Russia’s grand development plan is as I’ve observed based on People Centered Development which begins with providing life support systems followed by education aimed at as many Russians discovering what they’re best at and pursuing that ability as a career.
Every step Putin takes reinforces my belief that this man has been a blessing to Russia and the world. History will mark him as the great leader and statesman that he is. He has revitalized the virtues of the Russian people and rescued those that the West lost. I wish him a long and healthy life.
“When they read”, but in what publications, Diana? I have about 4K subscribers and followers, and most are oldsters like me. If that number was 4 million, then that might make a difference in the numbers who would move. I might write about that potential motivation.
As a historian, I have a good understanding of the conditions that force/obligate people/populations to move/migrate. Such conditions haven’t been present in North America sans Mexico for many decades—almost 100 years That’s what I’m contemplating writing about.
I didn’t post the meeting, but recently there was an extensive discussion about the state of the clean-up of the two tankers that wrecked during a late December storm in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait where Putin again showed how well he gets briefed on events. The response to the event was excellent but challenges remain when water temps warm. I tell you this because I know you are environmentally in-tuned. Which reminds me, did I ever share this with you? https://archive.org/details/GoddessoftheEarth
I of the thought that the SV Paypal Mafia have taken over the government, with Vance a Theil acolyte as VP and Musk as the controller of Trump is where the power lies. The neocons are no
longer in charge but and there is always a but the SV Mafia are no better, they're just going to
take amerika even deeper into a totalitarian state.
I don't believe for a second that amerika can save itself from within, it will need to be defeated
for it be able to work in peaceful harmony with the ROW
With interesting yet extremely scary times are upon us I can't fathom the optimism that many have that Trump will do anything right let alone for the right reason
Superb article. So good to see Russia going in this direction. The emphasis on human capital--the education, opportunities, health and well-being of the general population is what separates the good guys from the capitalist empire, which, incidentally, performs pretty much as Marx depicts. Thank you!
In Australia we used to have something like that years ago.
They used to be called technical schools and prepared mainly boys for jobs in the various trades although they had to complete apprenticeships on top of that.
It was essentially hands on which suited the way a lot of boys approached things. These however were closed down and school became more focused on academic type stuff and university entrance. This suited girls much more and the boys lost interest and either dropped out barely literate or stayed and become disruptive.
To my mind this has destroyed the education of thousands of young men and women who were never remotely interested in going to University. Possibly even ushering in the dystopia that has brought us Trump and the rest of it.
In Russia and elsewhere, the emphasis is on SMEs—Small & Medium Enterprises—where technicians from many trades are aided in starting a shop/business. It’s portion of Russia’s economy is the fastest growing.
When looking at Russia’s unemployment rate of about 2.5%, there’re sectors that are much higher like teen unemployment meaning there’re some sectors where it’s zero. Unless you’re incapacitated and unable to perform any function, you can find employment—and the government will be happy to assist. And given Russia’s development goals, you’ll work until you retire.
I worked at a TAFE college as an IT/admin/manager which was transitioning to business studies but had a long history turning out plumbers and electricians. The transition coincided with increasing service privatisation, campus consolidation, and outsourcing. In my opinion the Hilmer report was national sabotage.
I could not agree more. Might have been some small competition around the Melbourne and Sydney axis in a few things but the rest of the country was starved of services. I was in transport and it was a shambles there, and still really hasn't recovered.
I'm just an outside observer of America's education system, but here are my impressions.
1. America still maintains a top level university system that attracts bright people from around the world.
2. America has allowed its basic K-12 education system to deteriorate badly.
This mirrors what's happened in the US economy. It's been hollowed out in favour of protecting only the high-level activities. The consequences of doing so appear unsustainable.
In contrast, China has built a system that gives every child a first class education in STEM, and then allows for vigorous competition to naturally select the brightest to move on to graduate studies. This is an anti-woke framework, obviously. Nor does it matter if your family is penniless. The state will look after everything if the child has the aptitude. I believe Russia will structure things in a similar way.
As with the economy and politics, it doesn't look like anything short of a revolution in education will prevent America's continued decline.
Russia’s already structured its ed system in that manner. Elite control of “top” universities has existed since their inception as they were all religiously based. Back in the 1920s Upton Sinclair wrote a devastating book about the rot behind the Ive League walls in “The Goose Step.” The sort of combined business and political-economy education favored by Simon Patten was eradicated since he recognized the fact of unearned income. Ideological constraints are why I never sought my PhD.
remember how glorious was earlier days of USSR? I'd say Putin is doing the Restoration of a global powerful nation, not only a blessing to Russia, but to most of rest of the world as well. IMHO, the peace treaty should also include treatment of those with Stockholm syndrome in Europe.
Meanwhile Liberalism fights for diversity and against racism so how could liberalism fail?
This insightful German blogger tackles the failure of liberalism in yet another post. An ongoing theme of his work, among a wide range of topics. is how Germany's politics consists mostly in a dialogue with Hitler. They just can't figure out a way to go beyond Hitler.
"Why racism is a stupid and incoherent concept that you should not worry about and that Western society must sooner or later discard
Since Germany is more terrified by free speech than the US, this article is behind a paywall. Here is the first part. This is the material before the paywall.
"I have been planning to write this post for a while.
Running a modest contrarian blog means that one is often accused of various political improprieties and social sins. From the beginning, many have been wont to call me a racist. After the war in Gaza broke out, I enjoyed a brief respite from this; other critics decided that the main problem with me was rather that I was a crypto-Zionist. Now that that hysteria has passed, the days of eugyppius-is-a-racist have returned. I’ve addressed these accusations here and there, in comments and even in the occasional dedicated post, but it is time to address them again, far more comprehensively than I ever have before.
The topic is much bigger than me of course. Anybody who speaks directly and honestly about the detriments of mass migration will sooner or later attract the racism police. In the eyes of these discourse minders, it is illicit to notice that all human populations do not behave in the same ways, that not all human populations should be intermingled with each other and that diversity is not a strength and often in fact a great problem. Talking like this is bigoted, xenophobic, prejudiced and above all it is racist, and that is very bad because racism caused National Socialism and slavery and Jim Crow and Apartheid and the only way to avoid these evils in the future is to insist that there is only one race, namely the human race, regardless of inconvenient hate facts like crime statistics and social science data and all of the naughty things that the psychometricians have dredged up.
Before I can explain why these attitudes are stupid, counterproductive and inimical to rational thought, I must draw the curtain of the paywall. The reality and imminent danger of racism are central doctrines of the German civic religion, and these are inauspicious times to propagate even mild heresy on the open internet. If you wish to read further – if, for example, you are a constitutional protector eager to catalogue my political sins – I invite you to subscribe. I promise a measure of wrongthink below the fold for your files."
"It’s about the supremacist Jews treating the Palestinians as subhumans. Massacring them and bombing their hospitals, homes, children, women and babies with 2000 kg bombs. And calling them «animals». And cutting off their drinking water supplies. ... Did you know that Israel has 70 laws which make Palestinians subhumans?"
Another comment:
"The beautiful "Riviera of the East" to be beautified with the Auschwitz golf course, Majdanec spas, Buchenwald casinos, and, of course, with holobiz museums to whine about incomparable suffering because "hitler&nazi". What a joy to walk on the bones of amalek babies and children! Snotrich, Gvir, and bibi are joined by the American X-tian zionists to celebrate the Real Holocaust of women and children in Gaza."
Do you suppose the oligarchy was frightened by the whims whoever controlled the past 3 years' US empire flirting with nuclear war over Stalin's borders for Kiev?
I don’t know if “frightened” is the term I’d use. Dismayed by the outcome and realization that they need to change mojo is what I see. The inability and need to nurture and develop your nation’s #1 asset is the most critical mistake the USA has made, and it’s been ongoing for several generations.
Dead right Karl. The wealthy don't seem to imagine that they need to nurture anything as they will always be able to buy whatever it is that they want form wherever they want. Failing that, they launch a hostile takeover.
They never dream that anyone would not sell to them, yet with their idiotic sanctions they are creating a world where people can't sell to them and are now looking elsewhere.
I agree I think the oligarchs (Atlanticist?) thought Russian Federation would fold, they overestimated (underestimated RF, how could they did they expect RF different than Russia under Stalin in terms of grit?) the US' military potential, believed their media's propaganda, etc.
Next how do the oligarchs accommodate the BRICS....?
Every step Putin takes reinforces my belief that this man has been a blessing to Russia and the world. History will mark him as the great leader and statesman that he is. He has revitalized the virtues of the Russian people and rescued those that the West lost. I wish him a long and healthy life.
I wonder how many others from western nations are drooling when they read about the way Russia invests in its people and their well-being.
“When they read”, but in what publications, Diana? I have about 4K subscribers and followers, and most are oldsters like me. If that number was 4 million, then that might make a difference in the numbers who would move. I might write about that potential motivation.
I was thinking of your posts, Karl. But even the glimpses others got of Russia through Tucker Carlson's visit there were compelling.
But, ya, I get your point.
As a historian, I have a good understanding of the conditions that force/obligate people/populations to move/migrate. Such conditions haven’t been present in North America sans Mexico for many decades—almost 100 years That’s what I’m contemplating writing about.
I didn’t post the meeting, but recently there was an extensive discussion about the state of the clean-up of the two tankers that wrecked during a late December storm in the Black Sea near the Kerch Strait where Putin again showed how well he gets briefed on events. The response to the event was excellent but challenges remain when water temps warm. I tell you this because I know you are environmentally in-tuned. Which reminds me, did I ever share this with you? https://archive.org/details/GoddessoftheEarth
I look forward to reading that post, Karl.
I'll watch the video you sent when I get a chance. Thanks.
Thanks for another nice write up Karl
I of the thought that the SV Paypal Mafia have taken over the government, with Vance a Theil acolyte as VP and Musk as the controller of Trump is where the power lies. The neocons are no
longer in charge but and there is always a but the SV Mafia are no better, they're just going to
take amerika even deeper into a totalitarian state.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1886563665475678641
I don't believe for a second that amerika can save itself from within, it will need to be defeated
for it be able to work in peaceful harmony with the ROW
With interesting yet extremely scary times are upon us I can't fathom the optimism that many have that Trump will do anything right let alone for the right reason
You may want to read whatever it is that Dr. Doctorow comes up with. There’s a short FYI at the link, https://gilbertdoctorow.com/
I don't believe that Trump himself has come up with any of this on his own, he's definitely someone's puppet
Let's see what he has to say later in the week
Trump's ego and crude language is a tell, he's not playing 5D chess, I guess that Musk has been his appointed controller.
At the minimum he's his handler, will we ever know exactly how much was paid to Trump for this privilege
Thanks for the link!
Superb article. So good to see Russia going in this direction. The emphasis on human capital--the education, opportunities, health and well-being of the general population is what separates the good guys from the capitalist empire, which, incidentally, performs pretty much as Marx depicts. Thank you!
Vocational secondary education?
How smart. The US would never go for that.
The US hasn’t a clue how to properly relate to its human capital, the one exception being the period of slavery—white, native and black.
In Australia we used to have something like that years ago.
They used to be called technical schools and prepared mainly boys for jobs in the various trades although they had to complete apprenticeships on top of that.
It was essentially hands on which suited the way a lot of boys approached things. These however were closed down and school became more focused on academic type stuff and university entrance. This suited girls much more and the boys lost interest and either dropped out barely literate or stayed and become disruptive.
To my mind this has destroyed the education of thousands of young men and women who were never remotely interested in going to University. Possibly even ushering in the dystopia that has brought us Trump and the rest of it.
In Russia and elsewhere, the emphasis is on SMEs—Small & Medium Enterprises—where technicians from many trades are aided in starting a shop/business. It’s portion of Russia’s economy is the fastest growing.
When looking at Russia’s unemployment rate of about 2.5%, there’re sectors that are much higher like teen unemployment meaning there’re some sectors where it’s zero. Unless you’re incapacitated and unable to perform any function, you can find employment—and the government will be happy to assist. And given Russia’s development goals, you’ll work until you retire.
I worked at a TAFE college as an IT/admin/manager which was transitioning to business studies but had a long history turning out plumbers and electricians. The transition coincided with increasing service privatisation, campus consolidation, and outsourcing. In my opinion the Hilmer report was national sabotage.
I could not agree more. Might have been some small competition around the Melbourne and Sydney axis in a few things but the rest of the country was starved of services. I was in transport and it was a shambles there, and still really hasn't recovered.
I'm just an outside observer of America's education system, but here are my impressions.
1. America still maintains a top level university system that attracts bright people from around the world.
2. America has allowed its basic K-12 education system to deteriorate badly.
This mirrors what's happened in the US economy. It's been hollowed out in favour of protecting only the high-level activities. The consequences of doing so appear unsustainable.
In contrast, China has built a system that gives every child a first class education in STEM, and then allows for vigorous competition to naturally select the brightest to move on to graduate studies. This is an anti-woke framework, obviously. Nor does it matter if your family is penniless. The state will look after everything if the child has the aptitude. I believe Russia will structure things in a similar way.
As with the economy and politics, it doesn't look like anything short of a revolution in education will prevent America's continued decline.
Russia’s already structured its ed system in that manner. Elite control of “top” universities has existed since their inception as they were all religiously based. Back in the 1920s Upton Sinclair wrote a devastating book about the rot behind the Ive League walls in “The Goose Step.” The sort of combined business and political-economy education favored by Simon Patten was eradicated since he recognized the fact of unearned income. Ideological constraints are why I never sought my PhD.
remember how glorious was earlier days of USSR? I'd say Putin is doing the Restoration of a global powerful nation, not only a blessing to Russia, but to most of rest of the world as well. IMHO, the peace treaty should also include treatment of those with Stockholm syndrome in Europe.
Putin will be judged by how well he planned for Russia’s continuing development after he retires in 2030.
Meanwhile Liberalism fights for diversity and against racism so how could liberalism fail?
This insightful German blogger tackles the failure of liberalism in yet another post. An ongoing theme of his work, among a wide range of topics. is how Germany's politics consists mostly in a dialogue with Hitler. They just can't figure out a way to go beyond Hitler.
"Why racism is a stupid and incoherent concept that you should not worry about and that Western society must sooner or later discard
OOGA BOOGA RACISM POST
eugyppius Feb 02, 2025 ∙ Paid"
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-racism-is-a-stupid-and-incoherent
Since Germany is more terrified by free speech than the US, this article is behind a paywall. Here is the first part. This is the material before the paywall.
"I have been planning to write this post for a while.
Running a modest contrarian blog means that one is often accused of various political improprieties and social sins. From the beginning, many have been wont to call me a racist. After the war in Gaza broke out, I enjoyed a brief respite from this; other critics decided that the main problem with me was rather that I was a crypto-Zionist. Now that that hysteria has passed, the days of eugyppius-is-a-racist have returned. I’ve addressed these accusations here and there, in comments and even in the occasional dedicated post, but it is time to address them again, far more comprehensively than I ever have before.
The topic is much bigger than me of course. Anybody who speaks directly and honestly about the detriments of mass migration will sooner or later attract the racism police. In the eyes of these discourse minders, it is illicit to notice that all human populations do not behave in the same ways, that not all human populations should be intermingled with each other and that diversity is not a strength and often in fact a great problem. Talking like this is bigoted, xenophobic, prejudiced and above all it is racist, and that is very bad because racism caused National Socialism and slavery and Jim Crow and Apartheid and the only way to avoid these evils in the future is to insist that there is only one race, namely the human race, regardless of inconvenient hate facts like crime statistics and social science data and all of the naughty things that the psychometricians have dredged up.
Before I can explain why these attitudes are stupid, counterproductive and inimical to rational thought, I must draw the curtain of the paywall. The reality and imminent danger of racism are central doctrines of the German civic religion, and these are inauspicious times to propagate even mild heresy on the open internet. If you wish to read further – if, for example, you are a constitutional protector eager to catalogue my political sins – I invite you to subscribe. I promise a measure of wrongthink below the fold for your files."
yes, the "diversity & anti-racism" in the humiliated Germany.
Meanwhile, Trump described his vision as transforming Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” https://www.rt.com/news/612187-trump-wants-us-to-own-gaza/
Comment:
"It’s about the supremacist Jews treating the Palestinians as subhumans. Massacring them and bombing their hospitals, homes, children, women and babies with 2000 kg bombs. And calling them «animals». And cutting off their drinking water supplies. ... Did you know that Israel has 70 laws which make Palestinians subhumans?"
Another comment:
"The beautiful "Riviera of the East" to be beautified with the Auschwitz golf course, Majdanec spas, Buchenwald casinos, and, of course, with holobiz museums to whine about incomparable suffering because "hitler&nazi". What a joy to walk on the bones of amalek babies and children! Snotrich, Gvir, and bibi are joined by the American X-tian zionists to celebrate the Real Holocaust of women and children in Gaza."
And pay back the super rich folks who made their money on property
Thanks for the names for the new places
The Modern age continues with colonialism and genocide!!
I hear there are a lot indigenous people in Africa, maybe the next site for real-estate?
Do you suppose the oligarchy was frightened by the whims whoever controlled the past 3 years' US empire flirting with nuclear war over Stalin's borders for Kiev?
I don’t know if “frightened” is the term I’d use. Dismayed by the outcome and realization that they need to change mojo is what I see. The inability and need to nurture and develop your nation’s #1 asset is the most critical mistake the USA has made, and it’s been ongoing for several generations.
Dead right Karl. The wealthy don't seem to imagine that they need to nurture anything as they will always be able to buy whatever it is that they want form wherever they want. Failing that, they launch a hostile takeover.
They never dream that anyone would not sell to them, yet with their idiotic sanctions they are creating a world where people can't sell to them and are now looking elsewhere.
It's quite the story how the "wealthy" got so wealthy(bullies) yet they believe that they're the best and brightest
Great comment, spot on
I agree I think the oligarchs (Atlanticist?) thought Russian Federation would fold, they overestimated (underestimated RF, how could they did they expect RF different than Russia under Stalin in terms of grit?) the US' military potential, believed their media's propaganda, etc.
Next how do the oligarchs accommodate the BRICS....?