Subjects of Empire,
Empires, in general rise, expand and then decline, with decline typically being the most rapid phase. Empires provide a framework for trade between regions, bringing in new regions through enticement or force, then supplying all regions through the centralized economy, extracting the expenses of maintaining the empire, and extracting profits for the "owner" class.
The expenses of maintenance grow as the complexity of the empire grows, not just its size. Complexity keeps growing within bureaucratic systems, so they keep getting more expensive. Sustaining the bureaucracy is always the first or second priority for any bureaucracy. Bureaucracies are how humans do big projects.
As time progresses, the cut of resources to sustain an empire grows, even if the empire does not. Extraction of resources from the periphery uses up the cheapest resources. The profitability of an empire tends to decline as maintenance costs rise.
Some "owners" expect their profits to keep rising, and that requires hollowing-out of the production capacity of the empire. If the empire is stagnant, extracting profits causes decline through self-consumption, analogous to cancer. In the current western empire, some owners seek long term gain, and some want more now.
This western empire has trouble with the rapidity of the growth of money, which has outlandishly outdistanced the growth of real-economy in the world. It has been parasitizing real-economy to extract-value, to make those financial wealth-schemes “come-true” in at least some fraction.
It’s a Ponzi scheme, as we know. It’s gonna’ collapse. It’s not going to get to eat Russia to make payouts to support the Ponzi scheme..
The inability of the current imperial courtiers to make major direction changes will cause the (real) owners to take losses soon. The owners will need more intelligent/competent courtiers, a management team change. This applies to short-sighted, as well as long-sighted owners. Interests converge.
The inertia of corrupt and cancerous management is fully as bad as it looks. The owners are not stupid, even if they are greedy and insulated from “reality”.
The collective west does not have any executive or management team which is competent and able to make quick decisions. Times of rapid economic restructuring call for that. There appears to be infighting between owners. The current courtiers have been in place a long time, but are “negatively efficacious” like those novel “vaccine” products.
The courtiers will inevitably be replaced. Sooner is better. Societal control-narratives are breaking. The COVID-pandemic narrative is now demanding expensive support, rather than creating support for the managers. The Ukraine war control-narrative is very expensive, and will collapse badly when it stops being fed men, tanks, howitzers, ammunition and rockets. The empire is literally running out of those things, forcing the moment of collapse to arrive..
Time is short to replace the control narratives before being completely discredited by reality.
Either case is fine with me, but I think the owners will have a different team to put in place in the US, which will not have so much inertia in the wrong direction, and will be more nimble, better at meeting the actual physical-economy needs of other team-participants. That is to say, actually manage the economy of the declining empire, which still has a good resource base, even if downsized, and could be more prosperous with less cancer, less stupidity and less overhead.
The courtiers will inevitably be replaced. Sooner is better. Societal control-narratives are breaking. The COVID-pandemic narrative is now demanding expensive support, rather than creating support for the managers. The Ukraine war control-narrative is very expensive, and will collapse badly when it stops being fed men, tanks, howitzers, ammunition and rockets. The empire is literally running out of those things, forcing the moment of collapse to arrive..
Time is short to replace the control narratives before being completely discredited by reality.
Either case is fine with me, but I think the owners will have a different team to put in place in the US, which will not have so much inertia in the wrong direction, and will be more nimble, better at meeting the actual physical-economy needs of other team-participants. That is to say, actually manage the economy of the declining empire, which still has a good resource base, even if downsized, and could be more prosperous with less cancer, less stupidity and less overhead.
If the management team in DC can be swapped out before this fall, a lot of sensible arrangements may be negotiated with the rest of the world, and within the imperial core. This will be less damaging to all parties within the remaining empire, and in the areas which are already gaining autonomy. Trade does not require the expenses of an imperial bureaucracy and cancerous profiteering by the parasitic-class of elites. Somebody does have to police piracy for the common good. There are still shared expenses to have a productive economy. Parasitism remains alluring.
This is really looking like it became the NATO plan after 1993:
1993: The Barry R. Posen Plan for War on Russia via Zombie State Ukraine Not much is being written about Twitter's becoming a versatile payment platform under Musk's ownership, but electronic-bank-transfers and PayPal are where Musk first got rich. The world is headed for financial regime restructuring. Musk's "super app" would allow multiple currency options, and would presumably allow conversion of liquidity between currencies. This could prove very useful on a daily basis, and at multiple levels as the $US steps down from global reserve currency status, and other currencies, fiat, digital and gold, step into the multipolar financial regime. This would be synergistic with Musk's Starlink.
Twitter is prepping for payments, and bitcoin might be in the mix.According to a Financial Times report, Elon is open to adding BTC and crypto to its Twitter payments vision.
While the “super app” vision would prioritize fiat, its future will likely include the alternative payment method.
Elon Musks’ Twitter has reportedly begun applying for regulatory licenses across the U.S. in apparent preparation to begin facilitating payments through the app.
Hey, lookee here at Australia! Sasha Latypova
Do Governments Track the Injury and Kill Rates from Biowarfare Agents Deployed as mRNA/DNA "Vaccines"?Even after they rework years of data to "correct errors from previous years".
Recent Data Shows 'Stunning Increase' In Serious Harm Reports In Young Healthy Pilots: Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long
“What I found was a clear signal, that something in 2021 changed the health of service members,” Long told The Epoch Times. She said these signals were consistent with those in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports. But unlike VAERS reports, DMED data showed spikes in the number of diagnoses “made by a healthcare professional within the DOD on service members.” According to the Military Health System, the DMED provides remote access to a subset of data contained in the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS). The DMSS contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (including reportable events) and “is available to authorized users such as U.S. military medical providers, epidemiologists, medical researchers, safety officers or medical operations/ clinical support staff for surveying health conditions in the U.S. military.”
“After querying all pilots across the DOD, for all-cause morbidity and mortality, I found a stunning increase in the number of reportable events, spiking from an average of 226 reportable events a year (2016-2019) to 4,059 reports in 2022,” she explained.
A DOD reportable event is any patient safety event resulting in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm—and all require a comprehensive systematic analysis and a follow-on corrective action implementation plan report.
“The point is there is a statistically significant increase in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm in young healthy fit pilots.”
Why Did UK Wait 3 Months to Disclose Data Showing COVID Vaccine Risks Outweigh Benefits for Omicron Variant?
The U.K. government on Jan. 25 released a report showing the risks of serious adverse effects from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines largely outweigh the benefits. John Campbell, Ph.D., analyzed the data, which U.K. health officials knew about in October 2022.
Pictures worth thousands of words:
The spike protein coded for in gene therapy "vaccine" products has Prion segments of protein, which fold abnormally, and cause chain reaction abnormal-protein-folding, progressively destroying central nervous system function. Some people make a whole lot of spike protein fast, and keep making it for months.
Emergence of a New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 26 Cases of the Human Version of Mad-Cow Disease, Days After a COVID-19 Injection This is the position, W.H.O. Director, who the updated WHO treaty will empower to declare a global public health pandemic emergency, and to command national governments to spend money, curtail civil liberties, track people, interfere in transactions, and to enforce this with police and military, if so ordered.
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb joined Kim Iversen on “The Kim Iversen Show” to discuss the appointment of Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, as the next chief scientist at the World Health Organization. This is really interesting, particularly the map of global oceans. Phytoplankton are massively outgassing toluene and benzene into the southern ocean, and especially the air above the southern ocean, greatly influencing cloud formation. This is not subtle at all, but has been completely overlooked until now.
Ocean life is seeding the clouds above it, and the modelers didn’t know The science is settled except we only just realized that the benzene and toluene gas over the vast Southern Ocean were not man-made pollutants after all, but were made by industrious phytoplankton. For the first time someone went and measured the benzene and toluene in the water and discovered that instead of being a sink for human pollutants in the air above, the ocean was the source.
This matters because these two gases increased the amount of organic aerosols by, wait for it, between 8% and up to 80% in bursts. And all that extra aerosol matters, of course, because aerosols seed clouds, which change the weather.
This matters because these two gases increased the amount of organic aerosols by, wait for it, between 8% and up to 80% in bursts. And all that extra aerosol matters, of course, because aerosols seed clouds, which change the weather.
Subject to Change (pictured with Jenny on third day of freezing rain in Austin Thursday)
Thank you for all the posting John. I know you are busy.
ReplyDeleteJust learned today that Steward Heath Care, the #2 size national hospital corp is owned by a venture capital organization. We know what Bain Capital and the old owner of Sears do to companies do to when they buy them - asset strip them and leave a dead carcass. Den
Thanks Dennis. "Wealth" presumes a working economy to provide goods and services to the "owners of wealth".
DeleteThat may be gone soon.