https://southfront.org/next-economic-crisis-and-looming-post-multipolar-system/
Written and produced by SF Team: J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, Edwin Watson; Voiceover by Dermot Arrigan
The Impending Crisis
At one time, specifically during the post-World War 2 Bretton Woods era, it looked like as if the capitalist model could be indefinitely sustainable and avoid plunging the world into major world conflicts. That era began to come to an end during the stagflation crisis of the 1970s, and came to a complete end at the end of the Cold War which ushered in the era of the so-called “globalization” which took form of unbridled competition for markets and resources. At first this competition did not show many signs of trouble. There were many “emerging markets” created as a result of the collapse of the Soviet bloc into which Western corporations could expand. However, the law of diminishing returns being what it is, the initial rapid economic growth rates could not be sustained and attempts to goose it using extremely liberal central bank policies, to the point of zero and even negative interest rates, succeeded in inflating—and bursting—several financial “bubbles”. Even today’s US economy bears many hallmarks of such a bubble, and it is only one of many. Sooner or later the proverbial “black swan” event will unleash a veritable domino effect of popping bubbles and plunge the global economy into a crisis of a magnitude it has not seen since the 1930s. A crisis against which the leading world powers have few weapons to deploy, since they have expended their monetary and fiscal “firepower” on the 2008 crisis, to little avail. The low interest rates and high levels of national debt mean that the next big crisis will not be simply “more of the same.” It will fundamentally rearrange the global economy.
The Once and Future Multipolar System?
While the 1944 Bretton Woods conference sought to re-establish a global economic order that was destroyed in the Great Depression, the formation of the United Nations served a rather different aim. The UN Security Council, with five veto-wielding permanent members, meant that for as long as these five countries abided by its rules, there would be five spheres of influence and therefore also five relatively exclusive economic zones. British leaders in 1945, for example, hardly desired the dissolution of their empire; records of wartime discussions between FDR and Churchill show the two clashed repeatedly over the tariff barriers separating British colonial possessions from international trade. That which became known as the “Iron Curtain” was a feature, not a bug, of that system—Churchill himself wanted one for his empire, after all. However, is the apparent multi-polar system of today any more viable than the one which appeared to emerge after 1945?
“We have always been at war with Eurasia”
The post-WW2 multipolar world did not come to pass because the French and British empires collapsed and its newly independent states became aligned with either the United States or the USSR, and the PRC was in no shape to exert much power outside of its own borders since it was recovering from decades of civil war and foreign occupation. Seven decades after WW2’s conclusion, however, one can readily see that the era of US and European economic dominance is giving way to a multipolar world in which Russia and China are once again capable of standing up for their economic interests.
However, a return to genuine multipolarity does not appear very likely. Russia and China need each other too much to risk conflict by pursuing their own separate and mutually exclusive economic spheres of influence. Rather, we can expect a gradual merger of the two. When it comes to the US and the EU, the situation is slightly more complicated.
Welcome to Oceania, Citizen
While George Orwell imagined the future of Russia (Eurasia) and China (Eastasia) as imperial entities unintegrated with one another, a prediction that does not appear to be coming true, the establishment of Oceania, governed from the United States and UK playing the role of “Airstrip One” seems to be looming every closer. Only the status of Europe remains unclear at this point. The European Union is still unfit to shoulder world power responsibilities, it has barely weathered the last economic crisis, and the next one could easily be the final nail in its coffin. It certainly does not help that the United States is attempting to thoroughly economically dominate the European Union in order to deal with its own economic problems. Reducing European exports to the US and expanding US energy exports to the EU is very high on the list of White House priorities, to the point of risking trade war. Europe’s behavior following the US unilateral JCPOA withdrawal shows that the Europeans are incapable to oppose US power, even if it means defending important economic interests.
On the other hand, and in response to the Trump administration increasingly brazen attempts to subjugate Europe in political and economic terms, Germany and France are pursuing efforts to establish a solid EU “core”. This “core” would boast a European army, a concept whose popularity has grown in recent years, and be capable of collective action in the event of a crisis even if it means shedding the less well integrated eastern and southern EU members or at least relegating them to second-class status. However, it remains to be seen whether anything viable can be created before the next crisis topples the European house of cards and leads to power struggles over the political and economic alignment of the individual European states. As logical as developing a unified political and economic European may seem, it practice it is a very difficult idea to implement.
In theory, Germany, France, and Italy as well as other industrialized European states have the potential of becoming an independent force operating in the interests of their nations. In practice, this possibility has almost been lost. In the event of a confrontation with the Anglo-Saxon power center under conditions of difficult relations with Russia and intense struggle over markets with China and other “Asian Tigers” (Japan, ROK, Taiwan), Germany and other above-mentioned European powers lack potential for future economic expansion or even scientific and technological development. Their internal markets lack expansion potential, instead, they appear to be shrinking instead. Populations which produced the most value-added products are aging. The youth has been to a large extent replaced by newcomers who are not interested in industrial labor or hard work in general. These countries’ export capabilitiies are also limited.
On the other hand, if one considers the US competitors, we can readily see groups of actors whose elites have not consented to the roles being imposed upon them by the global elites. This is a heterogeneous group which cannot be termed to exist as a single bloc. National elites’ interests diverge significantly from, and often clash with those of the globalists to a certain degree and at different times. For example, Russian and Chinese national elites do not have identical economic interests. That which interests Chinese capital may be directly counter to the interests of Russian capital. The same is true for social questions. When it comes to Iran, the situation is more complicated still. Accordingly, the main problem of those who seek to compete or oppose the global dominion is that they lack a shared strategic vision and long-term coordinated position. They actions often have only localized significance.
Hybrid War Forever
Once that process of coalescence is complete, proxy wars will continue over certain parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, even Latin America, as key powers will struggle over vital markets and resources, using the full array of military, political, economic, cyber, and information weapons that we have seen used in Libya, Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, and Venezuela. This hybrid warfare will be accompanied by a level of official propaganda that will make for example the current “Russiagate” reporting pale in comparison. However, at the same time, the rhetoric will be considerably more heated than the actual level of hostilities between the nuclear weapons-wielding states. Instead, that propaganda will be used to justify internal political censorship and repression, on a scale even greater than we have seen used against the Yellow Vests protests in France. Deprived of the ability to expand into ever new territories, the West will gradually sink into stagnation , poverty, and domestic disorder. At that point, the world will be in a state of a genuine bi-polar Cold War, a war of political and economic attrition whose outcome is currently impossible to predict.
Interesting article. I would like to add a few points.
First of all, analysts have for years been predicting the crash of the Western financial system, except that it was impossible to predict the date, as the West was and is using fiat currency (the dollar and the euro). This fiat monetary system started to rise after 1971, when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard, leading to the creation of a financial bubble ready to explode, as is inevitable.
Secondly the importance of Euro-Asia is all too apparent. The British geographer Halford MacKinder, at the beginning of the 20th century, warned the British Government of the dangers of a German-Russian economic alliance, and one can state that two world wars were fought to prevent this.
Thirdly, the article states that a return to genuine multipolarity does not appear to be very likely. I have to disagree. Yes, China and Russia will merge economically. One can say they have already done so. However, they will bring others to their “camp”, specifically to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Euro-Asian Economic Union and the Silk Road. This will be the basis of multipolarity.
Fourthly, the article mentions George Orwell and the fact that he got it wrong on Russia (Euro-Asia) and China (East Asia), as they would, ostensibly, become independent imperial entities “supervised” by Oceania. Well, not quite. Orwell was a perfidious writer with left wing views. When he wrote 1984, he used Euro-Asian geographic names to create the impression that a future totalitarian regime would exist in the East, basically in Russia. As one analyst stated back in 2005, the book in reality did not pertain to a totalitarian society in Russia, but one in the United States, as is indeed happening. Orwell was very crafty. Also, he did use the term Euro-Asia, and one can state that he meant a union of Russia and China, as is happening.
Fifthly, the EU is becoming irrelevant. It’s not a question if it will disintegrate, but when. Too much is made of a potential French-German attempt to establish a solid EU core vis a vis the US. France is becoming irrelevant by the year due to it’s financial, social and ethnic troubles. As for an EU Army, that too is irrelevant, as the question is who would finance it. I don’t see it being created. When the EU does disintegrate, Germany will turn to the East and the Euro-Asian Economic Union.Others will follow one way or another. Yes, the German population is aging and it has it’s ethnic troubles, but nothing compared to what France and others have. The Germans have the potential to recover what they have lost, but I dont see this happening in France, Belgium and others. Germany will become the European backbone once it alignes itself with Russia, with one analyst even expecting to see a Russian-German military alliance.
And how will the conflict between Oceania and Eurasia end ? Well, nuclear war excluded, Euro-Asia will win and become the political and economic power house. The US cannot go on permanently kicking the can down the road and postponing it’s debt by printing huge amounts of dollars backed by nothing and forcing others to use it. It will get a financial crash which will affect Europe, The EU will disintegrate, and the same thing might well happen to the US, the former Confederacy being resurrected, with some of the remaining states joining Canada and others becoming independent themselves, as predicted by Igor Panarin, Dean of the Russian Diplomatic Academy back in 1998.
That sounds more like bi-polarity than multi-polarity. IE, two poles, Washington/New York and Beijing.
No problem. Half the world is bi-polar already. ;-)
“…..warned the British Government of the dangers of a German-Russian economic alliance, and one can state that two world wars were fought to prevent this.”
On what do you base this theory that the the two World Wars were fought to prevent a German Russian alliance ?
German – Russian relations were based on pragmatic (realpolitik) self interest throughout history. When they weren’t killing each-other, due to German aggression, they had a few years of détentes, truces and treaties between them. This obviously culminated in the killing fest of Nazis vs Communists.
Historically speaking, Germans and Slavs have never been compatible. In the border region there has been historic cultural intermingling, but at their core values, they are very different historically, religiously and culturally speaking. The only time they worked together, were a few years where they try to fend off other spheres of influence (French, British, Austro-Hungarians, etc.) in their neighborhood.
Catholic, Evangelical and Atheist Germans are historically one of the most anti-Slavic people in the world.
Germans are historically a group of barbarian tribes who were part of the Holy Roman Empire. This Empire was heavily influenced by the Rothchild family branches across the different countries of the Empire. And after WWII Germany was fully owned by the bankers again.
I don’t want to go into Russian history, you can google that yourself…but as you can see the core and background of both these historically great powers is very very different. So from a historical point of you, I see no evidence that Germans will enter into a strong alliance with Russians, and especially not a “military” alliance, where they will fight side by side against other powers….besides, against who will they form this alliance ?
But we can only hope that Germans and other Europeans are willing to disconnect from the Anglo-Zionist Empire……a very small hope in my opinion.
“On what do you base this theory that the the two World Wars were fought to prevent a German Russian alliance ?”
WW1 was planned 10 years in advance by Anglo-Zionists conspirators. The Anglos wanted to destroy their rival, Germany. The Zionists wanted to make profits from financing the war and establish the state of Israel as the Anglos promised. WW2 was caused by WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles. All of this resulted in Germany in becoming an occupied vassal state. Russia is still targeted for domination or destruction.
Harry_Red
Charles Carroll
I will answer your questions by quoting chronological events.
In 1812 Napoleon invades Russia with an Army numbering between 450.000 and 860.000 men. He enters Moscow In 1812 and the Russians enter Paris in 1814. He fails in his invasion of Russia. Historians constantly “forget” to explain who financed his invasion of Russia. The Rothschild’s perhaps ? Was Napoleon a proxy fighter, as he was ?
In 1853 Britain and France invade Crimea, achieving limited success. The bankers need a new proxy fighter. That honor goes to Germany, which needs to be united. In 1871 we have the Franco-Prussian war. Russia stays neutral, furious at France for it’s two invasions. Britain also stays neutral. Why ? Why would Britain see the rise of another competitor on the Continent, unless it had covert plans ?
In 1871 Germany starts to industrialize. In just 29 years an agricultural country was transformed into an industrialized one, boosting it’s Army. Who payed for all this ? The Rothschild’s perhaps ? However, the Rothschild’s got one unpleasant surprise. Bismarck, the Chancellor, who enjoyed a free hand in his policies, started advocating a German-Russian economic alliance, knowing perfectly well that Germany was trapped in Central Europe, with Russia to the East and Britain and France to the West. Fighting a new war against all three was out of the question.The Rothschild’s didn’t like this line of reasoning and use the Kaiser to remove Bismarck, the most foolish mistake in German history.
In 1914 we get World war One. It’s a horrible war of attrition. Countries are weakened. The Rohschild’s, in conjunction with Wall Street bankers, instigate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin is brought from Switzerland and Trotsky from New York City. The Germans start moving their troops from the East to the West, and the US steps in, preventing a German victory in the West, something that was not intended, as Germany’s “duty” was to be a proxy fighter for the bankers, destroying Russia.
In 1924 Lenin dies from syphilis. He is replaced by Stalin, who was not under banker control. And the result ? Some months later an obscure character by the name of Adolf Hitler appears in German politics. Wall Street starts investing in Germany, opening up factories. Henry Ford builds truck factories both in Germany and in France, trucks which the German Army would later use. In 1931 Wall Street creates the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, right next to the German border. This Bank financed Hitler. In 1933 Hitler assumes power. In 1939 World War One breaks out, and in 1941 Hitler invades the Soviet Union (Russia) with three million men. Bankers are again “forgetful”, forgetting to explain how Hitler managed to finance a world war, especially the invasion of the Soviet Union.
In the winter of 1941 the German Army is approaching Moscow. Stalin transfers more than one million men from Manchuria to Moscow and giving the bankers a nasty fright. It becomes obvious that the Germans would be defeated, and everybody knew what happened to Napoleon, with the Russians ending up in Paris. This had to be prevented. The US enters the war in December of 1941, when the battle of Moscow was about to be begin.
In 1943 Rommel is defeated in North Africa. Everybody expected that the Allies would invade France. They do not, opting instead for Italy and fighting a totally useless campaign. The intent was to prolong the invasion of France, so that the Germans and Russians would wear each other some more. The invasion of France is instigated in June of 1944, and the Russians take Berlin in 1945. And Hitler ? He ostensibly committ’s “suicide”. Or did he ? Historians are yet again “forgetful”, forgetting to mention the fact that Hitlers bunker in Berlin had four escape tunnels. One analyst has even stated that in the early 1960’s Hitler went on a vacation to Hawaii, his host being George Bush, the future President. Sounds incredible ? Not really, bearing in mind that George Bushes father was Prescott Bush, one of the people who financed Hitler. With Germany defeated, NATO is created and given the role of the new proxy fighter, to be used against Russia.
A Russian – German military alliance impossible ? Not really. Years ago this would have been next to impossible, but things have changed in Europe. Look at France, Holland, Belgium, Sweden and others, who have financial, economic and ethnic troubles. Some of them have very bleak futures. Germany would act as a factor of stability in the West and Russia as a factor of stability in the East. I trust I answered your questions.
Now that is a history that you won’t read about in the US or Europe.
But based on your understanding, what is your prediction of how this plays out? With threats of war against oil states Iran and Venezuela, arming Ukraine, trade war with China, there are numerous powder kegs and lots of sparks.
subhuti37
I don’t think anybody can give a precise prediction. The point is that time is not working for the US. Countries are beginning to abandon the US dollar, trading in domestic currencies. The gigantic US foreign and domestic and debt can never be repayed. The US is postponing a financial crash by forcing countries to use the US dollar, while at the same time provoking instability in oil rich regions. Look at Venezuela and Iran. Both have huge reserves of oil. Washington wants it, not only oil for the sake of oil, but oil to be sold in dollars. And then we have the question of gold. According to one analyst, Russia and China are the two countries holding the largest reserves of gold. Both are preparing to introduce gold backed currencies, but are not in any hurry. They are waiting for developments in the US. When the dollar begins to crash, then Russia and China will introduce gold backed rubles and yuans. According to one analyst, the Russian Central Bank two years ago had 1.801 tones of gold. However, more than 30.000 tones are stored in the Kremlin in 12 “gold chambers”. Both Russians and Chinese have, traditionally, immense amounts of patience, playing the waiting game. And the US ? I don’t think it will experience a civil war as it had in 1861-1865, as some commentators have stated, but it will experience mass social unrest, resembling a civil war. Personally I think it will break up. We shall see.
Who did finance Napoleon’s invasion ? The Rothchild’s perhaps ?(…)
Good qustion.
In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s « 200 years together » one reads the following lines in chapter 2 ‘during the Reign of Alexander I :
« But soon after the adoption of the 1804 Regulations, the threat of war in Europe was outlined, followed by the application of measures favouring the Jews by Napoleon, who united a Sanhedrin of Jewish deputies in Paris. “The whole Jewish problem then took an unexpected turn. Bonaparte organised in Paris a meeting of the Jews whose main aim was to offer the Jewish nation various advantages and to create a link between the Jews scattered throughout Europe. Thus, in 1806, Alexander I ordered a new committee to be convened to “examine whether special steps should be taken, and postpone the relocation of the Jews. »
Quid pro quo.
Jewish communities seem to have lived, mostly, in peace with their host societies in places, like al-Andalus and the Ottoman Empire, where their inclinations to exploitation of others were suppressed, and they were protected from those who held them in disdain, for various reasons. Once the repression of exploitative inclinations was removed, in the name of ‘freedom’, the Jewish elites, the real culprits, soon created great animosity and antipathy towards their entire community by their money-lending, and usurious and other unpleasant practises.
@BF
And in case new proxy fighter NATO can’t get the job done on Russia, another new proxy fighter was developed just East of Russia by massive amounts of technology and industrial manufacturing capabilities transfer, financed by the Rothschild’s once again, their biggest financing operation experiment yet, no doubt about that.
Only this time some blowback has been encountered with this latest proxy. “Blowback is a term originating from within the American Intelligence community, denoting the unintended consequences, unwanted side-effects, or suffered repercussions of a covert operation that fall back on those responsible for the aforementioned operations.”
Now the West and this new proxy are having themselves a bit of a tiff. This won’t impact Russia as Russia is self sufficient with all the resources she needs. Russia will in fact grow fat during this tiff. However the West and the new proxy aren’t self sufficient and need to obtain resources from elsewhere if they are to sustain themselves in any meaningful manner.
So this tiff of an “economic crises” between the US and its overly empowered previously most favoured trading partner won’t really impact Russia, but the rest of the planet is going to get trampled on. Russia will get impacted if WW3 breaks out though.
In other words, we’re screwed. Excellent, albiet sobering analysis on the state of the World, especially the impending economic implosion. And the West is indeed on the downward descent into a social darwinian dystopia, where it’s every man, woman and dog for themselves, while meaningful dissent is not tolerated, at all. I agree with the authors assessment of Oceania. Articles like this, and the voluminous knowledge of many of the commenters here is why I visit this site.
Capitalism has been replaced by Finance Capitalism, which is money chasing money in a Casino like system. This Finance capitalism does not put a bean on the table or a chicken in the pot. The use of money has been corrupted by greed and the search for a quick return on its investment.
Money is a means of exchange, a store of value and a tool to assist in exploiting resources and skills. Without a connection to productive, wealth creating industry , money is without value and hyper-inflation is the end result.
Whether this is manifested in high property values or inflationary pricing of goods, the end result is the same.
Financial machinations ,such as derivatives, re-hypothecation etc have flooded the world with money that has no connection to real solid goods. A mirage of virtual wealth has been created.
A reset is overdue.
These financial machinations are a natural outcome of a system based on usury (interest). Usury has a very wide definition and does not only focus on money lent on interest. Money changing is also a form of usury, which the Jews were forbidden to do by Jesus Christ. Even worthless paper money with no intrinsic value is a form of usury.
So usury is the basis of all these forms of corruption in the financial monetary system. It has been there for thousands of years but at the same time has been forbidden by Christians and Muslims (the rulers of the historic economic power houses) for thousands of years, until about 400-500 years where things started in Europe to really snowball up until this day….
Hey Harry, get out of my head……….lol, so I was booting around the ‘isms’ you know, capitalism, socialism, communism, this ones bad, that ones better, the other……………………and then it came to me, cue the crucifiers, there is nothing wrong with capitalism, nor communism, or socialism.
The problem with those and any system of commerce now, the past, the future, is, as you pointed out, usury. Sheer and utter greed. Which may be a very simplistic view, but some guy pointed the same thing out about 2019 years ago.
It should be noted those in power at that time began to create a ‘fake’ world of views, news, education, religions, forced migration, and wars. They are good at it, but they will overplay their hand in the end. When? I don’t know. But the sooner everyone gets on the BDS wagon, we just might speed that end along. It might also cause the end of the world as we know it, but who wants to live in a world entirely controlled by Zionists. It’d be like living in a world without Russia.
Cheers, M
I’m rather afraid that these discussions are moot. The only real game in town is the ecological Holocaust. The moron thugs of Austfailia just voted to peddle coal and kill the Great Barrier Reef, the tourist industry, the country’s rivers, agriculture and, then, their own children, in the process. And the entire political and fakestream media castes agree that opposition to coal-mining had better be dropped, in the interests of ‘appealing’ to creatures so dumb, greedy and ignorant that they do not care for the future of even their own children, let alone anyone else’s.
I agree with Mulga – in the long run the main driver of change in the world is the ecological holocaust, already well along, which will kill industrial civilization no matter what kind of global geopolitical organization occurs in the meantime. Industrial civilization depends on the unique concentrated energy of fossil fuels. Depletion is driving net energy (energy return on energy invested) (EROI) down to levels that industrial economies cannot exist. Declining net energy is driving ROI of all essential minerals. Added to all this is rising ecological cost to societies from industry and industrial agriculture.
The state of the world resource base is that production of fossil energy globally has peaked along with many minerals. The planetary population is far into overshoot of carrying capacity. As with all other species, human consumption that is far overshooting carrying capacity inevitably causes drastic contraction of the global population.
Agreed! We have known since the 1969 MIT study covered in the Club of Rome report “Limits to Growth” and its update that collapse is baked in:
http://donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update/
Somehow math is hard as the growth religion fails to understand basic equations such as doubling time = ( Ln 2 *100)/growth rate/year as explained by Dr. Bartlett.
More recent work by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) are being ignored.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48169783
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
Similarly, Dr. Kate Raworth’s book titled “Doughnut Economics” is not being taken serious by the Western Leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOlmgz0smSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhcrbcg8HBw
Comfort and conformity of the people rules the day and as such the reality of an ecological holocaust is outside the Overton window of discussion.
I have really enjoyed your thoughtful posts. I wish you well in the remaining days until we fall off the Seneca cliff as expressed by Ugo Bardi.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319572062
Off Seneca’s Cliff and down into the Olduvai Gorge! Just now I am watching a little group of ‘business’ psychopaths ‘discussing’ the future of the Great Barrier Reef. One tourism apparatchik just contributed a ‘Regardless of the truth concerning the fate of the Reef…’, etc, neatly expressing the prevailing tactics of the tourist industry, to lie that the Reef is fine, lest tourists be dissuaded from visiting. In fact the Reef is half dead, greatly affected in most other places, and the next El Nino will almost certainly deliver the coup de grace. But only profit (euphemised ALWAYS as ‘jobs’)counts, and if Nature produces some rebuttal of the cancer religion of capitalism, just lie your head off-no-one in the fakestream media will ever dare point out your untruths. In fact, they’ll happily regurgitate them, to the bitter end, coming soon.
I often wonder if all our discussions of various issues here are missing the real issue, which is the ecological collapse of the planet and our widespread extinction.
A message from Pedants’ Corner- ‘widespread extinction’ seems rather tautologous. But most certainly true. The idea that ‘intelligence’ leads to self-destruction in a species seems a little disproven by the fact that it is the dullards who are racing most happily towards auto-genocide, all in order to keep their Jetskis, SUVs and McMansions.
On second thought, ‘..our widespread extinction’ may not be redundant, but referring to widespread extinction, geographically, with little pockets of poor blighters who survived eking out a ghastly existence. Apologies.
The only holocaust will be the Millennials Holocaust, when the Ideologically Perverted Carbon Catholic IPCC in Bern raises up a new Third Temple of the Apocalypse with their ransom demand for $2,700-a-CO2-ton tithes, which is EU14 a liter at the petrol pump, and double or triple the utilities costs to achieve the ‘renewable’ fraud of an unstable and unsustainable wind and solar grid with no industrial capacity and constant rolling blackouts.
The last free wealth on Earth is the Boomers savings and pensions, being unleashed and preyed upon more every day, with a now +22% YOY $4,875B US Federal budget siphoning that last wealth into private offshore tax havens. Add the Green Grifters and their unaccountable, anti-democratic ‘carbon taxes’ as PERS pension slush funds, and poor Millennials, 68% of whom have $0 in the bank, and never will have savings, are toast.
Anyone who claims ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ is the cause of anything in this googleplex multivarient world is either a shill for the unelected, self-appointed Scientocracy, or a wanna-be Scientocrat, or a fool. When 16-Year Old Virgins march in the street, screaming they want you to feel TERROR, then you’ve been had, son.
Interesting article…….but the sentences written are much too long, making the article difficult to read.
I didn’t have any difficulties reading this article. I thought that it was well-written and concise. Complex matters cannot be resumed in 6-word-sentences. You are aware that this article is actually a very short and summarised roundup of the state of the world? You could read 160-character-tweets instead, that should be suitable for you.
What I meant is that the long sentences should be broken down into more sentences. Proofreading articles by native English writers would help. It would highly improve the article’s quality.
It’s the end of May, the cold winds still blow in from the NW. The ground is still so cold we can’t plant food. My asparigius, which we usually pick in early May, still won’t come up. When I came out here as a kid to visit family, 35 years ago, we could walk around during March break with tee shirts on. Today, May 23, at 6am I walked my dog wearing three coats, a touque, and gloves. We still get hot days, but we’s got more cold ones than usual. I guess that’s Climate change, not Global warming. Not sure what today’s peeps would make of the ‘dirty thirties’ did ya’ll have droughts downunder then too? Wonder if it was dry in Europe or South America at the same time. It wasn’t in Ireland.
Weather varies, but within climatic bounds. Climate changes, but generally slowly, unless affected by external forces like a solar minimum in radiance, a meteor or comet strike or a super-volcano eruption. These are generally short-lasting, reversing after years or decades. But when you mess with the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, you can get climate destabilisation that lasts for centuries or millennia.
It is now believed that four or so of the five mass extinction of the past were almost certainly caused by hot-house conditions caused by the emissions of greenhouse gases. The End Permian ‘Great Dying’, the worst, so far, extinction event, was probably caused by massive volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia, setting fire to great beds of hydrocarbons. And the extent of greenhouse gas emissions then, and the rate at which they were released was one to two orders of magnitude, at least, slower and less massive than the anthropogenic emissions of the last 200 years.
Need I say that the weather in your backyard in Ireland is not the same as the weather over the other 99.9999% or so of the Earth’s surface? Your cold weather is evidence of climate destabilisation, and you’d better get used to it.
Guess you missed the part about the ‘dirty 30s’. Past mass extinctions, we were there? Humans? We recorded it? Speculation based on faulty human observations, maybe? Can data be misinterpreted? By humans? Faked, by humans? You get your data from the same people that spew lies for a living. And no, I don’t live in Ireland, rather, Canada.
And what is the loss for the planet, when humans finally leave? Are you familiar with rebirth, go back and look at all those mass extincitions, planetary evolution at it finest! Walk through a burned forrest and marvel at all the new life that springs forth. Ok, for you it may be along walk to find one, me they are all around, and happen all the time. The biggest issue with forrest fires, for humans, is the loss of personal property, ortherwise for the planet, life goes on.
Now, sean, the record is clear. The ‘dirty 30s’ were a phenomenon in only part of the globe. Current rapid changes are global, most marked at high latitudes. As for how do we know about previous mass extinctions, well it mostly comes from geology, which can tell you a great deal, and paleontology, that tells us some more about extinctions in particular, from the ever expanding fossil record. You really just cannot reject particular science simply because you don’t like the findings. As for ‘them’ lying to us all the time-you are most certainly correct, but you have the wrong ‘them’. The them lying in this case are the rich capitalists who own the system that is exterminating Life on Earth, and they value their ‘wealth’ far more than the lives of others. Sorry about mistaking your abode.
Yes, America (and its “democratic” allies) is Oceania.
And Oceania is at war with Eurasia (Russia) or East Asia (China).
The United States of Oceania of course has its Two Minutes of Hate, which in the age of 24-hour news channel, has been updated to 24 Hours of Hate directed against whomever is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the moment (Usama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega, Vladimir Putin, etc).
The United States of Oceania has created a global surveillance system in the form of its Echelon “5 Eyes” spy system that covers the entire planet, and of course inside the American Homeland itself.
Yet, the United States of Oceania aggressively promotes the idea that it is a Beacon of Liberty and Leader of the supposed “Free World.”
But what the Americans carefully forget to mention is that their version of Freedom is Slavery.
I agree: “Sooner or later the proverbial “black swan” event will unleash a veritable domino effect of popping bubbles and plunge the global economy into a crisis of a magnitude it has not seen since the 1930s.”
But when does the black swan event happen, and where or how does it happen? What triggers it? In five years? Ten? Twenty?
Trump’s campaign promises included border control and infrastructure repair, both of which remain unfulfilled because Deep State/Democrats.
There four things we (US) need; border control, infrastructure repair, energy for transportation and manufacturing as well as to keep the non-productive capable population nullified, and some activity to keep Deep State nullified.
Now would be a good time to declare a wartime emergency on our inability to manufacture weapons with the obvious solution being infrastructure repair and this means highways and bridges, RAILROADS, research into molten salt reactors and impenetrable defense barriers.
When you say ‘nullified’ in regard to the ‘…non-productive capable population…’, what precisely do you mean?
The English triangle trade between America and Africa, American raw materials (cotton) traded for African slaves and English manufactured goods, is a useful construct to examine the current Chinese triangle trade, using Australian raw materials, Chinese wage slaves, and America’s appetite for Chinese manufactured goods
Since one followed on the other after a century of world wars, it’s too soon to predict the future trend of this, but the comparison is highly useful nevertheless, to understand the economics behind political buffoonery. Anyone focusing solely on political analysis of economics then is necessarily a buffoon, you only have to ask, Pentagon spends $100Bs they’ve lost track of doing war simulations, by constantly varying the inputs, the objectives and outcomes, but somehow, when we talk about world economics, it always devolves into political buffoonery.
We have super-computers, quants and masters of economics theory, where is the economic simulation games? Or are we paying for them, and banking cartels keep the outcomes for themselves and political inside traders?Then the politics of economics isn’t merely buffoonery, but craven, corrupted, co-opted, colluded propaganda.