Debt Rattle November 29 2022
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 29 2022]Air alert declared almost throughout Ukraine.
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— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) November 29, 2022
Raul that is the best Assange speech I’ve ever heard and thank you for posting it. There can be no character assassination for a man holding ideas such as those.
Eugypius piece nailed it for me. I wanted to throw my TV through a window tonight when the Melbourne press were portraying China as draconian for locking people down. I don’t have the bandwidth to go on but thanks.
Dr D killin’ it again lately.
Some others here maybe not so much.Also. From the internet…
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities…
“PROFESSOR Angus Dalgleish, a consultant medical oncologist at St George’s, University of London, has put out a urgent call for a halt to all Covid vaccine programmes. Very simply, they are not needed and they are doing significant harm, and not just with regard the blood clots and cardiac problems. The boosters are having a devastating impact on his cancer patients. ”
Cancer specialist says Covid boosters are harming his patients
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“Natural immunity from COVID infection is broader and more durable than that following vaccination, while immunisation post-infection adds to the risk of impaired immunity due to specific immune suppression.”
And THAT is why one never gets vaxxed after recovery from infection!
This article destroys the entire scamdemic narative!
Air raid sirens all clear, practice flights.
Seems to be some debate in high circles in regards to infrastructure attacks.
Disarray. Confusion. Even hints of fear and desperation. This is not going according to plan… pic.twitter.com/JursfxOca8
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) November 29, 2022
“New figures, however, appear to show that the public is solidly with Musk on the free speech issue. New signups at Twitter are at an all-time high with two million new signups per day.”
Get unwoke, go unbroke?
“The US is a Luciferian project.” It’s kind of depressing to see TAE include such utterly reactionary tripe in the daily “Debt Rattle”.
Boeing. Now wants to put Acme rocket motor on glide bomb.-Wiley E. Coyote
GBU 39 bombs have checkered past. Boeing execs in charge at that time sent to federal prison. Corruption.
In 2002, while Boeing and Lockheed Martin were competing to develop the Small Diameter Bomb, Darleen A. Druyun – at that time Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Management – deleted the requirement for moving target engagement, which favored Boeing. She was later convicted of violating a conflict of interest statute.- Wiki
She became Boeing employee. Unit cost of bomb alone in 2015 was $115,000 per. Her salary at Boeing was $250,000 a year with $50,000 signing bonus.-Wiki. Then got her daughter and son in law jobs at Boeing.- Wiki
War is a racket.
Aussie win cases:
Okay, now they pay each $1M for their trouble in Civil Rights abuses? The government won’t learn if they’re not punished by it.
“The US Is a Luciferian Project (Garlington)”
It is very difficult thing to recognize and internalize. The concepts of “Christ” and “AntiChrist” (or accurately “False Christ”, “Imitation God”, “Fake Religion”) are very hazy. And who even has Christ or his values internalized in their hearts? You need that to be shocked, troubled, for there to be a difference between yourself and everyday.
Since most people are halfway between, neither “Christ” nor “AntiChrist”, it seems about the same to them, just a big wash, a muddle. It’s only if you can comprehend being Compassionate, Good, Merciful, Just, Strong, Honest, that you could comprehend what’s gained or lost.
And this is also how you know there are essentially no Christians in America. Does this LOOK like a Christian nation to you? Do any of these cities LOOK like they are the result of Christian values and actions? No. Like the Jewish population, the Christians are an astonishing minority and like the Jews they get savaged pretty regularly for just about anything they do. Like meet in public. Or not swear fealty to wars. Or believe in God ahead of State. Arrested even, and were.
Or simple things like not sacrifice their children. To pop culture. To pornography. To violent TV. To being popular and obeying the little blue square. They are weirdos, outcasts of the first order. How dare they be so strict, so oppressive as to not approve of their 12-year-old dressing like prostitutes and watching R/X movies? We’re so shocked we wouldn’t even know what to say to them, but CERTAINLY we don’t want OUR kids around THEIR kids. It might rub off. And what next, I say? They start growing Amish beards and riding horses, that’s what comes of it.
It’s a very strange situation. You wouldn’t think preventing your children from being bullies, and consorting with violence, drug dealers, and thieves would be controversial. …But that’s just the School Administrators, to say nothing of the Students.
It is. And the Muddle doesn’t realize how far from “Christ” (whatever that is) they’ve gotten. Who does? And they don’t realize how close to AntiChrist (Whatever that is) they now live. Who does?
But that’s why this expression of this article is hard to understand. Christ is Mercy and Love: that part we advertise. But it’s also Rules and Justice; Law and Punishment, and that is the sworn enemy of all men.
“The US must save face. Kiev has been warned: it will have to start negotiating with Russia again.”
This is silly: they already said any negotiations are just a scam and eyewash to buy time. Bonus question: WHO said that, and were they just saying it to poison the very POSSIBILITY of peace? (Probably) However a group that still includes them is “Not Agreement Capable”. Kick out and arrest the NeoCons who would say such things that permanently poison the well and we’ll talk. That is your demonstration of good faith. Heck, you should do it anyway!
“and wait till Chinese troops appear in Mesopotamia to take control of Iraqi oil and gas and rebuild that tragic country.”
What was that above? “As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.” –Revelations
And a “the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. [I.e 200 Million man army] By these was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone,” Revelation 9
Well THAT prophesy goes back a ways, but it is commonly written that 1/3 of the planet dies. WHICH third matters, though. What happens next after a 200 Million man army from the East marches to the Euphrates?
“the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, [Pharmacopoeia, i.e. drugs] nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
Yeah, that sounds about right. No one knows if this is before or after “Oh Babylon, destroyed in an hour” “the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more” But the 200 Million man army and occupying force from China crossing a dry Euphrates (as the waters come from dams in disputed, war-torn Syria) really stands out.
“Ukraine’s armed forces are reportedly preparing for an assault on Crimea, to “retake” the peninsula which voted to reunite with Russia in 2014.”
As there are no men in Europe, and no weapons, and the West has no escalation dominance (that is, to be able to move up at each level from gunfights to nuclear ICBM exchange), the only way they could do this is to essentially nuke Crimea. At which point Russia will nuke and/or invade a safe portion of Europe, say out to Germany and the Eastern block. Ukraine obviously wants and prefers this to happen, as otherwise they cease to exist in the present way. Since Ukraine and the Kazars run the Western governments, they command us to defend their ancestral homeland and defeat all their ancestral enemies. We say “How High, sir?” Because you’d have to be really, really high to think that’s a good idea.
“ Beijing Protesters Spooked by Phone Calls from Police (AFP)”
Duh, but like American protesters, they’re missing the point. The POINT is to be arrested. That’s the PURPOSE of protests. It’s to be really expensive, choke the system to be inoperable, and to demonstrate by how many thousand you outnumber them so they have no chance. To wear a t-shirt and pay nothing isn’t a protest. That’s just free speech.
No wonder they lose. Not only do they not DO tactics, they don’t even UNDERSTAND tactics. If you don’t want it enough to go to jail for it, you don’t want it. This is not a game. Come back when you’re serious.
“The Pentagon is reportedly considering an offer from Boeing to mass-produce cheap precision bombs for Ukraine”
I guess the US/Ukraine ran out of bombs, not Russia? That’s literally what’s being reported in the news, per facts, yet the #Opposite is being reported, with their mouths.
“If America pulls back, Putin could snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.”
Like this. Huh? The defeat of taking 4 new oblasts and 1/5th of Ukraine? Would we all were so defeated.
“Netherlands to Forcefully Shut Down 3,000 Farms (CS)”
Trying to become as deadly as Britain. They don’t care what you say. Therefore you must topple the government. Legally, shouldn’t be too hard.
“Farmers will be made an offer on their farms, which the government claims is “well over” market value.”
…And then given to his brother for free for profit.
“ New Twitter Sign Ups Hit All-Time Record Despite Cancel Campaign (Turley)”
More customers than ever, therefore fewer advertisers than ever. Because #GoodatBusiness.
“Twitter is a tainted brand, a brand non grata companies don’t want to be associated with..”
Unlike Apple, whose long-term open slavery has led to a failure of product. That’s NON-tainted. Slavery? Shut up and take my money.
“Media Groups Urge US to Drop Julian Assange Charges (G.)”
So they figure he’s more or less dead now? So it’s safe? Same as everyone loves MLK, but only after he’s dead. Before, everyone hated his religion, his tactics, his friends, his guts.
“we need a #Cablegate of the New York Times, actually, to see all the stories they’re censoring…”
All of them. Obviously. NY Times, all the way back to Pulitzer and Hearst, “Give me the photos, I’ll make up the war.” Pulitzer Prize for making s–t up. Just like the Prizes for Russiagate.
Same old same old. And no war, On pause for reasons unknown. So what are we not looking at?
Kari Lake says when they’re done, they’ll need to re-do the election. It was that bad. Huh.
What’s in Brazil? The military looks to get involved. For election fraud. And either flip the candidates or re-run the election. With martial law.
Sounds to me like they’re floating balloons, laying the carpet for changes here.
And then the sudden, now un-objected Supreme Court case that can throw out half of Congress.
I often wonder if they are how do you say…predictive programming people? Yes? If you create that path in the mind – by any means – it does run easier next time, true. But something else: If you float it, perhaps someone protests. Who? How? How do we stop them? And when a “Real” thing happens, but somewhere else like Brazil, or some line similar, like AZ governor, then what do the real black hats do to stop it? Do they waste THEIR ammunition on? Can you get them not only to reveal themselves, their tactics, but waste ammunition? And you prepare with this feint, that, if it works, you’ll just let happen. Not “well that wasn’t our real advance, so I guess we’ll retreat just because that’s the Plan”. If it worked, hold ground. True of all sides in war.
For me seeing these forays or feints indicates the next upcoming major moves. Not the headlines, but what are the key WORDS of the headlines?
“Military.” “Lawsuit and Court.” “Election do-over.”
Anglo-Zionist is a deeply loaded term, let’s just be accurate here.
“Zionist” is someone who supports the principle of the Jews having a homeland. Generally in Jerusalem, although originally proposed in Africa, Alaska, and other places now memory holed. That demonstrated they didn’t want “a nation”, “A homeland” a safe place, but THIS homeland and THIS safe place.
It was a very, very long-term project, you can find the names, but was utterly rejected by Jews in Europe, even Eastern Europe when heavily advertised between 1910 and 1940, and culminated in the UK “Balfour” agreement where the British Empire threw it’s entire weight behind donating to this non-British people a free nation, like a raffle prize. Naturally the people who ALREADY owned the area in question: the people of Palestine, were not thrilled, and objected forcefully to the foreign-installed terrrorists attempting to topple their regional/national government. Of course with the full force of MI6, OSS, the British Empire, the “Zionists” prevailed and bought themselves a new country, “Zion”, as we still see today. With still the same troubles as 100 years ago, since they did it in an immoral way, via violence.
It is “Anglo-Zionist” because the primary or perhaps only supporters of this Zionist idea of annihilating or at least displacing of an entire nation’s worth of existing Middle Easterners was Britain and their Commonwealth Fiefdoms (Canada, Oz, NZ) and their progeny, the United States. The rest of the world quite rightly said, “You want whut?” when they tried to sell a genocidal, theocratic, apartheid state, and giving it to them for FREE, with billions yearly in donations still ongoing today, correctly predicting: “Hey, wouldn’t that cause a lot more problems than it solves?”
Strangely little has moved or changed concerning this for 100 years. And still most Jews don’t live there, while half the population are their avowed enemies, shot daily, aka the “Palestinians.”
If you want to know what you would do if you were alive when Jackson force-killed and force-marched all the Indians down the “Trail of Tears” to Oklahoma, (then stole that too), congratulations, now you know. The “Zionists” just arrived, popped up a flag and said, “This is our land now”, shooting everyone who resists.
…But that is the way with nations in general. Just that usually the ethnic group in question already live there, e.g. the Franks or the Swedes.
FTX implosion claims another crypto victim BlockFi
Better than shredding the books
Try …. No electricity means no tracking• Biden Admin Scrambles To Track $20B In Ukraine Aid As GOP Warn Of Audits (Fox)
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Sanctions are working.
Mishustin reported that since the beginning of the year, the volume of debt obligations of the Russian Federation has decreased by 25%, while budget revenues have grown by 10%.Agree with Mister Roboto on the Luciferian Project piece, although it was good to read as an innoculant against creeping theocratic impulses on the right. What are the Trinitarian laws, specifically, and who would administer them? The Episcopalians or other woke Protestants? The Catholic Church? Evangelicals?
The US Constitution works OK by me, if only we would follow it more closely,. Throw in a neo-Franciscan concern for the poor, the living earth, and build some free hospitals and I’m on board, but leave governance with the people.
At the very least, let the petrodollar collapse and vaxx genocide already in motion play out for another decade or two before letting the current crop of clowns in charge make any big changes. Easier to pick up the pieces once the Empire is down.
Russian elites worried about “The Hague” over Kiev infrastructure destruction shows morality and regret. Did the US feel the same way about bombing weddings and killing children in Iraq and Afghanistan? No because the US is a sick evil parasite – that difference speaks volumes.
IRONY : COVID & FREE SPEECH
It is interesting that the suppression of free speech means that young left-wing zealots ensure that any doubts about the Covid Vaccines are suppressed. They are also those most likely to be vaccinated. The main people who experience ‘excess deaths’ are at the younger end. The conclusion is that the people suppressing free speech about Covid vaccines are the most likely to die as a result.
Neat.
Perhaps they should be nominated for the Darwin Award!
It seems that during pandemics (and scamdemics) that humanity is doomed to make stupid collective choices whether or not there is a powerful cabal controlling the media of the day. During the Black Death, people thought that the disease came from witches and killed the cats that could have killed the rats whose fleas actually brought the plague. They also practiced bloodletting with dirty fleams. In the Covid Age, people donned useless masks and lined up to be repeatedly injected with toxic substances that damaged their immune systems, among other things.
Over two years ago I was scared of contracting Covid (by summer 2020 most of my fear was centered around concerns of passing it to my parents or the kids passing to my ex’s household and dealing with possible fallout from that.). But it came…and went. Two years have passed and I haven’t had another cold or flu since Covid — I’m guessing that Covid must have amped up my immune system. I am not complaining.
Are You Easy Prey?
“Luciferian” is used as a trigger-pejorative, so people get triggered.
That’s not so useful in intellectual discourse, huh?If the author wanted to make a case for the proposition that the US is currently controlled by a power elite with “Luciferian” values, it would be easy.
Others make the case that it is an actual, organized elite cult, and present evidence of pedophilia and murders. Most people are too revolted to look at that evidence, but there is some…I think it’s just too much work and frustration to use that word most of the time.
North Atlantic (and other oceanic) Garbage Patch: I recall how William Gibson, in The Peripheral, used the Patch as a kind of replacement for the Bridge in his “bridge trilogy”.
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We never followed the Constitution farther than the first get-rich scheme or attempt by the commoners to get their fair share of that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” stuff. So some Slavic folks want to try some of that good old time religion that dominated Western Eurasian politics, especially that of Russia, for many centuries? I doubt that the ancestral Russians followed the Bible any more than we follow our Constitution, but a fresh start is generally a good idea as the old paradigm disintegrates, I think.
Plus, modern secular humanism ran on fossil fuels. We stopped most slavery only because machines burning fossil fuels were so much better at grinding out the work.
How we cling to our abstractions (bibles, constitutions) while ignoring, futilely, like children covering their eyes, that Great Big Unavoidable Everything, raw physical reality!
But Jesus is alright with me: She’s a Big Fan
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Today’s Yogi tea-tag proverb: “When fear is forcing you to give up, call upon your heart’s courage to continue.”
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In the ongoing guns vs tensioned bow ballistics, I offer this bit of fun:
Hun Archers show 2019 Sarasota Hungarian Festival
Nice thing is they don’t have to wear ear protection to keep from going deaf while being temporarily deaf from either the muzzle blast or the ear protection to protect their ears from muzzle blast acoustics.
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Slaughter on 47th Street:
“there is a strong association between the onset of vaccination programmes and the fertility decline nine months after of this onset. The fertility decline in the first months of 2022 in Germany and Sweden is remarkable.”
Re: China: despite official denials, the people remember Tiananmen Square. This is both intimidating and encouraging: they know they’re lying; they know they’ll shoot to kill; and they know that the Chinese people far outnumber the creeps-in-charge and their salaried street-chimps.
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re: Elon and Twitter. Elon excels at opening gambits and exploitation thereof. He sucks at end games (except in terms of switching one game for another). Right now he’s just beginning his exploitation of a very clever opening gambit.
Why people insist on combining Elon’s strategies with whether or not he is morally sound or politically in their corner, is something that I think is closer to sports fans discussing football than to coaches looking to lead their teams to das Suuper Bolen (with or without the aid of magical umlauts). The former believe that their team is somehow superior, even morally so, to All Other Teams, but the coaches know that winning is everything and only the very strong, very quick, and very clever even survive their sport of profession, much less win a date with Shakira or whoever prances across the half-time show.
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I gotta admit, I kind of enjoy seeing myself as an extremely humanoid AI text-bot. Flattering perspective.
Cute, but gah: I despise robots with a passion one can only feel for non-sentient actors. But I had to laugh at the sexual innuendo at 2:02.n Only thing I hate more than fucking robots is robots fucking.
This just in: 1/3 of Chaturbaters are robots in skin suits. I think this is an example: Thys Izz Hoomen?
Watching this image, one might think so:
Seriously, if any of us older geezers here want to get a glimpse into how far gone the technosphere has driven our children, the Thys Izz Hoomen video is… like watching broadcasts of humans trapped on alien planet where they function as pets.
I could weep. I often do. But just as often, I laugh. cuz I can, cuz sometimes it seems that fighting unhealthy derangement with healthy derangement at least maintains a nice DMZ no man’s land over which one can get a good look at the enemy (“and dey iz us!’).
I need to rinse my soul after that bot video. The following is wholly wholesome and deeply human despite digital background superimposition:
“Unexpectedly” – it’s constant and daily –
“Oklahoma singer-songwriter Jake Flint died unexpectedly in his sleep Saturday, only hours after he was married”
Note, please, the asynchronous, maybe even Luciferian product placement in Edie Brickell’s video (football sexy sequence): Proof of Conspiracy!
‘…humans trapped on alien planet where they function as pets.’
Geezer Question: who remembers the Heinlein novel this came from? Hint: the title invokes the name of our patron, Saint Geriatrica.
Ukrainian embezzlers want to continue to feast on their compatriots’ funds.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/more-on-the-crypto-scam-theres-a-sucker-born-every-minute.html#more
More On The Crypto Scam – “There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute.”
The FTX crypto bezzle continues to make waves.Until November 15, four days after FTX was officially bankrupt, the official website https://aid-for-ukraine.io/ still looked like this:
Geezer song: early Zep sounding rather authentic for a change, meaning they sound like themselves and not the legend that overtook too soon their not inconsiderable talent and bound it to the inevitable marketing juggernaut, celebrity having a life of its own larger than any mere mortal or band thereof can safely deal with. (I recall that McCartney said words to the effect that he probably would’ve become, at best, another 2-3 decades of drug addiction and maybe suicide if not for the love of a good woman; celebrity/wealth are devious mofos).
I thought Alastair Crooke’s latest essay was especially apropos to the ongoing power shift from West to East:
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to NihilismFor those behind firewalls, here it is in full:
It becomes questionable whether the West can compete as a civilisational state and maintain a presence.
The world ‘Map’ is accelerating its shift away from the paralysed Washington ‘hub’ – but to what? The myth that China, Russia, or the non-western world can be fully assimilated to a Western model of political society (any more than Afghanistan was) is over. So to where are we headed?
The myth of the pull of acculturation into western post-modernity lingers on however, in the continuing western fantasy of pulling China away from Russia, and into an embrace with U.S. Big Business.
The bigger point here is that former wounded civilisations are reasserting themselves: China and Russia – as states organised around indigenous culture – is not a new idea. Rather, it is a very old one: “Always remember that China is a civilization – and not nation-state”, Chinese officials repeat regularly.
Nonetheless, the shift to civilisational statehood emphasised by those Chinese officials arguably is no rhetorical device but reflects something deeper and more radical. Moreover, the culture transition is gaining wide emulation across the globe. Its inherent radicalism however, is largely lost to western audiences.
Chinese thinkers, such as Zhang Weiwei, accuse Western political ideas of being a sham; of masking their deeply partisan ideological character beneath a veneer of supposedly neutral principles. They are saying that the mounting of a universal framework of values – applicable to all societies – is finished.
All of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies.
This has arisen because the non-West now sees clearly that post-modern West is not a civilisation per se, but really something akin to a de-cultured ‘operating system’ (managerial technocracy). Europe of the Renaissance did consist of civilisational states, but subsequent European nihilism changed the very substance of modernity. The West promotes its universal-value stance, however, as though it be a set of abstract scientific theorems which have universal validity.
The accompanying promise to the latter that traditional ways of life could be preserved under the wholesale application of these intentionally secular western norms – ones that demanded enforcement by the western political class – has proved a fatal conceit, these alternative thinkers contend.
Such notions are not confined to the Orient. Samuel Huntington, in his book The Clash of Civilizations, argued that Universalism is the ideology of the West contrived for confronting other cultures. Naturally, everyone outside the West, Huntington argued, should see the idea of ‘one world’ as a threat.
The return to plural civilisational matrices precisely is intended to break the West’s claim to speak – or to decide – for anyone other than themselves.
Some will see this Russo-Chinese defiance as mere jockeying for strategic ‘space’; as a rationale to their claims for distinct ‘spheres of interest’. Yet, to understand its radical underside, we should recall that the transition to civilisation states amounts to a full-throated resistance (short of war) being mounted by two wounded civilisations. Both Russians (post-the 1990s) and Chinese (in the Great Humiliation) feel this deeply. Today, they are intent to reassert themselves, forcefully in uttering: ‘Never Again!’
What ‘lit the fuse’ was the moment when China’s leaders saw – in the plainest terms – that the U.S. had no intention whatsoever to allow China to overtake it economically. Russia of course, already knew the plan to destroy her. Even the smallest amount of empathy is sufficient to understand that recovery from profound trauma is what binds Russia and China (and Iran) together in a joint ‘interest’ that transcends mercantile gain. It is ‘that’ which allows them to say: Never again!
One part to their radicalism therefore, is the national rejuvenation that propels these two states to ‘step confidently onto the world stage’; to emerge from the western shadow, and to stop mimicking the West. And to stop assuming that technological or economic advance can only be found within the western liberal-economic ‘way’. For, it follows from Zang’s analysis, that the West’s economic ‘laws’ similarly are a simulacrum posing as scientific theorems: A cultural discourse – but not an universal system.
When we consider that today’s Anglo-American world view rests on the shoulders of three men: Isaac Newton, the father of western science; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the father of liberal political theory, and Adam Smith, the father of laissez-faire economics, it is plain that what we confront here are the authors of the ‘Cannon’ of individualism (in the wake of the Protestant triumph in Europe’s 30 years’ war). From it comes the doctrine that the most prosperous future for the greatest number of people comes from the free workings of the market.
Be that as it may, Zhang and others have noted that the western focus on ‘finance’ has come at the expense of ‘stuff’ (the real economy) and has proved to be a recipé for extreme inequalities and social strife. Zhang argues contrarily that China is poised to evolve a new kind of non-Western modernity that others – especially in the developing world – can only admire, if not emulate.
The decision has been made: The West then, in this view, can either ‘shut up, and put up’ – or not. So be it.
Steeped in cynicism, the West sees this stance as bluff or posturing. What values, they ask, lie behind this new order; what economic model? Implying again that universal conformity is mandatory, and thus missing Zhang’s point completely. Universality is neither necessary, nor sufficient. It never ‘was’.
In 2013, President Xi gave a speech which sheds much light on the shifts in Chinese policy. And though its analysis was firmly focused on the causes to the Soviet implosion, Xi’s exposition very clearly intended a wider meaning.
In his address, Xi attributed the break-up of the Soviet Union to ‘ideological nihilism’: The ruling strata, Xi asserted, had ceased to believe in the advantages and the value of their ‘system’, yet lacking any other ideological coordinates within which to situate their thinking, the élites slid unto nihilism:
“Once the Party loses the control of the ideology, Xi argued, once it fails to provide a satisfactory explanation for its own rule, objectives and purposes, it dissolves into a party of loosely connected individuals linked only by personal goals of enrichment and power”. “The Party is then taken over by ‘ideological nihilism’”.
This, however, was not the worst outcome. The worst outcome, Xi noted, would be the state taken over by people with no ideology whatsoever, but with an entirely cynical and self-serving desire to rule.
Put simply: Were China to lose its sense of a Chinese ‘rationale’, embedded for over a millennia in a unitary state with strong institutions guided by a disciplined Party, “the CPC, as great a Party as the CPSU was — would be scattered like a flock of frightened beasts! The Soviet Union — as great a socialist state as it was — ended shattered into pieces”.
There can be little doubt: President Putin would concur with Xi whole-heartedly. The existential threat to Asia is to allow its states to assimilate into soulless western nihilism. This then, is the crux of the Xi-Putin revolution: Lifting the fog and blinkers imposed by the universalist meme to permit states a return to cultural rejuvenation.
These principles were in action at the G20 in Bali. Not only did the G7 fail to get the wider G20 to condemn Russia over Ukraine, or to insert a wedge between China and Russia, but rather, the Manichean offensive targeting of Russia produced something even more significant for the Middle-East than the paralysis and lack of tangible results, described by the media:
It produced wide and open defiance of the western order. It spurred pushback – at the very moment that the world political ‘map’ is on the move, and as the rush towards BRICS+ is gathering pace.
Why does this matter?
Because the ability of western powers to spin their spiders’ web notion that their ‘ways’ should be World’s ways, remains the West’s ‘secret weapon’. This is plainly said when western leaders say that a loss in Ukraine to Russia would mark the demise of the ‘Liberal Order’. They’re saying, as it were, that ‘our hegemony’ is contingent on the world seeing the western ‘way’ – as their vision for their future.
Enforcement of the ‘Liberal Order’ largely has rested on the underpinning of an easy readiness of ‘western allies’ to fall into line with Washington’s instructions. It therefore is difficult to overplay the strategic significance of any withering of compliance to U.S. diktat. This is the ‘why’ to the war in Ukraine.
The U.S.’ crown and sceptre are slipping. The peril of U.S. Treasury ‘N-bomb’ sanctions have been key to induced ‘allied’ compliance. But now, Russia, China and Iran have charted a clear path out from this thorny thicket, through dollar-free trading. The BRI initiative constitutes Eurasia’s economic ‘high road’. India, Saudi Arabia and Turkish inclusion (and now, an expanded list of new members are waiting to be signed up) give it an energy-based strategic content.
Military deterrence has constituted the secondary pillar to the architecture of compliance to western models. But even that, though not gone, is lessened. In essence, smart cruise-missiles, drones, electronic warfare and – now – hypersonic missiles, have capsized the former paradigm. So too, has the game-breaker event of Russia joining with Iran as a military force multiplier.
The U.S. Pentagon, even a few years ago, dismissed hypersonic weapons as ‘boutique’ and a ‘gimmick’. Wow – did they miscalculate on that one!
Both Iran and Russia are at the forefront in complementary areas of military evolution. Both are in an existential fight. And both peoples possess the inner resources to sustain sacrifice from war. They will lead. China will lead from behind.
Just to be clear: This Russo-Iranian link says: U.S. ‘deterrence’ in the Middle East itself now faces a formidable deterrent! Israel too, will need to ponder that.
The Russo-Iranian force-multiplier relationship, the Jerusalem Post opines: “provides proof that the two states … together – are better equipped to make good on their respective ambitions – to bring the West to its knees”.
To fully understand the anxiety lying behind The Post opinion piece, we must first grasp that the geography of the ‘shifting map’ towards a BRICS+ – new corridors, new pipelines, new waterway and railway networks – is but the outer mercantilist layer to a nesting Matryoshka doll. To unstack to the inner doll layers is to espy in the final innermost Matryoshka – a layer of kindled energy and confidence latent to the whole.
What is missing? Well, the fire that finally bakes the New Order Z -‘dish’; the event that instantiates the new World Order.
Netanyahu keeps threatening Iran. Even to Israeli ears however his words seem stale and passé. The U.S. does not want to be led by Netanyahu into war. And without the U.S., Israel cannot act alone. The recent MEK-led attempt to wreak havoc in Iran reeks somehow of a ‘last resort’ push.
Will the U.S. try some risky game-changer in Ukraine to ‘take out’ Russia? It’s possible. Or might it try to derail China somehow?
Is a Mega-clash inevitable? After all, what is in prospect is not the dominance of any one civilization, but a return to the natural, old order of non-universal realms of influence. There is no reason in logic for a Western boycott to try to explode the shift – except one:
In any assimilation to what this future portends, the collective West inexorably must become a civilizational state per se – simply to maintain an enduring presence in the world. But the West has opted for a different route (as Bruno Maçães, commentator and former Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, writes):
“[The West] wanted its political values to be accepted universally … In order to achieve this, a monumental effort of abstraction and simplification was needed … Properly speaking, it was not to be a civilization at all but something closer to an operating system … no more than an abstract framework within which different cultural possibilities could be explored. Western values were not to stand for one particular ‘way of life’ against another — they establish procedures, according to which those big questions (how to live) may later be decided”.
Today, as the West turns away from its own key leitmotif – tolerance – and towards weird ‘cancel culture’ abstractions, it becomes questionable whether it can compete as a civilisational state and maintain a presence. And if it can’t?
A new order may come into being following one of two events: The West may simply self-destruct, following some systemic financial ‘breakage’, and the consequent economic contraction. Or, alternatively a Russian decisive victory in Ukraine just may be enough finally to ‘cook the dish’.
“there is a strong association between the onset of vaccination programmes and the fertility decline nine months after of this onset. The fertility decline in the first months of 2022 in Germany and Sweden is remarkable.”
The unborn are so vaxxed. The unvaxxed are so fucked: they have to make most of the babies, and just at a time when raising children will be the hardest since the lousier years of the medieval era. The vaxxed are not so fucked as the unvaxxed: most of them will not have to trudge through the Great Dieoff, what some people call the Overshoot, and what William Gibson called, the Jackpot.
Not that Teh Gibson avoided the big vakzine brainwash despite so excellently cataloguing and sometimes predicting the means by which such a thing would happen.
“William Gibson
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Overall the vaccine looks amazing. Big win for science. Looking forward to what mRNA vaccines will do not just for COVID, but infectious disease in general.”Fear-based denial (flight) is a powerful thing, especially when powered by fear-based projection onto others (fight) that is diverted into mere distraction via focus on The Evil Other (for example Trump Derangement Syndrome, which dear old Bill suffered from too).
Who do you trust?
NBU and Banks Implement Action Plan to Ensure Banking System’s Uninterrupted Operation amid Long-Term Blackouts
24 Nov 2022Systemically important banks have compiled a list of 760 on-duty branches, located in Kyiv and in 275 settlements in 22 oblasts, that will provide financial services to clients even amid a long-term lack of power supplies.
@Germ: Depopulation solution via Gates vaccine projects needs to reduce births AND increase deaths, and not be implicated. So far, pretty “good”.
@Boscohorowitz. Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” was suspiciously a bit glossy, but Nina Hagen’s version has the “Satanic”-mockery vibe going on.
I don’t think that can be Edie Brickell, unless it is 20 years old. https://www.google.com/search?q=edie+brickell&tbm=isch&chips=q:edie+brickell,g_1:today:rF_Z6ylIW-o%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCgfeFhdT7AhUi81MKHbz_BDgQ4lYoBXoECAEQLg&biw=1263&bih=577I dunno about the Heinlein book. Not one of the ones I read.
Yeah, old Billiam is drinking the Kollkids-Aid just like all them big stars:
The sci-fi William Gibson appears to endorse the pro-vax Dr. Gibson is mistook for the cyberpunk auteur. Not surprising to me any more, but still saddening. But then, like Han said to Luke (about prophets whose expertise is the writing of fiction): “Good at droids? That’s one thing. Against the real thing…?”
Who do you believe?
https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/bilshist-bankiv-zberigayut-operatsiynu-efektivnist-v-umovah-viyni-popri-znachni-kreditni-vtrati–oglyad-bankivskogo-sektoruMost Banks Remain Operationally Efficient during War despite Large Credit Losses – Banking Sector Review
I like Greenbaum’s well enough. The rhythm section/recording thereof itself makes the song. Nina mocks everything except the truly sacred: that small area illuminated by our stifled senses of compassion. The Heinlein book is called Methusaleh’s Children, iirc. Far from his best. More of a pastiche, really, a series of adventures linked together by the following plot devices: a) people leave earth and use a star drive to visit other star systems, and b) have a bit of an adventure on each one.
Music from a Distant Star about 94 light-years old/away:
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