So many different rented “specialists,” write and explain situations using complete nonsense pieces of information and lies they get from insidious and also rented politicians.
Both of them lack the ability to concentrate, look at history, and inform themselves from already written texts and books! It looks like that they do not want that! Programed to be zombies they continue with lies without understanding that at stake is the future of this planet!
Those can start the war by writing the lies they hear from politicians and then, those, same rented politicians believe what they hear or read in the news! Complete disaster. And all of those rents are paid not from real economy but from printing press.
That reflects the following statement: “If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.” Nobel Prize for Literature winner Ivo Andric.
We have in the places where the policy is decided, people who are beautifully described in the Nicolas Taleb essay “The Intellectual yet idiot.“ There he says: “… the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence hence fall into circularities — but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.”
With those people occupying offices of policy planning and media outlets and not giving the place to the common sensed colleagues, the world has come to the brink of war.
Have you noticed the silence of V.Putin?
Have you been informed about the new National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, approved on July 2, 2021, under the number 400?
Just to mention 3 out of 106 points.
- reduction in the use of the US dollar in the implementation of foreign economic activity.
76.(19) ensuring the transfer of knowledge and technology between the defense and civil sectors of the economy
Here I must say that in my eBook Quarantine Diaries and Beyond, you will find a hint connecting V.Putin speech about new weapon systems and transferring that technology for civilian use.
95. Countries that are losing their undisputed leadership are trying to dictate their own rules to other members of the international community, use the means of unfair competition, apply restrictive measures(sanctions) unilaterally, and openly interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Such actions lead to the loosening of the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, the weakening and destruction of existing institutions and regimes of international legal regulation, the aggravation of the military-political situation, the decrease in predictability and the weakening of trust in relations between states.
Russians use words like sustainable etc.. just to remind the world that they are on the same path as others…
Is it so difficult to read these 16 pages and find keywords important to the Russians?
Like “false information,” “destructive information,” emphasizing the accountability of multinational internet organizations that are above the law or have forbidden changing the law to make them accountable!
That is what president D.J.Trump tried to do but it looks like the hidden hand will not let him!
If someone reads this paper carefully, it will conclude that there are many wide open roads for cooperation between USA and Russia.
That brings us to the question from the title-SANE OR INSANE?
When someone had all and is now losing some, the best way to keep that some without losing all is to REFORM! But usually, that kind of thinking is hard to contemplate and as hard to manage! Vision and courage are needed. It is not about the age; it is about the character. The question is: Does any character WANT to leave something, except destruction, behind it?
If the answer is YES, there is the time! If the answer is NO, time is gone as we know it, even if it flows!
THE KEYWORD IS NOT REFORM, IT IS ADVANCE OF HUMANITY! IF THAT MEANS REPLACING ONE CORRUPTED SYSTEM OR THE CONSPIRACY PRACTITIONERS THAT ARE RUNNING IT , IT WILL HAPPEN!
So on what principles this change should be based?
Again Russians come for inspiration!
In his Davos 2021 speech, V.Putin, the Russian Federation president, shared many other thoughts.
I will mention some of them.
“Indeed, it is difficult to overlook the fundamental changes in the global economy, politics, social life and technology. The coronavirus pandemic, which Klaus just mentioned, which became a serious challenge for humankind, only spurred and accelerated the structural changes, the conditions for which had been created long ago. The pandemic has exacerbated the problems and imbalances that built up in the world before. There is every reason to believe that differences are likely to grow stronger. These trends may appear practically in all areas.
Needless to say, there are no direct parallels in history. However, some experts – and I respect their opinion – compare the current situation to the 1930s. One can agree or disagree, but certain analogies are still suggested by many parameters, including the comprehensive, systemic nature of the challenges and potential threats.
We are seeing a crisis of the previous models and instruments of economic development. Social stratification is growing stronger both globally and in individual countries. We have spoken about this before as well. But this, in turn, is causing today a sharp polarisation of public views, provoking the growth of populism, right- and left-wing radicalism and other extremes, and the exacerbation of domestic political processes including in the leading countries.
All this is inevitably affecting the nature of international relations and is not making them more stable or predictable. International institutions are becoming weaker, regional conflicts are emerging one after another, and the system of global security is deteriorating.
Klaus(1) has mentioned the conversation I had yesterday with the US President on extending the New START. This is, without a doubt, a step in the right direction. Nevertheless, the differences are leading to a downward spiral. As you are aware, the inability and unwillingness to find substantive solutions to problems like this in the 20th century led to the WWII catastrophe.
Of course, such a heated global conflict is impossible in principle, I hope. This is what I am pinning my hopes on, because this would be the end of humanity. However, as I have said, the situation could take an unexpected and uncontrollable turn – unless we do something to prevent this. There is a chance that we will face a formidable break-down in global development, which will be fraught with a war of all against all and attempts to deal with contradictions through the appointment of internal and external enemies and the destruction of not only traditional values such as the family, which we hold dear in Russia, but fundamental freedoms such as the right of choice and privacy.
I would like to point out the negative demographic consequences of the ongoing social crisis and the crisis of values, which could result in humanity losing entire civilisational and cultural continents.
We have a shared responsibility to prevent this scenario, which looks like a grim dystopia, and to ensure instead that our development takes a different trajectory – positive, harmonious and creative.”
(1)- Klaus Schwab
To continue with statements and analysis for those who still hold common sense to realize why the oligarchs are mad with V.Putin and Russia.
“Meanwhile, globalization led to a significant increase in the revenue of large multinational, primarily US and European, companies.
By the way, in terms of individual income, the developed economies in Europe show the same trend as the United States.
But then again, in terms of corporate profits, who got hold of the revenue? The answer is clear: one percent of the population.”
and
“It is clear that the world cannot continue creating an economy that will only benefit a million people, or even the golden billion. This is a destructive precept. This model is unbalanced by default. The recent developments, including migration crises, have reaffirmed this once again.”
Just to make things clear for those ambivalent to the thoughts coming from Russia and its president.
The Great Barrington Declaration is made by three well-known experts with clear human minds. Who follows?
People talking about alternative protocols you can find over the internet that saved so many people in India. “The Drug that Cracked Covid,” story of one of the New York writers… and it goes on and goes on.
Common denominator?
Simple. Fair world wealth distribution and guarantees for us the population to have a freedom of choice!
ENOUGH GREED!
Postulates about GREED should be made!
Limit of what is enough should be agreed!
All above that should go towards the JOINT EARTH DEVELOPMENT FUND FREE OF ROBBERS OF ANY KIND!
Otherwise, all should know that even that one percent is not safe!
1/2/2022
Darko Richard Lancelot
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