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The Next Empire
Submitted by Jeff Thomas via Doug Casey's International Man blog,
Throughout history, political, financial, and military leaders have sought to create empires. Westerners often think of ancient Rome as the first empire. Later, other empires formed for a time. Spain became an empire, courtesy of its Armada, its conquest of the New World, and the gold and silver extracted from the West. Great Britain owned the 19th century but lost its empire due largely to costly wars. The US took over in the 20th century and, like Rome, rose as a republic, with minimal central control, but is now crumbling under its own governmental weight.
Invariably, the last people to understand the collapse of an empire are those who live within it. As a British subject, I remember my younger years, when, even though the British Empire was well and truly over, many of my fellow Brits were still behaving in a pompous manner as though British “superiority” still existed. Not so, today. (You can only pretend for so long.)
But this does suggest that those who live within the present empire—the US—will be the last to truly understand that the game is all but over. Americans seem to be hopeful that the dramatic decline is a temporary setback from which they will rebound.
Not likely. Historically, once an empire has been shot from its perch, it’s replaced by a rising power—one that’s more productive and more forward thinking in every way. Yet the US is hanging on tenaciously, and like any dying empire, its leaders are becoming increasingly ruthless, both at home and abroad, hoping to keep up appearances.
Warfare is often the death knell of a declining empire—both in its extreme financial cost and in its ability to alienate the peoples of other countries. In the new millennium, the US has invaded more countries than at any other time in its history and appears now to be in a state of perpetual warfare. This is being carried out both militarily and economically, as the US imposes economic sanctions on those it seeks to conquer.
This effort has become so threatening to the world that other major powers, even if they do not have a history of being allies, are now coming together to counter the US.
The US is encouraged in its effort by an unnatural alliance between the countries of Europe. Although Europe is made up of many small countries, often with dramatically differing cultures, who have bickered with each other for centuries, the European Union has cobbled them together into an ill-conceived “United States of Europe.”
Although the relatively new EU is already clearly stumbling and is on the verge of fragmenting, their leaders are desperately attempting to hold the unlikely alliance together with the help of the US. Meanwhile, the other major powers of the world are going full steam ahead to ensure that, when the US and EU reach their Waterloo, the rest of the world will carry on independently of the dying empire.
They are not merely waiting along the sidelines for the collapse to come, awaiting their turn at the top of the pecking-order. They are actively preparing their position to, as seamlessly as possible, take the baton at a run.
The End of Dollar Hegemony
Since the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, the US dollar has reigned supreme as the world’s default currency. In 1944, the US held more gold than any other country, but in 1971, the US went off the gold standard, and since then, the dollar has been a fiat currency. The US has become increasingly cavalier in its abuse of the dollar—often at the expense of other countries.
Russia and China dealt with the latest round of strong-arm tactics by the US to adhere to the petrodollar by creating the largest energy agreement in history. This and all trade between the two countries will be settled in the ruble and the yuan. Russia has since been active in creating agreements with other fuel customers, also bypassing the petrodollar.
In creating these agreements, the Asian powers have unofficially announced the demise of the petrodollar. For decades, the US has applied its muscle to other countries, using the petrodollar. So, the Sino-Russian agreement stands, not only to end the petrodollar monopoly, but to create a decline in US power over the world, generally.
A New SWIFT System
Presently, the vast majority of economic transfers in the world pass through the SWIFT system, located in Brussels but controlled by the US. In recent years, the US has barred, or threatened to bar, other countries from the SWIFT system, effectively making it impossible for banks to transfer money and, by extension, causing the collapse of their banking systems. Russia has responded by creating its own SWIFT system.
It’s entirely likely that, if Russian trading partners, such as Iran, are barred from the use of the Brussels SWIFT (or even threatened to be barred), Russia would extend the use of its SWFT to them.
The creation of a second worldwide SWIFT would effectively remove the SWIFT threat from the US bag of tricks as an economic weapon. As long as Russia provides an effective money transfer service and does it without the intimidation that the US employs, it’s predictable that other countries would flock to the new system, in preference to SWIFT. Once other countries are fully on board, the US would have no choice but to interface with the new system or lose trade with those countries.
A New Central Bank
In recent decades, China and Russia have been expanding their economic powers dramatically and have periodically complained that their seats at the IMF table are unrealistically low, considering their importance to world trade. In 2014, China officially replaced the US as the world’s largest economy, yet the IMF has consistently sought to minimise China’s place at the table.
It would seem that the West believes that it’s holding all the cards and that the Chinese and other powers must accept a poor-sister position, if they are to be allowed to sit at the IMF table at all. The West somehow does not seem to recognise that, if frozen out, the other powers have the ability to create alternatives. As with the SWIFT system, the Asian powers have reacted to US overreach, not by going away licking their wounds, but by creating a second IMF.
The Russian State Duma (the lower house of the Russian legislature) have now created the New Development Bank. It will have a $100 billion pool, to be used for the BRICS countries. Its five members will contribute equally to its funding. It will be centered in Shanghai, India will serve as the first five-year rotating president, and the first chairman of the board of directors will come from Brazil. The first chairman of the board of governors is likely to be Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. It’s therefore structured to be truly multinational.
In creating all of the above entities, the BRICS will, in effect, have created a complete second economic world.
In the latter days of the British Empire, we Brits seemed to be under the illusion that, even as our power base crumbled, we might somehow retain control by threats and bluster. The UK was utterly wrong in this and only succeeded in alienating trading partners, colonies, and allies by doing so.
The same is happening again today. China, Russia, and the rest of the world, when faced with American threats and bluster, will not simply fold their tents and accept that the US must be obeyed. They will, instead, create alternatives. And they are doing so exceedingly well and quickly. At this point, the overreach of the US is not only enabling other powers to rise, it is forcing their hand to literally create the next full-blown empire.
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Desperate declining empire employs heavy-handed tactics to hold onto empire, but in the process accelerates the rise of the next empire.....
Tumultuous, but intensely interesting time to be alive....
I vote for Iceland as the next Empire. They seem to be the only ones who know what they are doing.
never been a yank, but fuck all the haters. this country will hard reset and we'll start again.
Who's gonna run things without us? The great empire of "Chrussia"? The only white people not to evolve past a resource economy and the imploding asian miracle?
please
Australia has not evolved past a resource economy.
How would they?
By Dean Henderson: Canada, Australia and New Zealand are still part of the Crown. The Commonwealth – which is comprised of 53 nations including India, South Africa and the above three nations – is an Orwellian misnomer which serves the Crown via cheap resources, while most nations within the Commonwealth (Bangladesh, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, et al) remain hopelessly poor.
https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/nemtsov-the-end-of-the-british-empire/
Can't blame the Aussies, the UN has been here pushing them around for years. The schools are miserable statist affairs, and they were under a outright Communist party leadership for nearly two decades.
It'll take time to straighten this mess out...
signed,
from down under...
Don't be mean. They simply don't have enough people to do anything other than dig up their resources.
Yes they do. They just don't have the legal power to do anything else. The UN has been here for the past 15 years making everything illegal and forcing them to accept refugees (quite a few are war criminals) from the middle east and Africa.
They need the US and UN out of the way before they can fix this mess, and trust me when I say that they know who their enemies are...
They also have one of the highest median wage incomes of the developed world.
Putin would beat Obama at arm wrestling for sure.
You had me at beat Obama......
Putin completes me....
But not Poroshenko. Kind of a silly way of rating world leaders today.
@ bk :
u able to conceive an object, technically or else, ok, but you make all assembly in what you are spitting on....
russia is able to make design, corea kick your ass in many category as well, you just sick coz you are loosing it and your money didnt pass the century timeline of the world reserve, that is your problem, you are not 400 years history, and you are ending yourself as fast you raised from nothing, you are talking to nations that got 5-10 time more existence than you, china invented what you put in your bullets, arabs invented your numbers matrix with what you send garbage all over the space,
you have to be respectfull with others, you not alone, and if you are alone, you die, usa exist coz it fights others to stay alive... you nation has been in was for 95% of its existence...
you are just the poison of this modern era in fact... problem is everybody wanted your pseudo lifestyle but it is collapsing like sand castle sea wave after sea wave, and you do not accept the fact people are turning side for something else.
i'm with you there
live and let live, there is room for all of us to co exist if we're sensible about it
what was the point of that rambling chinglish rant? we owe some debt to china for inventing gun powder? and what's a pseudo lifestyle? you morons who come to zh to bash the US don't know what its like to move here after growing up in another country so you're unable to appreciate the difference living here makes, and the opportunities afforded to you by the system you bash. ungrateful, spoiled children who want someone to topple the US so they can justify their own failures. you are ephialties
"there is room for all of us to co exist if we're sensible about it"
Yeah, The 'living standards' would need a slight adjustment is all..but, sure, it could be done.
The little guys would come up just a hair, but those of 'us' used to a high standard..have a looonnng way down.
;)
Please learn how to write proper grammar and syntax. Wtf is with your spelling of words? Can't even read through that garbage. Who would want to?
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That is a reasonable comment. Why the down votes?
Because Zero Hedge is a big tent.
That would be a sure sign of its downfall.
LOL
However, I am struggling in my small own world so I am not touching this big tent.
But still an interesting point; the one you brought up.
The big tent concept is one of the main downfalls of empire.
Like the pressure of an inflating balloon exceeding the strength of the thinning balloon wall.
So, you will appreciate the link below.
Many balloons are under lots of pressure.
http://dieoff.org/page137.htm
I dunno.
Ignoring the high probability of government totally destroying civilization, I'm a Kardashevian at heart.
Science and technology will continue at an accelerated rate and so will the sources and quantities of energy. We are currently at the bottom level of the energy totem pole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
Because there are many here who engage in personal vendettas and downvote every comment they find that comes from someone they dislike-- even if they kinda agree with it or it is non-controversial.
In some cases, it's their job to downvote certain ideas and expressions of support, as well.
Also, you may have noticed the opposite trend as well, where the most vapid comments receive an avalanche of upvotes not because they are insightful but because people agree with their overall political slant. Kind of a Democrats Stick Together sort of thing.
So what you are saying is that ZH still has a shit load of trolls running around, they just haven't the balls to post any comments, because they know they can't get very far.
Fine, so be it. They can vote all they want, this is not a democracy. Their votes are meaningless just like in the real world.
@tarabel
OK ~ So here's a hypothetical.
I meet someone [on a blog or otherwise], that:
- Believes the 9/11 Commission Report
- Has never heard of Larry Silverstein, dancing israelis, WTC7
- Thinks Putin is the antichrist [because Brian Williams told him so]
- Lives in California and has voted in Barbara Boxer for 4 straight terms in the Senate
- Believes in Global Warming
- Thinks we need to 'do something' about ISIS
- Believes in 'Hope & Change' & is proud that 'Yes We Did'
- Will vote for Hillary OR Jeb in 2016
- other idiotic things
Then, that person comes on & comments that he/she likes cheeseburgers [&/or, WORSE, an unquantifiable comment such as "Fuck DHS", which most would agree with, save for the fact that the comment is 100% hypocritical based on the views that the body of work of the commenter in question has already published].
& we're supposed to take that singular comment at face value???
Sorry pal, but you ARE your body of work [& if someone downvotes you because you say you like cheeseburgers, it's probably meant to convey that although they may like cheeseburgers too, the last thing they'd want to do is sit down & eat one with you].
+1. That is the biggest problem I see with the coming "reset." There is no next Great Britain to France/Netherlands, there is no next USA to Great Britain. There is no great next thing, only decay. We are likely living in another period most closely resmebling a descent into Dark Ages, with massive government control everywhere, hyper-nationalism and protectionism, more and more tolls, taxes and tariffs, and the increasing bifurcation of global society into educated wealthy powerful elites running everything, and everyone else.
All empires die, then they double down on the stupid shit that killed them and then the .GOV paid historians scrub that out of the books so that the keepers of the realm can fuck up the next one.
Now there's a thought!
Interesting thought. Probably true.
The empire's problem is that the frugal and responsible folks within it have been warred upon with the same tactics and the same results, with growing knowledge of the commonalities.
The next empire will be one that rises from the ashes of the last.
What's the half-life of plutonium?
Pu 239's half life is 24,000 years
Ah, then it's safe.
"The Sun Never Sets on The British Empire"
I still remember being taught that at school, now we can look forward to the sun never setting on the Brics Empire and all that it means.
Recently i took a day to walk through the Governor Generals old residence here in Australia. The walls are a-wash with images and paintings, depicting the Governors and Generals of the Empire. One day people may walk through the museum and see relics of the American "Empire" and wonder at it's demise. But like the British Empire the decline of any empire is no sudden thing, America will still exist, as Britain does today, merely its influence and relevance will have declined over time and likely its economic fortunes as well.
it still doesn't... look at the map of Commonwealth nations and tell me that it does...
Empire and Commonwealth are very different things.
Empires die from ever increasing psychopaths at the top and ever increasing sludge at the bottom.
I remember the Gallipoli Memorials in Australia. Lest We Forget.
All heroes are government employees, presidents on the money, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, President's Day, cops, teachers fire fighters, numb-nuts dumb enough to go to war, all government employees. I forgot dog catchers.
"One day people may walk through the museum and see relics of the American "Empire" and wonder at it's demise."
Look no further than the current US administration and their leftist collaborators in government and wonder no more.
Leftist thugs are always the destructor - whether we choose them or not.
great analysis.
Sorry double post.
All part of the plan.
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We finally get to meet the co-workers mom.
And it appears that she is now a guy.
I'm so confused by all this. I miss the fifties.
who's the dumbass that colored in Mexico on that map? Mexico is fully captured by the North American Combine (NAFTA), they do what the US tells them to do and they like it... hell, most of 'em live in the US these days anyway, there's no distinction...
you know what else isn't colored in on that chart? basically, *all* of the world's advanced economies and effectively 65% of the world's GDP... you know, other than that, sure it looks impressive lol
GDP is a measure of money printing and government spending. It's realistically not an accurate measure of much else. Even less of measure of those currencies actual value outside of FX accounts.
you can counter that argument by simple inspection... when the US/EU/Japan "sneeze" economically, look what happens to the rest of the world... look at oil demand, Baltic Dry index, you name it... the big economies generate big demand, no question... you can claim it's simple money printing and government spending, but the definition of GDP states otherwise...
"Definition of 'Gross Domestic Product - GDP' - The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period, though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis."
so you see, its definition isn't, "a measure of all the money printing and government spending generated within a country's borders in a specific time period..." as you would have us believe... let's stop pretending that the US doesn't make anything of value that contributes to that GDP number, shall we? that assertion is simply false...
Every Country is a Corporation. The United States isn't a Country - It is a Corporation
http://www.serendipity.li/jsmill/us_corporation.htm
The psychopathic financial and political elite at the top of the mythical pyramid in the USSA would rather have us be the last empire, than ever allow a next empire.
They will kill the host and move on like a bunch of parasites. The only question is who will be their next host?
THey will glob all nation states into one massive meat ball and farm the fuck out of it.
The answer is yes.
Fuck the neighbors, Turn this shit up to 11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SnveVZsPTA
Senator Joe Lieberman met with some Jewish folks recently and suggested China would be a good place to "explore".
David Goldman/Spengler wrote recently about how the Chinese think Jews are good with money.
Is "explore" code for "exploit"?
Honest question... Has the US sanctioned China?
That answer should answer who will be their next host?
However, Putin's Russia (it's not the USSR, Goddamit!) has stepped into the breach and fucked up the whole plan.
Putin may in fact be a tyrant- I dunno, I don't live in Russia.
But, he's averted and/or avoided the plans of the western oligarchs.
For that, I am grateful- and Edgar Cayce is bona-fide.
Putin is an oligarch, just from a different nation - a commie, thug oligarch.
Maybe he is an oligarch, I dunno. He's certainly a commie. Thug?
No, if he was a thug, he'd be owning Kiev just now.
Putin and Lavrov and Glazyev seem as thougtful men to me.
The US has not won a war since it's war for independence. (even that is questionable)
Russia has not lost a war on or near her own territory, ever.
Chew on that.
Probably more truth than not in the above Op Ed. Unless the Faustian Bargain offered to Russia & China to co-rule the planet in a NWO that they can all agree on & we don't really know yet it's hard to say. I do know the USA has a huge "PR" problem & we can all thank the "Stink Tanks" w/ their arrogance & hubris analCyst's for that.. Sea Change coming & way past the Rubicon into a new frontier fringe. Does the Technocracy survive w/ it's infrastructure intact or fails into Neo-Fuedalism ? What archetypes will emerge as the leaders into the new world abyss ?
Yup! Can't argue with any of that.
Spain never really had an Empire.
The defining moment for all the great Empires was World War I. Most historians call that war "the Great Mistake" because basically seven nations ran the entire planet.
The USA has never had that kind of power...not for lack of trying of course. "Peak Power" for the USA was probably 1958 or so.
Lot of nice infrastructure left behind tho...
The trouble with historians is that they don't see what is before their eyes.
His-story is precisely that!
Conquerors write the history
don't need to watch a video to know jig is up - get out!
got a spaceship?
I got out!
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I've already got reservations at the restaraunt at the end of the universe ... but I may cancel and follow the link one day. Would have to stowaway on the ship though
Don't forget your towel.
How do you feel about Ecuador using the USD as thier currency?
How are thier de-dollarizing efforts going? I'm sure it's a hard thing to change.
http://www.cato.org/blog/future-dollarization-ecuador
Ecuador sure appeals to me, but the USD is really unsetttling.
We conquered some folks.....
USA! USA! USA!
spare change please...
cardboard sign....will cheer or chant for food.
Demographically and logistically speaking.. EVER played the Game of risk? Yeah, thats what i thought...douche bag, you went for africa.
I will take the Continent of the U.S. everytime.. wtf is up with africa? I dont get it. Well, hold the phone, I think i do.
We are the most geographically positioned Country in the World, excluding Australia...those poofters..We have minerals, oil, land, timber, everything we fucking need to survice nicely.
Come what may, Banksters, economies, Central planners, progressives, Fed gov. TSA, DHS. there is a HUGE continent of people
whose grandparents struggled here. Let it all end and we will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Trust me. Most want the charade of
hollywood, wallstreet, MSM, Washington to just go the fuck away and let us get back to doing what we do best...Playing chess and having sex.
Holding North and South 'America' didn't work out all that well for the natives. Surely all the extra armies it produced should have given them an advantage...
Oh wait, Risk is a fucking game.
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you missed a spot
The American Republic is falling, or has fallen.
The American Empire, on the other hand, might just be getting started on its long and murderous career.
Read Sallust's "Jugurthine War," which narrates Rome's inept, bungling, process of expansion in the generation before Julius Caesar. The lesson to be learned is that a state can be socially unstable, economically corrupt, and militarily incompetent--but still only be in the EARLY phase of its Empire!
Those who think this horrid American hegemony is going to dissolve on its own, quickly enough to relieve a long-suffering world, can find no consolation in the Roman analogy.
Actually they can, as the US Empire started with the Civil War. It's peak was just after World War II and it only lasted 3 years before some partisans started kicking back. The collapse has been going on since the Korean War directly observable by the slowing increase in quality of life, and the gradual decline of the standard of living since then.
You can't say that the US's Empire will collapse as slowly as Rome's, because the majority of the reason for Rome's slow collapse is that the outer reaches of the Empire had no idea Rome had been sacked until decades after the fact. Now, if a major prominent part of the US is "sacked", you can likely watch it on live TV. See 9/11 for example.
Don't worry, Barry and Joey and Johnny and Harry got this covered! Moar taxes by Executive Order!
http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2015/03/02/obama-very-interes...
There is one big difference between the decline of the British empire and the declining empire. Most Passportless Americans could not care a less about having an empire, although they are constantly asked to spill their blood for it.
Ruling the world is a CFR thing, which by extension is actually a declining British Empire thing. Which by extension is...
If you look into what the current "empire" is (hint the NWO genre), you we quickly come to understand that it is essentially a stateless phenomena that hold the puppet strings of many states.
CFR was set up by the same folks who had set up the Fed a few days earlier. How convenient!
And... I think the declining British empire meme is not as it seems. The power brokers in London seem to have a lot of influence in the new manifestation of Empire. They don't call it the Anglo-American Empire for nothin'.
They call it an Anglo-American Empire because to be honest about it being a Zionist Banker Empire would point out who the real rulers of it are.
Correct. And there's only one group of *stateless* people who think they're powerful enough to keep this juggernaut rolling. After vastly overestimating their strength in 67 AD they were made to pay the price by Titus 3 years later, when they forfeited their capital Jerusalem and with it their nation state. Ever since then this *stateless* ethnic group has insinuated itself into various powerful nations elsewhere around the world, as parasites into a host organism. They now see the writing on the wall for their latest host, the USA, and are preparing accordingly, ready to move lock, stock and barrel to the next superpower foolish enough to let them in. But they won't move to this new superpower unless they are given all the strings to pull, a demand the Russians are not prepared to accede to.
And who can blame the Russians, given what these murderous, *stateless* parasites did to the country 100 years ago?
I get the feeling things are not going to plan for these people. There is a sense they have lost control. They are trying too hard. The tried and true methods of 20, 30, 40 years ago just don't work in the internet age, with a camera in every pocket, and a dissident ready to scupper the official narrative.
As a result their next Empire isn't falling into place for them. I suspect it never will.
The old nation of Judaea was destroyed because the Jews insisted on their independence and their right to worship their ancestral God---and told Caesar to FOADIAF if he didn't like the idea of their refusing to worship an Italian ponce.
Now that the stateless people have a state again, the Israelis are understandably determined not to let what happened in 70 AD happen again.
It will happen again, simply because they will not have a state. Israel will be an open air prison of their construction. They will imprison themselves after having leeched off and made enemies of every other cultural group on the planet.
The mistake you're making is assuming they actually were worshipping their ancestral God. Jesus Christ was pretty explicit when he told them over and over again they weren't. Indeed, he went so far as to tell them not only were they NOT the Chosen Ones but they were nothing less than the offspring of their father the Devil, who was a liar and a murderer "from the beginning." He told them everything they had would be taken from them and handed to a people who would actually worship God in truth and spirit. With the total destruction of their Temple in 70 AD his words were confirmed with brutal accuracy.
So-called Christians in the US and UK miss the whole point when they give their support to this fake Israel. To support this fake Israel is to deny the legitimacy of the New Israel. To support this fake Israel is to completely and utterly reject the message of Christ, when he instituted a new covenant, a new sacrifice, a new priesthood, and a new Temple in His Body the Church. The Catholic Church is the true Israel, and no other.
Of course the Church, infiltrated to the very core by subversive Jews, has since the 1960s been working secretly to cast off this this inheritance. It is absolutely no coincidence that the Church abandoned its liturgy in the late 60s just as Israeli tanks were rolling into Jerusalem. As one Israel rises, so the other must fall.
If you want one Israel you can't have the other. Any Christian who supports one automatically puts himself at odds with the other. So-called Christians-for-Israel should take their pick. By opting for the fake Israel, they should know that they are missing the whole point of the New Testament, and thereby putting themselves at odds with none other than Jesus Christ.
The answer is; all of them.
Ibn Khaldun (A.D. 1332-1406) explained the economics of empire fairly well.
they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.
The new country of WS Banksters will reign for 100 years....
Britain declined. The banksters moved house to New York after the war and life went on. If the US irreversibly declines they'll just move on to the next host.
China destroy the banksters? The banksters built modern China by exporting the jobs of American and Europeans there. On the contrary, China will be the place to go in a few years for banksters who want out of the Fruited Plain and can't get Israeli visas. Build an alternative to SWIFT? Good luck keeping that out of the hands of the bad guys. Men like Putin who aren't for sale to banksters are few and far between in amy country. Don't think CCP bigshots can't be bought or blackmailed.
The bankster empire is global in scope. It doesn't depend on any one regime. The number of national governments that govern without its direct consent can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and nobody at all escapes their grasp for longer than a decade or two. The only way to completely overthrow the global Empire would be a return to a simpler economic system where production is organized on a local level and a human scale, where no group, big or small, is suffered to live idly at the expense of others. Short of a catastrophic plague that kills off most of mankind I don't see that happening in the lifetime of anyone reading this.
I wish Putin a very long life. He's the only real opponent the Empire has in a position to fight it. As such he may be Russia's last hope, not to say mankind's.
Every now and then politicans like Putin or JFK will come along. Forged out of the Empire, with the Empire's consent, but turning on it when they have garnered enough power. As long as certain people around them keep them safe there will be chances to fight the Empire.
Yeah. That was confirmed by the official slogan of 2008 Olympics, "One World One Dream."
Great quote.
Banksters have no affiliation with any specific country. They are greedy, corrupt parasites who take over nations and rape and pillage citizens of their natural resources.
These leaches will smell the easiest route to control international money.
Forced immigration (enhanced and funded by war and politics) has been the cabals main weapon in creating and realising their One world order. Opening borders (EU) and mixing religions, cultures and nationalities has enabled people to accept this more easily. When significant numbers of peoples from countries migrate, war and opposition against their system becomes unlikely. Who is fighting who? Families become segregated through out the world. Travel becomes a part of their life. People will evetually demand a one world currency for their convenience.The USA will probably be the hardest to conquer. I admire their national pride and devotion to their anthem.
Hopefully, the cabals downfall will be the infighting amongst those at the very top of their hierachy, especially when one realises they are not as high-up the pyramid as they instictively thought they were.
Trust and fear always stifles progress. When someone cannot trust themselves they won't trust anyone and those who live by the sword, end up dying by the same sword.
What a world to live in.
"I wish Putin a very long life. He's the only real opponent the Empire has in a position to fight it. As such he may be Russia's last hope, not to say mankind's."
Putin is a little man/mind communist thug - Fuck him.
"The number of national governments that govern without its direct consent can be counted on the fingers of one hand"
But this is getting bigger, this was the reason for going into Iraq in 2002, because they were selling their oil in Euros and Libya in 2011, because Gaddafi advertised his oil for sale, in Gold-Dina, the gold for these coins, has still to be found?
This is why US are in Ukraine / Syria now; 1. They want total control of world Oil / Gas. 2. Russia protects Iran and Syria who don't use the 'petrodollar', as well as wanting to leave the sinking ship themselves. Central banks are the pain in everyones arse!
ZH, all this is getting stale... you need to find a new angle
Are you expecting empire change to happen overnight?
Naw, he's likely one of those. ME! ME! ME! people that has to be entertained every waking moment lest he realize that his life is essentially meaningless and vacuous.
This might be a good place to throw in a look at some old empires...Beyond Machu Picchu
https://vimeo.com/50806691
(All of Gary Schoenung's Vimeo's are terrific)
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Sorry to bust your bubble... But there ain't gonna be a next empire. At least not in the dimensions we have been accustomed to for the last 100 hundred years. China is a ecological disaster and in population overshoot(like the Indian subcontinent), and have to Import a lot of food.
San Paulo is OUT of water now so Brazil is toast.
EVERY empire runs on Energy. By 2030 total daily Oil production will be down by 30%. So, Sorry, ain't gonna happen.
We's in overshoot kids, in every dimension.
Next 'energy' commodity will be food.
USA is the next Saudi Arabia.
We'll be feeding China.
will be? more like already are...
"In 2012 China became the leading U.S. agricultural export destination, replacing Canada. Other important destinations for U.S. agricultural exports include the European Union and Asia. The top 10 destinations for U.S. agricultural export has varied little since 1990, but Europe, which was the largest market in prior decades, has declined in importance as China, Canada, Mexico, Asia and the rest of the Americas have risen."
http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-trade/us-agricultur...
Other commentators assert that China owns the productive arable land the export comes from.
you know where they can take their assertions and stick them... I know way too many farmers to believe that, the vast majority either own their land outright or are farming land owned mainly by European holding companies... China is nowhere to be found...
Sorry, I guess you didn't understand. In order to export food, you have to produce it. We will be losing most of California's production in the next few years because of no water.
AND it takes 10 calories of energy for every 1 calorie of food.
And NOOOOOO, The US ain't gonna be the next Saudi Arabia. How many people have to tell you this? It's going into decline as we speak. AND we still IMPORT 6-8 Million barrels PER DAY. That ain't gonna change either, except get worse. (that means whatever we INCREASE our imports by, SOMEONE will decreasing theirs. Who? France? UK?, who wants to decrease theirs?)
Food as a Global Commodity needs a Global Distribution network like we have now. THAT will be breaking down in the next few years with the Economic collapse and sovereign debt defaults.
BECAUSE....
By 2030 total daily Oil production(worldwide) will be down by 30%.
And THAT will have an amazing effect on a system based on a $30 barrel oil. Like grinding it to a halt.
Check US military oil consumption rates. The picture that is being shown to you will start to make more sense then.
They're called desalination plants. Look it up. Where do you think the Israelis get their drinking water?
If empires run on energy, well then. The Saudis will be out of oil in 2030, forcing the choice in western Eurasia between a debt jubilee or a war with Putin, who will still be a young man at 77, that without a reliable energy source the banksters have no more realistic chance of winning as the Kiev fascists do theirs. And that will be the end of the Fourth Reich and the beginning, let's hope, of a free and prosperous Eurasian Union under the protection of the Russian Federation.
So I'm not seeing many reasons to shed a tear. Normal people will find ways to manage---you don't need an iPhone or organic strawberries in January to live.
Banksters will lose a lot of paper wealth, but I think all here can live with that.
"We's in overshoot kids, in every dimension."
As long as there is no new technology to move the human race forward.
Technology, I believe, will supplant carbon based fuels
umm, what exactly will "the next empire" be inheriting exactly?
With Fuckmeshima, chemtrails, robotization, common core, fluoridared mindless zombies, GMO and chemtrails, fracking (and ensuing earthquakes and polluted aquifers as a result), pole shifts, melting ice caps ( and the resulting raising sea levels), mass animal die offs and species extinctions...
What will the next empire inherit exactly?
Whatever is left, they can have. Be my guest.
Well, if the elite succeed in their plan to turn the population into Eloi and Morlocks (about 1/2 each will do), the solution is solved; human energy (Morlocks) and food for the workers (Eloi).
Wells did not come about dystopia by random chance. It was something he gave a lot of thought to. He was a one-time Fabian Utopian who ultimately walked out on them.
People like the Webbs saw in dislocation and discontentment an opportunity to be in charge, to direct and assemble people, and to pull strings, but without knowing where to direct anyone or what someone ought to do to ameliorate the ills of a disintegrating society. The Webbs liked bossing people about even to the extent of arranging, or attempting to arrange, marriages. Wells finally saw the Webbs as ineffectual dilettantes, self-deluded, not as the architects of a rational utopia, and therefore he saw them as part of the existing confusion.
H.G. Wells Walks Out on the Fabians
Good quote. He saw it right, and is correct.
Communism has never really been viable economic model. Marx was foollish enough to believe it and build an entire argument for it, but who should take life advice from a man whose own children starved, who lived in adject poiverty his whole life and largely suckled off the largess of wealthy benefactors?
Communism (and its variant mutant strains) is simply a vehicle by which those who believe they are intellectually superior (smug sociopaths) to the great unwashed masses, and to subjectage them for their own purposes. Communism fails economically because it largely over estimates mans' desire for group interest over self interest. But where it succeeds glowingly (or better, fails to die out) is where it leverages mans' Darwinian desire for the maximim gain for minimal effort (something for nothing). Few see far enough ahead of this scam to recognize ultimately you must trade freedom for your handouts.
Like any good ponzi, we are approaching the unsustainable apex where the 'self interested', working at the peak, are coming into conflict with the 'something for nothing' crowd at the base. The statists must clamp down on these self interested through taxation, regulation, repression to keep their ponzi alive. Their's is a race for control before it collapses.
Things so fantastical as to be like magic.
Unless they bring about WWIII.
Process this.
The Culling of Man
http://samaritansentinel.com/uploads/Rise_of_the_New_World_Order_Final_Copy_To_Be_Forwarded_To_Others_10_10_13.pdf
WARNING: Longarm's link is to a 445 page pdf.
So, don't click that if you have a whole lot of other stuff open.
Could someone please tell me why Uruguay is not on the map? Also, have they heard of plans for it join the BRICS?
Regards
Oh yah, almost forgot...
I'm doing my part to bring THIS current empire down, to wit;
I work 18 hours a week @ $12/hour , good luck with my tax contribution!
I've declared bankruptcy 2x, take that VISA, MasterCard, et al...
I smoke a pack a day and stopped exercising ...sorry but I wont survive Camp FEMA...
I dont spend a dîme on anything other than basic necessities, so fuck you Apple, Starbucks, Chapters, Sears, etc...
I dont have a car so No insurance, gas, garage visits...
I buy 2nd hand clothes and wear out my current wardrobe...
Dont go to movies, hairstylist, heck, I even gave up on regular dental visits...
I am proud to be living the New American Dream...
They sucked ALMOST all the blood they can get from this rock...and now they can suck my rocks till I'm 6 feet under !!!
Hmm, should take care of yourself.
The idea is to outlive these bastards.
Thanks for the kind thoughts Anus, sincerely !
But Trust me, I'm happiest I've been in years. The reason? Cause I quit worrying about getting shit I dont need and envying those that have more and regretting poor choices I made in my early years...in other words, THIS empire is actually turning out to be the great equalizing force that makes all (or most of us) captives on the same good ship fuckmepop!
Sorry to say, but misery DOES enjoy company.
You are wise. A very rare trait.
I am basically a minimalist.
You really need to get drinking into your lifestyle. Brew your own - makes the cost of a beer about 20 cents.
Just trying to be helpful
You are surrendering to their attack, surrender is what they want,
The petrodollar will hold sway over the next decade, and as US production holds oil prices at competitive/cheap "i.e 3rd world consumer" price levels the only unseating of global comerce from a existing FED/Goldman perspective would have to be replaced with better more effective competition
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allowing for a more competitive liquid global market of Venezuela/Russia/Iran/Libya/China
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anything is possible
English motherfucker do you speak it?
English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?
The cretinous hubristic exceptionalists will try their best to smash the world into smithereens before the end of their hagemony.
Their rationale is simple: let us be exceptional, or else humans may reset from the stone age
sorry repeat deleted
China is pumping out 5 times the number of engineers that the U.S. is graduating. China wants to be #1 in world and I think that is OK with Obama.
What's OK with "O" is anything that reduces North American exceptionalism to 3rd world realism.
The NWO gang picked the perfect meat puppet in Obama...
Angry, deprived in his early years, closet case, drug adled, Judeo-Christian hating, parentless, loveless fucktard.
We're in for a hard landing and many won't survive the crash.
I dont blame it on the aeroplane, it's all the bat shit crazy Life sucking satanists and pedophiles that run industry and government that I blame.
Good luck my fellow travaller...as Eve Harrington said " fasten your Seat belts, its going to be a bumpy ride".
The USA was the last of the Empires as we know it. There will be no more of them. What is already established is that the USA will remain an empire but with only the English speaking world on its side. England, Australia, Canada and new Zealand will be the only true supporters.
The rest of the Nations will (and have) "team up" next to their own cultural and religious Nation leaders.
And then we will fight again.
"USA will remain an empire "
more of a banana oligarchy
every great empire was sure to be the last one, particularly if you add the "as we know it". but your "Anglo-speaking imperialism" is telling
"...the USA will remain an empire but with only the English speaking world on its side."
There is already an alliance between these five nations: "Five Eyes".
Given that empires in the past between birth and death extend over several human lifetimes, it's only realistic to predict what might change over (say) the next 50 years or so to the Anglo-American empire. But die it most certainly will.
As we can all see, that process has already begun and this is why panic has set in among the elites and why they are involved in a "hit and run" of wealth, ie grabbing as much as they can before the curtain comes down.
We are due for a "species thinning event" anyway so it will all take care of itself.
China will get old before they get rich, ther upside down demographics means they are doomed in 30-40 years and that's ok, it will keep a lid on things. If Russians start having 4 kids each, that might be the next thing. For get Europe, you can put a fork in that one. You watch the places with kids and education, that is your next economic power.
In short, there is NO WAY to tell. Could be anything. The only thing we know is that it won't we like that last 40 years.
Squid.
There is an unholy trinity at work in the US:
The FED, Wall Street and politicians
Together they are destroying the US.
The real unholy Trinity is - The leftists, the communists, the fascists - together they are destroying the world.
I'd say I see a mixed message, here, coupled with many hard-to-die memes:
"The US is encouraged in its effort by an unnatural alliance between the countries of Europe. Although Europe is made up of many small countries, often with dramatically differing cultures, who have bickered with each other for centuries, the European Union has cobbled them together into an ill-conceived “United States of Europe.”
Although the relatively new EU is already clearly stumbling and is on the verge of fragmenting, their leaders are desperately attempting to hold the unlikely alliance together with the help of the US. Meanwhile, the other major powers of the world are going full steam ahead to ensure that, when the US and EU reach their Waterloo, the rest of the world will carry on independently of the dying empire.
They are not merely waiting along the sidelines for the collapse to come, awaiting their turn at the top of the pecking-order. They are actively preparing their position to, as seamlessly as possible, take the baton at a run. "
alliance, "USE", part of the empire or just allied to the empire?
btw, we still bicker with each other, the difference is that we try to have more constructive bickerings, this time
from a point of view of the "other major powers of the world", it makes sense to propagate the meme that we are constantly on the verge of disintegration
inversely, from the imperial point of view of the hegemon... it makes sense too to propagate the meme that we are constantly on the verge of disintegration
but the reasons why we hang together... stay. we happen to have some experience in those imperial games, you know? Been there, done that. thank you, but no, thanks
Poland - mortal enemy of Russia as part of russian-china empire.
Almost funny.
stupid poles
Keep in mind that our "leaders" wish for our destruction. This distorts the timeline. The idea of America was not about empire. It's about people respecting each other, free to be your best. That is still true and will be more evident in time as the "empire leaders" are discarded.
This author doesn't know history whatsoever, a charlatan.
'Rome as the first empire'? What about ancient Egypt, Assyrian Mesopotamia, Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's Empire?
The Spanish Armada? England kicked its ass in 1588.
The guy is a joker.