Very insightful , many thanks. Such a powerful stroke of positivity to see Russia pushing back on the UN pact. The multi decade plan of technocracy cannot succeed with Russia and her supporters pushing back.
'So why did it just reject the UN power grab, Pact for the Future, that gives the secretary-general authority to declare emergencies and tell nations how to respond?' - interesting question; and a pundit that may shed some light vis-a-vis said query is one Riley Waggaman; who through the skeptical eye of his interrogator, Mike Whitney ('globalresearch.ca') had the following to say:
'Russia has a “domestic passport” that basically functions as a national ID. You use your domestic passport to open up a bank account, and for when you have to interact with the local bureaucracy. It’s an important document that you need to do ordinary, everyday things.'
'The digital passport has been billed as an electronic copy of the domestic passport, accessible via smartphone (via the State Services portal, Gosuslugi). The government is still deciding in what situations/scenarios the digital passport will be accepted as a valid form of ID.'
'The fact that this ID will be linked to the State Services portal (Gosuslugi) is certainly cause for concern and it’s easy to imagine how digital passports could be used (and abused) by the Russian government—or any government, for that matter. All in the name of convenience.'
'Of course, the authorities promise that digital IDs will never be made mandatory. Well, I’m old enough to remember when the Russian government promised that Covid vaccination would be 100% voluntary.'
'Excluding the possibility of imposing a full-spectrum digital gulag, the digital ruble has no obvious benefits. I would say the same of all CBDCs, of course.'
'Some claim that the digital ruble is a very necessary, prudent, and brilliant way to bypass Western sanctions. This is untrue. The Bank of Russia has a fully functional Financial Messaging System (SPFS) that operates independently from SWIFT.'
'I’m puzzled as to why so many westerners who claim to understand the dangers of CBDCs think the digital ruble is somehow “different”. The Bank of Russia’s CBDC has been almost unanimously condemned by the country’s most prominent commentators in the alternative/conservative media space. Even mainstream outlets like Tsargrad have published scathing take-downs of the digital ruble.'
'If Russia’s enterprising health ministry—which works tirelessly to safeguard public health—decides that “Covid” is “spreading” at an unacceptable rate, various categories of citizens will have to choose between getting vaxxed or losing their jobs. This is of course still voluntary vaccination because Russians get to choose whether they want to be employed or inject themselves with an unproven genetic goo developed in cooperation with AstraZeneca.'
'The Gamaleya Center continues to “update” its Covid vaccine, and the Russian government continues to shill this dangerous and barely tested trash to children. Whether Covid vaccination will become as ubiquitous and “normal” as the annual flu shot (which is even shoved into the little arms of Russian children every year; I know because I had to sign a document forbidding the kindergarten nurse from injecting my 6-year-old son) is an open question.'
'Is Moscow fighting the western oligarchy in Ukraine? Gazprom has been pumping gas across Ukraine since Day 1 of the Special Military Operation (SMO). And that’s not the only natural resource that Russian “entrepreneurs” are desperately transiting through Ukrainian territory.'
'But to address the second part of your question: Anyone who follows Russian-language media knows that Moscow is in near-total lockstep with the West when it comes to soul-crushing technocracy and other forms “safe and convenient” societal progress. Actually, an objective observer would recognize that Russia is far ahead of the West in implementing “digitalization” shilled by Davos and other celebrated globalist organizations.'
'Putin has done nothing meaningful to slow this process down. Actually, by allowing glorious patriots like Herman Gref to spearhead AI, biometrics, QR-coded cattle-tagging, facial recognition systems, “sustainable development”, and other trendy tech-development in Russia, Putin is an unapologetic accomplice in all the unsavory madness pestering Russia and every other country.'
So, with these facts outlined by Waggaman, it appears that Russia - notwithstanding the aforementioned rejection of the UN power grab, i.e., Pact for the Future, - is on a trajectory that's not too dissimilar than most of the West when it comes to the NWO/Agenda 2030/Digital gulag!
Some in the Alt media say all the big countries are complicit in forming a one-world government, but that barely exposes its nature!
We know that Rockefeller, Clinton and Gates Foundations have infiltrated almost every bureaucracy - to the point where coordinated action is obvious. It is a way of shutting down a vibrant discussion of the enemy we face, and how we fight them.
'I’m puzzled as to why so many westerners who claim to understand the dangers of CBDCs think the digital ruble is somehow “different”.
This is Waggaman's straw man. People do not regard Russia's digital ruble as a "softer" version of CBDC... after all Russia's domestic passports (and residence permits) are the Soviet legacy that the West is so keen to ape.
With respect, the last sentence misses the point. Countries cannot avoid technology - bio-digital ID is here - it will be adopted (technology has no morality or logic, the point is how you use it).
The logic argues for internal security just as much as one-world compliance - nationalism as much as internationalism - what is the objective?
State security, population management, internal deportations - these are the reasons the Bolsheviks (and their financiers) introduced accompanying documentation and tracking.
The same methods are used today - look at the land grabs in Hawaii and Gaza. But many won't.
"First, we learn as much as possible about the enemy and their project. Confront it in real time, not by rehashing the founding of the Federal Reserve..."
Agreed. To really "know the enemy" requires basic knowledge of the key players and their networks. Those who lack such background can only make vague references to a nebulous "deep state", but never effectively oppose it.
The system is "liberal-fascism": rule by a corporatist oligarchy, behind a false front of liberal democracy. In the US, the central committee is the Council on Foreign Relations and its network of corporations, foundations, and NGOs which has controlled the US govt and media since WW2. See charts: swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
The founding of the Fed is instructive. Paul Warburg, the "architect of the Fed" on behalf of the financier oligarchs, was also a founding director of the CFR. Fed chair Eugene Meyer, who supervised the gold confiscation under FDR, was a CFR member. He then purchased the Washington Post which has been a CFR mouthpiece ever since.
How many are aware that Allen Dulles, who ran the famous CIA "Operation Mockingbird" to control the media, was a CFR director for 40 years? Nearly every CIA director from Dulles to Burns has been a CFR member. Likewise for the secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, including Blinken, Yellen and Austin.
Most of the recent Fed chairmen, including Jerome Powell, have also been CFR members. Powell was a partner at the Carlyle Group, whose billionaire founder David Rubenstein is the current CFR chairman and a trustee at the Davos WEF.
"So we may ask the purpose of the current war with Russia. As curious people we are not satisfied with history beginning in February 2022, or even the coup of 2014."
bellow is one of the most interesting history article one can read about the long time war with Russia:
Thanks so much for this articulate series. This is in fact the only blog I have ever paid for. (That may be a poorer reflection on me than on those other blogs.) I greatly appreciate your response to the call for solutions and this post attempts to follow that line.
Your reference to Schumacher reminded me of some work I did about ten years ago, which included interviewing a mid-level staffer at The Schumacher Center in Great Barrington, MA. I was fascinated by their Berkshare program. It is (still) legal in the US to print and circulate any form of paper money that other parties will voluntarily accept. Therefore, should CBDC be abruptly enforced, the Berkshare represents a potent option for American communities .
Acquiring Berkshares entails going to one of several local participating banks and trading USD (IIRC) at $1.05 per Berk. The Berks are redeemable at 95 cents each, so it begins and ends with bank profit like everything else. But once you have Berkshares in hand they can be used for trade anywhere that accepts them. In terms of the law, the bank is not necessary at all, but at this juncture the banks are providing legitimacy and a comforting exit strategy for the wary. The main point is: Circulate enough of these and they will come back to you.
I get that local paper currency would not (at first) provide access to a vast array of goods and services. But even as a survival tactic to "push through" it could be decisive, and the "opting out" of CBDC would provide an example to other communities. Yes, the authorities would be able to jackboot a few, but not a rolling wave.
The two people I met with at the Center struck me as dreamy-eyed, tweedy idealists -- very nice folks who do not necessarily have to work for a living. I was not clear whether they understood the planned totalitarian future nor the wider implications of their work. I did not directly raise the subject, just poked around the edges for signs of subversion with questions about the IRS, etc., all met with blank incomprehension. My gut tells me that the Schumacher leadership would have been "all in" with COVID lockdowns and quadruple jabs. That's not a fair assumption, I know, but I've met enough people like them to have a solid basis for it. That said, we're talking about the locus of the "Great Barrington Declaration," so perhaps there's more to the majority of those particular liberal academics than meets the eye. If anyone has info about this group please post it.
So a community that resolves to "opt out" of CBDC and print its own currency -- and that has enough resources within it to stave off starvation -- has an exit strategy. The first groups to do this will have to be prepared for self-sacrifice. But state-backed violence has a way of souring relations with surviving citizens, and that has frequently led to wider change for the better.
A present and formidable problem for the fonctionnaires is the Amish. This group is well worth studying: No autism, no myocarditis, no turbo cancer...and no jabs. And no need for the wider economy. Many of us on this board remember a time before the iPhone, when the world got along just fine. Those of us with souls could learn a thing or two from these plain people.
Very insightful , many thanks. Such a powerful stroke of positivity to see Russia pushing back on the UN pact. The multi decade plan of technocracy cannot succeed with Russia and her supporters pushing back.
Yes and for what it's worth, U.S. congress has made it clear they will also not play ball with the bloated oligarch's.
'So why did it just reject the UN power grab, Pact for the Future, that gives the secretary-general authority to declare emergencies and tell nations how to respond?' - interesting question; and a pundit that may shed some light vis-a-vis said query is one Riley Waggaman; who through the skeptical eye of his interrogator, Mike Whitney ('globalresearch.ca') had the following to say:
'Russia has a “domestic passport” that basically functions as a national ID. You use your domestic passport to open up a bank account, and for when you have to interact with the local bureaucracy. It’s an important document that you need to do ordinary, everyday things.'
'The digital passport has been billed as an electronic copy of the domestic passport, accessible via smartphone (via the State Services portal, Gosuslugi). The government is still deciding in what situations/scenarios the digital passport will be accepted as a valid form of ID.'
'The fact that this ID will be linked to the State Services portal (Gosuslugi) is certainly cause for concern and it’s easy to imagine how digital passports could be used (and abused) by the Russian government—or any government, for that matter. All in the name of convenience.'
'Of course, the authorities promise that digital IDs will never be made mandatory. Well, I’m old enough to remember when the Russian government promised that Covid vaccination would be 100% voluntary.'
'Excluding the possibility of imposing a full-spectrum digital gulag, the digital ruble has no obvious benefits. I would say the same of all CBDCs, of course.'
'Some claim that the digital ruble is a very necessary, prudent, and brilliant way to bypass Western sanctions. This is untrue. The Bank of Russia has a fully functional Financial Messaging System (SPFS) that operates independently from SWIFT.'
'I’m puzzled as to why so many westerners who claim to understand the dangers of CBDCs think the digital ruble is somehow “different”. The Bank of Russia’s CBDC has been almost unanimously condemned by the country’s most prominent commentators in the alternative/conservative media space. Even mainstream outlets like Tsargrad have published scathing take-downs of the digital ruble.'
'If Russia’s enterprising health ministry—which works tirelessly to safeguard public health—decides that “Covid” is “spreading” at an unacceptable rate, various categories of citizens will have to choose between getting vaxxed or losing their jobs. This is of course still voluntary vaccination because Russians get to choose whether they want to be employed or inject themselves with an unproven genetic goo developed in cooperation with AstraZeneca.'
'The Gamaleya Center continues to “update” its Covid vaccine, and the Russian government continues to shill this dangerous and barely tested trash to children. Whether Covid vaccination will become as ubiquitous and “normal” as the annual flu shot (which is even shoved into the little arms of Russian children every year; I know because I had to sign a document forbidding the kindergarten nurse from injecting my 6-year-old son) is an open question.'
'Is Moscow fighting the western oligarchy in Ukraine? Gazprom has been pumping gas across Ukraine since Day 1 of the Special Military Operation (SMO). And that’s not the only natural resource that Russian “entrepreneurs” are desperately transiting through Ukrainian territory.'
'But to address the second part of your question: Anyone who follows Russian-language media knows that Moscow is in near-total lockstep with the West when it comes to soul-crushing technocracy and other forms “safe and convenient” societal progress. Actually, an objective observer would recognize that Russia is far ahead of the West in implementing “digitalization” shilled by Davos and other celebrated globalist organizations.'
'Putin has done nothing meaningful to slow this process down. Actually, by allowing glorious patriots like Herman Gref to spearhead AI, biometrics, QR-coded cattle-tagging, facial recognition systems, “sustainable development”, and other trendy tech-development in Russia, Putin is an unapologetic accomplice in all the unsavory madness pestering Russia and every other country.'
So, with these facts outlined by Waggaman, it appears that Russia - notwithstanding the aforementioned rejection of the UN power grab, i.e., Pact for the Future, - is on a trajectory that's not too dissimilar than most of the West when it comes to the NWO/Agenda 2030/Digital gulag!
Some in the Alt media say all the big countries are complicit in forming a one-world government, but that barely exposes its nature!
We know that Rockefeller, Clinton and Gates Foundations have infiltrated almost every bureaucracy - to the point where coordinated action is obvious. It is a way of shutting down a vibrant discussion of the enemy we face, and how we fight them.
'I’m puzzled as to why so many westerners who claim to understand the dangers of CBDCs think the digital ruble is somehow “different”.
This is Waggaman's straw man. People do not regard Russia's digital ruble as a "softer" version of CBDC... after all Russia's domestic passports (and residence permits) are the Soviet legacy that the West is so keen to ape.
With respect, the last sentence misses the point. Countries cannot avoid technology - bio-digital ID is here - it will be adopted (technology has no morality or logic, the point is how you use it).
The logic argues for internal security just as much as one-world compliance - nationalism as much as internationalism - what is the objective?
State security, population management, internal deportations - these are the reasons the Bolsheviks (and their financiers) introduced accompanying documentation and tracking.
The same methods are used today - look at the land grabs in Hawaii and Gaza. But many won't.
See part three - the biggest deception of all!
"First, we learn as much as possible about the enemy and their project. Confront it in real time, not by rehashing the founding of the Federal Reserve..."
Agreed. To really "know the enemy" requires basic knowledge of the key players and their networks. Those who lack such background can only make vague references to a nebulous "deep state", but never effectively oppose it.
The system is "liberal-fascism": rule by a corporatist oligarchy, behind a false front of liberal democracy. In the US, the central committee is the Council on Foreign Relations and its network of corporations, foundations, and NGOs which has controlled the US govt and media since WW2. See charts: swprs.org/the-american-empire-and-its-media/
The founding of the Fed is instructive. Paul Warburg, the "architect of the Fed" on behalf of the financier oligarchs, was also a founding director of the CFR. Fed chair Eugene Meyer, who supervised the gold confiscation under FDR, was a CFR member. He then purchased the Washington Post which has been a CFR mouthpiece ever since.
How many are aware that Allen Dulles, who ran the famous CIA "Operation Mockingbird" to control the media, was a CFR director for 40 years? Nearly every CIA director from Dulles to Burns has been a CFR member. Likewise for the secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, including Blinken, Yellen and Austin.
Most of the recent Fed chairmen, including Jerome Powell, have also been CFR members. Powell was a partner at the Carlyle Group, whose billionaire founder David Rubenstein is the current CFR chairman and a trustee at the Davos WEF.
Other WEF trustees include billionaires Larry Fink (BlackRock) and Marc Benioff (Salesforce). Fink is a former CFR director, and Benioff who owns Time magazine is a CFR member. See lists: cfr.org/historical-roster-directors-and-officers weforum.org/about/leadership-and-governance/
"So we may ask the purpose of the current war with Russia. As curious people we are not satisfied with history beginning in February 2022, or even the coup of 2014."
bellow is one of the most interesting history article one can read about the long time war with Russia:
https://www.invisiblehistory.com/the-books/mystical-imperialism/
Have a good read.
Thanks so much for this articulate series. This is in fact the only blog I have ever paid for. (That may be a poorer reflection on me than on those other blogs.) I greatly appreciate your response to the call for solutions and this post attempts to follow that line.
Your reference to Schumacher reminded me of some work I did about ten years ago, which included interviewing a mid-level staffer at The Schumacher Center in Great Barrington, MA. I was fascinated by their Berkshare program. It is (still) legal in the US to print and circulate any form of paper money that other parties will voluntarily accept. Therefore, should CBDC be abruptly enforced, the Berkshare represents a potent option for American communities .
Acquiring Berkshares entails going to one of several local participating banks and trading USD (IIRC) at $1.05 per Berk. The Berks are redeemable at 95 cents each, so it begins and ends with bank profit like everything else. But once you have Berkshares in hand they can be used for trade anywhere that accepts them. In terms of the law, the bank is not necessary at all, but at this juncture the banks are providing legitimacy and a comforting exit strategy for the wary. The main point is: Circulate enough of these and they will come back to you.
I get that local paper currency would not (at first) provide access to a vast array of goods and services. But even as a survival tactic to "push through" it could be decisive, and the "opting out" of CBDC would provide an example to other communities. Yes, the authorities would be able to jackboot a few, but not a rolling wave.
The two people I met with at the Center struck me as dreamy-eyed, tweedy idealists -- very nice folks who do not necessarily have to work for a living. I was not clear whether they understood the planned totalitarian future nor the wider implications of their work. I did not directly raise the subject, just poked around the edges for signs of subversion with questions about the IRS, etc., all met with blank incomprehension. My gut tells me that the Schumacher leadership would have been "all in" with COVID lockdowns and quadruple jabs. That's not a fair assumption, I know, but I've met enough people like them to have a solid basis for it. That said, we're talking about the locus of the "Great Barrington Declaration," so perhaps there's more to the majority of those particular liberal academics than meets the eye. If anyone has info about this group please post it.
So a community that resolves to "opt out" of CBDC and print its own currency -- and that has enough resources within it to stave off starvation -- has an exit strategy. The first groups to do this will have to be prepared for self-sacrifice. But state-backed violence has a way of souring relations with surviving citizens, and that has frequently led to wider change for the better.
A present and formidable problem for the fonctionnaires is the Amish. This group is well worth studying: No autism, no myocarditis, no turbo cancer...and no jabs. And no need for the wider economy. Many of us on this board remember a time before the iPhone, when the world got along just fine. Those of us with souls could learn a thing or two from these plain people.