by Irinia Medvedva, Tatyana Shishova
‘Nash sovremennik’ 11, 2001 (source: http://www.patriotica.ru/enemy/medv_glob.html)
Translation, notes, and afterword by Edvin Buday
Note by The Saker: normally such a translation would belong into the “Speeches, Statements, Interviews” section, however, since the translator, Edvin Buday, also offered an important and interesting afterword, this I have decided to post this text in the “guest analyses” section even though the original Russian text was (obviously) not written for the Saker Blog (the translation was, of course). I also have to confess that I did want to give this text a somewhat bigger visibility due to the importance of the topic and the quality of the translation.
Recently, the words ‘globalism’ and ‘globalisation’ sound more and more often from the most varied platforms. It will not be long that children will be using these terms without breaking a sweat. According to our observations, however, almost no one exactly knows the realities that lie behind these “bacterial words”, as the famous political scientist S. G. Kara-Murza [1] characterised a similar, deliberately vague ‘modern’ lexicon. We, of course, do not claim to know the entire picture, but we will try to at the very least sketch it out in general terms.
Once can say endlessly that globalisation is the creation of a “single economic and informational space”, an “open society”, a “world market”, but all of these terms are but euphemisms, a smokescreen. Actually, globalisation is about the creation of a world government with a single administration and a single army, common financial structures, laws, and a common culture. This project began to develop as far back as the 60’s and 70’s when international organisations like the UN began to acquire more and more authority and power and, on the other hand, the sovereignty, currencies, and traditional way of life of nations began to purposefully weaken. But while the Soviet Union existed, the essence of the globalist ‘project’ remained camouflaged. With the destruction of the USSR, America (its main carrier) had no one left to be scared of.
All under one law
It is unlikely that many of us recognised the extended meaning of that principle of the priority of international law over national legislation that was declared in the Russian constitution of 1993. And those who studied this document are in general likely to expound a similar priority in accordance with the old conviction that is an attribute of many of our human rights activists: something along the lines of “the foreigners will help us”. However, after the bombing runs against Serbia and the absolutely ineffectual attempts to turn to the International Criminal Court, our romantic illusions about the ‘foreigners’ diminished in strength. In the meantime, we have, however, not yet encountered any realistic images to replace these illusions.
The reality is that (according to our new Constitution) when Russian laws contradict international ones, the latter will have priority.
We will have a think now: national laws, what do they express? In general, they express national interests, national concepts of the good and bad, the admissible and inadmissible. And our international laws always the guardians of the national interests of one state or the other?
Of course not, seeing as different states have different concepts of good and bad. We will note, that America has not accepted the International Convention on the Rights of the Child to this very day. And do you know why? Because the U.S. would then have to annul the death penalty for young offenders that is codified in the legislature of some states. We, on the other hand, having declared the priority of international laws, are forced not to apply the death penalty even in the case of adult sadists who have committed dozens of savage murders.
Or, for example, a report about the “Position of Lesbians and Gays in the Member States of the Council of Europe” was heard in the EU Council Parliamentary Assembly in June 2000. And recommendations about the legalisation of “partner relations” (i.e. marriages) of homosexuals and the liberation of persons who had been imprisoned for seducing youths from fourteen years of age and older reached the Russian Duma. The Duma loyally lowered the threshold of culpability for the corruption of minors; now, the corruptor is only held accountable only in the case that his victim is under fourteen years of age. And if he or she is fourteen years or older, the perpetrator cannot be tried.
The following proposal was also suggested: “To undertake positive measures for the battle against manifestations of homophobia (a negative opinion of homosexuals. – AN.), especially in schools, medicine, the Armed Forces, and the police”. The selection of “positive measures” is clear: here we have the corresponding “sexual enlightenment”, the removal of homosexuality from the ranks of sexual pathology, and the criminalisation of the actions of those who dare to criticise pederasty. And if the globalist arrangement of the priority of international law is preserved, these “positive measures” will reach the level of school clubs for the support of sexual minorities. Just like in America, where membership of such school organisations is called social work and gives large advantages when applying to the most prestigious universities.
You ask: “but what about sovereignty and national independence? How are international organisations going to be teaching us how to live?”
But this is what it’s about, when during the construction of the world government national sovereignty consequently weakens and true power transfers to multinational corporations (MNCs) and international or supranational organisations. And look at how the interference of these globalist structures in the internal affairs of for the time being judicially independent states takes place. How bitterly the disobedient are punished, how government borders between the obedient are washed away. How national currencies are weakened: we all personally felt what they did to the ruble. And the fate of many other currencies is little better.
Common money for the new world
But the most important currency in the world to which all the others are bound, the dollar, is not as stable as the man in the street would like to believe. And in general, the circulation of hard, greenish ‘bucks’ in the US itself is diminishing more and more: paper money has already fundamentally been replaced by ‘plastic’. And now this financial revolution has also hit us.
“The Russian Central Bank is examining the possibility of releasing a new plastic card, an “electronic wallet”,” the director of the Department for Payment Systems and Accounts of the Russian Central Bank Natalya Kochetkova recently declared (“Metro”, 17 April 2000). It is true that the project she describes only accounts for the removal of small change from the Russian monetary circulation. But there also exist far more radical plans.
At the beginning of 2000, reports of a so-called “Muscovite Card” seeped into the press. It turns out that as far back as 15 December 1998, the Moscow City Government passed decree no. 962 “On the Creation of a System of Cashless Payments for Goods and Services through the Use of the “Muscovite Card”.” 202 million dollars were set aside for preliminary testing, and up until 2005 expenses ranging from one and a half to two billion dollars on these targets are projected.
Here we must really ask the question about who it was that showed so much favour to our Moscow government? After all, lamentations about the lack of money for basic necessities has become chronic in the last few years. And this does not look like a matter of paramount important. So who is this Maecenas?
As it turns out, it is the American holding “Oracle”. At the start of the year 2000, the emblem of this American sponsor appeared on the Internet: it is an upside-down pentagram (note that this is one of the main Satanist symbols). The emblem was later removed, but the essence of the project is unchanged.
Thus, after they have provided every inhabitant of Moscow with a “Muscovite Card”, all currency transactions will be executed only through this electronic card; people should no longer have cash. And at first glance, this is so comfortable! No need to count banknotes in front of the counter, no need to count change, no need to weigh our pockets down with silver… No headaches!
But this is only a first glance. It’s one thing when cash and credit cards exist in parallel. It is something entirely different when there is no cash at all. It becomes impossible to buy dill at a street market, nor to give alms, nor hitching a ride with a ‘private’ when you are late to something, nor having a blast at a banquet on a holiday. And there are many moments like these; the absence of ‘live’ money is a very serious limitation on our freedom.
— On the other hand, — they reply, — electronic money is secure. You can’t steal it.
It’s nothing like that, and how it can be stolen! How much has been written about people receiving phantasmagorical checks for telephone conversations that they either hadn’t held at all, or held for incomparably lower sums of money. And proving one’s right takes years when the telephone is down, and a good result is not guaranteed. If this scheme has already been tried out, then why not apply it to the “electronic wallet”? You can write some extra zeroes in someone’s account, or, the other way around, remove a couple. And when you go to get your right, they tell you that the computer does not make mistakes, we’re dealing with electronic technology here!
And suppose that your electronic account has been blocked. Why? — Well, maybe this is random, mistakenly. How are you going to live until everything has been rectified? Are you going to ask a friend for a loan? But want as he might, he cannot give you a loan because he also has no ‘live’ money, and it would be pointless to send you electronic money.
We are not talking about a simple misplacement of your card. And when it is restored, you will inevitably become dependent on the person who concedes to temporarily supporting you. This is fine if this is one of your loving relatives. But what if you don’t have those? Or if you have them, but they don’t live in Moscow?
But even your closest relative will not be able to get you to a doctor by using their “Muscovite Card”. Or help you to get into an agency where you have to present your passport. Because the “Muscovite Card” contains your electronic money and this is but one point on your itinerary. And there’s fifteen of them. We have only just mentioned passports and medical insurance, but in transport too you will have to pay in cash. And there’s your driver’s licence, your IRS number, your pensioner’s card, your photograph, your data about your marital status and place of work, and many other data about the owner of the singular Muscovite document.
Thus, practically our entire life will be under control. Wherever you may go, whatever work you may begin, everything is now absolutely ‘transparent’. Everything will become known and will be entered into a computer; after all, the electronic card only appears to be small, but as a matter of fact the amount of information contained in the dossier is enormous.
— Well, why not! Let’s go! We have nothing to hide. We are honest people!—many of our acquaintances stupidly cry once they hear about the Moscow government’s project. — We will pay our taxes regularly, and all the rest will be our own personal business.
We must confess that their naivete brought us to such a state of dumbfoundedness that we lost the gift of speech, which is why we do not answer them immediately, but on the longer term, right here in this article.
Our affairs will only remain personal in the sense that they will be forced onto all of us. The aforementioned decree no.962 already envisions the creation of a “Moscow Emissions Centre” that will receive information whenever a “Muscovite Card” is used. What is more, the possibility and even duty of the Centre to deliver information about the users of the card to government institutions and private persons “on a contractual basis”, i.e. for the corresponding price, is envisioned in the document.
Let us say that someone wants to know about your health, how your psychology, vaginal health or urine are doing. No problem! And your familial secrets (for example, you adopted a child) can be learned by anyone who wants to practically without any work. Thus, the concept of a private life itself (what the Soviet defenders of human rights fought for for so long) will be abolished.
And we need not lull ourselves into a sense of security by saying that there as of yet isn’t a single “Muscovite Card”. Actually, it already exists, but in an incomplete and ‘scattered’ form. Students have already gotten used to and eagerly use personal transport cards with photographs, seeing as they are cheaper than normal tickets. Now, a “student card” is being introduced to schoolchildren. A very interesting article recently appeared in the Moscow City Government newspaper “Tverskaya-13”: “Fingerprints will replace money” (no. 51, 20—26 Dec. 2000). It directly says that in the future it will be necessary to transition from an electronic card to the implantation of microchips under the skin that will contain information about their owner.
And in a series of Moscow schools (this is what one of the episodes of the programme ‘The Russian House’ was dedicated to) vending machines have been installed in which the student does not just have to enter his card, but also lay his hand on a panel. The vending machine reads his information, identifies him on the basis of a set of numbers and the lines on his palm, and the child gets a bun. The corresponding amount of money will be removed from his electronic account.
Truly, under the conditions of globalism data about all of us will not just become the property of the Moscow City Government. And everything will not even be limited to the federal government. The State Duma has already seen preparations for a law “On Information of a Personal Character” that envisions the trans-border transmission of data on Russian citizens’ private lives. And the “Law on the State Population Registry” will give each and every one of us (from babies to old fogies) a personal code which fully corresponds to the global system of personal identification.
It is only in the context of the building of a global government that it becomes clear why the American company “Oracle” is investing such money in the “Muscovite Card”, and why the World Bank (an indicative name, isn’t it) is investing so much in us receiving world-wide IRS numbers. Not just borders, finances, and income become transparent in the system of globalisation, but people as well. And the more you know about a person, the easier he is to control. And, of course, no money is too much when you can get control over such an enormous country.
The Earth is private, and not ours
But, of course, building a singular world government is impossible when a country (even with weakened sovereignty) still has its own territory. Removing territory can be affected through different ways: starting a war, or, by supporting separatism, chipping away at the country through so-called local conflicts. And it is also possible without the use of expensive military operations. How? — Well, for example, as they are doing in Russia now, where in record time (and with a practically full information blockade) chapter 17 of the Civil Codex “On the Right of Ownership of Land” and later the Land Codex were accepted. In accordance with these laws, massive territories will be able to be sold to whoever takes them; the dimensions of the land are not legally determined.
What is more, the rights of owners are practically limitless. For example, this is what you can extract on the basis of chapter 17 of the Civil Codex:
“The owner of a plot of land has the right to use everything located above or under the surface of that plot”… (art. 261, p. 3)
Further, — the construction of operating lines, electricity and communications lines, pipelines, water extraction and treatment facilities without the agreement of the land’s owner is forbidden (art. 274).
Thus, very soon foreigners (directly or through intermediaries, this is not very important) will own significant parts of our land. And we who have been born in this country will have to find passageways through two privatised territories. The concept of the sovereign state itself loses any and all meaning when a mass transfer of land to foreigners is made. What sovereignty is there when the sovereign owners of our lands dictate to us how we should live from New York, Brussels, or Berlin? And what will prevent the new masters of our land to level, shall we say, a cemetery if they want to build a parking lot or golf course in its place?
And finally, there is also an entirely legal way of cutting off communications. An allochthonous landholder wants that the Russian ‘cattle’ [2] on his property does not receive light, gas, or warmth; what gives, it’s his holy right. And even if it is now already impossible to reach Chubais from Primorye [3], then you will find it even harder to bring his foreign “beneficiaries” to justice.
Who is happy in Russia? [4]
The population of Russia is shrinking, and this is not just the side effect of the recent reforms (as many believe). After all, a shrinking of the native population is one of the most important tasks on the road to world government: only after having strongly reduced the number of native inhabitants can the concept of HOMELAND be rendered void. How can nation states be cancelled out otherwise?
Now, people are being reoriented towards quality of life in many different ways, that is to say, towards a fairly high level of personal consumption. And they state that this is the most important thing in life, its goal and meaning. If you cannot secure EVERYTHING for your child (notice that we are not speaking of the most important, but of everything!) then it is better not to give birth to him or her at all. And seeing as the overwhelming majority of our citizens can now not secure for themselves this “dignified quality of life”, the question of the continuation of our people is automatically off the agenda.
Just to be sure, our autochthonous globalists took up a politics of so-called “family planning” and opened similarly named services throughout the entire country. “Planning” boils down to the implantation of abortion, contraception, sterilisation, “non-traditional types of family” (in plain terms: homosexuality), “safe sex” propaganda (which is usually accompanied by epidemics of venereal disease), and “trial marriages” that usually end in a divorce. Truly, such “policies” greatly contribute to the population deficit.
For example, schools are introduced to “sexual enlightenment” (which might better be called seduction) under various covers. This is an education that is full of anti-pregnancy propaganda and is part of attempts to make female sterilisation mainstream. As far back as 1996 an attempt was made in the State Duma to pass a “Law on the Reproductive Rights of Citizens”. This law would have given full freedom to “family planning”, i.e. abortion at any term, sterilisation at 16, and the corruption of children in school. At the time the law was not passed, and those who fight for “reproductive rights” continued to act semi-openly, even though they were actively supported by the state.
However, our foreign masters (for example, the European Commission for Human Rights) are not satisfied with this. They want that everything is legal, because legalised monstrosity will begin to be seen by people as something good, just, and stable. This is why the bill on “Reproductive Rights” has been revealed from under the cloth again, and in the near future it will be pushed through the Duma again. Even in hearings about demographic policy this bill was not only discussed in reports, but also entered in advance in a resolution about continued efforts to pass it. Well, seeing as the new Duma is, to put it mildly, controlled, it is fully possible this essentially genocidal law will finally be passed.
Here, a natural question arises: “But who is going to live on such an enormous territory if the native population is reduced to a minimum?”
But from the globalist point of view, this isn’t really a problem: you can always import immigrants. They are modest, and, what is most important, they are uprooted and will not fight the single world state. Foreign land is foreign to them, and if they miss their own, well, there’s neither borders nor visas.
Yes, but why will immigrants go to our cold, northern country? The majority of the wants to live at home, and not abroad. Although… a lot depends on ways of life. And if someone has a house at all: in the most direct sense of the word, it is a “roof above one’s head”. Is it because the world sees more and more so-called “local conflicts”, conflicts that give birth to tens of millions of refugees who are ready to move to the ends of the earth if only to escape the nightmare of war?
War is a socio-ethnic mixer of enormous potency. Would millions of Caucasians have voluntarily left their vineyards, fruit gardens, beautiful houses, mountains, and sea, if they could have lived in any way in their Caucasian homeland? Well, what about the Chinese, who are more and more freely moving through our Siberia and who cannot have a second child at home (foreign credit for the realisation of the “Chinese miracle” was granted on the condition of the strict observance of the “one child policy”). And so they leave for Russia. At the end of 2000, the vice-president for the State Duma Security Committee, V. I. Ilyukhin, declared at a press conference that there existed a secret treaty between China and Russia, according to which 1,5 million Chinese would receive Russian citizenship.
But this is nothing. According to one of several scenarios developed by the UN, in the coming 50 years we will have to accept 253 million (!) immigrants. At the current moment, our country has around 147 million inhabitants. So even if the current depletion of the Russian population was stopped by some miracle, the “replacement migration” will digest the aboriginal inhabitants and their culture anyway. Our territory will remain, but there will be no Russia.
A medical breakthrough in a sparsely populated outback
However, the population deficit is still whipped up in any way possible. A reform healthcare reform is being prepared (and already partially executed), that would eventually boil down to the majority of Russian citizens losing their free, high-quality healthcare. On the one hand, this will bring Russian healthcare down to that of many other countries: such an “equalisation” is necessary for the creation of a unitary state. And on the other, the worsening of healthcare under current Russian conditions will inevitably lead to a sharp increase of the death toll, which even without the reform would have taken on the characteristics of an epidemic. According to some expert, under such a healthcare reform the population of our country can shrink by two thirds in the near future.
You say that this is unrealistic, alarmist? But there exists an official text of the healthcare reform project that has already been launched in the regions of Tver’ and Kaluga with money from the omnipresent World Bank. It is telling, that even for the experimental or “pilot” purposes the two regions with the worst demographic indicators of all Russia have been chosen; to put it bluntly, these are dying regions. And it has been decided to help quicken the process.
In short, the essence of the reform (it would have been more correct to call it a health-destruction reform) boils down to the following: qualified doctors will gradually be replaced by so-called “general practitioners” (GPs), essentially orderlies who apparently need 15 or 16 medical specialisations. It is not hard to imagine the medicinal effect. In addition, the reform envisions the closure of small maternity hospitals in rural areas, the purchase of laparoscopes (these are sterilisation instruments), the treatment of patients with venereal diseases directly by gynaecologists (so that not one normal pregnant woman would go there, and, consequently, not receive even the most primitive help).
And, of course, the large-scale training of “family planners” has been prepared for. The numbers are eloquent: in two years, Tver’ oblast will see the training of 12 obstetricians and 1200 (!) “family planning specialists”, who are supposed to force contraceptives on women and persuade them to have abortions while dressing all these procedures up with disingenuous reasoning like “the child should be wanted” (“unwanted” children should then, consequently, be killed). In short: there should be a hundred times more agents of death than proponents of life.
Under the auspices of this “genocide with a human face” the third angle of the reform also handsomely finds a place: on the background of the mass impoverishment of people and price hikes for medicine, the reformists propose the development of large-scale propaganda for “healthy lifestyles”, high-quality nourishment, proper rest, the battle against stress etc. It’s as if they say “well, we have warned you how you should live. If you didn’t listen, well, that’s your choice. Every person has a choice between life and death.”
Apparently, more and more people are making this “free” choice in Kaluga oblast: in 2000, the death rate was seven times higher than the birth rate.
The most important reform
It is also interesting to examine the globalist view on the proposed reform of Russian education.
From all other points of view, this reform is totally absurd. Tell us, why do you want to cut down on Russian language classes and at the same time up the number of English classes? Why emphasise foreign history while sacrificing its national counterparty? Why remove “Eugene Onegin” from the curriculum, while advocating Tolkien in Pushkin’s stead? Why do you want to introduce strange books on government into school, books in which an image of some kind of society that does not correspond to our culture and our reality, a society where the main virtue is the correct payment of taxes and service in the military, on the contrary, is an outdated preconception? In which only the insane become monks and normal people preach “safe sex” and “family planning”…
“Why introduce twelve-years of education in modern Russia, a country in which many cannot study until the tenth grade because they have to materially support their families?” – one of us asked education minister V. M. Fillipov at a press meeting and in the presence of many journalists.
The minister, although he did not pronounce the world ‘globalisation’, nonetheless honestly answered the question: “I am in total agreement with you. But we are forced to introduce twelve years of education, BECAUSE ALL OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE ALREADY TRANSITIONED TO SUCH A SYSTEM”.
Through his answer he told us, that Russia will gain no benefit from this transition. The benefit is beyond its boundaries: it is the unification of education, a unification that is being executed in the interests of the developing world government. And the English language is introduced in the first grade in any school, because it is precisely this language that is to become the main lingua franca IN “THIS COUNTRY”. And knowledge of the culture of one’s country is only of hindrance to “world citizens” (this, by the way, is the name of one of the educational programmes that UNESCO is actively propagating in different countries). Just like a high level of education.
After all, overly educated people with a developed intellect are contradictory to a system of totalitarian control. And the single educational system of the future world government presupposes a single educational level for different regions. And why do would Russian schools develop children into intellectuals when the majority of African tribes does not have any writing system, and slightly under two thirds of all teens in the US can barely spell? Globalist equality means the construction of bamboo huts in African jungles where they will teach children English, and our schools will see the introduction of so-called “competency education” (another “bacterial word” from the liberal newspeak): traditional school subjects will be abolished. They will be replaced by some kind of “integral disciplines”.
This means that instead of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, which gave students a fairly fundamental introduction to these sciences, there are plans to introduce a synoptic course on natural science or life sciences. It is precisely such an education that is called “competency education”; just like the creators of the healthcare reform hold that GPs will be far more competent in all of the 16 disciplines of medicine than specialised doctors.
At the basis of global unification lies the idea of the single final examinations; our bureaucrats are not even hiding that this is done to adapt everything to a world-wide standard. This is all so that students in California as well as Voronezh will be tested by the same kinds of miserable matrices that go something like this: “Choose the correct answer: Moscow is the capital of what country? a) Guinea; b) the U.S.; c) Russia; d) China; e) Australia”.
All conversations about testing being a more precise and objective way of checking knowledge than a traditional exam during which the student must coherently explain a large amount of material, answer additional questions, be ready to defend his point of view etc. are all very funny. Although, of course, testing is more technological and lightens the examiner’s workload. But that which is more technological is absolutely not guaranteed to be of better quality. Are pies that are baked in a factory tastier than those prepared at home in an oven? And is a manual stitch not blatantly less technological than one made with a machine?
This unified exam will place a bomb under our education, which few now suspect of even being there. It is placed under the most fragile and unsteady place: under our children’s thirst for knowledge.
Even in Soviet times, hundreds of monographs were dedicated to the problem of developing scientific curiosity among students. And not one egghead hit a dead end when contemplating how to stimulate interest in learning. But today, at the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of our children do not even have that desire to learn that their forefathers had, who were farmers’ children who took the possibility of education as a great good, as the realisation of their own, perhaps wildest childhood dream. And now, the cult of knowledge has been replaced by a cult of consumption. And those few who like to read pop-science books are labelled with the semi-disdainful nickname of ‘geek’ by their compatriots.
So, what can move children to study in such a situation?
— If you don’t study, you won’t pass your exams, — parents threaten. — You won’t get into university, you’ll go to the army, become a market stallholder, work as a janitor… — etc. etc., depending on the ideas of the individual family about the least enviable fate in life.
Thus, motivation becomes purely pragmatic. In these conditions, testing that significantly simplifies passing exams robs children of their final stimulus to work. “Why,”- it is asked, – “why should we bother by doing something extra when we can get a “full O.K.” without these hardships?” This tendency was already noted when it was made possible by decree no.9 of the State Education Committee of 27.12.1995 to change the essay needed to enter a university with a recital, or… (like in first grade) with a dictation. As a result of this, the prestige of courses like literature sharply fell. And as we know, national literature is a living link to national history, to tradition. And it is impossible to replace its educational effect on children with anything else.
Thus, whichever of these reforms is accepted, we will get the following (to paraphrase Mayakovski): “we say reform, but mean degradation”.
Advocates of the process
Rotten wares always need strengthened and exquisite commercials. Here is but a single illustration. Recently, there appeared a richly edited monograph by V. Zhirinovsky and V. Yurovitsky named “New Money for Russia and the World” [5]. Having read the book, you understand who is really hidden under the mask of the Duma hell-raiser. However, we’ll give him the word:
“Currently, we are living in the end of the Great Paper Civilisation… For the time being, we cannot imagine the coming world in all its detail: it is the world of electronic information. But that it will be a fundamentally different world, that it will be a different one from the world of paper information no less than the world of paper is different from the world of clay… this looks to be doubtlessly so… And the fact that it is precisely the electronic carrier of information and money that has the future – what kind of doubts can there be about that? …The buyer puts his finger in a groove, the computer identifies him by his fingerprint and does whatever is necessary in an electronic system”.
Truly, the total control society is depicted by the authors of the book as a world of all-encompassing wellbeing: “The first, most important civilisation-forming factor of electronic money is their world-wide character. And this will mean a total destruction of the modern financial world order, for the special role of several states as owners of certain national-world currencies will disappear. All privileges of these states disappear (well, yes, these privileges will be under the sole control of the world government and its affiliate structures. – AN). A single currency creates a single world, a world that is not divided into states (plots of Land), into plots of first, second, or third rates, because everyone has the same money and any person, whether he is from Africa or America, will be equally wanted as a payer or buyer using that very same money”.
So, if we are to believe Zhirinovsky, we will have freedom, equality, brotherhood, and happiness. Crime will disappear in the 21st century, because “hiding will be practically impossible. All people will be counted by bank account, numbered, and entered into the computer. The size of the population is known precisely, up to the individual, all over the world and at any time… Theft, thievery, and the extortion of money will be totally impossible. (For a small fish. But the strong of this world will receive, on the contrary, unlimited opportunities for theft and manipulation: go and see what operations are executed in those computer networks! – AN.) It will be impossible to illegally acquire neither narcotics (all the more because they will be legalised before then, a good beginning has already been made on “soft” drugs in the Netherlands and Switzerland. – AN.), nor weapons, nor other dangerous objects without a special licence or permission. It will be impossible to dodge taxes, because taxes are collected automatically… In the system of electronic money, it will be impossible to hide. Wherever he might go, the trail of his account will stretch from hotel to hotel and into his bank… Actually, the human being will be able to do as he pleases. But everything that is unacceptable or forbidden he just won’t be able to do. To use a metaphor, you can take a walk in the park, you won’t see any prohibition signs anywhere. But you just won’t be able to enter any places you shouldn’t; these places will be barricaded by a high fence or dense, impassable hedges”.
The hedges might be dense, but the metaphor is transparent: a concentration camp with electrified barbed wire.
On the other hand, the advocates of the new world order console the reader with images of a world without war: “First, why would you wage them? For land; but everyone has the right to live where he pleases”. Waging war will become impossible. “If some state will be declared to be an aggressor, all financial networks that link that state to the surrounding world will be cut off. After all, every state is financially tied to the whole world by one or several channels of financial networks, and one flick of the switch disconnects it from the whole world. And this will be such a blockade, that all current blockades will look like a children’s game that you can find in a candy wrapper. It will be impossible to acquire neither weapons nor ammunition (to say nothing of food) from abroad, absolutely nothing. And how long can a large state that has been cut off from the world last? It is unlikely that it will hold out for more than ten days. And once war becomes impossible, weaponry will simply cease to be produced, armies will be disbanded, and we will enter the world without war that Russian and Soviet leaders from Nicholas II to Khrushchev called for”.
A true idyll will begin in the concentration camp. And quality of life will be at a maximum. “When a person is born, he or she will receive a bank account, and this account will receive money from a social fund each month. The family can spend the money on child-rearing, but no more than half. The other half is immediately transferred to a special savings account for the child. The young person will gain control of this account upon reaching adulthood. During this time, a significant sum will aggregate”.
Well, in order so that readers definitely swallow the bait, the authors try to play on patriotic feelings: “Now, Russia is once again in a state of general existential crisis. It is precisely for this reason that Russia should take a vanguard role in the new world-wide currency revolution, in the rejection of the cash component, and in the transition to purely countable, cashless money that through a natural process will technologically become electronic. However much the opponents of Russia might laugh and rage, it is exactly her duty to once again show the world the way of the future. Russia must do this, whether she wants to or no. Because there is no one left… History is calling on Russia to do this for her own survival at the beginning of the 21st century”.
Zhirinovsky’s and Yurovitsky’s book would not have deserved so much attention, were it not that voices proclaiming that globalism is an evil, but an inevitable one were not heard more and more often. Where will we run off to? We must strive for inclusion. Or even better: ride the progress, get Russia an honourable (or ideally, a leading) place in the global world… Practically all the rest will be like the two cited authors described it.
Incompatible with life
There are also similar voices not just among our pro-Western “liberals”, but also in the circles of the most “patriotic” among us. After all, after the fall of the Soviet Union many are dreaming of a new, great (or perhaps even greater) state. And how strongly do they miss order…
That is not to say that order is bad. And the desire for it is, especially in our situation, a very understandable one. But it is always good to ask ourselves the question of whose order it is. In the name of who or what is it developed? Who runs the ball? It is on this very subject that the Russian philosopher V. Solovyov wrote a story about the Anti-Christ [6]. Its main hero first appears to do everything properly and correctly: he has created ecumenical peace, fed the hungry, invested money into culture… But he did not do all this for Christ, which is why that story ended very badly for many.
It is now a good time for us to list the main ideologues of globalisation. We do not know all of them, of course, and we will name but a few. A large part of the globalist initiatives (the infiltration of tax numbers, education and healthcare reforms) are being realised with money from the World Bank, which for a long time had Robert McNamara as its president. During the Vietnam War, he was the US Secretary of Defence and became “famous” for deploying napalm and burning Vietnamese villages, along with their inhabitants. After the war, he was possessed by the idea of destroying the “surplus” part of humanity. He was part of the Satanist “Lucifer Trust”, which later masked itself by being renamed to the “Lucis Trust”.
Another character is Margaret Zanger, the founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). She worked hard during the battle against Christianity and the satanisation of mass consciousness. She was part of the same “Trust”, preached and ferociously enforced openly fascist views on the selection of employees on the basis of racial and social characteristics. She propagated debauchery (including versions involving children), abortions, and sterilisation, having declared contraception her religion. By the way, the Russian Association for “Family Planning” (RAFP), which executes the role of a method center for lowering the birth rate in our country, is an IPPF branch. And the CEO of the RAFP, I. Grebesheva, is part of the governmental socio-demographic committee, an institution with enormous competencies.
Jacques Attali, another major globalist, was president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He developed an idea of world government, calling such a structure a “financial civilisation”. In his books, he propagates the destruction of the family, the transformation of people into goods (including “spare parts”) for others, and creating nations of “new nomads” without a homeland, home, or normal human attachments.
Should such a kind of “globalists” win, we will find ourselves in a world where good and bad have changed places. People who preserve their loyalty to traditional values will be marginalised and made out to be “criminals”, “fundamentalists”, “isolationists”, etc. Principally other “values” that presuppose a total and joint legalisation of drugs, paedophilia, homosexuality, and other perversions will reign supreme. They will allow for the murder of the elderly, the sick, and plain inconvenient people under the cover of euthanasia. They will turn orgies of cruelty, sadism, and all kinds of sorcery into normalcy. At the end of 2000, an attempt was made in Russia (thank God it failed) to pass a law about faith healers that would have given sorcerers carte blanche. Therefore, under the cover of triumphant progress it is actually regression that will reign, a return to dense paganism and monstrous inhumanisation.
Lately, our “world citizens” have become noticeably more active; we have even seen the creation of a special group of inter-fractional supporters of globalisation in the State Duma. But without agreement from the people, the creation of a world government is impossible. This is why globalist reforms must be combatted on all levels. Do not believe those who promise Russia an “honourable place in the global space”.
…Recently, we conversed with an American political scientist. He spoke about the horrific consequences of the globalist project, including for its own creators.
— “But what, then, is their logic?” — we wondered. — “Why did they think this up?”
— “It’s not worth it to look for human logic in the actions of Satanists and degenerates”, — the American answered. — “Their logic is different, it’s their own. And it is, as the doctors say, “incompatible with life”.”
Translator’s notes:
[1]: Sergey Georgyevich Kara-Murza is a noted Russian historian and political scientist known for his anti-liberal and anti-globalist views.
[2]: The original Russian word, “быдло”, is descended from the Polish “bydło” and initially meant cattle. Later, however, it received the added meaning of “scum”, “street trash”. Thus, the sentence can also be translated as “when he wants that the Russian scum on his land do not get gas, light, or water…”
[3]: A reference to the notoriously weak Russian communications systems of the 90’s and early 2000’s. Primorye is the extreme east of Russia, and Anatoly Chubais was deputy prime minister of Russia and a chief architect of the liberal economic reforms of the 90’s. The joke here is that communications have become so bad, that the inhabitants of Primorye cannot even reach Chubais to complain about them.
[4]: A reference to poet Nikolay Nekrasov’s Who is Happy in Russia? (Кому на Руси жить хорошо?), an unfinished poem about a group of peasants who set off to find someone who is truly happy in Russia. All they encounter is utter misery in the countryside and despondent administrators and aristocrats in the cities.
[5]: Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a nominal opposition politician and leader of the right-wing, hyperpopulist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He became infamous in the 90’s for his absurd policy suggestions (free vodka for all who want it, a Russian empire stretching to the Indian Ocean), showmanship, and political (sometimes physical) fights with fellow politicians. Despite all this, the LDPR is highly loyal to Putin’s United Russia party and Zhirinovsky is often accused of being a Kremlin puppet. Vladimir Mikhailovich Yurovitsky is a Russian academic who specialises in electronic monetary systems.
[6]: Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was a noted religious philosopher who is credited with creating the first comprehensive system of Russian philosophy. His main studies focussed on the study of divine wisdom (which he personified into a ‘Sophia’), for which he was later anathemised by the Russian Orthodox Church. The work referenced here is A Story of Anti-Christ, which is accessible here.
Afterword: the logic of globalism seventeen years on
It is clear that the world has changed significantly from the times in which Medvedeva and Shishova wrote. It is important to understand, that Russia of early 2001 was radically different from the Russia of the last few years. Indeed, it seemed as if the country was slowly crawling back up from the brink after the Asia Crisis and the resulting deficit, and although some doubted several decisions that were taken by president Yeltsin in his second term, it seemed as if Russia was, at long last, “becoming a normal country” (to cite Andrei Shleifer’s 2005 book). However, as time would go on to show, the course of the country, as well as that of the entire world, was to change radically in a direction that the globalists would rather not have seen. Therefore, I consider it important to examine the developments of the last seventeen years, both in Russia and the wider world. I will examine each of the main points made by the authors and evaluate their current manifestations in the world.
Although the euro has become the main currency for a large part of the world, we have still not seen the introduction of an absolutely universal, global payment system. The closest thing we have to that is the SWIFT system, which is employed as a threat against Russia and any other country that dares not to toe the globalist line. However, the Russian Federation has recently found itself in a leading role against financial monopolies and related fiscal bullying. As a matter of fact, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich recently declared that Russian banks are ready to work with an alternative to SWIFT if the need arises. Other financial and economic developments of note are continued Eurasian integration and the formation of a Eurasian Economic Union as a counterweight against the globalist EU and WTO, the latter of which Russia might leave over sanction rows. Lastly, we have seen continuing economic cooperation between Russia and partners such as China, India, Iran, Pakistan, South-East Asian and African nations. Continued Russo-Chinese economic cooperation even led to a sale of Russian government bonds in Yuan. Lastly, the despicable regime of sanctions against the Russian Federation and its citizens have shown the world how low the globalists will stoop in order to silence any and all opposition. As a result, Russia has experienced a new wave of support from anti-globalists all over the world as they rally under the flag of the bear.
Thankfully, the mass sale of Russian land to foreign businessmen and governments has not come to pass. Although there are worries about Chinese colonisation attempts in the Russian Far East, there have as of yet not been any massive sell-offs of land to foreign investors. Lastly, the major influx of refugees and immigrants into Russia has not taken place. Although there are many labourers from Central Asia in Western Russia, they are mostly there for remittances and usually do not place down long-term roots.
One of the major blows struck against globalism in Russia are renewed and strengthened laws against gay propaganda, sexual ‘minorities’, paedophilia, and pederasty. What is more, Russia has seen a strong increase in the influence of the Orthodox Church, which by itself is doing a great deal to prevent Western and globalist perversion of the Russian people and youth. Sadly, abortions are still easily available. As a result, the demographic crisis facing Russia is still severe, although government investments and policies might have blunted the crisis somewhat. Whatever the case may be, Russia is sure to go down fighting and will not let the globalists walk over it without a struggle.
On the educational front, the proposed reforms turned out to have been significantly less damaging (and they were also much less widely implemented) than was first thought. Recently, Russian elites have started constructing their own schools for their children. What is more, the Russian government has pursued successive policies to improve both the general level of education and imbue Russian schoolchildren with a strong patriotic spirit. These decisions have, of course, come under heavy fire from globalist watchdogs (read: lackeys), but this has not stopped the government in pushing through. The slow disappearance of liberal and globalist voices from Russian national discourse is also a very welcome development. Instrumental in this change was the Law on Foreign Agents, which requires any organisation that receives foreign donations and engages in political activity to register as a foreign agent. All these changes caused the Soroses and Attalis of this world great consternation, and their trolls were quick to condemn Russia as a ‘new dictatorship’.
In general, the nightmarish future described by Medvedva and Shishova in 2001 has not come to pass in Russia. However, this does not mean that the country has nothing to be worried about. The demographic crisis continues to be a problem, and fifth and sixth columns continue to actively operate, both inside and outside of government. All in all, Russia does have a chance to permanently escape the globalist system and prevent the creation of a unipolar world order, but it will require all of its efforts, intelligence, and strength (as well as a dose of luck) to do so.
We can now turn to the rest of the world. In general, globalism saw significant successes in the early 00’s, only for those successes to turn into a string of defeats all over the world. The American empire rumbled forward into the deserts of the Middle East to create the necessary “local conflicts” that would drive great amounts of rootless refugees all over the world. However, as historical laws would have it, all was not well for the eagle. Uncontrolled speculation led to a housing bubble which spectacularly burst. Although this was an opportunity for the globalists to rejigger their structures and put a new, even more transnational government in place in the US, the crisis put an enormous amount of strain on the world’s financial systems and slowed America down by a couple of notches. However, the supporters of the New World Order could not afford to have their plans hit a delay and pushed forward with renewed vigour.
The new plan was to destabilise the remaining Middle Eastern regimes that were friendly to Russia and China, primarily Libya and Syria. Thus, the US and co launched expensive, highly complex destabilising operations in the countries under the codename of the Arab Spring. Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq were plunged into devastating civil wars with horrendous civilian and military casualties. It seemed that the globalists’ plan had worked. However, the powers that be had not accounted for one small thing: that the world can only take so much hypocrisy before it snaps. The US’ and EU’s actions in the Middle-East had finally shown how untrustworthy and ruthless these globalist pawns were, and the more or less sovereign nations of the world (Russia, China, Iran, Turkey, and several others) began to settle their own affairs. And this is where the eagle started to choke.
It choked on Crimea, which it couldn’t start a war to reclaim. It choked in the South China Sea, as it couldn’t directly assault China and avoid crippling trade damage. It choked on the Philippines, were a president said no to the American fuelled drug wars. It choked on Venezuela, which started to untangle itself from US interests. It choked on Brexit, as it couldn’t stop the UK’s departure from the sinking EU, no matter how many stories of economic and political chaos it threw against the Brits. It choked on Syria, as Russia launched an intervention of its own and crushed ISIS. It choked on Iran, which, when it came under threat of renewed US imperialism, rejected the propaganda package that was the nuclear deal. It choked on the populist movements in Europe, which blamed America for many of the troubles that Europeans are facing today. It choked on North Korea, which decided to make overtures to its long estranged southern brother without US mediation. Lastly, the eagle choked on something else entirely: domestic opposition and a non-globalist leader, despite the insane, multi-billion-dollar efforts of the globalist political establishment, the country’s economic sector, universities, and the media. Although Trump has shown himself to be far weaker on many issues, he remains an important wrench in the gears of globalist planning.
Although the eagle might be choking on the massive bone that is the emergent multipolar world order, it is far from dead. Indeed, it might not be as dangerous when it is fit and fiery, but rather when it is in its death throes. And even after its death we must be careful. The thing about globalists is that they are truly international: no matter where they end up, they always manage to twist the local population to fit their needs, make local inhabitants dance to their tunes. This is the result of their being utterly divorced from all reality, but also from all philosophies and religions. These intellectual chameleons do not care what puppets they control one moment, for they will just as easily change colours and drift over to another group. This is not to say that they are invincible, far from us. Globalists still remain flesh and blood (at least, for the time being), and everyone can bleed. Everyone can die. Everyone can be conquered. And by the grace of God, we will prevent the nightmare of Medvedeva and Shishova from ever coming to pass, and we will conquer.
Translation, notes, and afterword by Edvin Buday.
Well, many years ago I read a book published in USSR in Russian, which actually talked about “one world”.
Of course the world of Communism. Sorry I do not have that book anymore, so I can’t post the title.
On the other hand Look at Star Trek (the original) these people (Star Federation) did not use any money. The show morphed later into more capitallist point of view (latinum, etc).
Read elsewhere that both Capitalism and Communism are just the tools used by “some” to try and make the “one world”. First Communism was used but that wasn’t too successful, so now Capitalism via Imperialism and Globalism is being used to make the “one world”. It won’t work.
Just as a matter of interest, Russia was once the vehicle which was used to try and drive Communism across the globe and the USA is now the vehicle which is being used to try and drive the Capitalist Globalism / Globalization across the globe.
And I’m digressing slightly from the thread here but I have to defend Russia a bit: Solzhenitsyn apparently said something to the effect (can’t find it on Google) of “not all Jews are communist but without Jews there would have been no Communism”.
Also, the Ferengi aliens on Star Trek represent what the Globalists want us to become. The Ferengi believed that “earning profit was the sole meaningful goal in life, superseding all other endeavors” and the Ferengi “do not fight against exploitation but instead work to become the exploiters.” Reminds me of a certain other nation here on Earth.
LOL. So Indian charge 10% interest to Bhutan on hydro project, and buy their electric way under market is not Ferengi aliens?
Just of this month, Bangladesh accepted Chinese 22 taka per share over Indian’s 15 taka ($0.18) per share, Indian brought out Bangladesh government to force Dhaka Stock Exchange to accept Indian offer, who is the Ferengi alien here?
https://www.dawn.com/news/1390614
Ferengi is what I was talking about. The greedy, etc, etc…
“First Communism was used but that wasn’t too successful”
Only because a bunch of Capitalists (including Gorby) made that happen against the will of the overwhelming majority in the dissolution vote of the USSR.
What ever Putin and his regime have tried to do fact remains: every next generation in almost any country outside Muslim and African world will be about 15-40% smaller than previous. I have checked demographic statistics of many countries and in fact we have to go back to late 1960’s to find fertility rate going below “K-point” of 2.1 born child per woman almost in all countries in Europe, N.America, Japan etc…
Now list of countries having fertility rate between 1.3 and 1.9 is very very long. Including even some Muslim countries (like Iran). And more are coming. What does this mean? Just count it using average 1.6 figure:
0,76^5 ~ 0,25
During next 5 generation numbers of births of Europe/N.America will be average 25% of that now. In 2010’s annually some 7 million children of native Europeans have been born. 5 generation later that figure will be only some 1.8 million. Instead of 700 million Native Europeans they will be much less than 200 million.
Don’t make no mistakes. The decline of culture is immense process. And the most devastating part of that story is that you just can’t even stop that process. All these Alt-Rights and nationalists got it wrong. In every culture there is always religion on its core. When religion has lost the downfall is 100% sure. There is no way Western Culture can be saved. This is free downfall now. You can be pretty sure that it’s Africans who are mostly repopulating the rest of the world – once again.
I am not increasing panic. I see things as they are. Western people (and Russians too) have made this decision. Japanese and Koreans too. Americans also. As Putin said there ain’t really Christian America left. Nor is there really Russian Christianity in large scale. Only continent where you really can find people with strong religious feelings are there in Africa. Or in many Muslim countries. Christianity in west is less than a marginal phenomena.
The demographic collapse has been startling, but it needn’t continue on its current trajectory. Russian birthrates partially recovered from the disasters wrought by the disintegration of the USSR through healthy incentives (sponsored by Putin) for second and third children that led to a sharp increase that has only recently once again slipped backwards. Still not anywhere near replacement rate, but at least it was trending in the right direction until very recently. It does serve to illustrate, though, that government policy can affect birthrates in a positive way.
An improving economy can do that also, and for a variety of reasons I think Russia’s economy will continue to recover in spite of economic sanctions.
I am surprised at your dismissal of the resurgence of the Orthodox Church in Russia. I had thought that was genuine and not merely superficial. Perhaps I was mistaken.
Africa is the world’s “baby maker” right now, but they will not be welcome in Asian countries, which are quite pragmatic (some would say racist) in their approach to immigration. You may see Japan and other Asian countries grow much smaller, but I doubt they will ever allow a large number of outsiders into their culture in anything like the numbers that Europeans have absorbed. They have eyes to see how well that’s worked out. I hope Russia does as well.
In any event, while demography may indeed be destiny, I don’t think that current trends necessarily represent future realities. A lot can change between now and tomorrow.
I was told by a Russian girl that maternity leave is 3 years in Russia – paid of course – and it’s the governemtn who pays – not the company.
Compare to the US of AIPAC – what do women get there? A day? A week?
There is no national law for maternity leave that I know of. Some big companies are fairly generous, but there is no government program (except maybe for government workers). But if we gave our workers long leave and vacation time, we wouldn’t have enough money left over to kill people for greater Israel.
Sorry, Mathias. What culture are you talking about? Are you trying to say that over populated Asia is populated by cultured people? What culture can you expect from people living in extreme poverty. My apologies to these people as I do not intend to insult them. They are simply a product of extreme capitalism. Many of them live on scraps and are exposed to extreme pollution ( I include China here as well). This extreme pollution affects their fertility, but if you look at the stats their populations are not really going down. Where the populations allegedly go down is in the so called “cultured” western world. You can thank the Monsanto and the likes for the GMO foods.
©Anonius
Below replacement rate (2.1)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Qatar, Vietnam, North Korea, Malaysia, UAE, Lebanon, Iran, Thailand, China, Mauritius, Singapore…
As we see here many of them are far from paradise of consumerism. Quite a lot of them have not long time ago fertily rate of 3-6.
Chorus singing: “They did the right thing”.
Yeah sure. And when something is doing good, they make conclusion that more that will do even better.
However as we have seen in Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia, Ukraine etc these decisions might have some not so nice consequences – in longer run. No wonder why Vladimir Putin (who hasn’t lost ability to see these consequences) is worried about future of Russian demographics. When you once has lost lots some people these lost souls will show their influence every next 30-35 years. No women and men, no births.
There are pros and cons. It looks these negative consequences are too easily pushed to memory hole. Japanese have made their decision: low birthrate, low immigration. It’s interesting and educating to see how they will handle the future of sharp declining population. Playing pc, no sex. What a life! Is this the future of “culture”?
Anonius
You should watch the presentations of Swedish doctor / statistician Hans Rosling. Population growth is related to childhood mortality. Since in many countries children are seen as “pension” for their parents and since the child mortality rate is higher for children of poor people, they have more children in the hopes that at least one or two will reach adulthood.
I am back and I’d like to state here that I am totally against globalist agenda. I would like to add couple of thought that trouble me. I believe in recycling, as we do need to preserve earth’s dwindling resources. The recycling comes at a great price, which many westerners refuse to acknowledge. Lets look at recycling of the electronic equipment. It gets shipped out to India, where some desperate people are exposing themselves to the toxins like lead and other heavy metals while melting the stuff. The stuff that’s left over gets dumped and I suspect the dump is not sent back to the west. Some of you may be married, and your wives like mine like to quilt. Occasionally she buys fabrics, which have mixture of wonderful colors. The fabric has some name, which I do not remember, but I know for a fact that this fabric is made in either Indonesia or Philippines in extremely unhealthy conditions. This is called globalization: we kill these people so we can show off our beautiful quilts or feel good about recycling. But we call it: we give them employment. … Hmm.
Mathias please explain “What ever Putin and his regime have tried to do”. Do you consider the Syrian to a regime too? What about the US, Israel or Saudi Arabia? Thanks in advance.
“As Putin said there ain’t really Christian America left. Nor is there really Russian Christianity in large scale.”
What passes for US ‘Christianity’ (past and present) is really just a thinly veiled brand of Satanism. Historially, the Eurosettlers — whatever their creeds — were fully committed to racist genocide. Today’s vile TV Evangelists are greedy fraudsters in the lucrative business of “Instant Heaven”. On this basis, Putin’s conclusion regarding Pindo Christians is mostly good news.
Russian Christianity — and Islam also — is thriving. Indeed, Russia’s top-class leadership (“regime” in your Westish parlance) is a highly compelling reason for it.
it’s not about religion – it’s about crony capitalism not paying people enough to be able to survive with children.
Children have been devalued – and that’s one of the main causes of widespread depression in the West – here is a great book on the subject by an old prof from Yale :
The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies:
https://www.amazon.com/Loss-Happiness-Market-Democracies/dp/0300091060/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519268707&sr=8-1&keywords=the+loss+of+happiness+in+market+democracies
Children have been devalued
Children haven’t been devalued. Look at the ever growing number of toys available or consider all the helicopter parents driving their children to school, pushing them to be “high achievers”, etc. More kindergarten places have been created in the past. Today kindergarten teachers need some university degree. Sociologists and psychologists make a hell of a living. Progress of children is evaluated far more often than in the past.
People have fallen into the trap of consumerism and of endless competition in order to satisfy their greed. There’s a tendency that people (that includes children as well) are looked at from a perspective of a cost-benefit calculation.
Humans have been devalued.
Birth rates in nominally 1st world countries, such as the USA, have generally declined with rising prosperity since well before the 20th century. However, following WWII, birth rates in the USA unexpectedly rose — dramatically –with the birthrate rising from 2.45 per family in 1940, to 3.1 in in 1950, to 3.65 in 1960.
Was this startling rise in birth rates associated with any particular group?
Indeed. Birth rates among women among conservative and fundamentalist Protestant denominations were significantly higher than the rates among liber or mainline denominations. But these rates were dwarfed by those among Catholics. From WWII the number of children in Catholic families increased to 3.54 in 1953, then increased again to 4.25 children in 1963. The percentage of Catholic families with 4 or more children climbed from 10% to 22% in the same period.
Then came Vatican II and a radical shift in spiritual orientation. Catholic birthrates tumbled.
To conclude, a spiritual awakening in Russia could well reverse demographic declines comparable to that experienced by the USA between 1946 and 1964.
Excellent article!
The afterword rightly points out that while disaster was averted, the demographic collapse has only partially abated. I would also point out that Russia is now toying with the idea of a crypto currency which, depending on the model, could lead to the same kind of privacy issues that the authors feared for the Muscovite card.
I am not sure that the international globalists are completely divorced “from all philosophies and religions”, though. They do tend to be Zionists, and globalism is a religion of sorts. They have remained above
I think that the true religion of globalists, Zionist or otherwise, is simply full spectrum dominance by any means available.
I found this a difficult and uncomfortable read because for every spectre the authors produced as an example of the attempted domination of Russia, I could see the earlier version cemented into my own society long ago. We do adapt to these things quite easily, particularly when they are introduced slowly, with stealth and guile.
I don’t think that the Russian people have a special inbuilt resistance but they have had the sense to hang on to Mr Putin and his team as the better option for themselves. It has even crossed my mind occasionally that he might be in cahoots with the rest on the much bigger plan (the one world government has been an idea floating around looking for sponsors for a very long time ), anything is possible after all, but I don’t think it likely from his actions.
Interesting, regardless, to have a homegrown view from across a divide that is rapidly becoming a yawning chasm.
Thanks for the translation, Mr Buday.
Fine article!
Note that groups, subgroups and many members of the old working class tried to fight what Alice Roosevelt Longworth called “Globaloney” over the last several generations.
“Workers of the world” for that matter seem to be united in the knowledge that erasing borders will also erase any gains they made — from pay to safety rules to simple sane working conditions.
The evil of globalism is a spiritual condition too, as the author is plainly aware. The atomisation of people is the goal, and in doing thus the penalty in spirit and mind will be enormous.
It is my hope that where globalism is still weak it can be strangled to death, and where it is strong (esp. Western Europe, USA-Canada, etc) it can be confounded before the trap snaps shut and eternal darkness begins.
It really is a choice: Be human or allow globalony to poison the world in favour of a tiny clique of corporate managers and their puppets in politics.
Suggested reading: https://wrathoftheawakenedsaxon.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/silent-weapons-for-quiet-wars.pdf
add Douglas Reed’s “The Controversy of Zion” to the list. He details the genesis of the one world scam from before WW1.
get it here: http://controversyofzion.info/
Reading this article, it makes me sad, sad because according to this article, Russia is following the way down the valley of entire Europe, that path of no return to the globalization, achieving the dreams of those who are led by Satan himself. And all this is happening behind the back of Putin, perpetrated by traitors and lackeys, by idiots and ill minded people.But the good news is : something will happen, something that will change everything.
Cashless society is the ultimate goal of the ruling Satanists of the West for two reasons, in fact:
1) The complete abolishment of anonymity — each and every transaction getting instantly monitored and thus a potential source of Satanist spying, abuse, and coercion. This is what the above piece made very clear with regard to the ‘Muscovite Card’.
2) Outright theft as per the example set by the Cyprus bail-in model 5 years ago. To bluntly confiscate the accounts of lots of people with small/modest savings (and a few big ones) certainly should be appealing to banksters worth their salt.
“However, the powers that be had not accounted for one small thing: that the world can only take so much hypocrisy before it snaps.”
Right. In their cosmic arrogance, they probably dismissed it as a non-issue altogether.
Moderator NOTE: Third reason – cashless society means the bankers get to skim a percentage off the top of every transaction everywhere.
The main reason we won’t have a cashless society is that there isn’t time for one.
Once Arctic ice melts, so does human habitat vanish on planet earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwssG2kB_bA
Globalization isn’t anything new. The word got popular to describe some development that has started long ago.
Think of Siemens. The newly funded company was active in the UK, Russia, Poland, etc. They attempted to put an undersea cable into the Mediterranean. In the late 1900s AEG acquired licences for some of Thomas Edison’s patents.
Wars and revolutions have disrupted the process of industries working together or joining, but they didn’t stop it.
The cooperation of Russia and China with African countries is welcome, but it’s some kind of globalization as well.
According to some interview with Nikolai Starikov, the Russian central bank considered giving crypto currencies legal status in Russia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F89zKhUu1s – “Bitcoin – Global Bankers scheme to ditch the Dollar”). If crypto currencies are used parallel to physical money it shouldn’t raise any fears. Switching entirely to crypto currencies or digital money should make people worry. Basically, the idea of a cashless society is slowed down, but it’s not abandoned.
In China there’s some development ongoing that should raise alarm bells. According to some news report China considers implementing a Social Credit System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System). This system sounds much like the one described in the article above.
With regard to private schools of the Russian “Elite” I’m quite skeptical. What’s the difference of private schools of the Russian elites to the private schools of the US elites, UK elites, German elites, …? In my opinion it’s all the same. If you’re too poor, you’ll not be able to get “quality education”.
OBOR / OBI is a globalization project as well as the project of a trade zone stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
The major question for the future will be if we’ll be able to work together on a global scale, without entirely giving up sovereignty of nation states and their internal political structures.
Per “All under one law” :
In 1969 a United Nations project called “Law of Treaties” was opened for ratification and in 1980 sufficient countries had done so to permit the UN to declare the project was in effect. The 1993 Russian Constitution evidently took the ratified 1969 UN project as a given.
Curiously, the United States of America did not and has not signed on. Furthermore, no American President has dared to submit the project for consideration of the US Senate, because to do so would make the US Constitution subordinate to the will of unelected, faceless, foreign bureaucrats.
For example, interpretation established by the 1969 project cannot be based on prior precedents, while litigants cannot refer to specific legislation or language of an earlier agreement. In other words, language no longer has a fixed meaning — black is white, water is dry if the UN interpreters say so.
This leaves the United States as an odd-man-out. We believe that laws should be responsive to the people — not a group of experts. We believe that legal precedents should be binding for the sake of community stability. Our legal system is based on an adversarial process in which the state has to prove a crime took place and that so-and-so violated the law.
Incidentally, we see the mess generated by our FISA court when the adversarial process is violated. Apparently, “hundreds and hundreds” of American citizens were stripped of 4th Amendment rights on the say-so of a secret court accepting lies by the FBI and Justice Department. Given the secrecy, these violated citizens never had a chance to rebut the lies as their privacy was invaded.
In 1823, President James Monroe sent his seventh message to Congress and formulated what we now call the the Monroe Doctrine. “The political system of the allied [European] powers is essentially different.” Monroe knew of what he wrote. As our ambassador to continental Europe he had witnessed the benevolent rule of despots and considered them all arbitrary expressions of unchecked power.
For Monroe, the US had inherited a system of law based on successive 12 jurors wrestling with stubborn facts to find equity within some peculiar circumstance that that had harmed someone. From 1066 to 1535, these decisions were pondered and gradually embodied in a legal system we know as COMMON LAW. For Monroe, there was no way that any single individual or self-interested cabal could equal, let alone better the commonsense and fairness of Common Law.
Russia might well review President Monroe’s 1823 message and determine how to reconnect with its own, pre-enlighenment juridical past.
I am enormously saddened by this article, primarily because I had no idea Russia was so far along in the process of being “integrated” into the One New World. The Russian constitution, I hope, will be revised as soon as the Western Hegemon is weakened. French, German, Spanish and British cultures are already under substantial attack, I don’t know about Chinese. Human life is at great risk of becoming much less than human. And Russia has the land and space for more, not fewer, people, and a culture which values human beings (unlike the West).
As an aside, she also has to get rid of the Western-minded head of the Bank of Russia with her neo-liberal mindset.
Why does she remain in place and what is her support base? On the surface she seems to be a key player. Perhaps she has no more real power than Yellen.
Always interested in palace intrigues in Russia. Would like to see a simple overview of the players and positions/power base.
I understand the US system as presented – it is beyond repair.
“…And even after its death we must be careful. The thing about globalists is that they are truly international: no matter where they end up, they always manage to twist the local population to fit their needs, make local inhabitants dance to their tunes. This is the result of their being utterly divorced from all reality, but also from all philosophies and religions. These intellectual chameleons do not care what puppets they control one moment, for they will just as easily change colours and drift over to another group….”
these are great words – the sad fact is that money buys so many people – I wonder if money truly is ..’the root of all evil.”
This essay is almost outdated in some ways because the looming effects of robotics and nanotechnology which the peoples of this world face. And, also, of course, the “race to space” as Elon Musk in typical gaudy and grandiose fashion sends a roadster rocket into space hell bent upon starting the terra-forming of Mars.
The big question is always when it comes to national elan, ” For what purpose”. Especially in coming times it is the quality of the human and not the quantity of them which will be the deciding factor. I do not see Russia having a problem of focus, purpose or heart. Its food is not poisoned nor its people debased. Culture and excellence is promoted and the generations still speak to one another.
However, it is the spirit of hatred fanned by the elites of the USA which will enervate, waste and ultimately destroy their whole society although they and their technocratic traitor buddies have the illusion that they will hide out in gated communities or flee with their hoarded gold to bunkers in New Zealand. while sending cyborg armies on Mosul like mop up operations into the inner cities of America.
Russia just needs to hold fast, dig in and prevail which it is historically trained to do. All the moral,intellectual, physical ( (riches galore, bumper harvests etc) and spiritual resources are there—how can you miss them? Dig deep! How can any culture which produced a Dostoevsky ever doubt itself?
“it is the quality of the human and not the quantity ”
Brilliant scifi fantasy, updated versio of Nazi Ubermensch arrogance even when claiming the opposite. The future belongs to those who believe in future, have families and children. They will wiped out (without using violence) those foolishly believing in scifi and superhuman quality class of people. The power is there in woman’s womb. Some might loathe those folks and that’s those “top class” folks are doomed to die out.
Family model of two children in Russia is norm. In this perspective Russia is not so different. And from now on fertility rate will about 1.6-1.8 in Russia. When death rate is and will be little bit higher than in Western Europe Russia will face demographic winter just like all western countries if not getting lots of immigrants.
So Russia have to make decision between western large immigration (“we have a dream”) model and Japanese model (shrinking population, no immigration, “defending own culture”). Russian problem is the huge size of country if following that Japanese model.
BTW. One of the reason why Nazis were beaten in 1941-45 was the low birth rate of Germany after 1914 while Soviet Russia had incredible high birth rate in 1920-1929 (but much lower after 1930). Hitler’s army had 20% smaller man pool than that of Kaiser’s army.
As social evolution scientists Michael Blume and Eric Kaufman have described it: evolution favors strongly religious culture enclaves while rejects atheists, agnostics and secular folks. Strongly religious culture enclaves they really breed. Studies are suggesting that breeding rate between atheists and strongly religious is 1:5, 1:6 or even 1:8. And with seculars 1:3, 1:4 or even 1:6.
What has so easily ignored this breeding is like fuel to tank for future economic growth. Left and liberal mindset is blind to recognize this powerhouse.
Religion needs replacement desperatly. Heritage prevents both modern, corrupted Western culture and traditional christianity, Muslim World, Jews from developing a common positive vision anderen perspective.
We wont stop integration, only option ist top shape it towards that one world we all would want to live in. For now, that means stopping the decline of ecosystem stability, establishing a basic level of culture in the sense of safety and nutrition for everybody without harming the first goal and tackle the damocles of mutual assured destruction.
I wonder which generation will be the first not only evisioning a demilitarized humanity in their teens but actually working towards it and reallocate the occupied ressources. With this kinda budget a lot of problems will instantly become solvable.
Old religion does lack the traction because its exclusive in character and quickly wound up in contradiction. As I said, we need replacement. Things move in different speeds all over the globe but slowly, when it comes to principles of our societies as creating inner coherence by outside imaging. An open society could develope equal fertiliy and performance as the powerful believers when simply let allowed to live with the basics mentioned. We all want to believe in sustainable prosperity, in safety and peace not just for for humanity. I think for every round of Youngsters its getting harder and harder to tell them why this ist not possible while actually wasting the instruments and ressources which would get it done almost effortlessly.
As in a lot of communists countries, the greater good needs to restrict personal freedom. We do not have the right to endanger survival of us and the planet, especially putting this kind of power in the hands of few. Privacy needs to be rethought considering technological means after the establishemt of a benevolent global ruling.
Russia is right in dissappointment about the lack of globally applied rights and laws. UN, World bank and monetary Fund, the hague, Nato,… All attemps got corrupted and will therefore not prevail and vanish. We are so afraid of dystopia because we hang on to errors. There are principles in nature that feeds optimism: Constant change, growth and success. Either adapt or get replaced it is obligation for almost all beings, organizations, structures. Thats what humans face and in this challenge probably soon will create actual humanity.
Religion doesn’t need replacement.
Religion doesn’t even contradict itself. If all Preachers, Rabbis, Imams would focus solely on spreading the word, instead of twisting it, the world would be much different. Sadly not everyone is of that opinion. For all of those three Abrahamic religions the Ten Commandments apply. The Ten Commandments are an excellent basis for a constitution. The past has shown that people can live side by side if nobody agitates against the other religions (or denominations like Catholics vs. Protestants or Sunni vs. Shia). It’s corrupt and greedy persons who’re destroying everything.
Thank you for this article showing some of the challenges to Russian society, and the response to it.
I’m interested in learning more about Russia and its culture, and am largely on the side of the contributors here.
However, the balance between state and individual rights is a difficult one. My personal feelings are to not hate or discriminate in any manner over someone’s personal choices. Be they sexuality, drugs or abortion. I can understand the worry about the effects on a culture, but I also think the ‘soft’ pressures of culture alone should be enough for this rather than the power of law. I also think banning or outlawing something is not for good, because good must be chosen. I am not sure how this reconciles with the generally strongly held beliefs of Russians in this regard (if this forum is representative of it) Note that I am not anti religion. I am not ‘religious’ myself but by that I only mean that I do not, or have not, found organised religion to be a medium to God, or whatever name is given to that power by various cultures. I understand the spiritual value that religion can play.
On the dangers of globalisation, I am fully in agreement. It is a nice idea and an ideal worth striving to where everyone can be treated equally and with respect and a sense of belonging to a common shared planet. The idea of soft borders also appeals to me because I believe the best barrier against hatred is contact between ordinary peoples. The idea of no borders isn’t appealing to me though. The whole point of travelling to or even working/living somewhere else, is to come across different cultures, languages, histories and experiences. To learn something new, and maybe teach something in exchange. To destroy the individual cultures with an artificially imposed single ‘culture’ just seems inherently wrong.
The lack of physical money is a terrible thing. When it comes right down to it, human beings live in the physical world and have physical needs. Electronic money can work given the right infrastructure, but since its control does not lie with the people, it is very likely to not work for their benefit, but rather for their exploitation.
I would like to visit Russia someday. Hopefully in the not too distant future.
” The poster reads “Russia needs each individual”.
A disheartening set of statistics have been published by Rosstat. It shows that despite the efforts of the government, such as maternal capital and subsidies for extra children, Russia’s natural population is diminishing at an alarming rate.
The population of Russia increased in 2017 by 77.4 thousand people to 146.9 million people. In 2016, the population increased by 259.7 thousand people, and in 2015 – by 277.4 thousand people.
However, the number of births decreased last year to 1 million 689.9 thousand people, 1 million 888.7 thousand in 2016 and 1 million 944.1 thousand in 2015.
The number of deaths decreased to 1 million 824.3 thousand. people against 1 million 887.9 thousand people in 2016 and 1 million 911.4 thousand people in 2015.
The natural population decline in 2017 was 134.4 thousand people against the natural increase of 5.4 thousand people in 2016 and 32.7 thousand people in 2015.
Migration has completely replaced the natural decline of the population, exceeding the decrease by 57. 6%.
In 2017, 212 thousand migrants arrived to live in Russia, 262 thousand in 2016, and 246 thousand in 2015.
The situation with the demographic problem is a long-standing one – which exacerbated ever since the collapse of the USSR. While birthrates improved in the middle 2000’s, evidently the measures are not enough to correct the problem.
A demographic decline has a direct correlation on the labour market, and as such a more relaxed migration policy. ”
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/02/statistics-migrants-are-replacing.html
As we see here, Russia’s only hope is now immigration. The question is: what immigration and what consequences it will bring? There is indeed pool of new Russians coming from Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belo Russia…
President Putin has a Herculean task. On one hand he has to protect the citizens of the Russian Federation against outside interference and on the other hand he has to strengthen the local economy. (This includes getting inequality down as well.) I hope the voters will enable him to do so with strong support, so that he may be able to approach this in a more direct way.
On a side note: A shrinking population isn’t necessarily something alarming. Increases in productivity due to robotics / automation pushed aside lots of people in the past years. I’m pretty sure many of them can be retrained (assumed someone is willing to do so). Thanks to the assistance of heavy equipment, even an older person will be able to plow lots of acres in a few hours. At some point those machines may be fully automated as well. It’s worse if you have too many people and too few jobs, when people have to sell their labor for a few cents that hardly enables them to survive (that’s the down side of competition). I would rather like to watch an old person pushing a button, activating a machine, than thousands of able bodied people living near or below poverty line. Whenever there’s some article about the SNAP program in the US, you should check the comment section. You’ll be shocked at the amount of people who would rather deny the poorest of the poor the food if this would imply slightly higher taxes. Money is appreciated more than human lives.
The “International” is due to Bank Credit. This system came into being in 1694, where it became corporate and attached itself to mercantilism. Think of it as Bank of England and East Indies Company as new template for hosting countries. This template has now spread worldwide.
Banks want to connect their ledgers, so their “bank credit” will balance. Debt instruments created at these banks want to be paid, so searching the earth for resources is part of the game Goods become prices, prices fetch money, and money pays debt instruments.
Federal Reserve System is a network allowing banks to balance on overnight market. Fed system points at New York Fed, which in turn is physically located near Wall Street, and Wall Street is International in scope. In recent history, i.e. Gold era, London was gold center yet England has no natural sources of gold.
It is sophomoric to wave hands and ascribe globalism/internationalism to Satanism, when true animating force is usurious money systems. Internationalists adopt Satanism later as a sop to cover their usurious takings.
Banker Credit ledger must balance and it is easiest when it is one money type (corporate bank credit) with easily manipulated one world government. Pay attention to the ledger. Central bankers coordinate with matching QE’s and currency swaps, to then make sure their debts are paid, so the world system is networked but not fully.
To break corporate system will take some form of legal Sovereign Money which flows internal ONLY to an economy. http://www.sovereignmoney.eu A bancor system can be used for EXTERNAL trade of goods. The “blood” of the world economy then becomes purified and is no longer tainted by mixing. Further the blood has changed type, something like changing colors. It becomes a legal unit serving the people of its nation.
And there is the answer, found in back pages of a blog. No other answer matters. Every other problem is a symptom of this malformed money/corporate system first introduced in England in 1694. Anglo/Zionism is indeed an apt term.
People often point to the World Bank or the IMF and seem to forget about the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) in Switzerland. It’s part of the whole banking scheme.
Quite correct analysis.
I would add that it would be useful to study Byzantium to learn how it lasted so long.
The only thing that really bothers me in articles like this is this infatuation with population growth. We live on a finite planet! Just because Russia is a big country does not necessarily mean it needs to have a big population to be a successful, thriving entity, as in sustainable. It’s a question of quality rather than quantity. Russia’s emergence as a sane player in world geopolitics would seem to demonstrate that.
Its not so much about being “a successful, thriving entity, as in sustainable”, its about defense, protecting what is yours, its about survival. With quantity you can defend your borders, with quantity outsiders can’t come in and take over. Quality is too few in number to do anything but go extinct while thinking how rational they are, or get exterminated by quantity who can’t be bothered by rationality or morals.
Russia can easily handle a population of a billion people in a sustainable fashion. “Quantity has quality all of its own”.
gT
Defense? How many people do you need to start an ICBM?
It does not need many people to start ICBM, but over population comes to handy when taking over the world. Look at the neighborhood, It sent Hindu to Sikkim, now Sikkim no longer exist as an independent state. low land area of Nepal fill with Indians who are causing trouble to Nepalese government with Indian government’s help. Bhutan trying very hard to stop Indian from come in, and Hindus fill northeast and trying to convert the local to Hindu.
An uncontrollable population with a medieval religion is an offensive weapon, not defensive. Like you said, you do not take many people to start ICBM in defense. But you need an enormous amount ignorant canon folders to gradually taking over other people’s land.
Here is Quality of people where no lack of Quantity: Barbaric, mistreat others, land grabbing, and shameless.
“India, Pakistan wildly at odds over horrific but similar child murders
While a Pakistani court gave the death sentence to a man who raped and killed a six-year-old, members of India’s top political parties rallied in support of police accused of the gang-rape and slaying of a young tribal girl in Jammu”
http://www.atimes.com/article/india-pakistan-wildly-odds-horrific-similar-child-murders/
Why worry? That’s what wars are for.
Just keep letting bankers cull the herds.
I am not as convinced as the author that globalization is dead. Maybe in Russia, as in “Russia, Russia, Russia” interference, collusion, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. But they appear to be ramping up efforts in the USA and elsewhere