During Pepe’s talks about his recent time in China he mentioned this interview on several occasions, yet it never surfaced on any Chinese media platform.
All in good time. China will gain nothing by rushing the soufflé in the oven just to feed a trade war it did not start.
What's interesting to me is the position of Brazil's relationship with China and I wish Brazil's international son would actually spend more time there, but that's my critique from the peanut gallery. China as a larger trading partner with Brazil than the US is very telling. And yet Brazil turns virtually every transaction first to dollars - what an inefficient waste of time and money. It's just not sustainable.
I always have to remind myself that Rio is further from New York City than London. And yet as Pepe points out, the remnants of the Empire of Lies in Brazil stand ready with knives drawn. So Lula will carefully wait until the last minute to convert to the new trade communications and finance systems. Peru might actually go first. What then might Mexico do? All of this excitement right in our backyard.
Yes, this is well put: “a country has emerged in the West that is crude and naked in its worship of power”. The problem is that it under previous administrations too. Anyway, here is an article from Thomas Fazi’s site, which highlights another side of this ‘power’: https://open.substack.com/pub/tfazi/p/gaza-the-us-and-china-the-future
I read some, skimmed the rest and left a comment. The Outlaw US Empire’s observance of laws is indicated in its name, and certainly not the laws of war at anytime.
Yes, I agree with your comment, esp. “The Empire's Neoliberal policies” — this is something that is not well understood. Except, of course, Michael Hudson analysis pointing out a difference between industrial and financial (neoliberal) capitalism. And there seems to be no end to this zombie state of capitalism.
Both help support Michael’s thesis that the Empire’s ploy is to monopolize critical points of high tech to reap rents, but China’s rapidly ruining the ploy as are Russia and other BRICS.
Cutting China out is a huge mistake, some have realised that the west (US) won't be able to scale returns to the required investments. Take iPhones sourced from India with massive cost increases, sales would tank. Apple's numbers are pretty bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60K-jGoEvqk
Supposing supposing 3 men are frozen, one dies, how many are left?
The clue is we're supposing.
Apparently America consumes close to 19 million barrels of crude oil per day, population rounded 350 million while China consumes 16.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, rounding once more, 1.4 billion people, a factor of 4 regarding population, give or take.
Therefore - On average One American consumes 0.05 barrels of oil per day
On average One Chinese consumes 0.01 barrels of oil per day
Conclusion - Chinese oil consumption converted into something practical like gas/petrol for your car or electricity/heating is only 1/5th of American daily consumption on average.
Bearing in mind a large percentage of this total daily consumption in China will be absorbed by all of these Industrial and Manufacturing Plants/Factories, further decreasing the ratio of average Chinese consumption to their American counterpart, possibly 1/7 or 1/8.
Question - Do the above figures suggest that lard-ass Americans sit around in heated homes, offices, cafes, malls and meth-labs dunking donuts all day or is there another plausible explanation?
Have you seen the documentary “The End of Suburbia’? It posits that the dysfunctional habitation pattern known as suburbia with its suburban sprawl will eventually be the bane of the USA. You’ll be informed of the very powerful interests that were served by that mode of habitation design. China has very high-density housing with very robust public transport to move those people very efficiently. Russia does the same. Even if the Empire could produce an AI system, it lacks the power to run it. China has a very long term energy plan that goes to 2070, and I’m sure that will be revised several times before then. The 52-minute film can be found here, https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-end-of-suburbia/
I must look it up as to why we have several Bank Holidays every year. I expect for the weary overworked Banker, tired of picking one's pocket swans off for a long-weekend with the girlfriend, back on Tuesday to balance the numbers for the Mob.
I knew I was different Karl even as a young boy when most people my age would be collecting football cards or stickers whereas I kept an album filled with newspaper, journal cut-outs of Banker Suicides. '87 was a bumper crop.
That year was associated with what’s known as the Savings & Loan Crisis here, which was the first big Greenspan bubble burst and Neoliberal Fraud crime.
Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are supportive subsets. All people specialized in their Production-Society-Guilds were progressive owners, decisional in intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale partnerships. Entrepreneurship centered around one's family & community produces the most long-lasting, meaning & work, centered around a meaningful core. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Time-based equivalency accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands) accounted-for, recognized & empowered. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Adolescents were supported in VISION-QUEST to find, identify, develop & produce their special unique gifts for 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Real 'EDUCATION' (L. 'educare' = 'to lead forth from within') from all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' 10s of 1000s of years is based in the adolescent's Vision-Quest. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/8-vision-quest-education
CIRCLE-of-LIFE We still have local intimate, Biosphere-based, choices to undo the past 7000 years of 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated') Colonial-Empire Oligarch extract & exploit, command & control. The Circle simplifies an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. We came to the Americas as refugees from Oligarch commanded perpetual war & environmental destruction in Europe to relearn & restore our indigenous heritage. Does the Green Party ever make & act upon this ancient force & connection from the bottom-up where we live & work? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO SOCIAL-HUMANITY AS A WHOLE aka Whole Systems Animation
Humanity's 3-dimensional bottom-up collective-integrated, economic-memory for all diverse intelligences & contributions, was destroyed for Oligarchy's 2-D Linear Top-down command & control with Amnesia. The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when all the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Human Social, economy & political Systems only become truly functional when all parts share in animation & 'intelligence' (L. 'inter' = 'between' + 'legere' = 'to choose'). When the bottom is strong the body aka society thrives. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
I think the old Venetian Empire, currently run from the City of London, is murdering the USA via its agent Trump. It is quietly relocating its totalitarian power to Astana in Kazakhstan from where it will rule BRICS unhampered by the decaying West.
All in good time. China will gain nothing by rushing the soufflé in the oven just to feed a trade war it did not start.
What's interesting to me is the position of Brazil's relationship with China and I wish Brazil's international son would actually spend more time there, but that's my critique from the peanut gallery. China as a larger trading partner with Brazil than the US is very telling. And yet Brazil turns virtually every transaction first to dollars - what an inefficient waste of time and money. It's just not sustainable.
I always have to remind myself that Rio is further from New York City than London. And yet as Pepe points out, the remnants of the Empire of Lies in Brazil stand ready with knives drawn. So Lula will carefully wait until the last minute to convert to the new trade communications and finance systems. Peru might actually go first. What then might Mexico do? All of this excitement right in our backyard.
Pepe better head back to South America soon!
Yes, this is well put: “a country has emerged in the West that is crude and naked in its worship of power”. The problem is that it under previous administrations too. Anyway, here is an article from Thomas Fazi’s site, which highlights another side of this ‘power’: https://open.substack.com/pub/tfazi/p/gaza-the-us-and-china-the-future
I read some, skimmed the rest and left a comment. The Outlaw US Empire’s observance of laws is indicated in its name, and certainly not the laws of war at anytime.
Yes, I agree with your comment, esp. “The Empire's Neoliberal policies” — this is something that is not well understood. Except, of course, Michael Hudson analysis pointing out a difference between industrial and financial (neoliberal) capitalism. And there seems to be no end to this zombie state of capitalism.
Hudson recently shared a podcast with Yanis Varoufakis where the issue of Cloud Capital was discussed, https://michael-hudson.com/2025/04/digital-empires-and-the-ghosts-of-the-gilded-age/
I also suggest this interview of Yanis by Wired that’s posted at his website, https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2024/04/22/welcome-to-the-age-of-technofeudalism-interviewed-by-wired-magazine/
Both help support Michael’s thesis that the Empire’s ploy is to monopolize critical points of high tech to reap rents, but China’s rapidly ruining the ploy as are Russia and other BRICS.
One more item to add. This links to a very important, dated but still very valid, Hudson essay, https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/the-road-to-debt-deflation-debt-peonage-and-neofeudalism/
Yes, I saw that podcast. Thank you.
Cutting China out is a huge mistake, some have realised that the west (US) won't be able to scale returns to the required investments. Take iPhones sourced from India with massive cost increases, sales would tank. Apple's numbers are pretty bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60K-jGoEvqk
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet calls for Win-Win Trade cooperation based on Xi-Jinping BRICs diplomacy.
https://www.rt.com/business/616722-buffett-trump-us-tariffs/
Mbridge = Bank of international settlements. We are suspended.
Yes, 'bout time we gave civilisation a go.
Exploding heads in the corridors of power, mucho less power.
Thanks for the link. Pepe is that rare geopolitical thinker that is both insightful and entertaining.
Supposing supposing 3 men are frozen, one dies, how many are left?
The clue is we're supposing.
Apparently America consumes close to 19 million barrels of crude oil per day, population rounded 350 million while China consumes 16.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, rounding once more, 1.4 billion people, a factor of 4 regarding population, give or take.
Therefore - On average One American consumes 0.05 barrels of oil per day
On average One Chinese consumes 0.01 barrels of oil per day
Conclusion - Chinese oil consumption converted into something practical like gas/petrol for your car or electricity/heating is only 1/5th of American daily consumption on average.
Bearing in mind a large percentage of this total daily consumption in China will be absorbed by all of these Industrial and Manufacturing Plants/Factories, further decreasing the ratio of average Chinese consumption to their American counterpart, possibly 1/7 or 1/8.
Question - Do the above figures suggest that lard-ass Americans sit around in heated homes, offices, cafes, malls and meth-labs dunking donuts all day or is there another plausible explanation?
Have you seen the documentary “The End of Suburbia’? It posits that the dysfunctional habitation pattern known as suburbia with its suburban sprawl will eventually be the bane of the USA. You’ll be informed of the very powerful interests that were served by that mode of habitation design. China has very high-density housing with very robust public transport to move those people very efficiently. Russia does the same. Even if the Empire could produce an AI system, it lacks the power to run it. China has a very long term energy plan that goes to 2070, and I’m sure that will be revised several times before then. The 52-minute film can be found here, https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-end-of-suburbia/
I'll watch later this afternoon!
Bank holiday Monday here in Greater Londinium.
I must look it up as to why we have several Bank Holidays every year. I expect for the weary overworked Banker, tired of picking one's pocket swans off for a long-weekend with the girlfriend, back on Tuesday to balance the numbers for the Mob.
I knew I was different Karl even as a young boy when most people my age would be collecting football cards or stickers whereas I kept an album filled with newspaper, journal cut-outs of Banker Suicides. '87 was a bumper crop.
That year was associated with what’s known as the Savings & Loan Crisis here, which was the first big Greenspan bubble burst and Neoliberal Fraud crime.
Restoring all humanity's ancient worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') CULTURAL 'FRACTAL' ('Fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') 'ECONOMY' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture'). All humanity's 'indigenous' ancestors organized, accounted-for & empowered the core of 'work' around the Domestic (mostly women) 'Economy' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village).
Today 70% of people live in Multihomes averaging 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people.
20% of Multihome-Dwellers are people intentionally living in proximity of their extended family who provide some 2 trillion dollars worth of the most individually appropriate goods & services per year on Turtle-Island/N. America), although unrecognized by government, academia & institutions. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are supportive subsets. All people specialized in their Production-Society-Guilds were progressive owners, decisional in intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale partnerships. Entrepreneurship centered around one's family & community produces the most long-lasting, meaning & work, centered around a meaningful core. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Time-based equivalency accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands) accounted-for, recognized & empowered. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Adolescents were supported in VISION-QUEST to find, identify, develop & produce their special unique gifts for 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). Real 'EDUCATION' (L. 'educare' = 'to lead forth from within') from all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' 10s of 1000s of years is based in the adolescent's Vision-Quest. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/8-vision-quest-education
CIRCLE-of-LIFE We still have local intimate, Biosphere-based, choices to undo the past 7000 years of 'exogenous' (L. 'other-generated') Colonial-Empire Oligarch extract & exploit, command & control. The Circle simplifies an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. We came to the Americas as refugees from Oligarch commanded perpetual war & environmental destruction in Europe to relearn & restore our indigenous heritage. Does the Green Party ever make & act upon this ancient force & connection from the bottom-up where we live & work? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO SOCIAL-HUMANITY AS A WHOLE aka Whole Systems Animation
Humanity's 3-dimensional bottom-up collective-integrated, economic-memory for all diverse intelligences & contributions, was destroyed for Oligarchy's 2-D Linear Top-down command & control with Amnesia. The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when all the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Human Social, economy & political Systems only become truly functional when all parts share in animation & 'intelligence' (L. 'inter' = 'between' + 'legere' = 'to choose'). When the bottom is strong the body aka society thrives. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
I think the old Venetian Empire, currently run from the City of London, is murdering the USA via its agent Trump. It is quietly relocating its totalitarian power to Astana in Kazakhstan from where it will rule BRICS unhampered by the decaying West.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/united-kingdoms-death-spiral