World Economic Forum Behind Sudden Push to Ban Gas Stoves
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‘Fragmented World’ Sleepwalks into World War III
The self-appointed Davos “elites” are afraid. So afraid. At this week’s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab – displaying his trademark Bond villain act – carped over and over again about a categorical imperative: we need “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”.
While his diagnosis of “the most critical fragmentation” the world is now mired in is predictably somber, Herr Schwab maintains that “the spirit of Davos is positive” and in the end we may all live happily in a “green sustainable economy.”
What Davos has been good at this week is showering public opinion with new mantras. There’s “The New System” which, considering the abject failure of the much ballyhooed Great Reset, now looks like a matter of hastily updating the current – rattled – operating system.
Davos needs new hardware, new programming skills, even a new virus. Yet for the moment all that’s available is a “polycrisis”: or, in Davos speak, a “cluster of related global risks with compounding effects.”
In plain English: a perfect storm.
Insufferable bores from that Divide and Rule island in northern Europe have just found out that “geopolitics”, alas, never really entered the tawdry “end of history” tunnel: much to their amazement it’s now centered – again – across the Heartland, as it’s been for most of recorded history.
They complain about “threatening” geopolitics, which is code for Russia-China, with Iran attached.
But the icing on the Alpine cake is arrogance/stupidity actually giving away the game: the City of London and its vassals are livid because the “world Davos made” is fast collapsing.
Davos did not “make” any world apart from its own simulacrum.
Davos never got anything right, because these “elites” were always busy eulogizing the Empire of Chaos and its lethal “adventures” across the Global South.
Davos not only failed to foresee all recent, major economic crises but most of all the current “perfect storm”, linked to the neoliberalism-spawned deindustrialization of the Collective West.
And, of course, Davos is clueless about the real Reset taking place towards multipolarity.
Self-described opinion leaders are busy “re-discovering” that Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain was set in Davos – “against the backdrop of a deadly disease and an impeding world war” – nearly a century ago.
Well, nowadays the “disease” – fully bioweaponized – is not exactly deadly per se. And the “impending World War” is in fact being actively encouraged by a cabal of US Straussian neo-cons and neoliberal-cons: an unelected, unaccountable, bipartisan Deep State not even subject to ideology. Centennary war criminal Henry Kissinger still does not get it.
A Davos panel on de-globalization was rife on non-sequiturs, but at least a dose of reality was provided by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
As for China’s vice-premier Liu He, with his vast knowledge of finance, science and technology, at least he was very helpful to lay down Beijing’s five top guidelines for the foreseeable future – beyond the customary imperial Sinophobia.
China will focus on expanding domestic demand; keeping industrial and supply chains “smooth”; go for the “healthy development of the private sector”; deepen state enterprise reform; and aim for “attractive foreign investment.”
Russian resistance, American precipice
Emmanuel Todd was not at Davos. But it was the French anthropologist, historian, demographer and geopolitical analyst who ended up ruffling all the appropriate feathers across the collective West these past few days with a fascinating anthropological object: a reality-based interview.
Todd spoke to Le Figaro – the newspaper of choice of the French establishment and haute bourgeoisie. The interview was published last Friday on page 22, sandwiched between proverbial Russophobic screeds and with an extremely brief mention on the bottom of the front page. So people really had to work hard to find it.
Todd joked that he has the – absurd – reputation of a “rebel destroy” in France, while in Japan he’s respected, featured in mainstream media, and his books are published with great success, including the latest (over 100,000 copies sold): “The Third World War Has Already Started”.
Significantly, this Japanese best seller does not exist in French, considering the whole Paris-based publishing industry toes the EU/NATO line on Ukraine.
The fact that Todd gets several things right is a minor miracle in the current, abysmally myopic European intellectual landscape (there are other analysts especially in Italy and Germany, but they carry much less weight than Todd).
So here’s Todd’s concise Greatest Hits.
– A new World War is on: By “switching from a limited territorial war to a global economic clash, between the collective West on one side and Russia linked to China on the other side, this became a World War”.
– The Kremlin, says Todd, made a mistake, calculating that a decomposed Ukraine society would collapse right away. Of course he does not get into detail on how Ukraine had been weaponized to the hilt by the NATO military alliance.
– Todd is spot on when he stresses how Germany and France had become minor partners at NATO and were not aware of what was being plotted in Ukraine militarily: “They did not know that the Americans, British and Poles could allow Ukraine to fight an extended war. NATO’s fundamental axis now is Washington-London-Warsaw-Kiev.”
– Todd’s major give away is a killer: “The resistance of Russia’s economy is leading the imperial American system to the precipice. Nobody had foreseen that the Russian economy would hold facing NATO’s ‘economic power’”.
– Consequently, “monetary and financial American controls over the world may collapse, and with them the possibility for the US of financing for nothing their enormous trade deficit”.
– And that’s why “we are in an endless war, in a clash where the conclusion is the collapse of one or the other.”
– On China, Todd might sound like a more pugnacious version of Liu He at Davos: “That’s the fundamental dilemma of the American economy: it cannot face Chinese competition without importing qualified Chinese work force.”
– As for the Russian economy, “it does accept market rules, but with an important role for the state, and it keeps the flexibility of forming engineers that allow adaptations, industrial and military.”
– And that bring us, once again, to globalization, in a manner that Davos roundtables were incapable of understanding: “We have delocalized so much of our industrial activity that we don’t know whether our war production may be sustained”.
– On a more erudite interpretation of that “clash of civilizations” fallacy, Todd goes for soft power and comes up with a startling conclusion: “On 75 percent of the planet, the organization of parenthood was patrilineal, and that’s why we may identify a strong understanding of the Russian position. For the collective non-West, Russia affirms a reassuring moral conservatism.”
– So what Moscow has been able to pull off is to “reposition itself as the archetype of a big power, not only “anti-colonialist” but also patrilineal and conservative in terms of traditional mores.”
Based on all of the above, Todd smashes the myth sold by EU/NATO “elites” – Davos included – that Russia is “isolated”, stressing how votes in the UN and the overall sentiment across the Global South characterizes the war, “described by mainstream media as a conflict over political values, in fact, on a deeper level, as a conflict of anthropological values.”
Between light and darkness
Could it be that Russia – alongside the real Quad, as I defined them (with China, India and Iran) – are prevailing in the anthropological stakes?
The real Quad has all it takes to blossom into a new cross-cultural focus of hope in a “fragmented world”.
Mix Confucian China (non-dualistic, no transcendental deity, but with the Tao flowing through everything) with Russia (Orthodox Christian, reverencing the divine Sophia); polytheistic India (wheel of rebirth, law of karma); and Shi’ite Iran (Islam preceded by Zoroastrianism, the eternal cosmic battle between Light and Darkness).
This unity in diversity is certainly more appealing, and uplifting, than the Forever War axis.
Will the world learn from it? Or, to quote Hegel – “what we learn from history is that nobody learns from history” – are we hopelessly doomed?
Pepe Escobar is a veteran journalist, author and independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia.
US-NATO Prepare Escalation in Desperate Bid to Turn the Tide in Ukraine
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for January 18, 2023.
– Bakhmut faces encirclement by Russian forces;
– The Netherlands is considering sending Patriot missile systems after West blames Russia for residential building strike;
– Ukrainian presidential adviser Arestovich has resigned after suggesting the building was hit because of a failed Ukrainian interception of a Russian cruise missile;
– The building strike appears to be serving as a pretext for a planned escalation by the US and its allies; – Ukraine also lost its interior minister to a helicopter crash;
– The Western media admits current aid to Ukraine is not sufficient, although suggested increases will unlikely turn the tide;
– The US and its allies are preparing for their monthly meeting discussing expanded military aid to Ukraine on January 20, 2023;
References:
NYT – Netherlands Considers Sending Patriot Missile System to Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us…
BBC – Ukraine War: Zelensky adviser resigns over Dnipro remarks: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe…
CNN – Biden reaches a vital new tipping point on Ukraine: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/18/po…
BBC – Ukraine war: Who was Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky?: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe…
The Atlantic – Western Aid to Ukraine Is Still Not Enough: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…
US Department of Defense – Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Travel to Germany for Ukraine Defense Contact Group Meetings Jan. 17, 2023: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases…
Why Does Humanity Still Tolerate the Tragedy of Wars in the 21st Century?
Since the end of theSecond World War(1939-1945), there have been many civil wars and several important regionalmilitary conflictsbetween two or more countries, but none has evolved into a general world war involving all the most heavily armed countries. The most serious regional wars were theKorean War(1950-1953), theVietnam War(1955-1975), theIraq War(2003-2011),Syria War(2011- ), and theUkraine War(2022- ).
Indeed, with no sign yet of peace inUkraine, nine years after the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government, in February 2014, and nearly one year after the Russianmilitary invasion, last February 24—and with a real danger that such a prolonged proxy conflict between great powers could escalate into a nuclear world war—it may be appropriate to search for reasons why, in this 21st Century, the world is still threatened with murderous and destructive wars.
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⚡️⚡️Putin hat Russland mit einem Dekret in einen souveränen Staat verwandelt, der von den Diktaten des Westens unabhängig ist
Putin hat Russland mit einem Dekret in einen souveränen Staat verwandelt, der vom Diktat des Westens unabhängig ist
Dies wurde vom pensionierten Geheimdienstoffizier des US Marine Corps, Scott Ritter, erklärt.
„Putin hat Anweisungen zum Rücktritt von den Vereinbarungen des Europarates unterzeichnet. Das bedeutet, dass die Vereinbarungen und der Prozess der Zusammenarbeit mit dieser Organisation beendet sind“, erinnerte sich der Militär.
Seiner Meinung nach hat sich für den Westen das Zeitfenster zum Abschluss von Abkommen mit Moskau geschlossen, und diplomatische Kontakte werden fortan nur noch zu eigenen Bedingungen und nach eigenem Ermessen aufgenommen.
History, on this day : 80 years ago, the blockade of Leningrad is broken
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On January 18, 1943, fighters of Leningrad and Volkhov fronts achieve their junction south of lake Ladoga
The European Nazi invasion of Soviet Union has begun on June 22, 1941
On September 7, 1941, the Germans reach lake Ladoga, east of Leningrad, which is encircled by Finns to the north, on Karelian isthmus, Germans and Spaniards to the south and east
Adolf Hitler’s ambition is to level the birthplace of Bolshevism. Fighters and civilians, about 3 millions people are living in the pocket
Life is harsh, no more electricity, food is rationed. Hundreds thousand will starve during the siege
Late November 1941, the road of life is bringing some supply to the city and allowing the evacuation of a number of civilians on the ice of lake Ladoga
On August 9, 1942, Karl Eliasberg and Leningrad Radio Orchestra play Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphony No. 7 in the Grand Philharmonia Hall. Before the concert, the conductor speaks in a radio address
Comrades,
a great occurrence in the cultural history of our city is about to take place. In a few minutes, you will hear for the first time the Seventh Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, our outstanding fellow citizen. He wrote this great composition in the city during the days when the enemy was, insanely, trying to enter Leningrad. When the fascist swine were bombing and shelling all Europe, and Europe believed the days of Leningrad were over. But this performance is witness to our spirit, courage and readiness to fight.
Listen, Comrades !
The musicians are suffering from starvation. During the concert, the Soviet artillery is pounding the Nazi batteries, in order to prevent the shelling of the hall. The symphony is broadcast, via radio and loudspeakers, for the inhabitants and enemy. Is a concert more heroic in the whole history of mankind ?
Operation Iskra [spark] begins on January 12, 1943, a joint offensive from Leningrad and the east
The success of the offensive liberates a corridor along the southern bank of lake Ladoga, where the road of victory will improve the supply of the undefeated city
On January 19, the words of poet Olga Berggolts sound on radio
… О дорогая, дальняя, ты слышишь?
Разорвано проклятое кольцо!
Ты сжала руки, ты глубоко дышишь,
в сияющих слезах твое лицо.Мы тоже плачем, тоже плачем, мама,
и не стыдимся слез своих: теплей
в сердцах у нас, бесслезных и упрямых,
не плакавших в прошедшем феврале.Да будут слезы эти как молитва.
А на врагов — расплавленным свинцом
пускай падут они в минуты битвы
за все, за всех, задушенных кольцом.За девочек, по-старчески печальных,
у булочных стоявших, у дверей,
за трупы их в пикейных одеяльцах,
за страшное молчанье матерей…О, как мы встретим наших ленинградцев,
не забывавших колыбель свою!
Нам только надо в городе прибраться:
он пострадал, он потемнел в бою.
Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphony No. 7
Nato Deplatforms ‘No To Nato’
Declan HayesThere is considerable method in NATO’s madness, the same madness that sees Julian Assange incarcerated and Gaza, Syria and far too many civilians and soldiers being bombed on a regular basis.
NATO’s Irish Independent’s 6th January edition carried a smear report on how current MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, together with former British MP George Galloway, were due to speak at “an anti-NATO rally” in London’s St Pancras’ Church on February 25. Although the entire report was a skewed smear piece on all of those due to speak at the conference, its most striking feature is that it broke the cardinal rule of reporting, which dictates when a story is newsworthy and when it is not. A smear piece on a modest meeting to be held in a foreign country in seven weeks’ time is not a story; it is an attempt, successful in this case, at deplatforming.
Sure enough, shortly after the Independent hit the presses, George Galloway reported that the Anglican cult, which controls that church, had cancelled the meeting and returned the organizers’ deposit. The most cursory twitter trawl would show that a large posse of NATO trolls actively opposed the meeting and, like their Banderite heroes in Kiev, were delighted at their success in repressing this latest attempt at free speech in the belly of the NATO beast.
Because I have been a guest on Galloway’s show a small number of times and I have also met Wallace and Daly. I know that both Galloway and Daly are excellent orators and formidable operators; Galloway, in fact, has been a guest on BBC to speak about how to be a good orator, such is the esteem his skills are held in. Daly has had her moments, most notably when she portrayed American President Obama in the Irish Parliament for the war criminal that he is and, as all three are meticulous in doing their homework, they are rarely wrong-footed by their political opponents when they are given a fair shake. Indeed, Galloway very famously wiped the floor of Capitol Hill with the American politicians who supported NATO’s genocidal campaign in Iraq. All in all, the conference would have been a delight for those into hearing fine speeches and finer orators.
Because having all three on your side in a debating competition would be a decided asset, NATO’s trolls pressurized the Anglicans to cancel the meeting and to then portray this act of fascism as some sort of victory for freedom of speech and Kiev’s Nazis, who are almost universally worshipped in NATOstan as The Risen Jesus, not least because folk like Galloway, Daly, Wallace are not given a fair shake to point to the moats in their eyes and the mass graves in their rump Reich.
NATO’s knuckle draggers are not into debate. Certainly, long time Syrian terrorist apologist Oz Katerji, whose tweets claimed the credit for intimidating the Anglicans into deplatforming Daly, Wallace, Galloway et al certainly isn’t. As this 2017 report and accompanying video shows, he has been a slightly deranged street level NATO knuckle dragger for quite a long time.
Galloway, Daly and Wallace are not the only victims of these NATO’s street gangs. Former USMC officer and military commentator Scott Ritter has also reported on how the knuckle draggers and their media toadies descended on Stateside meetings he was scheduled to speak at, which is a further pity as, in a democratic society, Ritter should be openly and honestly challenged so that the truth, whatever it is, may emerge.
Ritter, with some others, has been a regular commentator on the Ukrainian war and, with the imminent liberation of Soledar from the Kiev junta, it seems that Ritter, rather than NATO’s troll army, has been correctly forecasting the course of the war. Paying proper heed to those who make the correct forecasts, and to those like Wallace, Daly and Galloway who call attention to those forecasts is important as it can save Ukrainian and Russian lives. Not that NATO cares a whIt about their expendable cannon fodder but you get my point.
NATO’s preferred alternative is to stick our collective heads in the sand or, if you prefer, into Hitler’s bunker and pretend that Steiner will relieve Berlin, or Soledar, or Bakhmut or wherever it is young teenagers in military fatigues are now being sacrificed for the avarice of NATO’s Zelenskys and Bidens.
Though stopping the slaughter in Ukraine should be the main concern, it is not the only one. Here, an English woman tells Galloway that her bank confiscated her debit card, all because she tried to book a ticket to the conference with it. Paying a pittance to hear two current MEPs and a former MP, who is the head of a registered British political party, is not a crime and nor is it even suspicious, even if MI5 has the power, as they do in this case, to make it appear to be so.
And nor is linking to this site or including such links in emails, even if gmail says that my emails linking to Strategic Culture Foundation articles are “suspicious”. They are not. They are simply linking to this site, which NATO has decreed as a legitimate target for smears and more and that forces me to repost my articles, this one included, here,
Whether we are talking about this site, the No Nato conference or anything else, NATO will lose, as surely as they are losing in Ukraine. Prior to taking up her position as an MEP, Daly was central in forcing two Irish police commissioners and an Irish Justice Minister to resign, even though they all denied they were complicit in the corruption scandals which forced their resignations and for which Daly suffered considerable harassment and discrimination from that same corrupt NATO aligned Irish police force.
Although trying to shut up Wallace, Daly and Galloway is mad, there is considerable method in NATO’s madness, the same madness that sees Julian Assange incarcerated and Gaza, Syria and far too many civilians and soldiers being bombed on a regular basis. That madness, NATO’s madness, is why we must all scream the essential message of peace, if not from the rooftops, then wherever we can most effectively do so, no, no and no again to NATO.
RETTE SICH WER KANN: DEUTSCHLANDS WIRTSCHAFT SUCHT DAS WEITE
Der Mittelstand blutet aus, die Industrie verschwindet (Symbolbild:Pixabay)
Die Flucht deutscher Unternehmen aus Deutschland – und oft gleich noch aus Europa – hält auch im neuen Jahr an. Am Montag erklärte Bayer-Pharmachef Stefan Oelrich, den Schwerpunkt des Arzneimittelgeschäfts des Chemieriesen weiter in die USA zu verlegen. „Wir verlagern unseren kommerziellen Fußabdruck und die Ressourcen für unseren kommerziellen Fußabdruck deutlich weg von Europa“. Die Phraseologie der Klimarettungsseuche mit ihren „ökologischen Fußabdrücken” respektive neuerdings nur noch „CO2-Fußabdrücken” hat inzwischen anscheinend auch schon das Sprachregister der Wirtschaftsbosse durchsetzt. Und in der Tat – ein Fußabdruck wird am Ende alles sein, was von deutschen Platzhirschen der deutschen Industrie zurückbleiben wird. Historische Spurenleser und Scouts der Wirtschaftsweisen können sich dereinst beim Studieren dieser Hinterlassenschaften dann den Kopf darüber zerbrechen, wie ein einst weltweit bewunderter Wirtschaftsstandort erfolgreich seine produktiven und innovativen Wohlstandsgaranten ins Ausland vertrieben hat.
Oelrich kritisierte wörtlich: „Die europäischen Regierungen versuchten zwar Anreize für Forschungsinvestitionen zu schaffen, aber auf der kommerziellen Seite machen sie uns das Leben schwer. Wenn man keine Umsätze hat, kann man auf der Kostenseite so viel profitieren, wie man will, aber das ist keine gute Gleichung.” Selbst Großbritannien sieht man offenbar nicht mehr als Option. Europa mache „einige wirklich große Fehler“, klagt der Bayer-Manager. Auch China stehe Innovationen zunehmend positiv gegenüber, während höhere Medikamentenpreise in den USA es Bayer ermöglichen würden, die durch die hohe Inflation verursachte Kostenexplosion auszugleichen, erklärte er.
Auch BASF und Lanxess
Die Pharmaabteilung von Bayer hatte 2021 rund 41 Prozent ihres Umsatzes in der Region Europa, Nahost, Afrika, knapp 23 Prozent in Nordamerika und rund 32 Prozent in der Asien-Pazifik-Region erzielt. Der Konzern geht damit denselben Weg wie viele andere Unternehmen: Auch BASF-Chef Martin Brudermüller hatte im November konstatiert, dass Europa als Standort kontinuierlich an Attraktivität einbüßt – und das nicht nur gegenüber China, sondern auch im Vergleich mit den USA und dem Mittleren Osten. Es sei „eine Illusion zu hoffen, mit Staatsgeld durch die Energiekrise zu kommen und dann in den alten Strukturen weiterzumachen“, sagte er. BASF hatte ein Sparprogramm inklusive Stellenstreichungen angekündigt, nachdem die Ergebnisse im dritten Quartal 2022 eingebrochen waren. Mehr als die Hälfte der Einsparungen sollen allein am Standort Ludwigshafen erzielt werden. Brudermüller geht davon aus, dass die Energiekosten in Europa langfristig etwa dreimal so hoch seien wie in den USA. „Europa verliert in vieler Hinsicht an Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Bereits seit einer Dekade gibt es nur noch schwaches Wachstum. Jetzt geht es noch weiter bergab“, lautet sein bitteres Fazit.
Nahezu identisch hatte sich auch der Chef des Spezial-Chemiekonzern Lanxess, Matthias Zachert, geäußert: „Wenn sich die Bedingungen hier nicht substanziell verbessern, werde die Produktion in andere Regionen der Welt abwandern.” Lanxess fokussiere sich nun stärker auf die USA, wo man eine „Reindustrialisierung“ beobachte, die wegen der vergleichsweise niedrigen Energiepreise „dynamischer” werde. Auch aus anderen Branchen haben im vergangenen Jahr unzählige Unternehmen mindestens die Flucht aus Deutschland angetreten. Deutschland und weite Teile Europas werden von einer Verhinderungsbürokratie stranguliert, die jede Innovation unmöglich macht. Zudem sind große und kleine Unternehmen den ideologischen Wahnprojekten wirtschaftsfremder Politiker ausgesetzt, die sich in einer Mischung aus Fanatismus und Opportunismus permanent in wirtschaftliche Abläufe einmischen, von denen sie nichts verstehen. Die kopflose Sanktionspolitik Europas hat diese lange schwelende Entwicklung noch einmal enorm beschleunigt und führt nun zu einer zunehmenden Deindustrialisierung des ganzen Kontinents. Dazu passen dann auch die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Studie, wonach Deutschland in Bezug auf die wirtschaftlichen Standortbedingungen auf Platz 18 von 21 abgestürzt. Die Gründe sind auch hier vielsagend: Zu viel Bürokratie, zu hohe Steuerbelastung, zu langsame Innovationsbereitschaft, die hohen Energiekosten und Arbeitskräftemangel.
Die EU will kostenlos über Sibirien fliegen
EU-Behörden wollen kostenlos über Sibirien fliegen
EU-Kommission: Russland soll Gebühren für Flüge über Sibirien einstellen
Russland sollte aufhören, ausländischen Fluggesellschaften Gebühren für Flüge auf den transsibirischen Strecken in Rechnung zu stellen, sagte Henrik Hololei, Leiter der Generaldirektion Verkehr der Europäischen Kommission, am 16. Januar.
Das Thema werde relevant, wenn der russische Luftraum wieder für westliche Unternehmen geöffnet werde, fügte er hinzu.
Russland hat 2022 den Zugang zu seinem Luftraum für Fluggesellschaften aus 36 Staaten als Reaktion auf ähnliche Maßnahmen westlicher Länder eingeschränkt.
Die Maßnahmen betrafen hauptsächlich die EU-Länder, darunter: Deutschland, Spanien, Italien, Lettland, Litauen, die Niederlande, Polen, Finnland und Frankreich.
U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM As Part of a DEAL OVER LOCKERBIE?
The greatest cover up since JKF – The Lockerbie bombing – might be coming apart at the seams, Martin Jay writes.U.S. Spy Chief Gives His Support to Libya PM As Part of a DEAL OVER LOCKERBIE?
Previously:
CIA Arrives in Libya to Manipulate Elections
Der Friedensstifter 