Tereza - I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, I’ve read or listen to so many posts in the last few days about how society is changing with respect to GeoCap
If I was a member of the 0.01%, rather than a member of today’s intelligentsia, I would be terrified.
This is the historical precedent: the black death in the 1400s wiped out 1/3 of the population of Europe. That led to significant deflation in hard goods, a decrease in the value of Capital, and an increase in the value of labor. It can be argued that the black death led to the end of feudalism.
A significant number of deaths, today, would decrease demand for housing, used cars, and other hard goods. We have already begun to see the value of labor increasing due to people opting out of cubical farm-type work.
For those of us who would be in management or technocrat roles, a few years outside of a corporation and we become “feral”, even while we miss the steady paycheck.
No wonder the financial elite are looking at all possible ways to influence, manage or control the majority of people. This could include the brain neuromodulation that Tessa Fights Robots just described 
Elizabeth! Thank you for adding your good research and clear thinking in my comments. You really provide much food for thought. It's interesting that the Black Death led to the end of feudalism. I suspect that all of us who are managing to stay afloat in California are members of the .01%, not that it does us much good since our cost of living is also in the .01%. But that does seem like kind of an ugly-hopeful realization that the catastrophe of the Black Death ended feudalism in its wake. I love your use of the term 'feral' for all us corporate escapees ;-)
There's a temporal order here that's critical, as to whether our Black Death preceded the messaging of the oligarchs, or whether the messaging was essential to causing our Black Death (which is only in the beginning stages, imo.) You likely already read my Cancer CoVax Connection episode, so you know I see it as the latter. But, like Russia, I don't think all the consequences are planned and you and I share 20 yrs of studying the Course, so this may well be the way the world ends, as we know it, and that may be good for all of us.
Elizabeth, thank you for sending me the note that you're still listening. That means a lot to me! I'm still in wedding countdown mode (less than three weeks) so still in the throes. My email is receiving but no longer sending so I wanted to reply here. Thanks again and good journey with your projects!
I’ve been MIA for some time now & am still not up to providing a decent comment here. I have to admit that I’m not nearly as politically savvy & articulate as what’s expressed in the comments by the vast majority of your viewers. Am looking forward to diving back in to the Substack.
In the meantime, I received an extremely long email from Dr. Robert Malone detailing his research into something I knew you’d find insanely interesting (though you probably have already read it.) I’m referring to his July 7th piece, that includes a link to an Italian group of physicians & medical researchers who have begun to manifest glorious alternatives to the hell-scape humanity’s been experiencing for far too long... (I’m too tired now to describe it here. Sorry. The link is to their website is: www.origini.life
Annilori! I've been MIA too working on my childhood home in Appalachia. I just figured out the webcam and internet hotspot so I might get an episode done here or wait until I'm back in CA. And if you're referring to Jack, none of us can keep up with him!
YES YES YES! I could barely sleep after I read his IppocrateOrg post, I found it so exciting. I had it written at the top of a blank page because I wanted to do an episode applying their model to a group developing a new economy. It simultaneously warmed my heart and made me feel quite lonely because the caring and solidarity they have in healthcare is completely absent for economic strategy, which is driven by in-fighting and competition among those who should be on the same side.
I've been toying with sending Dr. Malone a note because I'm sort of in his neighborhood, to see if I could bring a couple copies of my book to their farm, if they're in town. He's been very kind in his responses to my posts but I hate to intrude when he's so busy traveling and writing.
You put that so well, "glorious alternatives to the hell-scape humanity’s been experiencing for far too long." That was exactly my sense. It made me ache with longing to realize how possible that it and how much I want that world. Thank you so much for sharing my excitement!
I watched Putin’s speech, and, at the risk of being labelled a Putin Puppet, I must admit I felt envious that the Russians have a President who is vigourous, lucid, even inspiring? (I actually looked up Putin’s age and was surprised that he turns 70 this year.)
But wait a minute. The Official Narrative is that Putin, through corrupt alliances with oligarchs over the last twenty years, has secretly become the world’s richest man. The MSM claims that as a former KGB agent he is absolutely ruthless and without conscience and has personally ordered the executions of many opposition politicians and journalists. I personally saw the video in which Klaus Schwab bragged that Putin had been one of the WEF’s young leaders. And the most damning of all, serious historians say he was selected and groomed by The Empire itself after the fall of the USSR to eventually replace western lapdog Boris Yeltsin as Russian president. If any of that is true, it seems highly likely Putin remains a loyal insider to the world’s ruling elite, and that despite his brilliant imminent military and economic defeat of the west, he is in fact merely playing his part in events that will ultimately lead to the Great Reset.
Why, then, do I think Putin may be the single most important figure in modern history, and that he may not only make Russia great again, but he, more than anyone else in the world, might destroy The Empire and save the world from becoming a unipolar totalitarian hellscape run by Klaus Schwab?
While I found much of Putin’s speech wonkish and heavy on central government controls, technocracy, and mere system tweaks, I also felt him expressing a hopeful vision of the future that holistically included economics, ecology, agriculture, culture, history, morality, even spirituality in a way that no other modern western leader has done or can do.
Clearly, Putin has a deep and optimistic vision of a Russian future unshackled from the west. And despite this war in Ukraine, Russia is flowering. More importantly, Russia’s example of fundamentally changing itself to survive, of inviting new ideas, and of rejecting western systems is snowballing among all those countless other nations that have been colonized, overthrown, bullied, robbed, and beat down by the west.
I’m not quite ready to believe Putin is an intentional savior of the world who has come to dismantle The Empire for the benefit of people everywhere who are yearning to be free. It is more likely that he is simply acting in the limited best interest of Russia. But whether his actions are inadvertent or intentional, what he and Russia are doing right now is the single most important thing preventing the western world from irreversible descent into totalitarianism. Putin is giving anti-imperialists worldwide a sense of hope that The Empire can be beaten, that a unipolar world is not inevitable, and that even we captive Americans may be freed from imperial rule for the second time in our history.
Beautifully written, Jack. Russell Brand does a bit where he says, just as an icon, Putin is shooting bears riding bare-chested on a horse. And then he shows Biden falling off his bike when it's standing still.
Where did we first meet, Jack, was it on Matt Taibbi? You likely read his Putin article on "We thought he was our bastard but it turns out he's his own bastard." There's no question that he was selected and groomed as Yeltsin's running mate when Y had become such a liability that they had to buy all the media to get him back in. I don't doubt Schwab's brag that he was the youngest WEF leader, or a ruthless KGB. And yet...
Here's my little fantasy, see what you think of it. Putin doesn't like being the bitch of Davos or of the oligarchs but there's nothing he can do. By 2014 at the latest, when they get the coup to land "jelly side up" before the end of the Sochi Olympics, he knows he's being set up as the fall guy. Enter Sergei Glazyev. They start taking steps to prepare for the inevitable sanctions, and Glazyev tells him how they're going to use this to get rid of Davos, the oligarchs, the petrodollar, and become a hero to the people.
This speech warms the cockles of my policy wonk heart because it went into such detail. I think it was a masterful act of diplomacy because it never pointed fingers but put in accountable, even competitive measures of future change. Did you catch how he's playing the regions and municipalities off each other? They can institute their own policies, it seems, but they're going to be ranked according to their public score.
He also praises specific families among the oligarchs when he warns the rest their heirs will just piss away their money and property, unless they invest honestly. And he doesn't call out the corruption in the courts and petty bureaucrats, but you know that's what he's talking about with the routine audits and tax charges and license harassment.
I share your hopeful vision of this plot twist in the narrative. And it makes me really hopeful for Latin America, Africa, the Middle East. And maybe even hopeful for us.
I think your fantasy concept of Putin is realistic. I, too, like to think that Putin—no matter how much of an insider he may have been previously—either never fully lost his personal sovereignty (and he tricked the Davosian Archons into trusting him), or he has reclaimed his soul (sovereignty). Or, perhaps he has gone through a spiritual transformation in which he has dispensed with his former ego and is sincerely and selflessly acting on behalf of Russians against the western empire. (It could happen.) Whatever the case, Putin the Empire Slayer could be the basis of a much needed new mythology.
I like rogues, and, if we must have nations, then I like rogue nations, too. You can’t have a good story without one or both. But I have a nagging worry about having total confidence in Putin as rogue, because there is something just a little bit too Hollywood about this story so far: Putin and Russia are not only single-handedly defeating the imperial military and overturning the Rule-Based System in just a few short months, he is also humiliating the west to the point of immient collapse, and he is causing western leaders to have omnicidal fits of madness. While that is all great news for anti-imperialists, I have the nagging worry that toppling the western order can still fit nicely into the Great Reset, since a world in chaos is an essential requirement for unprecedented rapid change. Schwab won’t waste a good crisis. So I am going to have 80% confidence that Putin is a legitimate anti-imperial Jedi, but I’m leaving myself some wiggle room for an out-of-the-blue reversal in which Putin betrays the world, embraces The Empire, and—we must have a Hollywood plot twist—discovers Klaus Schwab is his father.
Regarding Glazyev, I know little about him. I did find a PDF of his out-of-print book, “Genocide: Russia and the New World Order”, which I’m perusing. In it, there is this interesting quote: “Either we passively submit to a suicidal policy of self-destruction and the colonization of Russia, which has been imposed from the outside by deception and graft, or we…move to a scientifically grounded strategy for economic growth, improvement of the people's welfare, and restoration of the spiritual-intellectual strength and the scientific and technical potential of the Russian State.” This seems a fair summary of Putin’s St. Petersburg address and Russia’s defiance of the west. Considering this book was published in 1999, I think this plot might have been brewing in Putin’s mind for quite some time and must have figured into his (and maybe Glazyev’s) secret plans.
Yesterday, we US Americans celebrated our “independence.” I saw a mention in the local newspaper that we had gained our independence from King George III, and I realized George must have been the boogey man of that day (which means little has changed in the narrative-making business since 1776). Of course, now that we are the second global empire in history, the fact that we declared independence from the first global empire goes completely unmentioned. If Putin wins this battle of titans and the current iteration/incarnation of The Empire folds and slouches back to Hell to regroup, I had the thought that there may never be another July Fourth celebration, that The Empire (including the nation formerly known as the USA) could be smoldering on the ash heap of history by this time next year. I am astounded that such a thought gives me so much hope for a new world. However, so much depends on Putin being the real deal.
Here are a few things I love about your comment, Jack:
the use of Davosian archons
sovereignty as the soul
Putin the Empire Slayer
the plot twist made me laugh SO hard!
your Glazyev quote and that you're reading him
your timeline that this may be the last 4th
Did you read Candace's comment below where she sees Putin as the 1776 revolution and the US as King George? It fits Glazyev's quote. And I thought that you could substitute the US for Russia and it would still fit.
What Putin set in motion can be reversed, with difficulty, but not corrupted because it's decentralized. Your quote confirms to me that Glazyev is the genius behind Putin's policies. I love his use of the term 'scientifically grounded strategy for economic growth.' Even if Putin were to be decapitated by a robot drone tomorrow, he would be more of a hero and his policies harder to remove.
The test of a well-designed system is that you can put anyone in charge and the good they do will last but the harm will be both limited and reversible. Those are the rules I set for my system, and we could do it too. Putin had no alternative to this, but I don't think this is an alternative the Davos archons foresaw. I'm not sure if Biden is running the same playbook as Darth Schwab.
So let's play this out. This winter Europe burns sticks for warmth, as Poland has advised, in exchange for NATO occupying their countries and making them a target. Gates fulfills his threat of another pandemic, there's no wheat, no fertilizer, and a manufactured food crisis.
Meanwhile, Lula launches the Sur in Latin America, they repudiate dollarized debt and stop accepting the "bubble gum wrappers" of the petrodollar or Euros for trade. Africa has a new Laurent Gbagbo (who was Glazyev to Qaddafi) who relaunches the Pan-African dinar. Iran is already providing the model to the Middle East.
The US antagonism of China is a crazy strategic move. It seems more like a Hail Mary pass than anything. But no matter what, the US looks to be almost isolated by next summer. I don't know what that means for us, but I think Glazyev is the Archon Slayer.
And I love that Substack gives a space for people trying to figure these things out together. Thank you Jack!
“What Putin set in motion can be reversed, with difficulty, but not corrupted because it's decentralized.”
Thank you for the reminder that the war in Ukraine is only a part of the current worldwide shift. In a way, I’ve taken the bait of the imperial narrative and focused too much on Putin. He is important, even central at the moment, but as you point out, the Russians are only one player among many. Overall, this is a vast collective anti-imperial movement. Your list of other national players is evidence of a worldwide consciousness raising, and while I do see Putin/Russia continuing to serve in a kind of leadership role for the time being, that role will diminish as the other nations begin to chart their own courses. It seems as if Earth’s immune system is finally rejecting The Empire. And that’s exciting. It reminds me of that E.O. Wilson quote I think about often which is something like “If insects vanished, all other life would perish; if humans vanished, all other life would thrive.” If The Empire vanishes, all other nations will thrive. In fact, once the imperial chains are removed, the US—or some future version of the US—will also thrive. As you suggest, given the apparent ruling class agenda for imminent food shortages, energy shortages, inflation, another pandemic, and global war that likely would include some kind of nuclear exchange, even a crash landing and a period of unprecedented chaos may be a preferable alternative.
Now you’ve got me completely intrigued by Glazyev. His book seems to have been written yesterday rather than 23 years ago. (His term for The Empire” is translated as “World Oligarchy,” and it occurs to me that who better than the Russians to have understood oligarchy, and who better to have been looking for ways to develop an oligarch-free system.) The next Russian presidential election is in 2024 (when Putin is 72), and while Putin is allowed to serve two more terms, it could certainly be part of the Putin/Glazyev plan to have Putin voluntarily step down and let Glazyev seek election as an independent. That would certainly derail The Empire’s current demonization of Putin, though that may be irrelevant in 2024 since I don’t personally expect The Empire to have two more years of meaningful existence.
BTW, I love the mythos of Glazyev (or anyone) as the Archon Slayer.
Thanks for sending, Les, I'll check it out. I just read Michael Hudson on the End of Western Civilization. Long article but worth it. I'm guessing yours might have similarities.
Indeed. Dr. Michael Hudson writes long, eclectic essays that some may find abstruse.
I try to bring certain essentials down to a few thousand words, perhaps more easily grasped and served up with the impact of a Mack Truck at full speed about to clean you off the road.
Hi Teraza, I like your blog and thanks for making it! You seem sensible and compassionate. I referenced Witney Webbs Cold War 2.0. speculating about the players in the Game of Reset now. I think resources are the prime motivation for most military conflicts. Russia has a lot of resources to sell. Russia will benefit from selling to BrIC nations, and those countries will out preform us because the cheap energy is being diverted to them.
As far as Putin goes: I see him as the 1776 revolution the US put up against King George's tyranny. The US is King George. I think he is defending Russia from corporate resources strip miners who would love to have a weak pro-west leader to make the taking easier. This is an oversimplification of a complex geopolitcal situation.
The lynchipn holding the world together right now is energy. I am all for green energy (I run my Leaf off of solar), but it's not reality to think e can just shut off the oil industry. Here's a link to an energy consumption chart. See that thin little lines of green energy on top and those massive blocks of petroleum coal and gas? That's what we have to replace with "green" options. As far as I know, there isn't any massive upgrades to the US grid infrastructure building something like the Hornsdale plant in Australia.
It's very foolish policy to turn off he very energy you need to build an infrastructure before you have your infrastructure built.
But my guess is, they don't care if the peasants have energy so it's a problem they won't fix.
Candace! I noticed that you were blowing up my likes, thank you so much! I didn't go into too much depth on Cold War 2.0 but I thought it was really interesting. I thought they conflated Russia with China, though. China's been an early adopter on depopulation and their Covid lockdowns were horrific. But it seems to me that Putin's going a different way.
Your analogy is very interesting and so is your Lawrence Livermore graph. I think you looked at the blog where I talk about the US only having 11 years left of oil reserves--also from Caitlin's Substack. I don't know if you know Matt Ehret? He also makes the point that you can't make a solar panel using solar energy. The quality of the energy isn't high enough for industry. You put it really well with "It's very foolish policy to turn off he very energy you need to build an infrastructure before you have your infrastructure built."
And we're selling those last 11 years to the highest bidder. I don't know how this is going to end but things are certainly changing fast. Thank you for your kind words and responding!
I don't know about Putin. I don't like the CCP social credit system technocracy at all, no way, no how. But Putin did try to get Russians on a covid pass and it didn't work at all because Russians are just 1 generation away from a totalitarian system, whereas Americans haven't had much of it until late (and we are armed to the teeth) and Western Europe is three generations away from the really bad last one.
We'll see what happens! Just remember, most people are kind and good, so there's a good chance we can form groups and support each other no matter what.
Tereza, the majority of US populist are spoiled, soft, entitled, unhealthy habitual consumers of gadgets! They'll march along to their collective doom because they never do anything against their slave masters' published plans.
I'm cashing out and immigrating to the Philippines ASAP to live by the jungle.
Hi, Stan. For anyone who isn't what you say, what is their option? I spoke to Catherine years ago, when she had a workshop to get more investors into her financial planning business and I was in the process of writing my book. Although she had a smattering of 'green' investments, her primary recommendation was gold. How does that take power back from the oligarchs who debased the precious mettle of humanity, as I say in my book, to rape and pillage for gold? It's the same paradigm.
I don't disagree that there are few objecting to more than the size of their cage but as a mother, I can't give up on ordinary people finding a way to survive and just protect myself. What's the point?
In this video, he accepts the paradigm that the Fed--a cartel of private bankers given the right to create money through mortgages--has a right to exist but objects to them creating too much money and devaluing the speaker's own stash. How does that make him different than a spoiled, soft, entitled, unhealthy habitual consumer of gadgets? He's not saying that our ability to have the rest of the world be our slaves is wrong. Just that the Fed is depriving him of his fair share of that slave labor.
Hi Tereza, you're not wrong as a mother with children; of course you're concerned about the futures! I do not have any living family or relieves, e.g. adopted @ birth. I'm being selfish and thinking only about my survival with my 25 member adopted Filipino family, e.g. the mini tribe.
Titus was using Alzheimer for retirement as example. He's completely on board with ending the Fed Reserves' Banking Cartel. Congress never gave the Fed permission to print non-gold-silver backed fiat money! Fed's two sets of trickery books shows they're claiming $12.7trillion as a liability, e.g. ripped off the US taxpayers.
Civil war(s), hungry masses of rioters with a license to kill (Soros). If the Whites do not wake up and identify as a race, they'll be killed off.
Oh a mini-tribe of 25 in the Philippines, that doesn't sound selfish at all! That sounds like an excellent plan.
But it also doesn't sound like you're following your own advice to seek safety by identifying with the white race (if that's what you are.) You've found a culture known for their care and compassion--at least from their reputation in the hospice community. Good for you!
Tereza - I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, I’ve read or listen to so many posts in the last few days about how society is changing with respect to GeoCap
If I was a member of the 0.01%, rather than a member of today’s intelligentsia, I would be terrified.
This is the historical precedent: the black death in the 1400s wiped out 1/3 of the population of Europe. That led to significant deflation in hard goods, a decrease in the value of Capital, and an increase in the value of labor. It can be argued that the black death led to the end of feudalism.
A significant number of deaths, today, would decrease demand for housing, used cars, and other hard goods. We have already begun to see the value of labor increasing due to people opting out of cubical farm-type work.
For those of us who would be in management or technocrat roles, a few years outside of a corporation and we become “feral”, even while we miss the steady paycheck.
No wonder the financial elite are looking at all possible ways to influence, manage or control the majority of people. This could include the brain neuromodulation that Tessa Fights Robots just described 
Elizabeth! Thank you for adding your good research and clear thinking in my comments. You really provide much food for thought. It's interesting that the Black Death led to the end of feudalism. I suspect that all of us who are managing to stay afloat in California are members of the .01%, not that it does us much good since our cost of living is also in the .01%. But that does seem like kind of an ugly-hopeful realization that the catastrophe of the Black Death ended feudalism in its wake. I love your use of the term 'feral' for all us corporate escapees ;-)
There's a temporal order here that's critical, as to whether our Black Death preceded the messaging of the oligarchs, or whether the messaging was essential to causing our Black Death (which is only in the beginning stages, imo.) You likely already read my Cancer CoVax Connection episode, so you know I see it as the latter. But, like Russia, I don't think all the consequences are planned and you and I share 20 yrs of studying the Course, so this may well be the way the world ends, as we know it, and that may be good for all of us.
To quote ACIM, “I don’t know what anything is for.”
WWII lead to accelerated development and widespread use on antibiotics.
Everything is a two sided coin. I try to observe everything and everyone without judgement or preconceived ideas. (Easier said than done!)
Elizabeth, thank you for sending me the note that you're still listening. That means a lot to me! I'm still in wedding countdown mode (less than three weeks) so still in the throes. My email is receiving but no longer sending so I wanted to reply here. Thanks again and good journey with your projects!
Hello Tereza!
I’ve been MIA for some time now & am still not up to providing a decent comment here. I have to admit that I’m not nearly as politically savvy & articulate as what’s expressed in the comments by the vast majority of your viewers. Am looking forward to diving back in to the Substack.
In the meantime, I received an extremely long email from Dr. Robert Malone detailing his research into something I knew you’d find insanely interesting (though you probably have already read it.) I’m referring to his July 7th piece, that includes a link to an Italian group of physicians & medical researchers who have begun to manifest glorious alternatives to the hell-scape humanity’s been experiencing for far too long... (I’m too tired now to describe it here. Sorry. The link is to their website is: www.origini.life
All my best to you & yours!
Later, Annilori (aka. Pavanna)
Annilori! I've been MIA too working on my childhood home in Appalachia. I just figured out the webcam and internet hotspot so I might get an episode done here or wait until I'm back in CA. And if you're referring to Jack, none of us can keep up with him!
YES YES YES! I could barely sleep after I read his IppocrateOrg post, I found it so exciting. I had it written at the top of a blank page because I wanted to do an episode applying their model to a group developing a new economy. It simultaneously warmed my heart and made me feel quite lonely because the caring and solidarity they have in healthcare is completely absent for economic strategy, which is driven by in-fighting and competition among those who should be on the same side.
I've been toying with sending Dr. Malone a note because I'm sort of in his neighborhood, to see if I could bring a couple copies of my book to their farm, if they're in town. He's been very kind in his responses to my posts but I hate to intrude when he's so busy traveling and writing.
You put that so well, "glorious alternatives to the hell-scape humanity’s been experiencing for far too long." That was exactly my sense. It made me ache with longing to realize how possible that it and how much I want that world. Thank you so much for sharing my excitement!
"I think there are clear answers if we’re asking the right questions."
This applies to everything in business, and most things in life.
Love your description of One Foot in the Gravy--very eclectic. And your content is great. Thanks so much for responding!
I watched Putin’s speech, and, at the risk of being labelled a Putin Puppet, I must admit I felt envious that the Russians have a President who is vigourous, lucid, even inspiring? (I actually looked up Putin’s age and was surprised that he turns 70 this year.)
But wait a minute. The Official Narrative is that Putin, through corrupt alliances with oligarchs over the last twenty years, has secretly become the world’s richest man. The MSM claims that as a former KGB agent he is absolutely ruthless and without conscience and has personally ordered the executions of many opposition politicians and journalists. I personally saw the video in which Klaus Schwab bragged that Putin had been one of the WEF’s young leaders. And the most damning of all, serious historians say he was selected and groomed by The Empire itself after the fall of the USSR to eventually replace western lapdog Boris Yeltsin as Russian president. If any of that is true, it seems highly likely Putin remains a loyal insider to the world’s ruling elite, and that despite his brilliant imminent military and economic defeat of the west, he is in fact merely playing his part in events that will ultimately lead to the Great Reset.
Why, then, do I think Putin may be the single most important figure in modern history, and that he may not only make Russia great again, but he, more than anyone else in the world, might destroy The Empire and save the world from becoming a unipolar totalitarian hellscape run by Klaus Schwab?
While I found much of Putin’s speech wonkish and heavy on central government controls, technocracy, and mere system tweaks, I also felt him expressing a hopeful vision of the future that holistically included economics, ecology, agriculture, culture, history, morality, even spirituality in a way that no other modern western leader has done or can do.
Clearly, Putin has a deep and optimistic vision of a Russian future unshackled from the west. And despite this war in Ukraine, Russia is flowering. More importantly, Russia’s example of fundamentally changing itself to survive, of inviting new ideas, and of rejecting western systems is snowballing among all those countless other nations that have been colonized, overthrown, bullied, robbed, and beat down by the west.
I’m not quite ready to believe Putin is an intentional savior of the world who has come to dismantle The Empire for the benefit of people everywhere who are yearning to be free. It is more likely that he is simply acting in the limited best interest of Russia. But whether his actions are inadvertent or intentional, what he and Russia are doing right now is the single most important thing preventing the western world from irreversible descent into totalitarianism. Putin is giving anti-imperialists worldwide a sense of hope that The Empire can be beaten, that a unipolar world is not inevitable, and that even we captive Americans may be freed from imperial rule for the second time in our history.
Beautifully written, Jack. Russell Brand does a bit where he says, just as an icon, Putin is shooting bears riding bare-chested on a horse. And then he shows Biden falling off his bike when it's standing still.
Where did we first meet, Jack, was it on Matt Taibbi? You likely read his Putin article on "We thought he was our bastard but it turns out he's his own bastard." There's no question that he was selected and groomed as Yeltsin's running mate when Y had become such a liability that they had to buy all the media to get him back in. I don't doubt Schwab's brag that he was the youngest WEF leader, or a ruthless KGB. And yet...
Here's my little fantasy, see what you think of it. Putin doesn't like being the bitch of Davos or of the oligarchs but there's nothing he can do. By 2014 at the latest, when they get the coup to land "jelly side up" before the end of the Sochi Olympics, he knows he's being set up as the fall guy. Enter Sergei Glazyev. They start taking steps to prepare for the inevitable sanctions, and Glazyev tells him how they're going to use this to get rid of Davos, the oligarchs, the petrodollar, and become a hero to the people.
This speech warms the cockles of my policy wonk heart because it went into such detail. I think it was a masterful act of diplomacy because it never pointed fingers but put in accountable, even competitive measures of future change. Did you catch how he's playing the regions and municipalities off each other? They can institute their own policies, it seems, but they're going to be ranked according to their public score.
He also praises specific families among the oligarchs when he warns the rest their heirs will just piss away their money and property, unless they invest honestly. And he doesn't call out the corruption in the courts and petty bureaucrats, but you know that's what he's talking about with the routine audits and tax charges and license harassment.
I share your hopeful vision of this plot twist in the narrative. And it makes me really hopeful for Latin America, Africa, the Middle East. And maybe even hopeful for us.
I think your fantasy concept of Putin is realistic. I, too, like to think that Putin—no matter how much of an insider he may have been previously—either never fully lost his personal sovereignty (and he tricked the Davosian Archons into trusting him), or he has reclaimed his soul (sovereignty). Or, perhaps he has gone through a spiritual transformation in which he has dispensed with his former ego and is sincerely and selflessly acting on behalf of Russians against the western empire. (It could happen.) Whatever the case, Putin the Empire Slayer could be the basis of a much needed new mythology.
I like rogues, and, if we must have nations, then I like rogue nations, too. You can’t have a good story without one or both. But I have a nagging worry about having total confidence in Putin as rogue, because there is something just a little bit too Hollywood about this story so far: Putin and Russia are not only single-handedly defeating the imperial military and overturning the Rule-Based System in just a few short months, he is also humiliating the west to the point of immient collapse, and he is causing western leaders to have omnicidal fits of madness. While that is all great news for anti-imperialists, I have the nagging worry that toppling the western order can still fit nicely into the Great Reset, since a world in chaos is an essential requirement for unprecedented rapid change. Schwab won’t waste a good crisis. So I am going to have 80% confidence that Putin is a legitimate anti-imperial Jedi, but I’m leaving myself some wiggle room for an out-of-the-blue reversal in which Putin betrays the world, embraces The Empire, and—we must have a Hollywood plot twist—discovers Klaus Schwab is his father.
Regarding Glazyev, I know little about him. I did find a PDF of his out-of-print book, “Genocide: Russia and the New World Order”, which I’m perusing. In it, there is this interesting quote: “Either we passively submit to a suicidal policy of self-destruction and the colonization of Russia, which has been imposed from the outside by deception and graft, or we…move to a scientifically grounded strategy for economic growth, improvement of the people's welfare, and restoration of the spiritual-intellectual strength and the scientific and technical potential of the Russian State.” This seems a fair summary of Putin’s St. Petersburg address and Russia’s defiance of the west. Considering this book was published in 1999, I think this plot might have been brewing in Putin’s mind for quite some time and must have figured into his (and maybe Glazyev’s) secret plans.
Yesterday, we US Americans celebrated our “independence.” I saw a mention in the local newspaper that we had gained our independence from King George III, and I realized George must have been the boogey man of that day (which means little has changed in the narrative-making business since 1776). Of course, now that we are the second global empire in history, the fact that we declared independence from the first global empire goes completely unmentioned. If Putin wins this battle of titans and the current iteration/incarnation of The Empire folds and slouches back to Hell to regroup, I had the thought that there may never be another July Fourth celebration, that The Empire (including the nation formerly known as the USA) could be smoldering on the ash heap of history by this time next year. I am astounded that such a thought gives me so much hope for a new world. However, so much depends on Putin being the real deal.
Here are a few things I love about your comment, Jack:
the use of Davosian archons
sovereignty as the soul
Putin the Empire Slayer
the plot twist made me laugh SO hard!
your Glazyev quote and that you're reading him
your timeline that this may be the last 4th
Did you read Candace's comment below where she sees Putin as the 1776 revolution and the US as King George? It fits Glazyev's quote. And I thought that you could substitute the US for Russia and it would still fit.
What Putin set in motion can be reversed, with difficulty, but not corrupted because it's decentralized. Your quote confirms to me that Glazyev is the genius behind Putin's policies. I love his use of the term 'scientifically grounded strategy for economic growth.' Even if Putin were to be decapitated by a robot drone tomorrow, he would be more of a hero and his policies harder to remove.
The test of a well-designed system is that you can put anyone in charge and the good they do will last but the harm will be both limited and reversible. Those are the rules I set for my system, and we could do it too. Putin had no alternative to this, but I don't think this is an alternative the Davos archons foresaw. I'm not sure if Biden is running the same playbook as Darth Schwab.
So let's play this out. This winter Europe burns sticks for warmth, as Poland has advised, in exchange for NATO occupying their countries and making them a target. Gates fulfills his threat of another pandemic, there's no wheat, no fertilizer, and a manufactured food crisis.
Meanwhile, Lula launches the Sur in Latin America, they repudiate dollarized debt and stop accepting the "bubble gum wrappers" of the petrodollar or Euros for trade. Africa has a new Laurent Gbagbo (who was Glazyev to Qaddafi) who relaunches the Pan-African dinar. Iran is already providing the model to the Middle East.
The US antagonism of China is a crazy strategic move. It seems more like a Hail Mary pass than anything. But no matter what, the US looks to be almost isolated by next summer. I don't know what that means for us, but I think Glazyev is the Archon Slayer.
And I love that Substack gives a space for people trying to figure these things out together. Thank you Jack!
“What Putin set in motion can be reversed, with difficulty, but not corrupted because it's decentralized.”
Thank you for the reminder that the war in Ukraine is only a part of the current worldwide shift. In a way, I’ve taken the bait of the imperial narrative and focused too much on Putin. He is important, even central at the moment, but as you point out, the Russians are only one player among many. Overall, this is a vast collective anti-imperial movement. Your list of other national players is evidence of a worldwide consciousness raising, and while I do see Putin/Russia continuing to serve in a kind of leadership role for the time being, that role will diminish as the other nations begin to chart their own courses. It seems as if Earth’s immune system is finally rejecting The Empire. And that’s exciting. It reminds me of that E.O. Wilson quote I think about often which is something like “If insects vanished, all other life would perish; if humans vanished, all other life would thrive.” If The Empire vanishes, all other nations will thrive. In fact, once the imperial chains are removed, the US—or some future version of the US—will also thrive. As you suggest, given the apparent ruling class agenda for imminent food shortages, energy shortages, inflation, another pandemic, and global war that likely would include some kind of nuclear exchange, even a crash landing and a period of unprecedented chaos may be a preferable alternative.
Now you’ve got me completely intrigued by Glazyev. His book seems to have been written yesterday rather than 23 years ago. (His term for The Empire” is translated as “World Oligarchy,” and it occurs to me that who better than the Russians to have understood oligarchy, and who better to have been looking for ways to develop an oligarch-free system.) The next Russian presidential election is in 2024 (when Putin is 72), and while Putin is allowed to serve two more terms, it could certainly be part of the Putin/Glazyev plan to have Putin voluntarily step down and let Glazyev seek election as an independent. That would certainly derail The Empire’s current demonization of Putin, though that may be irrelevant in 2024 since I don’t personally expect The Empire to have two more years of meaningful existence.
BTW, I love the mythos of Glazyev (or anyone) as the Archon Slayer.
Indeed. So . . .
May interest you and others . . . The Decline of The West and the New Eurasian Century.
Examined here in further depth . . . https://les7eb.substack.com/
Thanks for sending, Les, I'll check it out. I just read Michael Hudson on the End of Western Civilization. Long article but worth it. I'm guessing yours might have similarities.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/michael-hudson-the-end-of-western-civilization-why-it-lacks-resilience-and-what-will-take-its-place.html
Indeed. Dr. Michael Hudson writes long, eclectic essays that some may find abstruse.
I try to bring certain essentials down to a few thousand words, perhaps more easily grasped and served up with the impact of a Mack Truck at full speed about to clean you off the road.
Hi Teraza, I like your blog and thanks for making it! You seem sensible and compassionate. I referenced Witney Webbs Cold War 2.0. speculating about the players in the Game of Reset now. I think resources are the prime motivation for most military conflicts. Russia has a lot of resources to sell. Russia will benefit from selling to BrIC nations, and those countries will out preform us because the cheap energy is being diverted to them.
As far as Putin goes: I see him as the 1776 revolution the US put up against King George's tyranny. The US is King George. I think he is defending Russia from corporate resources strip miners who would love to have a weak pro-west leader to make the taking easier. This is an oversimplification of a complex geopolitcal situation.
The lynchipn holding the world together right now is energy. I am all for green energy (I run my Leaf off of solar), but it's not reality to think e can just shut off the oil industry. Here's a link to an energy consumption chart. See that thin little lines of green energy on top and those massive blocks of petroleum coal and gas? That's what we have to replace with "green" options. As far as I know, there isn't any massive upgrades to the US grid infrastructure building something like the Hornsdale plant in Australia.
It's very foolish policy to turn off he very energy you need to build an infrastructure before you have your infrastructure built.
But my guess is, they don't care if the peasants have energy so it's a problem they won't fix.
https://www.ans.org/file/2028/Energy_US_2019.png
Candace! I noticed that you were blowing up my likes, thank you so much! I didn't go into too much depth on Cold War 2.0 but I thought it was really interesting. I thought they conflated Russia with China, though. China's been an early adopter on depopulation and their Covid lockdowns were horrific. But it seems to me that Putin's going a different way.
Your analogy is very interesting and so is your Lawrence Livermore graph. I think you looked at the blog where I talk about the US only having 11 years left of oil reserves--also from Caitlin's Substack. I don't know if you know Matt Ehret? He also makes the point that you can't make a solar panel using solar energy. The quality of the energy isn't high enough for industry. You put it really well with "It's very foolish policy to turn off he very energy you need to build an infrastructure before you have your infrastructure built."
And we're selling those last 11 years to the highest bidder. I don't know how this is going to end but things are certainly changing fast. Thank you for your kind words and responding!
I don't know about Putin. I don't like the CCP social credit system technocracy at all, no way, no how. But Putin did try to get Russians on a covid pass and it didn't work at all because Russians are just 1 generation away from a totalitarian system, whereas Americans haven't had much of it until late (and we are armed to the teeth) and Western Europe is three generations away from the really bad last one.
We'll see what happens! Just remember, most people are kind and good, so there's a good chance we can form groups and support each other no matter what.
Tereza, the majority of US populist are spoiled, soft, entitled, unhealthy habitual consumers of gadgets! They'll march along to their collective doom because they never do anything against their slave masters' published plans.
I'm cashing out and immigrating to the Philippines ASAP to live by the jungle.
Video by C. Fitts side kick / Toilet-flushing the U.S. in 3 Exciting Fed Colors https://youtu.be/VsNR4yd4oYA
Hi, Stan. For anyone who isn't what you say, what is their option? I spoke to Catherine years ago, when she had a workshop to get more investors into her financial planning business and I was in the process of writing my book. Although she had a smattering of 'green' investments, her primary recommendation was gold. How does that take power back from the oligarchs who debased the precious mettle of humanity, as I say in my book, to rape and pillage for gold? It's the same paradigm.
I don't disagree that there are few objecting to more than the size of their cage but as a mother, I can't give up on ordinary people finding a way to survive and just protect myself. What's the point?
In this video, he accepts the paradigm that the Fed--a cartel of private bankers given the right to create money through mortgages--has a right to exist but objects to them creating too much money and devaluing the speaker's own stash. How does that make him different than a spoiled, soft, entitled, unhealthy habitual consumer of gadgets? He's not saying that our ability to have the rest of the world be our slaves is wrong. Just that the Fed is depriving him of his fair share of that slave labor.
Am I wrong?
Hi Tereza, you're not wrong as a mother with children; of course you're concerned about the futures! I do not have any living family or relieves, e.g. adopted @ birth. I'm being selfish and thinking only about my survival with my 25 member adopted Filipino family, e.g. the mini tribe.
Titus was using Alzheimer for retirement as example. He's completely on board with ending the Fed Reserves' Banking Cartel. Congress never gave the Fed permission to print non-gold-silver backed fiat money! Fed's two sets of trickery books shows they're claiming $12.7trillion as a liability, e.g. ripped off the US taxpayers.
Civil war(s), hungry masses of rioters with a license to kill (Soros). If the Whites do not wake up and identify as a race, they'll be killed off.
Oh a mini-tribe of 25 in the Philippines, that doesn't sound selfish at all! That sounds like an excellent plan.
But it also doesn't sound like you're following your own advice to seek safety by identifying with the white race (if that's what you are.) You've found a culture known for their care and compassion--at least from their reputation in the hospice community. Good for you!