Brussels makes more decisions that are binding on EU member states than the Supreme Soviet of the USSR did when the Soviet Union was still in existence.
thanks for sharing karl... i think it is very uplifting, but i see you're quick analysis on the bottom frames it very differently... oh well.... we have tried to cross this bridge before..
Sorry, there is an incorrect translation regarding Ukrainian losses. The translation says that "we (meaning the Russians) lost 200 tanks." In fact, in the original source Putin said that the Ukrainians lost 200 tanks. Here is a quote from the kremlin.ru website in Russian: "Вот они (имеются ввиду украинцы) зашли в Курскую область – потери колоссальные: за три месяца боевых действий потерь больше, чем за весь прошлый год у киевского режима – свыше 30 тысяч. Ну танков меньше потеряли: сейчас где-то около 200, а в прошлом году за весь год потеряли там 240, по-моему. Просто меньше танков стало – вот и потерь меньше, меньше используют."
In the article it is translated as follows: “Here they came to the Kursk region—the losses are colossal: for three months of fighting, the losses are more than for the entire last year for the Kiev regime–-over 30 thousand. Well, we lost less tanks: now it's somewhere around 200, and last year for the whole year we lost 240 there, in my opinion. It's just that there are fewer tanks, so there are fewer losses and fewer people are being used."
Karl , Putin amazes me on many levels. Thank you for your comments at the end concerning Putin's disconnect from the genocide in Palestine over the past 100 years. Palestine is much more for the Oligarchs who have invaded than just a warm place on the Mediterranean. Palestine-Israel is meant to be the centre of world empire, now being ethnically cleansed for this cruel inane purpose.
Before 7Oct'23 over 100 Palestinians were dying per day from Israeli Genocide (UN definition = 'Removing people from or destroying their means of livelihood plus Settler & State Murder'. Hamas had next to no civil options untried in 100 years of brutal Ashkenazi invasion, on which to proceed.
I'm surprised that Putin doesn't understand this, but I do understand how with control of the west's fake 'economy', western Zionist multi-Trillionaire Oligarchs can make life very difficult for any people & leaders such as Putin as they did for many decades from 1917 on in Russia. The problem of all politicians in our Top-Down system is acquiescing & thinking along these linear lines, without understanding Bottom-up Cultural Fractal systems, as all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'Self-generating') ~100 (50-150) person Multihomes, Villages, Cities, Regions, Nations, Confederacies & Continents cultivated for 10s of 1000s of years through the Indigenous interdisciplinary CIRCLE-of-LIFE as the only SOVEREIGNTY humanity has every had. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
e) time-math Communication f) professional Costume
Few today understand, thinking Fractally ('Fraction, Multiplier, Building-block, Where-the-part-contains-the-whole') for humanity's collective economy, society & politics in the same way the human body is designed with Participatory Autonomy within genes, cells, tissue, organs & as a whole.
Modern neurology has established how each part of the body, has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as only one of several body Nexus for the inter-neural-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, most often learning of events & actions, well after the fact. The stomach for example is as well related to the whole body function & has more memory & action neurons, than the brain. The human body is analogous as a model for humanity's body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Oligarchs who control the western economy & empire commanded governments for the past 7000 years since Babylon, have their strongest colonial interest in Palestine being the trade, people & resources controlling LAND-BRIDGE between the Mega-Continents of Eurasia & Africa. In the Torah, as a very successful book of propaganda going back 7000 years, we find the glorification of Colonial genocide, even dishonest statements of a 'chosen people' coming to (violently invading) a 'chosen land' (violently taken from inhabitants). This invasion of Palestine led to 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Phoenicia (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Sidon, Tyr, Byblos, Beirut)'s invasions, genocide & conquering of 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') nations throughout the Mediterranean & Black (origin of Ashkenaz & Khazaria Empires) Seas as part of the Phoenician Empire for 4000 years, with fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') financial advantage stemming from this looting still continuing for 7000 years into our time. This glorification of crime & empire is the justification for Ukraine's 2 sequential Jewish Ashkenazi (some of my family in 3 branches) dual citizen Presidents Poroshenko & Zelensky to sacrifice 700,000 Ukrainian youth for their Oligarch subservience.
Putin makes a lot of sense with his economic analyses being bang on, but with some major holes in his line of thought.
Putin can justifiably state "Ukraine is not a legitimate government since the violent Maidan overthrow" of Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian army, Azov battalion, Svoboda & Pravy-Sektor killing of 15,000 Russian speakers in the Donbass & more in other Oblasts led to the internationally sanctioned Minsk Accords, with Russia patiently waiting, while Ukraine continued killing for 7 years (2014-2020) in order Ukraine to stop the killing certainly justified the Special VO military intervention.
UKRAINIANS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Of Europe's 6.16 million Ukrainian Refugees, the country with the greatest number, being Russia with 1,227,555 (Some put this at over 2 million) refugees. Add to this a couple of million Ukrainian deserters, who have felt comfortable enough to risk their lives on the battlefield (from being shot in the back by Ukrainian officers) surrendering to Russian forces instructed through the web-channels provided by Russia.
REMINISCING FAILURE & COULD HAVE BEEN
Putin & almost all Russian & other people constantly reminisce about the Soviet Union period because the intention & purpose for humanity was most important. However with Jacob-Schiff head of the New-York Stock Exchange being the main financier, arms supplier & facilitator of Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) & Germany's Warburg also providing Lenin (mixed Jewish family) with many 10s of millions of 1917 dollars, the method of fake 'Cooperatives' ('Co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') where diverse stakeholders are not accounting-recognized, compensated or empowered for their contributions, leads to dysfunctional economies everywhere & its abandonment in Russia & now China after 70 years of failure. I worked in co-ops & lived in co-op communities over 25 years to understand their dysfunction & unjust operation & inevitable failures. I have also helped develop & worked in Participatory Industry & Commerce to see how well these corporations thrive on their own. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels took their Participatory (eg. Das-Kapital) models from correspondence & study of indigenous peoples, totally forgotten or not understood by so-called 'Marxists'. The renowned engineering & product excellence, still part of many participatory companies & nations' international reputation, is due to a collective intelligence by stakeholders with invested interest, enabling an integrated 'fractal' decentralization of expert initiative & decision-making. These 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') traditions arise in heritage, as part of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') economic heritage of peace & prosperity. http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY & subset political systems. Economic Democracy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Production-Society-Guilds & time-based equivalency-accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
As a self-confessed lawyer - a somewhat brave confession - his interpretation of 'October 7th 2023' as a 'terrorist attack' suggests that he is 'a defence team representative' of the 'Occupation force/illegal state'. As a lawyer I would expect him to at least consider '... the 1970 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 explicitly endorsed a right to resist "subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation" ' [Google 'right to resist] especially as it relates specifically to the Donbass et al.
While I'm here Don at MoA has provided this link to Valdai:
Professor Glenn Diesen speaking with President Vladimir Putin at Valdai Discussion Club (07.11.2024)
I was surprised that Glenn went and completely rephrased his question perhaps because of the self-promotion it contained--the book he mentioned was written by him. Glenn has his own substack, but only allows comments to be made by subscribers.
I was more impressed by the President's note taking during the question and his overall engagement. Didn't know about Glenn's substack, not that I have enough time and energy to read any more than I do already. He seems to be hoping that the 'west' can be re-organised without the shit hitting the fan. Whereas Michael Hudson has a more accurate perspective IMO, which was evident in the most recent 3 way with Nima and Richard Wolff.
":(as translated)But. Karif Mr. President, in the light of the monstrous genocide that is currently unfolding in Palestine, would Russia support and help the international community once again support the initiative to criminalize Zionism? There was such an initiative at the UN in the 80s--to declare Zionism criminal. [...]
Vladimir Putin: [...] The second is about Zionism. I understand that I have said this many times, and I have said that any actions should be proportionate to the threat and what is happening on the other side. We certainly condemn any manifestation of terrorism; the attack on Israel is a manifestation, and it happened on October 7. But, of course, the answer must be proportionate."
I did not know about the initiative at the UN in the 80s to declare Zionism criminal.
Regarding Putin's answer, I disagree: Al-Aqsa Flood should not be considered a terrorist attack, but a legit act of resistance, since Palestinians have been under illegal occupation for 70+ years! I am fed up with this crap of people calling 7th October 2023 a "terrorist attack", while Little Satan (a.k.a. Israel) keeps committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the wider Middle East region with impunity and the complicity of Great Satan (a.k.a the Outlaw US Empire + its vassal states)! Let's call a spade a spade.
Thanks for digging up that fact. Crooke informed Judge Napolitano and his audience about the background of Occupied Palestine's new ambassador to the Outlaw US Empire. I don't recall his name but he's another Genocidal Zionist akin to Smotrich. Here's the link to the Crooke/Napolitano chat, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAJr9391vw
Yes, agreed. The woman Trump wants to appoint as US Ambassador to the UN is a similar basket case showing Trump didn't learn from his first administration as she differs little from Pompeo or Haley.
Mr Crook appears optimistic, I could not understand the reason. I agree with you, and the rejection of Pompeo does not indicate Trump learnt the lessons. In fact he was influenced by social media, public opinions, Carlson, Vance and his own son. The oligarch musk also used a twitter popularity poll for the selection of speaker. Forming a government this way should be very disturbing to everyone, especially the Americans that voted for him.
What metric should be devised to assess Trump's presidency? The Outlaw US Empire continues to decline as it's genuine Depression accelerates for the 90%, while the bond holders fondle their rosary beads--they don't need to worry as the R-controlled Congress will never impose the levels of taxation required to dent the deficit. If Trump institutes his Tariff policy, inflation will rage and that will provide cover for the Oil Oligopoly to raise gasoline prices that are now just under $3/gal here in Oregon with today's national average being a dime higher. And then there's the inflation that never gets included in COLA figuring--housing costs--which will also continue to climb thanks to the tariffs and illegal sanctions.
We can already conclude that Trump's term will be a big win for the top 10% and a big loss for the 90%, yet the 90% will be left to wonder why when the answer is already obvious--the 10% demands it. And those results will provide the basis for what ought to be a very volatile 2028 election year. And note this prognostication omits foreign policy aside from trade policy.
The world is casting off and it's the West that's going adrift. The latest vote at the UN General Assembly is striking: the West is defending Nazism against the rest of the world.
Trump's election is good news. The china store has recruited an elephant to present the new collection. In the best-case scenario, he'll be Captain Edward John Smith on our latest cruise.
And in the worst case....
eh well nothing new, the worst has already been before our eyes for 4 years
At the very least and with a full genocide as Mission Accomplished
The ship-of-state Trump takes the helm of is already damaged and slowly sinking some of which his first term caused. Wolff provided the required remedy that Trump will certainly never entertain, thus the foregone conclusion as to what his next administration will not accomplish--any improvement for the 90% that helped him attain POTUS again.
PMC - Professional Management Class - the management corruption in the West
Are members of the PMC, most of who vote Democratic, are they well enough educated, with their MBA's, professional degrees, and/or professional positions,
are they well enough educated to read and understand,
to read Putin and Lavrov and realized that they are OUTCLASSED! out classed in small letters
My hunch is that the Rest of The World, ROW can see the difference!
What I wrote at my VK in reply to a comment there works here:
IMO, everything Putin does or says is serious in its intent/content. His summation that the Outlaw US Empire brought dedollarization onto itself is correct yet is ignored by the "We can do nothing wrong" Class here in the Empire. That Class is blind to the fact that much more can be gained via cooperation than through confrontation.
Oedipus Rex's inability to see reality caused him to blind and exile himself into the forest as punishment for his hubris. Of course, the playwright determined the story, but it's so close to human behavior that it became the classic that it remains, although how many of that Class were ever exposed to it is probably very few. Hence, they are actually uneducated buffoons operating well beyond their actual abilities--Peter Principle on steroids.
They are selling their view of omnipresent and omnipotent competition on a wrong interpretation of Darwinian principles. Survival of the fittest means of the best adapted to prevailing conditions. It has to do with strength of physis and will, of course. But only indirectly, as both derive of other faculties like the ability to procure nourishment, to sustain adverse atmospheric influences and to cooperate within and between species. Symbiosis is a pervading feature of most if not all species. Without cooperation no one can survive. All live ist at worst a compromise, at best a win-win situation. Game theory has proven its mathematical background over and over. Its ignored at ones own peril.
On the other hand, any individuum under constant stress as pervasive competition entails cant survive for long either. All species need rest and idle times for repair purposes of dna splitting gone wrong, elimination of dead cell material and so on. And plenty of it. Just watch the way of live of any wild animal species. There is a reason for it.
Current financial capitalistic pov denies all this, propagating an incomplete picture of natures laws, while people trying to conform to their performance requirements will inevitably fail.
As you note, cooperation has overthrown Darwinian evolution's concept of the fittest surviving, which was Lynn Margulis's major contribution to evolutionary science. The model of political-economy that's emerging is based on cooperation, not Zero-sum competition.
Great interview. Thank you, Karl.
My favorite quote:
Brussels makes more decisions that are binding on EU member states than the Supreme Soviet of the USSR did when the Soviet Union was still in existence.
Yes, that was a deep thrust I said nothing about. I'll do a roundup report similar to what Escobar and others have done.
thanks for sharing karl... i think it is very uplifting, but i see you're quick analysis on the bottom frames it very differently... oh well.... we have tried to cross this bridge before..
Sorry, there is an incorrect translation regarding Ukrainian losses. The translation says that "we (meaning the Russians) lost 200 tanks." In fact, in the original source Putin said that the Ukrainians lost 200 tanks. Here is a quote from the kremlin.ru website in Russian: "Вот они (имеются ввиду украинцы) зашли в Курскую область – потери колоссальные: за три месяца боевых действий потерь больше, чем за весь прошлый год у киевского режима – свыше 30 тысяч. Ну танков меньше потеряли: сейчас где-то около 200, а в прошлом году за весь год потеряли там 240, по-моему. Просто меньше танков стало – вот и потерь меньше, меньше используют."
Source: http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75521
In the article it is translated as follows: “Here they came to the Kursk region—the losses are colossal: for three months of fighting, the losses are more than for the entire last year for the Kiev regime–-over 30 thousand. Well, we lost less tanks: now it's somewhere around 200, and last year for the whole year we lost 240 there, in my opinion. It's just that there are fewer tanks, so there are fewer losses and fewer people are being used."
Karl , Putin amazes me on many levels. Thank you for your comments at the end concerning Putin's disconnect from the genocide in Palestine over the past 100 years. Palestine is much more for the Oligarchs who have invaded than just a warm place on the Mediterranean. Palestine-Israel is meant to be the centre of world empire, now being ethnically cleansed for this cruel inane purpose.
Before 7Oct'23 over 100 Palestinians were dying per day from Israeli Genocide (UN definition = 'Removing people from or destroying their means of livelihood plus Settler & State Murder'. Hamas had next to no civil options untried in 100 years of brutal Ashkenazi invasion, on which to proceed.
I'm surprised that Putin doesn't understand this, but I do understand how with control of the west's fake 'economy', western Zionist multi-Trillionaire Oligarchs can make life very difficult for any people & leaders such as Putin as they did for many decades from 1917 on in Russia. The problem of all politicians in our Top-Down system is acquiescing & thinking along these linear lines, without understanding Bottom-up Cultural Fractal systems, as all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'Self-generating') ~100 (50-150) person Multihomes, Villages, Cities, Regions, Nations, Confederacies & Continents cultivated for 10s of 1000s of years through the Indigenous interdisciplinary CIRCLE-of-LIFE as the only SOVEREIGNTY humanity has every had. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
All humanity's worldwide indigenous ancestors cultivated all in RELATIONAL ECONOMY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy String-shell time-based equivalency accounting integrates:
a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence'),
b) 'Currency' ('flow' of compensation from contribution, experience, expertise, decision-making acumen etc),
c) 'Condolence' (Social-security support for illness, injury, handicap, old-ages etc.),
d) Collegial mentored-apprenticeship 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit,
e) time-math Communication f) professional Costume
Few today understand, thinking Fractally ('Fraction, Multiplier, Building-block, Where-the-part-contains-the-whole') for humanity's collective economy, society & politics in the same way the human body is designed with Participatory Autonomy within genes, cells, tissue, organs & as a whole.
Modern neurology has established how each part of the body, has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as only one of several body Nexus for the inter-neural-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, most often learning of events & actions, well after the fact. The stomach for example is as well related to the whole body function & has more memory & action neurons, than the brain. The human body is analogous as a model for humanity's body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Oligarchs who control the western economy & empire commanded governments for the past 7000 years since Babylon, have their strongest colonial interest in Palestine being the trade, people & resources controlling LAND-BRIDGE between the Mega-Continents of Eurasia & Africa. In the Torah, as a very successful book of propaganda going back 7000 years, we find the glorification of Colonial genocide, even dishonest statements of a 'chosen people' coming to (violently invading) a 'chosen land' (violently taken from inhabitants). This invasion of Palestine led to 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Phoenicia (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Sidon, Tyr, Byblos, Beirut)'s invasions, genocide & conquering of 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') nations throughout the Mediterranean & Black (origin of Ashkenaz & Khazaria Empires) Seas as part of the Phoenician Empire for 4000 years, with fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') financial advantage stemming from this looting still continuing for 7000 years into our time. This glorification of crime & empire is the justification for Ukraine's 2 sequential Jewish Ashkenazi (some of my family in 3 branches) dual citizen Presidents Poroshenko & Zelensky to sacrifice 700,000 Ukrainian youth for their Oligarch subservience.
Putin makes a lot of sense with his economic analyses being bang on, but with some major holes in his line of thought.
Putin can justifiably state "Ukraine is not a legitimate government since the violent Maidan overthrow" of Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian army, Azov battalion, Svoboda & Pravy-Sektor killing of 15,000 Russian speakers in the Donbass & more in other Oblasts led to the internationally sanctioned Minsk Accords, with Russia patiently waiting, while Ukraine continued killing for 7 years (2014-2020) in order Ukraine to stop the killing certainly justified the Special VO military intervention.
UKRAINIANS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Of Europe's 6.16 million Ukrainian Refugees, the country with the greatest number, being Russia with 1,227,555 (Some put this at over 2 million) refugees. Add to this a couple of million Ukrainian deserters, who have felt comfortable enough to risk their lives on the battlefield (from being shot in the back by Ukrainian officers) surrendering to Russian forces instructed through the web-channels provided by Russia.
REMINISCING FAILURE & COULD HAVE BEEN
Putin & almost all Russian & other people constantly reminisce about the Soviet Union period because the intention & purpose for humanity was most important. However with Jacob-Schiff head of the New-York Stock Exchange being the main financier, arms supplier & facilitator of Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Trotsky) & Germany's Warburg also providing Lenin (mixed Jewish family) with many 10s of millions of 1917 dollars, the method of fake 'Cooperatives' ('Co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders') where diverse stakeholders are not accounting-recognized, compensated or empowered for their contributions, leads to dysfunctional economies everywhere & its abandonment in Russia & now China after 70 years of failure. I worked in co-ops & lived in co-op communities over 25 years to understand their dysfunction & unjust operation & inevitable failures. I have also helped develop & worked in Participatory Industry & Commerce to see how well these corporations thrive on their own. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels took their Participatory (eg. Das-Kapital) models from correspondence & study of indigenous peoples, totally forgotten or not understood by so-called 'Marxists'. The renowned engineering & product excellence, still part of many participatory companies & nations' international reputation, is due to a collective intelligence by stakeholders with invested interest, enabling an integrated 'fractal' decentralization of expert initiative & decision-making. These 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') traditions arise in heritage, as part of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') economic heritage of peace & prosperity. http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Antony Sutton in 'Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution'. https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY & subset political systems. Economic Democracy in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village), specialized Production-Society-Guilds & time-based equivalency-accounting on the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Impresseive as usual. However...
As a self-confessed lawyer - a somewhat brave confession - his interpretation of 'October 7th 2023' as a 'terrorist attack' suggests that he is 'a defence team representative' of the 'Occupation force/illegal state'. As a lawyer I would expect him to at least consider '... the 1970 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 explicitly endorsed a right to resist "subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation" ' [Google 'right to resist] especially as it relates specifically to the Donbass et al.
While I'm here Don at MoA has provided this link to Valdai:
Professor Glenn Diesen speaking with President Vladimir Putin at Valdai Discussion Club (07.11.2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yild468_J9w
Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 10
I was surprised that Glenn went and completely rephrased his question perhaps because of the self-promotion it contained--the book he mentioned was written by him. Glenn has his own substack, but only allows comments to be made by subscribers.
I was more impressed by the President's note taking during the question and his overall engagement. Didn't know about Glenn's substack, not that I have enough time and energy to read any more than I do already. He seems to be hoping that the 'west' can be re-organised without the shit hitting the fan. Whereas Michael Hudson has a more accurate perspective IMO, which was evident in the most recent 3 way with Nima and Richard Wolff.
":(as translated)But. Karif Mr. President, in the light of the monstrous genocide that is currently unfolding in Palestine, would Russia support and help the international community once again support the initiative to criminalize Zionism? There was such an initiative at the UN in the 80s--to declare Zionism criminal. [...]
Vladimir Putin: [...] The second is about Zionism. I understand that I have said this many times, and I have said that any actions should be proportionate to the threat and what is happening on the other side. We certainly condemn any manifestation of terrorism; the attack on Israel is a manifestation, and it happened on October 7. But, of course, the answer must be proportionate."
I did not know about the initiative at the UN in the 80s to declare Zionism criminal.
Regarding Putin's answer, I disagree: Al-Aqsa Flood should not be considered a terrorist attack, but a legit act of resistance, since Palestinians have been under illegal occupation for 70+ years! I am fed up with this crap of people calling 7th October 2023 a "terrorist attack", while Little Satan (a.k.a. Israel) keeps committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the wider Middle East region with impunity and the complicity of Great Satan (a.k.a the Outlaw US Empire + its vassal states)! Let's call a spade a spade.
By the way, I recommend the latest article by John Helmer on his "Dances with Bears" blog: https://johnhelmer.net/two-russian-texts-on-the-behaviour-of-the-israelis-for-the-sabbath-reading/
Like Lavrov, Putin danced around the question. IMO, no reader at the Gym sees Russian West Asian policy as satisfactory.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 was passed on November 10, 1975.
«Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination».
It was destroyed by Resolution 4686, passed on December 16, 1991.
I have no words.
Thanks for digging up that fact. Crooke informed Judge Napolitano and his audience about the background of Occupied Palestine's new ambassador to the Outlaw US Empire. I don't recall his name but he's another Genocidal Zionist akin to Smotrich. Here's the link to the Crooke/Napolitano chat, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEAJr9391vw
Thank you very much. The English is interesting.
Vedomosti has the article about the new ambassador. Yechiel Leiter, born in America. It does not say he is a terrorist, I do.
Yes, agreed. The woman Trump wants to appoint as US Ambassador to the UN is a similar basket case showing Trump didn't learn from his first administration as she differs little from Pompeo or Haley.
Mr Crook appears optimistic, I could not understand the reason. I agree with you, and the rejection of Pompeo does not indicate Trump learnt the lessons. In fact he was influenced by social media, public opinions, Carlson, Vance and his own son. The oligarch musk also used a twitter popularity poll for the selection of speaker. Forming a government this way should be very disturbing to everyone, especially the Americans that voted for him.
I wrote this short comment at MoA:
What metric should be devised to assess Trump's presidency? The Outlaw US Empire continues to decline as it's genuine Depression accelerates for the 90%, while the bond holders fondle their rosary beads--they don't need to worry as the R-controlled Congress will never impose the levels of taxation required to dent the deficit. If Trump institutes his Tariff policy, inflation will rage and that will provide cover for the Oil Oligopoly to raise gasoline prices that are now just under $3/gal here in Oregon with today's national average being a dime higher. And then there's the inflation that never gets included in COLA figuring--housing costs--which will also continue to climb thanks to the tariffs and illegal sanctions.
We can already conclude that Trump's term will be a big win for the top 10% and a big loss for the 90%, yet the 90% will be left to wonder why when the answer is already obvious--the 10% demands it. And those results will provide the basis for what ought to be a very volatile 2028 election year. And note this prognostication omits foreign policy aside from trade policy.
Thank you Karlof1
Your work is at the moment the most important to do. To let us understand where the stream is running.
Do not try to swim upstream said Vladimir Vladimirovich, not too long, you will not go far away even using tricks and dope.
So it's really boring not to have the possibility to share with peoples on MoA. I tried but unsuccesfully.
Here ist for you and friends:
So Trump chooses a bunch of Zionist, warmongering morons.
It's truly astonishing....
What did you expect? And especially in this swamp is there even one virgin without allegiance to the string-pullers?
The point is, none of this matters. What matters is the material reality of the real landslide.
The one Putin talked about in Valdaï, 17 years after announcing in Munich what was going to happen.
Karlof1 did the work quickly so that everyone could read about it, thanks to him.
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putins-valdai-club-appearance-part
The world is casting off and it's the West that's going adrift. The latest vote at the UN General Assembly is striking: the West is defending Nazism against the rest of the world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html
Who is isolated?
Trump's election is good news. The china store has recruited an elephant to present the new collection. In the best-case scenario, he'll be Captain Edward John Smith on our latest cruise.
And in the worst case....
eh well nothing new, the worst has already been before our eyes for 4 years
At the very least and with a full genocide as Mission Accomplished
The ship-of-state Trump takes the helm of is already damaged and slowly sinking some of which his first term caused. Wolff provided the required remedy that Trump will certainly never entertain, thus the foregone conclusion as to what his next administration will not accomplish--any improvement for the 90% that helped him attain POTUS again.
Thanks Karl, for the “Putin Trilogy”
Kremlin's translation remains incomplete. I have no idea how many other English translations exist.
PMC - Professional Management Class - the management corruption in the West
Are members of the PMC, most of who vote Democratic, are they well enough educated, with their MBA's, professional degrees, and/or professional positions,
are they well enough educated to read and understand,
to read Putin and Lavrov and realized that they are OUTCLASSED! out classed in small letters
My hunch is that the Rest of The World, ROW can see the difference!
Putin outclasses them in managing a country
Lavrov outclasses them in diplomacy
What it the best choice to partner with?
What I wrote at my VK in reply to a comment there works here:
IMO, everything Putin does or says is serious in its intent/content. His summation that the Outlaw US Empire brought dedollarization onto itself is correct yet is ignored by the "We can do nothing wrong" Class here in the Empire. That Class is blind to the fact that much more can be gained via cooperation than through confrontation.
Oedipus Rex's inability to see reality caused him to blind and exile himself into the forest as punishment for his hubris. Of course, the playwright determined the story, but it's so close to human behavior that it became the classic that it remains, although how many of that Class were ever exposed to it is probably very few. Hence, they are actually uneducated buffoons operating well beyond their actual abilities--Peter Principle on steroids.
They are selling their view of omnipresent and omnipotent competition on a wrong interpretation of Darwinian principles. Survival of the fittest means of the best adapted to prevailing conditions. It has to do with strength of physis and will, of course. But only indirectly, as both derive of other faculties like the ability to procure nourishment, to sustain adverse atmospheric influences and to cooperate within and between species. Symbiosis is a pervading feature of most if not all species. Without cooperation no one can survive. All live ist at worst a compromise, at best a win-win situation. Game theory has proven its mathematical background over and over. Its ignored at ones own peril.
On the other hand, any individuum under constant stress as pervasive competition entails cant survive for long either. All species need rest and idle times for repair purposes of dna splitting gone wrong, elimination of dead cell material and so on. And plenty of it. Just watch the way of live of any wild animal species. There is a reason for it.
Current financial capitalistic pov denies all this, propagating an incomplete picture of natures laws, while people trying to conform to their performance requirements will inevitably fail.
Its about time to change these wrong paradigms.
As you note, cooperation has overthrown Darwinian evolution's concept of the fittest surviving, which was Lynn Margulis's major contribution to evolutionary science. The model of political-economy that's emerging is based on cooperation, not Zero-sum competition.