Happy New Year. Thank you for the info that 23 petit riches have died last year although like you I am unable to put it into proper context.
Two random pieces of news that are relevant to you and the readers here.
1) In the UK the police and the MI5 prosecute children for involvement in right-wing terrorism ! The youngest are 13-year-old boys and some have been sentenced ! This is not some New Year joke. More details from the very official Reuters:
I am sure that Pakistani and Somali gangs were shivering in fear before the police and the MI5 intervened.
2) Yandex is the largest and most successful Russian internet firm. But is it Russian ? It is registered and headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on the Nasdaq. It is Russian because it mainly serves the former Soviet Union, because its leadership is drawn from the former Soviet Union and it has large operational offices in Russia and White Russia.
Yandex was not included in the sanctions at first. However a righteous yidividual, Lev Gershenzon, intervened loudly and insisted that Yandex be sanctioned too, because it spread disinformation about the war. After some lobbying, Yandex was sanctioned. The sanctions restricted its ability to move money between Russian legal entities and Western legal entities, prevented it from paying dividends and the coupons on its debt, resulting in default. The share price collapsed and the shares were delisted. Paying employees became a nightmare.
Another effect of the sanctions was to prevent the company from purchasing electricity for the data centres located in the West. So Yandex has to run its Western data centres on diesel generators at great cost, which threatens the company with actual bankruptcy, rather than technical default.
The Armenian (from Russia ?) CEO and his team were ousted. They were replaced by one of the founders, Arkady Volozh, and some of his friends. The new CEO is Jewish and plans to move the headquarters to ... Tel Aviv. In parallel the European Commission was mollified and the sanctions have been adapted to enable the company to pay its employees. No purchase of electricity though. Still Jewish magic has worked wonders and has delivered yet another internet giant into their hands.
The intent is to separate the Russian and non-Russian parts of the company and run them independently. But they would be run by the same team.
Will the spooks finally sign off on hitting the Ukraines f()cking transportation infrastructure? The "SMO" at this point is even beyond a bad parody of a war.
Zog is actually starting to destroy the transportation infrastructure on the liberated territories but Russia still isnt touching the transportation infrastructure on the Ukrainian side. Besides this being the most blatant betrayal of an army in all of history that i can think of this is also pretty strong evidence that Zog has no intention of ever forgiving the non jews in the crook class. I mean its because of them that the relevant war fighting infastructure in Ukraine isn't being touched but here we have Zog not even remotely reciprocating in kind. After all the shitlib russian Oligarchs need that infastructure on the Russian side working to keep their shekel flow at peak levels. I imagine that Zog wont touch the oil transit pipes but apparently they have no qualms about blowing up everything else on the Russian side while the Russians just passively take it. How can the Oligarchs still not see that they are in the same boat as Putin now? They are literally incapable of recognising that history has already made it impossible for liberal non Jewish Russian billionaires to be part of the global ruling class. If Russia wins they cant be members of a global ruling elite that can no longer enforce its will on the whole world. Russian victory derails Zogs global ambitions for the foreseeable future. If Russia loses they are on trial with Putin and will be hung with him. So either way they are irrelevant as far as the future is concerned. However their adamant refusal to acknowledge that and make the relevant changes is going to ensure Russia is destroyed and they are executed in Nuremberg 2.0 as opposed to them having to settle for not being Schwab and Rothschilds shameless bottom boys and having fewer yachts and Tuscan villas.
I too tend to dislike the spooks, especially FSB but if they will at least give the Army half a chance at winning and than thats an improvement over the no chance they have right now. Keep stacking the bodies.
Interesting, so a junta is the only other option. The similarities between the US and Russsia are remarkable. Only the terminology used by MSM to describe the power structure is different. In the US, oligarchs are called entrepreneurs. Liberals are enamored with "public/private partnerships." That's basically when monopolistic multinationals and tech companies set public policy; the security state works hand-in-glove to support and protect their assets and policies. This alliance is traditionally known as fascism.
An overt military takeover in the US would probably continue the status quo (fascism) as much of the Pentagon is in bed with arms manufacturers, big tech, and the pharmaceutical industry. If uncompromised military officers took over they would soon be
In this kind of discussion always contrast the RF with the PRC, because their elites are in a completely different category.
The basic question is who have their own power base and how secure it is, that is who is bribable and who is not, who is a principal and who is a trustie or a tool.
The basic problem the USA oligarchs have with China is that the chinese oligarchs are as a group unbribable, they have their own power base which is as big as that of any USA oligarch, and they may actually replace them as the dominant power in the world. They don't need or welcome USA "protection". They don't need to be second-level players in the USA sphere of influence, when they can be first-level players in their own bigger and richer sphere of influence.
The one issue the chinese oligarchs have is that they are second-place to the state/party, while the USA oligarchs are in complete control of the state. There is a similar issue in the RF of course, it was well described by a commenter:
My grandmother's English friend, Enid Blyton, a famous 1950s creator of geopolitical metaphors, used to say this all the time, whenever she was surprised. I never actually understood what it meant but it sounds right for this situation.
Well I never.
I am shocked.
Oligarchs dying all over the place and not one of the bastards doing this has had the common decency to share his technique. I have a friend who is desperate to learn so, effing cough up. I would like to know how its done and pass the hint on.
My buddy has identified the top media man in the world as also the top NWO coordinator, Rupert Murdoch, and he is itching to send him to Valhalla. Personally, I regard this a bit extremist but then, who am I to criticise? So, Rolo, do you reckon you could give one of these clever blokes a nudge.
Very timely - at least someone is talking about this. The Sidney article is the single MSM analysis of this very dark development of which I am aware. (Otherwise it's "so and so fell from a high rise and now back to today's drag queen news") - but it may be worse. They do not mention Vadim Boyko - the colonel - top recruitment officer - suicided last fall ( https://globalnews.ca/news/9286653/russian-colonel-shot-dead-in-office-vadim-boyko/ ) ... "colonel" always get my "conspiracy (coup)" impulses rev up.
About the last video, it's said the date is December 27, 50 BC, but truthfully, nothing historical happened on that day.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon on the 11th of January of 49 BC, because on the 7th of January he had been declared an enemy of the Republic by the Senate. Hence the Senate was in full control of Rome by 27 Dec -50, and those soldiers could simply not have been able to irrupt in the Senate as shown in the video.
And if - as the title of the video implies - these soldiers were meant to be part of praetorian guard, that was a simple escort of generals in republican times. So right there, an anachronism. Their importance rose afterwards, in imperial times, when they were officially entrusted with the physical safety of Emperor.
Rolo, I don't know if you know Gil Doctorow, but I think you would enjoy this brief (unusual for Doctorow) article. Doctorow has lived in Russia for decades.
The mental imagery of "knife-wielding monkeys" loose in Russia conveys the 'bardak' precisely. What to do? I haven't a clue. Even so, were I a participant in Russian politics, I would move my personal and professional quarters to 1st Floor ground-level only.
The situation facing Russia in Ukraine, and with NATO/U.S. generally, has reached the "shit or get off the pot" stage -- to use a useful American idiom -- often the most dangerous stage. I'm guessing this winter will tell the tale.
Who knows? The Russian bear may be sitting on an iceberg, watching as the Titanic NATO ship-of-state appears out of the darkness at flank speed.
It doesn't sound like they were ended with any humane intent. Any exception to a somewhat democratic law and order is excusing appalling criminality and sets a dangerous precedent; it may not be fascistic but it's certainly autocratic. Govs should be run by the most democratically run academics, not martial law.
Hello Rolo,
Happy New Year. Thank you for the info that 23 petit riches have died last year although like you I am unable to put it into proper context.
Two random pieces of news that are relevant to you and the readers here.
1) In the UK the police and the MI5 prosecute children for involvement in right-wing terrorism ! The youngest are 13-year-old boys and some have been sentenced ! This is not some New Year joke. More details from the very official Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-warn-younger-children-involved-far-right-terrorism-2022-03-17/
I am sure that Pakistani and Somali gangs were shivering in fear before the police and the MI5 intervened.
2) Yandex is the largest and most successful Russian internet firm. But is it Russian ? It is registered and headquartered in the Netherlands and listed on the Nasdaq. It is Russian because it mainly serves the former Soviet Union, because its leadership is drawn from the former Soviet Union and it has large operational offices in Russia and White Russia.
Yandex was not included in the sanctions at first. However a righteous yidividual, Lev Gershenzon, intervened loudly and insisted that Yandex be sanctioned too, because it spread disinformation about the war. After some lobbying, Yandex was sanctioned. The sanctions restricted its ability to move money between Russian legal entities and Western legal entities, prevented it from paying dividends and the coupons on its debt, resulting in default. The share price collapsed and the shares were delisted. Paying employees became a nightmare.
Another effect of the sanctions was to prevent the company from purchasing electricity for the data centres located in the West. So Yandex has to run its Western data centres on diesel generators at great cost, which threatens the company with actual bankruptcy, rather than technical default.
The Armenian (from Russia ?) CEO and his team were ousted. They were replaced by one of the founders, Arkady Volozh, and some of his friends. The new CEO is Jewish and plans to move the headquarters to ... Tel Aviv. In parallel the European Commission was mollified and the sanctions have been adapted to enable the company to pay its employees. No purchase of electricity though. Still Jewish magic has worked wonders and has delivered yet another internet giant into their hands.
The intent is to separate the Russian and non-Russian parts of the company and run them independently. But they would be run by the same team.
Will the spooks finally sign off on hitting the Ukraines f()cking transportation infrastructure? The "SMO" at this point is even beyond a bad parody of a war.
https://t.me/rybar/42484
Zog is actually starting to destroy the transportation infrastructure on the liberated territories but Russia still isnt touching the transportation infrastructure on the Ukrainian side. Besides this being the most blatant betrayal of an army in all of history that i can think of this is also pretty strong evidence that Zog has no intention of ever forgiving the non jews in the crook class. I mean its because of them that the relevant war fighting infastructure in Ukraine isn't being touched but here we have Zog not even remotely reciprocating in kind. After all the shitlib russian Oligarchs need that infastructure on the Russian side working to keep their shekel flow at peak levels. I imagine that Zog wont touch the oil transit pipes but apparently they have no qualms about blowing up everything else on the Russian side while the Russians just passively take it. How can the Oligarchs still not see that they are in the same boat as Putin now? They are literally incapable of recognising that history has already made it impossible for liberal non Jewish Russian billionaires to be part of the global ruling class. If Russia wins they cant be members of a global ruling elite that can no longer enforce its will on the whole world. Russian victory derails Zogs global ambitions for the foreseeable future. If Russia loses they are on trial with Putin and will be hung with him. So either way they are irrelevant as far as the future is concerned. However their adamant refusal to acknowledge that and make the relevant changes is going to ensure Russia is destroyed and they are executed in Nuremberg 2.0 as opposed to them having to settle for not being Schwab and Rothschilds shameless bottom boys and having fewer yachts and Tuscan villas.
I too tend to dislike the spooks, especially FSB but if they will at least give the Army half a chance at winning and than thats an improvement over the no chance they have right now. Keep stacking the bodies.
💬 I don’t like either the Spooks or the Crooks and would rather have the Soldiers running things.
💯! Clean simple universal. Wins the interwebz in brand spanking fresh year so far 🤸
Interesting, so a junta is the only other option. The similarities between the US and Russsia are remarkable. Only the terminology used by MSM to describe the power structure is different. In the US, oligarchs are called entrepreneurs. Liberals are enamored with "public/private partnerships." That's basically when monopolistic multinationals and tech companies set public policy; the security state works hand-in-glove to support and protect their assets and policies. This alliance is traditionally known as fascism.
An overt military takeover in the US would probably continue the status quo (fascism) as much of the Pentagon is in bed with arms manufacturers, big tech, and the pharmaceutical industry. If uncompromised military officers took over they would soon be
co-opted by the same
In this kind of discussion always contrast the RF with the PRC, because their elites are in a completely different category.
The basic question is who have their own power base and how secure it is, that is who is bribable and who is not, who is a principal and who is a trustie or a tool.
The basic problem the USA oligarchs have with China is that the chinese oligarchs are as a group unbribable, they have their own power base which is as big as that of any USA oligarch, and they may actually replace them as the dominant power in the world. They don't need or welcome USA "protection". They don't need to be second-level players in the USA sphere of influence, when they can be first-level players in their own bigger and richer sphere of influence.
The one issue the chinese oligarchs have is that they are second-place to the state/party, while the USA oligarchs are in complete control of the state. There is a similar issue in the RF of course, it was well described by a commenter:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/john-helmer-putins-supper-for-the-oligarchs-whos-in-the-family-whos-out.html#comment-2529869
«In Russia Putin talks and the oligarchs take notes.
In the United States the oligarchs talk and Obama takes notes.
As for Congress, when the oligarchs talk Congress asks “How high?”»
Real politics and history is made by geoeconomics, shifting factions, people with power bases, and happenstance.
Well I never.
My grandmother's English friend, Enid Blyton, a famous 1950s creator of geopolitical metaphors, used to say this all the time, whenever she was surprised. I never actually understood what it meant but it sounds right for this situation.
Well I never.
I am shocked.
Oligarchs dying all over the place and not one of the bastards doing this has had the common decency to share his technique. I have a friend who is desperate to learn so, effing cough up. I would like to know how its done and pass the hint on.
My buddy has identified the top media man in the world as also the top NWO coordinator, Rupert Murdoch, and he is itching to send him to Valhalla. Personally, I regard this a bit extremist but then, who am I to criticise? So, Rolo, do you reckon you could give one of these clever blokes a nudge.
Very timely - at least someone is talking about this. The Sidney article is the single MSM analysis of this very dark development of which I am aware. (Otherwise it's "so and so fell from a high rise and now back to today's drag queen news") - but it may be worse. They do not mention Vadim Boyko - the colonel - top recruitment officer - suicided last fall ( https://globalnews.ca/news/9286653/russian-colonel-shot-dead-in-office-vadim-boyko/ ) ... "colonel" always get my "conspiracy (coup)" impulses rev up.
Autistic mode:
About the last video, it's said the date is December 27, 50 BC, but truthfully, nothing historical happened on that day.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon on the 11th of January of 49 BC, because on the 7th of January he had been declared an enemy of the Republic by the Senate. Hence the Senate was in full control of Rome by 27 Dec -50, and those soldiers could simply not have been able to irrupt in the Senate as shown in the video.
And if - as the title of the video implies - these soldiers were meant to be part of praetorian guard, that was a simple escort of generals in republican times. So right there, an anachronism. Their importance rose afterwards, in imperial times, when they were officially entrusted with the physical safety of Emperor.
Rolo, I don't know if you know Gil Doctorow, but I think you would enjoy this brief (unusual for Doctorow) article. Doctorow has lived in Russia for decades.
Wars make nations
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2023/01/02/wars-make-nations/
The mental imagery of "knife-wielding monkeys" loose in Russia conveys the 'bardak' precisely. What to do? I haven't a clue. Even so, were I a participant in Russian politics, I would move my personal and professional quarters to 1st Floor ground-level only.
The situation facing Russia in Ukraine, and with NATO/U.S. generally, has reached the "shit or get off the pot" stage -- to use a useful American idiom -- often the most dangerous stage. I'm guessing this winter will tell the tale.
Who knows? The Russian bear may be sitting on an iceberg, watching as the Titanic NATO ship-of-state appears out of the darkness at flank speed.
It doesn't sound like they were ended with any humane intent. Any exception to a somewhat democratic law and order is excusing appalling criminality and sets a dangerous precedent; it may not be fascistic but it's certainly autocratic. Govs should be run by the most democratically run academics, not martial law.