by Vasilii Ivanenko
translated by “K”
In the Capital of Bashkiria one of the key events in global politics of 2015 is taking shape
Historic summits of two organisations – BRICS and SCO – which are providing the framework of the emerging “Eurasian” world order opened at the same time in Ufa. Moreover it is the first time they take place in the same location. In both structures Russia-China is the “dominant link” and our country will aim to do everything possible to attract more investment in our infrastructure projects, to strengthen economic relations with our partners, as well as to obtain their political support – in case of further escalation in the confrontation with the West.
A truly historic event, radically changing the reality in which we live, often takes place in a quite mundane and even imperceptible way. While global media is trumpeting about the exit of Greece from the Eurozone or the “nuclear deal” between the West and Iran, the events planned in Ufa seem to be merely ceremonial developments in the eyes of ordinary people.
However, many experts testify that indeed one of the key events of 2015 in global politics is taking shape in the Bashkir capital, in comparison with which the fall in world oil prices, and even the panic on the Chinese stock exchange pales. In fact, the Ufa BRICS and SCO summits promise not just the project planning but the real entrance onto the geopolitical scene of a new “Eurasian” project of globalisation, with the aim of replacing the “unipolar world”. For this reason the summits which opened in the Bashkir capital may well be “written” into 21st century history.
Ufa has been preparing to receive these two summits for the past two years. Both forums will be held in the Ufa Congress-Hall, which, although being built only eight years ago, has undergone a major reconstruction. No less ambitious was the “upgrade” which the city itself experienced. All through Ufa house facades were cleaned, squares and boulevards were laid out and courtyards and roads were repaired.
And in only two years seven whole new hotels were built of such class as the Hilton, Holiday Inn and Sheraton.
Major foreign policy and economic tasks are on the agenda of the BRICS and SCO summits. The BRICS summit starts first, during which the leaders of “the Emerging Five” will initially focus on the situation of the global economy and improving the efficiency of joint work within the scope of the “Group of Twenty”. Then, during a closed lunch session, Vladimir Putin, Dilma Rousseff, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and Jacob Zuma will discuss key international issues – first of all how to resolve the crises in Ukraine and Greece as well as ways of dealing with the expansion of the “Islamic State”.
Then, together with the premiers and members of government the leaders will discuss the parameters of the investment cooperation “roadmap”. At the end of the main BRICS meetings they plan to adopt the Ufa Declaration, in which they give their assessment of the global political and economic situation. Finally the leaders will approve one further document – the “Ufa Action Plan”, which will describe the points of collaboration in the year ahead. They will also sign a Strategy for economic partnership up to 2020.
Vladimir Putin’s schedule in the Bashkir capital will be exceptionally crowded – after all, it is not often that such a number of distinguished guests from Central and South-East Asia as well as the Middle East come to Russia at the same time. So, in addition to mandatory participation in all the BRICS and SCO summit activities, the Russian President will conduct – in 3 days – one trilateral and 11 bilateral meetings with country leaders. His working day will start early in the morning and end well after midnight.
The Russian President understands very well that these summits are an excellent opportunity for Russia to link itself economically to almost half the world and to enlist its support. After all, the BRICS countries together occupy a third of the earth’s surface, just under half of the world’s population live there and the member countries of BRICS account for around one third of global GDP. Therefore Vladimir Putin’s main task in the forum will be the conclusion of a final agreement with colleagues on the launch of the two structures, which should, in the very near future, be able to offer “the developing world” financial and investment independence from the countries of the “golden billion”.
“The BRICS group began to build its own financial system, aimed at becoming an alternative to the dollar, even before the start of the Ukrainian crisis”, – says political scientist Alexander Kupriyanov. At the Ufa summit the organisation’s leaders are presenting new “parallel” financial institutions – the BRICS Development Bank (meant as an alternative to the World Bank) and the BRICS Currency Reserve Pool (future alternative to the IMF). Their aggregate capital amounts to 200 billion dollars – which is not all that much compared to the financial possibilities of the West. But the BRICS strategy is a different one: Russia, China, India and their partners want to force the US and the EU to reform the IMF and to increase their quotas in this important body. If Washington goes for this, then the transition to a multipolar world will be relatively painless. If the US is not prepared to share its global power then BRICS already has the basis of its own financial system. Apart from this the summit promises to become the “competition of infrastructure projects”, each of which is intended to boost the economies of several member countries of the group at the same time. According to the head of the BRICS Business Council Sergey Katyrin, Russia will present as many as 37(!) such projects at the summit. And in addition, our country is prepared to participate in every possible way in the projects of our partners, using our expertise and technology.
“So, the Republic of South Africa is lobbying for a chain of projects for the extraction of minerals on its territory and specialists from China are already working there – they brought their technology and workforce to South Africa. But South Africa needs its own top class engineers and Russia is ready to help train them. Besides, thanks to the participation in common projects our country can obtain valuable raw materials and rare-earth metals. Thus everybody benefits” – says Katyrin.
A similar picture emerges in the relations of Russia with other partners in BRICS. For example, Brazil is interested in the construction of a whole series of hydroelectric stations and Russian companies are ready to build, provide turbines and other equipment and to train staff. In addition, Brazil still lacks a unified railway network. It plans to connect the north and south of the country in the near future and here JSC Russian Railways is ready to help the Brazilians. “Rostec” has projects for joint construction of helicopters and mobile sea ports, which can be deployed in any location for months at a time. Participation in any of these projects promises Russia hundreds of millions of dollars while for our partners it means fast development.
India in turn is interested in creating new large agricultural holdings. The Indians are also very interested in creating joint enterprises with Russia for the production of foodstuffs, primarily meat. No less essential are sewage treatment plants and the newest water extraction technology. As far as our relationship with China is concerned, Russia intends to implement the high-speed railway project from Moscow to the East as well as several major pipeline projects, several of which are already under construction. Here our task is to “join in” the Chinese “New Silk Road” project for that part where it crosses our territory. The Chinese in turn are interested in projects in the aviation industry and space exploration as well as in the areas of health and the environment. In short, there is potentially a very wide field for collaboration for Russia and her BRICS partners. The main thing is to agree on the realisation of this potential as soon as possible and to start work.
Speaking more globally about the creation of the new world order project by the BRICS and SCO countries there are various aspects. Firstly, the primary meaning of the “Eurasian” globalisation project is in its democratic character, in tolerance and rejection of all forms of monopoly and dictatorship of one party over the others. In fact, the BRICS countries are united by the perception of the world order as a collective work.
“All the member powers of BRICS and SCO view the world in a multipolar light, where the principles of collective leadership and mutual respect are in effect”, says Mikhail Remizov, Director of the Institute of National Strategy. In economic terms they think about how to create several regional economic zones with their currencies on the wreckage of the “dollar pyramid”. And in the cultural sphere they adhere to a “philosophy of blossoming complexity” recognising every nation’s and every civilisation’s right to their own model of development and system of values.
The second distinction of the “Eurasian” globalisation project is in its focus on the gradual transformation of the current world order and not on its revolutionary destruction. The objective of BRICS and SCO is not a confrontation with the West but a “soft coercion” of the US and EU into the joint construction of a more just and harmonious world order. The third characteristic of the future world order is that is based on a new political philosophy: the creation of a system of “collective leadership”. In this, China, as “global factory of the 21st Century” will take on the role of economic leader and Russia the role of political, ideological and military moderator. Also among the aims of BRICS and SCO is the creation of a united geopolitical space within the framework of “Greater Eurasia” and the freezing of the most acute conflicts on its territory –for countries which have been quarrelling with their neighbours for a long time this is the price of inclusion in the SCO.
By the way during the SCO summit, which starts on Friday immediately after the BRICS leaders’ meeting concludes, they plan to make all of 14 decisions at once. The main events of the forum are the approval of the overall development Strategy until 2025, the elections of the General Secretary of the organisation and the Director of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Council. The key issue of the SCO summit will be the reception into the ranks of the organisation (it currently includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan) two major countries at once – India and Pakistan, which in itself is unprecedented. After all, these two countries together are home to nearly one and a half billion people and until recently a sharp conflict smouldered between New Delhi and Islamabad – both countries laid claim to the state of Jammu and Kashmir (which is a part of India, but the population is mainly Muslim). And although the two powers have still not signed a peace agreement, the prospect of inclusion in the SCO has by itself significantly reduced the intensity of emotions between them.
Most likely India and Pakistan will receive a “welcome” in Ufa to join the ranks of the SCO, so their speedy rapprochement is very likely. Besides, today many countries want to develop cooperation with India but at the same time this doesn’t imply confrontation with the heavyweight countries China and Russia. Beijing is currently vigorously expanding its position in Central Asia and India could pose serious competition in the future. But healthy competition is practically an inevitable characteristic of economics. Each country is fighting for its position in the marketplace and Russia is also planning to strengthen its influence on the developing markets of Central Asia. Using someone else’s experience of success, adopting methods and forms of promotion makes sense for each country, said expert Dr Elena Bragina of IMEMO RAN (Russian Academy of Sciences: Institute of World Economy and International Relations).
Iran is another country applying for membership in the SCO, indeed in Teheran they have been talking about wanting to join the organisation for quite a long time already.
“Alas, until recently the international sanctions imposed by the UN in connection with the development of the Iranian nuclear programme have prevented it being admitted to the SCO. But due to the fact that negotiations between Iran and the West on the lifting of sanctions entered the final stage, the door to the SCO may soon open for Iran”, said Georgy Petrov,Vice-President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In one word, the two “ceremonial” summits in Ufa are in fact able to significantly change the future picture of the world, and most importantly – definitely for the better.
TAPI NG Pipeline Nearly a Go:
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/07/11/turkmenistan-pipeline-idINKCN0PL0EG20150711
http://www.ensec.org/images/stories/jes%20map%201%20-%20tapi1.gif
ASHGABAT
The four countries planning a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan will in September pick a company to lead construction, paving the way to the start of work on the project, the Turkmen president said on Saturday.
Turkmenistan, a central Asian nation of 5.5 million, holds the world’s fourth-largest natural gas reserves and sees the TAPI pipeline, named after the countries it is designed to cross, as a way of boosting exports.
This commentary touches on a lot of themes and clarifies what these conferences will be mainly about. Very useful overview.
One can expect this entry will draw a lot of the “but…but, BRICS is just as evil as the NWO because they are all rich capitalists…we’re all screwed again” spamming crap from the zionist phony left as part of their duplicitous psychological social manipulation campaign to discredit rivals to their Israeli-American ZPC/NWO.
This is pretty good:
Friends With No Benefits
The US National Security Agency eavesdropped on a secret briefing where the German Chancellor was given advice on a European financial stability plan, according to WikiLeaks.
@ ‘K’
Thank you for translating this article. It’s a difficult job and some readers might underestimate the amount of time it takes to get the job done. Very much appreciated.
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Q; And in only two years seven whole new hotels were built of such class as the Hilton, Holiday Inn and Sheraton.
R; Yeah, let’s bring in the western epitomes of decadence, to prove we’re the ‘people’s politicians.’
Are there no Russian or Chinese entrepreneurs wanting to make a name for themselves?
I wonder how many major Russian cities require the sort of facelift provided Ufa? Talk about major infrastructure projects! Next year a major development conference is to be held in Vladivostok dealing with the Far East. Here’s an interesting item dealing with China’s desire to turn the far East into a major “breadbasket,” http://sputniknews.com/business/20150711/1024502483.html
@Daniel Rich
Agree on al points. Thanks K.
I would like to see the BRICS develop policies that promote indigenous architectural, artisanal and other cultural ‘goods’ as part of their overall approach to multi-polarity.
Economic activity that leads only to Western homogeneity will do little to attract travelers,an essential ‘ingredient’ for the planned regional transport system. Unless the system is purely intended for transporting stock? That would be short-sighted.
Why for example, does Norman Foster (British architect who designs for globalists) get to practically dictate the municipalscape of Vasna, Kazakhstan? Don’t they have indigenous architects with a historico-cultural ethos reflective of the region?
The trouble with modernism is its visual hegemony on a global scale. How many quasi-Dubais does the world need?
This needs to be addressed at inception, not when the damage is done.
yes – but they’re aleady on the board of the imf
Neither Greater Asia nor Greater Europe: America’s «Chaos» versus a Silk World Order
Interconnectedness is the name of the game and Beijing has been leading the way forward. Despite China’s massive project to bring the economies of Eurasia together, the Chinese still face resentment by those that want to tarnish the image and leadership role of the People’s Republic. Here is just the latest example: although it is annually reported around Ramadan that there are restrictions on China’s Muslims, this year there has been a large international media barrage of reports claiming that China has banned fasting in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This type of media campaign evokes memories about the 3.14 protests that were orchestrated in the Tibet Autonomous Region and internationally to disrupt the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
According to statements made by a Chinese official to an inquisitive Pakistani reporter, Mian Abrar, who wanted to get to the bottom of the reports, there is no official ban on fasting from the government in Beijing. In fact the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, which was adopted in 1982, testifies to this. Article 36 of Chapter II states the following: «Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of religious belief. No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion; nor may they discriminate against citizens who believe in, or do not believe in, any religion.» [1] «The state protects normal religious activities,» Article 36 of Chapter II even pronounces. [2]
Abrar was told by local officials in Xinjiang «that no such ban has been officially enforced.» [3] Speaking to a Chinese Foreign Ministry official named Mohammed, Abrar was told that the reports were either disinformation or misinformed reportage that did not understand how the political system in the People’s Republic worked. [4] While explaining that young school children were discouraged from fasting in schools due to concerns about their growth, Mohammed explained that all government employees are members of the ruling Community Party of China which ideologically do not follow any faith, which is why they are reminded not to fast in Xinjiang. [5]
Giving their characteristic trademark response, the Chinese have paid no attention to the smears. They have been busy moving forward with the development of the New Silk Road(s) at sea, on land, and in the air. Chinese officials have been traveling throughout Eurasia to seal infrastructure deals.
Thanks Bot Tak. When I saw the stories of China ‘banning’ Ramadan fasts I knew it was yet another dirty propaganda lie, but Googling could find nothing but the Western MSM propaganda sewer regurgitating the filth. In any case, in many parts of the Islamic world, the fast is not compulsory for the very young, old, sick, pregnant, those working hard etc. Moslems are not suicidal. There is NO limit on the West’s capacity for lying.
And the restored Democratic Republic of the United States will humbly apply for membership.
IMAGINE
Maybe a republic could be restored, but FYI – USA was never “democratic”, nor should it be. There is good reason for that.
I didn’t take Yevgeny Fedorov too seriously even when he was discussing the NED/NRI/StateDept psyop techniques of Colored Revolution subversion, which he has clearly studied extensively. But he seems to be going off the deep end with this one, claiming that there are secret talks underway between the 5th or 6th column whomever in Moscow to treasonously remove Putin from office and extradite him to the West. Um, what?
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/07/negotiations-to-remove-putin-underway.html
Larchmonter 445 has a very good comment there which seems to sum up the real situation.
@the Kulak
He’s not the only one warning about this, Nikolai Starikov, El Murud, and Strelkov among others have been making similar claims lately. Even Colonel Cassad wrote a lengthy article explaining the difficulties mounting up before the Kremlin a few days ago. The only place I get the optimistic interpretation of events is here on Saker’s site. Makes it hard to know who to take seriously. According to Fedorov and Starikov, none of the BRICS/SCO schemes will survive if the current trends of multi-faceted attacks on Russia continue unchecked. Guess we’ll find out what’s real from illusory fairly soon when the results become too obvious to conceal.
By some strange coincidence, EFedorov’sCall, WillTheyEverLearn, HiRed, IDisagree, ShirokinoLost, FairFight, Cruelty&War, WrongAnalysis, Catch22, NothinNew, Jovi, OT, Lula, Onan, Propeople, ExitLeft, Grik, Ez2Drm, Kfuller, CunningPlans, Prayer, HvsR and several “anonymous” are all showing as coming from the same South Carolina IP. This was from checking only as far back as the end of April. The names are all used consecutively, meaning the writer uses one for a few posts, then uses another, then another, and so on, and does not return to the previous names.
If you had searched further back you might’ve traced it to Grunt, as the forerunner of all these aliases. I had to improvise, adapt and overcome the limitations employed by Saker to block real opposition to the pro-Kremlin slant on this site. The intent was to stick around long enough to demonstrate that my original analysis of events and predictions of the likely outcome of this struggle, withstood the test of time. Russia isn’t America’s equal in superpower status, and where America chooses to contest, Russia must yield. Russia won in Georgia and Chechnya, only because we only partially engaged. We’re in it for keeps in Ukraine and everywhere else now, and the difference is unmistakable. Keep a more inclusive forum, and I won’t need to employ asymmetric methods to bypass your barriers.
Peter
Though I sympathize with where you are coming from, there are other ways of saying that without resorting to insults.
@ Grunt2.0
You obviously support what US has done to Ukraine, the thousands of civilian deaths that have occured there. You obviously would support the cover up of the MH17 investigation.
I take it you support the billion dollars a year funding the US has been sending to the so called rebels in Syria, you know the group of moderate rebels in McCains happy snaps that lead ISIS.
You would also support ISIS as we now know from documents obtained by judicial watch that the US government knew about, and facilitated the formation of ISIS.
Just in the last 3 months the US has helped SA kill somewhere around 3000 people in Yemen and injure plenty more. not to mention the blockade of supplies – food and medicine to the people of Yemen.
You crow now and no doubt you wonder why people all over the world And not just the designated enemies of the US but a good proportion of the people in the vassal states like Australia hate the self proclaimed exceptional America’s guts.
It is not just Russia the US is taking on, but a big part of the worlds population.
The US will cling onto power for a while yet but a good part of the western world is turning against the US with its abuse of power since the USSR crashed.
The obvious US backing of ISIS has shown a big part of the western world just how corrupt and degraded the US is.
@Peter
You obviously support Strelkov, Mozgovoi, Givi, Motorola, Putin and Shoigu. You do so comfortably in spite of the knowledge that they’ve engineered the destruction of all who oppose Russian domination from the caucuses to Ukraine. Despite being fully aware that Russian arms dealers have and continue to benefit from conflicts across the Middle East and Africa. Russia supported the enemies of America to the last Vietnamese during the days of the USSR, to say nothing of her murder campaign in Afghanistan. Of course, you naturally convince yourself that those murders were justified and therefore are fully excused, probably something along the line of , “they did it to free the oppressed, or stop a greater evil etc.”
You’re probably not even Russian, I could comprehend a Russian’s unconditional support of his states policies, however murderous and destructive to foreign populations. Think of me as you would a Motorola, or any other Russian patriot, except of course I’m an American. Whatever her faults as a state, I won’t side with America’s enemies. Geopolitics is a rough and unforgiving business, it’s not for the faint hearted or the weak willed. I don’t hate my country enough to support her enemies, no matter how noble sounding and appealing their excuses may be. Obviously you consider yourself a global citizen, and are therefore immune to patriotic zealotry. Somehow in your vision, the triumph of America’s enemies the world over will benefit you personally, or at least ease your conscience. I’m not that selfless.
@Grunt.2
An apt moniker.
The real enemies of the American *people*
are within.
Any thinking, educated American will name them for you.
But you probably already know – since you’re clearly working for them.
That would make you a traitor, not a patriot.
At least you admit you ‘are not selfless.’
Lets hope the pay-checks help quell the screams of cognitive dissonance.
@Grunt2.0 on July 12, 2015 · at 5:34 am UTC
“We’re in it for keeps in Ukraine and everywhere else now, and the difference is unmistakable. Keep a more inclusive forum, and I won’t need to employ asymmetric methods to bypass your barriers.”
Excellent news – that will afford myriad opportunities of lateral challenge and display.
Please reconsider the observation of another who may have been reactive, perhaps of limited experience in such matters, and perhaps integrated in ideologies/notions of the “exceptionalists” system.
Please continue to crow as long as possible – it is most useful – and if it is in your capacity please encourage your associates to continue following this “crowing” practice.
Attempting to inhibit response and other practices of “bullying” is also very useful as catalysts and multipliers.
Consequently as above please continue with these practices and if it is in your capacity please encourage your associates to continue following these practices.
As to “everywhere else now” am I to believe that previously the “United States” and its satraps were not in it for keeps?
“Russia must yield.”
You appear to be misinformed and possibly are at a loss to explain why “Russia” and its associates still exist to challenge.
“Keep a more inclusive forum”
Excellent advice for increasing data-streams, as even you are possibly aware.
Congratulations on your choice of designation – Grunt 2.0 – most appropriate and is/will be useful in matters of lateral challenge.
“I won’t need to employ asymmetric methods”
Am I to believe that your view is that adjusting names is an “asymmetric method”?
“to bypass your barriers”.
Am I to believe that your view is that there are “barriers” on this blog?
Please feel free to analyse the IP address from where this contribution was broadcast.
Kulak, I didn’t listen to the whole thing, but I agree w you. Doesn’t seem credible:
1. The condition for the lifting of the sanctions is the breaking up of the country. So then who could care about sanction, and on what country?
2. He said early elections were called for, just like w Yanukovych. Not true. In Yanukovych’s case it was early presidential elections to get rid of him. In Putin’s case it’s early parliamentary elections called for by the govt, not by an opposing force.
Sounds like he’s over-reacting cuz he’s kind of an excitable man.
This finely crafted report has much to recommend it. Many intelligent people recognize that infinite growth on a finite planet is absurd. Many respect nature and wish to cooperate with it. That does not mean rejecting all progress. It does mean the ability to discriminate and separate the wheat from the chaff. Gung-ho, no holds barred development is unnatural and destructive. It plays into the hands of the worst elements of inhumanity. “This is the imposthume (abscess) of much wealth and power, that inward breaks, and shows no cause without why the man dies.” (Shakespeare). If the old myths have any truth, we were designed to live in an earthly garden, not a hovel in the shadows of skyscrapers nor in Babel towers themselves. Best regards.
Dennis Leary for thelovegovernment.com.
Remember the information last month about the live anthrax the US military sent to its bases around the world? There was probably a hell of a lot more to the story than that which was covered in the media.
US Army Used Deadly Viruses in Europe Exercises – German Media
In an article with the headline “US Army operated biological weapons in Germany,” Berlin daily Bild revealed that the US military used deadly live anthrax spores in military exercises.
The investigation revealed that several of the US military exercises on German soil involved “incidents” in which live anthrax spores were released. The incidents took place in the town of Landstuhl, near France, Luxembourg and the Ramstein military base. The US military previously sent live anthrax spores to South Korea.
The German defense ministry told the newspaper that the spores were not sent to any German military laboratories. The US military previously admitted that since 2005 it sent anthrax spores to South Korea, Australia and Canada, but not Germany.
The spores were supposed to be neutralized at the Dugway Proving Ground in the US state of Utah before being sent to the exercises, but the incident made “some spores even more active,” according to the newspaper.
Keep in mind that Bild is no opposition newspaper, but fully part of the zionist western media establishment and usually about as critical of their masters as Fox “faggot” News is. We’re looking at the tip of the iceberg, here, on American (actually, Israeli-American-ZPC/NWO) covert biological warfare.
When the story come out in Australia about live anthrax being shipped to Australia, most commentators believed it must have been for research purposes.
None seemed to be able to get their heads around the fact that the US and five eyes and vassals will use any form of warfare that kills the designated enemy.
Pentagon spokespeople have made it very clear that they are not interested in a fair fight with anyone. They want to make sure the deck is heavily stacked in their favour.
Let’s face it, USA treat Germany, France, Italy, etc as dirt. Heck, Wikileaks has already make it abundantly clear that they have been snooped on day in a day out, what’s their response? soft as sheep. So, why shouldn’t USA just step on your faces?
The headline “US Army Used Deadly Viruses in Europe Exercises…” is inaccurate, as anthrax is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, not by a virus. It’s hard to take any source seriously when it headlines such a fundamental error.
[This site is not a platform for you to make personal attacks on those you disagree with.]
I see political & economic globalisation as a continuing threat to diversity. I embrace full economic sovereignty for every nation, with their own currency.
If you use the same pieces of which today’s world is constructed, but you do it with better intentions, you are going to get. . . something very similar.
No thank you.
I will know that we are not being treated to a theatre production when I see the dismantling of the IMF/Fed system: that is, when every nation has it’s own government-controlled central bank empowered to emit its own currency/credit instruments according to its need. Until then, I’m skeptical.
Vasilis posted some great links for understanding that it is the STRUCTURE of the NWO or globalisation that we must challenge, not just the ideology.
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol11/vol11_no1_Are_austerity_policies_the_problem_or_is_it_Neoliberal_globalization.html
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol11/vol11_no1_Tsipras_wasted_a_potentially_golden_opportunity_for_Greece_in_Moscow.html
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol11/vol11_no1_Is_there_a_way_out_of_the_crisis_within_EU_The_case_of_Greece.html
Penelope,
“I will know that we are not being treated to a theatre production when I see the dismantling of the IMF/Fed system: that is, when every nation has it’s own government-controlled central bank empowered to emit its own currency/credit instruments according to its need. Until then, I’m skeptical.”
The problem lies in “…(emission of) its own currency/credit instruments according to its need”. As politicians live to spend money, whether ordinary corruption or buying political support, it is critical that currency issuance be somehow kept at arm’s length from them. Mis / over – issuance is an almost guaranteed result otherwise. If your trading partner is prone to such, the need for a self disciplining system is obvious.
I agree, the IMF system has been corrupted and is now an instrument of Empire. Leaving that aside, the IMF system was a flawed attempt to force “good management”. Its success lies in the fact that currencies remained relatively stable while world trade exploded. We have many, many more tradeable currencies today than we ever had before. Whatever evil intent you may wish to read into the collateral damage, 100 yrs ago there were maybe 3 or 4, while today there are over 150. You can buy Chilean grapes in Ulaan Bator in January (relatively) cheaply because that system works. One doesn’t just throw that out the window, especially if one has also benefited. Russia has certainly benefited, and China’s rise simply couldn’t have happened without it. Both of them are acutely aware of that.
So, the N(ew)NWO will necessarily be much like the first. Not perhaps de jure, but de facto. On the other side of the IMF$ystem, currency swaps look to be the system of choice that will keep trade flowing. These are now being formalized and centralized in the NDB & AIIB.
This isn’t going to be la-la-land nirvana. Currency swaps may allow more leeway for government policy, but they still require that currencies be well managed. The same level of discipline, probably higher, is required if currencies are to provide the confidence in their store of short term value for international trade. To achieve that, a currency must represent the resources and productivity of a trading nation that has something its partner(s) wish to buy and, if a state over/mis-issues its currency, the repercussions under the swap regime will be very harsh indeed – as harsh as today’s “austerity”. It will lose its gold, and start from scratch.
IMHO, your fear should be that the new system will lack the disciplinary mechanisms required. If so, we will see plenty of instability until politicians learn to stop buying votes with their nation’s money.
Erebus, the bankers’ argument has always been that governments cannot be trusted with their own money creation. Only bankers can be.
But look at the world we have reaped by entrusting money creation to the international banking cabal. A world of such concentration of money and power that they control the govts, the media, and the upper echelons of the military.
In asking whether govts can be entrusted, we need to look at two things:
1. Their history in money creation.
2. The automatic safeguards and consequences built into the nature of money, international trade, etc.
Obviously I can’t go into many examples of successful historical money management here. Let me give just one: Lincoln’s greenback. It was entirely successful– until the British massively counterfeited it as one more attempt to set up a privately owned cenral bank.
The automatic safeguards w consequences for over-issuance: Michael Hudson & other have related how this worked before the post-WWII IMF was set up and how it would work today. I’ve read their books but can’t begin to summarize here.
Choosing to trust international bankers rather than a govt elected by the people is incomprehensible. But even if one govt fails in its function, the consequences would be decentralized. To link all the economies of the world together with all their central banks ruled by the banking cabal is just madness.
Hey, slow down. My “arm’s length” does not equal “… link(ing) all the economies of the world together with all their central banks”.
I don’t see much I disagree with in your rant.
PS: the “Greenback” saw no great use in international trade, which is what we’re talking about.
There are plenty of other examples of well-managed fiat currencies working in domestic economies, but precious few in international trade, and none at all that weren’t backed by force.
PS2: The scourge of “The Rule of Banksters” rose with the forced de-regulation of banking at the turn of the 21st century. The almost unlimited credit issuance and systemic abuse that followed is what got us to this explosive point. It is what made them too big to fail.
Erebus
“linking all the countries of the world together with their central banks” is the present position. It is what the IMF does now. We’ve seen no evidence so far that Rus/China/BRICS is going to deconstruct this international bankers cabal of control. So far they have indicated that they want the minor control exercised by member states to be more multipolar.
Erebus, you said, “The scourge of “The Rule of Banksters” rose with the forced de-regulation of banking at the turn of the 21st century.”
You are really mistaken about the history of banking and its pernicious effects. You might consider reading a book-length work that will give you a good history. I’d recommend either Wm Engdahl’s “Gods of Money” or Michael Hudson’s “The Bubble and Beyond”.
Starikov’s free online book explains how the development of all nations except the US and a few European ones has been retarded by the IMF/Fed system. That is, since it’s inception just after WWII. This was made worse by changes made in the 70s. Horrible economic damage was done long before deregulation.
Regards
Penelope, Answering both your rebuttals…
at 8:27 am UTC:
I hear what you’re saying about the lack of evidence of a clean break. However, there are hints such as the Reserve Currency Pool and some things mentioned in passing in Putin’s speeches, that “workarounds” being created so that BRICS Central Banks will have access to “reserve multipliers” and can use them to increase issuance of investment credits for productive and infrastructure projects.
Yes, these are workarounds and not your desired “deconstruction”. I think we’re a long way from that. Nobody wants to crash the system, especially before a parallel system is fully operational. A great many small countries would suffer
at 8:43 am UTC:
I should have said something like “the latest
scourgeassault/crime” and added something about public perception. Typing & editing on a smartphone sometimes skews one’s words if not one’s thoughts.Parenthetically, I’ve read both Hudson and Engdahl. The latter since his early days writing for Lyndon Larouche and we’ve even corresponded on some subjects (principally oil). As for Starikov, I read his abstract and, having found nothing revelatory there, haven’t sought out the book though I probably will when/as time allows.
OTOH, I remain keenly interested in any evidence you have that Central Banks are settling trade accounts by transferring Gold. I assume you mean that this happens routinely, and not only in extremis.
Erebus:
7/12/15 BRICS DEV BANK: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/10/brics-bankers-confirm-they-will-undergird-not-undermine-western-financial-decadence/
Beijing’s emergency bail-out measures represent vast subsidies to financiers, just like those used in Washington, London, Brussels and Tokyo since 2007.
Change is urgently needed yet the BRICS’ finance bureaucrats – especially two leading appointees from South Africa – won’t deviate from orthodoxy. Ongoing financial turbulence should offer a gap for the $100 billion Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA), which is anticipated to open its doors next month. However, it carries not only a strange name that even many insider experts often get wrong, but is dollar-denominated and structurally hard-wired to support the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
To illustrate,” according to CRA rules agreed at last year’s BRICS Fortaleza summit, after 30% of a country’s quota is borrowed – based on double the amount of its own contributions (China at $41 billion, and Brazil, Russia and India at $18 billion each, and South Africa at $5 billion) – then the borrower must next sign a neoliberal IMF agreement.”
Re: settling in gold. I answered you on another thread. You were right, I was wrong. Thank you so much for the correction. They actually settle out of their reserves, or settle current account deficits via loans.
Thanks again.
Yup, workarounds. The idea is to build a parallel structure not controlled by Washington. Governance will be spread, and the differences will appear on the margins rather than the core – at least initially.
As the USD’s preeminence fades and existing trade, treaty, banking structures break down, we will see new developments closer to the core. We’re seeing this now with the rise of currency swaps but, nobody’s going to cut off the branch they’re sitting on. There’s far too much at stake, and the world is far too invested in the current system for revolutionary change at this point.
Thanks for looking into Gold trade settlement. Don’t worry, Gold will used soon enough. The currency swap regime requires it, but as you say elsewhere, at a “fair price”. Actually, “fairness” will be a by-product of the settlement system, and it will be much higher than today’s paper diluted, non-functional gold price.
China is rapidly gaining control over the physical gold market. One day, they will decide to break free of the paper version so gold can do its job. I have only vague ideas re: the metric they’re using to determine the right moment, but it is coming. 60 Central Banks don’t pile into the mining business unless they see the absolute necessity of it for their continued operation as Central Banks.
K, thank you for the very smooth translation.
Vasilii, thank you for a provocative article.
“Alas, until recently the international sanctions imposed by the UN in connection with the development of the Iranian nuclear programme have prevented it being admitted to the SCO.”
The UN sanctions I take it were imposed because of Irans supposed nuclear weapons program. The US can veto the lifting of the sanctions. Iran joining SCO seems entirely dependent on the US allowing it to do so under these rules.
Along with the alternative finance structures being set up, it seems there needs to be another UNSC set up to bypass the US.
One that will simply help defend members and their borders rather than declare war on what is deemed an aggressive state.
Russia & China made a massive strategic error by not vetoing the sanctions resolution. I doubt it will ever be removed since the Outlaw Empire will veto any attempt as you suggest. While keeping to the letter of International Law is a wise choice by Putin, it does have its drawbacks as in this situation. I think the SCO will need to make a special exemption for Iran; otherwise, the SCO will never reach its full potential.
“Alas, until recently the international sanctions imposed by the UN in connection with the development of the Iranian nuclear program have prevented it being admitted to the SCO.”
Interesting! It should be recalled that the 2 main members of the SCO are themselves nuclear powers.And the 2 new candidate members are both already nuclear powers.And I believe they secretly developed those weapons asking no ones permission and not facing World sanctions.First,I don’t believe Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.Second,if they were that is their concern no one else’s. We do have a nuclear power in the Middle East at present (Israel).One that secretly developed them.Has threatened to use them.And that the World makes no attempts to punish for that.There is absolutely no reason (except their desire to co-operate with the West,a bad mistake on their part) that the SCO countries don’t declare the anti-Iranian sanctions morally reprehensible and reject them.That would send the message to the World that major nations will no longer go along with politically motivated sanctions on other nations.
I just listened to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZnhuDWkd4
Keiser Report: Yanis Varoufakis ‘Shane’ of Greece (E780)
First half was good; second half was fantastic: Prof. Steve Keen was on!
Keen is treasure.
List on right of youtube has other recent episodes of Max on Greece. Gotta love the guy.
BRICS and SCO summit 2015.
Vladimir Putin: Friends,
I have spoken a lot today, and I know that you are a bit tired of hearing me speak, but protocol demands that I say a few words – and I would like to, since we are very happy to see you all and once again welcome you to Ufa.
Our states and peoples are tied not only by close, friendly relations, but also a common aspiration to make the world we live in more secure and predictable, ensuring reliable conditions for sustainable growth. We see this as the primary purpose of our joint work within the framework of international alliances and organisations like BRICS, SCOand the Eurasian Economic Union, as well on a bilateral basis.
Our states are located on several different continents, have different cultural and historical roots and implement different development models. Our strength lies in those differences; they are the source of enormous potential for developing truly mutually acceptable, consensus-based solutions to key modern problems. At the same time, the foundations of our societies are based on largely similar traditional values and the common laws of good ethics, truth and justice. We all believe that we can only achieve our goals by working together on the basis of genuine partnership, trust, equality, respect and taking into account one another’s interests.
We are calling for the development of a coordinated response to global threats, asserting the just foundations of interstate communication under the key role of the United Nations, relying on international law, the principles of indivisibility, security, and peoples’ free determination of their destiny.
Many of the states represented here are located in the vast Eurasian space. For us, this is not a chess board or a field for geopolitical games; this is our home and we all want peace and prosperity to reign in our home, so that it has no room for extremism and attempts by some to secure their interests at the expense of others.
I am confident that the results of our work in Ufa will contribute significantly to achieving these goals. I am sincerely grateful that you responded to Russia’s invitation. Without a doubt, the summits in Ufa will play an important role in development and will be a significant milestone in the creative efforts aimed at economic progress and prosperity not only in our nations but throughout the world, ensuring regional and global stability.
Ladies and gentlemen, friends, allow me to propose a toast to the welfare and prosperity of our nations and states, to the health of the state leaders and everyone present, to our close, fruitful cooperation!
As to the birth of this new world order… it was priceless to see the Bolivian ‘indian, poor, victorious leader Evo Morales donate to Pope Frances the sigle and hammer with Christ crucified…
and Francis didnot say it was any heresy , sin. of godamn anything of the kind.
And the empire men and MSM will pull the trigger in anger, the catholic conservative bishops themselfves will have to find out endless explanations!
I ve loved the artist conception of the symbolic crucified.
If it were not for the pope´s words on the capitalist system itself, this alegory alone would pay for the visit to the three poorest south american countries.
adelante, francisco!
6.07.2015 Ken Jebsen interviews Swiss citizen, Peter Koenig.
Translate with closed caption translate feature.
M4Мы должны умирать, чтобы американцы могли жить
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=198&v=oqsF4l2ki
This is the most encouraging news I’ve read in a while.
Thank you.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31766-one-year-after-gaza-massacre-un-exposes-likely-war-crimes
Also see: Israel’s Blatant Flouting of International Law Requires Presidential Response and Israel Inflicts Illegal Collective Punishment on Gaza
One year ago, on July 7, 2014, Israel launched “Operation Protective Edge,” a massive assault on the Gaza Strip. For 51 days, Israel bombarded Gaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes. Many of them hit residential buildings. Tawfik Abu Jama, a father of eight, told UN investigators, “I was sitting with my family at the table ready to break the fast. Suddenly we were sucked into the ground. Later that evening, I woke up in the hospital and was told my wife and children had died.”
Anonymous, while mere goyim might find the slaughter of an entire family (one of many targeted for no military reason)by coward butchers as a great crime, our Judaic betters think differently. As the highly influential Yesha Council of Rabbis and Torah Sages (a group of orthodox and ultra-orthodox allied to the settler Judaic Taliban)declared in 2006, as Israel was bombing Lebanon to rubble, killing civilians is not just permitted under Judaic Law, but is considered a ‘mitzvah’ or religiously sanctioned good deed. International Humanitarian Law to the contrary was contemptuously dismissed as mere ‘Christian morality’.
Is it not he who holds the Gold actually is the Boss ? You have such a wonderful article here it all seems so calm and beautiful. We are trying to remove ourselves from this “Revolutionary Destruction” that we become accustom to.So we pause with are you sure its not going to be more aggression between nations? With all this ‘Wow’ is this for real or is it a dream and China will hold the Leadership?Will we all need to become as controlled as the people of China ?Is the Police force’s all going to be Militarised in this system as well? What about Justice within the various countries will that be one shoe fits all? and then there are the Pharmaceutical Corporation’s is that also going to be one system ? This is huge and is it the Yale model from the Kissinger Mao period coming into fruition NWO ? under a different banner .Please forgive me should my questions seem juvenile . Its huge I just hope with all this business and construction going to happen the Education Elevation and the Dignity of humanity will not be forgotten here .
dear shu-shu
A lot of different actors in the world can actually have and share gold as well.
So can become bosses… and sharte ‘bossdom’ partnership, agreed?
Because I don´t prefer the system nowadays prevailing : the ONE holding the green bill printers (the fed) is the world boss.
Peace comes a little closer. Looks like the military octopus the US has become must be convinced
she is not welcome until she stops her whim-like wars, her global encirclement. Just as this is the only way to stop other longstanding conflicts.
equal under the law