Renewable energy for Russia!?! What they really mean is wind & solar. Powering Russia with wind & solar would be like trying to grow pineapples in Norway. They do have a good hydro resource but they are expensive to develop, way too limited in size, environmentally destructive, vulnerable to drought and the long distance transmission is very expensive and vulnerable to sabotage. Even ESG rarely funds hydro. And never funds nuclear.
Russia has excellent light water reactors, the VVER-1100 and also has Fast Reactors that use a trivial amount of fuel. If they REALLY cared anything for the environment and climate change Russia would be pushing hard on nuclear just as China now is. That's the only sensible path to a low carbon future for Russia and it makes all this crap about ESG, carbon footprint, carbon trading, carbon credits absolutely worthless, in fact less than worthless, of negative effectiveness. Birdbrains, Russia has one path forward on climate change mitigation and that is build nuclear power plants. And since Russia is the largest exporter of Nuclear Power on Earth, why don't they get massive carbon credits for every NPP they export? How come schlock Western Companies, like Amazon or Microsoft get carbon credits for funding solar or wind farms in Developing nations but no credits for NPP exports? ESG is a scam. Unlike wind & solar, nuclear actually does reduce carbon emissions.
From Red to Green was the autobiography of Bahro. Bahro, who developed his critique within a Marxist framework, accused the Communist Party leadership of betraying socialist ideals. Characterizing the states of Eastern Europe as systems of organized irresponsibility, he analyzed their political economy and aspects of their industrial production. He recommended far-reaching reforms of the administrative apparatus—indeed, an overhaul of the entire political structure. In Bahro’s view, the Eastern Bloc was not merely an example of deformed socialism, but rather a social reality based on entirely different principles. He accused the Soviet leadership of having, through its invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, robbed itself and the peoples of Eastern Europe of the experience of socialism with a human face. He demanded true economic democracy, without wage privileges for tiny elites, and also the elimination of the existing division of labor. Genuine institutional self-rule, Bahro declared, must gradually develop from below, with freedom of personal development a necessary condition. He believed that a coalition drawing from all political tendencies could lead the way out of self-imposed imprisonment. All this was conceived as a new vision of communism. Altogether some 300,000 copies of The Alternative were sold, and the book was translated into numerous other languages.
“Bahro … remains as committed as ever to the vision of a classless society. He sees the ecology crisis as a direct result of the capitalist industrial system [a system taken over lock, stock and barrel by the socialist states) ; he looks to material interests as the ultimate force behind social change—an interest in survival that is ‘more material’ than any economic interest.”
But nor is Bahro Gorz, draping a green veil over an old, decrepit and discredited project. (For a brilliant debunking of Gorz’s Ecology as Politics, see Bookchin’s Towards an Ecological Society. Regrettably it’s the only brilliant material in the book.) There is much in Bahro that is not new: much of what he says echoes Murray Bookchin in the sixties. Nor does his critique seem to me to be as radical as that of Camatte, Lewis Mumford, or the Fifth Estate. Nevertheless, he is deeply involved in a movement that is practically as well as theoretically confronting the megamachine; more of the real project that lies before us comes through his work than through the work of any other marxist “interpreter” of the ecological critique.
Bahro’s central thesis runs along these lines: We face today an ecological crisis of threatening, global dimensions. This crisis is a direct result of capitalist industry, an industry which, according to Bahro, “is driven on by a boundless need to valorize capital, to make value into more value.” This limitless need threatens to destroy the natural base of human life and at the same time “poses the old question of ‘socialism or barbarism’ with an intensity that earlier socialists, for all their farsightedness, did not even dream of.” He states that the future of the “entire social body” is in question, speaking urgently of the imminent results of our suicidal mode of existence: “The present way of life of the most industrially advanced nations stands in a global and antagonistic contradiction to the natural conditions of human existence. We are eating up what other nations and future generations need to live on.” If these nations complete their goal of industrializing the world, life on this planet will be destroyed. This process may take a hundred years, he tells us, and will be caused not necessarily by lack of resources but by the systematic destruction of the biosphere.
In the context of Neo Liberal Russia and the WEF Leninists, Bahro provides a bridge to today. From Green to "Blue" shall we say, or call this curious hybrid a Watermelon. Green on the outside.
Green on the outside, and red inside. A kind of neo-communism, as described in Green Soylent, BTW *
Like during communist era, the storyboard would be something like "Populations are too silly and unable to deal with resources, let me deal with it and "redistribute" them in a smarter way... hum...
1) the rich and french pirate Jean Laffite, son of a spanish jewish woman, and married to a jewish Denmark resident. Dealing in slaves business in Louisiana. Emissary of northe american bankers.
Allegedly dead in 1820, he went into hiding, and opened a bank account in Paris to finance Marx and Engels
2) Charles Anderson Dana, THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, owned by Horace Greeley. 500 articles on a 10 years period. Links with Clinton Roosevelt.
3) Engels, son of a rich industrial (cotton), Brême
4) Prussian elite including brother-in-law Ferdinand Von Westphalen, MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS !!
Marx the revolutionary, financed by the most touchy power and the industrial and financial elites.
Edward what remains absorbing in regards to the fall of the Russian Empire and the rise of the USSR and then the "collapse" under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and the resurrection, slowly, of a new Russian Empire are Globalist interests. Also interesting is the rehabilitation of Left dissent and it's major influence on the Green Ecological movements that seem to be hooks dragging us to a time before the Industrial Revolution. Especially if: In his book Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA (Knopf, 1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and the other 46 were 'not soon falsifiable'.[22]
According to Russian political scientist Yevgenia Albats, Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old claimed that "as early as 1959, the KGB was working up a perestroika-type plot to manipulate foreign public opinion on a global scale. The plan was in a way inspired by the teachings of the 6th-century BC. Chinese theoretician and military commander Sun Tsu, who said, "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness." Albats argued that the KGB was the major beneficiary of political changes in Russia, and perhaps indeed directed Gorbachev. According to her, "one thing is certain: perestroika opened the way for the KGB to advance toward the very heart of power" in Russia.[23] It has been said that Mikhail Gorbachev justified his new policies as a necessary step to "hug Europe to death", and to "evict the United States from Europe".[24]
According to Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988–89 called our 'common European home'." (interview by The Brussels Journal, February 23, 2006).
On June 8, 1995, the British Conservative Member of Parliament Christopher Gill quoted The Perestroika Deception during a House of Commons debate, saying: "It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth"; and: "Every time the House approves one of these collective agreements, not least treaties agreed by the collective of the European Union, it contributes to the furtherance of the Russian strategy."[25]
According to Daniel Pipes, Golitsyn's publications "had some impact on rightist thinking in the United States",[26] including political writer Jeffrey Nyquist[27] and Joel Skousen,[28] as well as the John Birch Society.[29]
Golitsyn's views are echoed by Czech dissident and politician Petr Cibulka, who has alleged that the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was staged by the communist StB secret police.
Quote: "..We are eating up what other nations and future generations need to live on.” If these nations complete their goal of industrializing the world, life on this planet will be destroyed..."
What a load of hogwash. How on Earth do you figure industrializing the world will destroy life on this planet.? The crap that Greenies come up with, it just sounds good so they like repeating it, even though it has no semblance of rationality. The worst we can do to the planet is NOT industrialize, that will ensure the poor will rape and pillage every pristine ecosystem in an effort to survive. It means stripping forests of wood for energy and clearing animal habitat for extreme low productivity subsistence farming. It means having lots of children to supply free labor and support in old age. Industrialization has ALREADY saved a vast amount of life on this planet by preventing the soon-to-arrive Ice Age, 90% of the last 2 million years. Don't want that. Welcome all that CO2. Last Ice Age CO2 levels hit the lowest in the history of the planet 180ppm. @ 150ppm plants die.
And capitalism ain't the problem. The problem is allowing private Banksters to create our money supply. This gives them overwhelming power. Since they are Psychopath Malthusian Parasites all they are good at is destroying what the vast majority of humanity have built. Blood-suckers. Once they sink their proboscis into us they will destroy everything to prevent us from doing what should have been done long ago, swat them, spray them, get rid of them.
I don't see that there is such a thing as materialism. People have always had a varying degree of interest in material goods which can be destructive (i.e. hoarding) or just wasteful in the same way people like booze & drugs too much, or entertainment, or food, or slothful living, or travel, or sex, or recklessness. I don't buy this idea that there is some core state of mind called materialism which is the opposite of spiritualism. A person can be very into material goods, like a carpenter, but still be very spiritual even to the point of zen arts, consider the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Spirituality can be achieved under communism, socialism or capitalism. Undoubtedly some systems are more amenable to spiritual living. Especially primitivist systems but they are not feasible apart from oddball niches in the modern world.
Materialism merely places emphasis on objectified reality and it does so by ignoring or diminishing the spiritual in man. While man is a maker of material objects man is not merely another object. So transhumanism by Covid vaccines is objectifying man.
Covid vaccines have nothing to do with transhumanism. That's a silly fable. There's nothing inherent in communism, socialism or capitalism that requires emphasis on objectified reality. That's strictly the preferences of the ruling classes, which have typically completely lacked spirituality but that is more about how screwed up our means of forming governments rather than the economic system.
They MAY choose to deny nature and tradition, but there is nothing inherent in those systems that will necessitate that. If the leaders really wanted reverence for nature and traditional lifestyles they could easily do so under communism, socialism or capitalism.
Not sure if you will see this Riley, I have been following you for months and I love reading your work . From the Philippines with love. I always was suspect with China and Russia's agenda as a Filipino as I see the same technocracy here in Asia where the 2 powerhouses rain king especially with the COVID hoax
Unfortunately the sustainable development plan is happening in the voiceless Southeast Asia such as here in the Philippines which includes green jobs and plant based meat promotions here in my article which I linked your work hehe. In addition we are hella complaint with COVID mandates and we still have mask mandates over here
Southeast Asia are also in lockstep with CBDCs and the QR Code technocracy and most of us in the region are just going in it like it is normal and is hella scary ngl.
thanks for your kind words! and thanks for the intel about what's happening in the Philippines -- amazing how everyone seems to be marching to the same tune, isn't it (or maybe not so amazing)? yes, let's hope we all pull through in the end :) take care my friend and keep us posted about what's going on over there --
"sustainable development" is nothing is actually code for depopulation and the tool to transfer wealth from the people of the middle class to the oligarch the Elite$ - the predator class.
These are the corporate financial crime syndicate. Elite$ bankers and Powerful Corporate Families.
WHAT (I think) THIS MEANS... If there's money to be made, he - and many other big-money Russian interests - are all in.
And, EVERYONE must comply. Or else. WHY must EVERYONE comply? Because if ANYONE is allowed to not comply, if anyone thrives outside this new system, that rightly reveals this system for the fraud and stream of endless lies that it is.
"Green" tech. "Green" energy. "Green" goals. The only "green" they're truly interested in is "green" money. They rightly see ESG as the biggest money-making scheme in world history - and it is. And what exactly will ESG really supply in return? More environmental degradation, more human misery. And on a truly grand scale - a planetary scale. NOT the "green" utopia they're all so desperately, and pathetically desperately, trying to portray.
But, but, but, you'll get a "certificate of conformity"!!! Hoo boy, that'll keep all Russians (and everyone else, worldwide) warm in the winter, and food in their bellies. Hmmm... Reminds me of another set of utopian promises - "a chicken in every pot, and a Volkswagen in every driveway" (not an exact quote). And how did that actually turn out, what were the actual results of that? And, what were the REAL intentions of that "leader"? Are the REAL intentions, and intended results, of this scheme any different?
The top 5 on the ESG top 500 are the big Tech giants Apple, Amazon, Microsoft & Google/Alphabet. Largely because they buy carbon credits from wind & solar farms which is all nonsense, pretending one unit of wind or solar displaces one unit of coal generation. The grid doesn't work that way. And Tesla is not even on the ESG top 500. While Exxon is at #8. Companies that develop nuclear power plants won't make the ESG top 500. What a scam!
Elon Musk @elonmusk
" Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors. "
Who speaks about stockpilling food? Using weapons? I understand that you would like to amalgamate self sufficiency with that, but it is not the reality. And once again, being self sufficient is not antinomic with fighting for our rights, changing the Constitution, acting politically.
It is up to to each individual to choose to go to Fairway Market or grow its own production, but he must be aware of sthg: once you decide to rely on your credit card to live, to depend on food industry, on public water and public energy, you must be prepared to lose your civil and political rights at any time, since they can "cut" them for any subversive individual that does not comply with the standards.
"Not only are Russia’s leading businesses reciting ESG incantations, they’re calling for the country’s education system to join their cult so that future generations will be able to continue their sustainable development crusade. "
And trans humanist Putin associate Pavel Luksha, who heads Global Educations Future together with trans humanist Alexander Laszlo, is in charge of re-shaping the education system of not only Russia but the entire BRICS bloc.
Dr. Pavel Luksha is a founder and a director of Global Education Futures initiative, aimed at catalyzing the transformation of educational ecosystems at a global scale, and a co-founder of Global Change Leaders movement of educational & social innovators. He is also a Professor of Practice at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, where works primarily on the transformation of the higher & professional education sector, and a Professor at ITBA (Technological University of Buenos Aires). Pavel also works closely with Russian Agency of Strategic Initiatives, one of the primary national vehicles of driving change in professional education development and new technological sectors. He is the coauthor of Rapid Foresight methodology, widely used in sectoral and regional planning, and a primary author of Skills Technology Foresight methodology developed in partnership with International Labor Organization.
Extract: "Newman quoted an excerpt from this report: “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.” "Newman said that, in his view, the U.N. ultimately wants to get rid of private land ownership. “We see this all over the world. This is not just happening in the Netherlands.”
He thinks that a war is taking place against farmers and ranchers, especially those who are independent or those who are not part of the system. “They want to remove small farmers, even medium farmers, from their land, and they want to bring it all under the control of these—I think there’s no other term to describe it—fascistic public-private partnerships.” "Newman noted some examples to illustrate his opinion: The Chinese regime forces peasants to move to megacities, farmers are killed in South Africa, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States proposed a new rule that could bankrupt small and medium farmers." "The American Farm Bureau Federation said in a statement that the proposed rule could create “substantial costs” for farmers because they do not have teams of compliance officers or attorneys like large corporations. Moreover, it may push out of business small and medium-sized farmers and force food-processing companies to look for agricultural raw products outside of the United States, the statement asserted." "“One of the things that the communists loved to do is create scarcity and create dependents. As long as you have independent people who are able to take care of themselves, there really is no need for the government to run your life and to control everything that you do,” Newman said."
I got this via a friend who is vulnerable to Kremlin propaganda, recent speech by Putin. IMHO, this is pap meant for Putin groupies in the West, which is where most such people are, Russians know better. Thanks again, Riley!
"The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism? It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore essentially racist and neo-colonial. The underlying globalist and pseudo-liberal ideology is becoming increasingly more like totalitarianism and is restraining creative endeavour and free historical creation.
One gets the impression that the West is simply unable to offer the world a model for the future of its own. Indeed, it was no accident that the golden billion attained its gold and achieved quite a lot, but it got there not because it implemented certain concepts. It mainly got to where it is by robbing other peoples in Asia and Africa. That is how it was. India was robbed for an extensive period of time. This is why the elite of the golden billion are terrified of other global development centres potentially coming up with their own development alternatives.
No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic and become a role model for others in terms of standards of living and quality of life, the protection of traditional values and high humanistic ideals, and development models where an individual is not a means, but the ultimate goal.
Sovereignty is about freedom of national development, and thus, the development of every individual. It is about the technological, cultural, intellectual and educational solvency of a state – that is what it is. No doubt, responsible, active and nationally minded and nationally oriented civil society is the most important component of sovereignty.
I am convinced that in order to be strong, independent and competitive, we need to improve the mechanisms for people to participate in the country’s life and to make them more open and fairer. That includes mechanisms for direct democracy and people's involvement in addressing the critical problems facing society and the public.
The way forward is to rely on our people’s creative potential...."
As Putin learned from his friend and mentor Henry Kissinger (+/- 20 meetings between the two, once a year, to Kissinger’s residence) : « The contemporary quest for a World Order would require a coherent strategy to establish a conceptive order within the various regions (blocks) and then relate these regional orders (blocks) to one another. »
In the same way, Zbigniew Brzezinski said in 1995 during the Forum State of the World “We do not have a New World Order.... We cannot leap into a World Government in one quick step”.
Well, that is exactly what Putin and the Western Leaders are doing , as co-starring partners, with the war, the crisis, the covid, global warming, pillage of Africa with russian mercenaries, and destruction of Europe: they destroy multipolarity, they destroy economies, and build a kind of annexion or protectorate. As Putin said himself: we suggest a powerful supernational association capable of becoming one of the poles in the modern world, a bridge between Europe and the dynamic asia pacific region . « Eurasia will help ensure the global sustainable development » .
The problem is when he talks about ending with unipolar world. On the contrary, Putin (and his western friends) aims at making economic centers like Europe or Africa devoid of their substance, to place it under Russian « protectorate » and Nato protectorate.
The current events (war, Covid, ..) kill multipolarity and help creating bi-polarity.
And let’s not put all the blame on the Russian leader. It is a co-production.
It is a co-production. But their rivalries are real, there's only room for one #! and they all wish to apply, sooner or later they will go to war. But in the meantime and even after they will cooperate against their various captive populations, who will be captive till they decide "enough."
I agree with that. The same kind of power/economic/financial rivalries between two employees fighting for an open position close to the big boss.
But this is where rivalry ends. The artificial and false dichotomy in ideology, alledged Tradition (Russia) Vs Political Modernity (West) I don't buy that. This is just part of a battle of influence to get acceptance from respective populations, to form greater blocks. This false dichotomy is presented this way:
West (seafaring civilization) <==> Russia / Asia
Political Modernity <==> Traditions
Immigrationnism&globalism <==> Nationalism
Mobility <==> Land-based civilisation
Atheism, rationality <==> Faith, Respect of religions (*)
Individualism, human rights <==> Collectivism, common good
Of course! They were made to get along quite nicely!
And try to make a NWO under construction, look like a "multipolar world" when in reality the current events in a co-production East/West are a controlled demolition of multipolarity (sanctions, war, inflation, destruction of Europe, pillage of natural resources in Africa) and a construction of big geopolitical blocks (Eurasia, Pan-Africa..).
Getting rid of a political power over you, means having enough self-sufficiency and autonomy at home (a well for water, food, energy like solar panels).
Not even remotely feasible. You'll never be rid of the political power over you, best you can do is ensure there is fundamental human rights entrenched in a fair & honest legal system. Transparency & accountability. You get that by not hiding in the bushes but by organizing, educating and acting against the corrupt.
"organizing, educating and acting against the corrupt" -- through the court system? voting? what exactly does this entail? Seems to me that people seeking self-sufficiency en masse (which includes working together with your neighbors) is a much more powerful position to be in than waiting for a politician or judge to side with you, or even trying to somehow remove the rot from the legal system. Or do you mean something else?
Self-sufficiency? Like how? Start a commune out in the country? With all the land being bought up by billionaires - Bill Gates, Blackrock etc. In Australia the corrupt government has just declared they are going to increase "green space" land reserve by 50%, one of the tenants of ecofascism. They'll get you so easily, explained by Rosa Koire below. 90% living in cities - what are you going to do?
I posted one version of what you can do by Rosa Koire below. #1 thing right now - talk to your friends, relatives, workmates - make sure they know what's going on, and how they must oppose and reject the current establishment, reject their media, vote out everyone of their stooges from dog catcher on up. This is WW3, a war against the people, you don't get to opt out. Opting out is helping the enemy and assaulting your friends & neighbors.
As Alex Newman said "“One of the things that the communists loved to do is create scarcity and create dependents. As long as you have independent people who are able to take care of themselves, there really is no need for the government to run your life and to control everything that you do”
Sounds nice, unfortunately, you would have to get rid of 90% of the people on Earth to achieve that. And forget solar power, there will be no solar panels. You cut wood for heat & cooking, until the forests are stripped and then you freeze. No health care, no pensions, no education, no military. In fact its a silly idea because there is no turning back the clock. If you tried something like that all it would take is a Kim Jong Ill to decide he wants to be emperor of the world and his tanks would roll right over your little homestead in 1 hour.
I had just written a comment on the bugs/burgers which alluded to the fact that the pro western ruling investing elite in Russia seem to be much more stupid than the popuation.
"Funnily enough Arte, the franco-german tv channel has just release a documentary titled: "How agrochemistry has killed the insects" !!!
Renewable energy for Russia!?! What they really mean is wind & solar. Powering Russia with wind & solar would be like trying to grow pineapples in Norway. They do have a good hydro resource but they are expensive to develop, way too limited in size, environmentally destructive, vulnerable to drought and the long distance transmission is very expensive and vulnerable to sabotage. Even ESG rarely funds hydro. And never funds nuclear.
Russia has excellent light water reactors, the VVER-1100 and also has Fast Reactors that use a trivial amount of fuel. If they REALLY cared anything for the environment and climate change Russia would be pushing hard on nuclear just as China now is. That's the only sensible path to a low carbon future for Russia and it makes all this crap about ESG, carbon footprint, carbon trading, carbon credits absolutely worthless, in fact less than worthless, of negative effectiveness. Birdbrains, Russia has one path forward on climate change mitigation and that is build nuclear power plants. And since Russia is the largest exporter of Nuclear Power on Earth, why don't they get massive carbon credits for every NPP they export? How come schlock Western Companies, like Amazon or Microsoft get carbon credits for funding solar or wind farms in Developing nations but no credits for NPP exports? ESG is a scam. Unlike wind & solar, nuclear actually does reduce carbon emissions.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-climate-goals-hinge-on-440-billion-nuclear-power-plan-to-rival-u-s
Your "Carbon Footprint" is a LIE (and we all fell for it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zjhp5HyfI
awesome and informative comment, thanks so much!
From Red to Green was the autobiography of Bahro. Bahro, who developed his critique within a Marxist framework, accused the Communist Party leadership of betraying socialist ideals. Characterizing the states of Eastern Europe as systems of organized irresponsibility, he analyzed their political economy and aspects of their industrial production. He recommended far-reaching reforms of the administrative apparatus—indeed, an overhaul of the entire political structure. In Bahro’s view, the Eastern Bloc was not merely an example of deformed socialism, but rather a social reality based on entirely different principles. He accused the Soviet leadership of having, through its invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, robbed itself and the peoples of Eastern Europe of the experience of socialism with a human face. He demanded true economic democracy, without wage privileges for tiny elites, and also the elimination of the existing division of labor. Genuine institutional self-rule, Bahro declared, must gradually develop from below, with freedom of personal development a necessary condition. He believed that a coalition drawing from all political tendencies could lead the way out of self-imposed imprisonment. All this was conceived as a new vision of communism. Altogether some 300,000 copies of The Alternative were sold, and the book was translated into numerous other languages.
“Bahro … remains as committed as ever to the vision of a classless society. He sees the ecology crisis as a direct result of the capitalist industrial system [a system taken over lock, stock and barrel by the socialist states) ; he looks to material interests as the ultimate force behind social change—an interest in survival that is ‘more material’ than any economic interest.”
But nor is Bahro Gorz, draping a green veil over an old, decrepit and discredited project. (For a brilliant debunking of Gorz’s Ecology as Politics, see Bookchin’s Towards an Ecological Society. Regrettably it’s the only brilliant material in the book.) There is much in Bahro that is not new: much of what he says echoes Murray Bookchin in the sixties. Nor does his critique seem to me to be as radical as that of Camatte, Lewis Mumford, or the Fifth Estate. Nevertheless, he is deeply involved in a movement that is practically as well as theoretically confronting the megamachine; more of the real project that lies before us comes through his work than through the work of any other marxist “interpreter” of the ecological critique.
Bahro’s central thesis runs along these lines: We face today an ecological crisis of threatening, global dimensions. This crisis is a direct result of capitalist industry, an industry which, according to Bahro, “is driven on by a boundless need to valorize capital, to make value into more value.” This limitless need threatens to destroy the natural base of human life and at the same time “poses the old question of ‘socialism or barbarism’ with an intensity that earlier socialists, for all their farsightedness, did not even dream of.” He states that the future of the “entire social body” is in question, speaking urgently of the imminent results of our suicidal mode of existence: “The present way of life of the most industrially advanced nations stands in a global and antagonistic contradiction to the natural conditions of human existence. We are eating up what other nations and future generations need to live on.” If these nations complete their goal of industrializing the world, life on this planet will be destroyed. This process may take a hundred years, he tells us, and will be caused not necessarily by lack of resources but by the systematic destruction of the biosphere.
In the context of Neo Liberal Russia and the WEF Leninists, Bahro provides a bridge to today. From Green to "Blue" shall we say, or call this curious hybrid a Watermelon. Green on the outside.
thanks, Stegiel. thought-provoking comment -- a blog post on its own :)
Green on the outside, and red inside. A kind of neo-communism, as described in Green Soylent, BTW *
Like during communist era, the storyboard would be something like "Populations are too silly and unable to deal with resources, let me deal with it and "redistribute" them in a smarter way... hum...
Marxism is a fraud, plagiarism and a copy-paste of the french Mason Victor Considérant writings, https://dokumen.tips/reader/f/victor-considerant-principes-du-socialisme-manifeste-de-la-democratie-au
Marx was financed by :
1) the rich and french pirate Jean Laffite, son of a spanish jewish woman, and married to a jewish Denmark resident. Dealing in slaves business in Louisiana. Emissary of northe american bankers.
Allegedly dead in 1820, he went into hiding, and opened a bank account in Paris to finance Marx and Engels
2) Charles Anderson Dana, THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, owned by Horace Greeley. 500 articles on a 10 years period. Links with Clinton Roosevelt.
3) Engels, son of a rich industrial (cotton), Brême
4) Prussian elite including brother-in-law Ferdinand Von Westphalen, MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS !!
Marx the revolutionary, financed by the most touchy power and the industrial and financial elites.
Edward what remains absorbing in regards to the fall of the Russian Empire and the rise of the USSR and then the "collapse" under Gorbachev and Yeltsin and the resurrection, slowly, of a new Russian Empire are Globalist interests. Also interesting is the rehabilitation of Left dissent and it's major influence on the Green Ecological movements that seem to be hooks dragging us to a time before the Industrial Revolution. Especially if: In his book Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA (Knopf, 1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and the other 46 were 'not soon falsifiable'.[22]
According to Russian political scientist Yevgenia Albats, Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old claimed that "as early as 1959, the KGB was working up a perestroika-type plot to manipulate foreign public opinion on a global scale. The plan was in a way inspired by the teachings of the 6th-century BC. Chinese theoretician and military commander Sun Tsu, who said, "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness." Albats argued that the KGB was the major beneficiary of political changes in Russia, and perhaps indeed directed Gorbachev. According to her, "one thing is certain: perestroika opened the way for the KGB to advance toward the very heart of power" in Russia.[23] It has been said that Mikhail Gorbachev justified his new policies as a necessary step to "hug Europe to death", and to "evict the United States from Europe".[24]
According to Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, "In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988–89 called our 'common European home'." (interview by The Brussels Journal, February 23, 2006).
On June 8, 1995, the British Conservative Member of Parliament Christopher Gill quoted The Perestroika Deception during a House of Commons debate, saying: "It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth"; and: "Every time the House approves one of these collective agreements, not least treaties agreed by the collective of the European Union, it contributes to the furtherance of the Russian strategy."[25]
According to Daniel Pipes, Golitsyn's publications "had some impact on rightist thinking in the United States",[26] including political writer Jeffrey Nyquist[27] and Joel Skousen,[28] as well as the John Birch Society.[29]
Golitsyn's views are echoed by Czech dissident and politician Petr Cibulka, who has alleged that the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia was staged by the communist StB secret police.
Quote: "..We are eating up what other nations and future generations need to live on.” If these nations complete their goal of industrializing the world, life on this planet will be destroyed..."
What a load of hogwash. How on Earth do you figure industrializing the world will destroy life on this planet.? The crap that Greenies come up with, it just sounds good so they like repeating it, even though it has no semblance of rationality. The worst we can do to the planet is NOT industrialize, that will ensure the poor will rape and pillage every pristine ecosystem in an effort to survive. It means stripping forests of wood for energy and clearing animal habitat for extreme low productivity subsistence farming. It means having lots of children to supply free labor and support in old age. Industrialization has ALREADY saved a vast amount of life on this planet by preventing the soon-to-arrive Ice Age, 90% of the last 2 million years. Don't want that. Welcome all that CO2. Last Ice Age CO2 levels hit the lowest in the history of the planet 180ppm. @ 150ppm plants die.
And capitalism ain't the problem. The problem is allowing private Banksters to create our money supply. This gives them overwhelming power. Since they are Psychopath Malthusian Parasites all they are good at is destroying what the vast majority of humanity have built. Blood-suckers. Once they sink their proboscis into us they will destroy everything to prevent us from doing what should have been done long ago, swat them, spray them, get rid of them.
Bahro was a communist. Green washing began with Sakharov. After Chernobyl Gorbachev created an environmental movement using ideas of Sakharov.
Materialism is what both have in common. Both deny spiritual man.
I don't see that there is such a thing as materialism. People have always had a varying degree of interest in material goods which can be destructive (i.e. hoarding) or just wasteful in the same way people like booze & drugs too much, or entertainment, or food, or slothful living, or travel, or sex, or recklessness. I don't buy this idea that there is some core state of mind called materialism which is the opposite of spiritualism. A person can be very into material goods, like a carpenter, but still be very spiritual even to the point of zen arts, consider the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Spirituality can be achieved under communism, socialism or capitalism. Undoubtedly some systems are more amenable to spiritual living. Especially primitivist systems but they are not feasible apart from oddball niches in the modern world.
Materialism merely places emphasis on objectified reality and it does so by ignoring or diminishing the spiritual in man. While man is a maker of material objects man is not merely another object. So transhumanism by Covid vaccines is objectifying man.
Covid vaccines have nothing to do with transhumanism. That's a silly fable. There's nothing inherent in communism, socialism or capitalism that requires emphasis on objectified reality. That's strictly the preferences of the ruling classes, which have typically completely lacked spirituality but that is more about how screwed up our means of forming governments rather than the economic system.
In this you are mistaken. https://www.orwell.city/2021/06/la-quinta-columna-5G-graphene-oxide-and-neuro-rights.html
They MAY choose to deny nature and tradition, but there is nothing inherent in those systems that will necessitate that. If the leaders really wanted reverence for nature and traditional lifestyles they could easily do so under communism, socialism or capitalism.
Not sure if you will see this Riley, I have been following you for months and I love reading your work . From the Philippines with love. I always was suspect with China and Russia's agenda as a Filipino as I see the same technocracy here in Asia where the 2 powerhouses rain king especially with the COVID hoax
Unfortunately the sustainable development plan is happening in the voiceless Southeast Asia such as here in the Philippines which includes green jobs and plant based meat promotions here in my article which I linked your work hehe. In addition we are hella complaint with COVID mandates and we still have mask mandates over here
https://basado.substack.com/p/you-will-eat-ze-bugs?sd=pf
Southeast Asia are also in lockstep with CBDCs and the QR Code technocracy and most of us in the region are just going in it like it is normal and is hella scary ngl.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2022/07/15/sea-cbs-eye-linking-payment-systems/
Hope we can pull through together as humanity but hey let's enjoy the insanity and easting ze bugss!
Hey Bas,
thanks for your kind words! and thanks for the intel about what's happening in the Philippines -- amazing how everyone seems to be marching to the same tune, isn't it (or maybe not so amazing)? yes, let's hope we all pull through in the end :) take care my friend and keep us posted about what's going on over there --
riley
Same to you man! Appreciate it.
"sustainable development" is nothing is actually code for depopulation and the tool to transfer wealth from the people of the middle class to the oligarch the Elite$ - the predator class.
These are the corporate financial crime syndicate. Elite$ bankers and Powerful Corporate Families.
WHAT (I think) THIS MEANS... If there's money to be made, he - and many other big-money Russian interests - are all in.
And, EVERYONE must comply. Or else. WHY must EVERYONE comply? Because if ANYONE is allowed to not comply, if anyone thrives outside this new system, that rightly reveals this system for the fraud and stream of endless lies that it is.
"Green" tech. "Green" energy. "Green" goals. The only "green" they're truly interested in is "green" money. They rightly see ESG as the biggest money-making scheme in world history - and it is. And what exactly will ESG really supply in return? More environmental degradation, more human misery. And on a truly grand scale - a planetary scale. NOT the "green" utopia they're all so desperately, and pathetically desperately, trying to portray.
But, but, but, you'll get a "certificate of conformity"!!! Hoo boy, that'll keep all Russians (and everyone else, worldwide) warm in the winter, and food in their bellies. Hmmm... Reminds me of another set of utopian promises - "a chicken in every pot, and a Volkswagen in every driveway" (not an exact quote). And how did that actually turn out, what were the actual results of that? And, what were the REAL intentions of that "leader"? Are the REAL intentions, and intended results, of this scheme any different?
The top 5 on the ESG top 500 are the big Tech giants Apple, Amazon, Microsoft & Google/Alphabet. Largely because they buy carbon credits from wind & solar farms which is all nonsense, pretending one unit of wind or solar displaces one unit of coal generation. The grid doesn't work that way. And Tesla is not even on the ESG top 500. While Exxon is at #8. Companies that develop nuclear power plants won't make the ESG top 500. What a scam!
Elon Musk @elonmusk
" Exxon is rated top ten best in world for environment, social & governance (ESG) by S&P 500, while Tesla didn’t make the list! ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors. "
Watch Tucker Carlson, 6/14/22 @ 30m:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/0MRUY6ze3c8b/
It reminds me that Russia had used some green "something" very a great efficiency, "the polite men in green " in Crimea...
Who speaks about stockpilling food? Using weapons? I understand that you would like to amalgamate self sufficiency with that, but it is not the reality. And once again, being self sufficient is not antinomic with fighting for our rights, changing the Constitution, acting politically.
It is up to to each individual to choose to go to Fairway Market or grow its own production, but he must be aware of sthg: once you decide to rely on your credit card to live, to depend on food industry, on public water and public energy, you must be prepared to lose your civil and political rights at any time, since they can "cut" them for any subversive individual that does not comply with the standards.
"Not only are Russia’s leading businesses reciting ESG incantations, they’re calling for the country’s education system to join their cult so that future generations will be able to continue their sustainable development crusade. "
And trans humanist Putin associate Pavel Luksha, who heads Global Educations Future together with trans humanist Alexander Laszlo, is in charge of re-shaping the education system of not only Russia but the entire BRICS bloc.
https://worldskillsconference.com/2018/speakers/id/123/
Dr. Pavel Luksha is a founder and a director of Global Education Futures initiative, aimed at catalyzing the transformation of educational ecosystems at a global scale, and a co-founder of Global Change Leaders movement of educational & social innovators. He is also a Professor of Practice at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, where works primarily on the transformation of the higher & professional education sector, and a Professor at ITBA (Technological University of Buenos Aires). Pavel also works closely with Russian Agency of Strategic Initiatives, one of the primary national vehicles of driving change in professional education development and new technological sectors. He is the coauthor of Rapid Foresight methodology, widely used in sectoral and regional planning, and a primary author of Skills Technology Foresight methodology developed in partnership with International Labor Organization.
Wouldn't it shine out to put care for the earth as a whole before climate goals?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/alex-newman-explains-un-agenda-2030-behind-farming-restrictions_4608476.html?welcomeuser=1
Extract: "Newman quoted an excerpt from this report: “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.” "Newman said that, in his view, the U.N. ultimately wants to get rid of private land ownership. “We see this all over the world. This is not just happening in the Netherlands.”
He thinks that a war is taking place against farmers and ranchers, especially those who are independent or those who are not part of the system. “They want to remove small farmers, even medium farmers, from their land, and they want to bring it all under the control of these—I think there’s no other term to describe it—fascistic public-private partnerships.” "Newman noted some examples to illustrate his opinion: The Chinese regime forces peasants to move to megacities, farmers are killed in South Africa, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States proposed a new rule that could bankrupt small and medium farmers." "The American Farm Bureau Federation said in a statement that the proposed rule could create “substantial costs” for farmers because they do not have teams of compliance officers or attorneys like large corporations. Moreover, it may push out of business small and medium-sized farmers and force food-processing companies to look for agricultural raw products outside of the United States, the statement asserted." "“One of the things that the communists loved to do is create scarcity and create dependents. As long as you have independent people who are able to take care of themselves, there really is no need for the government to run your life and to control everything that you do,” Newman said."
Elite Slave Group agenda can go fuck itself
"Green voodoo"----perfect!
ESG is a scam because it is the hard core of a NWO government. The first time about that was in june, 2020, on BlackRock's website.
But wait. They tell us about:
- global warming: originated with chemtrails! Rains, storms, global warming are under control!
- water is scarce: the same!
- contamination: world-wide business, armies, industrials.
- Food shortage: war, quantitative easing, inflation, global warming (chemtrails). globalization!
I got this via a friend who is vulnerable to Kremlin propaganda, recent speech by Putin. IMHO, this is pap meant for Putin groupies in the West, which is where most such people are, Russians know better. Thanks again, Riley!
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69039
"The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism? It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore essentially racist and neo-colonial. The underlying globalist and pseudo-liberal ideology is becoming increasingly more like totalitarianism and is restraining creative endeavour and free historical creation.
One gets the impression that the West is simply unable to offer the world a model for the future of its own. Indeed, it was no accident that the golden billion attained its gold and achieved quite a lot, but it got there not because it implemented certain concepts. It mainly got to where it is by robbing other peoples in Asia and Africa. That is how it was. India was robbed for an extensive period of time. This is why the elite of the golden billion are terrified of other global development centres potentially coming up with their own development alternatives.
No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic and become a role model for others in terms of standards of living and quality of life, the protection of traditional values and high humanistic ideals, and development models where an individual is not a means, but the ultimate goal.
Sovereignty is about freedom of national development, and thus, the development of every individual. It is about the technological, cultural, intellectual and educational solvency of a state – that is what it is. No doubt, responsible, active and nationally minded and nationally oriented civil society is the most important component of sovereignty.
I am convinced that in order to be strong, independent and competitive, we need to improve the mechanisms for people to participate in the country’s life and to make them more open and fairer. That includes mechanisms for direct democracy and people's involvement in addressing the critical problems facing society and the public.
The way forward is to rely on our people’s creative potential...."
As Putin learned from his friend and mentor Henry Kissinger (+/- 20 meetings between the two, once a year, to Kissinger’s residence) : « The contemporary quest for a World Order would require a coherent strategy to establish a conceptive order within the various regions (blocks) and then relate these regional orders (blocks) to one another. »
In the same way, Zbigniew Brzezinski said in 1995 during the Forum State of the World “We do not have a New World Order.... We cannot leap into a World Government in one quick step”.
Well, that is exactly what Putin and the Western Leaders are doing , as co-starring partners, with the war, the crisis, the covid, global warming, pillage of Africa with russian mercenaries, and destruction of Europe: they destroy multipolarity, they destroy economies, and build a kind of annexion or protectorate. As Putin said himself: we suggest a powerful supernational association capable of becoming one of the poles in the modern world, a bridge between Europe and the dynamic asia pacific region . « Eurasia will help ensure the global sustainable development » .
The problem is when he talks about ending with unipolar world. On the contrary, Putin (and his western friends) aims at making economic centers like Europe or Africa devoid of their substance, to place it under Russian « protectorate » and Nato protectorate.
The current events (war, Covid, ..) kill multipolarity and help creating bi-polarity.
And let’s not put all the blame on the Russian leader. It is a co-production.
It is a co-production. But their rivalries are real, there's only room for one #! and they all wish to apply, sooner or later they will go to war. But in the meantime and even after they will cooperate against their various captive populations, who will be captive till they decide "enough."
I agree with that. The same kind of power/economic/financial rivalries between two employees fighting for an open position close to the big boss.
But this is where rivalry ends. The artificial and false dichotomy in ideology, alledged Tradition (Russia) Vs Political Modernity (West) I don't buy that. This is just part of a battle of influence to get acceptance from respective populations, to form greater blocks. This false dichotomy is presented this way:
West (seafaring civilization) <==> Russia / Asia
Political Modernity <==> Traditions
Immigrationnism&globalism <==> Nationalism
Mobility <==> Land-based civilisation
Atheism, rationality <==> Faith, Respect of religions (*)
Individualism, human rights <==> Collectivism, common good
Disney culture <==> Traditional culture
LGBT, gay prides, porno <==> Family, heterosexuality, decency
Consumerism, materialism <==> Religiosity, frugality if not austerity (you will own nothing..)
Bioethics <==> Natural family
Permissiveness, liberal democracy <==> Authority, if not Dictatorship or Monarchy
Racism <==> Plurality of civilizations
Progressism <==> Conservatism
Open society <==> Closed society
Chaos <==> Order
Decline <==> New cultural and power center, Russia enlighting the world
Well-said!
When two crooks meet together, Aleksandr Dugin the Eurasist and Kemi Seba the Pan-Africanist:
https://afrique-mere.com/alexandre-douguine-kemi-seba-espoir-africain-dun-monde-multipolaire-2/
Of course! They were made to get along quite nicely!
And try to make a NWO under construction, look like a "multipolar world" when in reality the current events in a co-production East/West are a controlled demolition of multipolarity (sanctions, war, inflation, destruction of Europe, pillage of natural resources in Africa) and a construction of big geopolitical blocks (Eurasia, Pan-Africa..).
Which is the sub-theme of all of Riley's articles. Globalist ambitions are one thing, getting the Russian people to go along is another.
Indeed.
we're all Russians now, hopefully enough in the west have grown in cynical awareness (as are most of the people of the "south")
Getting rid of a political power over you, means having enough self-sufficiency and autonomy at home (a well for water, food, energy like solar panels).
Are you sure the Russians are ready for that?
Not even remotely feasible. You'll never be rid of the political power over you, best you can do is ensure there is fundamental human rights entrenched in a fair & honest legal system. Transparency & accountability. You get that by not hiding in the bushes but by organizing, educating and acting against the corrupt.
"organizing, educating and acting against the corrupt" -- through the court system? voting? what exactly does this entail? Seems to me that people seeking self-sufficiency en masse (which includes working together with your neighbors) is a much more powerful position to be in than waiting for a politician or judge to side with you, or even trying to somehow remove the rot from the legal system. Or do you mean something else?
Self-sufficiency? Like how? Start a commune out in the country? With all the land being bought up by billionaires - Bill Gates, Blackrock etc. In Australia the corrupt government has just declared they are going to increase "green space" land reserve by 50%, one of the tenants of ecofascism. They'll get you so easily, explained by Rosa Koire below. 90% living in cities - what are you going to do?
I posted one version of what you can do by Rosa Koire below. #1 thing right now - talk to your friends, relatives, workmates - make sure they know what's going on, and how they must oppose and reject the current establishment, reject their media, vote out everyone of their stooges from dog catcher on up. This is WW3, a war against the people, you don't get to opt out. Opting out is helping the enemy and assaulting your friends & neighbors.
As Alex Newman said "“One of the things that the communists loved to do is create scarcity and create dependents. As long as you have independent people who are able to take care of themselves, there really is no need for the government to run your life and to control everything that you do”
Sounds nice, unfortunately, you would have to get rid of 90% of the people on Earth to achieve that. And forget solar power, there will be no solar panels. You cut wood for heat & cooking, until the forests are stripped and then you freeze. No health care, no pensions, no education, no military. In fact its a silly idea because there is no turning back the clock. If you tried something like that all it would take is a Kim Jong Ill to decide he wants to be emperor of the world and his tanks would roll right over your little homestead in 1 hour.
I had just written a comment on the bugs/burgers which alluded to the fact that the pro western ruling investing elite in Russia seem to be much more stupid than the popuation.
"Funnily enough Arte, the franco-german tv channel has just release a documentary titled: "How agrochemistry has killed the insects" !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iuYrtygUJE
The Western madness knows no limit and the Russian investors have no creativity..."