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Russia, China, Or America? "An Oppressed People Ruled By Others For Others"
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via First Rebuttal blog,
“I’ve long thought that he has pursued a pre-World War Two course which could only end badly – a course in which his power is maximized by crushing internal opponents, expanding empire and using the military to frighten neighboring countries into submission.”, writes John Lloyd of Reuters. I read this excerpt from his recent article and thought finally someone in mainstream media is honestly discussing the foreign policy of America, just to eventually find out he is actually talking about Putin. However, Lloyd does go on to imply American foreign policy can be described much the same way.
Unfortunately the rest of the article is basically ‘informing’ the reader that Putin has two options; 1. he can lose or 2. he can lose badly. John Lloyd’s coverage must be a bit disappointing to all those readers that purchased Lloyd’s 2004 book “What the Media are Doing to our Politics”. It is clear that John Lloyd is nothing more than yet another mainstream media muppet of the neocon storyline. The more they say it apparently the more true they believe it becomes. In any case, I suppose I could overlook the obvious hypocrisy if it were well thought out. However, Lloyd seems to miss the one most likely option, the China factor.
“Russia has the capability and the wisdom to overcome the existing hardship in the economic situation,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told journalists, China Daily reported Monday. “If the Russian side needs it, we will provide necessary assistance within our capacity.” In a recent piece I published, I discuss the clear motivation of the Western Alliance to crush Russia is an attempt to contain the obvious new world dominating force, China. You see China has just surpassed the US as the world’s top economy. Its military is by far the largest military in the world though probably not the most sophisticated, yet. But there is no rational mind that argues China will not be the world’s single superpower in a mere 20 years if not sooner. The Western Alliance (which is the collective of Western leaders that have long controlled global policies), however, is not so rational. The central banking cartel along with the Western Alliance are not going down without a fight.
The problem is that by way of pure demographics the Western Alliance concedes a majority of the world’s assets will be owned by the East within the next few years and with majority of wealth typically comes control. James Wolfensohn, ex president of the World Bank, lays out the global power shift very clearly in his address at Stanford University. But so how does the Western Alliance hold onto global control whilst no longer holding the majority of the world’s assets? Well that is the challenge James presents to students in his address. In reality the Western Alliance is not calmly passing the challenge onto these future leaders but is very much initiating the battle to end all battles. You see it is natural for the Alpha dog to eventually pass on the crown. It happens in all top-of-the-food-chain species, lions, wolves, bears, etc. The dominating male will eventually be challenged by a more impressive up and comer. And while that alpha dog can hold onto his top rank for a few years past his prime by putting on a show of strength eventually it comes down to his last fight.
I see that as where America and the Western Alliance stands today. You see we’ve been barking very loud and putting on an impressive show of strength by taking on very weak challengers since the beginning of the new millennium, however, the real challenger is China. And we’ve all known that for some time. As Wolfensohn discusses it is becoming a now or never reality for the Western Alliance. Either they find a way to contain the impressive beast or they give up their Alpha status. And so here they are in the fight for global control. In that earlier piece I wrote I describe how the Western Alliance is targeting energy, as it is China’s achilles heel. China’s energy source for the future is Russia. Given its economic, military and energy prowess, a Sino-Soviet Alliance will trump the Western Alliance. The objective then is to destroy the Soviet variable before the Sino-Soviet Alliance is fortified. Control China’s energy and you can contain China.
Clearly Russia’s future has very little to do with the Western world and so they have no motive to start wars with the West. There is nothing to gain by doing so. However, they have every motive to defend themselves against Western aggression. And so if you see Russian aggression with the West it can only be defensive in nature. Nations (other than North Korea) do not act in a way that is to the detriment of its political class. Because warring with the West presents no possible upside but significant downside for Russia and her leaders, they will actually be willing to do everything in their power to prevent such a scenario.
However, as we discussed above, the Western Alliance has only one option to secure its global control and that is to contain China and the only way to contain China is via Russian energy. Thus, the Western Alliance has every reason to war with Russia. Behaviour (for rational minds) is always logical and so we can use logic to come to the truth about behaviour by looking at the logical results of actions. If an action seems to be detrimental to a particular subject nation’s political class, then the action would be illogical and thus will not be taken. If an action is the only course of survival for a nation, or more pertinently its political class, then you can be damn certain that action will be taken. Looking at the Russian conflict then from a logical context, it really becomes not up for debate that the Western Alliance must be the aggressor.
But so ok, we are doing what we need to in order to secure our dominance and perhaps there are working class folks that may agree with such a policy. Sounds simple enough according to John Lloyd. As he lays out, the two options for Putin and Russia are to either lose or lose badly. But when John pulls his head out his ass or decides to speak with some integrity rather than selling himself out as a politician’s town crier he will admit that things won’t be so simple. China’s future growth is dependent on Russian energy, and so on Russia itself. As such, China will never allow the Western Alliance to crush Russia as China understands the end objective is not a containment of Russia but China itself. I made the point in the previous article that China will not only step in economically, which we’ve already seen by example with the signed energy deals and now explicitly stating they will back the Russian economy but, if comes to it, China will be prepared to step in militarily, they have no choice.
That is a very scary WWIII proposition and one might wonder why in the hell are we headed in that direction? It is obviously not something citizens of any involved countries would want. Again the reason goes back to that very natural process of Alpha selection. It requires a final fight of the Alpha dog, the one in which he loses his reign of power to a new more impressive Alpha dog. Sometimes this is done without violence when the Alpha simply knows he is no longer top dog and he moves on. Often times it ends is horrible violence.
Unfortunately with quarreling societies the political class does not fight its own battles. They send their soldiers out to kill and be killed on their behalf. You can be certain if the killing and being killed was to be done by those cowards making the decision to war with Russia and ultimately China, that the passing of the torch would be a very quiet and uneventful one. But unfortunately the massacre will be of the working class while the political class remains warm and well fed in their thrones and castles.
In the end, who is making global policy decisions affects no one but the political class. It is their world of power and luxury from ill gotten gains that is on the line. The rest of us go about our day to day business with no consciousness of what takes place at that level of control. Ultimately perhaps a change in power would lead to an improving quality of life for the masses rather than just for the .1% at the top and that would be a very good change.
We the people can allow our political class to kill and maim hundreds of thousands of our brave young men and women but there is no alternative outcome to China becoming the global superpower. That is certain. And look, we would all rather be in control than not in control but China’s certainty of power comes from the size of its bourgeoning population not from some sinister plot to take over the world despite what Western media would have you believe. And so we shouldn’t fear a power shift.
As Russia seems to be doing, we should find ways to optimize the way in which we can progress from the change. I remember reading a book as un undergrad called “Who Stole My Cheese”. The book was a brilliant highly acclaimed few words of wisdom on why and how change can be a good thing. But the successful transition during periods of change is a function of our own perspectives. If we continue to drink the poison from our political class poured from the cups of mainstream media our future is grim. However, if we the people, take the powers invested in us by way of the Constitution, we can take the inevitable coming power shift and apply our new role in a way that creates incredibly positive outcomes.
I find it so disturbingly illogical that we Americans are willing to die so that our political class can enjoy ill gotten riches and power yet we cower when it comes to defending our great nation against the political class, something our founding fathers pleaded for us to do. The truth, which the political class legislates so hard for us to overlook, is that they are powerless without us. It is us that fight their fights, fund their wars and enforce their laws that enslave us yet we bow down and call them Mr. President and Madame Secretary. And so I ask each and everyone of you, when will we wake up and recognize that we are the power and the wealth and that the political class has only managed, through deception, to harness our strengths and pass them off as their own? For until that day of awakening, we will continue to live as an oppressed people ruled by others for others.
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That question in essence is human history's time line.
To which we still don't know the answer. We stay sons of Sisyphus.
Why ?
Your guess as good as mine; but each ideological construct to solve the problem, by creating a unifying thread amongst people who as individuals are disparate but who collectively want to survive, has proven that it germinates its own seeds of destruction :
1° A caste system, that is supposed to bring order, and society ossfies.
2° A master race, that exemplifies "uber values", and they become slothful predators that eat their own best ones.
3° A universal Empire with a Caesar and it goes totally slave driven.
4° A revelatory religion and it creates an internal hierarchy and an external "bogey man"; leading to perpetual war.
5° A Nation state with an elected elite and it becomes an Oligarcy which defends a fascist construct in a statist-private oligarchy alliance. The electors are just "useful idiots" who vote for their own submission to a closed system that is only "open" in theory not in pratice.
All the while the knowledge thread allows the human race to produce technology that can kill humanity and living life more easily and pollute the environment at awesome speed.
We are now morphing into the leviathons of our own extinction.
Its a return to the mythological ages in all its ominous horror.
And the core problem is that humanity never learns from its past errance.
There is no cure to that as our destructive urge is now stronger than what we can construct. (when we act out of dire sufferance).
Back to Noah's ark seems to be the way the finger points !
Rebeginning the civilization meme again and again from the individual up, but where our ability to destruct has achieved greater acumen !
What am I missing out on ? Hope, faith and charity for the idiot homo sapien ?
But ..... there is a new slant ...... the Western elites have not only been provoking nations in the East, they have been at war with their own citizens and breaking down the social contract within nations.
Globailisation has constantly enriched the elites at the expense of everyne else, the 1% get richer while the 99% get poorer.
The rich don't want to pay taxes to help poorer citizens.
When the bankers mess up, tax payers bail them out.
Central Bankers have to get the economy going again putting tax payers on the line for future problems, business leaders hoard cash awaiting the return of easy profits.
So maybe Western elites won't just be taking on the East but the 99% within their own nations that they have been screwing for the past decade.
New parties are rising In Europe that are against the status quo ..... it's time for change.
The mega-corporations and plutocrats control america and americans and they do so with propaganda.
The way that the mega-corporations and plutocrats will continue to grow and profit is by making america far more populous.
They will grow the population of america through more more MOAR mass immigration of third worlders.
How can they get americans to agree to this insane process of cramming one billion or more third worlders into america?
The same way they have been doing it for decades--white race guilt multiculturalist propaganda.
Growth in america is mostly based on nonwhite mass immigration.
The mega-corporations and plutocrats were able to obtain "consent" from americans through the process of manufacturing consent through propaganda.
Multiculturalist white-race-guilt propaganda is shoved down the throats of white kids in school and via hollywood etc.
This multiculturalist white-race-guilt propaganda tells white kids that being a racist is the most evil thing in the world, and that they must prove they are not racists, thus proving they are 'good people'.
So that way when the mega-corporations and plutocrats and the coin-operated federal government allow mass immigration, legal and illegal, the white americans are too guilted out to do anything about it.
Growth ensues. GDP rises. Profits rise for the mega-corporations....the plutocrats get richer....the stock market rises... growth is the key...and they need more human livestock from the "developing world" to get that growth...and they will get it by manipulating the population of america...through propaganda...propaganda that makes you feel guilty, makes you think that opposing mass immigration is racist and that racism is the Ultimate Evil.
Haven't you noticed it yet?
Homo sapiens is imminently susceptible to propaganda from the top of the social ladder. Why? Because on the savannah hundreds of thousands of years ago we evolved to have a survival strategy that involved getting ideas from the tribal leaders. The tribal leaders would come up with a plan (drive the antelope into the corral and shut the gate, etc) to survive. And they would transmit that plan to the tribe. In order to carry out the plan, the tribe would have to be able to ingest and internalize ideas from the top of the social ladder.
That innate characteristic is now being exploited by the parasitical/predatory elite of this modern world.
They have domesticated our culture via propaganda, and now they control us via this domesticated culture.
And they are just getting started. I predict the USA population will total one billion by 2050.
1 billion? Highly unlikely as the elite want to reduce the "surpluss populations" of the world so it can be controlled easier. There are presently too many slaves on the global plantation. Epidemics, natural disasters, nuclear warfare, pestilence? It'll be a four horse race, and on the pale horse sat death.
We are all controlled and enslaved by;
EDUCATION-RELIGION-MONEY
Identity politics and psuedo patriotism more than religion...Nietzsche was about a century too late with his claim.
lift the veil
Monetized debt money is slavery. Commodity money is the money of a free people. It facilitates the ability to trade value for value.
Money control by assholes in the shadows, will keep this world in slavery..want freedom for your kids, get rid of the fed first and eliminate the blue blood line, problem solved.
The Nine Stages Of Civilization / We're In The Seventh ~ Apathy
by Allen L Roland
www.opednews.com
The United States is just over 230 years old and is now firmly entrenched in the seventh stage of all civilizations ( Apathy ) with only Dependence and eventually Bondage ahead of it : Allen L Roland
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through a nine stage sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacence to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage. ( Attributed to Alexander Tytler )
Cheap Fed credit is at the heart of every financial collapse... an analogy helps to understand the claim.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/jaguar-inflation-a-laymans-explanatio...
Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic Monthly, wrote about the Great American Sin of Apathy in October, 1922 ~ and its worth repeating now in Dec, 2014 .
" What is the great American sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which dislikes to have its comfort disturbed....The most shameless greed, the most sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of events. This is the great American sin."
"Clearly Russia’s future has very little to do with the Western world"
I don't understand where this conclusion comes from.
Russian exports
To China - 6.8%
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To Netherlands - 13.3%
To Germany - 7%
To Italy - 7.5%
To UK - 3.1%
Poland - 3.7
http://www.worldsrichestcountries.com/top-russia-exports.html
Meh.
I don't worry too much about it.
We'll just follow policies that will eventually lead to war that kill millions and then reconfigure global power structures to fit the new realities and future historians will ponder how senseless and shortsighted we all were by not seeing the inevitability of the choices we allowed our 'leaders' to make.
It's what we do. Over and over. Nobody will listen to the sane voices counseling reason.
They never do.
China / Russia swap deal...
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/china-to-the-rescue-russia-agrees-to-...
For ordinary people, it doesn't make much difference whose boot is on their neck.
The displaced regime, however, loses everything.
That is why you must fight to the death- to preserve the privileges of the elite.
"...if we the people, take the powers invested in us by way of the Constitution"
That sounds great. But, that political class also controls political and cultural institutions such as the media and educational systems, and it has neutered most religious institutions and virtually destroyed the family. Therefore, I do not see how any movement for overthrowing that political class could gain the critical mass necessary for a credible challenge let alone meaningful victory.
How would that critical mass be achieved, Thad? Anyone, anyone, Beuller?
You are right but if we don't spread the message things are going to change. Talk to families, friends, co-workers, someone will listen and spread the message to others.
A Fourth Branch is the only way to stop our slide to despotism. Using the same mechanism Madison laid out in the Federalist Papers #10, pit faction against faction. Today that paradigm has been undermined because there is only one faction in Washington now.
The book is available in all E book formats and 80% is free to peruse. That is enough to understand the idea and it's implications.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/277193
Civilization's Parasites
The parasite deliberately inculcates in the host the fear that if the parasite happens to be dislodged, the host will lose all these things, and be left with nothing. The parasite carefully instructs the host that he exists only because of the “benign” presence of the parasite – that he owes everything to the presence of the parasite, his religion, his social order, his monetary system, and his educational system.
Wow! What a great article.
A Fourth Branch is the only way to stop our slide to despotism. Using the same mechanism Madison laid out in the Federalist Papers #10, pit faction against faction. Today that paradigm has been undermined because there is only one faction in Washington now.
The book is available in all E book formats and 80% is free to peruse. That is enough to understand the idea and it's implications.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/277193