The Entire World Order Has Changed
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Edward Hopper Excursion into Philosophy 1959 It was Jim O’Neill, Goldman’s chief economist at the time, who coined the term BRICS in 200
[See the full post at: The Entire World Order Has Changed]On theme, Re. France, one ex.
‘Sky’ (nickname) on Thinkerview interviews August Cole (US author, futurist, ex….)
Thinkerview goes ‘in depth’ and Sky often asks very tough questions.
Title: Does Science Fiction predict War?
The questions are in French. Cole answers in Eng. — 2 h 10 min.
(T-V has no time limits, up to 3 hours.)
Cole shows he believes in the 9/11 myth and swears Russia Bad and Putin is some kind of Mad Vampire. He lets slip that in his humble opinion Snowden must have been part of a Putinesque Intelligence Op.
Sky is clearly dismayed and surprised at the lack of imagination (Science Fiction is Cool, Right?) and the pure Amerikana PTB posturing. Sky tampers his irritation / agression (which most ppl do handle OK..), finally coming down to asking him, what are the most important issues today, for the US, for China, for Europe? To ‘META’ the whole thing …
The answers are pretty dull and superficial, from one pov only, but I guess they represent a certain branch of ‘clued-in’ Americans so it was interesting to me. I don’t reco. it for the content, only as indicative of what is going on world-wide.
The French have always enthusiastically admired the creativity of US ‘fantasy’ and ‘SF’ and — other creative – > novels, music specially, movies’ — so this was a huge come-down for the audience. (Comments are usually plentiful there but for this int. they were closed.)
US ‘creators’ can’t even step up with some interesting, fascinating, stuff, be it on spot or off the charts… the pressure to conform is that strong…
In the end, Neoliberalism was nothing more than a modern, re-packaged ‘manifest destiny’.
Neo-liberlism has run out of rope and run out of time. Hopefully they don’t take us all down.
Germany.
Alina Lipp (journalist, say) is being prosecuted by the German Gvmt. for the crime (it is a criminal offense, up to 3 years prison) of ‘supporting the Special Operation by Russia in Ukraine’ while imho she only gave info… vid
2 min 47 sec. Eng. https://youtu.be/J8Dsd1HiuE0
The German gov’t is not the only one persecuting its citizens for providing information.
The now gloriously-defunct neolib Australian federal gov’t started a neo-Stalinist, secret show trial of a man AND his lawyer who revealed that the feds bugged the embassy of Timor Leste to gain an advantage during sea boundary negotiations. Oil or gas is in the disputed territory.
The worry is that the new Labor gov’t, a thus-far much kinder and gentler regime, isn’t moving to stop the farce.
So disappointing. One faction of the empire fighting another?
Three state governments in Australia have passed laws criminalising dissent by anyone who protests against biosphere-destroying “development.” The neolibs and endless-growth fantacists are getting truly desperate.
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G7 have agreed not to trade their worthless dollars for Russia gold.
That is going to hurt those people who cannot buy from China or IndiaFirst post (long time lurker from the days of TOD). I’m in Australia but have relatives in Egypt (via wife). I follow the news from Egypt closely and Egypt is remaining neutral to the conflict and keeps relations with both Russia and Ukraine. They need to as those 2 countries are the main suppliers of wheat and oilseeds as well as the main 2 markets for Red Sea tourists.
Egypt was a prominent guest at the recent St Petersburg forum and the Egyptian president spoke highly of Putin. Let’s just say Egypt is furious at the crap that the US stirred up in the Ukraine.
Now Egypt is about to boost its Russian tourist numbers by allowing the Russian payment system MIR as they can’t use Visa and Mastercard. Seems like every sanction is boosting the swing away from the US control.
Now the jackasses think that stopping Russia selling gold through London and NY will cripple Russia. Gee, some of my relatives in Egypt own gold shops, I’m sure they (and the Middle East gold souks) will take any gold that the Chinese and Indians don’t want. If anything Russia has a problem with a rising Rouble so selling less gold (and using it to back their reserves) won’t be a problem.
The less gas and oil the west let’s Russia sell just means they get a higher price for the tight supply. Seems like Europeans like scoring own goals and want to freeze this winter. Has Lithuania thought through their blockading that Russian enclave? They say they will get power from Poland instead of Russia but where does Poland get its power from? Come winter as blackouts occur Im not too confident that EU solidarity will hold as each country keeps its limited supplies for itself.
Sounds good except this all plays into the hands of China and as bad as having US and EU controlling the world is being a vassal of the CCP will be worse. So will being part of the BRICS moderate China or will they dominate it?Loss of reserve currency status is the only chance America has to de-fang the military industrial complex.
How I would love to see a candidate come out promising:
1. To dissolve NATO
2. To abolish the Espionage Act
3. To abolish the Patriot Act
4. To conduct target practice on the NSA facility in Utah that stores all of our data
5. To close 90% of the US bases overseas
6. To give amnesty to Assange and Snowden
7. To collapse our two dozen intelligence agencies into a single agency, and to cut the budget 90%But as that’s never going to happen unless and until the loss of reserve status, I will instead pray for loss of reserve status first. Which will be a great thing for the average person in the US, and for the average person in any other country, but a terrible nightmare for the 1% elite.
The continuing saga of the Great Western Empire of Befuddled Thinking vs Russia reads like the Uncle Remus Stories. Ukraine is the Tar Baby and Western sanctions (like banning the import of Russian oil/gas/gold ) are the Briar Patch.
Br’er Putin , well, he be hollerin’ “Oh , please PLEASE don’t throw me into the Sanctions Patch!”
@Boogaloo, much as I support and admire your wish list I can’t see it happening without a great deal of pain (both for the US and the world) as we go from here to there. How will the average bottom feeder in the US react when their EBT and other welfare is cut off? Or the retiree finding his pension or 401 or bank account frozen? Sure eventually things will sort themselves out once all the 30 trillion federal debt plus all the local and corporate and private debt is adjusted for. Because loss of reserve status means nobody will want to hold that debt and everybody will be demanding to get what’s owing them.
And worldwide what happens when China finds its western investments are worthless, it’s western (and world) markets are super depressed and a billion Chines demand that their government do something (war, Taiwan, Japan, India).
So how does the world peacefully and with modest economic pain get to the end of US domination? Certainly not possible with the “statesmen” currently running western governmentsThe question is of course how the reigning order will react to losing its power. Will they drop nukes? If they do, it would every likely be suicidal. But some people are very particular about control, and about losing it. Thing is, it’s already lost, they just don’t realize it yet.
While you were watching the abortion debate, and Zelensky’s heroics, the entire world order has changed. How about that?
Great post today Ilargi. You covered all the bases; at least the ones I deem to be internationally important…
It remains to be seen how the U.S. responds…hopefully without nukes…The thing about Germany is that it’s perfectly alright to BE a Nazi, ya just can’t say the verboten word out loud or do anything to obstruct their ubermenschen world domination thing.
Scott Ritter beware Marine Intel…
Scott, marine intel, knows U.S. military forces should always be supported by the full, complete, entire U.S. arsenal no matter who, in this case the Proxy Requestor Zelensky, makes the request. World War THREE should be fought in such a manner, all hands on deck, GQ- general quarters so to speak. Hyperwar has been U.S. battlefield policy since Colon Powell and Norm de Schwarzkop executed Desert Storm, Ritter knows.
Yet, our host quotes Scott marine intel as follows:
“”” From Scott Ritter today: “Ukraine is requesting 1,000 artillery pieces and 300 multiple-launch rocket systems, more than the entire active-duty inventory of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps combined. Ukraine is also requesting 500 main battle tanks — more than the combined inventories of Germany and the United Kingdom“””Only to see Scott Ritter marine intel have it explained to him by a paper of record or to paraphrase it “we’re at war with Russia and Zelensky The Proxy Requestor of Weapons isn’t fooling the NYT as to the recipient of those weapons.”
“””Yesterday, as Joe Biden was en route to the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps, the New York Times published an article saying the CIA and Pentagon special forces are organizing and conducting the NATO war effort from a secret operation center in Kyiv.”””
@Neal The good thing about collapse is that it will put an end to Triffin’s Dilemma. At least then then we can start to rebuild. But yes, we risk deepening overty, civil unrest and nuclear annihilation on the way from here to there.
By the way, I forgot to comment on today’s provocative art piece. What a great title!
“For the first time we came across white people who treated us as equal beings.”
Ouch. Way to go, Sweden.
“Russia’s invasion, and its blockade of Ukraine’s grain”
Wars are disruptive, but we will never know how blockading they will be because the reason there’s not grain is UKRAINE mined the whole Black Sea. Accidentally, but still. Russia IS shipping grain, but obviously there are a lot of obstacles. If they’re shipping and increasing, it’s not a blockade, it’s a lie. But it’s BBC, so I repeat myself.
“Western countries have urged Russia to release Ukraine’s vast grain stores.”
By cutting off all shipping insurance and telling them to plow through mine-invested waters. Sounds like your “Blockade” is run out of Llyods of London.
“The [NOT] blockade has sent food prices soaring.”
That’s funny, since Russia is still shipping to Africa and Ukraine is not. Explain, Mr. Ze?
Yes, being in the U.S. and having read Asimov-class SF, I can state that imagination is gone right now. Another thread commented on US War thrillers like “2030”, like Clancy, are supposed to describe/admit what is real and what actual tactics we have. They say two things: all our tech will fail like garbage. But second, the U.S. will merely fall back to old, i.e. WWII tactics and win which is industrially ludicrous. To say nothing of manpower, which we neither have, nor is anyone in shape enough to carry a pencil box across Ft Dix without getting out of breath. That is, a great example of total lack of imagination on the battlefield, and total lack of reality in describing ourselves.
You see this in all things American. Meme-Berries, 100% nostalgia channel, all the time. Old comic book characters. Star Wars. That 70s Show. Supernatural boys driving around in muscle cars into small wooded towns like it’s 1980. Retro swing, Retro rock. Charlies’ Angels. Once Upon a Time in LA, promoting, selling “Friends”, “Seinfeld”. Anything but what America actually IS. Because you’d probably lose your mind and kill yourself for despair, country, city, and suburb, The Geography of Nowhere. The reason to take drugs is to blot that out in denial and survive another hour here, and we’re probably the most drug-addled state on planet earth, the “Pharmacopia” of Revelations.
“Like: Everyone?” “Yes, everyone” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG6HZMMDEYA What is it, like 2/3s of Americans are on anti-depressants? The rest don’t have health care, so they buy direct off the street. And you wonder why we think we’re awesome and unbeatable: the U.S. is just on the equivalent of constant Cocaine. We’re high as a kite, every minute for 40 years. And wonder why we can’t think straight and think we can win a war with no tanks and no men? GET OFF THE SAUCE.
We can and will accomplish that checklist because we must. That’s because the currency will fail because mathematically it must. Good luck, suckers, although they’ve been doing pretty well milking it so far.
I enjoyed reading all of this first thing this morning, but left no comment to that effect.
It’s good to see that othrs see this change in the global economic format taking place, OUT of financial colonialism.It should have a pretty good 15 years in there somewhere after things go very bad, and before they go bad again, because cheap fuel and good ores are still running out.
A commodity-based currency is a resource0based currency, isn’t it?
Maybe the BRICS+++ will hammer out a new financial paradigm wherein money and reality inherently have more in common, some kind of reality-anchor, like beans, rice and corn…
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