If you read the Western Media, you know that Putin is an absolute failure, holding power as a ruthless dictator by suppressing dissent and sending dissidents to the Gulag where they are martyred like St.
Occasional typos are nothing; content of substance is far more important; keep up the outstanding work. If you ever get your subscription services going, I'll subscribe. Until then, occasional coffees will have to suffice. Happy New Year.
My typos are embarrassing. I keep on asking Substack to fix the subscription thing. Nothing happens. ???? I rather like the coffee thing since I get personal, one on one contact with a lot of people, most of them smarter than me! I am not trying to be "humble" -- it's just a fact. My "gift" is just a different way of seeing, I think.
Yes, I have mentioned that in other posts, I think -- the population crash, land grabs, etc. That, however, sets the stage for full Russification of Ukraine, except maybe for Galicia. Putin was clearly hesitant to do that-- hence the Minsk agreements which envisioned an independent federal state on the lines of the Russian federation. And also the Istanbul Agreement -- which was excessively moderate-- given that Kiev at that point was under siege. Putin is a gradualist and pragmatist. That's an advantage - and also a flaw to the extent that rationality and compromise can be seen as weakness.
Average age AT DEATH, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024?
Google refuses to produce an answer, no matter how I structure the query. I would be interested to know if anyone else can dig out a hard, official number as given by a US government source for years 2020 through 2024.
Google will happily tell me all about LIFE EXPECTANCY (by year of birth), it tells me it's going up! Google WILL NOT just flat out find me the observed & correlated average age AT DEATH for all causes of mortality/both sexes in USA as compiled by CDC for any year past 2019. Fascinating...
Wait until A I finishes digesting statistical science. I once tried to find out how many Americans and various Westerners are clinically insane. Quite an egg just that was!
When I was in college, i looked at US army studies of mental fitness-- then the largest studies ever done. Slightly more than 50% of draftees were categorized as "neurotic". The military didn't care, of course.
For a truly depressing read, see "Macnamara's morons"/Project 100,000, link to related book sample below.
Drafting & sending to Vietnam those previously rejected by the military for low IQ/mental defects. Because they seemed the least politically risky cadre to draft, this was done from 1966 to 1970.
And people hate on Putin's Russia for recruiting Russian prisoners & sending convict groups to fight in Ukraine under Wagner?
Google AI is not an honest librarian, let alone a competent one.
And all "the usual suspects" need to do to censor any type of information from most casual searches these days is have Google ignore it or put it behind many pages of junk links, ads and paid for BS. Not like the old days, where they had to go out and physically buy up every copy of a book and destroy them...
In elementary school, I was categorized as ..."slow". AKA, mentally disabled in today's parlance. Couldn't spell. Couldn't do simple arithmetic. Couldn't tell left from right. Couldn't write legibly. Day dreamed a lot in class. Then I learned to read and write. Suddenly became "gifted". Still considered a "problem". I have two grand-nieces who are just like I was at their age. Fortunately , they are looked after by care centers run by the Indigenous community in rural BC. The Mothers of the Tribe understand. They are very happy kids. Although I fear for them once they enter "the System".
I'm sorry you were treated that way😞 I'm appalled by the way many people treat children. Not like the unique little human beings with the same needs as grown up people, that they are. But like property they can control. I'm very greatful they have people who love and protect them💕 I totally understand😕
Please note Putin's efforts to revitalize his nation's return to spiritual growth and improvement by removing the Soviet government layer between the State and the Russian Orthodox Church and recognizing that the new State and Church were intricately tied to create a moral society.
No other national leader is so grounded in spiritual morality and speaks like this:
..."Naturally, I would like to say a few words about the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the period of social and economic transformation that this country went through at the end of the 20th century.
"This period is described as a time of spiritual revival and enormous growth of the Church’s authority in society. When many state and public institutions were weakened and life literally turned upside down, it was the Church that supported people, gave them hope and moral guidance and urged them toward harmony and unity.
"Much credit goes to the Russian Orthodox Church and other Russian religious organisations for keeping Russia together and preventing conflicts from growing into a new civil schism.
"We must remember the lessons of the past. It is important to restore unity in our history, heal the wounds and reject the fissures and intolerance that we inherited from past eras so that society can advance in a confident and harmonious way.
..."All of us, including, naturally, the Church and religious figures, are confronted with the most complicated task – to ensure that all this serves only to benefit goodness, the well-being of each individual and all of humanity.
"What will happen if civilisation wastes its spiritual and humanistic roots, what risks will this entail for the future of humankind?
Today, we see how traditional values are already being eroded in many countries, causing the degradation of the institution of the family, mutual alienation in society and the depersonalisation of individuals.
"Indifference and apathy, and the loss of moral reference points encourage radicalism, xenophobia and religiously-motivated conflicts. Self-destructive egoism turns into aggressive nationalism.
The spiritual void is filled by extremists and ideologists of terrorism, enemies of progress and all civilisation."
Maybe; Trump made his money in real estate, a national economy, not through the financialization/monetarization of stocks, businesses, and currencies. He is not a globalist such as SOROS, Buffet, Blackrock Fund, etc. He was preaching against open borders and unrestricted trade 30 years ago. We can hope!
The US really has only 2 industries left -- leaving out media and the financial casino industries --according to Hudson & Wolff -- manufacturing weapons & real estate and property development, They are both legalized crime syndicates.
Trump made most of his money in a series of semi legal money laundering operations DISGUISED as real estate/property development. This is why his investors lost money on average when flipping their units or shares, yet they (and other new customers) came back to do it again and again. Their losses (and Trump's personal gains) were the FEES required to bring their illegitimate black, grey, conflict looted, intelligence operation/drug cartel or otherwise immoral (& often bloody) money into the "legitimate" financial system. Trump was always a BAG MAN and laundry service for wealthy but "irregular" individuals and organizations. When his "investors" had hundreds of millions or several billion dollars in money that couldn't be taken down to the merchant banks & brokerage houses, The Goldman Sachs, BlackRock & etc. really wanted to accept it but they needed "cut outs" and plausible deniability. Trump gave this to them-
The most important element of Putin era is the transformation of a primitively liberal capitalist society into a social capitalist one where the massive people of all types of labour would not be dominated by the private capital. This is just the opposite of the Western history of society.
Thank you Julian... As good as it its, including some typo's... 😉
I'd like to expand om some of my reactions on the Geopolitics of it all, where i introduced " THE MONSTER ".
In this Video (less than 1 hour) with Nima (Dialogue Works), Alex Krainer made a very good painting of (Part of) The Monster.
It is important, because it makes clear that what is called "The US Deep-State" is just a controlled puppet of the real Monster. But he doesn't go deep enough. I explained that it is layered and uses its Attack Dogs (Ukraine, Israel, US-Army, EU-Armies, ISIS, etc. on the surface.
But this video i Highly Recommend, because of some MAJOR points Alex makes.
Which raises the question: Are those who are called "Alex" Major Analysts, or do those names stimulate a growth towards greatness ?
Notice that Sander comes from Iskander or Alexander, as does Cassandra (Iskandra). In Russian even more, like Sasha...
For 2nd day in a row my attempt to become a paying subscriber failed despite trying all my credit cards. Response to failure said if I was trying to purchase something I needed to contact the seller - this is the only forum I know of to do so.
Substack does not permit paid subscribers-- due to a technical problem with Stripe. They blame Stripe. Stripe blames them. But Stripe works perfectly for the buymeacoffee website! Substack keeps on promising help and does nothing. I got tired of spending hours trying to get them to do something. https://buymeacoffee.com/julicow Click on this. There are advantages. Substack has limitations for longer articles. Using buymeacoffee I make available very long critical articles (often 5000 words each!) in docx, pdf, and epub formats for easy reading. And I try to respond personally to every supporter. I have THREE long articles underway now. Your gain, Substack's loss.
I had to go outside the Substack app and put the author of the Substack in my browser and then it allowed me to pay for the subscription or buy coffee. Not sure if that’s the problem you’re experiencing
My experience was similarly frustrating ~ I gave up trying to pay for a subscription though I occasionally manage to buy a coffee using a different name / email <-> NOT so much a moan as an fyi.
This is all about keeping the Ukraine money-pump going, so when Trump takes over and pulls the plug, they can blame him for the collapse that was inevitable long ago. Who cares what the "MSM" has to say? (I'm surprised you don't have reading/retention difficulties--or do you?)
Occasional typos are nothing; content of substance is far more important; keep up the outstanding work. If you ever get your subscription services going, I'll subscribe. Until then, occasional coffees will have to suffice. Happy New Year.
My typos are embarrassing. I keep on asking Substack to fix the subscription thing. Nothing happens. ???? I rather like the coffee thing since I get personal, one on one contact with a lot of people, most of them smarter than me! I am not trying to be "humble" -- it's just a fact. My "gift" is just a different way of seeing, I think.
You and Andrei are my current favorites with your euphemisms, ie, journalistic buggery, cluster coitus, etc. ROFLMAO!!
Over at MoA a lot of people regard Andrei as over-the-top. Personally, I find his style - his honesty -- refreshing.
Russian LIfe Expectancy 2004 - 65.39 years.
2024 - 73.12 years. Thank you, V V Putin.
And that is after NATO made it dip somewhat, starting in 2022, with the probably near 100K casualties and deaths.
Compare that to clearly more than 1,000K (1 Million) casualties and deaths for the NATO winged creature army. The Ukraine is demographically finished.
The population crash, land clearance in the Ukraine has gone according to NATO and WEF etc plan.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/RUS/russia/life-expectancy20
Yes, I have mentioned that in other posts, I think -- the population crash, land grabs, etc. That, however, sets the stage for full Russification of Ukraine, except maybe for Galicia. Putin was clearly hesitant to do that-- hence the Minsk agreements which envisioned an independent federal state on the lines of the Russian federation. And also the Istanbul Agreement -- which was excessively moderate-- given that Kiev at that point was under siege. Putin is a gradualist and pragmatist. That's an advantage - and also a flaw to the extent that rationality and compromise can be seen as weakness.
Meanwhile, under various USA administrations?
Average age at death, 2004: 72.2 years
Average age AT DEATH, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024?
Google refuses to produce an answer, no matter how I structure the query. I would be interested to know if anyone else can dig out a hard, official number as given by a US government source for years 2020 through 2024.
Google will happily tell me all about LIFE EXPECTANCY (by year of birth), it tells me it's going up! Google WILL NOT just flat out find me the observed & correlated average age AT DEATH for all causes of mortality/both sexes in USA as compiled by CDC for any year past 2019. Fascinating...
Interesting point.
Wait until A I finishes digesting statistical science. I once tried to find out how many Americans and various Westerners are clinically insane. Quite an egg just that was!
When I was in college, i looked at US army studies of mental fitness-- then the largest studies ever done. Slightly more than 50% of draftees were categorized as "neurotic". The military didn't care, of course.
@Julian Macfarlane
For a truly depressing read, see "Macnamara's morons"/Project 100,000, link to related book sample below.
Drafting & sending to Vietnam those previously rejected by the military for low IQ/mental defects. Because they seemed the least politically risky cadre to draft, this was done from 1966 to 1970.
And people hate on Putin's Russia for recruiting Russian prisoners & sending convict groups to fight in Ukraine under Wagner?
https://read.amazon.com/sample/B0108H60MG?f=2&l=en_US&r=da54a9ad&rid=268QJPRX9Z83GKM0MMPF&sid=146-1165571-1161623&cid=A39NJMOJTX1THZ&ref_=litb_m
Google AI is not an honest librarian, let alone a competent one.
And all "the usual suspects" need to do to censor any type of information from most casual searches these days is have Google ignore it or put it behind many pages of junk links, ads and paid for BS. Not like the old days, where they had to go out and physically buy up every copy of a book and destroy them...
I don't mind the typos one bit💕 I appreciate your articles immensely! Cuddles and love to Ichi and Chappy🥰
In elementary school, I was categorized as ..."slow". AKA, mentally disabled in today's parlance. Couldn't spell. Couldn't do simple arithmetic. Couldn't tell left from right. Couldn't write legibly. Day dreamed a lot in class. Then I learned to read and write. Suddenly became "gifted". Still considered a "problem". I have two grand-nieces who are just like I was at their age. Fortunately , they are looked after by care centers run by the Indigenous community in rural BC. The Mothers of the Tribe understand. They are very happy kids. Although I fear for them once they enter "the System".
I'm sorry you were treated that way😞 I'm appalled by the way many people treat children. Not like the unique little human beings with the same needs as grown up people, that they are. But like property they can control. I'm very greatful they have people who love and protect them💕 I totally understand😕
Please note Putin's efforts to revitalize his nation's return to spiritual growth and improvement by removing the Soviet government layer between the State and the Russian Orthodox Church and recognizing that the new State and Church were intricately tied to create a moral society.
No other national leader is so grounded in spiritual morality and speaks like this:
..."Naturally, I would like to say a few words about the mission of the Russian Orthodox Church in the period of social and economic transformation that this country went through at the end of the 20th century.
"This period is described as a time of spiritual revival and enormous growth of the Church’s authority in society. When many state and public institutions were weakened and life literally turned upside down, it was the Church that supported people, gave them hope and moral guidance and urged them toward harmony and unity.
"Much credit goes to the Russian Orthodox Church and other Russian religious organisations for keeping Russia together and preventing conflicts from growing into a new civil schism.
"We must remember the lessons of the past. It is important to restore unity in our history, heal the wounds and reject the fissures and intolerance that we inherited from past eras so that society can advance in a confident and harmonious way.
..."All of us, including, naturally, the Church and religious figures, are confronted with the most complicated task – to ensure that all this serves only to benefit goodness, the well-being of each individual and all of humanity.
"What will happen if civilisation wastes its spiritual and humanistic roots, what risks will this entail for the future of humankind?
Today, we see how traditional values are already being eroded in many countries, causing the degradation of the institution of the family, mutual alienation in society and the depersonalisation of individuals.
"Indifference and apathy, and the loss of moral reference points encourage radicalism, xenophobia and religiously-motivated conflicts. Self-destructive egoism turns into aggressive nationalism.
The spiritual void is filled by extremists and ideologists of terrorism, enemies of progress and all civilisation."
Zelensky facing cancellation of his show
An unfunny comedian and an unfunny president.
Most important for Putin, Russia and humanity is that he united and inspired the Russian people against the Western hegemons' rules based order.
Can Donald Trump act like a traitor to his billionaire class, like F.D.R., and do likewise for America?
Can Americans be mobilized to save their nation from the fangs of the Wall Street vampires who are preparing to have them for lunch?
Important questions, all.
Maybe; Trump made his money in real estate, a national economy, not through the financialization/monetarization of stocks, businesses, and currencies. He is not a globalist such as SOROS, Buffet, Blackrock Fund, etc. He was preaching against open borders and unrestricted trade 30 years ago. We can hope!
The US really has only 2 industries left -- leaving out media and the financial casino industries --according to Hudson & Wolff -- manufacturing weapons & real estate and property development, They are both legalized crime syndicates.
@James
Trump made most of his money in a series of semi legal money laundering operations DISGUISED as real estate/property development. This is why his investors lost money on average when flipping their units or shares, yet they (and other new customers) came back to do it again and again. Their losses (and Trump's personal gains) were the FEES required to bring their illegitimate black, grey, conflict looted, intelligence operation/drug cartel or otherwise immoral (& often bloody) money into the "legitimate" financial system. Trump was always a BAG MAN and laundry service for wealthy but "irregular" individuals and organizations. When his "investors" had hundreds of millions or several billion dollars in money that couldn't be taken down to the merchant banks & brokerage houses, The Goldman Sachs, BlackRock & etc. really wanted to accept it but they needed "cut outs" and plausible deniability. Trump gave this to them-
The most important element of Putin era is the transformation of a primitively liberal capitalist society into a social capitalist one where the massive people of all types of labour would not be dominated by the private capital. This is just the opposite of the Western history of society.
Putin is doing what Adam Smith advocated.
Thank you Julian... As good as it its, including some typo's... 😉
I'd like to expand om some of my reactions on the Geopolitics of it all, where i introduced " THE MONSTER ".
In this Video (less than 1 hour) with Nima (Dialogue Works), Alex Krainer made a very good painting of (Part of) The Monster.
It is important, because it makes clear that what is called "The US Deep-State" is just a controlled puppet of the real Monster. But he doesn't go deep enough. I explained that it is layered and uses its Attack Dogs (Ukraine, Israel, US-Army, EU-Armies, ISIS, etc. on the surface.
But this video i Highly Recommend, because of some MAJOR points Alex makes.
Which raises the question: Are those who are called "Alex" Major Analysts, or do those names stimulate a growth towards greatness ?
Notice that Sander comes from Iskander or Alexander, as does Cassandra (Iskandra). In Russian even more, like Sasha...
The Movie->https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CoHzN-VOPQ
Sander
Thank you for this. Fascinating. As always, I am in your debt.
Fucking Putin. Ain't the Soviet Union.
Good analysis by Dan.
Scroll down.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/oh-dont-fook-yourself-the-empire?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
Long but very interesting.
I believe that you are acting in good faith. However, wartime economies typically hurt the civilian economy. It is the guns vs. butter dilemma and the inflationary problems with war. See: https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_Russia%27s_decline_and_some_Roman_Empire_decline_parallels#Economic_problems:_Romand_Empire_and_Russia and https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_Low_labor_productivity_is_one_of_the_most_acute_and_important_problems_facing_Russia and https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_Russia%27s_economy_is_that_of_a_shrinking,_aging,_and_poorly_qualified_population
Also, the war in Ukraine has made Russia's demographic crisis worse: https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_Russia_is_dying_out._The_war_in_Ukraine_is_making_Russia%27s_demographic_crisis_even_worse
If you want to know the scrope of how the war in Ukraine hurt Russia, then go to: https://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_Why_I_am_not_bullish_on_Russia%27s_future and https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/
Typically furt the civilian economy. Key word is typically. Thank you for the links - I can use those in my upcoming Special Articls.
Don't worry about typos - I automatically compensate for them - content is the important thing.
An alternative view point here https://www.youtube.com/live/NfxD_4DhxFo?si=L2yO8H-_aT_DP5Fp
Roberts is senile and bitter - nobody takes him seriously
PCR is a moron.
Not really a moron. Just a 20th Century man in a 21st Century world.
For 2nd day in a row my attempt to become a paying subscriber failed despite trying all my credit cards. Response to failure said if I was trying to purchase something I needed to contact the seller - this is the only forum I know of to do so.
Substack does not permit paid subscribers-- due to a technical problem with Stripe. They blame Stripe. Stripe blames them. But Stripe works perfectly for the buymeacoffee website! Substack keeps on promising help and does nothing. I got tired of spending hours trying to get them to do something. https://buymeacoffee.com/julicow Click on this. There are advantages. Substack has limitations for longer articles. Using buymeacoffee I make available very long critical articles (often 5000 words each!) in docx, pdf, and epub formats for easy reading. And I try to respond personally to every supporter. I have THREE long articles underway now. Your gain, Substack's loss.
I had to go outside the Substack app and put the author of the Substack in my browser and then it allowed me to pay for the subscription or buy coffee. Not sure if that’s the problem you’re experiencing
Thank you for the support!
My experience was similarly frustrating ~ I gave up trying to pay for a subscription though I occasionally manage to buy a coffee using a different name / email <-> NOT so much a moan as an fyi.
Always "thank you"!
This is all about keeping the Ukraine money-pump going, so when Trump takes over and pulls the plug, they can blame him for the collapse that was inevitable long ago. Who cares what the "MSM" has to say? (I'm surprised you don't have reading/retention difficulties--or do you?)
My reading retention is fine. What was I sayin' just now....Oh, I forget..... I agree-- it's all about $$$.