The new McCarthyism for the new Cold War that is already a hot proxy war in Europe.
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More Escalations In Online Censorship
Caitlin Johnstone
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More Escalations In Online Censorship
Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/15/more-escalations-in-online-censorship/
See also
Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets
Ben Norton
Originally published: Multipolarista (April 13, 2022 )
https://mronline.org/2022/04/15/washington-post-calls-for-censoring-chinese-media-praises-purge-of-russian-outlets/
“Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0”
Originally published: Peoples Voice by Cindy Li (March 31, 2022 )
https://mronline.org/2022/04/15/chinese-exclusion-act-2-0/
NED finances key Ukrainian propaganda organ, the Kyiv Independent (NED = National Endowment for Democracy, started by the CIA and financed by the US)
“Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0”
Originally published: Peoples Voice by Cindy Li (March 31, 2022 )
https://mronline.org/2022/04/15/chinese-exclusion-act-2-0/
NED finances key Ukrainian propaganda organ, the Kyiv Independent (NED = National Endowment for Democracy, started by the CIA and financed by the US)
Originally published: CovertAction Magazine by Evan Reif (April 13, 2022 )
https://mronline.org/2022/04/14/ned-finances-key-ukrainian-propaganda-organ-the-kyiv-independent/
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Something for MMT'rs to ponder over
Sergey Glazyev is a man living right in the eye of our current geopolitical and geo-economic hurricane. One of the most influential economists in the world, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a former adviser to the Kremlin from 2012 to 2019, for the past three years he has helmed Moscow’s uber strategic portfolio as Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).
Glazyev’s recent intellectual production has been nothing short of transformative, epitomized by his essay Sanctions and Sovereignty and an extensive discussion of the new, emerging geo-economic paradigm in an interview to a Russian business magazine.
The architect of what happens next
https://thesaker.is/exclusive-russian-geo-economics-tzar-sergey-glazyev-introduces-the-new-global-financial-system/
Question: Elvira Nabiullina has been reconfirmed as the head of the Russian Central Bank. What would you do differently, compared to her previous actions? What is the main guiding principle involved in your different approaches?
Glazyev: The difference between our approaches is very simple. Her policies are an orthodox implementation of IMF recommendations and dogmas of the Washington paradigm, while my recommendations are based on the scientific method and empirical evidence accumulated over the last hundred years in leading countries.
Does that mean he knows they have the interest rate thing backwards ?
A deep dive into Zoltan Pozsar’s Bretton Woods III world view
Which kind of links in with Russia's 3 step process
https://the-blindspot.com/a-deep-dive-into-zoltan-pozsars-bretton-woods-iii-world-view/
3 step process.....
In the first phase of the transition, these countries fall back on using their national currencies and clearing mechanisms, backed by bilateral currency swaps. At this point, price formation is still mostly driven by prices at various exchanges, denominated in dollars. This phase is almost over: after Russia’s reserves in dollars, euro, pound, and yen were “frozen,” it is unlikely that any sovereign country will continue accumulating reserves in these currencies. Their immediate replacement is national currencies and gold.
The second stage of the transition will involve new pricing mechanisms that do not reference the dollar. Price formation in national currencies involves substantial overheads, however, it will still be more attractive than pricing in ‘un-anchored’ and treacherous currencies like dollars, pounds, euro, and yen. The only remaining global currency candidate – the yuan – won’t be taking their place due to its inconvertibility and the restricted external access to the Chinese capital markets. The use of gold as the price reference is constrained by the inconvenience of its use for payments.
The third and the final stage on the new economic order transition will involve a creation of a new digital payment currency founded through an international agreement based on principles of transparency, fairness, goodwill, and efficiency. I expect that the model of such a monetary unit that we developed will play its role at this stage. A currency like this can be issued by a pool of currency reserves of BRICS countries, which all interested countries will be able to join. The weight of each currency in the basket could be proportional to the GDP of each country (based on purchasing power parity, for example), its share in international trade, as well as the population and territory size of participating countries.
In addition, the basket could contain an index of prices of main exchange-traded commodities: gold and other precious metals, key industrial metals, hydrocarbons, grains, sugar, as well as water and other natural resources. To provide backing and to make the currency more resilient, relevant international resource reserves can be created in due course. This new currency would be used exclusively for cross-border payments and issued to the participating countries based on a pre-defined formula. Participating countries would instead use their national currencies for credit creation, in order to finance national investments and industry, as well as for sovereign wealth reserves. Capital account cross-border flows would remain governed by national currency regulations.
re: meet the "Saker"
My daughter who I send posts to including the "Saker" was asking me how to pronounce his name and if the "a" was long or short (it's long). So I did a YouTube search on his name and to my surprise, his first video interview was in 2017 with a Muslim sheik who I follow because he does a lot of interpretation of Islamic prophecy. I've only watched the first five minutes of this so far, but the sheik spends the first five minutes praising him. Apparently, they've had discussions in the past where the "Saker" wanted some questions about the position of Islam on certain issues and the sheikh's responses are on YouTube also, which I hope to get to also.
As an aside, the "Saker", if I heard him correctly, rejects modern Christianity and follows "Patristic Christianity" which I also have to do some research on. In any event, here's the YouTube video (note what he says about the "Saker" at the 1-minute mark):
Sheikh Imran Hosein interviews The Saker
Saker is Russian they are traditionally Eastern Church…
Saker is Russian they are traditionally Eastern Church…
Most Russian Christians belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. As in the West there are different sects. The Saker identifies as "Patristic" and follows Hesychasm.
"Hesychasm is a mystical tradition of prayer in the Orthodox Church. It is described in great detail in the Philokalia, a compilation of what various saints wrote about prayer and the spiritual life." Orthodox Wik
The chief practice is the Jesus Prayer, and the method is called the prayer of the heart.
Here in an interesting quote from John Paul II:
"Eastern spirituality makes a specific contribution to authentic knowledge of man by insisting on the perspective of the "heart". Christians of the East love to distinguish three types of knowledge. The first is limited to man in his bio-psychic structure. The second remains in the realm of moral life. The highest degree of self-knowledge is obtained, however, in "contemplation", by which man returns deeply into himself, recognizes himself as the divine image and, purifying himself of sin, meets the living God to the point of becoming "divine" himself by the gift of grace.
"This is knowledge of the heart [Greek _gnosis cardias_]. Here, the 'heart' means much more than a human faculty, such as affectivity, for example. It is rather the principle of personal unity, a sort of 'interior space' in which the person recollects his whole self so as to live in the knowledge and love of the Lord. Eastern authors are referring to this principle when they invite us to 'come down from the head to the heart'. It is not enough to know things, to think about them; they must become 1ife.
" It is an important message, which applies not only to specifically religious experience but to human life in its totality. Today's prevailing scientific culture puts an enormous quantity of information at our disposal; but every day it is apparent that this is not enough for an authentic process of humanization. We have greater need than ever to rediscover the dimensions of the 'heart', we need more heart."
Pope John Paul II
"Eastern Spirituality Emphasizes 'Heart'"
Angelus, September 29, 1996
L'Osservatore Romano English Edition
Pope John Paul II 29 September 1996 Angelus
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/eastern-spirituality-emphasizes-the-heart-8819
Tom Hickey,
Thanks for that.
I knew that the Saker couldn't have just been stating the fact that he's Eastern Orthodox because that would be stating the obvious as most people know about the split that took place in early Christianity.
I had just started to do a bit of research on this and one of the first thing they mentioned is the word "Patristic" comes from the word "pater" (father), so that makes sense.
Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers. The names derive from the combined forms of Latin pater and Greek patḗr (father).
As for the rest of your comment, you could have just as easily been describing Sufism, which shows that Sufism is closer to Eastern Christianity than Western Christianity, not to mention Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.
There's also the split between the Ukrainian and Russian churches, which has been put forward as another reason, but not the main one for the current conflict. The following is from a 2018 article:
As Ukraine and Russia Battle Over Orthodoxy, Schism Looms
you could have just as easily been describing Sufism, which shows that Sufism is closer to Eastern Christianity than Western Christianity, not to mention Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.
Right. The Jesus Prayer/prayer of the heart is essentially the same as ذِكْر, transliterated as Dhikr, Zikr, Thikr, etc, meaning "remembrance" as in "Remember Me."
There are parallels in Bhakti Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Shin/Pure Land Buddhism, and Sikhism, for instance.
Those who relinquish the body while remembering Me at the moment of death will come to Me. There is certainly no doubt about this. — Bhagavad Gita 8:5, translated by Swami Mukundananda.
Western Christianity not so much. Such practices are largely dependent on the availability of qualified guides and that tradition was lost in the West other than in gnostic circles that were suppressed and went underground. Aspects of it emerged from time to time as Western esotericism, much of which was misrepresented by the mainstream while some was bogus. This was not revived in the West until recently, when Eastern teachers began visiting and teaching openly what had been a closet teaching.
Unfortunately, this has been commercialized and commodified to some extent. But as one genuine teacher put, if you don't put a price on the priceless, Westerners don't value it. However, another genuine teacher advised his disciples, "Don't cast pearls before swine."
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