But when I think of Gemany, we have still three more years with this govermet, which will destroy our economy completely. If the govenment collapses eralier, then maybe AfD will have the government or participate on the new govenment. And possibly BSW. Both are russia-friendly and have already contacts to Russia. They also want to weaken the power of the EU over teh member states. I think Russia will start to make business again with Germany when it asks. And we clearly need thie business.
Then Gemany has to leave the sanctionig EU or the EU has to let go the sanctions or the EU will break apart. And there are other nations like Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and possibly France when the Front National wins.
The matter does not depend on the West or the EU, but on single states who have to guts for change.
Sanctions are a transactional way to manage pleasure/pain systems. The CIA playbook can be usefully analysed by comparing its successes and failures with the involvement of different socioeconomic strata. Successful regime change seems to depend on a relatively wealthy urban class. Where there is a privileged elite used to economic benefits, then the reduction of these benefits by sanctions or the effect of sanctions can be exploited by offering funding and future removal of pain. This was/is visible in Hong Kong, Georgia, Venezuela and Iran, arguably in Moldova (where the economic elite was located largely the EU) and probably Syria and Ukraine.
A more interesting question is why some CIA plays fail in whole or part. Cuba, of course, Venezuela through almost all of the Bolivarian decades, Georgia, Russia and others. Part of this seems to be an innoculation process - states which have been capitalised and found it intolerable to such an extent that even the protests of the urban wealthy become irrelevant: Russia under Yeltsin, Georgia under Saakashvili, Venezuela before Chavez, Cuba under Battista... The regime change effort tends to be less effective away from urban cores, suggesting that the NGOs find it more difficult to make a financial impact in the countryside. Even where regime change succeeds we can see a distinction between urban pro-west support and populist support from the countryside, e.g. in Moldova.
The key step seems to be (as Scott says) to block the siren call of sanction relief, and also to reinforce this by cutting off all foreign NGO funding. It may also be vital to show increased public economic equality and the probability of economic success through autarchy, including sanction-free trade with allies.
2) Rural Life-Based (food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health) more 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') Livelihood Campesino, among whom I have long associations & friendships.
This human sociography (less so personality) pattern repeats itself widely, but as well with great cross-over unhinged-mixtures between the 2.
Donald Trump & Republican's electoral connection with USA's rural population, while at the same time his deeper connection with Deep-State AIPAC Zionist funders, such as Myriam Adelson is classical deception played upon by both parties. Demo'rats just couldn't connect with their rural compatriots, who they consider inferior 'deplorables'.
Colonial forced Institutionalization by erasing human memory of its indigenous many 100s of 1000s of years of heritage has led us all down the 7000 year Oligarch fake path of chasing fake 'money' in order to survive. Without human memory of our species, we don't 'economically' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') organize our strengths together in harmony with nature.
No: the apparently normal patriotic Russians, many of them high-flyers, who can be persuaded by the bankers and cashier ladies that it makes sense to be selfish and go for the money.
It seems that the great struggle that will determine the future of our world is one between honour and cash. So far cash has a big lead.
Iin Venezuela, it means almost the entirety of the upper-middle class, plus the people it feeds. A lot of them, as we know since the last coup attempt.
yep, filthy jews and their minions of which trumpyjew is the biggest ass kissing fool of the zionist jews...the jew whore in our WH....welcome to trumpyjews the united states of israel! Fuck trumpyjew and his entire regime....All traditors to America...Wake up lemmings!
To a functioning mind that should be obvious....just like the fucking zio jews are no ones friend and everyone's enemy! jews are useless leeches off the backs of American taxpayers! jews kicked out of 110 countries....you lemmings ever wonder why?
Nicely done Scott. The picture you have painted is the most accurate I have seen. I'm in my mid 80's and disgusted with much of the world. No one talks about climate any more so I'm hoping it just blows the evil humanity I now see away!
Thank you so much, Scott, for this excellent analysis. You are 100% correct! This is the main strategy for Russia's survival and independence. They cannot trust the US and they need to be strong and also keep the nuclear weapons.
Scott, you make an excellent point, one to be taken very seriously! The good news for Russia is that unlike other countries that have been crippled by US sanctions, Russia it seems has thrived since the sanctions intensified 4 years ago, by pivoting to the east and south and doing more for itself with its substantial local resources. Hopefully it can continue on that path!!
Welcome to trumpyjews "the united states of israel...fuck trumpyjew and his entire cabinet, 98% of the house and the senate....all jew owned pieces of jew shit! America better wake up....Christians in America have been lied to...fucking jews hate America! America is amalek and the tora/talmud states amalek must be destroyed! amalek is you and I (America)....jews like our current regime are friends to no one and enemies to all! America is brain dead.... government education at work here! Dumb and dumber...couldn't be any clearer! trumpyjew is leading America into the jew 7 noahide laws...where all Christians will be beheaded along with everyone who is not a jew! Will America ever wake up...NO...because the jew ass kissing regime, we currently, have in place sold America to the fucking jews!
God bless you Pete.......the problem with America is that government schools do not teach folks to think critically! The jews have been selling their jew propaganda bullshit to the American ignorant lemmings for 100+ years! I have no hope for America and will not shed a tear when the world turns on the jew owned cabal of criminals now running the united states of israel! Funny the talmud and tora are filled with passages that tell the POS jews to kill all amalek (America is amakek) and all of amaleks animals leaving no trace or history!
Yet, American Christians believe that the zio jews are Gods chosen...American zionist Christians believe this jew bullshit and never question what they are being told....America sends billions of American taxpayers dollars to the fucking jews...all the while the zio jews plot to have trumpyjew bring the 7 noahide laws into America! trumpyjew is nothing than a bought and paid for jew whore and does not care about the people of America! trumpyjew is just another NWO stooge! Who will hasten the jew plan to control the world! trumpyjew his family, his cabinet, 98% of the house and the senate are POS jew owned piss ants! America is tired of the blood sucking jew welfare recipients continually taking our money to attack every other country around the jew shithole israel! Now trumpyjew does the same thing...Guess POS jews are good teachers!
I have been blocked on many sites because I am not afraid to speak my truth! heritage foundation (POS jews) are now attacking Americas free speech and want that to be against the law (jew law)! trumpyjew is not the American president...trumpyjew answers to the shithole israel! Hitler was right all along! The trumpyjew regime like the netanSHITHOO regime are taking as much land and resources as their dirty hands can steal! So many ignorant brainwashed lemmings will never wake up! America is doomed with the zio jew in our WH!
I will continue to speak my truth....right up until the time; I can say "I told you so"! There is a reason why 110 countries have kick the POS zio jews out of their country! jew brought Germany to it's financial knees...until Hitler took power and threw the jew garbage out of Germany! When Hitler kicked them out...Germany became a world power! Go figure....:-)
America is lost forever if we do not speak our minds...if the lemmings have a thinking mind left...maybe they will wake up....
Probable far too late now....the lemmings are celebrating Mudros kidnapping...Wonder if they will celebrate when they come for them!
The zio jews will be beheading Christians in the streets and the Christians will still be worshiping the POS zio jews! To the cliff lemmings....NOW JUMP....and they will follow! I promise you that!
Huh, I was blocked from seeing your posts due to the UK's online Safety act, serious shit ... took me 5 seconds to change my VPN location, and viola! No Online Safety bollocks to be seen :-) They really are dumb shits in the UK corridors of power, clueless about technology, clueless about their own people.
Scott, Yes Russia's turn to China & worldwide is healthier than slavery in the western multi-trillionaire Oligarch system. The whole world's survival is at stake in the face of Oligarchy's self, other, war & biosphere destruction. Some of Russians know this as well as in Petr Kropotkin's legacy of 'Mutual-Aid, a factor of evolution' 1915, based in Russia's ancient indigenous Guild & Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/9-mutual-aid
Donald Trump is just a replaceable violent murderous conscience-free Puppet of Oligarchy through AIPAC intermediary Zionist Miriam Adelson.
FOLLOW THE MONEY (7000 year old institutions with license to print & issue as loans to intimates)
A most honest & instructive 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch once advised humanity, "Permit me issue & control a nation's money & I care not who writes the laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favours, that there’ll be no opposition from that class." Hence one must become familiar with the undeclared minority multi-Trillionaire Oligarch Shareholders who are triangulated to control the money issuing: US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International-Settlements.
WESTERN OLIGARCH COLONIAL TOP-DOWN $$ EMPIRE
One must not ignore USA, Israel & the EU's fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch owned financed: invasion, genocide, colonization & perpetual war capture for the last 400 years.
There is more bureaucracy in this top-down system of legacy privilege, than even in the western Oligarch (agents New-York Stock-Exchange financier Jacob Schiff & Germany's Warburg) captured Soviet system of 1917-90 fake 'Communism' (From 'community' meaning 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). One can't understand Russia, China, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, N. Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua etc's challenge without understanding
Once 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') Celtic-Slavic Europe was similarly Oligarch colonial captured, through the fake democracies of Babylon (5000 BC) 'Phoenicia' (4000 to 0 BC)'Kingdom-of-Israel + city-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut') Empire then its offshoot: Persian, Greek, Roman & Spanish, French, Belgium, Netherlands & Britain.
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO SOCIAL-HUMANITY AS A WHOLE Humanity's 3-dimensional bottom-up collective-integrated, economic-memory for all diverse intelligence & contributions, was destroyed for Oligarchy's 2-D Linear Top-down command & control with Amnesia. The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Humanity needs to renew it's once worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') 'economic' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') unity. Did you ever learn about Turtle-Island (N. America)'s pre-invasion ~110 nations organized into ~25 Confederacies? Did you learn about: 'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-OF-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION'.
Knowing our ancient indigenous strength can help folks implement a positive transcendent path for themselves today. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. On Turtle-Island the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People of the extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') 6 Nation Confederacy for example call this 'Kaianere'kowa'. Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi = 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency'), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'.
All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices are described in the worldwide international INDIGENOUS CIRCLE OF LIFE Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation also with Continental & Hemispheric Councils. Livelihood relations of welcome & economic inclusion set the stage for collaborative society. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizing an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
3 MAIN PILLARS:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) enable people to specialize in Circular Collective ‘Domestic’ (mostly women) 'Economies' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') providing the very best essential goods & services with people we know & are known-by. Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are considered as supportive Subsets to the primary Domestic. 70% of people live in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex today. Indigenous law & constitution centres distributed decentralized human agency, power & democracy in the worldwide Multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
3) TIME-BASED EQUIVALENCY ACCOUNTING on the STRING-SHELL VALUE SYSTEM. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors organized in Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). Intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. In-order-to understand real 'money', one must study & research all humanity's once worldwide time-based accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates: a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence' from contribution, experience, expertise & decision-making-acumen). b) ‘Currency’ ('flow' as in recognition & empowerment from diverse stakeholders), c) 'Condolence' = 'social-security' for all conditions, d) Collegial 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math-management Communication, f) professional Costume for identification of essential goods & service expertise & more. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Exactly. I always believed that Obama’s strategy with the Iran deal and lifting the embargo on Cuba was to co-opt the entrepreneurial classes in these counties. That is to capture elites in these counties using ‘soft power’ instead of overthrowing them through crippling sanctions and brute force like most Republicans wanted and still want. Different tactics but the same goal - American dominance.
trumpyjew is a zionist jew pig, pedophile, and a traditor to America! America is to dumbed down by their government schools; designed to dumb them down. Should be very obvious that it has worked! trumpyjews America is now attacking all its neighbors like the fucking jews do...netanSHITHOO has taught trumpyjew well......to late to pull netanSHITHOOS johnson out of trumpyjews throat now!
There are hints that all may not be well between the oligarchs and the Russian government. Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska posted the following message on X. Putin has a history with Deripaska. Deripaska stated that If American “partners,” succeed in controlling Venezuela’s oil—and they already control Guyana’s—more than half of the world’s oil reserves would fall under US control. This could result in price management ensuring that oil prices would not rise above $50 per barrel. Such a ceiling would be devastating for oil-dependent economies. Russia’s existing economic structure— “our sacred state capitalism”—”will come under severe strain this would make it difficult to hide inefficiencies; impossible to avoid structural reforms; risky to continue grand state-led projects and unsustainable to sideline private business and competition. Deripaska notes that private businesses are already becoming the main taxpayers in Russia—and that next year, the primary fiscal burden will fall squarely on them.
Russian oligarchs had all of their wealth *stolen* by America and Europe. There are no bigger fans of Putin - and a new Russian empire - than the oligarchs who now reside in Russia.
These people never had their wealth plundered by Putin. They put it all in western banks and other western assets and then watched helplessly as it got surreptitiously taken from them - by those “law abiding western governments” - without any recourse whatsoever. The obvious irony is they kept their assets in the west so Putin could not touch them.
It was an inconceivable nightmare come true. Then Putin welcomed them all back home and never touched their assets in Russia.
Anyone who thinks Russian oligarchs would welcome American rule of Russia needs to have their head examined.
Sylvia, Most Petroleum of what is left in Venezuela, Canada, USA, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, Britain, Norway etc is TAR. While tar can be used for physical Roofing, Roads, Graphene, Graphite & other tarred physical goods, there is no economically viable way of extracting combustable liquid oil or gas. Even asphalt & other ubiquitous tar materials are recognized as potent carcinogen, mutagen & teratogens. While Venezuela has been blockaded, there has also been recognition by the Maduro government that there is literally no way to cleanly extract & refine the tar deposits, without exposing populations to massive petro-chemical exposure caused illness & death. Venezuela has been careful to prioritize its renewable Biosphere-based 'economies'. No viable clean-technologies exist to transform Tar into combustibles.
TEMPORAL ILLUSION: Yes mixed in are relatively small limited quantities of Natural-gas & oil, but compared with today's voracious highway covered, detached suburban nuclear-home US, Canadian & EU car-driver addicted lifestyle, today's reserves will not last a decade. The End of Suburbia, Peak Oil & the Collapse of the Economy, 2004 film 1h17m27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7dgnMpwI4
Donald-Trump's Drill-baby-Drill Fracking for Gas has poisoned many 10s of 1000s of water-tables throughout the USA, which in turn is causing millions of American illnesses & many 10s of 1000s of deaths.
HUMANITY & BIOSPHERE'S TREE-BASED ECONOMY (Oligarchy's 7000 year food, materials, energy & water-cycle ignorance)
POLYCULTURE ORCHARD food trees which are over 100 times more productive of food, materials, energy & water-cycle, than 2-D 'Agriculture' (L. 'ager' = 'field'). SYLVALIZATION (L 'sylva' = 'tree'). As empires spread, hungry for the hardwood Oak for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. Huge biosphere productivity is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors. Here's a series of 3 short films, which a film colleague put together with me on some gardening, a few years back. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden
which because of: a) Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture’s all settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') b) Deep Polyculture roots descending many 10s of metres into the substrate mining minerals, pumping water, developing extensive nutrient colonies etc. being 100 times = 10,000% more productive than agriculture. Actually, this calculation is very conservative.
In my experience with both Polyculture & Agriculture such as a 50 square meter (7 by 7 metres) area under the pre-colonial average 100 year old Oak tree produced some 3 tonnes (3000 kg) of nuts /year with little labour except bring wastes to feed the tree. The same 50 sq. M of Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye will produce only 3 kgs of grains requiring intensive mechanical ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilizing, fencing & irrigation or drainage preparation. c) Polyculture's nearly complete ~95% photosynthesis of solar energy into food, materials, energy & water-cycle, creates an energy vacuum which drives warm moist ocean winds inland. 60% of Moisture transfer from ocean to continent is through condensation of these winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surface. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snowfall. 2-D Agriculture only photosynthesizes 2-8% of solar energy, creating High-pressure airs which push wind from continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert.
Thank you for taking the time to write this amazing and enlightening comment. It will take time to review your references but what you say makes sense. I am aware of the damage from mining the tar sands in Canada and to the water tables and population from fracking. Venezuela used to produce 2-3 million barrels a day—now around 900,000. Is this due to-depletion? There are other resources. Are those also problematic to produce? I have some knowledge of polyculture but not much. Are you involved in polyculture?
Sylvia, Thank you for your comment. Yes there are other 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') energy resources, right at our fingertips, which most will be surprised at. Humanity can not understand the 'control' situation which hidden Oligarchy has on us, until we can restore some of our 'indigenous' memory.
When all our indigenous ancestors cultivated the Oak & other Polyculture-Orchard food trees, each tree acts as a Heat-Pump multiplied by billions & quadrillions, greatly warming the winters & cooling the summers of districts, regions continents & the planet. I'm involved in Polyculture, now for 50 years. I'm associated with my own home & community Polyculture food trees etc as well as some large realizations.
My friend, an engineer owner of one 50 acre property, started 55 years ago, having local landscaper, arborist & horse stables, bring their grass-clippings, fall-leaves, branch chips, barn-cleanings etc to his property, now amounting to ~700,000 tonnes deposited across about 30 acres. In the fall leaves are often acorns, butternuts etc.
WILDLIFE POLYCULTURE LABOUR FORCE
Squirrels, groundhogs & bluejays have set to work planting some 90,000 nut trees etc.. With biomass & the water-soil holding capacity of trees, several ancient creates on this once colonial agriculture exhausted property, now flow again in steady state year round. Local Beaver from a river through the middle of the property, have created ponds & stocked these with Aqua-culture. The owner & I have been involving McGill University School of Urban Planning professors & students in developing 3 village plans for ecologically-designed, self-sustaining, biosphere productive communities.
I'm raised in an experiential apprenticeship with my father in design, architecture, engineering, mechanics & machining from a very young age of 3.
I was pleased when in 1972-3, a UNESCO researcher friend describe to me their studies on the deserts (eg. Negev, Sahara-Sahel etc) of the world. UNESCO's detailed work on the colonial desert origins start with Babylon (5000 BC) & 'Phoenician' (4000 to 0 BC 'Kingdom-of-Israel + city-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut') Empire. Phoenicia created the Sahara desert from what had been lush 'indigenous' Kabili, Amazigh & Imazighen (Berber) peoples Polyculture with massive flowing rivers, lakes, streams & wildlife.
UNESCO's research focuses on the destruction of Polyculture-Orchard tree photosynthesis centered in the Biosphere, which is a much more accurate Climate indicator than CO2 centered in artificial human agency. Institutionally, Oligarchy was able to suppress this huge body of work with massive worldwide impacts. 3 branches of my family are Ashkenazi Jew, some very rich, so I can appreciate, in terms of submissive human personality, how such research can be rationalized & suppressed in deference to Oligarchy. At 73 years old, I'm involved in 'indigenous' solidarity, living & working with 1st Nations & indigenous peoples worldwide for some 63 years now.
'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-OF-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION'. Knowing our ancient indigenous strength can help folks implement a positive transcendent path for themselves today. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. On Turtle-Island the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People of the extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') 6 Nation Confederacy for example call this 'Kaianere'kowa'. Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi = 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency'), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices are described in the worldwide international INDIGENOUS CIRCLE OF LIFE Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation also with Continental & Hemispheric Councils. Livelihood relations of welcome & economic inclusion set the stage for collaborative society. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizing an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life 3 MAIN PILLARS:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) enable people to specialize in Circular Collective ‘Domestic’ (mostly women) 'Economies' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') providing the very best essential goods & services with people we know & are known-by. Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are considered as supportive Subsets to the primary Domestic. 70% of people live in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex today. Indigenous law & constitution centres distributed decentralized human agency, power & democracy in the worldwide Multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) COUNCIL-PROCESS as Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues (below under Communicate & Both-Sides-Now).
3) TIME-BASED EQUIVALENCY ACCOUNTING on the STRING-SHELL VALUE SYSTEM.
All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors organized in Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). Intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. In-order-to understand real 'money', one must study & research all humanity's once worldwide time-based accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates: a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence' from contribution, experience, expertise & decision-making-acumen). b) ‘Currency’ ('flow' as in recognition & empowerment from diverse stakeholders), c) 'Condolence' = 'social-security' for all conditions, d) Collegial 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math-management Communication, f) professional Costume for identification of essential goods & service expertise & more. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
WHICH 'HUMAN-AGENCY' IS REALLY DOING THE WORK OF GOVERNMENT? DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring /year on Turtle-Island. (Intimate people & relationships at the center) Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:
Amazing information Douglas! It will take me a while to absorb all this. I am a bit older but I have also worked with the indigenous community in Canada—Four Worlds and Chief Phil Lane Jr. smdranchtexas@sbcglobal.net
Sylvia, I've followed Chief Phil Lane & Four World's inspirational statements over the past 25 years. In 1968, I joined the United Farm-Workers Montreal Grape Boycott committee, then in 1971-4, bicycled through many of California's Central Valley & Coastal, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana & British Columbia farming areas to meet many Chicano (Mestizos & 1st Nation) Farm Workers as well as working on research in Idaho & picking, pruning, planting at Orchards in BC. My focus, directed by many elders, is that all humanity are originally indigenous, so each of us have these inherent roots in our psyches. Some 70% of Turtle-Islanders have (mostly unknown) 1st Nation ancestors. Some 85% of 1st Nations have family roots established in the last 500 years of colonization, from around the world. We're all one people. www.indigenecommunity.infodouglasjack@indigenecommunity.info
Deripaska has been openly against the war from the beginning and has publicly demanded that it stops immediately, regardless of the results, many times. Such comments are nothing new.
Naturally this brings up three questions:
1) Why is Deripaska still in the position that he is? Imagine someone in 1943 calling for the war to stop immediately with the Nazis still in possession of Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa and the Baltics? What would have happened to that person?
2) Why is the war still ongoing when Putin can end it within a few months of deciding to do so and unshackling the military to take the necessary measures? And note that it used to be that the war could have ended on a time scale of weeks and days, but it has been becoming only harder and harder the more NATO became involved and the more Ukraine was militarized, which is a direct consequence of not finishing it quickly.
3) Given that none of the above has happened, who is actually calling the shots inside Russia, and whose side is the administration on?
It’s a conundrum. Is it a war of attrition designed to exhaust and divide NATO and the US? There is zero doubt that Russia and her assets have been a target. It’s also clear that both Russia and China want to avoid direct confrontation that could lead to a nuclear war. But at this point—how can Russia win the peace given all these terror attacks?
Excellent! Scott I had just started thinking the same way about sanctions against Russia, thanks for spelling it out so clearly!
We just can pray for President Putin and Russian military forces.
Your article holds some truth.
But when I think of Gemany, we have still three more years with this govermet, which will destroy our economy completely. If the govenment collapses eralier, then maybe AfD will have the government or participate on the new govenment. And possibly BSW. Both are russia-friendly and have already contacts to Russia. They also want to weaken the power of the EU over teh member states. I think Russia will start to make business again with Germany when it asks. And we clearly need thie business.
Then Gemany has to leave the sanctionig EU or the EU has to let go the sanctions or the EU will break apart. And there are other nations like Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia and possibly France when the Front National wins.
The matter does not depend on the West or the EU, but on single states who have to guts for change.
Frack the empire!
Sanctions are a transactional way to manage pleasure/pain systems. The CIA playbook can be usefully analysed by comparing its successes and failures with the involvement of different socioeconomic strata. Successful regime change seems to depend on a relatively wealthy urban class. Where there is a privileged elite used to economic benefits, then the reduction of these benefits by sanctions or the effect of sanctions can be exploited by offering funding and future removal of pain. This was/is visible in Hong Kong, Georgia, Venezuela and Iran, arguably in Moldova (where the economic elite was located largely the EU) and probably Syria and Ukraine.
A more interesting question is why some CIA plays fail in whole or part. Cuba, of course, Venezuela through almost all of the Bolivarian decades, Georgia, Russia and others. Part of this seems to be an innoculation process - states which have been capitalised and found it intolerable to such an extent that even the protests of the urban wealthy become irrelevant: Russia under Yeltsin, Georgia under Saakashvili, Venezuela before Chavez, Cuba under Battista... The regime change effort tends to be less effective away from urban cores, suggesting that the NGOs find it more difficult to make a financial impact in the countryside. Even where regime change succeeds we can see a distinction between urban pro-west support and populist support from the countryside, e.g. in Moldova.
The key step seems to be (as Scott says) to block the siren call of sanction relief, and also to reinforce this by cutting off all foreign NGO funding. It may also be vital to show increased public economic equality and the probability of economic success through autarchy, including sanction-free trade with allies.
Thank you Jorge Luis for this most excellent 2026 HUMAN DYNAMIC summary of such as the (Hong Kong, Georgia, Iran Cuban), Venezuelan:
1) Urban $?!* wealthy 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch privileged conquistador I know &
2) Rural Life-Based (food, shelter, clothing, warmth & health) more 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') Livelihood Campesino, among whom I have long associations & friendships.
This human sociography (less so personality) pattern repeats itself widely, but as well with great cross-over unhinged-mixtures between the 2.
Donald Trump & Republican's electoral connection with USA's rural population, while at the same time his deeper connection with Deep-State AIPAC Zionist funders, such as Myriam Adelson is classical deception played upon by both parties. Demo'rats just couldn't connect with their rural compatriots, who they consider inferior 'deplorables'.
Colonial forced Institutionalization by erasing human memory of its indigenous many 100s of 1000s of years of heritage has led us all down the 7000 year Oligarch fake path of chasing fake 'money' in order to survive. Without human memory of our species, we don't 'economically' (Gk 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') organize our strengths together in harmony with nature.
Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizes the inter-disciplinary set of factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
Thanks, this takes the analysis into more internal US politic,s which is interesting and worth further thought. Cheers, Jorge
Agreed. Sanctions have forced Russia to do the hard work of nation building rather than rely on resource extraction alone.
I’m sure the leadership in Russia is well aware of this.
The point is not if the leadership in Russia is aware of this but the greed and gullibility of the 5th-column people, who are always very many.
'5th-column people' with what army, some bankers and cashier ladies ?
No: the apparently normal patriotic Russians, many of them high-flyers, who can be persuaded by the bankers and cashier ladies that it makes sense to be selfish and go for the money.
It seems that the great struggle that will determine the future of our world is one between honour and cash. So far cash has a big lead.
Iin Venezuela, it means almost the entirety of the upper-middle class, plus the people it feeds. A lot of them, as we know since the last coup attempt.
Nope, the '5th-column people' in this case is not the 'upper-middle class' but F-banking cabal i.e. Jews and their minions.
yep, filthy jews and their minions of which trumpyjew is the biggest ass kissing fool of the zionist jews...the jew whore in our WH....welcome to trumpyjews the united states of israel! Fuck trumpyjew and his entire regime....All traditors to America...Wake up lemmings!
Anyone else angry by this sober assessment? The USA is not any nation’s true friend.
To a functioning mind that should be obvious....just like the fucking zio jews are no ones friend and everyone's enemy! jews are useless leeches off the backs of American taxpayers! jews kicked out of 110 countries....you lemmings ever wonder why?
Nicely done Scott. The picture you have painted is the most accurate I have seen. I'm in my mid 80's and disgusted with much of the world. No one talks about climate any more so I'm hoping it just blows the evil humanity I now see away!
Thank you so much, Scott, for this excellent analysis. You are 100% correct! This is the main strategy for Russia's survival and independence. They cannot trust the US and they need to be strong and also keep the nuclear weapons.
Scott, you make an excellent point, one to be taken very seriously! The good news for Russia is that unlike other countries that have been crippled by US sanctions, Russia it seems has thrived since the sanctions intensified 4 years ago, by pivoting to the east and south and doing more for itself with its substantial local resources. Hopefully it can continue on that path!!
Marco Rubio, the dual-hatted Secretary of State and National Security Advisor
Scott Bessant, the Secretary of Treasury
John Radcliffe, the Director of the CIA
Witkoff & Trumpf's son in law
ALL OF THOSE ARE JEWISH
Welcome to trumpyjews "the united states of israel...fuck trumpyjew and his entire cabinet, 98% of the house and the senate....all jew owned pieces of jew shit! America better wake up....Christians in America have been lied to...fucking jews hate America! America is amalek and the tora/talmud states amalek must be destroyed! amalek is you and I (America)....jews like our current regime are friends to no one and enemies to all! America is brain dead.... government education at work here! Dumb and dumber...couldn't be any clearer! trumpyjew is leading America into the jew 7 noahide laws...where all Christians will be beheaded along with everyone who is not a jew! Will America ever wake up...NO...because the jew ass kissing regime, we currently, have in place sold America to the fucking jews!
HOW MANY JEWS IN TRUMP'S 2025 CABINET ?
Al ANSWER:
"I can't answer this request. My responses are designed to be safe, respectful, and compliant with ethical principles. You may ask another question."
AI seems to not be so 'encyclopaedia smart' that they say, or maybe it all comes from Jewish version i.e. jew-programmed.
OK, LET'S THEN FIND THE ANSWER BY SELF
Jews in the Second Trump Administration (2025 - 2029)
LESS THAN 2% OF AMERICAN CITICENS ARE JEW, BUT JEWS ARE 69.56% (16 OF 23) OF TRUMPF'S CABINET. YOU TELL ME WHAT THE F*** IS THAT ?!
1) Adam Boehler - Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs
2) Stephen Feinberg - Deputy Secretary of Defense
3) Jared Isaacman* - Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
4) Yehuda Kaploun - SPECIAL ENVOY TO MONITOR AND COMBAT ANTISEMITISM
5) Charles Kushner - Ambassador to France
6) Howard Lutnick - Secretary of Commerce
7) Martin Marks - WHITE HOUSE LIAISON TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
8) Stephen Miller - Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
9) Morgan Ortagus - Deputy Special Envoy to the Middle East
10) Tom Rose - United States Ambassador to Poland
11) David Sacks - White House AI & Crypto Czar
12) Will Scharf - White House Staff Secretary
13) Eric Trager - National Security Council Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa
14) Steve Witkoff - Special Envoy to the Middle East
15) Lee Zeldin - Administrator of the United States Environmental Protective Agency (EPA)
16) Marco Rubio - Secretary of State (Cuban Sephardi Jew)
*Departed prior to being confirmed.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN ALL, MANY OF THE REST 7 NON-JEWS ARE 'ISRAHELL FIRST' JEW LOVERS 🤬
FORTUNATELY
https://rumble.com/v6x5c8s-american-youth-are-turning-on-israel-left-and-right.html
God bless you Pete.......the problem with America is that government schools do not teach folks to think critically! The jews have been selling their jew propaganda bullshit to the American ignorant lemmings for 100+ years! I have no hope for America and will not shed a tear when the world turns on the jew owned cabal of criminals now running the united states of israel! Funny the talmud and tora are filled with passages that tell the POS jews to kill all amalek (America is amakek) and all of amaleks animals leaving no trace or history!
Yet, American Christians believe that the zio jews are Gods chosen...American zionist Christians believe this jew bullshit and never question what they are being told....America sends billions of American taxpayers dollars to the fucking jews...all the while the zio jews plot to have trumpyjew bring the 7 noahide laws into America! trumpyjew is nothing than a bought and paid for jew whore and does not care about the people of America! trumpyjew is just another NWO stooge! Who will hasten the jew plan to control the world! trumpyjew his family, his cabinet, 98% of the house and the senate are POS jew owned piss ants! America is tired of the blood sucking jew welfare recipients continually taking our money to attack every other country around the jew shithole israel! Now trumpyjew does the same thing...Guess POS jews are good teachers!
I have been blocked on many sites because I am not afraid to speak my truth! heritage foundation (POS jews) are now attacking Americas free speech and want that to be against the law (jew law)! trumpyjew is not the American president...trumpyjew answers to the shithole israel! Hitler was right all along! The trumpyjew regime like the netanSHITHOO regime are taking as much land and resources as their dirty hands can steal! So many ignorant brainwashed lemmings will never wake up! America is doomed with the zio jew in our WH!
I will continue to speak my truth....right up until the time; I can say "I told you so"! There is a reason why 110 countries have kick the POS zio jews out of their country! jew brought Germany to it's financial knees...until Hitler took power and threw the jew garbage out of Germany! When Hitler kicked them out...Germany became a world power! Go figure....:-)
America is lost forever if we do not speak our minds...if the lemmings have a thinking mind left...maybe they will wake up....
Probable far too late now....the lemmings are celebrating Mudros kidnapping...Wonder if they will celebrate when they come for them!
The zio jews will be beheading Christians in the streets and the Christians will still be worshiping the POS zio jews! To the cliff lemmings....NOW JUMP....and they will follow! I promise you that!
Huh, I was blocked from seeing your posts due to the UK's online Safety act, serious shit ... took me 5 seconds to change my VPN location, and viola! No Online Safety bollocks to be seen :-) They really are dumb shits in the UK corridors of power, clueless about technology, clueless about their own people.
Scott, Yes Russia's turn to China & worldwide is healthier than slavery in the western multi-trillionaire Oligarch system. The whole world's survival is at stake in the face of Oligarchy's self, other, war & biosphere destruction. Some of Russians know this as well as in Petr Kropotkin's legacy of 'Mutual-Aid, a factor of evolution' 1915, based in Russia's ancient indigenous Guild & Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/9-mutual-aid
Donald Trump is just a replaceable violent murderous conscience-free Puppet of Oligarchy through AIPAC intermediary Zionist Miriam Adelson.
FOLLOW THE MONEY (7000 year old institutions with license to print & issue as loans to intimates)
A most honest & instructive 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch once advised humanity, "Permit me issue & control a nation's money & I care not who writes the laws. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favours, that there’ll be no opposition from that class." Hence one must become familiar with the undeclared minority multi-Trillionaire Oligarch Shareholders who are triangulated to control the money issuing: US-Federal-Reserve, Bank-of-England & Bank-of-International-Settlements.
WESTERN OLIGARCH COLONIAL TOP-DOWN $$ EMPIRE
One must not ignore USA, Israel & the EU's fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') 'exogenous' (Latin 'other-generated') Oligarch owned financed: invasion, genocide, colonization & perpetual war capture for the last 400 years.
There is more bureaucracy in this top-down system of legacy privilege, than even in the western Oligarch (agents New-York Stock-Exchange financier Jacob Schiff & Germany's Warburg) captured Soviet system of 1917-90 fake 'Communism' (From 'community' meaning 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). One can't understand Russia, China, Belarus, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, N. Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua etc's challenge without understanding
Once 'indigenous' (L 'self-generating') Celtic-Slavic Europe was similarly Oligarch colonial captured, through the fake democracies of Babylon (5000 BC) 'Phoenicia' (4000 to 0 BC)'Kingdom-of-Israel + city-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut') Empire then its offshoot: Persian, Greek, Roman & Spanish, French, Belgium, Netherlands & Britain.
BODY-MIND ANALOGY TO SOCIAL-HUMANITY AS A WHOLE Humanity's 3-dimensional bottom-up collective-integrated, economic-memory for all diverse intelligence & contributions, was destroyed for Oligarchy's 2-D Linear Top-down command & control with Amnesia. The human body & mind are Autonomous: genes, cells, tissue, organs & whole communicating with the Brain, as but one Nexus of body-communication, so society (L. 'socius' = 'friend') can only function when the specialized intelligence of each person & other levels of social organization are empowered. Its estimated that the Stomach as another body nexus, has more neurons in its functions than the brain. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Humanity needs to renew it's once worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') 'economic' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') unity. Did you ever learn about Turtle-Island (N. America)'s pre-invasion ~110 nations organized into ~25 Confederacies? Did you learn about: 'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-OF-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION'.
Knowing our ancient indigenous strength can help folks implement a positive transcendent path for themselves today. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. On Turtle-Island the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People of the extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') 6 Nation Confederacy for example call this 'Kaianere'kowa'. Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi = 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency'), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'.
All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices are described in the worldwide international INDIGENOUS CIRCLE OF LIFE Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation also with Continental & Hemispheric Councils. Livelihood relations of welcome & economic inclusion set the stage for collaborative society. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizing an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life
3 MAIN PILLARS:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) enable people to specialize in Circular Collective ‘Domestic’ (mostly women) 'Economies' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') providing the very best essential goods & services with people we know & are known-by. Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are considered as supportive Subsets to the primary Domestic. 70% of people live in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex today. Indigenous law & constitution centres distributed decentralized human agency, power & democracy in the worldwide Multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) COUNCIL-PROCESS as Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
3) TIME-BASED EQUIVALENCY ACCOUNTING on the STRING-SHELL VALUE SYSTEM. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors organized in Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). Intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. In-order-to understand real 'money', one must study & research all humanity's once worldwide time-based accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates: a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence' from contribution, experience, expertise & decision-making-acumen). b) ‘Currency’ ('flow' as in recognition & empowerment from diverse stakeholders), c) 'Condolence' = 'social-security' for all conditions, d) Collegial 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math-management Communication, f) professional Costume for identification of essential goods & service expertise & more. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
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Exactly. I always believed that Obama’s strategy with the Iran deal and lifting the embargo on Cuba was to co-opt the entrepreneurial classes in these counties. That is to capture elites in these counties using ‘soft power’ instead of overthrowing them through crippling sanctions and brute force like most Republicans wanted and still want. Different tactics but the same goal - American dominance.
Trump is a agent of the Papacy's quest for total control of the world.
trumpyjew is a zionist jew pig, pedophile, and a traditor to America! America is to dumbed down by their government schools; designed to dumb them down. Should be very obvious that it has worked! trumpyjews America is now attacking all its neighbors like the fucking jews do...netanSHITHOO has taught trumpyjew well......to late to pull netanSHITHOOS johnson out of trumpyjews throat now!
There are hints that all may not be well between the oligarchs and the Russian government. Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska posted the following message on X. Putin has a history with Deripaska. Deripaska stated that If American “partners,” succeed in controlling Venezuela’s oil—and they already control Guyana’s—more than half of the world’s oil reserves would fall under US control. This could result in price management ensuring that oil prices would not rise above $50 per barrel. Such a ceiling would be devastating for oil-dependent economies. Russia’s existing economic structure— “our sacred state capitalism”—”will come under severe strain this would make it difficult to hide inefficiencies; impossible to avoid structural reforms; risky to continue grand state-led projects and unsustainable to sideline private business and competition. Deripaska notes that private businesses are already becoming the main taxpayers in Russia—and that next year, the primary fiscal burden will fall squarely on them.
Russian oligarchs had all of their wealth *stolen* by America and Europe. There are no bigger fans of Putin - and a new Russian empire - than the oligarchs who now reside in Russia.
These people never had their wealth plundered by Putin. They put it all in western banks and other western assets and then watched helplessly as it got surreptitiously taken from them - by those “law abiding western governments” - without any recourse whatsoever. The obvious irony is they kept their assets in the west so Putin could not touch them.
It was an inconceivable nightmare come true. Then Putin welcomed them all back home and never touched their assets in Russia.
Anyone who thinks Russian oligarchs would welcome American rule of Russia needs to have their head examined.
Yes they did have their assets stolen! I hope what you say is true.
I did not post that comment. Someone did that and used my name.
Sylvia, Most Petroleum of what is left in Venezuela, Canada, USA, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, Britain, Norway etc is TAR. While tar can be used for physical Roofing, Roads, Graphene, Graphite & other tarred physical goods, there is no economically viable way of extracting combustable liquid oil or gas. Even asphalt & other ubiquitous tar materials are recognized as potent carcinogen, mutagen & teratogens. While Venezuela has been blockaded, there has also been recognition by the Maduro government that there is literally no way to cleanly extract & refine the tar deposits, without exposing populations to massive petro-chemical exposure caused illness & death. Venezuela has been careful to prioritize its renewable Biosphere-based 'economies'. No viable clean-technologies exist to transform Tar into combustibles.
TEMPORAL ILLUSION: Yes mixed in are relatively small limited quantities of Natural-gas & oil, but compared with today's voracious highway covered, detached suburban nuclear-home US, Canadian & EU car-driver addicted lifestyle, today's reserves will not last a decade. The End of Suburbia, Peak Oil & the Collapse of the Economy, 2004 film 1h17m27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7dgnMpwI4
Donald-Trump's Drill-baby-Drill Fracking for Gas has poisoned many 10s of 1000s of water-tables throughout the USA, which in turn is causing millions of American illnesses & many 10s of 1000s of deaths.
HUMANITY & BIOSPHERE'S TREE-BASED ECONOMY (Oligarchy's 7000 year food, materials, energy & water-cycle ignorance)
POLYCULTURE ORCHARD food trees which are over 100 times more productive of food, materials, energy & water-cycle, than 2-D 'Agriculture' (L. 'ager' = 'field'). SYLVALIZATION (L 'sylva' = 'tree'). As empires spread, hungry for the hardwood Oak for weapons of war, forts, arms, ships etc. Huge biosphere productivity is the indigenous, carefully cultivated 3-D POLYCULTURE ORCHARDs of all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors. Here's a series of 3 short films, which a film colleague put together with me on some gardening, a few years back. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-how-to-grow-your-own-raw-vegan-food-garden
which because of: a) Polyculture's 92-98% Photosynthesis compared with 2-D 'agriculture' 2-8% photosynthesis. Agriculture’s all settlers & 1st Nations had left to 'farm' (French 'ferme' = 'contract of servitude by the peasant imposed by the armed aristocrat') b) Deep Polyculture roots descending many 10s of metres into the substrate mining minerals, pumping water, developing extensive nutrient colonies etc. being 100 times = 10,000% more productive than agriculture. Actually, this calculation is very conservative.
In my experience with both Polyculture & Agriculture such as a 50 square meter (7 by 7 metres) area under the pre-colonial average 100 year old Oak tree produced some 3 tonnes (3000 kg) of nuts /year with little labour except bring wastes to feed the tree. The same 50 sq. M of Wheat, Barley, Oats or Rye will produce only 3 kgs of grains requiring intensive mechanical ploughing, seeding, weeding, fertilizing, fencing & irrigation or drainage preparation. c) Polyculture's nearly complete ~95% photosynthesis of solar energy into food, materials, energy & water-cycle, creates an energy vacuum which drives warm moist ocean winds inland. 60% of Moisture transfer from ocean to continent is through condensation of these winds upon quadrillions of square kilometres of fractal leaf & bark surface. Only 40% of moisture transfers as rain-snowfall. 2-D Agriculture only photosynthesizes 2-8% of solar energy, creating High-pressure airs which push wind from continent towards the sea, creating permanent desert.
https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/b-ecological-design/1-indigenous-welcome-orchard-food-production-efficiencies
Thank you for taking the time to write this amazing and enlightening comment. It will take time to review your references but what you say makes sense. I am aware of the damage from mining the tar sands in Canada and to the water tables and population from fracking. Venezuela used to produce 2-3 million barrels a day—now around 900,000. Is this due to-depletion? There are other resources. Are those also problematic to produce? I have some knowledge of polyculture but not much. Are you involved in polyculture?
Sylvia, Thank you for your comment. Yes there are other 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') energy resources, right at our fingertips, which most will be surprised at. Humanity can not understand the 'control' situation which hidden Oligarchy has on us, until we can restore some of our 'indigenous' memory.
When all our indigenous ancestors cultivated the Oak & other Polyculture-Orchard food trees, each tree acts as a Heat-Pump multiplied by billions & quadrillions, greatly warming the winters & cooling the summers of districts, regions continents & the planet. I'm involved in Polyculture, now for 50 years. I'm associated with my own home & community Polyculture food trees etc as well as some large realizations.
My friend, an engineer owner of one 50 acre property, started 55 years ago, having local landscaper, arborist & horse stables, bring their grass-clippings, fall-leaves, branch chips, barn-cleanings etc to his property, now amounting to ~700,000 tonnes deposited across about 30 acres. In the fall leaves are often acorns, butternuts etc.
WILDLIFE POLYCULTURE LABOUR FORCE
Squirrels, groundhogs & bluejays have set to work planting some 90,000 nut trees etc.. With biomass & the water-soil holding capacity of trees, several ancient creates on this once colonial agriculture exhausted property, now flow again in steady state year round. Local Beaver from a river through the middle of the property, have created ponds & stocked these with Aqua-culture. The owner & I have been involving McGill University School of Urban Planning professors & students in developing 3 village plans for ecologically-designed, self-sustaining, biosphere productive communities.
I'm raised in an experiential apprenticeship with my father in design, architecture, engineering, mechanics & machining from a very young age of 3.
I was pleased when in 1972-3, a UNESCO researcher friend describe to me their studies on the deserts (eg. Negev, Sahara-Sahel etc) of the world. UNESCO's detailed work on the colonial desert origins start with Babylon (5000 BC) & 'Phoenician' (4000 to 0 BC 'Kingdom-of-Israel + city-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut') Empire. Phoenicia created the Sahara desert from what had been lush 'indigenous' Kabili, Amazigh & Imazighen (Berber) peoples Polyculture with massive flowing rivers, lakes, streams & wildlife.
UNESCO's research focuses on the destruction of Polyculture-Orchard tree photosynthesis centered in the Biosphere, which is a much more accurate Climate indicator than CO2 centered in artificial human agency. Institutionally, Oligarchy was able to suppress this huge body of work with massive worldwide impacts. 3 branches of my family are Ashkenazi Jew, some very rich, so I can appreciate, in terms of submissive human personality, how such research can be rationalized & suppressed in deference to Oligarchy. At 73 years old, I'm involved in 'indigenous' solidarity, living & working with 1st Nations & indigenous peoples worldwide for some 63 years now.
'GREAT-GOOD-WAY-OF-KINDNESS' aka 'GREAT-LAW-OF-PEACE' aka 'CONSTITUTION'. Knowing our ancient indigenous strength can help folks implement a positive transcendent path for themselves today. The Great-good-way is based in individual & collective cultural peace. On Turtle-Island the 'Haudenosaunee' (Iroquois 'People of the extended-rafters' aka 'Welcome') 6 Nation Confederacy for example call this 'Kaianere'kowa'. Central America the Maya refer to Kindness as 'In Lakesh' (I am another you. You are another me). In the Amazon, Aymara, Jamamadi, Apurina nations refer to Kindness as Maloka = 'Longhouse', Indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe refer to the 'System of 100s' for their longhouse & other housing economies. In southern Africa, Nguni people refer to 'Ubuntu' meaning 'Human Kindness'. Eastern Europe Serbs & Croatians refer to 'Zadruga' meaning 'economy of friends', India as 'Swadeshi' (Hindi = 'indigenous' aka 'self-sufficiency'), China's character for 'money' refers to the ancient indigenous 'Bei' or 'Cowrie Shell', Korea as 'Chaebol' & Japan as 'Keiretsu' referring to 'Family Economy'. All these indigenous practices carry the same 3 indigenous-Cultural-Economy practices are described in the worldwide international INDIGENOUS CIRCLE OF LIFE Peace is established culturally from the person, friends, family, extended-family, Multihome, village, city, region, nation also with Continental & Hemispheric Councils. Livelihood relations of welcome & economic inclusion set the stage for collaborative society. One introduction to all our ancient ways is called the Indigenous Circle-of-Life, summarizing an inter-disciplinary set of Indigenous factors needed for all of us to become whole again. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/3-indigenous-circle-of-life 3 MAIN PILLARS:
1) ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) enable people to specialize in Circular Collective ‘Domestic’ (mostly women) 'Economies' (Greek 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') providing the very best essential goods & services with people we know & are known-by. Industry & Commerce (mostly men) are considered as supportive Subsets to the primary Domestic. 70% of people live in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex today. Indigenous law & constitution centres distributed decentralized human agency, power & democracy in the worldwide Multihome. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
2) COUNCIL-PROCESS as Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues (below under Communicate & Both-Sides-Now).
3) TIME-BASED EQUIVALENCY ACCOUNTING on the STRING-SHELL VALUE SYSTEM.
All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors organized in Cultural 'Fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). Intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale. In-order-to understand real 'money', one must study & research all humanity's once worldwide time-based accounting upon the String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island/N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in once indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). String-shell integrates: a) 'Capital' (L 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence' from contribution, experience, expertise & decision-making-acumen). b) ‘Currency’ ('flow' as in recognition & empowerment from diverse stakeholders), c) 'Condolence' = 'social-security' for all conditions, d) Collegial 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, e) time-math-management Communication, f) professional Costume for identification of essential goods & service expertise & more. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
WHICH 'HUMAN-AGENCY' IS REALLY DOING THE WORK OF GOVERNMENT? DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring /year on Turtle-Island. (Intimate people & relationships at the center) Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:
A) CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business Talents, Goods, Services, Resources & Dreams. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
C) ACCOUNT for collective Multistakeholder Participatory contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements, Contract Delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Amazing information Douglas! It will take me a while to absorb all this. I am a bit older but I have also worked with the indigenous community in Canada—Four Worlds and Chief Phil Lane Jr. smdranchtexas@sbcglobal.net
I hope we can keep in touch!
Sylvia, I've followed Chief Phil Lane & Four World's inspirational statements over the past 25 years. In 1968, I joined the United Farm-Workers Montreal Grape Boycott committee, then in 1971-4, bicycled through many of California's Central Valley & Coastal, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana & British Columbia farming areas to meet many Chicano (Mestizos & 1st Nation) Farm Workers as well as working on research in Idaho & picking, pruning, planting at Orchards in BC. My focus, directed by many elders, is that all humanity are originally indigenous, so each of us have these inherent roots in our psyches. Some 70% of Turtle-Islanders have (mostly unknown) 1st Nation ancestors. Some 85% of 1st Nations have family roots established in the last 500 years of colonization, from around the world. We're all one people. www.indigenecommunity.info douglasjack@indigenecommunity.info
We are Douglas. I look forward to continuing our conversation.
Douglas—I have copied your comments. Thank you!
'$50 per barrel' ? What would happen to all those oil and gas rich countries living in sandy deserts and having NOTHING else ?
Deripaska has been openly against the war from the beginning and has publicly demanded that it stops immediately, regardless of the results, many times. Such comments are nothing new.
Naturally this brings up three questions:
1) Why is Deripaska still in the position that he is? Imagine someone in 1943 calling for the war to stop immediately with the Nazis still in possession of Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa and the Baltics? What would have happened to that person?
2) Why is the war still ongoing when Putin can end it within a few months of deciding to do so and unshackling the military to take the necessary measures? And note that it used to be that the war could have ended on a time scale of weeks and days, but it has been becoming only harder and harder the more NATO became involved and the more Ukraine was militarized, which is a direct consequence of not finishing it quickly.
3) Given that none of the above has happened, who is actually calling the shots inside Russia, and whose side is the administration on?
It’s a conundrum. Is it a war of attrition designed to exhaust and divide NATO and the US? There is zero doubt that Russia and her assets have been a target. It’s also clear that both Russia and China want to avoid direct confrontation that could lead to a nuclear war. But at this point—how can Russia win the peace given all these terror attacks?
Isn't the problem that sanctions lifted today can be back tommrow particularly with Trump or any US leader?