By Batiushka for The Saker Blog
‘For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places’.
Words recorded by Matthew in his Gospel, chapter 24, verse 7, April 33
‘It is Russia that is now at the forefront of the clash of civilisations’.
Boris Mezhuyev, Professor of Russian Philosophy at the VIII Russian Philosophical Congress in Moscow, 26 May 2022
We were promised the future. That of globalism. This was one in which the whole world would become ever more prosperous, though nobody would become as prosperous as the already prosperous elite of the Western world. So those living off a dollar a day would live off two dollars a day and those living off 10,000 dollars a day would live off 20,000 dollars a day. Sounds fair? And all this in a world where all would have the chance, if they wished, to dress like Americans, watch Hollywood films, eat at MacDonalds and drink coffee at Starbucks, that is, to live in a unipolar world, the only pole being the USA. And this world would by 2100 have reached its maximum population of perhaps 11 billion, up from today’s nearly 8 billion.
Then came some annoying people who pointed out that not everyone can live like that, even 8 billion of us, let alone 11 billion, in a world of finite resources and a warming climate (regardless of whether that warming was manmade or not).
And then there came covid (regardless of whether that was manmade or not) and some people of all races died from it. And then came some very annoying people who pointed out that if there is one pestilence, there can be another and another, far, far worse, like the American/Kansas flu of 1918-1920. Unlike covid, this killed perhaps 60 million, ten times more than covid, on a planet with a population less than a quarter of today’s, so was 40 times more lethal. And so, they concluded, anything people do is infinitely fragile, here today, gone tomorrow, and all our much-vaunted vast technology is useless against a mere tiny microbe. The balloon of arrogance was rather punctured.
And then, after pestilence, there came war in the Ukraine and the increasing realisation that actually the future that we were being promised, or rather, that was being imposed on us, was not one that we wanted. There had been just too many injustices down the centuries, not least inside Europe and caused by Europe outside Europe. Such were the ‘World Wars’, that is, the European Wars which Europe exported worldwide. What sort of future can you build, if it is built on the bones of the hundreds of millions of victims of genocide and injustice down the ages? And then came some even more annoying people who pointed out that not everyone wants to live according to that unipolar model. We do not want to be the slaves of Antichrist. And as we do not want that, then to defend Russia is actually to defend the world.
And so the future that had been proposed to us has gone to the back of our minds.
And so now we have to think about the future that we do want, in the front of our minds.
First of all, we know what we do not want. In the words of Sergei Lavrov in his interview with RT Arabic in Moscow on 26 May 2022:
‘Instead of delivering on their obligations under the UN Charter and honouring, as is written in this charter, the sovereign equality of states and abstaining from interfering in their domestic affairs, the West churns out ultimatums every day, issuing them through their ambassadors or envoys….blatantly blackmailing ….The reaction of Arab countries and almost all other countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America that we are seeing shows that these countries do not want to disregard their national dignity, running errands, in a servile manner, for their senior colleagues. This situation is yet another example of colonial thinking….It is wrong and regrettable, and flies in the face of the historical process, which objectively shows that a multipolar world is now taking shape’.
What does this mean, politically, economically and socially?
Firstly, politically we think that in the future every country, people, culture and religion should be respected. That does not mean that we will agree with each other, that there are no differences, it means that we accept the differences of others in freedom, but that we in no way feel obliged to follow other ways. In other words, our relations should be those of good neighbours, live and let live is what we do. We are not superior and narcissistic busybodies who carry out Blairite ‘humanitarian interventions’ in the sovereign rights of others, arrogantly trying to enforce our domination on the deluded pretext of do-gooding. Because we respect ourselves, so we respect others.
Secondly, economically we think that trade between different countries is normal, following the law of supply and demand, but that in the future all trade should be sustainable. Free trade very often becomes the law of the jungle. Free trade has to be regulated, to avoid exploitation, profiteering and the impoverishment of those countries which have fewer resources and advantages. Justice must reign in all international trading relations.
Thirdly, socially, we think that social justice for all in every country is essential. We realise that if you gave a million dollars each to twenty individuals, very quickly you would find that one had ten million dollars and that others had nothing. People are different. It is therefore part of the role of the State to provide some kind of safety net for the weak, without demotivating them from work, and also making sure that those who become rich do not abuse their wealth in order to obtain tyrannical power and commit injustices like gangsters. Money should be a tool to do good. Sadly, often it is not. We no longer want to live in a world in which there are massive gaps between rich and poor. The word ‘oligarch’ has been associated with Russia, only not the Russia we knew, but with the westernised and corrupt Russia of Yeltsin, which is now disintegrating. There will always be richer and poorer, yes, there will always be such. But why should there be multimillionaires, billionaires and even centibillionaires? There is something wrong with such a world, when at the same time there are so many desperately poor.
This is not an ideology, this is not an ism, it is a balance. If you press down on one end of a seesaw without a counterweight on the other end, there is no balance, no possible play. When the world is out of balance, disasters, especially wars, come. This is what has happened in the Ukraine. Retrieve the balance and all will work better. This is what the phrase ‘a multipolar world’ means, a balanced world.
So, the unipolar future to the back. And forward to the multipolar future.
A warming climate is actually good. The Earth is greener, the yields are higher.
Please educate yourself on climate science and apply basic observation skills so you don’t reveal your ignorance. More frequent droughts, extreme fires, floods, extreme storms, melting ice caps & glaciers, potable water shortages, rising seas, habitat loss, mass extinction and species die-offs, etc. are all symptoms of a rapidly warming earth which spell disaster as feedback loops accelerate runaway greenhouse warming leading to human extinction (the sixth mass extinction on earth).
Of all places – “siberiancat” – Siberia is the source of the biggest threat from massive amounts (many Gigatons) of methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) trapped beneath the frozen ice which is thawing. If enough of the methane suddenly “blows” (there is plenty of documented evidence it is already escaping through fissures), the earth could become uninhabitable like Venus. Russian scientists conducting over 2 decades of research in the Arctic first warned of this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmzTSYRJJE – So, please stop the denial based on political ideology.
What is the perfect temperature of the earth? Have your “scientists” figured that out yet?
The evidence suggests that a mass extinction may be helpful to the planet. If the earth is the host, and it looks to be an easy argument, then everything living on it is a parasite. If you threw a party and the guest started making a fuss about everything, you as the host may wish to reconsider your next guest list for future planning.
If all jungles around equator would be removed the ‘natural temperature’ goes to 100°C (212°F) and nothing will grow or live there anymore. So let’s preserve all the jungles world-wide and prevent from cutting them down! Instead we need planting new trees all around this area, and especially in the north of Africa, too.
All those trees had been cut in millennia because of ship building for mankind’s many wars that meant nothing at all to mother Earth. Even those prophecies in the Bible – its only a crap book written by people with narrow minds – do only program people’s mind to a narrow view.
But we can do much better! Yes, we can!
Read the Bible and put its truths to the test for yourself.
Did read it and put it to the test, of course, and some of it worked (new testament). But I said forget the books about the prophets and prophecies, it’s crap, and only works as self-fulfilling if you want to believe it or your mind is not capable of creating a better idea of the future. Even the 10 commandments are setup totally wrong, the subconscious does not understand negations at all! That’s what you see in the western world. Look into Dr. Murphy literature for explanation.
Too much hassle about the Bible, actually it’s mostly jewish history and the Christians are not more than a jewish tribe, only divided by their views of “the Messias”. I am over with it.
Are you absolutely certain about this? 2 decades of research in the arctic is enough to go against 1000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, or 1,000,000,000+ years of earth history (much of which did NOT include humans) for you?
Have you lived in the arctic or antarctic for years at a time personally or do you just swallow whatever internet research you’ve found on the topic to be aligned with the damning truth?
Is it possible the climate change narrative is one of the more recent disinformation campaigns of Operation Mockingbird, courtesy of your local, hometown, Central Intelligence Agency?
You don’t have the last word on Climate. Yes there is Global warming happening but Global Warming & Cooling has been happening for Billions of years. Man’s effect is piddling – what’s being proposed now with carbon credits etc is just a Global scam — Only the bankers & billion airs will profit – – It’s just an excuse for a Tax !
http://www.321gold.com/editorials/hoye/hoye121321.pdf Climate Update: December 2021 (Short No BS Expose)
Follow your own advice and educate yourself!
We’ve been hearing your dire predictions of all the bad effects of “climate change”, warm and cold, since that bunch from Rome started to publish their DRIVEL and predictions in the early 60’s!
And you know what???
Not a single one of their (and your) DIRE predictions has come to pass! NOT ONE.
ha ha ha ha
you crack me up
The source of the climate problem is the UV & Infra Red of the Ozone Holes causing a short term effect, not carbon.
Long term climate cycles are also a product of orbital parameters around the Sun and planets.
These produce an ice age every 8000-10000 yrs which we are about to go into and the carbon warming would have offset.
The Ozone effects cause intermittent hot spots causing erratic weather patterns and are melting ice.
The holes are estimated to repair themselves by 2050 as holes causing chemicals breakdown.
How bad a situation will we be in if we have cooled the planet so much by carbon oriented policies when the holes repair and then ice age sets in ?
You lost me at “educate yourself” because too often it accompanies the supercilious parroting of the dominant narrative.
Yep, agree. Another Chicken Little “The sky is falling” raises it’s little head to squawk.
Rising sea levels they tell us; but multi millionaires & billionaires keep on buying ocean front properties.
Rising temps. they say but many parts of the world still records record cold, snow, ice.
Remember the fear mongers originally screamed Global Warming but the record cold regularly occuring made the sheeple sceptical so it was rebranded as Climate Change, a bet each way as hot or cold can be rebranded. And let us not forget East Anglia University caught twice fudging the data (much like Neil Ferguson at Imperial College, the number fudging pandemic modeller).
Much like the scamdemic; originally in 2020 the fear porn merchants screamed Corona Virus will kill millions. But the sheeple found out that corona viruses are just flu viruses so it had to be rebranded – Covid.
People are so gullible. Wait for an “alien invasion”, the next biggest side show to scare us in to submission.
Rising CO2 is not the cause of Global Warming, it is a symptom of Global Warming (from solar activity). A cold planet has less life activity (thus less co2) than a warm planet. In prehistoric times you had more co2 than today. Why? Because the planet was warmer, had more life activity and a richer flora and fauna, the animals (dinosaurs) were much bigger, the nature was much greener.
Don’t be naive. Do you think going “Tesla” on a large scale will help nature with all the destruction done by mining to make batteries?!
Dude, “educate yourself” is plain arrogance. Maybe you could throw in an “obviously” here and there, to really drive home your point?
The idea that we have it all under control is hubris, in my book. i mean — we control the climate. not the sun, but us!
right … obviously!
There have been no less than 41 predictions of climate disaster since 1967.
Their record so far: 0/41
There is just as much “scientific”evidence to the contrary even as you write. The problem cannot be resolved definitively. It seems to be a question of semantics, definition of terms and the attribution of tiny increases exclusively to human activity.
If there have been as you claim 6 mass extinctions previously, what industrial human activity caused those?
Many so=called “greens” are actually “browns.”
Because they focus on—obsess about—brown things: the portion of anthropogenic warming caused by burning fossil fuels.
They do not track the warming and desertification trend with deforestation. Even declines in regional rainfall track with deforestation. The causes of deforestation are not exactly the same in all regions of the world, but deforestation is a huge factor in Earth’s climate. Deforestation started with the earliest humans, but has become calamitous within the past three hundred years, with the demand for wood and the clearing of marginal areas for agriculture.
Those who would call themselves green should place all of their efforts in halting deforestation and destruction of the few old-growth forests that remain, and in reforesting large portions of the earth’s land. This is, of course, a multigenerational project. It takes ca. 150 years for a forest to mature to a climax state where it is sequestering huge amounts of CO2 as well as providing a complex ecosystem for thousands of organisms above and below ground.
No. A warming climate brings first and foremost chaos. Longterm weather patterns change, storms become more frequent and extreme. Melting ice caps change oceanic flows that have historically determined weather patterns. Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere exacerbates these effects.
The first organism on Earth was a slime mold that thrived on the high CO2 atmosphere. It pretty much cocered the planet and like all planets used the carbon to build and exhaled oxygen. Over a billion years this slime mold created an oxygen-rich atmosphere and basically extincted itself. Mankind is heading in the same direction, and if the greenhouse effect becomes runaway then man will do to his species on a few hundred years what it took a global slime mold a billion years to do.
Progress!
I agree that a warming climate would be benificial as opposed to a cooling climate, however the assertion of a scientifically validated “warming planet” is specious at best.
Particularly regarding CO2 as the supposedly identified culprit in this so called “Climate Crisis” narrative is absurd and just one of a plentiful harvest of fallacies within the globalist/satanic cult of deceit.
No matter what Al Gore says or even Greta the earth is not warming more than normal. It has been warming and cooling in cycles every since The Almighty God created it. If we believe every lie the scientific community puts out through the fake political news media we would be ancestors to snakes and monkeys. Don’t fall for their lie’s trust the Almighty God that created heaven and earth, Christ has risen.
I agree. It has positive sides. The carrying capacity for humans on earth increases. Which is a good thing.
Question is if this is a natural sustainable evolution or a man made apocalyptic event.
I lean more to the former than the latter, seeing that it’s still not possible to predict the weather 4 days ahead with any degree of certainty.
The future to a person is how long s/he’d live, considering the average lifespan ~72 years, it could 52 years, if you are 20 now, or 22 years if your are 50 now, or whatever the life left in you. The past, or history is what you remember of your spent life, which of course, you cannot bring back.
Its good to think of what we’d leave behind, but we won’t be there to check on the results.
Does the world have a thermostat keeping the temperature the same over millions of years :)
What we are seeing is just normal fluctuations
A temp rise over a short time scale is nothing over millions of years
Ask anyone who works in a casino they’ll tell you they see red / black come up 6 times in a row sometimes
It’s nothing special just mathematics probability over a long time
A temp rise over a few hundred years is a blink of an eye over earth history
Global warning is just another scam
Exactly, and I have some more news: plants thrive on carbon. We learnt it back in school. Today, we get school 2.0 with babble like “educate yourself on climate science” or “apply basic observation skills so you don’t reveal your ignorance”. Not to mention the ace: gender “science”. It is really time to break free of all these liars. As a Christian, I more of the sword sort than the other cheek sort.
Yes, I agree.
Is Billy goatskeeper more Arrogant than satanthony Fauci or Toni blinken?¿
Biofascism seems to have taken over both domestic and foreign policy in the US of Arrogance.
I want my bodily sovereignty and .
.. I want leaders that actually lead. Like in Russia.
Why does America have to have this enemy anyway? We can’t win no wars….thank Goddess….
There are plenty of Russians like me in the states of US. I want to hear good things about Russia. I am tired of the unending fear porn.
Russians are kind hearted people.
Thanks.
I want to give you a big bear hug. I hope the world comes around, when the Russian ( yes they are good people) win this mess in Ukraine. I hope the people will like and accept another more and countries work together. Like The foreign minister of Russia told the Arabia news that we need to live a life with out fear and help another. You Sir please hold your head high as a Russian in America. You need and be proud of your heritage.
Globalization has its positives but the one the west is imposing on us is just for a benefit neocon/neoliberal western billionaire and the oligarchs they bought in the Yeltsin years ; a very small club at the expense of everyone else!
Yes, I’ve written to HRH Lizzy Windsor asking if I can expect anything coming my way in her Royal Will or is HRH King Charles gonna spunk out a fortune on cosmetic surgery for Queen Camilla? And, what about Prince Andrew, not our colleague here, but the one who doesn’t secrete perspiration, even when he’s knocked back a few ounces of good Columbian boo and is gaping underaged hookers.
The initial Covid research money came from Public Funds and yet Moderna, Astrazeneca and Pfizer (others) keep all the profits. Now this is an indicative, across the board, ARRANGEMENT, with only the various Clans & Elitists receiving their cut on the quiet. Talk about a 419 scam . . . . . and not a Nigerian Prince in sight.
What a wonderful thought!
Prices at the pump really had diluted the narrative blend. Obvious it was not lockdown but SMO. Ritter already talking phase 3, he must have a very good source… But he points out what will happen sooner than later. Implosion of government, chaos is real and how much the people can take, by now they must be aware that they have been taken hostage at the point of a gun? And forget any of the factions that have been running the show. The new republics, even under threat, already have a constitution! Someone must be organizing a big holiday in Kiev’s streets!. The “west” its not immune either, all those “controlled” riots of late, will be irrelevant when the big one riot hits home. If anyone is in need of imaginary armies to keep the show going, expect that, with a ply for food, jobs and no war and lets hope, for accountability ( Larry J may like that)…
Doubting if many people can’t just break out of the mold, too many exceptional but”s to what amounts an almost ingrained reversion and negation of the other…let the dogs of war bark! (Don Quijote)
almost forgot: the revolution won’t be posted!
History shows that “Good,” always triumphs over, ‘Evil.” So why does evil return? Back sliding, lazy, greed and money changers returning to Temple. Always corrupt money leads to sin.
Let’s be honest God gave us only 10 Rules ie. commandments. Why 10? Because you only need only look at the fingers on your hands to count them. When you are required to remove your shoes and socks someone is manipulating you.
Does this make Russia the Good Samaritan? Suffer not the little children of the Donbass no more.
Russia is doing it’s part to put an end to the Petrol Dollar, what the 21st Century Money Changers use today to control the world, with the Central Bank of Central Banks, BIS which is still what it has been for 1K years and that is the Vatican Bank. Russia works to sell NG to Europe in Rubles. Soon China & Saudi Arabia will get together to trade Saudi crude for Chinese Yuan. India is already purchasing Russian Crude at a discount and soon they will purchase with Rupees. Turkey will start to transact their Russian Oil & NG pipelines and use the Lira. Europe will be forced into using their Euros to have Russia’s State Banks convert them into Rubles. Impossible to Europe to convert their refineries into something other than Ural Crude. South Africa will use the Rand. Argentina the Peso & Brazil the Real.
Central Banks & their Wall Street & London Casinos with their sacrifice of Doves will be a bad memory. The Roman Church will finally face justice, certainly several Monarchies as well. Wouldn’t shock me that after this happens and it’s certainly happening we refer to the following Year as Year One. The Chinese system of money from 700-years ago will make a comeback and we start to build the Kingdom on Earth. Peace.
Globalization needs a leader, a global leader of an almost godlike character to unite one and all. That is why we find quotes such as these:
“It is necessary to discover a head capable of directing it, endowed with an intelligence surpassing the most elevated human level.”
—H.G. Wells
“Let that man be a military man or a layman, it matters not.”
—Paul Henry Spaak, first president of the Council of Europe, planner of the European Common Market, president of the United Nations General Assembly, and one-time Secretary-General of NATO
“Strong, one-man civilian control of America’s giant military establishment is vital to the nation’s wellbeing. The concentration of authority is inevitable.”
—Roswell Gilpatrick, Deputy Secretary of Defence
Make no mistake they want and are looking for such a person and the one group who truly think they have the key to it all are the Zionists. A coming Messiah. 1:36 minute mark of this video https://youtu.be/-SyhrD2prjY
It exists in their holy books and the one all encompassing figure they look to is King Solomon if not a king David TYPE. And Freemasonry is behind this to! Frighteningly they all believe it revolves around a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. Add to this the ability of computer tech and voila, history in the making.
All thats left is what i kind of believe will be a robinhood moment which I suspect could very well occur. What Im talking about is imagine some figure who will through computer tech will pull off one of the greatest robinhood moments in the history of the world and redistribute all the confiscated wealth in such a way that he will gather to himself the worlds poor and will by it be received as the greatest hero of the masses and the world. For this great gift however, he will want to be worshipped as god. the real kicker however, is he will own all the wealth and you and I will have a QR Code and you will either submit or be cut off from his benevolence. Sound far-fethched.
This is what I read when I hear the likes of a Glazyev say an electronic concentration camp.
They are all Nazis. Think about it.
@Gerry: “It is necessary to discover a head capable of directing it, endowed with an intelligence surpassing the most elevated human level.” — H.G. Wells
HG Wells must have known that Superman is only a cartoon character, doesn’t really exist. All we really have is fallible Homo Sapiens sapiens, poor sap.
“On this rock I found my Church” — New Testament.
@ Dr. NG Maroudas
Poor Sap indeed. H. G. Wells was a dreamer and perhaps out of his mind, but believe me he was in the camp of many highly educated and powerful people from universities as diverse as Oxford to Harvard. i have their names and quotes here in front of me. What I would really like to share however with you are these paragraphs from Dr. Cantelon:
“I sat in Brussels in March, 1972, with my friend Dave Oliver, who had devoted 28 years of his life tirelessly working with the Atomic Energy Commission. In recalling the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, we were impressed that it was the voice signal of the U. S. President , Harry Truman, that released that bomb from the B-29 that flew over Hiroshima on that memorable day. With knowledge of that amazing incident, we turned in the prophetic Scriptures to the prophecies of John in the book of Revelation. Here the prophet not only spoke of a one world government, cancelling the old monetary currencies of the past and establishing a new number system, the prophet also spoke of a world leader, having the authority over the military power of the world, and declared,
Power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations {and he adds}, He maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.” {Rev. 13:7,13}
If a man became head of a world government and possessed such power, surely it would be greater than what any man in history had ever possessed before.
What would happen if such power was invested in a man who should turn into a maniac like Adolph Hitler? Was there such a danger? Of course there was, and most sober-minded leaders of government realized it. But man seemed to be caught between two undesirable alternatives. The old paths behind him pointed back to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 50 million dead from World War Two. the other path offered the forfeiture of rights by individuals and nations being pushed daily nearer to a form of world government.
Grenville Clarke said,
Perhaps it may take a few nuclear bombs and several million deaths.
And Joseph Clark added,
The people will follow when the leaders tell them there is no alternative.” close quote from pages 98-99
Geopolitically, Atomics changed everything. Indeed if it wasn’t for MAD I doubt very much we would be having this dialogue sir!?
Lastly, here is another of great interest: It took place in 1973 between the archtect Micahel Ben Eli and Buckminster Fuller who said:
“Sadly we see enormous numbers of stranded poverty stricken people while potential abundance is being deliberately curtailed by governments subservient to the landlords will.
Humanity is so accustomed to failure it still assumes failure to be normal, and does not realize that it has literally earned-and actually acquired- the capability to take care of everyone on earth at a higher standard of living than ever heretofore experienced by anyone.
The really big fact is that we are going to have to go through a complete mental resorting of what it is all about. then we are going to have to go about taking care of everyone not as on relief , but with the same spontaneous welcome and love afforded a new-born baby.
Landlord ism will no longer be able to extract a ransom. Money too will become obsolete, with the ability to produce enough to take care of all.
The fact that we now have the capability to support all life and are not doing so means we have to introduce a new system. One that can make the world work.”
So 1973 this came out and were on the threshold of 2025? See why I am beginning to think and believe its going to take the violence of a robinhood moment to bring it finally to pass and in the end it will be a new system of rationing. I agree with Dr. Cantelon:
“The author reminds his readers that the masses which accepted the ration system under the crisis of war will accept the new number system under a monetary crisis that will be purposely created by those wishing to establish world control.
And Gates is buying up all the farmland?
Thank God there is “He” and everything is written including our future which is glorious. He will indeed build His Church.
Doxa to Theo Dr. Maroudas and a song for you sir:
https://youtu.be/wegtdmbeuh0
I seem to recall there was a saying in the 1990’s.
‘The Soviet Government lied about Communism…. But it told the truth about Capitalism.’
We are witnessing the great conflict of our age. Civilizations are arraying themselves against one another.
The Neo-Babelist, Empire of Lies, led by the USA against, basically everyone else.
China represents a Virtuous Pagan civilization and Russia stands as the last great bastion of Christian civilization.
A difficult fight lies before us, but there is good reason to hope. Resistance is growing, albeit slowly, from within the Empire of Lies, and I believe this great evil will ultimately be defeated.
Did you forget Iran the strongest and longest survivor of sanctions? Also North korea
ZhukovG,
…In my opinion the USSR system wasn’t that bad after all when seeing its achievements with respect to various social developments including in public education, health, science, industries, agriculture etc. It’s important to remember, for example, that the universal education from grade 1 to 12 and then 4 years of university programs that have become the norm in all countries of the world today is copied after the 1917 Russian revolution, when V. Lenin asked his educational team to devise the new program. That also applied to almost all the other fields of human activities across the USSR. The main issue with that system was that it didn’t leave any room for the inner animal instincts that exist naturally within each living creature including us humans to thrive and play its creative part. Ignoring this fact makes life too monotonous and kind of boring for us mortals. This is just the opposite of what’s happening right now in the US, where the inert animal instincts have totally blown up and taken over all aspects of human activities as can be seen by the amount of hubris, greed, lies, aggression, violence …etc. in the western societies or those who like imitate them including the Ukrainian Neonazis. Then, a new system where the social human and his animal within sort of balance each other out in a state of equilibrium would be welcomed. It could be such that the wife of the man can have the opportunity to show off her new home furnishing, latest car … to her guests (rivals) so that she makes the husband feel good like the real man, which he needs it anyway. In other words, somehow get the worms out. I think the best system would be like post WWII in the Scandinavian countries where there’s was no exact limits on how much one could reasonably earn but the more one earns the more – in exponential way – tax one has to pay back to the system in turn supporting social services.
Batiushka: “But why should there be multimillionaires, billionaires and even centibillionaires? There is something wrong with such a world, when at the same time there are so many desperately poor.” “Retrieve the balance and all will work better. This is what the phrase ‘a multipolar world’ means, a balanced world.”
Batiushka wrote before that the world of “nationalisms” had to end to give way to the “multipolar world.”
Well, what is wrong with “Russian nationalism”? Maybe it has been explained (link if so, please). Putin says his concern as president is for Russia, period. What’s wrong with that? He is perhaps the main force behind a multipolar world. In fact, if you do away with all nationalisms, there may be nothing to restrict the growth of “centibillionaires” like Mr. Bezos who was earning 13 billion dollars a month during the Covid pandemic. Who but “nationalists” might step in into something like that by taxing maybe half of it? Let’s see: Not classical liberals, not conservatives, not the “party of compassion” (term of columnist Patrick J. Buchanan in his prime back in the 1980s). Who is championing the “mutipolar world” according to Batiushka? He cast away all the nationalists and I have no idea who that could be.
“Well, what is wrong with “Russian nationalism”?
Nothing at all, and it’s not contradictory.
As I see it, Russia is operating on the principle that what’s good for the group is good for the individual nation.
So if Russia and China achieve a co-operative multi-polar system, as is their stated intention, then everyone benefits.
Does that sound reasonable?
Batiushka wrote before: “Nationalism must also come to an end. Here we should remember that the very word ‘Nazism’ comes from the German words for ‘National Socialism’. (Nationalism entails hatred for others, whereas Patriotism means the ability not only to love your own country, but also love the countries of others, not hate their countries).”
I agree with you. Reviewing what he wrote, I think Batiushka basically agrees too. The quote shows a view of “nationalism” affected by WWII. He favors a more multipolar world. There’s nationalism in countries; it’s not something “German.” It doesn’t entail loving the countries of others, but not hating them either. Putin may well be described as a “nationalist.”
Most of the rest of the world likes Russia but concedes that it is “not a democratic system” like their own is, because most of the world has copycat ‘liberal’ political democratic systems. China and Russia have systems that, not surprisingly, can be actually defined as “nationalist” systems, with their “token” (admitted by Russian sources) opposition if any. For this reason and more, I opined before that Russia should come up with its own name for its own different political system; only personality and vision are needed to do it (not courage). I even suggested a name among the many good possible ones there can be. Given the type of different political system Russia has, it has a nationalistic ring: “Russian Order.” In the future, they would not be asking, “Are you with Putin or not?” They would ask, “Are you with the Russian Order or not?” It’s not a made-for-export political system, but once it has a name (or even this name), eventually it would be imported by others with their own name variations, etc. That’s politics.
And what will this fair and regulated international trade system mean in a multi-polar world order dominated by China?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterpham/2018/03/20/why-do-all-roads-lead-to-china/?sh=798f8434ac80
https://itif.org/publications/2019/11/18/china-ranks-worst-global-mercantilist-index-subverting-free-trade-and
What’s wrong with the China model of equal opportunity to live a decent life free from hunger and despair?
Countries along the BRI are starting to experience this common wealth.
The article says “If you gave a million dollars each to 20 individuals, very quickly you would find that one had 10 million and the others nothing. It is therefore part of the role of the state to provide a safety net for the weak.” This implies that poor people are weak. To think that way is obscene.
The article says “There will always be richer and poorer”. Not if there is abundance!!!! How do you attain abundance? By having an economy based on the needs of the many instead of the profits of the few. Everyone would be have abundance if technology were used to create real wealth (food, shelter, clothing etc.). Instead technology is used for destruction of real wealth (via wars etc.).C
Here’s the big secret: The real goal of the Psychopathic Bankster cult is to maintain scarcity.
The article let’s the oligarchs in Russia off the hook. Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold rules. The “State” will always be the Oligarch’s bitch.
You can be a strong swimmer and still stand no chance against the open ocean. Hence, we put life rafts and life vests on boats. We dont make people sleep on the open decks.
Same with poverty–doesnt matter HOW strong you are….some situations are insurmountable and this is where the State can be useful and provide a life raft.
I was not saying that there should not be a safety net. I was only saying that the poor are not weak.
With all due respect, I doubt there are many here who are opposed to a safety net – bad things happen to people from no fault of their own, and it’s better to help them temporarily than have them ruined.
The unfortunate problem is the ‘mission creep’ that invariably accompanies the safety net wants to turn it into a houseboat instead – cf Guaranteed Basic Income – where people don’t stay on assistance temporarily, but instead turn it into a way of life. We see that already on the West Coast of America – in both SF and Vancouver, people can live on the street thanks to milder climates, get gov’t assistance, and use increasingly cheaper and more powerful and available drugs – Canada just legalized possession of up to 2.5g of fentanyl! – to delude themselves that they are ‘living’. Outside of nursing homes, more people died of opioid OD’s in BC than from Covid.
In reality we are moving to era of first slower population growth and then declining population. There are now half of global population living in areas where fertily rate is lower than 2.1 children per woman. And that slow birth rate share is growing all the time. Just watch what happened in Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Iran and even Saudi Arabia. First signs of declining birth rate even in some Sub Saharan African countries too.
World tomorrow (2100) will be more like average European/Russian village today. Instead of voices of kids there will be creak of wheelchairs of little old ladies. There is our “population bomb”. There is no reason to doubt global warming bullshit will face same
shy destiny.
A lot of folks will baulk at the idea of a fairer distribution of wealth, especially low brow Americans. They see a commie under every bed.
I’ve mentioned earlier about the initial funds for a Covid vaccine coming from Public Funds but profits going to private companies (less kickbacks to a select few ). This is the crony capitalist game they play across the board.
OK so let’s look at Jeff Bezos and his Amazonian Plantation.
Bezos has every State bidding on him setting up one of his operations in one of their neighbourhoods. He’ll receive all the financial aid/funding he needs along with TAX breaks to the moon. Wont cost Amazon a cent on setting up his operation, even the land. Us normal folks will fork out all the upfront costs and have quarterly bills from .gov which must be met before we can stick the key in the door. WHY? They bring JOBS of course and jobs mean Votes and votes mean re-election and re-election mean kick-backs from Corporations.
Trumplethinskin was looking into Bezos/Amazon’s sweetheart arrangement with the Post-Office, utilising their resources, while they themselves were being propped up with Public Funds.
Amazon who produce nothing have diversified into Media (WaPo, TV-Cable Sport-Drama) and more recently bidding for these mega US Government Arms/Defence contracts ( Remember they produce Nothing so WTF? ). Like his sparring partners Elon Musk and the virgin, Connie Swales, err, Richard Branson, One-Way-Tickets to Mars/Moon (the Playground of the Playboy Players ), not to forget Boom boom boom Satellites of Love . . . . . for the good of Mankind of course.
You see how these Oligarchs make more money gaming the system and buying Public Servants; their worth is greater than the GDP of 80% of countries.
The Military Industrial Complex (MIC ) does not benefit you/us one iota. In fact we’re highly likely to perish at its hands or because of its actions.
Sleep tight and with one eye open.
Capitalism can not be reformed. It can only be abolished. Having said that, I am against all representative governments, capitalist or socialist. I don’t want anybody to represent me. Ever.
I don’t know if Eisenhower’s famous warning about the military industrial complex was a “warning,” or an advertisement for it. It looks sincere, but absent any measures against it, it’s an advertisement.
However, the main problem today is not the MIC. Let’s not blame it prematurely. You have to give it a chance first, before blaming it. The main problem today are politicians like presidents Biden and Trump. Trump was getting set all by himself to enter into a new, far more intense arms race with Russia. He was going to make it cry “uncle” like he made North Korea cry uncle (supposedly). Was he speaking for the MIC in 2020, or paid by them? It was one of his ‘winning’ ideas, one of those he said, as a candidate, would make us beg him not “to win anymore” (chuckle).
When a president summons all the main people from the MIC, discusses what it means that the Russians have hypersonic nuclear weapons while spending yearly more than 10 times less than what the U.S. defense budget is, and that the results have shown that they (MIC) are not good enough to be racing with these Russians, and when their response to this is that the “race” must go on (!), and the race goes on anyway, then the MIC is the problem. Right now, the problem is a complete absence of leadership on this score from both presidents and congresses, no? The Russians may one day spend only half of what the U.S. spends on the military, like today they spend half of what China spends on the military, and what will the “race” look like then? And what will it mean for the security of all and especially “us”? This talk doesn’t exist yet. Maybe the MIC would say that they were about to say it themselves. It must be more obvious to the participant who sees the winner cross the finish line much earlier.
There’s much freedom to report at CNN. They had a report this week about the fact the U.S. doesn’t have “hypersonic weapons” and Russia does and with China right behind it. At the end of her report, she said that there was this long tube (showed either a picture or some diagram) that was needed for this weapon and that the estimate was that it would take at least 5 years to have it. Before her report, I had been thinking that it (hypersonic) may not become reality (still do, maybe 50-50 odds); “5 years” could mean they’re on that certain path, but it’s a long time for a component, and it could mean they are clueless now and “5” is what you can say, when you can’t say “10” or “I don’t know.” I think it is possible that the MIC would welcome a president who quits the arms race. Politicians like Trump press them to continue. Really, pres. Trump was announcing a new arms race for them which would take place in 2020-2024. I think the Russians wanted him to lose against Biden, but that now they wish he had won (…but maybe I’m just speaking for myself).
The CNN report (5/30/22):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHa6acUdHLg
Well officially China spend approx.1/3rd ($244 billion) of what America spends ($766 billion ), 2020-2021. However, the US have an additional Discretionary Budget/Other addons bringing it up to $1 Trillion. Russia’s spend was $66 Billion.
It’s highly likely that 25-30% of America’s budget is siphoned of for CIA dark/covert/regime change gifts operations, another 10-20% in kickbacks, bonuses for the boards of these defence companies and the large salaries, pension packages for the 1000’s of employees. 900 foreign bases doesn’t come cheap either.
As the saying goes, I partied, gambled, drank, had exotic holidays with loose women, accounting for 80% of my wealth and wasted the rest.
When the US finally crack the code on hypersonic, precision weapon systems (3-5 years) they’ll be obsolete to the new Russian weapon systems. Unless they can procure the services of a few top level Russian scientists (I believe someone was caught recently, maybe not the best of the best , in the process of selling information.
The top dogs will for sure have 24/7 protection/surveillance.
Regarding POTUS, they’re next to nobodies, mere figureheads. Joe didn’t fix the 2020 election; the CIA stopped the counting machines turning, buying time and brought in additional suitcases, ballot stuffing. The only difference between Obama and Trump other than the covert/overt, clandestine/open (we’re here for the oil ) is the latter loved everything Jewish, whereas Barry had little time for Netanyahu.
Nope, Pelosi has more power than both put together. She controls the Democratic Machinery, is the the glue. Insider Trading, no problemo; she collects the Elites cheques, the Old Money and prepares the battlegrounds. Every Defence contract and every Committee report will arrive on her desk. Look how she’s got The Squad, those revolutionary bunch of radicals singing from the same hymn sheet, war, war, war.
The reason why America has little chance of recovering its top position is that their excesses, 900 foreign bases, thousands of mouths to feed in the parasitic class and hundreds of thousands of peeping Toms feeding off a diminishing cake. Of course Putin’s the no.1 enemy, no one lines a severe haircut.
On your final point.
If someone creates an system / organization that feeds a million people a day they will of course be given more in return than a person who can’t even feed themselves.
All their needs to be is freedom of choice. Freedom to say no to an exchange. And if free choices lead to poverty or even death so be it. Without negative role models you have a society that must therefor be rewarding and encouraging peoe to make poor choices
We do not need leaders In charge of capital distribution.
Actually we do. Noone says those who invent systems to feed millions should not be properly compensated , but the current system rewards way too much. Those gains are now offensive to most thinking people. “Filthy lucre “ is an expression that came down to us for a reason.
In addition, not everything unfavourable that happens to us is because of our own wrong decisions . In fact, most unfavourable things that happen to us are in fact due to things outside of our control ie outsourcing, war, famine, unfavourable regimes and -isms.
Western Style living -standards did not arrive under laissez faire or liberal market conditions. They arose from Mixed economies with some central planning. It was what was called Welfare Capitalism. Greedy and /or stupid authorities and Elites ,after State Capture , then reaped all the gains of that and gave us useless outsourcing and privatisation/corporatisation. Effect? The vast bulk of Westerners went backwards in living standard and it shows in every countries’ statistics.
Every force exerted faces an equal and opposite reaction.
Russia is the reaction.
Great and moving article.
Remember it says in Colossians about creation. God is in control and it’s nonsense to think the world may or may not exist based on something man does. God is in control. It does not say nothing about global warming or nonsense in bible. The curses are for a sinful corrupt world, not becuase of driving internal combustion engine motor car. Speaking of cars remember that man Henry Ford knew truth about you knkw who among us.
Being ignorant, lacking knowledge, is not good. Don’t be ignorant. Pa Chuck, that’s me, says from experience you read bible, have faith, and receive wisdom.
The headline will be the name of my next rock band. Besides that, quite lovely to hear Lavrov’s clear speak.
Earth’s climate is literally cathastrophic it destroyed at least one advancedglobe spanning civilization.
Climate alarmism is only possible with a science that denies earth’s catastrophic history and amounts every form of climate change to gradual slowly changing conditions.
This is in direct contrast with geological records showing fast catastrophic worldwide changed in very short periods of time.
It is also in contrast with all the mythologies of the world which all have at least one major catastrophy in the past and one in the future.
By now everyone should understand that all mainstream narratives are lies, there is no path forward within these narratives.
Don’t worry about climate change it has always changed and it will always change regardless of human activity.
The answer to globalism is localism. Smaller countries. Local autonomy. Ecological specificity . Land cared for by those who love it. Proper taxation of the ridiculously rich and those who degrade our childrens heritage.
Agreed. In a globalized work locality is your unique selling proposition.
The globalists seek to appropriate all the profits from everybodies ativities for themselves.
They are nothing but greedy little shits with lots of money.
Yeah wpuldn’t be great to try to be free for a change? never been tried!
This site was unavailable in NorCal almost 12 hours today. Glad to see you back!
Such talk is mostly nonsense. There is always predator and prey. For a time there can be balance among them all. However, the times are always changing. Old people die and new ones are born. Sentiments change, old ideas die and new ideas are borne. Russia and China threaten the unipolar order of the West against the will of the West. So it is for now.
Regulating strength and weakness is a sometime thing. The weak may welcome protection or bitterly resent its terms and seek to evade it. The strong may struggle to break it. Because of this constant evasion and struggle no one can predict the ordering of the world because that ordering is always a fight among interested parties.
Don’t ask for justice but ask for power in your own time to pursue your goals. With thought, persistence and struggle you may be able to get it and hold it for a time. Whatever Russia and China build now no matter how successful may have vanished into some newer order in some decades of time and probably will.
The moralizing nonsense of this article will blow away like the vapor it is when the wind from passing bullets is felt. Do not ask for justice per se but what you want and discover how to get it. The blather of moral virtue is a major reason the world is lost in unreal fantasies.
Break the power of an aggressive and tiresome West and build something you like better, but do not kid yourselves about its ultimate fate or its virtue. Morality is only a weapon of war.
Good analysis and wishful thoughts for the future but being in a deadlock, are we going to have a future ? Are we going to avoid a nuclear war ? How to stop or defeat the Empire of lies ? Is it possible that we are going to face the Apocalypse and the “Last judgment” ?
The quoted verse, Matthew 24, refers in its entirety to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. I would write more on this if it was permitted by the moderators.
We keep going round in circles with climate argument and discussion. But one point is always missed. Why should this planet maintain a perfect climate for humans? What is the rule or law or principle underpinning this?
The rule or law or principle underpinning this is the fact that it was designed by God to be inhabited by humans. All other things, whether plant, animal or inorganic resources are here only to provide the necessary support to its primary inhabitants. It is by the strictest definition a “place of testing.” Those who pass the test receive eternal life. Those who don’t receive eternal destruction. The earth will last and be inhabitable until God brings the test to an end. Some inhabitants might try to make the earth uninhabitable, but will not succeed. According to the Apostle Paul, there will still be people living on earth when Jesus returns.
I wish it could be that way! And I think it is worth trying because everything else is like wrapping oneself in utter evil.
Well, the wife of the man tells you right away: we will never give birth to such a sorry excuse of an existence.
You might not have heard that wimmin have been granted their own brains and needs of a meaningful life but I do assure you, next time the wife of the man will not stand idly by and watch the man fuck up the next civilisation.
Thank you Batiushka.
Best read whilst not concentrating on the finger, as is said ” don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory ”
What is missing is balance. So true.
Balance – such a great word. Some synonyms…
fairness · justice · impartiality · egalitarianism · parity · equilibrium · evenness · equality · equivalence · levelness ·tranquillity · serenity · imperturbability
@Black Cloud: “storms become more frequent and extreme.”
Actually in Atlantic Ocean storms were frequent and very extreme especially during Little Ice Age (cirka 1600-1750). The reason is simply. The Equator zone become less warmer and colder compared to Artic zones where changes are always bigger. When the gap between Equator and Artic zones are wider there will be more storms and extreme storms than during warm periods.
Does human population have influence to climate? Of course it has. If people cut down forest it’s clear that weather conditions would change. There are longer rainless periods and then very stormy and powerful rainfalls. Forests are the lungs of earth. Instead of wasting money for GW propaganda meetings policy makers should focus forests and grazing of animals. Destroying cattles are worse possible decision for climate these red meat hating Green fanatics can do. The result would be huge erosion tragedy. More forest + well organized grazing are one of the most important decisions for mankind. There have been several successful pilot projects where doomed deserts have become green within 20 years using grazing.
Events like Noah’s Flood is the planets way of resetting if and when necessary. The billionaire elites and Greta exert no influence bar lining their own pockets. Better resource management is desirable but not at the expense of the many so the few can satisfy their rampaging avarice.
The Standard Run in the World 3 model from the Limits to Growth, published in 1972. (Sorry but you’ll have to search for that if you don’t know what it is)
The US-Russia war in Ukraine, climate change, and pandemics is the sort of thing that we expect to happen more and more as population, energy, resource extraction start to reach planetary limits.
“U.S. Economic Officials Says Biden Considering Oil & Tax Windfall Tax
A White House economic advisor told a panel on Thursday that the Biden administration is now considering the U.S. congressional proposal that would place a windfall tax on oil and gas as prices at the pumps continue to soar, Reuters reports.
“We are very much open to any proposal that would provide relief to consumers at the pump,” National Economic Council deputy director Bharat Ramamurti told a Roosevelt Institute panel, as cited by Reuters.
Ramamurti said the White House was “engaging in conversations” with Congress about a windfall tax, noting there was a “variety of interesting proposals”.
The National Economic Council official also noted a potential impact on supply if a windfall tax were imposed, though he said he did not see this as an “insurmountable hurdle”, Reuters reported.
Ramamurti’s comments came just a day after the National Economic Council deputy director told reporters that Biden’s plan to combat inflation included lowering the budget in part by raising taxes on America’s wealthiest and the country’s big businesses.
“What the president has done and made clear is that we are dedicated to doing everything we can to stop and push back on that Russian aggression, but it’s going to cause pain for American consumers in the short term, and gas prices are one unfortunate example,” Ramamurti told local media.
On Thursday, the national average for a gallon of gasoline in the United States hit $4.715, up from $4.671 on Wednesday, according to AAA. Brent crude was trading at nearly $118 and WTI at $117. ”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Economic-Officials-Says-Biden-Considering-Oil-Tax-Windfall-Tax.html
I absolutely agree with the text. A more balanced world is mandatory. This power and money centrism, greed, is untenable. Poor regions must be helped so that their people can live with dignity. Money brings responsability.
Sorry to change focus a bit:
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”
Words recorded by Matthew in his Gospel, chapter 24, verse 7, April 33″.
For me, in this context we would be fulfilling the final phase
The Mayan Calendar in the Tiahuanacu Culture, / by Fritz Buck, which goes from 3100 BC (Thoth’s departure from Egypt, towards Mesoamerica, through the departure of the Anunnaki/Nephilim from Earth in 539 BC, and their return in the Air of Megiddo (Armageddon) for a final settlement, to see which of them will rule the Earth, an event predicted for 2100. Ningizzida in Sumer, Thoth in Egypt, Quetzacoalt of the Aztecs and Kukulkan among the Mayans, are the same deity Son of Enki/Ptah , who, due to a disagreement with his brother Ra/Marduk, headed for America promising to return. It was Thoth who divided the year into 52 weeks, hence the 5200 years. humanity than a multipolar world and the creation of a Palestinian State coexisting peacefully with Israel, perhaps we could try to avoid the prophecies of Daniel, quoted in the Gospel of Matthew. VA 243 Berlin Museum. The Sumerians attributed all their knowledge to the Anunnaki, they knew all the planets in the Solar System 6000 years ago.
We live in an ominous moment. We all knew this moment would come. Now here it is.
This is precisely why the first reaction has been denial: no pandemic, no climate change, no war, no famine, everything will work out…
Before our stupefied eyes a rotten world is decomposing. Nothing will remain of it. Not even its fetid smell.
This world of horror and injustice threatens to drag us along with it into the infernal abyss of global destruction.
《 These are not predictions. This is what has already happened. This can be treated differently, but we can assume that the “horsemen of the Apocalypse” are already on their way and all hope is only in the Lord God, in the Almighty. 》
Medvedev, June 2022
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Are there any points of contact between Russia and Brazil?
How to make the Russian steppes meet the Brazilian central plateau? What is the connection between Siberia and the Amazon? Is there a relationship between classical Russian culture and Brazilian popular culture?
What unites us? All of us whom the Imperium treats as mortal enemies, ready to enslave our Peoples and colonize our Nations.
《It is in the depths of this situation and in the depths of each of us that we have to look for the spirit of our times. That is where “we” meet, that is where true friends are made, scattered to the four corners of the globe, but longing to walk together.》
“Free trade has to be regulated, to avoid exploitation, profiteering and the impoverishment of those countries which have fewer resources and advantages.”
You were doing well until that. All the bad things you associate with “free trade” are actually a feature of regulated trade. Who does the regulation/ Why those in power write the regulations. Who do they write it for? Why they write for those with the most political and economic power and the money to buy those regulations in their favor.
Free trade is just that, millions of people making the best decision for themselves and their families with no force or coercion or special deals. “Regulation” is always a confusing mess of special privileges and barriers to entry that always favor those with the most political power and that will NEVER be us, it wiull alwasy be the ones with the campaign contributions.
Under free trade – REAL free trade, exploitation is impossible because if you don’t like the deal you are free to find a better one as long as there are no regulators in the way to prevent it.
Thank you for this beautiful post. Interesting…one sentence about CC in the entire essay, and the spit flinging trolls (both sides) are out. Predictably sidetracking the purpose and intent of your message and the comment section.
“What does this mean, politically, economically and socially?”
The three points you developed show a striking similarity with the three main pillars of Argentine Peronism/Justicialism: To achieve a socially fair, economically free and politically sovereign fatherland.
By the way, “economically free” is not in the way of Liberal laissez-faire but of freedom from influences from empires and powerful countries.
Its main ideologic guidance has been “Christian humanism”, although it received influences from early socialist and Anarchist ideas and Mussolini’s fascism (mostly in aesthetics and practice).
Many people would consider this phenomenon an unmixable salad (how could the practice of old Anarchist labour union leaders work well with a leader’s cult?) but it worked and remains the strongest and widest political force there.