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I promised an article on the pro-Kremlin faction of the oligarchs, but that will have to wait until we get a final head count of who fled and who stayed in Russia. Friends today, enemies tomorrow — such is life in… well just about anywhere nowadays. Instead, we should probably say a few words about corruption, the security services and the way business is done in Russia to set the stage better for when we get into the nitty-gritty of it all soon.
Corruption is a buzzword in Eastern Europe in a way that it simply is not in the West. This is because in the West, corruption is legal and understood to be part and parcel of the Liberal Democratic process, whereas in the East, people still have the capacity to feel outrage at it. But in Washington, professional corrupters occupy seats in offices of prestigious lobbying organizations on K Street and no one denounces them. As we all know, these professionals help foreign interests, big business and ethnic grievance groups grease the wheels of political bureaucracy with nothing more than innocent handshakes, playful winks and well thought-out suggestions. In other countries this would be called corruption, but because America is a Human Rights Freedom-Loving Liberal Democracy we know a priori that corruption simply cannot exist because that’s not our values — that’s simply not who we are.
But take Nancy Pelosi and her son, who allegedly supports youth soccer programs in Ukraine. They’ve managed to extract staggering sums of loot from the poorest country in Europe. Then take Joe Biden and his son, who allegedly invest in shale gas extraction in Ukraine and, according to the recently revealed laptop emails, were involved in biolabs pathogen research. They’ve also made a tidy profit. This is, of course, considered normal and no one so much as shrugs in Washington or in the controlled media. One doesn’t even have to look abroad to American politicians fleecing failed states to see what Liberal Democracy is really about. Again, Joe Biden, for example, has had a long and storied career as an insurance industry representative. His home state of Delaware has had many companies come in to take advantage of tax loopholes and the like, and Joe Biden has gone to Congress for decades to push for legislation that is agreeable to their continued profits.
Again, this is normal. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. This is how the system works.
“Corruption!” The proles cried.
“Simply the cost of doing business!” The oligarchs replied.
Fundamentally, Liberal Democracy is based on the premise of giving the merchant/business class control over the political process. People with money at some point wanted to convert their currency into political power, which they were barred from accessing by the existing system of hereditary titles and a “services-rendered” based reward system run by the monarch. To give their money a voice, they had to change the political structure of their host countries to make them more amicable to the interests of their business caste, which led to the modern system of Liberal Democracy as we know it coming into its own.
But the proletariat of Eastern Europe didn’t understand this — they were willing to give Liberal Democracy a shot. They were then taken aback and morally outraged when they saw the whole country come to be dominated by oligarchic business interests. No doubt they should have read the fine print before signing on the dotted line as it were. Back in the Soviet Union, a party elite that adhered to the correct political ideology ran the country. Ambitious youth joined the Communist party and rose through the ranks by writing theses on Marxism-Leninism and then running some office or another until they got noticed and pulled up to the next rank by a party official. It was a system that people grew to hate at first, but then ended up becoming nostalgic for. At least the average prole more-or-less understood how the system worked and how to advance in it. You could figure out who to talk to to get something done and some problem solved. This new system, however, turned out to be even more opaque and labyrinthine than the one that came before it.
In general, if we compare Capitalism with, say, Communism, then we see a striking difference emerge. In one system, a group of powerful businessmen collude with one another to ban criticism of themselves and set up a system of private monopolies to fleece the people. In contrast, with Communism, we see a group of powerful party elites who conspire with one another to ban criticism of themselves and set up a system of state monopolies to fleece the people. The difference couldn’t be more stark. All this is to say that Oligarchy can take on many forms. You can have a political oligarchy that then takes on elements of an economic oligarchism. Or you can have an economic oligarchy that then ends up taking political power. Point being: the ruling caste of the USSR and the USSA have far more in common with one another than they would ever admit to their own captive populations.
The “Russian” form of corruption, however, is far worse than the one practiced in the West because the stolen money is then taken out of the country. In contrast, if we take Carnegie and Rockefeller, who were robber barons and oligarchs in their time as well, we can at least say they built some nice libraries and funded other public works within America with their stolen money. This is an important distinction and I would never forgive myself for not using this opportunity to push a rather esoteric political position promoted by the infamous modern occult philosopher Aleksander Dugin who stressed the need for the Russian government to promote “patriotic corruption” like the kind practiced in the West. A word on Dugin: he has never enjoyed the same levels of popularity in Russia as he has in the West, where he was seen as a kind of éminence grise of Russian politics, whereas his ideas were more often ridiculed in Russia than not. Personally, I maintain that the man had many good points to make that he was simply too “based” and realpolitik for correct-thinking people to even entertain his ideas. Most modern thinkers seem to be unable to throw off utopian castle-in-the-sky type thinking and simply make do with reality as it is and not insist on it conforming to their vision of how it should be.
Anyway, let’s get into our final point of discussion for today — the rentier siloviks.
In the Soviet Union, when the Bolsheviks first came to power, they did not practice Socialism or Communism as we understand it today. The first years saw the formation of the NEP program under which gangs of Jews appropriated private and state businesses and cannibalized huge swaths of Russian capital and assets while also positioning themselves as monopolists in the new “free market” economy. It was only under Stalin that the whole Communism thing started in earnest. What this Communism amounted to was Stalin killing off these private monopolists and putting his own people from the security organizations in charge of them. By this method, the NKVD came into ownership of property, land and other valuable assets. Many families living in the desirable downtowns of big cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow are descendants of one NKDV family or the other to this day. Unlike his predecessors, Stalin actually invested the appropriated resources back into the Soviet economy and began building his vision of Communism in earnest. Again, all it really amounted to was the private cartel from the NEP period being replaced by NKVD agents and a clamp down on capital flight from the USSR. But just by clamping down on capital flight and forcing the resources to stay in the country, Stalin was, indeed, able to turn the Soviet ship around. Moscow is largely a city built by Stalin. The towering “Stalinkas” that ring the capital are the most impressive and enduring monuments to Soviet architecture. Everything that came before and since Stalin has been the regular cost-saving brutalist concrete slurry that we have on display everywhere in the world, whether the country be Communist or Capitalist.
Now, the NKVD structure morphed into the KGB and then the FSB, which continued the legacy of security people maintaining a grip on state resources and directing them as they saw fit while also extracting a profit for themselves. This is still a reality in Russia today, although their grip on economic power weakened because of the 90s and the rise of a competing mafia — the private oligarchs. Entrepreneurs who want to start making money eventually have to do business with one mafia or the other. In modern Russia, they can approach the private oligarchs, the FSB or the official state — all approaches which have their advantages and drawbacks and which have to be weighed carefully.
In the West, in contrast, the state is the main mafia one has to deal with, and the government extracts its rents through fees, inspections, compliance codes, taxes and so on, not to mention the mountains of paperwork and time that have to be sunk in as well. Russia certainly has this system in place as well, but the official state’s monopoly on rent collection is not totally like in the West. By choosing to do businesses with the FSB, the strapping entrepreneur can bypass the bureaucracy and even save money in the short term. They simply pay their “Krisha” protection money to the FSB boss in charge of their street or section of the city or building and then they can set up their business tomorrow if they wish, no red tape involved. It seems like a good deal and most businessmen in the West would probably jump at the opportunity to pay a fee upfront and not have to deal with waiting, say 2 years, to get a state-issued liquor license.
However, all is not as it seems at first glance and the FSB boss might start considering a hostile takeover of the business on his territory if it starts becoming too profitable. Businessmen in Russia constantly complain about being muscled out of their projects and forced to sell to the people who are providing them with protection. And because they paid a bribe to avoid having to deal with state bureaucracy, their business dealings aren’t exactly clean. Most do a mental calculation and decide to cash out instead of fighting in the courts and possibly losing everything and getting a prison term to boot. Politics, then, becomes a necessary part of doing business for any striving oligarch-to-be because they need allies in power to protect their assets from lawfare waged by hostile, already established oligarchs, predatory FSB chiefs, and an impersonal, merciless bureaucracy that will grind them up in its gears before spitting them out to be torn to bits by scavengers.
There it is — an overview of the exquisitely, metaphysically evil nature of business and corruption in Russia.
But, having explained the Russian corruption system in general terms, I can only shrug and point out that despite all of this, or perhaps because of all of this, the ease of starting a business remains much easier in Russia than anywhere in the West. I also don’t think that Russia is all-in-all any more “corrupt” than the West either — in fact, I would say that it is less so. Consider: big companies in the West push for regulation that forces their smaller competitors out of business and allows them to set up monopolies. Is this not “corruption” by legal means?
Or consider what happens when a general retires and begins making millions of dollars working for a private weapons contractor bidding on government contracts that they are guaranteed to win because of money spent bribing politicians who are, in turn, themselves simply the puppets of business interests that got them elected in the first place. Is this not a form of corruption?
Does legalizing graft and sanctimoniously denouncing others change anything? Does creating a system of corruption that is more elegant make that system any less corrupt? What is the end result? What is the end goal? What are we crusading against and what are we trying to build? Who gets to decide the meanings of the terms we use? And the most important question: why do the peasants allow themselves to be politicized into caring about who is stealing from whom halfway around the world from where they live?
I contend, unlike the utopians, that corruption in one form or another will always exist in society regardless of whatever political ideology is adopted and promulgated as the state religion. Fundamentally, the state can monopolize and legalize corruption, like in the West, or you can have older, more archaic forms continue to flourish like in the East. Furthermore, an anonymous internet peasant like myself can afford to be a moral crusader, but no serious statesmen can, which means that Russia will remain a “corrupt” country for the foreseeable future. What is far more important to consider is the question is what form of corruption will come out on top as a result of the sanctions and the turn to autarky that we are witnessing occurring now in real time. A system of “patriotic corruption” where state assets stay within the country and are reinvested in the economy will be far better than what came before it. Furthermore, it is quite clear that state assets are better off in the hands of state spooks than in the hands of an international clique of rootless cosmopolitans. Finally, there should indeed be a legal and open path for honest businessmen to be able to take — but leaving a potentially risky off-road shortcut option open isn’t exactly a civilization-ending situation either.
Keep all of this in mind when we start talking about the pro-Kremlin oligarchs and the Chinese-style fusion of big business and government system that Russia is moving towards adopting in the near future.
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Shorter version of the article;
Power currupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely ~ Lord Acton
Money is power & to allow government to control money is slavery by any other word.
The Clintons had a foundation to which foreign governments could contribute. The Obamas get book deals giving them $60M or so for books that nobody reads. They all get hundreds of thousands in speaking fees for potboiler speeches no one listens to. These are all payoffs disguised as something else. It’s a gentleman’s club, payment following delivery, no double crossing. They all have nice clothes, have gone to name brand schools, live in the right zip codes.
Really as shameless as it can get, siphoning money out of a relatively poor country. These people will steal from the poor box. This is what’s high class in the US.
Au contraire, mon brave!
There are more hungry children, drug addicts, suicides and executions, more homeless, poor, illiterate, and imprisoned citizens in America than in China. China’s infant mortality, 5.4 per thousand births is lower than America’s 5.69 and Chinese children’s healthy life expectancy is longer than American kids’, and those kids will graduate high school three years ahead of ours.
In 2022, 56% of all Americans cannot produce a meager $1,000 as an emergency expense from their existing savings, CNBC reported; 1 in 10 US adults have gone hungry last December as a result of poverty, Forbes.com reported; Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy revealed that child poverty rate in the US stands at 17%, “one of the highest among developed countries”.
This is what a country looks like when 98% of its citizens own their homes because they consider food and shelter to be human rights, and hold their government responsible accordingly.
Obama picked Sleazy Joe and let him run wild. His reputation should be soiled by association with this grubby crook.
You can always tell how a government is run by the people that run it. In the case of US, it’s headed by a succession of political crime families that make mafia crimes families blush. These families pay royalties to various branches of government for the benefit of ‘we the weak and merciful’.
Between bribes, kickbacks, greasing hands, midnight runs, gun running, drug distribution and endless pork projects, it’s a miracle anything gets done. When ten percent of the population work for government and another sixty percent receive benefits from government, its got to be the greatest money making racket in the world next to GlobalHomoZioBIGsRxMIC3BLM.
Well said
No: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
You are comparing the U.S. (a nation in decline in accordance with Jewish desires) to China (a nation in ascendancy in accordance with Jewish desires).
Get some context.
Excuse me, what does your last sentence mean? Does China have 98 % ownership?
The days of Carnegie and Robber Baron beneficence is long gone. The modern American gives nothing that is not tax deductible and it always ends with them funding minorities at home and future collaborators abroad.
The Gilded Age was a century ago. It’s gone.
Brutus was extracting heavy usury from an island colony (Crete, if I remember right); extracting money out of a fallen, poor country is nothing new, nor going to stop soon.
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“Money is law” (Mefobills) re-vindicated into “Money is power”
is clearly explained here in the article, of which i endorse the explanation of “gross domestic corruption”.
If (and only i–f, this is not quite so obvious today as mirrored into the public domain) alternative currency transactions internationally become more prominent, the Russia – China – India “corruption” will vastly increase in total (more transactions, bigger volumes, porosity of State borders). This just as a possible scenario to be taken into account. Direct embargos of the exo-world (West) on Russia will reflow transactions over China and India. To be discovered, who gets to grab the “usury” of the finance part, now reserved to the International Global Cabal.
All this will lead inadvertently to a unified world for the elites, and a unified world for the “global peasants” (i very much like this terminology of the article since it accents the local disposition of the peasant contrary to the global mobility of our “nobles” ).
Practically, where will the global elites, or as in this scenario the elites of various parts of the globe, vacation, sink in their loot into real estate? New Zealand? Immense floating cities/yachts? Both? Other? A dream of a reality for futurists, architects, science-fi writers.
This indeed is the most obvious and most apparent form of corruption. The media and the higher middle class practices use this mechanism as a rule.
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Thanks for the article Rolo!
Dugin has been in the news lately in the context of the media trying to figure out what Putin wants. This is because Dugin is said to have had a strong influence on Putin’s thinking. One ominous aspect has been Dugin’s promotion of a huge European-Russian empire, from Dublin to Vladivostok. Understandably, Europeans do not think this is a good idea. Dugin himself has taken this concept from a Belgian geopolitician:
Source – Footnote 18 – From Dublin to Vladivostok A Systematic Look at Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory
https://www.academia.edu/45672001/From_Dublin_to_Vladivostok_A_Systematic_Look_at_Alexander_Dugins_Fourth_Political_Theory_Part_II
Source – Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics
https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics
Nonetheless, Western corruption is less corrosive because it is more transparent. The organization Transparency International publishes an annual index of perceived corruption. Not surprisingly, based on their methodology, Scandinavian (Lutheran) countries are least corrupt, whereas Russia is very corrupt. Here is the map for 2021:
The top 10 least corrupt ranking for 2021: Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Singapore, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany.
“Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations.” – CIA
Why should everyone be obligated to live in an impoverished, polluted, globalized corporate-socialist totalitarian monopoly?
Why not allow people to establish productive, prosperous, libertarian, democratic-republican nation-states like Taiwan and the Swiss Confederation?
Please read 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell.
“Homeownership” is nothing more than glorified slavery to “bank” corporations and their puppet regimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juG2Fp0vn8c&list=PLDVQ932i7NF0mYSx6AnGyZ14suLVxFVrT&index=4
“ The “Russian” form of corruption, however, is far worse than the one practiced in the West because the stolen money is then taken out of the country “. Let’s not be silly. What happens is that in the west you don’t need to hide what you’ve stolen because money can buy the law.
“fundamentally, Liberal Democracy is based on the premise of giving the merchant/business class control over the political process.”
This is extremely short-sighted drivel.
This is the kind of nonsense that Dictators like Hitler, Mussolini, et al used to justify their absolutist political control.
Over thousands of years, countless numbers of “educated” & “learned” people have sought to create systems designed to stamp-out the corruptions of previous systems.
From Monarchy (the “Good King”) to Fascism (state controlled economics & “equality”) to Bureaucracy to Democracy & beyond, each system has been employed in attempt to right wrongs of the past.
And yet EACH system has failed.
Why?
Simple due to the fact that ANY SYSTEM CAN BE MANIPULATED & CORRUPTED.
There will always be those people whom seek absolute wealth & control.
And will go through the most extreme measures to gain that wealth & control.
And will eventually find a way to to manipulate & control ANY systems.
And, as in the words of Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg)
in his Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton (Apr. 5, 1887):
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”
Regardless the systematic process & procedures in place, the eventual holders of the power-bases of those systems will inevitably become corrupted, leading to abuses of their power & authority.
WHY?
BECAUSE ALL HUMANS ARE FALLIBLE.
I am generally a fan of some works/ideas of Plato, but the concept of the Philosopher King is nothing but a PIPE DREAM.
History has demonstrated time & again that NO ONE is above temptation.
NO ONE is capable of exercising true & complete self-restraint.
ANY HUMAN HOLDER OF POWER WILL EVENTUALLY SUCCUMB TO ABUSES OF THAT POWER.
And anyone whom proceeds to call-out the corruptions of one system, whilst touting the supposed cures offered by another system, without recognizing the inherent failures of ALL systems, is simply a fool (or shyster).
BEWARE THE FOOLS & SHYSTERS!
JC said:
Buy a house that you can reasonably afford with cash solves this issue quickly.
Your article raises the question of right v wrong.
The establishment of the Moses religion (mafia) and its mutants heralded the end of religiosity and with it the end of natural factual law.
The buildup of the mafia (“Judaism”) was the beginning of anti-germanism und culminated preliminary in the supposed crucifixion of the Nazi
(the bright one from Aryan Nazareth, hence the bloodpoors, the pale darkies, forever bloodhungry thirsties, with their fearful-angry-violent cry against the Good son as “Nazi”).
In this video you can see exemplary a real Nazi, a descent of the Christ’s people, of the Ukraina, because most would not have a clue what a Nazi is and how the Jew, the ever and ever mutating mutant, is trying to own and distort the Nazi:
Video Link
The rise of the pale darkies was the beginning of the end of natural (i.e. germanic / natural) law and the advancing (of evil) of Roman law (for advancing privileged)
The Roman law is individualistic up to the perversions of the so-called judicial law and the law-giver as regular law-breaker, hence “rules based world” versus a law based world (one the Chinese and Russian regimes seem to be demanding more and more nowadays).
Aryan law (germanic / natural law) is cooperative and social. (See the above vid. Nazi v. Evil)
With the victory of the evil, the bastardization, against the natural (i.e. the natural original right (of the original people)) the dark, unenlightened mob rule solidified as “Ochlocracy”.
Ochlocracy (gr. from ὄχλος = óchlos = “(crowd of) people”, “rabble” (rabbis – rabies?) and κρατία = kratía = “rule”), also called mob rule, describes a state in which the rule or violence of a state is exercised predominantly by lower-ranking people; the unspiritual, unreligious, unformed, undisciplined, uneducated, and unteachable masses in a state have been a feared political actor since ancient times. (Judaism ≠ religion)
The iron law of ochlocracy states that the rule of the inferior, the paler, prevents any renewal threatened by the superior.
The father of hypersonics, Hermann Oberth, pinpointed it as “Kakocracy” (ancient Greek kakos “bad” and kratia “rule”) denotes the rule of (or by) the bad and was called the world enemy No.1:
“In the life so and so many ways are open to a decent character to get ahead. To a scoundrel, with the same intelligence and drive on the same place, these ways are also all open, besides, however, still others which a decent fellow does not go. He therefore has more chances to get ahead, and as a result of this negative character selection, an enrichment of the higher social strata with scoundrels takes place.” (transl. with deepL)
See also
– Degeneracy – Plutocracy
– Estates – Stand (Sociology)
– Dyscracy – Individualism
– Friedrich Nietzsche – Alain de Benoist
– New Right – Metapolitics – ZOG
– The rule of the inferior
– Bestialism – Leftism
– Synarchy – Postdemocracy – NWO
The orthodoxy in the spheres of Russia seems to be a last stand for the Christ consciousness.
(The Putin and his interest in the higher, which not only seems but is sincere, has and is helping).
The Christianity that is no longer able to put a stop to the Jews archaic desire for revenge (for nothing) coupled with the Jews insatiable lust, greed, anger, attachments and ego, ego and more ego, gives itself away. Itself is the Christ.
The Christ appreciation does not need temples, but todays poor people need temples to have a frame to somehow somewhat – more or less – approach the Christ, hence nothing against the churches and church building boom in Russia. Just the opposite.
It is very good and it is good that they have not many preachers, because the dark robed preacher stands between the bright(er) and the light (the Nazi from Nazareth).
Ora et labora.
The real cure outside, besides the oratoriums, is the right law; the law of right, a law of the right versus the wrong, the natural law versus the individualised law.
Only discriminating men can recreate the Ur-law (of the UR-RUS); the natural law that is. Natural men are discriminating men. (E.g. a natural men has no need to put his penis into the asshole of another men or even animal and will never ever even discuss a “law” sanctifying such aberrations).
… This is because in the West, corruption is legal and understood to be part and parcel of the Liberal Democratic process, whereas in the East, people still have the capacity to feel outrage at it. …..
And even better, our corruption is all disclosed in official government forms.
Obama’s reputation as a sleazy asshole stands on its own…he doesn’t need Biden.
Well, sure, I believe the author meant the “communism past” of the USSR and Warsaw Pact type.
And it’s increasingly true that today when someone speaks of “commies” it’s good linguistic hygiene to clarify if what is meant is blue haired trannies, or Romania in 1974, or China today.
That being said, the overall content of the article, constantly comparing the West with Eastern Europe, and doing a quick overview of the evolution and devolution of “Soviet Russia”, we can accept that it implicitly signals which type of communism is meant.
What bugs me is that the article started strong and then suddenly ended. Like there’s at least a 300 word chunk missing that was supposed to explicitly tie everything together.
Today the highest home ownership rates in Europe are in former communist block countries.
Thirty years ago they begun “privatizing” the state-built apartments and houses, and suddenly, during the transition from soviet-style society to capitalist pig-dog society, almost everyone received a “home ownership dividend”.
Also, in many places property “nationalized” by the commies decades ago was “returned” in one form or another. Suddenly you get a note that now you own a bunch of acres on the other side of the country.
Since then, of course, every generation has never do wells who sell the inheritance without acquiring new property, ending the property-ownership line if you will, but at the starting civilizational transition point a whole bunch of people ended up owning “brutalist slurry” property
which has solid market value to this day.
The globohomo model has already extracted enough wealth from its pleb to make them incapable of owning property. The eastern pleb still have a fallback cushion formed during the transition period.
Keeping in mind that Eastern Europe, except the Visegrad 4, is demographically plummeting,
home ownership should continue being a regular thing there, unless in the near future globohomo either floods them with Somalians, or does a “you own nothing” global reset, or destroys everything with some mega war.
That might diminish the severity of your slavery, but it solves nothing.
All “bank” corporations must be abolished.
Public treasuries must issue all the nation’s money fully backed by sovereign national territory (Location Value Rent).
Government expenditures must be limited to less than ten percent (>10%) of GNI.
Anything less is theft, terrorism, and slavery.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/091131279X
Or: inherently corrupt people are drawn to the exercise of power over others.
“They’ve also made a tidy profit. This is, of course, considered normal and no one so much as shrugs in Washington or in the controlled media.”
The Jew is the corrupter. Everywhere he goes leaves slime behind him. That’s his nature and it’s not within realm of his moral compasss to ameliorate his depraved behavior. Furthermore, he thrives in the muck and takes immense pride in the fact that he is the author of it. And he has co-opted the Almighty, undoubtedly without HIS permission, to suit his wicked purpose. He is not a Child of God but the spawn of the Devil. What can the humanity do?
“In contrast, if we take Carnegie and Rockefeller, who were robber barons and oligarchs in their time as well, we can at least say they built some nice libraries and funded other public works within America with their stolen money.”
But would the current oligarchy be so obliging as were the tycoons of the past? Would Michael Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison or dozens of other of the same ilk be so kind to do anything of virtue for the host countries? Or would they simply milk the lands in which they’re passing through own their way to Jerusalem?
The difference is the proletariat of other nations know they are corrupt. Too many here do not.
And what about Agricultural Parity?
Henry George land rents still does not address the issue of earned income necessary to pay ground rents.
It is amusing that the US is always lecturing other countries about election fraud and corruption.
Yet the US is is the chief culprit in this regard not only at the highest levels of the Government but in the country AND in other countries.
When such an example is set by the big Tomatoes, is it any wonder that everyone else gets into the free for all ? Hence what we have is a USA rotting from the inside. Ali Baba and the Forty thieves have nothing on these scoundrels.
Don’t be too sure that “NO ONE is…”. Those who are, can and do rarely find their way into history books. They simply go about their business and live out their lives in quiet dignity. Temptation is a powerful force, but can be and is resisted by those determined to resist it. If one has a guiding principle and a code to live by, drawing attention to one’s own integrity is not part of the profile, so others are less likely to notice that person. That’s their loss.
Home ownership is a reality only when the property and home are wholly owned (no debt) and cannot be seized for non-payment of property taxes, at least if it is the owner’s primary residence. It can be embargoed (as in a lien is placed on it with respect to a future sale), but the owner and lineal descendents or a long-standing cohabitant cannot be “evicted”, so to speak. This should be law in any nation that claims to value private property and liberty.
All power corrupts, so let’s not have a system, because “FOOLS AND SHYSTERS???”
What do you propose? Anarcho-capitalism? Libertarianism?
All groups have a government – an elite that exercises leadership, controls decision-making and backs up its decisions with influence and force. We have some say in how that elite is selected and circulated – they need our cooperation to make a scaled-up society work. But a minority always exercises power.
Hitler’s Germany was a happy, high-functioning modern state with strong public approval. It didn’t “fail” – it was wrecked. By the Anglosphere and Russia – not Hitler. Hitler was no more a dictator than the cabal that runs Joe Biden, Boris Johnson or Justin Trudeau. He just exercised power openly.
We don’t have to come up with a perfect system – we just need one that’s better. You can’t eliminate all corruption, but you try to minimize it.
Just saying “you’re all stupid, all power bad” isn’t a realistic adult choice.
This “corruption PERCEPTIONS index” is just that, perceptions.
The clearest evidence is India vs Russia.
According to this index India might have lower corruption that Russia? LOL
As someone who has lived in both countries, you just cannot compare the two. In India, even if you report something stolen FROM you, for example, you usually need to bribe the cops just so they don’t abuse you. That’s just one horrific example. In Russia many things are difficult to accomplish without corruption. In India, however, virtually NOTHING gets done without corruption.
Me thinks this index is another anti-Russian one.
from wiki: “The Corruption Perceptions Index has received criticism over the years. The main one stems from the difficulty in measuring corruption, which by definition happens behind the scenes. The Corruption Perceptions Index therefore needs to rely on third-party survey which have been criticized as potentially unreliable. Data can vary widely depending on the public perception of a country, the completeness of the surveys and the methodology used.”
Also, another zionazi stupidity from you:
“a huge European-Russian empire, from Dublin to Vladivostok. Understandably, Europeans do not think this is a good idea.”
Why would that be worse for Europeans that being under the anglo-zionist boot?
Those old robber barons actually built industries that created wealth in America (granted, they ended up with too much of it). The modern robbers build wealth for themselves and the foreign despotisms to which they have sent the American industrial economy. Give me Rockefeller and Carnegie any day.
This defense would be more convincing if it hadn’t come straight from the “Marketing Department” Gahflee!
I wonder if Shotgun Joey knows he’s the “Designated Fall Guy”?
So much for that “Biden Legacy”.
One of the barriers to home ownership is usury. A home priced at $400,00 can easily end up costing the buyer $800,000 over time. Usury is also a nefarious pipeline sending wealth from those who have less to those who have more.
I have to say the economic and political events will drastically change Russia. Hopefully for the better. It’s time some of the economic gains made by the elites are spent on the Russian public and national projects. I hope the massive firms owned by oligarchs who fled will be nationalized (maybe a 51%-49% style). These greedy cosmopolitans have been robbing ordinary Russians since the 90’s and the people are fed up. As an American who’s intimately informed on Russia I really appreciated the comparison of corruption and oligarchical structures. Times have been surreal here in Moscow. The shelves are full and everyone is in good spirits, though unsure what will happen next. We remain cautiously hopeful.
I brought up the Corruption Perception Index in the context of a comparison in the article above, between corruption in Russia and the West, about which I remarked that transparency was a crucial factor. You have essentially confirmed my point about the West being less corrupt when you stated “In Russia many things are difficult to accomplish without corruption.”
If secretive or murky corruption and cronyism is more corrosive than transparent corruption, then you have also confirmed why India would be ranked as less corrupt than Russia in the index, simply because in India doing things in a certain way, due to various factors, is considered a normal way of life that is widely understood and accepted and therefore is perceived differently than it is in Russia.
You claimed it is “zionazi stupidity” for me to have pointed out that Europeans do not think it is a good idea to live under Russian hegemony. This comment exposes how completely clue-less you are. You ought to ask people in a dozen countries (East Germany, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Finland) why they do not prefer Russian occupation, which they have had to live under to their detriment.
If you think such a Russian empire would be a good idea then why do you think that not even the Vlad-cultists who infest this web site with their nonsense have even dared to advocate this? I find it interesting that former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has stated outright in a Telegram post what Putin’s aims are but the cultists regurgitate fake narratives. Note that instead of Dublin Medvedev mentioned Lisbon, so perhaps taking on the former British Isles would be too ambitious.
There is a YouTuber named Nick Johnson who drives around bad areas of America. America is “dead” in many areas.
YES. It’s funny how those defenders of the little man, the Democrats, have never even proposed refinancing all first-home mortgages at zero percent.
Federal or state public banks can free all US Citizens from their mortgage interest burden by offering zero-interest loans to payoff / refinance the existing mortgages.
That entails no abridgement of the lenders’ freedoms of contract. And the people profiting from the huge heartless banks should be thankful that they even get the principal back on these loans after the way they have raped us for decades, centuries.
Cut the banks out of the loop when it comes to home lending.
— not to mention property taxes that billionaire perverts exploit to damage the public school children whose parents pay those taxes.
Need to find a way to have a Property Tax strike — perhaps by escrowing public school taxes.
Need to find a way to have a Property Tax strike — perhaps by escrowing public school taxes.
Oh it’s coming….rest assured…..it’s coming.
Mar 24, 2022 Millions of voters have ‘never heard the truth’ about Biden files
Sky News host Rita Panahi says Big Tech’s “sinister influence” on the 2020 US presidential election has been “laid bare”. The New York Times has recently verified the Hunter Biden laptop files, 17 months after the story was originally reported by The New York Post.
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Sep 28, 2019 Biden Blackmail of Ukraine
JOE BIDEN, 23 JANUARY 2018: And that is I’m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of Kiev in terms of corruption.
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No thanks — They gave us the Rockefeller Foundation and various other “Foundations” by which massive wealth was hidden from taxation — all of which have the purpose of destroying the USA/Western Civilization (think “Feminism”, “Diversity”, etc.) for a NWO One World Government of Banksters and associated lackeys/technocrats – the CVirus hoax/mass poisoning was “gamed” by them and controlled by them for this purpose and worked very well given the population they dumbed down by various methods over many decades — in retrospect scum like the Rockefellers were the death of the USA
Jack Ruby, nee Rubinstein, took out designated fall goy Lee Harvey Oswald.
I believe in most if not all Eastern European countries you can own millions to everyone but still cannot be evicted if your home is your only home. It’s your castle.
Last year in Russia they tweaked the law so that if some sob took a huge loan, then purchased an only sprawling home, and then refuses to pay off any debts, the courts can now force him to sell the huge house, buy a smaller one, and use the difference to pay off his creditors.
https://journal.tinkoff.ru/news/kvartiru-zaberut/
Poisoned data. The audit and the audited is one. A loop.
A long time back, when I was in my twenties, there were still a number of individuals of high ethical and moral standards who rose to positions of prominence and responsibility. Nowadays, that cream has been totally replaced by the scum rising to the top of the toilet-bowl as places like Wall $treet and the Di$trict of Corruption have become. Sad.
If you are a freeholder—own your own home—the bank$ters have no direct hold over you. It is unfortunate for many that they cannot self-finance their own abode, even if it happens to be an 100+ year old shack like mine. Sometimes it becomes a matter of independence versus comfort. Generally, the female of the species—and waaay too many males opt for the latter.
Name the Jew or it ain’t true.
Bolshevism and Capitalism are two sides of the same Khazarian dialectic. You can have a sustainable and functional European civilization under capitalism or you can have the a functional European civilization under Communism. But you can’t have either if you have judaism.
All this moralism and equivocation is a waste of time if you can’t name the Jew.
Panglossian Turleykin says Gen Z is the most conservative generation in a long time. They are more religious than earlier generations, supposedly. But new studies show that 40% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQXYZ. And much of Christianity today is just BLM and globo-homo stuff.
If Turleykin is correct and many Gen Z are indeed conservative, and if studies are also true that 40% of Gen Z are ‘homo’, will the right vs left thing come down to straight vs ‘gay’?
Of course, most ‘gay’ will not be biologically homosexual but indoctrinated in gender-bender dogma as a new kind of faith.
LEFTIST COLLEGES ARE IMPLODING AS CONSERVATIVE COLLEGES SURGE!!!
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This is the logical outcome of American’s cucking to Jewish demands. Jews got special treatment for a very long time. They were allowed to carry out Nakba and erase an entire people with US backing. Israel could steal US nuclear secrets and get away with it. There was hush-hush about USS Liberty. The Narrative focused on Joe McCarthy going after saintly communists than about the many Jewish leftists spying for murderous Stalin. (The very kind of Jews who defended the likes of the Rosenbergs are now calling Americans ‘traitors’ for not supporting Neocon wars in Middle East and Ukraine. How dare McCarthy question the patriotism of Jewish leftists who spied for Stalin but YOU ARE A TRAITOR if you don’t hate Putin and Russians, even Russian cats that must also be ‘canceled’.) Israel is showered by billions in free money every year. Even as US condemns India for not turning against Russia, it is silent about Israel sitting on the fence and playing both sides.
Jews are allowed to push Covid lies. Jews are allowed to use BLM to rouse up blacks to attack you and your friends/family in the streets. Jews are allowed to push globo-homo degeneracy. Jews are allowed to lie about Syria and Russian collusion. And how the 2020 election was ‘fortified’, something Jews openly bragged about.
So, is it any surprise that trannies are getting special treatment, along with blacks? When whites cucked so hard to Jews and treated them as if the Tribe is above the law and deserving of free money(to Israel and Wall Street bailouts), it was only a matter of time before the US began to cuck to the favored allies of Jews, the blacks and homos/trannies. If the Rule of America is, “We must appease Jews”, then we must also dole out favors for allies of Jews cuz Jews demand it.
Constitutionally problematic? What does it matter? Jews have been allowed to trample all over the Constitution for a long long time. Just ask the BDS crowd.
So, anyone who complains without naming the Jewish Power is full of shi*. This is why Trump is worthless. Mr. Swamp-drainer filled the Beltway with more Zionist sewage… even as Jews tore him a new arsehole.
A good indirect measure of corruption is life expectancy. In countries where the corrupt parasitic elites are reigned in somewhat, people who are actually productive are rewarded. This encourages people to engage in productive, not parasitic, activities which then leads to increasing levels of wealth followed by increasing life expectancies. The countries listed above as least corrupt all have high life expectancies. Russia has a lower life expectancy but has recovered somewhat from a big drop in the nineties. This shows that Putin has somewhat effectively dealt with out-of-control corrupt parasitic elites in that decade.
Through history, average life expectancies stayed low and barely budged since parasitic elites were firmly in control. This changed in the 18th century with the spread of ideas of liberty and individual rights in Great Britain, America and western Europe. The American Revolution was a revolt against foreign parasitic elites. We had our own parasitic elites but, comparatively speaking, they had less power than in many other countries on the planet in the early years of this country.
This resulted in huge increases in average life expectancy here: fifteen year increases from 40 to 55 during the period 1865-1965 and from 55 to 70 in the period from 1915-1965. The slowing in life expectancy increases in recent years is a sign that corruption is increasing. The period 1965 to 2015 showed only an 8-year increase. There were three straight years here of declining life expectancy from 2015 to 2017 and now another two from 2020 to 2021. The way to wealth now is working for government or having government connections. This is choking off economic growth and leading to a declining standard of living for the American population.
Yep, the feds will put him in the car in the White House driveway and drive him right over to the IRS building and he’ll have to sign it all over to uncle sam before he ships out for the Big House…in 3, in 2, in 1….
Worst President ever.
(Biden is not a President. )
Bush Bastard, Woodrow Wilson, Lyndon Johnson.
Am I right?
Nailed it!!
I’m calling bullshit on the healthy life expectancy claims about China. One only need pull up an on line scrollable global map of AQI (air quality index) to see that the lung health of urban China has to be worse than that of a West Virginia coal miner back in the day who smoked a lot of Marlboros.
Yeah, they toss that “freeholder” bullshit around in New Jersey. All the way down to the line in front of the property tax collection office.
Improved life expectancies due to advances in medicine are not linear. We are well into a stage of rapidly diminishing rates of return with regards to medicine and medical procedures.
Follow the money that pays for this ridiculous map. Reverse the legend and you will be closer to truth.
Great counsel.
Do you have any idea of real estate prices?
Try not paying your never ending, ever increasing property taxes and get back to us.
“Name the Jew or it ain’t true.” Pravda! And then?
Dig out the vermin, namely the indifferences, the lack of distinction between
a) religiousness versus religion,
b) right law versus wrong law (Natural Law versus Jewed up Roman Law);
The world at large has forgotten the right principals of the right law and is thanks to Roman Law caught between Ochlocrazy and Kakocrazy.
Yes, Sir.
But before that you have get to the roots of it all and that is
a) religion versus religiousness,
b) Jewed up Roman Law versus Natural Law;
Rates of increase in life expectancy have not been uniform across the planet so diminishing rates of return in medicine can’t be the sole explanation here. The gap between the U.S. and a number of other countries has been increasing. In 1960 the U.S. was in the top ten countries in the world in average life expectancy. Now it is no longer even in the top twenty-five. This is not due to a lack of spending on health care here in the U.S. The U.S. went from spending 6% of GDP on health care in 1960 to 16% now.
There have been past eras where mankind went centuries without any increase at all in life expectancy and some periods, like the decline of the Roman Empire, where it decreased. In the case of that empire, corrupt parasitic elites had largely taken over the government. There are parallels to present day America. The United States has been increasingly poorly governed in recent years, so much that you now see actual declines in life expectancy due to the worsening economic situation for the majority of Americans. They have attempted to escape their increasingly dismal lives with increased numbers of suicides plus increased levels of drug and alcohol abuse.
Good article , thanks .
Excellent comment until you mention:
A high percentage of East European properties are post-War, high-rise, reinforced concrete flats. They literally are brutalist slurry. Places like Moscow have several thousand of them dotted all over the city.
There is a serious problem with this method of construction. These buildings have a life expectancy of 50 to 100 years. However, given the low construction standards of the time and later, 50 to 60 years is more realistic. Many don’t even last that long.
https://theconversation.com/the-problem-with-reinforced-concrete-56078
In Britain, Right-to-Buy legislation enabled many tenants to buy Council (State ) housing. Nearly all the older, more durable properties were purchased thereby. Getting rid of the newer, high rise concrete blocks was much more difficult. Purchase prices were low – they reflected the life expectancy of the building ( let’s say, 20-30 years ), not construction costs. Even so, few bought.
A high percentage ( > 50% ) of these high-rises have since been knocked down, many of them less than the 50 years old. One case I know, the building was less than 30 years old. They were not only substandard in construction, but many had serious heating and damp problems, too. Their replacements were in costlier, more durable construction types.
So, Eastern Europe has a lot of homeowners in seriously substandard properties like the above, which would have been demolished in the West decades ago. Later this century – sooner rather than later – these will have to be replaced. If they are replaced with more durable construction types – brick. steel framed buildings etc – this will be costly. Only the affluent will be able to purchase such properties. Many will be let to tenants, instead. If, however, they are replaced with more of the same, then the cost of construction will be factored into the purchase price or rent.
Regardless of any other factors, this means that the percentage of home owners in the population of these countries will diminish rapidly over this century, likely to levels now seen in Western Europe.
Brutalist slurry does not have a solid market value, as these people will find out.
Being a freeholder means you are not under the Bank$ters directly. As the Bank$ters also run the state, there remains an indirect aspect.
Yes, and there’s even a 2006 novel by Mikhail Yuriev entitledThe Third Empire: Russia as it Ought to Be, purportedly read by Putin, which outlines how such an empire is to be built. In it, Russia defeats the United States in a war. (See recent Atlantic article linked below.)
However, how many are aware that the United States has its own corresponding book (long memory holed) published in 1853, entitled The New Rome; or, the United States of the World? It claims that the it will be the United States which is to defeat Russia in a future war, thanks to it’s powerful air force. (See link below)
And, despite such books, what if in reality neither the US nor Russia prevail in such a war, but they instead largely destroy each other? As planned?
Is the result perhaps to be five hundred million survivors, as described in microcosm in the old 1961 Twilight Zone episode ‘Two’, with some nuances of course?
We shall find out, perhaps sooner than later…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy/629388/
https://archive.org/details/newrome00poes/page/n15/mode/2up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29
Mr. Slavsky is quite right to point out that corruption (or racketeering) — the control by business and wealth of government in their own interest and against the interest of the public at large and the “republic” (“commonwealth”) — has been a basic fact of American government since before 1900. That insulin costs ten times here what it does in Canada is one of literally millions of obvious examples that can be cited. This basic fact is kept out of public awareness and political discussion by the collaboration of media, publishing, education, and “private-sector think tanks” and foundations — all of which are totally controlled by this same business class of organized wealth that represents the one tenth of one percent –one in a thousand — who own 30% of America, including all key entities and the great share of property in land. “Feudal?” “Robber barons” you say? Why, you dirty commie!
“…media, publishing, education, and “private-sector think tanks” and foundations — all of which are totally controlled by this same business class of organized wealth…”
— If you list government among “media, publishing, education, and “private-sector think tanks” and foundations,” this would define fascism.
As an academic paper from 2011 has explained, the “U.S. Is an Oligarchy” https://act.represent.us/sign/us-oligarchy-evidence-explained
“America is now a Classic Oligarchy – Not a Republic! “https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/America-Oligarchy
You are very right, but market value is market value.
The “inherent value” is crap, and the “long term market value is suspect”, but for now the market decrees that the value is there.
Concerning replacement, in much of EE the replacement is smaller awkward “crude bourgeois” brick and concrete blocks…
…Whereas in many Russian big cities for some reason the “Putinka” new type of “capitalist brutalist” high-rises are all the rage.
Perhaps inspired by China’s current urbanization explosion through same.