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Neoliberals know the price of everything and the value of nothing
My father likes to say that some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. The same could be said of the neoliberals of the world, who–in case you missed my previous piece–are now transcendent in most policy circles across the world.
To review, the neoliberal agenda is one of deregulation, unfettered trade, fiscal austerity (with the attendant reduction in social programs), privatization and tax reduction. Fundamental to the neoliberal ideology is that government regulation and planning of economic activity are inherently flawed and cannot bring about the desired ends of efficiency, prosperity and social harmony.
Instead, price is the great and sufficient transmitter of information across the economy and across society at large. Price is the best barometer for all decisions. Hence, the emphasis on privatizing almost everything in society including education and health care.
Neoliberals believe that voting with your money is at least, if not more important, than voting in elections in a free society. The freer the market, the more choices consumers will have, and the more competitive the market, the better the quality will be.
There are several problems, of course, with the price mechanism. First, it only takes into account costs which are directly borne by the provider of a product or service. So-called externalities such as pollution and climate change are not tallied in the price. In order for those costs to be included, say, by the imposition of a carbon tax, the government would have to intervene, something not consistent with neoliberal ideas.
Second, such a monomaniacal focus on price alone pre-empts a broader view of social goals, reducing them merely to price signals. But not every social good can be reduced to a price signal in a nominally “free” market.
Here we have a case of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. The neoliberal who ignores climate change sacrifices a habitable climate for his or her children and grandchildren in favor of cheap prices for goods and services now. This is the supposed “economic rationality” which the neoliberal espouses because he or she does not seem to know the VALUE of a habitable climate. What the neoliberals would like you to believe is that a neoliberal world is inevitable–which translates into a suicide-by-climate-change pact among peoples.
The theorists, policymakers, propagandists and business leaders also tell us that “globalization”–another vague, but central tenet–is inevitable, that it is a product technological change, that it is akin to a natural law which we cannot violate without consequences.
In fact, it is nothing more than a conscious set of policies set out in worldwide trade agreements administered in part by the World Trade Organization–policies that favor the wealthy over everyone else and which break down national barriers (read: eliminate protections against the destruction of local industries and agriculture) that hinder the free flow of capital and goods (and, of course, the search for profits). As it turns out, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu tells us in his book of essays Sociology is a Martial Art, “the global market is a political creation.”
It is no accident that neoliberals advocate neither for the globalization of a minimum wage nor for the globalization of free education nor for the globalization of universal health care. Why is that? Well, these areas of social uplift are considered merely to be cost centers which reduce competitiveness. But if these were available to everyone, then no country or industry would be at a disadvantage. So, it becomes obvious that the neoliberal agenda is to UNDERMINE all these social goods in order to lower costs (that is, lower wages, benefits, and taxes) and to increase profits by pitting one country against another in a race to the bottom of the social ladder.
Moreover, creating anxiety and uncertainty among employees, even ones at the highest level, is actually the point. Such anxiety and uncertainty hinders them from taking risks in participating fully in society as political actors.
The same logic would apply to environmental, health and safety regulations designed to protect workers, consumers and the population at large. If you want your country to be competitive, it is best to keep such regulations to a minimum.
Bourdieu points out that neoliberal policymakers are obsessed with the “confidence of the markets.” Why, he asks, are the not equally concerned about the “confidence of the people”? Recent developments such as the decision by British voters to exit the European Union and the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in the United States suggest that the confidence of the people in the neoliberal globalist experiment is becoming shaky.
Bourdieu adds that instead of a universal minimum wage, we get what economist Frédéric Lordon calls the “minimum guaranteed shareholder income.”
Any demand that education, health care, pensions and other benefits for workers be maintained, let alone expanded, is now styled as old-fashioned and backward-looking. These benefits must be “reformed” (read: destroyed). In fact, basic protections for the middle and lower classes are some of the most important human achievements ever, Bourdieu explains. Rolling them back isn’t progress, it is anti-progress.
The neoliberal agenda styles itself as a revolution–the Reagan revolution, the Thatcher revolution–and anyone who opposes it is labeled parochial, retrograde and opposed to the march of progress. What these supposed “revolutions” really turn out to be are the latest versions of a very old system of wildcat crony capitalism supported by a combination of corporate and state power in which the corporations tell the state how to govern.
The neoliberal agenda undermines the hard-won gains of average people whose autonomy and independence–far from being undermined by social insurance programs–are predicated on a degree of financial security and access to health care and education which allow meaningful participation in democratic life. This participation would be what philosopher Isaiah Berlin refers to as “positive freedom,” that is, the ability to take action based on our resources and previously developed capabilities.
The neoliberal agenda also threatens to undo any progress we’ve made so far in addressing the myriad existential environmental challenges that threaten to undo civilization as we know it.
We would not presume to understand the Sun by examining merely one wavelength of light coming from it. We would not presume to understand the forest by examining one tree. Nor would we presume to know all of humanity and human society by examining one individual. But somehow neoliberals believe that we can understand and govern society by focusing on price alone.
What gets sacrificed in such a system is social stability and harmony and a habitable biosphere inside which we can all live and prosper. This is what is now at stake when we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
51 Comments on "Neoliberals know the price of everything and the value of nothing"
Boat on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 1:27 pm
Any endeavors that require funding will not last if they consume more funding than they take in. You could call it generational stealing. Who should sacrifice because of the run up in debt? Old people. Lol sorry mak, it’s you and those before you to take the hit.
onlooker on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 1:58 pm
Generally, a refreshingly good article. The Neoliberal agenda is nothing more than the preeminence of the Corporate or Financial agenda. Governments are servants of the penury interests. To compare the capitalism envisioned by Adam Smith and see it now as it is, is to peer into how out of whack Crony Capitalism has become with any semblance of a system functioning for the well being of people. It is primarily a tool of the wealthy to enrich themselves and their interests ie. corporations, property, stocks etc. We have reached a zenith of the rule of money, a worldwide Plutocracy. This rule of money ultimately bringing ruin to all.
Davy on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 2:00 pm
Labeling this problem is the problem. Liberal and conservative alike have lost touch with reality. Economist, corporations, and the media are driving a message of more not value. It is about price and quantity with more being better. This is a modern man problem. Solid values that once anchored society into good behavior have been discarded if they don’t pass the efficiency test. Free speech and choice are championed even if we destroy good behavior in the process. Free speech is not bad but corrupted free speech is. Corruption now dominates free speech and choice. Choices that are unhealthy for individuals and society alike are considered off limits to regulation. We have created a monster of habituated needs that are unsustainable and definitely not resilient. We trust the market to figure these things out. This tells me we have no hope. Wisdom is not about markets. Wisdom is about what intelligence is best. Price does not determine best practices and behaviors. We obviously have too many people with too many things.
We are entering a time when modern ideas of all kinds will meet reality and be tested. This testing is not going to be kind and gentle. This testing will be harsh and brutal. We are not there yet but a slow boil of consequences is building. Once we pass enough tipping points we will see a cascade of forced changes. The social narrative that we have heard so often especially in our fake elections will melt away leaving many feeling betrayed. This betrayal is nothing more than naked reality. How far into a fantasy world of make believe can we go before we sober up? This is across the board. There are no groups not affected by this feeling of entitlement that modern man has. Even the oppressed and disenfranchised dream of what those who have enslaved them have. There is a human defect of an attitude of manifest destiny from exceptionalism. We feel we are somehow divine in nature but how long will that last before we feel cursed. Play your political games. Point your fingers and scream your call for social justice. Nature is going to laugh at you soon. You are going to look like a fool because we are all fools now.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 2:07 pm
Them thar dumb stupid leeeberals,
They thinks they knows sumthin we don’t know.
Like them dumb stupid scientists, thinkin
they know why the sun is shining. Ain’t
nobody knows that. Them dumb liberals
thet thar is why we voted Trump.
Trump will keep the government out of
private sector things like DisBility payments
cuz that’s handled better by private bizness.
GregT on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 2:54 pm
“Who should sacrifice because of the run up in debt? Old people.”
Sorry Boat, wrong again. The elderly are being affected by historically low interest rates. Their savings are being wiped out. Debt is going to affect people in the future, when it needs to be paid back, plus interest.
“Any endeavors that require funding will not last if they consume more funding than they take in.”
Like the overall US economy, which has gone further into the red by some 10 Trillion dollars, in 8 short years. Correct Kevin, not going to last. In the process of ‘collaspe’.
onlooker on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 3:04 pm
Boat, your still attached to the “old” ways things were and functioned. None of that will be relevant anymore. We are in uncharted waters. No historical precedents whatsoever. Ever watch the movie Soylent Green. Well in that movie the population had swelled to unimaginable levels. One particularly poignant scene was seeing a bunch of people crammed together sleeping on some stairs. The trigger for collapse was the oceans and the die off of plankton. But it could very well be something else. But of course the ultimate indignity is well I will quote it for you and others
Det. Thorn: Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. *Soylent Green is made out of people.* They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!
Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I’ll tell the Exchange.
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!
BobInget on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 3:38 pm
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde
and;
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html
penury on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 3:41 pm
Any system of government is designed to reward those in power. When you have a system of government which is constructed to reward the same people or class of people in power for many years the system becomes directed to reward only the people who run the system, This would include elected as well, When candidates for power are selected by the ones currently in power, the voters have no voice. Want an example? What is the worst Federal Program adopted in the U.S. in the last 60 years? Try looking at Pres Johnsons “Great Society”.
Cloggie on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 3:51 pm
UK government (finance minister Hammond) threatens a “hard-Brexit” and trade war with EU:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-grossbritannien-droht-eu-mit-handelskrieg-und-steuerdumping-a-1130076.html
If necessary wants to turn UK in tax haven and impose import tariffs.
This in response to EU announcement that there will be no UK cherry picking; “you are in and enjoy the advantages or you are out”. EU is going to set an example of what happens to you if you leave.
Excellent: UK out, Russia in. Expect the end of the City. We don’t need the UK.
Poor British elite, they were surprised by an emotional decision of their own population and are now completely isolated.
Cloggie on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 5:10 pm
Trump interview with German Bild and UK London Times:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-nennt-nato-obsolet-a-1130088.html
– Merkel “refugee”-policy is catastrophic (hear, hear)
– Trump says that he loves Germany, because his father had German roots.
– Trump is going to secure US borders from day 1 (I believe him)
– Every German car not built in the US will see a 35% import tax. Whooptido, that measure is of course going to be reciprocated by the EU, which means a big blow against globalism, which is good for the 21st century. Americans should drive American, Europeans should drive European cars. Nevertheless, this is going to hurt European (and Japanese) car manufacturers more than American ones. As Trump observed: everybody on Fifth Avenue is driving in a Mercedes. “That’s not fair”.
– Trump predicts difficult times ahead for the EU with Brexit. Claims that the EU was established to beat the US in trade and therefor doesn’t care if the EU brakes down or not.
– Trump repeats that he at least intends to ease relations with Russia. Wants fewer nukes. Repeats the anti-Russian accusations as “fake news”.
– Trump will continue to twitter. “Is accurate”.
– Trump considers NATO “obsolete” and wants several countries to pay more for defense. I agree. We in Europe finally need to get serious with setting up a large European army. Now that the UK no longer is able to block this move after Brexit. Goal EU army: keep third world out, in the longer term help Russia to balance China and, if necessary, intervene in the US if shifting demographics lead to an escalating conflict there.
Cloggie on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 5:18 pm
Liberalism is a 19th century ideology, promoting technological progress and economic growth and nothing else and as such is a useless ideology for the 21st century. Liberalism cares about producers and consumers only, is inherently imperialist and doesn’t care about local identity, let alone the environment. Liberalism won’t be satisfied until the entire planet has turned into one giant cooperation. Liberalism is essentially globalist. For liberalism there is only one goal in life: produce and own as much “stuff” as possible. For this purpose individuals should dedicate their entire lives, lock themselves up in a factory or cubicle until 67 year old. The sparse spare time should be used to consume the income made during the working week.
Sissyfuss on Sun, 15th Jan 2017 11:41 pm
Onlooker, you took the words right out of my brain in regards to the corporate agenda and also I found SG to be a very seminal movie.
Cloggardo, you sure you’re not describing conservatism in your rant, you being the proud identitarian.
And Boat, I bet you were voted most unpopular in your sixth grade class last year.
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 12:54 am
“Trump interview with German Bild and UK London Times”
Sounds more and more like Trump is the man, who will bring the world’s economies, and societies to their knees. Everything still going as planned, all that remains is to create hatred and division, and to destroy what remains of the global economy.
NWO here we come.
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 1:04 am
“And Boat, I bet you were voted most unpopular in your sixth grade class last year.”
He probably still gets beat up during recess.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:02 am
Cloggardo, you sure you’re not describing conservatism in your rant, you being the proud identitarian.
Never claimed to be anything else.
Sounds more and more like Trump is the man, who will bring the world’s economies, and societies to their knees.
I thought that was a good thing, local production replacing a globalized economy?! Now all of sudden you seem to advocate a maximized global corporate machine. We want to men from the Rust Belt to be put to work, so German women can be sent home and have more children.
NWO here we come.
What is the NWO? A world without borders, owned by “Anglo-Zionists” and global governance from the UN building and everybody looking like Obama. Instead we are going to have a multi-polar world, that per definition will be a divided one. And since we have a world with nukes and we don’t want that doomsday machine to go off, there is no alternative for Europe, Russia and European-America to unite/ally in a single culture circle/military alliance (with Europe a far larger and America a far smaller burden) a la Samuel Huntington, seek balance with China and offer them to govern/dominate the world together with us whiteys. The world run by Chinese and Europeans and not by George Soros.
That One World state isn’t going to work anyway, because several mixed ethnicity’s and races would go at each others throat. something we will soon see happening in Europe and the US.
https://s17.postimg.org/6wwnomfpb/worldmap.jpg
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:13 am
Trump wants to lift anti-Russian sanctions in return for a nuclear arms deal: fewer nukes.
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/trump-wil-sancties-tegen-rusland-opheffen-in-ruil-voor-kernwapendeal~a4448915/
What’s not to like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons
Makes deep sense if you look at the overkill in US and Russian arsenals, essentially designed at wiping out the white race, if these kosher neocons got their way. They won’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlatDWqh0o
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:22 am
“That One World state isn’t going to work anyway, because several mixed ethnicity’s and races would go at each others throat. something we will soon see happening in Europe and the US.”
As planned Cloggie. That powder keg has already been put into place. Just waiting for somebody to light the fuse. And it isn’t about a One World State, it is about a one world system in control of all of those fragmented and failed states. First attempt, League of Nations, second, UN. I still maintain that everything is going as planned, and Trump will be the final catalyst in those same said plans.
ORDO AB CHAO
joe on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:32 am
Neoliberalism, a temporary consequence of the suicide of the USSR and Warsaw Pact, it is a short period of time that western elites and company’s had litterally no competition. In 1989 the USSR ran out of cash and was not part of the IMF so could not get a bailout, it had to spin off its assests like Eastern Europe and demilitarise. China was a nation of subsistence farmers and manual labourers and Israel and Saudi were probobly the only ME nations with paved roads in any decent quantity. How times change.
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:40 am
“Makes deep sense if you look at the overkill in US and Russian arsenals, essentially designed at wiping out the white race, if these kosher neocons got their way.”
I would also argue that white supremacy is part of the plan. There is no good reason why we whites are any better, or more deserving than any other race. You are drunk on the Koolaid Cloggie, and have fallen hook, line, and sinker, for the Zionist’s age old plot.
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joe on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:41 am
Cloggie, just as an aside question, and may point to a serious flaw in your EU army view. After Brexit, when Northern Ireland collapses into civil war again will the EU army defend those in that region, loyal to Southern Ireland and therefore the EU at British expense? I still havent mentioned the Balkans or Cyprus. IMHO the EU army is already a dead horse.
makati1 on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:44 am
GregT, I suspect that you are correct. It appears to me that many Americans believe that THEY will be the masters of the OWG. Not so. They are to be taken down to the world average or lower so that the real world powers can manage what is left of them, along with the other 3rd world serfs/peasants/slaves. Ditto for Europe, whose destruction is just ahead of that of America.
Who are the “real” powers? Do they really exist or are they just the wet dreams of a few hundred multi-billionaires and generals? Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, we get to watch the breakup of many countries and their paper unions. Gonna be a bumpy ride! Buckle Up!
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:03 am
The real powers makati, are those who are in control of the world’s monetary systems. The debtors, are always beholden to the creditors. The multi billionaires, and the generals, are also beholden to that system. If or when the monetary system is brought down, the billionaires lose all of their ‘wealth’, and the generals lose their financing.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:09 am
Oxfam report: 8 super rich own as much as 50% of humanity:
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/oxfam-8-milliardaere-sind-reicher-als-3-6-milliarden-menschen-a-1129932.html
1. Gates
2. Ortega
3. Buffett
4. Slim Helu
5. Bezos
6. Zuckerberg
7. Ellison
8. Bloomberg
Or: US Euro, Spaniard, US Euro, Mexican and 4 US Jews.
Look boat, if you want to understand distribution of power in the US, you are not going to count stupid confederate flag bumper stickers in Mississippi, but you study lists like these. Or study who runs the CFR, FED, Wall Street, US media, think tanks, etc. Or try to figure out what a neocon is. And once you have done your home work, you will be on par with every Beltway insider…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_v3hqtCl0
[11:57-17:58]
..and finally understand who runs your country. Don’t be embarrassed, it took George S. Patton 60 years to figure that out… and once he did and ventured to do something about it, he was killed in a matter of months. Don’t worry, won’t happen to you.lol Or google “Nixon Billy Graham tapes” or listen to JFK’s secret society speech and try to figure out who JFK is talking about.
Good luck.
makati1 on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:14 am
And just who are those “banksters” Mostly Jews. I wanted to avoid that name calling but since you brought it up… lol
But then, take a look at the religion of most of the worlds multi-billionaires? Jews.
The owners of the multi-media conglomerates? Jews.
The majority of movie stars, directors, writers (propaganda mills)? Jews.
The owners of America’s bought government? Jews.
Being of German ancestry … I can relate to a famous German’s attitude towards this money grubbing, power hungry, religiously deluded people.
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:24 am
The ‘Protocols Of the Elders’ was a completely made up story, and any and all parallels throughout the last 120 years, purely coincidence. Oh yea, and Henry Ford was a nut bar, nobody should have ever taken him seriously.
GregT on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:33 am
Have a great day guys. Time to call it a night. I’ve done all that I can to,prepare for the unprecedented flooding that we’re expecting here over the next few days. Cheers!
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:55 am
In Europe these folks never had a chance. Germany was different, because they were thrown into the abyss by the English and French in Versailles after a little help from the Americans. Few people realize that what happened in the Weimar republic was nothing but a battle about who would run Germany: Germans or Jews (via their communist party). In the end the Germans won (temporarily) in 1933 thanks to a certain Germany loving Austrian.
But… at almost the same moment, Roosevelt won in the US. His government was the first US government to be under control of said people. And the first thing these folks did was:
1. recognize the USSR (another Jew-run country; communism=Jewish)
2. declare war on Germany
https://www.radioislam.org/historia/dailyex.jpg
And in 1933 “Judea declaring war on Germany” meant the US declaring war on Germany.
And by 1934 they had half-American Winston Churchill in bed as well. Read the memoires of Soviet-Jew and ambassador to London Meisky (“Who helped Hitler”):
https://archive.org/stream/WhoHelpedHitler/Who%20Helped%20Hitler#page/n27/mode/2up/search/1934
Go to page 55 (page 28/109 in the pdf) and read the bottom half of the page:
Meisky reports that in the Summer of 1934 he was approached by Churchill and he essentially offered an alliance between him (not yet in power) and the USSR in order to defeat Germany. At the very same time, Churchill was also in bed with US Jews and the Roosevelt government with the same aim, just google a little for “Tyler Kent”, the right-hand man of Joseph Kennedy (US ambassador in London in 1939) and who transcribed all the illegal messages between Churchill and Roosevelt in 1939, behind the back of Chamberlain, plotting for war between Britain and Germany, with Churchill knowing very well that in the end both the USSR and USA would enter the war on the side of Britain. When Churchill famously said in parliament on October 1, 1939 (one month after the UK had declared war on Germany) that “Russia is a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma””, a speech written by Royal Dutch Shell Jew Waley Cohen, he was lying. For him Russia was not an enigma at all.
Summary: by 1934 there was already a conspiracy in place between Roosevelt- Stalin and middleman Churchill with the aim to destroy Germany and, as consequence carve up Europe between the USSR and the US. the only thing left open was where the two conspirators would meet. Stalin hoped he could prevent the Americans from invading Europe at all and that he would arrive at the Atlantic first, but the Soviet attack was preempted by the Germans by mere 3 weeks. If they would not have attacked on June 22, 1941, the Soviets would have attacked July 10 (“operation Buran”). The only reason why Holland didn’t become Sovietized was thanks to operation Barbarossa (thanks Dolfie!) and we were stuck with the lesser evil USA and Friday’s Canadians in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbBnRZoTHFs
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 4:34 am
History in pictures, Churchill and Baruch:
https://twitter.com/jamesperloff/status/812680483695919104
http://tinyurl.com/hm85xbo
Study body language to judge who is the servant and who the master. In the early thirties Churchill faced financial ruin, bur fortunately for him (not for 50 million Europeans) his buddy Baruch bailed Churchill out, so he could continue to beat the war drums in parliament, all in the interest of certain circles os the US East coast.
But the final truth about WW2 was expressed best by him who was in the center of the drama, Neville Chamberlain, who knew he had nothing to fear from the Germans and the only one who seriously defended the interests of the British empire and was falsely accused of being an “appeaser” until today, where Churchill merely sold out British interest to his true master and in whose pay he was:
http://tinyurl.com/z3qqcgm
And in 1946 we had this little Nuremberg show trial. The 2nd in command was a Thomas J. Dodd, who would be US senator, after he was “Executive Trial Counsel” in Nuremberg first. And what did Dodd write to his son Christopher in a (obviously) private letter:
You know how I have despised anti-Semitism. You know how strongly I feel toward those who preach intolerance of any kind. With that knowledge — you will understand when I tell you that this staff is about seventy-five percent Jewish. Now my point is that the Jews should stay away from this trial — for their own sake. “For — mark this well — the charge ‘a war for the Jews’ is still being made and in the post-war years it will be made again and again.
Thanks for (involuntarily) enlightening us, mr Dodd! So you are saying that the conviction of Germany + holocaust accusation was accomplished during a trial for 75% run by…
You certainly don’t mind, dear Americans, that we are going to have a little audit/review of the history (writing) of the 20st century, after the end of the American era, now do you? Don’t take it personal.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 4:48 am
If you want to know in detail, including Xeroxs of documents, about the relationship between Churchill and these people, read:
https://www.amazon.de/Churchill-Hitler-Antisemitismus-politischen-Zeitgeschichtliche/dp/3428131347/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1
Don’t expect this book to be translated in English any time soon.
And there is another book that will never be translated in English:
https://www.amazon.de/Zweihundert-Jahre-zusammen-Juden-Sowjetunion/dp/377662356X
You no longer can buy it new at amazon.de as well. Mr Bezos probably did not like that book too much. It is about the subject “Jewish communism” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Americans never really liked this hardcore Russian identitarian, but they still used him in their propaganda war against the USSR (when it was no longer run by Jews, thanks to Stalin)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
…who abandoned Trotsky’s globalism (loved and subsidized by Wall Street) in favor of national Bolshevism, the only reason why the Cold War came about, after the US and USSR together destroyed Europe first).
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 5:48 am
Cloggie, just as an aside question, and may point to a serious flaw in your EU army view. After Brexit, when Northern Ireland collapses into civil war again will the EU army defend those in that region, loyal to Southern Ireland and therefore the EU at British expense? I still havent mentioned the Balkans or Cyprus. IMHO the EU army is already a dead horse.
Hate to brake it to you joe, but Northern Ireland or Britain or Angslosphere for that matter, let alone Cyprus is extremely low on the European agenda.
From a European perspective the real prize is (should be) European-America, now run by a “German” and inhabited by a population, half of which (“deplorables”) are about to mentally abandon the imperial project and “Anglo-Zionism”/globalism and are forced to rediscover their European identities in a darkening America… or go under and genetically “drown” in the third world and “Brazilianise” themselves.
[part 1]
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 5:48 am
American history in centuries:
1-3: European colony (1492-1776)
4: true American independence (1783-1912)
5: Zionist colony (1912-2016)
6: Breakup: West coast back to Mexico; Mississippi basin European (T-rump America); East coast: Soros country, New Israel, New Africa, whatever (NWO museum/theme park).
My instinct tells me that the sixth American century will be a “continental European” one. Again independent, like during the 4th century, but no longer embracing “exceptionalism” and settling itself against the European mother civilization, wanting to prove to itself it was something better.
[part 2]
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 5:50 am
No, this time from a background of European-American acknowledgment of a failed American project and a desperate desire to try to save from European-American identity what can be saved. And that would be the creation of a new great European Volk on North-American soil (“Amerikaner”), next to French, Germans and Russians, within the context of a global European Commonwealth and guaranteed by the military resources of Paris-Berlin-Moscow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvbS09gN80
[16:39] Francois Mitterrand spoke of a European confederation with Russia as a member. I think this opportunity still exists. We will have it in the future.
Europe is the only possible survival strategy for Russia. If Paris-Berlin-Moscow won’t materialize, 1350 million Chinese will someday show up at the Ural mountains and swallow Siberia.
Eurosphere: 700 million Europeans in a Euro-Siberian confederation, led by Russia, Germany and France and core of the white race, without Jewish influence plus ca. 120 million European-Americans from Middle America (territory size six times France). And Australia sacrificed to China, a pawn sacrifice, a piece of meat fed to the Chinese dragon to appease them and they can relieve their over-population problem and keep them from Siberia.
Take or leave it.lol
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Davy on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 5:59 am
I agree Trump is going to upend the trend of globalism but only so far. Russia and China have been at work at this also with bilateral efforts against the dollar and global institutions like the World Bank. Brexit is part of the process and soon maybe a deeper division in Europe with La Pen. The NWO is under siege with both neocons and neoliberals nervous. These forces will still be around but their momentum is stunted. There are still plenty of blinded sheeple snowflake liberals and deluded conservatives to buy into this false promise. Plenty of conspiracy theorist that think Trump is part of the plan when the reality is he is a stake in the NWO heart. The NWO was dying anyway because it was an existential bubble associated with globalism that denied limits and believe in continued progress.
We don’t know if Trump is going to make it. He has upset so many groups but maybe that is what will save him. He has gone for their jugular immediately. He is not even in the Whitehouse and he has turned things upside down. His team is insiders who are formable personalities. He is part unpredictable lunatic but that may be what will allow him success of sorts. If one studies what he wants to do and what he can do he is less impressive in the mechanics of change. The US system was made difficult to change much. What is impressive is the voice of change and how that impacts human nature. He is reaching the people. He is getting messages out directly to business CEO’s. He is talking to people. He is not being a typical politician tip toeing around talking to committees that talk to caucuses that get talked to by lobbyist then the watered down goo goes to a vote in congress. He is skipping steps and making a bigger impact.
We don’t know how well this will work. It is important to understand such disruptive behavior will not create more economic activity. Globalism cannot be beat. There is no system that can deliver productivity like globalism. Yet, we are seeing the destructiveness and the cruel side of globalism and people want this ended. More is better mantra of globalism is increasingly creating dangerous localized effects and with it disenchantment. What is important to understand is the world still want their cake and eat it. The status quo including Trump still sees more as better but they think they can alter globalism and still get more. The reality is everyone is going to get less if you mess with globalism. Nationalist like Trump think they can have their cake and eat it by getting more out globalism and others less. He might for a time but globalism is one of those tit for tat games that eventually destroys itself from within.
The reason nationalist are gaining power is multidimensional with social, political, and economic dynamics. Economically if you disrupt globalism you will lower economic activity. We are already dangerously close to a growth rate that is not healthy. With debt levels and all the other issues that require growth then lower growth will initiate forces of decay and decline. Demand destruction will gain momentum and with it a spiral of decline. At some point a recession could occur and with it the road to a depression. The reason central banks are so nervous is they realize how naked they are if a recession occurs so they are trying everything to prevent it. We must remember we have peak oil and other destructive dynamics at work to undermine modern civilization that never sleep. We have almost a decade of damage done by repressive economics with excessive easing. During this period several bubbles were inflated. Corruption is part of the moral fabric now. Pay to play is alive and well. I doubt Trump will drain much of the swamp. He will likely succeed in driving it underground. He might make it worse by succumbing to it. Years of mal-investment is yet to be cleaned up and likely never will. The amount of bad debt is beyond rationalization. Trump is going to add to already disruptive processes nationalistic forces. Globalism with its NOW of neocons and neoliberals will be severely tested. Trump has allies in this fight. Putin and forces in Europe are indirectly with him now. If they join hands this will be a powerful force against globalism. China is the force behind globalism from obvious reasons. China is terrified about what could happen to it from managed trade and declining globalism. This is setting up to be a trade war that could go hot between the US and China.
These are interesting and dangerous times. I have a degree of optimism that accompanies my longer term doom. I have repeatedly called for crisis as a way to focus better behavior. This is the only way to adapt modern civilization from its destructive trend. If we can stem the worst of globalism with its destructive extremes of the neocons and neoliberals we can begin the localization process. The reason I still have doom is there is no alternative to globalism without a die off. Globalism allowed 7BIL people. Globalism along with progressive economic activity brought us to unsustainable and destructive affluence. In this process we reshaped a world into a living arrangement with no future. Getting back to a smaller and less active civilization is not possible without people and infrastructure being destroyed. That is a nice definition of collapse. If we can slow the collapse process we may survive it longer is my only optimism. I used to think we had months but now we may have years. The fact remains events could collapse our civilization immediately it just appears increasingly this may be in a longer term process. What is clear is places within the global system will be collapsing. Failed states will be a part of this process of hypothermic economic decline.
Davy on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:01 am
Clog, I know you are proud of Europe but I am afraid you are sandwiched between forces that are going to eat your lunch. You want the collapse to occur in the US and Asia and Europe prosper from this but I am afraid Europe is going to get the worse of these changes.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:25 am
I am afraid you are sandwiched between forces that are going to eat your lunch.
Who might these forces be?
Financial collapse will probably be global, no exceptions, including Europe. But in contrast to you I don’t believe that financial collapse is a catastrophic event, as in death, but instead will mark a reshuffling of the geopolitical cards and a new beginning. And will prompt enormous social upheaval in both Europe and America. But Europe has a decisive advantage in that the demographic balance between Atlantic and Ural is not remotely as “bad” as in the US.
As James Howard Kunstler predicts in one of his last columns, Europe is going to deport again. That’s not an option for the US, only break up.
Oh and Europe has 700 million people and 10,000 wide body aircraft, deploying millions of European troops in a matter of a few days. Going to the front business class, what’s not to like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3wPQgMAll8
It is going to be 1776 all over again, albeit on a much larger scale.
makati1 on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:42 am
Hahahaha. Cloggie, you are a hoot! When the SHTF, there will be no “new beginning”. At least not in any way you think will happen. Maybe, if you know history, you will know what it was like pre-coal/oil/NG. If anything survives, it will be a ‘new beginning like the 17th or 18th century. IF we are lucky, maybe the 19th. If not, there will be no one here to notice the “new beginning ” without humans. I doubt the rats and roaches will care. lol
Davy on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:57 am
Clog you are caught up in your European exceptionalism. You forget that Europe is beset with race issues too but what is worse is nations that deep down despise each other. Once extreme change occurs and populations are stressed enough your European cultures will be once again warring on each other. History has proven this clog. You can blame all your usual reasons and revise history but the facts are there. The US will go through similar forces but don’t think for a moment your Europe has some special saving grace. The worst is coming in Asia where makati lives. There is where most of the world’s population is focused. Good luck with that makati.
makati1 on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 7:09 am
Davy, I am in a better position than you. But, you will never see it. Too bad. I would not come back to the Failing States of America for a million fiat dollars.
joe on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 7:20 am
Cloggie you are showing extreme naivety. European hot spots are right at the centre of Europes problems. What do you imagine an EU army will do? Patrol the border at Ukraine, the entire Mediterranean coast and Turkey? Dont be foolish, Europe is fracturing in Birmingham, Berlin, Maalbek, and Marssaile. European army, its never going to happen.
Davy on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 7:52 am
Maybe makati but I doubt it besides you are almost dead anyway at 75.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 9:53 am
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/15/migration-deaths-europe-davos-strategy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
That’s why the UN and Anglosphere can’t disappear fast enough. Some shabby UN criminal named William Lacy Swing opines that already overpopulated Europe needs to be swamped with Africans, the supply of which of which is endless. The European population are not going to be asked any questions of course, so much for fake western democracy. This whole institutional disaster, created in 1945 by those who used America to destroy us, needs to be thoroughly cleaned up and every institution abolished. And next war needs to be declared against modern values, for starters against feminism. Russia is the beacon of hope for Europe and perhaps Trump as well.
Liberalism needs to be deep-sixed.
peakyeast on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 1:56 pm
@Davy: mak has a theoretical possibility of about 40 years more… Thats about my whole lifetime!
Here in the 40s I can look forward to my very own exponentially graph: The rising chance of death.. Oh what joy!
Look at these two very nice graphs…
http://tinyurl.com/jaw9aqd
And this one is really lovely:
http://tinyurl.com/zwq4eh8
Boat on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:20 pm
Clog,
You and yours destroyed yourself by thinking you could control the world. You and yours were correctly squashed like a bug. Each country should make their own decision concerning immigration. Soft borders to allow trade and human movement seems a likely outcome. No one has to immigrate and take up housing to accomplish that. There are no need for guards at boarders and on trains.
Davy on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 2:24 pm
Peaky, makati could theoretically be a friend but he prefers to be an enemy. BTW nice graphs
peakyeast on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:11 pm
@Davy: I understand you Davy. But mak is only what you make him… He could be a pattern of electrons, a figment of imagination, a teenage girl, an obtuse acquaitance, a monster from another era, maybe even an ape with a headstick to type with and so forth…Of course there is a slight chance he might be what he says – in this internet era: Who can be certain?
I think I would chose the teenage girl.. 😀 delusion is such a nice blanket to keep you warm.
Sorry.. I feel like making a little fun today.
Cloggie on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 3:35 pm
You and yours destroyed yourself by thinking you could control the world. You and yours were correctly squashed like a bug.
Oh my, boat considers WW2 still as “The Good War”. As a moral war, where in reality it was a war of conquest, like most if not all wars.
Europe actually DID control the world for centuries and en passant invented you.
Furthermore, I can’t remember that the East-Europeans had any colonies, yet you gladly handed them over to the loving care of your bosom pall Joe Stalin, the largest criminal in world in history and your valiant ally. Doesn’t really match your pious ideas about WW2.
This was internal US pro-Soviet propaganda (you can’t make this stuff up):
https://twitter.com/jamesperloff/status/821027798945067012
Here the insidious US propaganda flick “Mission to Moscow” from 1943, where the human slaughterhouse USSR was shamelessly white-washed… because the US deep state needed the USSR to help them destroy Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fDsdfZu3Us
We are living in a Darwinian world where bigger animals eat smaller animals. Europe digested almost the entire world between 1492-1939, because she could.
The US and USSR digested Europe… because they could. No morals, no “liberation” baloney (that’s for boobs like you), just stronger and weaker guys. And clever maneuvering guys (your kosher overlords) and idiots like the Poles, French and British, who let themselves being pushed by the US in a suicidal war against Germany… in order to end up as US colony.
Meanwhile your country boat is split in the middle between those European-Americans who have enough of present day America and those like you, who still fathom that they can rule the entire world.
Here is what the “deplorables” really think about their own country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOTk00eMT4
[3:41-12:40]
“I want to see this country split up in hundreds of pieces”
These are the folks that won the election boat.
So how do you think a cynical European like me interprets these pictures and an endless number of similar videos? Or the behavior of European Americans and the Trump rallies?
America since 1965 was build on the lie that the Euro’s loved seeing their country swamped by third world immigration; the only ones who loved that development were the third worlders themselves… and of course the invisible overlords who organized the systematic destruction of European America.
And now everything has come full circle. The Soviet empire evaporated and the US empire is about to. And it is not difficult to predict that the Euro’s from heartland USA will attempt to escape from Washington once Trump will leave office, for whatever reason.
Now who do you think will be standing by to help those Heartland USA Euro’s to get (a smaller version of) their country back… because it is in their geopolitical interest to do so?
Well?
Apneaman on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:24 pm
Neoliberal capitalism is the final expression of the human Cancer project.
World’s eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/worlds-eight-richest-people-have-same-wealth-as-poorest-50?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld
Apneaman on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:39 pm
Nowhere is the religion of neoliberal capatlisim more adhered to than in holy land of America which also has the most zealots per capita……How’s that working out for the nation BTW?
AFFORDABLE WATER IN THE US: A BURGEONING CRISIS
“If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of U.S. households unable to afford water could triple in five years, to nearly 36 percent, finds new research by a Michigan State University scholar.”
http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/affordable-water-in-the-us-a-burgeoning-crisis/
Wall Street, America’s New Landlord, Kicks Tenants to the Curb
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/wall-street-america-s-new-landlord-kicks-tenants-to-the-curb
Student debt now affects a staggering number of elderly Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/01/16/student-debt-now-affects-a-staggering-number-of-elderly-americans/?utm_term=.3ea2524cbe9b
Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis
The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. What follows are stories of a national affliction that has swept the country, from cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/opioid-crisis-epidemic.html?_r=0
onlooker on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 6:39 pm
But Ap, some here still swear by Capitalism and believe it will save us via Renewable, electric cars etc. Crazy this world is as Yoda would say.
Apneaman on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 7:10 pm
Rattle rattle rattle
Rattle rattle rattle
Chinese state media says US risks “large-scale war” if it blocks access to disputed islands
https://news.vice.com/story/chinese-state-media-says-us-risks-large-scale-war-if-it-blocks-access-to-disputed-islands?