken their eyes off the ball. Looking at China, Russia, Iran all of the BRICS organisation as their biggest threat. For me the biggest threat to the Western elites today. Is from their own citizens. It's become totally natural & the norm for all of the Western rulers. To ignore their citizens opinions, wants & interests. We only have to listen to any UK/EU leader speak. They brag about wasting money they don't have, inflicting sanctions upon countries that damages themselves. Like they believe they're impressing their citizens. While their citizens standards of living are sinking rapidly. The last thing the citizens of the UK/EU want hear is their taxes being wasted on conflicts & weapons. The last thing American citizens want to hear, is their taxes being spent on Israel. But the brag about these actions. While infrastructure is collapsing, Healthcare disappearing, education sinking. But most of all poverty growing massively. This is a recipe for disaster, then add to that the capitalist model of the wealthy always getting wealthier. People are starting to question the whole financial system in the West. Especially when we can see China, Russia even small countries progressing massively without getting more & more destructive debts. The Western rulers totally ignore the biggest threat to themselves in my opinion.
Thank you, Karl. I have struggled to find just the right words to express our existential struggle, and your "Neoliberal Financialized Capitalism versus an Industrialized Social Sustainable Capitalism, which could be distilled further to Rentier Capitalism versus Industrialized Socialism." hits a home run/1
Is the populace going do anything about these leaders destroying their countries prosperity, and unleashing an unrelenting oppression upon their own voters?
Unfortunately many americans have no clue that they are the sheeple, they still believe that USA,USA is the most exceptional country in the world. The MAGA crowd have there reasons on that as well as the centrists(D elites&party) The independents have different thoughts then both MAGA/D's do.
The combined National Debt of the G7 is approximately $70 Trillion
The External Debt of the G7 a multiple of 3 on National Debt
Only God knows what future underfunded/unfunded liabilities that lurk on their Balance Sheets amounts to having robbed Peter to pay Paul over decades of mismanagement.
In their demented minds land/resource grab through WAR is their only option to remain relevant, even if it means facing off against the world's foremost military/nuclear power Russia, when in fact they lasted under 2 weeks fighting Iran who possess only a small fraction of Russia's might.
The $8 trillion held under-management by Larry The Fink/Blackrock amounts to a piss in the ocean, probably 2 years worth of Interest Payments on the aforementioned DEBT.
There is another conflict and it is the one that shapes humanity now and in the next hundred years. It is the conflict between genocidal maniacs and civilisation states. The past 100 years gave repeated witness to the unforgivable and unforgettable genocide by Turkey of the Armenians followed soon after by the Nazi version against Russians, Gypsies, Communists, Jews, general undesirables. Todays civilisation state are staring at one extreme vicious, unrelenting conflict that is sickening and absolutely unforgivable. There needs to be a thousand years of boycott against the perpetrator and an absolute disarmament of this malign force.
I guess and hope that someone with the fortitude and compassion of a civilisation will step up right now as the perpetrator is busy shovelling rubble from its own streets and scraping together the armaments for another go at murderous expansion. This is the conflict that consumes our spirit and corrodes our future.
And his 2nd term is a resounding forwarding of the Biden era. Brian Berletic is spot on when he says it matters not who is president, the policy will always remain the same.
Rome went through many Emperors but rarely did its policy change. Why? Because the Emperor was almost always a member of the Oligarchy, and the Oligarchy became an institution. It’s very revealing to walk around Washington DC and look at the architectural designs of the major government buildings, particularly the interior of Congress, realize what’s it’s modeled on, as well as when those buildings were constructed. A great deal can be learned from an examination of the Capitol’s construction and early usage. It was conceived as a Greco-Roman Temple by a people who had yet to get beyond the Mississippi, the main conceptualist was Jefferson who was Washington’s Secretary of State at the time.
It seems to me that the burning of the Alexandria Library was the beginning of the Dark Age, which I believe we are now entering a 2nd Dark Age as the dumbing down of western civilization can be seen everywhere you look with computers being the tool of choice.
Our history isn't close to anything I was taught K-12, damn.
I’m sure you recall Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” and its “Train People.” How many have read Herodotus where he explains that at one time in Egypt the women stood to urinate while the men squatted and understand what that meant? And then there’s Joseph Campbell’s “Masks of God” series where in the first volume he informs us of near-eastern mythology that predated all biblical stories—how rain is seen as god’s semen and other curious yet sensible inferences prompted by nature. There’s an immensity of material to study to try and grasp a proper historical perspective. I’ve many important books I’ve yet to read and many more downloaded to computer hard drives. The main issue, however, regarding learning resides within the self—one must want to know and understand that‘s often a lonely pursuit. Husband and wife historian teams like Charles and Mary Beard are rarer than rare earths—I know of none today. Look at what Marx did mostly all by himself. And then there’re people like Trump who is close to being illiterate. Why would beings advanced enough to master intergalactic space travel bother with the likes of us?
Why would beings advanced enough to master intergalactic space travel bother with the likes of us?
My guess is that the Pyramids and ancient Egypt hold the key to what a brief period of history mankind has. Those Pyramids and other ancient sites could and can't be replicated by today's humanity. That in of itself should tell us how backwards we are and as a civilization we keep regressing instead of progressing.
A side thought though is it seems as if the Russian/China/Iran axis appears to be making huge strides in changing that paradigm. So the only answer to your question might be that a nuclear war here might effect the universe in a manner we aren't aware of? Both Russia and Iran have shown hypersonic could overtake the need for nuclear.
Where I sit I'm not able to make a difference though I try in my small circle. I'm nowhere near as read as many that comment at the Gym and am greatly thankful for the many likes that I do get and especially the side conversation that we seem to have going when the time allows.
Unfortunately for us Trump actually believes he's godlike for his sychophants
keep telling him that he is. Just n the past 48 hours he's declared a unilateral ceasefire, a unilateral peace deal, a unilateral mineral deal. He lives in his own world
The Russians are talking and maybe behaving as they have forgotten their own saying: THE US IS NOT AGREEMENT CAPABLE.
The peace and stabilization will come only through Oreshnick, or in time, with upheavel and changes in EU brought by an ever poorer and dissafected population.
Now if I'm not mistaken it appears as if Iran is turning to China for weapons to help defend it's airspace. Supposedly Russia/Iran has been feuding over this but this is coming from the western propaganda(media)arm so I'll take it with a grain of salt.
Also Putin seems to be getting pissed at Donald's lack of humanity/smarts/class/IQ/you name it. And while Iran might say they're negotiating with the empire, I think they do it to gather info for whatever the empire says the complete opposite is the truth. IOW's the empire has become the mark at the poker table and they don't even know it
Exactly. And Iran must rid itself of both the West's (US) comms hardware, from phones to comms infrastructure and uproot western big tech software. This applies to any nation that wants to exercise its sovereign rights. Huawei is the pre-eminent supplier and innovator which is why it is sanctioned, and now the extra territorial US sanctions against Huawei and Chinese tech (AI+services) is so fierce. It's not compromised for exploits and essentially is immunized against western terror ops. Remember the US demanded by diktat that its vassals remove all Huawei comms from their networks, that's the clearest signal that the US wants to implant handcuffs on all its vassals, which is proceeding apace. Hopefully ASEAN got the message and is removing Ericsson or refuses to install this into their network space.
Excellent as always. I think it can be further boiled down to private banking versus public banking. Nothing much has changed in 200 years, the money men behind the British Empire are still calling the shots.
I'd agree that the clearest difference is in who issues credit, private banking has learned to hide itself behind legislation and legalese as the ownership of central banks (outside the US FED constellation) is often presented as government owned and controlled, but effectively is captured via appointments to boards. What to make of Alex Krainer's claims Trump vs the City, hmm, I don't believe that Wall St is subordinate to the City of London.
6/29/1997, US taxpayer cash entices Eastern European nations to join NATO: "To entice those same nations to buy American weapons, the Pentagon has laid out a smorgasbord of grants, discount loans and free leases. The Air Force and the Navy have offered Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland five-year leases of F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, free of charge. That offer came after the three nations asked the Pentagon about the individual prices and availability of more than $8 billion in jets, according to documents obtained by Arms Trade News.
Eight billion dollars exceeds the three nations' combined annual defense budgets.
Last month [May 1997], Romania became the first country to tap into a $15 billion defense export loan guarantee fund, created by Congress in 1995 at the urging of executives like Mr. Augustine. The Romanians want the money to buy $23 million in unmanned reconnaissance planes. And this year, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland received $30 million from a $60 million Pentagon grant program."..."Arms Makers See Bonanza In Selling NATO Expansion," NY Times, Gerth, Weiner...
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/world/arms-makers-see-bonanza-in-selling-nato-expansion.html
This is interesting. Thank you, Karl, esp., the end — “a conflict between different political-economic philosophies as during the Cold War: Neoliberal Financialized Capitalism versus an Industrialized Social Sustainable Capitalism, which could be distilled further to Rentier Capitalism versus Industrialized Socialism.”
The European Union was constructed to prevent war. It is now, sadly, being weaponised using false propaganda, to act as the West Eurasian outpost of the Evil Empire to wage full-scale war in the near future against the Russian Federation on instruction from its Evil Empire masters. This, of course, also forces RF to expend resources to counter this threat - resources which could be better spent on welfare. The big losers are the citizens of the EU whose welfare, and national sovereignty, is being sacrificed to this end,
Medvedev is simply taking account of this new reality - no RF objection to Ukraine joining the old EU previously - now joining the EU is simply equivalent to joining NATO - Brussels is now a threat to RF.
As a European who had long advocated a security and trade agreement between the EU and RF to the benefit of both this is a bitter pill to swallow.
Keep up the good work Karl.
Wise words indeed Karl, what I believe many are missing about the collapse of American domination & capitalist structure in the West. Is who & what are the Western Worlds greatest adversaries. I believe the Western elites have totally taken their eyes off the ball. Looking at China, Russia, Iran all of the BRICS organisation as their biggest threat. For me the biggest threat to the Western elites today. Is from their own citizens. It's become totally natural & the norm for all of the Western rulers. To ignore their citizens opinions, wants & interests. We only have to listen to any UK/EU leader speak. They brag about wasting money they don't have, inflicting sanctions upon countries that damages themselves. Like they believe they're impressing their citizens. While their citizens standards of living are sinking rapidly. The last thing the citizens of the UK/EU want hear is their taxes being wasted on conflicts & weapons. The last thing American citizens want to hear, is their taxes being spent on Israel. But the brag about these actions. While infrastructure is collapsing, Healthcare disappearing, education sinking. But most of all poverty growing massively. This is a recipe for disaster, then add to that the capitalist model of the wealthy always getting wealthier. People are starting to question the whole financial system in the West. Especially when we can see China, Russia even small countries progressing massively without getting more & more destructive debts. The Western rulers totally ignore the biggest threat to themselves in my opinion.
The main topic of the Hudson/Wolff chat today is a microcosm of the larger picture you describe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fCOefH-Fnw
Thank you, Karl. I have struggled to find just the right words to express our existential struggle, and your "Neoliberal Financialized Capitalism versus an Industrialized Social Sustainable Capitalism, which could be distilled further to Rentier Capitalism versus Industrialized Socialism." hits a home run/1
What isn’t said ?
Is the populace going do anything about these leaders destroying their countries prosperity, and unleashing an unrelenting oppression upon their own voters?
Are people really willing to be sheepole?
Unfortunately many americans have no clue that they are the sheeple, they still believe that USA,USA is the most exceptional country in the world. The MAGA crowd have there reasons on that as well as the centrists(D elites&party) The independents have different thoughts then both MAGA/D's do.
The combined National Debt of the G7 is approximately $70 Trillion
The External Debt of the G7 a multiple of 3 on National Debt
Only God knows what future underfunded/unfunded liabilities that lurk on their Balance Sheets amounts to having robbed Peter to pay Paul over decades of mismanagement.
In their demented minds land/resource grab through WAR is their only option to remain relevant, even if it means facing off against the world's foremost military/nuclear power Russia, when in fact they lasted under 2 weeks fighting Iran who possess only a small fraction of Russia's might.
The $8 trillion held under-management by Larry The Fink/Blackrock amounts to a piss in the ocean, probably 2 years worth of Interest Payments on the aforementioned DEBT.
Thank you
Appreciated Read thank you
There is another conflict and it is the one that shapes humanity now and in the next hundred years. It is the conflict between genocidal maniacs and civilisation states. The past 100 years gave repeated witness to the unforgivable and unforgettable genocide by Turkey of the Armenians followed soon after by the Nazi version against Russians, Gypsies, Communists, Jews, general undesirables. Todays civilisation state are staring at one extreme vicious, unrelenting conflict that is sickening and absolutely unforgivable. There needs to be a thousand years of boycott against the perpetrator and an absolute disarmament of this malign force.
I guess and hope that someone with the fortitude and compassion of a civilisation will step up right now as the perpetrator is busy shovelling rubble from its own streets and scraping together the armaments for another go at murderous expansion. This is the conflict that consumes our spirit and corrodes our future.
Perfect analysis of Trumps first term.
And his 2nd term is a resounding forwarding of the Biden era. Brian Berletic is spot on when he says it matters not who is president, the policy will always remain the same.
Rome went through many Emperors but rarely did its policy change. Why? Because the Emperor was almost always a member of the Oligarchy, and the Oligarchy became an institution. It’s very revealing to walk around Washington DC and look at the architectural designs of the major government buildings, particularly the interior of Congress, realize what’s it’s modeled on, as well as when those buildings were constructed. A great deal can be learned from an examination of the Capitol’s construction and early usage. It was conceived as a Greco-Roman Temple by a people who had yet to get beyond the Mississippi, the main conceptualist was Jefferson who was Washington’s Secretary of State at the time.
It seems to me that the burning of the Alexandria Library was the beginning of the Dark Age, which I believe we are now entering a 2nd Dark Age as the dumbing down of western civilization can be seen everywhere you look with computers being the tool of choice.
Our history isn't close to anything I was taught K-12, damn.
thanks for all of your writings Karl
I’m sure you recall Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” and its “Train People.” How many have read Herodotus where he explains that at one time in Egypt the women stood to urinate while the men squatted and understand what that meant? And then there’s Joseph Campbell’s “Masks of God” series where in the first volume he informs us of near-eastern mythology that predated all biblical stories—how rain is seen as god’s semen and other curious yet sensible inferences prompted by nature. There’s an immensity of material to study to try and grasp a proper historical perspective. I’ve many important books I’ve yet to read and many more downloaded to computer hard drives. The main issue, however, regarding learning resides within the self—one must want to know and understand that‘s often a lonely pursuit. Husband and wife historian teams like Charles and Mary Beard are rarer than rare earths—I know of none today. Look at what Marx did mostly all by himself. And then there’re people like Trump who is close to being illiterate. Why would beings advanced enough to master intergalactic space travel bother with the likes of us?
Why would beings advanced enough to master intergalactic space travel bother with the likes of us?
My guess is that the Pyramids and ancient Egypt hold the key to what a brief period of history mankind has. Those Pyramids and other ancient sites could and can't be replicated by today's humanity. That in of itself should tell us how backwards we are and as a civilization we keep regressing instead of progressing.
A side thought though is it seems as if the Russian/China/Iran axis appears to be making huge strides in changing that paradigm. So the only answer to your question might be that a nuclear war here might effect the universe in a manner we aren't aware of? Both Russia and Iran have shown hypersonic could overtake the need for nuclear.
Where I sit I'm not able to make a difference though I try in my small circle. I'm nowhere near as read as many that comment at the Gym and am greatly thankful for the many likes that I do get and especially the side conversation that we seem to have going when the time allows.
Unfortunately for us Trump actually believes he's godlike for his sychophants
keep telling him that he is. Just n the past 48 hours he's declared a unilateral ceasefire, a unilateral peace deal, a unilateral mineral deal. He lives in his own world
In other words, he’s delusional.
EU is the monetary arm of the empire NATO is the militarism.
Empire propaganda has its members as liberal democracies (their own definition) compared to the BRICS whi are errant children, misguided colonies.
Empire is rising!
Empire democracy as evil as the demos ordering conquered put to the sword.
The Russians are talking and maybe behaving as they have forgotten their own saying: THE US IS NOT AGREEMENT CAPABLE.
The peace and stabilization will come only through Oreshnick, or in time, with upheavel and changes in EU brought by an ever poorer and dissafected population.
Now if I'm not mistaken it appears as if Iran is turning to China for weapons to help defend it's airspace. Supposedly Russia/Iran has been feuding over this but this is coming from the western propaganda(media)arm so I'll take it with a grain of salt.
Also Putin seems to be getting pissed at Donald's lack of humanity/smarts/class/IQ/you name it. And while Iran might say they're negotiating with the empire, I think they do it to gather info for whatever the empire says the complete opposite is the truth. IOW's the empire has become the mark at the poker table and they don't even know it