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Guest Post: Russia Is Dominated By Global Banks, Too
Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market blog,
Numerous cultures have had holidays dedicated to the celebration of pulling the wool over the eyes of others, from the ancient Romans, to early Muslims, to medieval Christians, to Americans and Europeans today. As April begins, we once again turn a mischievous eye to the concept of the fool and, as always, each person seeks to be the prankster and never the victim.
Unfortunately, even the most vigilant of Americans can sometimes be led astray by a clever ruse, and I believe this is taking place today in the Liberty Movement’s perception of the rising “tensions” between Russia and the West.
In my article Ukraine Crisis: Just Another Globalist-Engineered Powder Keg, I outlined the history of false paradigms and engineered conflicts between numerous nations, including how these conflicts are exploited by global money interests to consolidate and centralize social and political power. The birth of communist Russia, in particular, was directly funded by Western banks and supported with arms and military aid from the U.S. government itself. These sorts of startling facts are not taught in schools and universities exactly because the continued dominance of the money elite relies on continued misrepresentations of legitimate history.
Many in the Liberty Movement have studied and are well aware of the central banking cabal and its stranglehold on the U.S. and Europe. But strangely, some people refuse to acknowledge the substantial possibility that global bankers are also in control of Russia and are playing both sides of the burgeoning economic war.
As the Ukrainian crisis festers and other dangers in the Pacific and the Mideast grow, an odd consensus among alternative analysts is taking hold — namely the belief that President Vladimir Putin and Russia represent some kind of opposition to globalization and the rule of corporate financiers. Perhaps moments in Putin’s rhetoric and the existence of media outlets like RT have seduced elements of the Liberty Movement into assuming that Russia is a “victim” in the grand schemes of Western oligarchy and that Russia is truly the "white knight", the underdog willing to stand up against the New World Order. I’m sorry to say that nothing could be further from the truth.
Russia is just as much a tool of the global elite today as it was after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Putin is just as much a socialist puppet as Barack Obama. Let’s start from the beginning of the rebirth of Russia as a regional federation in the 1990s after the fall of the Warsaw Pact.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader largely credited with the ultimate dismantling of the Soviet Union and the rise of the “new” Russia, has long been a proponent of the “New World Order” (his words) and centralized global government. In an address entitled “Perspectives On Global Change” to the students of Lafayette College in Easton, Penn., Gorbachev argued that such a solution was necessary to safeguard “freedom.”
“The opportunities that existed after the end of the Cold War… were not used properly. At that same time, we saw that the entire world situation did not develop positively. We saw deterioration where there should have been positive movement toward a new world order.”
He continued:
“But we still are facing the problem of building such a world order. We have crises: we are facing problems of the environment, of backwardness and poverty, of food shortages. All of these problems are because we do not have a system of global governance.”
When asked in 1995 by San Francisco Weekly what Gorbachev meant by the phrase “New World Order,” Jim Garrison, the executive director of the Gorbachev Foundation stated, bluntly that Gorbachev wanted nothing less than global government.
"Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. … It’s inevitable. It will happen and become just as normal to have a relationship with the rest of the world as we now have, say, if you are a Californian and you go to Vermont."
Take note that it has now been almost 20 years since the Garrison's assertion and the motions towards a global currency are picking up great speed. Gorbachev saw global government being achieved through international organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. But, is this vision of the New World Order limited only to Gorbachev and his inner circle? At the Gorbachev-led State of the World Forum in 1995, Council On Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski had this to say:
“We do not have a New World Order. … We cannot leap into world government in one quick step. … In brief, the precondition for eventual globalization — genuine globalization — is progressive regionalization, because thereby we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.”
In Zbigniew K. Brzezinski’s book Between Two Ages: America’s Role In The Technetronic Era, he elaborates on the ideology behind what brand of government the New World Order would be:
"The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty… More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken."
"National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept… Marxism represents a further vital and creative state in the maturing of man’s universal vision. Marxism is simultaneously a victory of the external, active man over the inner, passive man and a victory of reason over belief…"
Brzezinski seems to be in total agreement with Gorbachev, but why should anyone care what Brzezinski thinks about the future of American sovereignty? Perhaps it’s because he is a close and influential foreign policy adviser to Obama.
So we have now established that political interests on both sides since the 1990s have called for a New World Order and global government taking a decidedly socialist or Marxist form. Some people might applaud this kind of future, or they might despise it; but the fact remains that this plan is indeed being openly promoted and implemented by government officials and elitists in the East and the West. It is undeniable.
From its very inception, the new Russia was designed to become a catalyst for global governance, but global governance by whom? As they say, always follow the money.
Russia is more beholden to international bankers than perhaps any nation on the planet. After the collapse of the Russian economy and the dissolution of the old Soviet Union, the country was in dire straits. From 1992 to 1996, the IMF intervened in the Russian economy, offering more than $22 billion in aid (officially). This first loan package was presented as a failure when Russia defaulted on its debts, and loans from the IMF restarted through the late ’90s until this very day.
Many people are aware of the IMF involvement in Russia, but few know about the scandal surrounding where those IMF funds specifically went. In 1999, information was made public on the diversion of IMF cash into the coffers of Russian corporate elites, politicians, and even mobsters. This money was supposed to go toward the rebuilding of Russian infrastructure and economy. Instead, the aristocracy and criminal underworld were receiving a large cut of the funds.
The money was diverted and laundered through the Bank of New York, an institution founded in 1784 by none other than internationalist agent and central bank promoter Alexander Hamilton. The bank changed ownership through merger in 2007 and is now called The Bank Of New York Mellon.
The IMF’s first response to the scandal was to divert blame, stating that it had no control over the cash once it was in the hands of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR). After continued revelations on funds being misused or disappearing altogether, the IMF commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to audit the CBR. The results of that audit have never been made public. However, in 1999 the Russian government admitted that it had hidden more than $50 billion offshore in a subsidiary bank in the Channel Islands. Part of this money came from IMF bailouts. The former chairman of the CBR, Sergey Dubinin, insisted that the IMF was fully aware of who the funds were going to.
Numerous officials from the chief state auditor to the minister of internal security to the prosecutor general of Russia had come forward with information that corroborated evidence that IMF money was being distributed to the wrong people. The chairman of the Duma Committee on Security stated that some of the IMF loans never made it to Russia. Rather, the money was pumped into the secret foreign accounts of Russia’s highest officials.
Despite all of the admissions and evidence, IMF auditors refused to cite any corruption or malfeasance during their investigations. One would think that they would do everything in their power to find out where their funds went and why. The reason for the cover-up is obvious: The IMF knew exactly who the money was going to. The first bailouts of Russia were designed to buy the cooperation of the Russian political and corporate elite and ensure that the future direction of the nation would follow the globalist plan.
Fast-forward to the present. Putin continues the subversive relationship between Russia and the IMF. In 2009, Putin called for the creation of a “super reserve currency” under the control of the IMF and using the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights basket as a foundation.
Why would Putin, a supposedly anti-globalist nationalist leader, want the IMF, a supposedly U.S.-controlled institution, to be the global purveyor and overlord of the world economy? It’s because the IMF is not a U.S.-controlled institution; it is a banker-controlled institution. And Putin is a globalist, not a nationalist.
The recent break of Crimea from Ukraine and secession to Russia was partly instigated by the vast concessions required by the IMF if loans to Ukraine were to move forward. One of these concessions included the handing over of Ukrainian gas pipelines to America’s Chevron. Crimean leaders accused Kiev politicians of selling out Ukraine to the global bankers.
However, it was actually Russia’s finance minister and Putin who first pushed for the IMF bailout of Ukraine. It was, in fact, Putin who wanted Ukraine to “sell out” to Western financiers.
Russia’s central bank is also a member of the Bank of International Settlements, the good-old-boys club of the international banking world. The BIS was founded in 1930 and served as the focal point of globalization until after World War II, when evidence arose that the organization had helped the Nazis by funding the German war machine, laundering money for Gestapo officials and hiding funds looted from Europe by the Third Reich.
Due to the scandal, the BIS took a back seat to the IMF and World Bank; but it still exists today. Carroll Quigley, Council on Foreign Relations member, elitist insider and mentor to Bill Clinton, had this to say about the BIS in his book Tragedy And Hope:
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, and Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Putin has been elevated to heroic status in much of the mainstream media over the years. TIME magazine, a long-running globalist publication, recently published a front-page article with this tagline: “America’s weak and waffling. Russia’s rich and resurgent — and its leader doesn’t care what anybody thinks of him.”
This cover was used by TIME in every country in which it is distributed, except the United States.
The Times of Britain named Putin “Man Of The Year” in 2013. In Liberty Movement circles, Putin worship has been growing to disturbing levels. I would say at least half of our movement truly believes Putin and Russia to be a guiding light in the fight against globalization and the New World Order. Unfortunately, many people look for heroes to save them when they should be looking to themselves. Putin’s nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize for his “intervention” in the Syrian crisis is celebrated by many freedom fighters here in America, when, in reality, the Obama Administration’s failure to achieve a war footing in the region had nothing to do with the actions of Russia.
Remember, Russia and the U.S. are nothing but false champions dueling in a fake gladiator match paid for by the IMF. The war against Syria was thwarted because the elites were unable to garner enough public support from the American people to make the action viable. Every engineered war needs a gullible percentage of the population to give it momentum. Why didn’t they get their following from the public? It was because of the tireless efforts of the alternative media.
It was the Liberty Movement that exposed the lies behind the Syrian insurgency; the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya; the CIA’s involvement with al-Qaida in Damascus, etc. It is the Liberty Movement that deserves the credit for disrupting the globalist plan to use Syria as a trigger event for a false confrontation between the U.S. and Russia. Yet many are cheering the elitist puppet Putin while he takes credit for our accomplishments.
The most frightening aspect of the false paradigm between East and West is the potential it creates for the co-option of liberty proponents here in America. If we allow ourselves to be suckered into cheerleading for Russia, or any controlled government for that matter, then we have lost. We will be swallowed up in the tides of war, while supporting false prophets and artificial protagonists. Our mission, the mission for a truly free and sovereign America, will be lost in the confusion and chaos of the global chess game. It is time to accept that the fate of this country and perhaps the future of human freedom rest solely on the shoulders of the resistance here at home. There is no nation out there in the ether of central banking that is going to help us. The sooner we come to terms with the reality that we are on our own, the stronger we will be when the fight begins.
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Yeah; the Liberty Movement; Brandons' "Wankers are us" group. Sign up as a prepper and a weapons bearer; so you can be rounded up on day one by DHS. Conflating Gorbachev and Putin as tho they were some sort of continuum is absurd; but this kind of propaganda does have an effect on the thoughtless speed readers.
Brandon seems to have a few articles published at InfoWars, that sinks the credibility right there. There seem to be alot more Alex Jones-type articles and commenters here lately. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy but even ZH has gotta have standards!!!
Maybe you could factually document exactly how Infowars or Brandon's articles are conspiracy theory instead of making ad hominem smears that play to the wrong crowd?
http://bit.ly/PC85Kg
The article is a fairly advanced form of propaganda; I tried to find out who or what this Brandon creature is. Didn't come up with much; I suppose it's just important to him to claim credit for his "Wankers are us" group; they do have stuff for sale. The statement that Russia had nothing to do with the US/NATO failure to overturn the government of Syria is nonsense.
The so called New World Order is about 70 years old now, and since 2008 it hasn't exactly been working as planned. Fast forward to 2014.
The "system" of DEBT (the debt of a single insolvent nation that is) as a wealth reserve ASSET upon which this 70 year old new world order is predicated is now faced with the reality of a 6000 year OLD world order, resurfacing to rhyme with the past.
What is NEW is the withdrawal of support for the dollar centric world order of the recent past. What is OLD is the remonetization of the world's traditional global reserve wealth asset, the one that ALWAYS historically resumes it's function when fiat (debt) fails. What is CRITICAL is the changing dynamic of energy, and the currencies it will be traded in as the pardigm shifts.
roacheforque.blogspot.com
I needed some dressing to swallow your word salad, although you did sprinkle in just enough buzzwords to make it seem like you were saying something important.
Also, watch the new Cosmos on FOX (shudder) for revelations on science. I hate to break the news but the Earth is at least 6001 years old, and quite possibly much, much, much older.
Long on speculation. Short on facts. ZH you've been scraping the bottom of the barrel lately.
You know...the Nazis despised the Communists and the Communists' hatred of the Nazis was equally intense. Different sides of the same coin. ZH'ers may resume their display of lustful adoration for Putin's penis.
good article....i had been fooled
And ole Mother Russia, outside of its cities, is still a backward third world nation where inside plumbing is Still a dream for millions. How many millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by Comrade Stalin in 1932/33? Evil socialist pigs.
Check your calendar; my the years just fly by.
dude, you need to get some more stamps in your passport. Moscow has better roads than NYC these days.
The question is, when its time to destroy the old US empire via Bolshevism 2.0, who will be the primary targets of the extermination campaign? History says it will be the middle and upper class gentiles. Putin hasn't adressed the crimes of 1.0, so this says enough about where he stands.
The first to go under U.S. Bolshevism 2.0 will be those who refuse to submit to political conformity. Putin took his stand against Bolshevism 1.0 when he took his country away from central planning and built it into a major economic powerhouse.*
"When the Soviets first occupied Lithuania in 1940, the [Party] was instrumental in rounding up political dissidents, shop owners, priests, and anyone else who might have been troublesome to the new regime. All were shipped off to fates that now even Moscow could only guess at....
"As a boy, Ramius sensed more than thought that Soviet Communism ignored a basic human need. In his teens, his misgivings began to take a coherent shape. The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life. From earliest adulthood on, Marko had his own idea about right and wrong, an idea he did not share with the State. It gave him a means of gauging his actions and those of others. It was something he was careful to conceal. It served as an anchor for his soul and, like an anchor, it was hidden far below the visible surface." -- Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
"Marxism-Leninism is a jealous god, tolerating no competing loyalities."
*See
Economy of Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
Bolshevism 1.0 was ethnic revenge against the Slavs, by the tribe, for the Pale of settlement restrictions. Putin still seems to rely on Soviet glory for his strength. If he came clean about who funded the Russian Revolution and denouced it in entirety, maybe then he could be seen as progressive.
True or not - article is thought provoking.
It appears that there are only 2 kinds of people on earth, Bankers and everyone else. "Everyone else" includes goverments, their leaders and their militaries. Banker interests in wars and their financing is, apparently, well documented. Given this, would governments, their leaders and their militaries not then just be puppets in the violent and absurd theatre managed by the Bankers in pursuit of banking interests. (See Rothchilds history)
Given (what appears to be) the fact of gold flow to the "East", I have wondered for some time if the "Bankers" (whoever they might be) have not aleady gone "East" or, at least, are not in the process of doing so.
Mackinder's "Great Game" perspective of a (relatively) peaceful and trading EurAsian super-continent is not difficult to understand - and would leave North America "frackin'" our brains out surrounded by a bunch of Mexican gardeners - not a pretty sight! If I can understand this certainly "The Bankers" can understand it too - and those people think in terms of decades and centuries, not just what's happening in the Ukraine today.
I haven't any idea what "Barry" actually thinks, or if he thinks at all. But he is definately a spokesman for a certain interest group (hint -Bankers). Putin? Much tougher call.
But I wonder. Maybe someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
"Say Vlad, we been thinkin'. The old USA is sooo last century. How'd you like to see Russia (and China) takes the reigns for a while? You see, we got this idea about this "super-continent' and - - - - - - - - -".
Nah, maybe I'm just paranoid, hallucinating or need to go back to watching "Dancing With the Stars".
I think there are those that want to tell others what to do, those who want to be told what to do (the vast majority), and those that just want to be left the fuck alone. Moral cowardice seems to be the lowest common denominator of the herd, psychopathic control freakery the bond between the controllers, and god/ess/es alone knows what drives the likes of the crazies here. Ridiculous notions like integrity, honesty and honour, symbols of a bygone age, it seems.
If you like your Putin, you can keep your Putin.
So,the question remains as to why the U.S. is still been allowed to underfund the IMF?They have to come up with a lot,just to keep their promises.Congress just seperated more IMF funding from a recent sanctions bill.Wonder what's up after the dog-fuck holiday by Congress?
Because obama is miserable fool who can't get anything done
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/17817-obama-exploiting-ukrain...
Is Boris handing out red arrows to welcome everyone or what?
Thank you Brandon for a good article. A lot of ZH commenters are full of fiat, or something.
So the Russians wanted Ukraine to enslave themselves to the IMF, they want a one world IMF currency, and a Rothschild took over one of the biggest oil companies when Putin arrested Khodorkovsky. That's not exactly a glowing record of fighting bankers. Thinking that the Russians might save us from international bankers is rather similar to falling for the Republicrat divide/conquer technique, except on a global level. If a nation got rid of its central bank and stopped issuing money as debt at interest by a private corporation, we might have someone to cheer, but right now this is one globalist "fighting" another globalist to achieve their own ends.
After the misguided administrations of Yeltsin and Gorbachev, Putin has been able “to pay back to the people their pensions, the back pay that was owned to people for months and years. The state started to accumulate gold reserves, enough to pay off loans to WB and IMF.”
http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0404/gorelik.htm
As for those IMF loans, made at the behest of the Clinton Administration, “in October 1991, Yeltsin announced that Russia would proceed with radical, market-oriented reform characterized as "shock therapy", as recommended by the United States and IMF.[31] This policy resulted in economic collapse, with millions being plunged into poverty and corruption and crime spreading rapidly.[32] Hyperinflation resulted from the removal of Soviet price controls and again following the 1998 Russian financial crisis…
“Under the presidency of Vladimir Putin Russia's economy saw the nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) double, climbing from 22nd to 11th largest in the world…
“During Putin's eight years in office, the industry grew by 75%, investments increased by 125%,[38] and agricultural production and construction increased as well. Real incomes more than doubled and the average salary increased eightfold from $80 to $640.[39][40][41] The volume of consumer credit between 2000–2006 increased 45 times,[42][43] and during that same time period, the middle class grew from 8 million to 55 million, an increase of 7 times. The number of people living below the poverty line also decreased from 30% in 2000 to 14% in 2008.[38][44][45]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia
Comparing year by year, the trajectory in the United States for the middle class and the economy has suffered the opposite effect, thanks to Fed policy.
How is this relevant?
Economic growth is no miracle when you start from the level of some african economy which soviet union was not so far off. If you want to compare economies, compare quite similar Poland and Ukraine. And after that take a guess which one stayed undef Russian influence.
GDP per capita:
Ukraine $3,866
Poland $12,707
Btw, Russia stands at $14,000, but almost no other ex-soviet state has the luxury to fund most of its economy and government budget off the export of oil, gas and other natural resources.
If you need to eat, have shelter and some semblance of a decent life, it's very relevant.
With the independence of both Poland and Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union, your analysis is lacking. Here is a brief picture that doesn’t even begin to explain the various political and economic situations. But it does show how precarious life can be under present threats by the IMF.
“Ukraine declared its independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union began to break up. It is now a democratic republic, with a directly elected president as head of state. …In the post-Soviet era, the Ukrainian economy has suffered periods of extremely high inflation and growth has been hampered by a largely conservative legislature that has resisted many attempts at reform. There is widespread poverty, exacerbated by a declining healthcare system.” – Geographica’s World Reference (published 2000)
Ukraine -GDP per capita (current US$) went from $1,249 in 1987 to $1,569 in 1990 to $635 in 2000 to $3,615 in 2011.
“Poland has been more successful than many former communist states in converting to a privatized economy. While many Poles have prospered from a growing number of entrepreneurial activities, others, however, have seen their incomes seriously lowered.” – Geographica’s World Reference (published 2000)
GDP per capita in Polanddropped from $1,909 in 1985 to $1,694 in 1990 to rise steadily from $2,187 in 1992 to $8,958 in 2006 to $13,352 in 2011.
The Russian Federation GDP per capita according to World Bank statistics: 1994-1998=$8,616; 1999-2003= $10,710; 2004-2008= $13,284; 2009-2013=$14,037.
Indexmundi.com estimates for Russia are GDP - per capita (PPP): $18,000 (2012 est.); $17,300 (2011 est.); $16,600 (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012 US dollars
http://www.indexmundi.com/russia/gdp_per_capita_%28ppp%29.html
http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/ukraine/gdp-per-capita
I see no connection to the comment you were replying. If I wouldn't know Russian mentality, I would say you are payed troll to promote Russia on ZH, but I know the love you people have for the motherland and for your leaders. No offence, but you are completely brainwashed and spewing Russian propaganda out of your blind belief.
I stand true to my principles that all governments are tyrannical and politicians are human scum in service of banker interests. Russia is no exception until proven otherwise. Good luck with that.
a country that had a fleet of Supersonic passenger jets in the 1970s is hardly "like Africa"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144
What the fuck I know?! As a person living under the soviet regime I couldn't care less about technological advances of which practically nobody benefited.
With out dachas people would have been living in hunger, not because they couldn't afford anything, but because the shelves in the supermarket were literally empty. That is not so far off from Africa.
"Control of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s shares in the Russian oil giant Yukos have passed to renowned banker Jacob Rothschild, under a deal they concluded prior to Mr. Khodorkovsky’s arrest,"
AND .. that's why Khodorkovsky was arrested.
Then the Yukos shares were absorbed by Rosneft who did a share-swap with BP. So it wasn't a sell-out, it was a swap.
Moreover the seized proceeds of Mr. Khodorkovsky’s deal were used to buy US Bonds, which are now a Russian state asset.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy-yHhCOKoo
But you left out the ALL best parts. Putin jailed Rothschild's bitch and deprived Rothschild of billions. Furthermore, by saddling Yukos with an unpayable tax bill that bankrupted it, he made the expropriation of Yukos shyster-proof.
Good points. But K was clearly inserting himself into politics, a breach of an earlier agreement not to.
I think Yukos is now under Rothschild control fully and has been transfered to London Legal ownership, which was the real reason fro the Bankruptcy. Under London Law no one else can touch it.
It's protected.
I'm quite sure Putin made a killing in the transfer as well. His cut likely amounted to a huge sum.
It doesn't matter owns Yukos, because Yukos has no assets, they were all sold off to pay the tax man.
Never seen so many downvotes on just about any post
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Cognitive bias is something we all suffer from, especially analysts. Once we decide that this person or that country is bad (or good), those who refuse to look at the factual evidence on its own merits will continue to harbour the same wrong analysis and make the same wrong decisions backed up by selective rationalisations rather than evidence. Brandon is entitled to his opinions as the next person, but there are some gaping false statements in his article.
Nobody I know "worships" Putin. Some of us are grateful for his intervention in Syria last year to stop another war/invasion, but we are under no illusions that act was for selfish reasons in his own national interests. I don't know what msm outlet Brandon is looking at, but the vast majority of them are busy demonising Putin at every opportunity, not heaping praise.
Try doing this: Ignore everything that is said about him and ignore what he says about himself. Simply judge the man by his actions alone, and there is plenty to like about him. With the exception of Chechnya (which he inherited from Yeltsin as a completely broken state, and now starting to flourish), and the fact that he plays musical chairs with Medvedev, I think the Russians and the rest of the world are fortunate in having him in the current position, for now. He has deftly averted catastrophes of war and mass slaughter on two continents in the last 12 months against the most conniving and deceitful campaign to start a major war.
Without the strong Russian reactions, NATO's zionists and neonazis - the far right and svobdan parties in Kiev would be on a genocidal rampage all over the Ukraine by now, and if you believe Yatsenyuk and Tymoshenko, that may still happen. Russia would now be without their warm water port in the Crimea, and Syria would once again be ripe for the taking by the use of more false flag lies and liver eating al queda fanatics the CIA is currently training in Jordan. Hell, we all know Israel is champing at the bit to invade, Turkey (NATO) is planning to bomb its own citizens as a pretext to declare war against Syria, and the biggest warmonger of them all, the MIC is using all its neocon/zionist assets to tie the whole mess together for a conflict with Iran that will make WWII look like a paintball weekend.
Why? Because it is a foregone conclusion that the economies based on debt are collapsing and there's nothing like a major war to shut up the dissenters and get away with the theft of the millennium. Besides, these nutjobs like Nuland and Rogers are either religious fatalists or are so stupid they actually think they can survive a nuclear war.
I don't see Putin doing any of this shit, do you? Let me know if and when he does, so I can get on board your hate fest to hell.
- "You know what Burke? I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them screwing each other over for a goddamn percentage, do you?" -
Junking YHC? WHY?
well said, as usual.
Leverage?
The Public Be Suckered
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1230886
This analysis is missing quite a few pieces of the puzzle.
Number one, his argument is built on Gorbachev...Putin is not Gorbachev.
Number two is the banks and oligarchs...it is not 1994 and neither of these power centers have influence in Russia anymore. Russia does not owe money to the IMF or anyone else for that matter, and Putin ran the western backed oligarchs out of the country.
I do think the Russians and the Chinese would come to the NWO table if they were invited....but they have not been. Hence the BRIC bank, the SCO, etc.
Here is more cogent analysis...
"A new Cold War has begun - let us embrace it with relief! "
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.cz/2014/04/a-new-cold-war-has-begun-let-us...
"Vladimir Putin Nemesis of the New World Order"
http://batr.org/gulag/061012.html
Good explanation of what's going on at the two links you provided. I am surprised at how bad this piece by Brandon Smith is. Normally his stuff is excellent.
There's a lot of red on this thread where there shouldn't be. I have been saying what Brandon said for years already and I have had to re-explain myself for years for some reason. Does Russia have a central bank? Yes, it does. Who do you think controls it? Any Forex trader will tell you that the ruble is pegged to the dollar almost as tightly as the renminbi and has been for years now until the last couple of months. Look at how those currrencies play against gold. Pretty much the same. There is not much volitility compared to what it was many years ago between ANY of the currencies. It's all a game to them.
Other things to consider are that, a) Russians and Ukranians really don't like you that all that much. b) You are annoying them by pretending to know what you are talking about regarding their people's customs and are uselessly trying to make friends because you believe that you can make friends with a Russian or Ukranian without being face to face with them but rather by posting something patronizing online.
I have sent some ZH links overseas the last couple of months. The responses might alarm some of you for the reasons described above. It was not what Tyler wrote or posted but what so many of the comments were about. The recipents had no problems with ZeroHedge but they did find problem and it went like this, "Why do so many think they need to care about us?" That is a really hard question to answer since I have family there and have been there and my children speak Russian because my wife is Russian. I earned my credibilty the hard the way with Russia/Eastern Ukraine peoples.
The best a person could do if they really cared so much would be to go to Russia and/or Ukraine and go see for yourself. You won't see a 2003 Eastern Europe anymore. They have Iphones and everything else you could imagine for tech now. Some things change but some things do not.
this is kind of a weird post
who is trying to make friends with the ppl over in russia from here on zerohedge????
yes some of us like aspects of russia ( I am learning to speak the language )
they have Iphones ? oh golly i am so dern surprised !!!! (lol)
btw ward no. 6 is a short novel written by russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
russian literature rules...
In Hery Ford's book "The International Jew" published in 1919, He states that 66% or more of all indiviuals on varous government department panels were Jewish, Putin seems to be Russinan and pushing for more Russian control over Russia that Zionist control.
He seems to me to be coercing Russia away from the influence of the International Jews. I susspect the Chinese also want to Captain their own ship, as do the Brazilians and Indians.
I hold out hope that these four countries agree to a Gold standard which can only strenghten their economic standing in the world.
Watch this video, and you see how Putin fights for his people and that he is not a member of the Globalist club:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flC---s2moA
The problem: there is only one Vlad and at some point Vlad will be gone.
thanks for the link
luved it :)
What I find very interesting in the article, that Gorbachev expected the NWO to develop despite the collapse of the SU. That's extremely important, because his official narrative always has been, he wanted reformation of the Soviet system but it spinned out of control. But if that was true, and the reformation Glasnost and Perestroika got out of control, with the Capitalist class warfare enemy being the victorious counterpart - how in the world could the Red leader hope to come closer to the goal of world government?
This is only possible, if he already knew, that the Capitalist system, the "class enemy", was ALSO aiming for that goal.
But what was the propaganda of the Capitalists during that time? Thatcher and Reagan? Thatcherism and Reagonomics?
Reagan visiting in Germany the graves of Waffen-SS soldiers and creating a huge scandal? "Mr. Grobatchev, tear down this wall!" Very clever! Showing the sheeple how the USA was supporting the idea of souvereign nations, even honoring the soldiers of that idea, the Waffen-SS, that fought Marxism, while Gorbachev already knew, that they had the more efficient way to reach World Government!
Wow! If that's not evil, I don't know what evil is.
If I were US american and think back at that time, it must be amazing how much propaganda garbage the US people were fed?
Star wars SDI to defend liberty, correct? Was maybe the whole armament race maybe nothing more than the planned exit strategy from the Red globalist experiment, after the Capitalist regime had proven much more effective in destroying the European culture (Frankfurt school, hedonism, feminism, modern art)?
This Gorbachev speech is the PROOVE and he says it himself, that he, the old red Globalist, expected to reach World Government despite the "collapse" of the USSR. Amazing.
And that Brezinsky is full of prayers for Marxism, which, for example, denies the laws of biology being valid for the human species, is also very enlightening, because at that time Marxism had proven to be totally wrong on many occasions and that based on it's principles, not even a working economy could be built.
And interestingly all this had been explained to the Germans in the book "Mein Kampf" from Adolf Hitler, 90 years ago: That Marxism and Capitalism were only the two sides of the same medal: Jewish Materialism. That the Democracies only were scams and frauds and nothing but the hidden rulership of money and the Jews.
I have the feeling, that "Mein Kampf" will become a very saught book in the coming years, when the masks will be taken down.
If Putin is on the side of the NWO or not, does not really matter. The encirclement of Russia is almost complete. He builds no new state, creates not a new leadership, ideological soldiers and therefore builds no leadership that could lead Russia after him. Therefore, at latest after his death, Russia will be taken over by the forces of darkness again.
And then the fate of the world and the White nations is sealed and the Kalergi-plan will be finished.
The world had it's chance. It chose to ally with the freemasons Churchill and Roosevelt. That was the final struggle and the last chance the White nations had.
From an 2008 interview, here’s Gorbachev:
MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti - 07/05/2008) – Promises made by U.S. leaders cannot be trusted, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph published on Wednesday.
“The Americans promised that NATO wouldn’t move beyond the boundaries of Germany after the Cold War, but now half of central and eastern Europe are members, so what happened to their promises? It shows they cannot be trusted,” he said in Paris…
“I sometimes have a feeling that the United States is going to wage war against the entire world,” the former Soviet leader said.
“The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every U.S. president has to have a war,” he concluded, also saying that the world had squandered the chance in the decade after the Cold War to “build a new world order.”
http://windowstorussia.com/
thanks
Arrest Blankfein and Dimon and then worry about Russian Banksters.
With those criminals off our backs America can rise up against the globalists.
Where are you boris?
"People, I need some photoshopped 'ugly Putins' stat. Give me angry, crazy, winking, maniacal, Hitler-ish. I want them on my desk within two hours."
And the "wrap up" of this less than honorable piece of journalistic
"Remember, Russia and the U.S. are nothing but false champions dueling in a fake gladiator match paid for by the IMF. The war against Syria was thwarted because the elites were unable to garner enough public support from the American people to make the action viable. Every engineered war needs a gullible percentage of the population to give it momentum. Why didn’t they get their following from the public? It was because of the tireless efforts of the alternative media."...
Oh yeah... Tell that to the Russian people and other Eastern European soon to be wannabe EUer's that suffered through those IMF bank loans that looted everything from them in the 1990's? ... You forgot to mention Yugoslavia Brandon and the fact that before NATO's peace keeping operations under Tito was the most properous jewel in Eastern Europe before the U.S. and U.K. got it's meat hooks into it... Isn't it easy to cast Putin in the same light as Obama or G.W. when the NATO/Anglo-American contingent is in their neighborhood destabilizing their neighbors and stirring the pot once again towards World War when Russia in fact IS NOT in ours??? Isn't it interesting that this article leaves out the historical fact(s) of Western intervention (banks or no banks) in Eastern Europe for the past 300 years starting with the French and British and now with the World's policemen du jour the United States of Terror! Forget that Stalin and Khruschev had the American alliance figured out from the get-go and that the "Iron Curtain" was their as protection against an eventual "Missile Defense Shield" that came true!
While I agree that the alternative media and Liberty movement played a role in stopping an intervention in Syria last year which is far from over given the Anglo-American bought and paid for Pit Bull Israel's presence as the ultimate threat and dictator in the Region I beg to differ with Mr. Smith on the real reason it did not happen. The U.S. Armed Forces are worn thin, Russia is rested and ready and the Leaders in the West know they will have the ass kicking of a lifetime they most assuredly have coming to them including the ladies and gents in uniform who will be ordered to fight in a war that they will not and cannot win at this point given their devastation and destabilization campaigns in the rest of the Middle East... Need I forget that the United States Empire is out of pocket for the 1,000 plus military base expenses it had levied against the World and the flotilla that surrounds the likes of Russia and China to keep them in-line to purchase more worthless USD!
Oh Brandon you forgot to mention the fact that Russia didn't invade and occupy these places killing some 3 million and displacing millions more -that the United States did and LOST but still has feudal barricades surrounding their embassies in Afghanistan and Iraq! Left Libya and Syria out of it for obvious reasons. Thank God someone is there to protect Syria from losing 1 or 2 million of their own at the hands of the U.S. and Israel???
I also truly believe that Putin is Nationalistic and wants Russia to succeed economically with a stable government and currency for it's people unlike the U.S. oligarchy.
Sorry Brandon but I rate your work here on a par with The Diplomat. Thought you were better than this!
I respect your post. But I do talk to Russians every day. I happen to live with a real live Russian. I have known her for 14 years now. We will be married ten years in May. We have two children together and have only ever been married to each other and those are our children together.
I have earned my respect with Russians. WB7 will attest if needed. I do not run to Russia but my wife has her mother and father there and her Mom makes some coin. So I did all of the paperwork to allow my daughter and son to go with their Mother to Russia last Autumn. They went for almost two months. I thought perhaps I had lost them but that was not how it was. They came back to me for some reason. I was quite happy about that. It was a grateful reunion. It was not about nations but about family.
Take it easy on Brandon here. Some parts of life may not be quite as clear as one would think.
this post does not make much sense
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Respect your thoughts as always, but after what we've witnessed the U.S. Government and it's allies in that part of the World these last few months doing, anyone who has either the proclivity to find positive(s) or is neutral on the American dream needs to have a mind check.
You have to understand something about me now.
I'm a military brat who was raised during the Cold War to believe that I was living the greatest and most prosperous free democratic experience the World had ever created, and this of course was during that wonderful experiment called the Vietnam War which we were told was to contain "communism"... Then you fast forward through the next 40 years and understand that prosperity includes an even larger collection of death and destruction in it's wake based on one of the most wicked lies (among others) ever told that sacrificed thousands of it's own to promote the theft, rape and murder of the entire Middle East Region in the name of "terror" you only know in your heart that it must stop!
So where is this experiment going? We've lied to everyone. Broken and cheated every treaty we've ever signed while wrapping ourselves around an image and "Constitution" that declares the opposite of everything we've done and that we're supposed to respect and represent both past and present. In fact we've never gotten it right and it took me more than 2/3 of my life unfortunately to figure that one out!
At some point, and this goes for you, me and Brandon you need to put the Kool-Aid down for good, otherwise you'll just keep lying to yourself that something is still salvageable when we know their is nothing left and that the experiment must be reigned in before it's too late.
Despite all your empty opinions, you still haven't answered the primary question raised by the article - if Putin is such an anti-globalist, then why does he continually throw his support behind the IMF? Is the IMF not the perfect representation of Western financial cronyism and globalism?
For the same reason, why he supports the Communist myth about "The Great Patriotic War".
He is a politician who tries to defend Russia. Russia as federation with many ethnicities. This is what most nationalists do not understand, that either he acts that way, or Russia blows up.
He is also not a nationalist leader who wants to free his nation from debt slavery. He's pragmatic. If it works somehow, he keeps it. But this does not mean, he supports it like the Plutocrats, that use it to enslave the nations. He just tries make the best of each situation. Sometimes a slight change is needed, sometimes a bigger change, or sometimes things need to be removed (think about western NGOs to infiltrate and undermine societies).
He does Russia not want to be encircled.
He does not sell his people to foreign interests.
He also does not fight Democracy.
He's a quite "normal" politician who does what needs to be done: to protect his country and the people. Not more. Not less.
Once you understand that, it will immediately become clear, why Vlad is not fighting the IMF. He only wants a peaceful development without much ideological fights.
He even accepts oligarchs, IF they do not work for foreign interests and play according to RUSSIA's rules. But this does not mean, he supports them as power AGAINST the people. In fact he supports the people and where necessary, he shows even the most powerful oligarchs, who is the boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flC---s2moA
We always tend to project our wishes into political leaders. And if we recognize, he does not fit, we tend to binary put him into the opposite category (for example: Putin doesn't fight IMF -> globalist; Putin is not a White nationalist -> Globalist).
But Putin is Putin.
He is not a revolutionary who wants to remove all evil from Russia. But he is a leader who protects his country. And if something in his eyes becomes too damaging, be it for the country or the society (gay marriage, gender mainstreaming, low birth rates), then he acts. Not more. Not less.
I am going to have to agree, this isn't Smith's best post. Why would anyone risk allowing Neo Nazi's in skate board helmets to potentially takeover nuke sites....I don't think so. The disappearing gold was a good one!
I don't believe Putin is controlled by Western Banks.
His decisions (see: Syria, Iran, anti-gay propaganda law, eurasian union, etc) don't jive at ALL with Western interests.
"Why would Putin, a supposedly anti-globalist nationalist leader, want the IMF, a supposedly U.S.-controlled institution, to be the global purveyor and overlord of the world economy? It’s because the IMF is not a U.S.-controlled institution; it is a banker-controlled institution. And Putin is a globalist, not a nationalist."
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This is where the author steps on his dick. He is stating his opinion - and offers no facts whatsoever - to support this supposition.
In my humble, redneck opinion, Putin did it precisely because the replacement of the dollar as reserve currency by a basket of other instruments would be a death blow to the US.
I believe Putin sees the IMF as the lesser of two evils when compared to the US dollar.
No one is answering the main question - why is Putin backing the IMF if the IMF is supposedly a American/NATO controlled institution? Are you saying the IMF is not a Western-centric elitist's club? You do realize that most of the funding for the IMF comes from the U.S., right? Lesser of two evils? It's amazing how people will grasp at straws in order to avoid reality.
The entire BRICS backing of the IMF is contingent upon IMF reform and has been since the US (and USD) precipitated financial crisis (and the BRICS bank implementation proceeds in case the non-confrontational solution fails), which is why Barry was so desperate to give Vlad's minions more voice and voting power at the IMF and pay all the US's back bills at the IMF at the very same time Barry is battling Vlad over the future of Ukraine.
This article is bullshit.Folks,please understand,that russians dont live rich live,simple becouse they spend a lot of monney for defence/not for offence/.If they dont have strong military,they would not exist.And they dont print green papers,for excange for german cars.
I appreciate the theory being proposed as all angles should be examined but I cant agree. When one asks.. what would the world look like if this theory were true? Well for starters this website wouldn't exist and we would most certainly be getting pummeled here in the states. It seems there is still outside opposition and countries not in the fold.
If Putin is such a sell out, then why hasn't he put Russia in hock? I am quite sure there will be no question when sources of national opposition have been put down. The Eye of Mordor is for the most part focused elsewhere. Like it or not your future depends on Putin's success and obstinance.
Ok but that ain't the problem. The problem and huge difference is the US is spreading its monetary inflation and bond fraud world-wide and fucking up other countries because it owns the world reserve currency.
I disagree with the drive of this article. There does exist a real East vs West dynamic. As for those authors. Many have high opinions of them selves and over rate their worth. So the view expressed is false IMHO
Yeah sure Brandon. Obama is a socialist. Putin is a socialist. And the Tooth Fairy got bonked by Krampus too...
wrong, wrong and wrong. i use as pee pad.
The only right thing the author said is that Gorby is NWO officer. This is true. However, if you look to Putin and his support of the IMF you will see that he is using "Jew-Jitsu" - using his opponents strength against him. the IMF is, currently, largely a tool of the United States. What Putin is trying to do with the IMF is to, literally, break its back by forcing it down the SDR path which will result in a gold-linked currency and then the US is fucked. No more printing.
What i find the author is also missing out on is the 'motivation' of Putin. Since the death of his mother Putin has become very spiritual. I think Pat Buchanan captures it well in this article (Well worth the time to read).
Whose Side Is God on Now?http://www.creators.com/opinion/pat-buchanan.html#post
"Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation." Vlad iimir Putin"Remember, Russia and the U.S. are nothing but false champions dueling in a fake gladiator match paid for by the IMF. The war against Syria was thwarted because the elites were unable to garner enough public support from the American people to make the action viable. Every engineered war needs a gullible percentage of the population to give it momentum. Why didn’t they get their following from the public? It was because of the tireless efforts of the alternative media."
So ah, how do ya make money if both sides are rigged?
The funnel to hell is narrowing as more light shines on who is responsible for profiting in war and this time, the very awesome population elimination agenda is involved in a modern world of hellacious weaponry that is only intended to kill. How many will be left to write about the last decade, in ten years time from now?
Thanks for this fine educational report. It helps most that see to level out on the unreal sad situation most of America is in. We were shocked today to see a forest green military Humvee with no plates sitting outside the local cop shop unloading something. All the shinny badges were there too. The picture scene had the unloading of ordinance written all over it. Wanna talk about concerning. The military at the cop shop blocks away from the front yard now. Must be getting close to something happening soon.
Good report as believing government is a foolish endeavor.
On the contrary, many of Putin's efforts to return sovereign powers to Russia get blocked by politicians and civil servants who are working for the globalist agenda (knowingly or unknowingly). For example, they may have assets abroad like property or investments which they don't want to be seized by EU/US.
Some nationalist initiatives of Putin which have been obstructed by his opponents within Russia:
Even Gazprom is only half-owned by the Russian state.
How is it Putin's fault
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzmPazZTj1w
The fact Putin's popularity levels in his own country are usually around the 70% mark says a lot. In the Western "bastions of freedom 'n democracy", the popularity levels of the likes of Obama, Cameron & Hollande are around 30 to 40 points lower. He must be doing something right!
I had been wondering if Putin had actually managed to throw off the banking families. Wonder if the Chinese have managed to stay out of their grip.