The MoA Week In Review – (Not Ukraine) OT 2022-209

November 27, 2022

Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:

Nov 21 – Ukraine – No Way To Peace Without Further War
Nov 23 – Ukraine – Lights Out, No Water And Soon No Heat
Nov 24 – Ukraine – Running On Empty
Related:
– RESISTANCE FACTORS AND SPECIAL FORCES AREAS UKRAINE (1957) – CIA
– The Biden Zelensky Relationship: Who to Trust? – Antiwar
– U.S. and NATO Scramble to Arm Ukraine and Refill Their Own Arsenals – New York Times

> Last summer in the Donbas region, the Ukrainians were firing 6,000 to 7,000 artillery rounds each day, a senior NATO official said. The Russians were firing 40,000 to 50,000 rounds per day.

By comparison, the United States produces only 15,000 rounds each month.
…
The shortage in 155-mm artillery shells “is probably the big one that has the planners most concerned,” Mr. Cancian said.

“If you want to increase production capability of 155 shells,” he said, “it’s going to be probably four to five years before you start seeing them come out the other end.” <

Nov 26 – Syria – Another Turkish Invasion Is Imminent
Related:
– Revisiting the fall of Mosul: Who was to blame? – The Cradle
– The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley – the Cradle
– Don’t close your eyes to the US proxy war being waged against Iran – Electronic Intifada
– Syrian Kurdish commander says Kobani likely target of threatened Turkish ground offensive – AL-Monitor

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Other issues:

Energy as a weapon:

Market Players Dismiss Proposed EU Gas Price Cap – Energy Intel
U.S. Authorizes Firms To Provide Services To Russian Oil Trade – Oilprice
G7 and Allies Fail to Agree on Price Cap for Russian Oil – New York Times
Gas Price Cap Could Cause Irreversible Harm To Energy Markets – Oil Price
Russia is using energy as a weapon – How deadly will it be? – Economist

Late:

Europe accuses US of profiting from war – Politico
EU plans subsidy war chest as industry faces ‘existential’ threat from US – Politico
America’s Real Adversaries are Its European and Other Allies (Feb 11, 2022) – Michael Hudson / Counterpunch

Russia:

Putin invokes Castro’s legacy – Indian Punchline
TraumaPorn from Adam Curtis – Yasha Levine
America and Russia in the 1990s: This is what real meddling looks like – Yasha Levine, Mark Ames
Freedom of expression and genuine intellectual debate on Russian television today – Gilbert Doctorow
John Bolton Coauthored Strategy on Creating Bioweapons to Ensure US 'Global Leadership': Russian MOD – Sputnik

Spies:

Intelligence operative confirms British gov’t is targeting The Grayzone – Grayzone
The secretive US embassy-backed group cultivating the British left – Declassified UK

Renewables:

In Sharm El-Sheikh – LRB
The renewable energy transition is failing – Asia Times
Europe’s Wind Energy Industry Has Hit A Rough Patch – Naked Capitalism
According to the CEO of Siemens Energy, the issue is supply chains. “Never forget, renewables like wind roughly, roughly, need 10 times the material [compared to] … what conventional technologies need,” said Christian Bruch

China:

Taiwan President Casts Local Election as Referendum on Her Leadership – US News
Taiwan's 9-in-1 Elections: KMT wins 13 out of 21 city and county executive posts – Taiwan News
Saturday's elections leave ruling DPP in control of only five out of 21 local governments
Taiwan elections: DPP’s Tsai resigns as party chief after KMT wins big – SCMP

Woke:

French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work – Washington Post
The man, referred to in court documents as Mr. T, was fired from Cubik Partners in 2015 after refusing to take part in seminars and weekend social events that his lawyers argued, according to court documents, included “excessive alcoholism” and “promiscuity.”

Use as open (not Ukraine) thread …

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Below is the title of the latest lie from Reuters
Analysis: China protests highlight Xi’s COVID policy dilemma – to walk it back or not
Reuters is projecting the failure of the West’s response to Covid onto China and it won’t stick, no matter how much they try. China is protecting its citizens from biowarfare and Reuters is never going to admit that

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 28 2022 23:14 utc | 201

Yet another pebble at the inception of this crypto landslide. Not bankrupt yet, but hit by rising withdrawals after a report of shifty behavior.
Crypto.com Withdrawals Rise After CEO Admits Transaction Problem
This is what it looked like when my grandma and grandpa were trying to retrieve their life-savings from a failing bank, way back in the day of failing banks. I remember grandma telling me they blamed a friend of the family, working at the bank, who neglected to alert them in time. They were simple folks who didn’t really understand how money works. Something like me.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 28 2022 23:26 utc | 202

Sorry, I messed up the link to that WSJ article, here it is:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-com-withdrawals-rise-after-ceo-admits-transaction-problem-11668350510

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 28 2022 23:28 utc | 203

@Old canadian 183
I hope you are not inferring I am a Mason, considering I said plainly I find the rituals (in fact all rituals, religious or otherwise) silly. Religions depend on rituals… need I say more?

Trying another version of Kruger-Dunning theory…

For the Nth time, it is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Or Theory. People continue to use it and apply it and study it and write papers on despite your opinions of it.
You are welcome to your own unique opinions, but you are not entitled to misrepresent me, in what I think, believe or say and do. Enough of the Straw-manning hey? Please, you look foolish doing that.

in this one everyone is stupid (blind).

That, your opinion of it, actually has nothing whatsoever to do with the Dunning-Kruger Effect. You are misrepresenting the Theory and the Research and what DKE stands for.
Whatever, I’m now convinced you’ll still believe you know better. (shrug)

As if MoA readers need parables to understand this ancient concept…

Maybe they don’t. Is every reader aware of it? I don’t know, I don’t assume they are. Why do you assume this?
Do you have a better alternative explanation of this “ancient concept”?

it is merely the specific framework to properly calculate the statistical details to be worked out.

Huh?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Elephant and the Blind men are actually two quite distinct notions and issues (problems most people encounter in life).
Why you are conflating them like this I have no idea – I don’t know. Don’t want to know. You might as well be from Andromeda imho.

Here’s the antidote to your conundrum…

I have no conundrum. Please stop assuming you are qualified to speak on my behalf. You do not.

The Three Little Words humankind finds so hard to say:

It’s never been a problem of mine. I cannot speak of others though.
And I cannot control Humanity. I don’t even try to control one of them.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 28 2022 23:35 utc | 204

Ooops an error at the start I missed.
@Old canadian 183

I hope you are not inferring I am a Mason

No … (huh?) I doubt you’d ever be invited to join.

….considering I said plainly I find the rituals (in fact all rituals, religious or otherwise) silly. Religions depend on rituals… need I say more?

You’ve said too much already. The Boy Scouts have rituals. Rituals are a good thing for humans. It’s a natural part of expressing ones humanity and spirit of community. Going to the movies is a ritual. Even meals and Thanksgiving is a ritual. Birthdays are rituals.
MoA has “rituals” too.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 28 2022 23:39 utc | 205

The Greater Fool theory tells me…
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 28 2022 22:40 utc | 198
That’s perfect — this greater fool is the only thing floating your boat, until the greater fool turns out to be you.
As stated, I’ve got a plan to ensure that there will be a fool bigger than me to buy the (rather limited actually) crytpocurrency that I keep in ‘cold storage.’ But again, unless something really awful happens that affects everyone all at once, I don’t think the bubble will permanently burst any time soon. TBH, this will be the 2nd cycle selloff I execute. I made quite a bit on the previous bull run. Enough that all of what I currently hold (or hodl) was purchased with the profits. Again, we’ll see. I’m certainly not advising anyone else to do what I’m doing.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 28 2022 23:44 utc | 206

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Nov 28 2022 23:28 utc | 203
These problems with the exchanges are nothing new. Mt. Gox was hacked back in about 2015 or so and at the time I had decided to buy in when the value tanked. I’m glad I did because I sold it off later at an obscene profit (for the amounts involved anyway). These booms and busts are common to all modern market based trading and the causes are legion. But it doesn’t surprise me at all if people are panicking and removing their crypto from risky exchanges to cold storage because that’s what they should have been doing all along.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 28 2022 23:48 utc | 207

Aleph_Null | Nov 28 2022 23:26 utc | 202
Son inlaw had a couple of computers going 24/7 trying to dig up a crypto in what they call mining. I questioned him about crypto and it became obvious it was just faith based ones and zeros. Woke currency for a woke world.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 28 2022 23:59 utc | 208

The results forced DPP chief Tsai Ing-wen to resign her position, although she’ll remain active in DPP politics. […] We shall see what changes occur now that KMT has the lead.
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 28 2022 19:13 utc | 165
It’s misinformation to suggest that KMT has the lead The lead in what K?
Certainly not national politics and policies on China and reunification etc. These were local elections fought over local issues .. despite who much the DPP and their subservient media friends tried to swing the “vote” towards being about China and strong military defense and Pelosi and all that crap.
Tsai Ing-wen has stepped down as the head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
Will remain active in DPP politics? She’s the President of Taiwan – didn’t you know that? She will remain active in Taiwanese politics until at least the next Presidential election in 2 years from now in 2024 – which the DPP might even win.
From RT several days ago – about local government city elections across Taiwan. Little different than when the Tories/Labour might be the Westminster Govt but lose in local elections across the UK – where these kinds of local elections occur at different times to national elections.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has stepped down as the head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after a series of election defeats to opposition candidates, who focused their campaigns on local issues and maintaining peace without being overly confrontational with Beijing.
On Saturday, people went to the polls to vote for mayors in nine cities, as well as city council members and other local leaders across the island. In a major defeat to the ruling party, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won key mayoral races in Taipei, Taoyuan, and Keelung, in addition to a string of other victories, leaving the DPP in control of only five out of the 21 local government offices, according to preliminary results.
“The results failed our expectations. We humbly accept the results and accept the Taiwanese people’s decision,” Tsai told reporters at party headquarters on Saturday evening, announcing her resignation as the DPP (PARTY) head,/i>, which she also did after a similarly poor showing in 2018.

It is a meaningless, face-saving “Clayton’s” kind of resignation. She is still the President.
There is next to nothing to see here or read into it. None of those elected have direct say in policy on China.
Except that the KMT has had an uptick of support at the local government elections level —
handy refs include –

The KMT traditionally favors close ties with China but strongly denies being pro-Beijing. It had been on the back foot since 2020′s presidential election loss, and also suffered a blow last December after four referendums it had championed as a show of no confidence in the government failed. […]
But Tsai’s strategy failed to mobilize voters, who disassociated geopolitics from the local elections which traditionally focus more on issues from crime to pollution.
Turnout on Saturday was at record low, just 59% for Taiwan’s six most important cities, compared to an overall figure of around 75% in 2020.
China has been distracted with its own internal problems, including unrest linked to its zero-COVID policy. […]
The KMT had focused its campaign on issues like the COVID-19 pandemic, especially after a surge in cases this year and whether the government favored a local vaccine over imported ones.
In a Sunday editorial, Taiwan’s pro-DPP Liberty Times newspaper said it was tougher to motivate voters at local elections using “abstract political ideas”, and warned the DPP could face distracting splits in deciding its 2024 presidential candidate.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/27/attention-turns-to-presidential-poll-after-taiwan-ruling-party-thrashing.html

That being said, take it with a grain of salt, because the media jockeys never know what the voters truly think or why they vote like they do.
Support for the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) has for the first time overtaken the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), making it the nation’s second-largest political force, the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation said yesterday, as it released the results of its latest public opinion survey.
The foundation’s survey on political support and the referendums in December found that 17.6 percent support the TPP, compared with 16.2 percent for the KMT, a lead of 1.4 percentage points and the highest ever recorded for the party.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) held firm at the top at 27.1 percent, although a close 26.6 percent of respondents declined to choose any party.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/10/27/2003766845

I suspect they know much more than CNBC journos would. Reality is never as simple as the media and others try to make it sound. It’s actually quite nuanced and complex.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 0:16 utc | 209

Posting a comment is also “complex”
Sorry about the formatting stuff up, I forgot to check the preview.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 0:24 utc | 210

karlof1 | Nov 28 2022 20:19 utc | 169 “Why did those five outlets wait so fucking long to state the fucking obvious?!?”
In one word – Musk.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2022 0:28 utc | 211

A bit more on Freemasonry. My buddy Roger put this on his aggregator site today (linked to the name Scorpion below). It’s from an email Peter M sent out recently to those on his list (which anyone can request to be included on I believe).
https://sitrepworld.info/peter-myers-digest-freemasonry-discussion-manly-p-hall-and-albert-pike/
It features several emails between various different contributors, but one theme is explanation betweeen the outer/public Lodges and the inner/higher lodges. Most of the history going back millenia is all made up. However, there is sophisticated Mind Control stuff going on as well as the ability to think big and realize goals over multi-generational periods of time. I find the subject matter distasteful so tend to avoid it but there is something there worth being at least a little aware of.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 0:40 utc | 212

“The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism” is the title of this week’s Crooke SCF essay that builds on recent publications and others much older. Crooke’s essay can be seen as discourse related to a coming brawl. IMO, the best excerpt is Crooke’s introduction to that brewing confrontation:

The world ‘Map’ is accelerating its shift away from the paralysed Washington ‘hub’ – but to what? The myth that China, Russia, or the non-western world can be fully assimilated to a Western model of political society (any more than Afghanistan was) is over. So to where are we headed?
The myth of the pull of acculturation into western post-modernity lingers on however, in the continuing western fantasy of pulling China away from Russia, and into an embrace with U.S. Big Business.
The bigger point here is that former wounded civilisations are reasserting themselves: China and Russia – as states organised around indigenous culture – is not a new idea. Rather, it is a very old one: “Always remember that China is a civilization – and not nation-state”, Chinese officials repeat regularly.
Nonetheless, the shift to civilisational statehood emphasised by those Chinese officials arguably is no rhetorical device but reflects something deeper and more radical. Moreover, the culture transition is gaining wide emulation across the globe. Its inherent radicalism however, is largely lost to western audiences.
Chinese thinkers, such as Zhang Weiwei, accuse Western political ideas of being a sham; of masking their deeply partisan ideological character beneath a veneer of supposedly neutral principles. They are saying that the mounting of a universal framework of values – applicable to all societies – is finished.

It must be noted that China and Russia are not the only “wounded civilizations”; Crooke later includes Iran, but every former colonized country shares that condition–not only culturally wounded but physically plundered. Thus the Global Fracture we’re entering isn’t just about differing political economies, it’s also very much about differing cultures and their genuine values, not fake Western Universalism that’s being denounced as a sham; its so-called rules utterly useless thanks to never ending double standards.
I don’t see anyone in the West being capable of mitigating what’s to come for there’s no stopping it. But what will probably happen will really be a blow to Western egos–while the West collapses into its own contradictions and corruption, the RoW will just ignore the train wreck and get on with life.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 0:52 utc | 213

In response to
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karlof1 | Nov 28 2022 20:19 utc | 169 “Why did those five outlets wait so fucking long to state the fucking obvious?!?”
In one word – Musk.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2022 0:28 utc | 211
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I think that is a good supposition mate and we will see if the MSM changes, and in what ways……I don’t trust Musk either but more discussion at this point is better than the severely Overton Windowed BS we have currently coming from the MSM
Just saying, the US had a Fairness Doctrine as FCC enforced law between 1949 and 1986. This time that fairness is being enforced from the RoW is my position.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 29 2022 0:59 utc | 214

Napoleon’s ‘Grande Armée’ camped in Moscow for a bit. With winter coming on he got cold feet and decided that was not the place to be.
Hitler also found it’s not so good trying to occupy the bears cave.
Montgomery – First rule of war Do not march on Moscow. Second rule of war – do not march on Beijing.
Europe is now in the early or middle stages of Napoleons retreat from Moscow.
Idiots did not want a mutual security agreement with Russia. Who needs a security agreement with backwards snow niggers.
Karls term, the plundering nations, The Grande Armée army did a bit of that. Perhaps Taiwan will be Waterloo and China Wellington this time round? Though I guess from the recent voting, Taiwanese are not too keen on being the Waterloo battlefield.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Nov 29 2022 1:07 utc | 215

Below is the title of a Reuters piece and then the summary points….last one is strange
The yuan’s the new dollar as Russia rides to the redback

Russia turns to the Chinese currency amid sanctions
Moscow becomes No.4 offshore trading centre for yuan
Yuan’s share of Russian FX market jumps from 1% to 45%
Russian central bank supports trend but warns of risks
This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 29 2022 1:38 utc | 216

Dead link.
Posted by: Dane | Nov 28 2022 15:28 utc | 151
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Its here
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b
Sorry for that defunct link,
here’s a working one…
https://libcom.org/article/secret-wars-cia-john-stockwell
Posted by: denk | Nov 28 2022 1:52 utc | 97
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BTW,
Here’s how CIA/MI6 concocted a psyop to instigate the 1965 genocide…

The Foreign Office replied: “We certainly do not exclude any unattributable propaganda or psywar [psychological warfare] activities which would contribute to weakening the PKI permanently. We therefore agree with the [above] recommendation… Suitable propaganda themes might be… Chinese interference in particular arms shipments; PKI subverting Indonesia as agents of foreign communists”.

https://tinyurl.com/uzskx329

U.S. officials were particularly interested in linking the September 30th plotters to Beijing. They helped to spread stories about China’s alleged involvement and reported on caches of weapons purportedly “discovered” by the Indonesian army with the hammer and sickle conveniently stamped on them. “We have bonanza chance to nail chicoms on disastrous events in Indonesia,

https://monthlyreview.org/2015/12/01/the-united-states-and-the-19651966-mass-murders-in-indonesia/
This is just the tip of an iceberg.
The FUKUSA aka AUKUS global empire were built upon genocides of the ‘jungle’, their hands are still dripping Chinese blood.
TAM
TIBET
XINJIANG
HK
TW
SCORpion

Beware of the Chinese monster

For gringo chutzpah, sky is the limit !
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This is the true Hegemon. It is not one or more nation states. It is not about White or any other racism, or ‘capitalism’ or any of of the isms. There are criminal cartels at the Heart of the Darkness that now rule the West
Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 27 2022 14:46 utc | 4
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The entire anglophopne aka [five liars] are screaming yellow peril, you’r their mouthpiece in MOA.
https://tinyurl.com/y8bxn2e7
Earth to scorpion…
Population size doesnt imply belligerence.
Who’r the most rapacious colonisers in human history …anglo/euro !
It has been a one way assault from the ‘garden’ to the ‘jungle’ since 15C !

The Americans had the notion of the “yellow peril”, formalising it into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, even ‘upgrade’ to GLOBAL CEA in 21C.
Australia was happy to agree. And it was part of European colonialism to fear threat from the very people the Europeans threatened and to call them insulting names based on race.

https://johnmenadue.com/australia-should-rid-itself-of-the-persistent-fear-of-china/
scorpion,
the proverbial garden wolf crying woof woof !

Posted by: denk | Nov 29 2022 2:02 utc | 217

RT reports that, according to Meriam-Webster, based on searches for definitions of particular words, the “word of the year” for the last three years is as follows:

2020 - "pandemic"
2021 - "vaccine"
2022 - "gaslighting"

This seems the perfect encapsulation of our collective experience. How very encouraging. This year’s word increased in searches by over one thousand percent.
First they came for the sick (2020). Then they came for the healthy (2021). Then they tried to walk back all their lies (2022).
And people noticed.

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 2:19 utc | 218

@ karlof1 107 – made a post and included a link to zoltan pozsar in it.. it hasn’t posted.. hopefully it shows up later.. thanks for that article.. it was excellent… he quoted zoltan and an article zoltan wrote in march 2022 which i thought you and others would also like to read… such is life… not having a post post is such, lol…

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 2:56 utc | 219

fyi
a good essay, and reminder of the consequences of the military madness that is killing the country, in fact it may very well end the world, by W.J. Astore
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/28/a-peculiar-form-of-american-madness/
A Peculiar Form of American Madness
America is touched by a peculiar form of collective madness that sees military action as creative rather than destructive, desirable rather than deplorable, and constitutive to democracy rather than corrosive to it.
This madness, this hubris, this elevation or heroification of the the military and war has to end, or it will most certainly end America, if not the world.
Related to this, America advances and sustains a historical narrative based on triumphalism, exceptionalism, and goodness…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Nov 29 2022 4:34 utc | 220

james @219–
Thanks for your reply. I recall citing Pozser about that time–resources, supply chains and how they’ll contribute to the downfall of the West’s financial hegemony. I recall asking Hudson about it, and he generally agreed with the assessment.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 4:52 utc | 221

@213 karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 0:52 utc
Did you read the essay that Crooke links repeatedly to in his article, by Bruno Maçães? It’s very well worth it:
The Attack Of The Civilization-State
— A world society seemed to be advancing. But then the civilization-state struck back.
It’s where Crooke is getting a lot of his theme of civilizations that carry old wounds that are being healed as each civilization resurges – and how that looks as they all coexist in one world, and essentially replace the old and sterile framework of the nation-state.
I can’t say much tonight, I’m going to post after this with a recap of the links in this thread that all cohere.

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 5:39 utc | 222

The essay on “World Order Z” is not coming up for me this evening, the site is down. But I found a pdf download of it through the Wayback Machine – I will have to provide a shortened link, which I’ve tested and promise goes straight to that pdf, in case anyone else is looking for it:
World Order Z: The Irreversibility of Change and Prospects for Survival – Yefremenko
I’ve only started reading it so I can’t comment on it yet.
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But it seems we have several articles in this thread that all combine into the same general subject matter, which is the rise of civilizations in the world, as the western idea of the “world society” dies away. So I thought I’d recap the links all here.
The World Order Z essay is linked from Crooke’s first article, offered by karlof1 up-thread:
Defiance at the G20: ‘World Order Z’ and the birth of a Wider Political ‘Movement’
Then follows Crooke’s SCF essay:
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
Here Crooke links to a seminal essay from which he draws some of his thinking:
The Attack Of The Civilization-State – Bruno Maçães
Between Maçães and Crooke a very clear context is described for the time we live in, namely the rise – resurgence – of civilizations that care more about maintaining their cultures and values than about linking into a cold framework of a one-world-order, the so-called “operating system” that Crooke cites.
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It seems very important to me to grasp the significance of the civilizations rising – because this can happen without anything seeming to occur. No land or property need be seized; no conquests or insistence need be made; simply saying “no” to the idea of hegemony and compliance with western structures is enough for us to see it happening.
And of course this is exactly what we are seeing happening.
And to this point, with many gripping examples, the latest article from Patrick Lawrence that bevin cited is compelling, and fits well within this overarching theme of a new global society forming, serendipitously based in part on the Five Principles of Chou En-Lai:
Zhou Enlai’s Posthumous Triumph – Patrick Lawrence
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So it’s been a feast of wonderful observation and commentary in this thread, and a happy feast at that, as major observers and storytellers organically combine to show us the new world arising peacefully, and into peacefulness, and the dynamics in play as that old world yields, and perhaps adapts, or perhaps does not.
But although the old world is only dying and not yet dead, we no longer need think that the new world is struggling to be born. It is standing on all fours, and testing its sinews.

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 6:21 utc | 223

It seems very important to me to grasp the significance of the civilizations rising – because this can happen without anything seeming to occur. No land or property need be seized; no conquests or insistence need be made; simply saying “no” to the idea of hegemony and compliance with western structures is enough for us to see it happening.
And of course this is exactly what we are seeing happening.
Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 6:21 utc | 223
Thank you for this observation. I agree completely that saying no to hegemony and just getting on with with what is honourable and free is the way through. I find it awe inspiring that countries and cultures are finding the strength to do what we citizens of the west cannot.

Posted by: K | Nov 29 2022 6:42 utc | 224

The five principles for peaceful coexistence by Chou En-Lai
Mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity,
nonaggression,
noninterference in the internal affairs of others,
equality and mutual benefit in relations, and
peaceful coexistence.
The whole concept of global private finance violates all Chou En-Lai’s principles
In the Patrick Lawrence article he writes this

Without saying so explicitly, and I do not know why they do not, those nations now fashioning a post–Western world order come to abide by Zhou’s principles even as they are fed up with America’s incessant violations of them. Again, we are talking about ideals and profound practicalities all at once.

I have written repeatedly here over the years about my frustration with leaders of the non-West nations never explicitly talking to the public about the private/public finance issue…and they still are not talking but are explicitly creating, what I assume to be, a global system of finance based on Chou En-Lai’s principles.
Will the world of global private finance with its supporters like Pope Frank and King Chuck play the barbaric patriarch card and nuke us all back into their Might-Makes-Right dominant meme?
Stay tuned….and keep breathing

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 29 2022 6:56 utc | 225

comment @karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 0:52 utc | 213
Boy, I had some many things to say about that comment and the ref article by Crooke I ended up with my an essay as long as Crookes. OMG. What can I say? Except that there is so much not to like about Crookes pov (and his craft MO) and the commentary overall it’s painful. There is so much wrong with it where could one start to address it in a healthy, balanced and clear way. I do not know. It’s like swallowing a pineapple whole. Oh well, people are different.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 8:37 utc | 226

“What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange’s freedom.
Ten years after Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was forced to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and three years after he was arrested and subjected to solitary confinement, the editors and publishers of the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel have issued an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to end his prosecution.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/29/pers-n29.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws

Posted by: Walt | Nov 29 2022 9:00 utc | 227

Posted by: Walt | Nov 29 2022 9:00 utc | 227
Those suddenly calling for an end to the persecution of Assange are the same filthy Empire snitches and capos the were last week.
Not so much a question of what took them so long – they haven’t suddenly found journalistic integrity down the back of the sofa – more a question of why Empire strategists have now ordered their media whores to promote this new line.

Posted by: anon2020 | Nov 29 2022 9:11 utc | 228

Do you ever get that sense where things just do not feel right? But you cannot put your finger on it. Well there has been a few hints I’ve heard over several weeks but nothing really definitive, nothing with any meat on it. Until today. NOw things are starting to make more sense.
The Attack Of The Civilization-State
A world society seemed to be advancing. But then the civilization-state struck back.
By Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
https://www.noemamag.com/the-attack-of-the-civilization-state/
The Clash Of ‘Civilizational States’
China and the West affirm each other’s identity.
By Nathan Gardels November 18, 2022
https://www.noemamag.com/the-clash-of-civilizational-states/
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order
Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
By Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/28/the-crux-of-putin-xi-revolution-for-new-world-order-arresting-slide-to-nihilism/
I could write up a summary, word for word by source, but I think it should be obvious to enough people now to see what’s been going on for some time.
What I am more pleased about is actually knowing what to look for now. It changes the entire dynamic. Now it will be easy to call a duck a duck. It explains why so many of his articles felt so disjointed, jumping all over the place and sounding discordant.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 9:41 utc | 229

anybody know much about this alleged US deal with Venezuela to allow Chevron to start pumping oil again? on the face of it it looks like Maduro is caving in, the Guaido supporters are part of the negotiating process, and why is his government helping out the U.S. apparently?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 10:01 utc | 230

@230 Maduro is being pragmatic. Maybe he never wanted Chevron to leave. Could be the US caving in. They want the oil.

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 13:27 utc | 231

But although the old world is only dying and not yet dead, we no longer need think that the new world is struggling to be born. It is standing on all fours, and testing its sinews.
Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 6:21 utc | 223
I agree that the new way forward does not need to involve trampling on the old so much as simply bypassing it. If there are ways to avoid the West exercising a Samson option as some now believe us the case with hypersonics and other rumored wonderwaffen it could be. If they can craft a multi-civilizational agreement which holds over generations all will be well. The trick, I suspect, will involve ensuring that civilization state sovereignty is never delegated to superior global agencies for such bodies become subject to corrupt infiltration which in turn destroys everything.
It is not unknown for things which start off full of promise to end up quite tragically. Witness Westphalia.
I read years ago that Saudi Arabian leadership is crypto Jewish. Their entry into BRICS could signal a pivot from Western-oriented to Eastern-Eurasian as the balance of power has already shifted. Though strangely all major Western leaders are facilitating this, something which sets off my alarm bells that once again we are all being played.
The devil will be in the details. The danger inherent in large populations is the clear and present need for centralized organization. However, the larger the population the more centralized becomes the power structures and thus the more irresistibly juicy a target of corrupt capture as we now see in the West. Very interesting to see what sort of world the digital currencies they are all about to unleash will create. Will they ensure that cartels like those embedded in the City and the Vatican can never rise to dominate and corrupt? They say nothing about what they have in mind other than feel-good platitudes.
My concern is that the Five Principles may prove to be like a Five Families deal for how the world leaders operate together as peers and it might work well for the global upper classes. But the rest of us ordinary billions, assuming we are allowed to live on in such numbers, will be digitally counted, chipped and well corralled chattel, any dissidents as determined by Brave New World scientistic tests, isolated in no end of container-villages as now being used in China.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 13:32 utc | 232

@230 Maduro is being pragmatic. Maybe he never wanted Chevron to leave. Could be the US caving in. They want the oil.
Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 13:27 utc | 231
This is directly related to the huge diesel problem in the US, the heavy oil the US lacks has been coming from Russia. This “permission” is only for 6 months (of course Russia will be defeated in that time frame) and is unlikely to mean much as Chevron can barely get on line in 6 months and is reluctant to spend the money.

Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Nov 29 2022 13:35 utc | 233

This is directly related to the huge diesel problem in the US, the heavy oil the US lacks has been coming from Russia. This “permission” is only for 6 months (of course Russia will be defeated in that time frame) and is unlikely to mean much as Chevron can barely get on line in 6 months and is reluctant to spend the money.
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Nov 29 2022 13:35 utc | 233
Yes, thank you. Already humiliated, but not yet ready to do something that might work. I do wish Ms Nuland could be found, to explain all this to us. So much winning …

Posted by: Bemildred | Nov 29 2022 13:50 utc | 234

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 10:01 utc | 230
I read somewhere that Venezuela isn’t going to get any profit, it will be used to pay off some of their debts.
Doesn’t seem much of a deal?

Posted by: Walt | Nov 29 2022 14:24 utc | 235

That noemamag.com site is terrific.
Europe for a while was a single, albeit multilingual and thus constantly warring, civilization.
Populations got too big for conventional wars between States so a para-state world order was attempted.
But funny money skullduggery has undermined it all, especially including the Western civilization from whence the New World Order sprang.
Now some other civilizations are entering the picture refusing to follow a single, clearly corrupt, model.
It all certainly looks promising, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating. 2023 is setting up to be a very Big Year…

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 14:31 utc | 236

@235 A typical face-saving move. Biden will have to try harder.

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 15:44 utc | 237

@ karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 4:52 utc | 221
that article you shared @ 107 is really insightful… here is my attempt at sharing the zoltan pozsar article again.. weird my original post to you still hasn’t shown up..
We are witnessing the birth of a new world monetary order

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 15:51 utc | 238

Imperial Gateway, by Seiji Shirane
Two articles from Asia Pacific Journal which will interest some.
The first is a link to a history of Taiwan:
“In the October issue of APJJF, we published in exclusive the introduction to Seiji Shirane’s Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022). Now the book is entirely available for free download from the publisher’s website. In it, the author explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan’s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. In so doing, he challenges understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, uncovering a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers that shaped core features of Japan’s Asian empire.
A free download is available at
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501767708/imperial-gateway/#bookTabs=1
The second will be of particular interest to Australians:
“Prepping for a China War: The United States and the New Arc of Militarization Across Northern Australia” by Richard Tanter
https://apjjf.org/2022/18/Tanter.html
Asia Pacific Journal-Japan Focus is an invaluable resource.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 29 2022 16:25 utc | 239

canucks – i find this quite fascinating… joly with the isis finger is mildly entertaining too..
forcing others to be politically correct seems to be all our politicians are good for today…
Mélanie Joly summons Russian ambassador to answer for anti-LGBTQ

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 16:27 utc | 240

I moved to southern California from Georgia in 1976. Within 2 years, I had an offer to join the Masons and the Ku klux Klan, both of which I declined. Just thought of that after seeing the Mason posts.

Posted by: morongobill | Nov 29 2022 17:06 utc | 241

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 15:44 utc | 237
what does Venezuela get out of it, and why is it seemingly helping the US, much less letting Guaido and his backers in Venezuela (who have been ineffectivly trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government, partly due to nobody knowing who Guaido is) be part of the process?
the US is using its financial muscle against a lot of governments (see Pakistan, see Germany, France, etc) that are somewhat related to the showdown between the US and Russia/China, and this makes me uneasy. Chevron is fucking murderous. why is Venezuela letting its enemy get a foot in the door?

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 17:13 utc | 242

Posted by: Walt | Nov 29 2022 14:24 utc | 235
debts to who? surely not to the US, or Chevron.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 17:15 utc | 243

if Russia, which has been supportive of Maduro and Venezuela, is not worried about it, then maybe it’s part of some larger process of negotiation. just on the face of it, the deal stinks. helping Biden save face is not worthwhile to anybody except US democrats.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 17:17 utc | 244

@242 “what does Venezuela get out of it”
I don’t know the details of the negotiations. I imagine Venezuela is looking primarily for sanctions relief and oil revenue. Of course the US can’t show any weakness towards Maduro because he is a brutal socialist dictator who helps Cuba etc. etc. (sarc)
Chevron has had a long standing agreement with Petroleos de Venezuela. They may want it to continue.

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 17:30 utc | 245

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 17:30 utc | 245
oh I’m sure Chevron wants it to continue. And I’m sure the US wants oil, and is using sanction relief against Venezuela to get it. I just don’t get why Maduro is helping the people who have been angling to overthrow him for years. I just wonder if there is a stick of “we will ramp up our efforts to overthrow your government if you don’t comply, look what happened to Imran Khan”. the US is pulling out all the stops because it is in the middle of a self created massive struggle to continue as the hyperpower, never mind what countries it has to smash in the process.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 17:40 utc | 246

No … (huh?) I doubt you’d ever be invited to join….
You’ve said too much already. The Boy Scouts have rituals. Rituals are a good thing for humans. It’s a natural part of expressing ones humanity and spirit of community. Going to the movies is a ritual. Even meals and Thanksgiving is a ritual. Birthdays are rituals.
Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 28 2022 23:39 utc
Wrong again. Actually, the eldest Mason in each of the informal friend groupings immediately invited me upon discovering the level which my Dad held.
Procedures or regular routines are not rituals in the metaphysical sense. In my work-life, I developed troubleshooting procedures for specific equipment to increase efficiency and quality. Some people who watched me thought it was akin to magic how easily I could assess an electromechanical problem, but no, I was not in contact with any spirit guides.
Going to the movies is NOT a ritual. It is a common social activity. Rituals are defined by having no intrinsic benefit from the actual ritual itself. “Community” can be achieved without ritual.
People may “feel” better after a ritual, but sometime rituals are harmful… like regularly washing oneself in the Ganges.
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2017/01/12/comment-i-bathed-ganges-belief-and-bacteria
As for the rest, it is still primarily about entraining the minds involved, and disqualifying those who won’t play the ritual game.
And if you get some cosmic experience out of singing Happy Birthday while the candles are extinguished by the sacred breath of the celebrant, fine.
But for most of us it is about the cake and the presents.

Posted by: Old canadian | Nov 29 2022 17:47 utc | 247

@246 I guess bumping Maduro off is always an option but it may not look good in South America. He seems to be quite popular. Colombia doesn’t seem quite so anti-Maduro these days either.

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 17:50 utc | 248

Khan is very popular in Pakistan, probably more popular than the generals who have replaced him. Maduro’s position should be stronger, with the political change in Columbia, and support from Russia and China, yet this deal on the face of it benefits his enemy; it’s like Venezuela is negotiating from a position of weakness. what would make it do that? I’m inferring threats.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 17:54 utc | 249

taking over Ecuador for awhile via a puppet government didn’t look good in South America, either. or any other of the numerous regime change operations the US has conducted in the region. As I mentioned, it is not only Russia that is in an existential struggle, the US perceives it is in an existential struggle because the power structure can’t conceive of a world it doesn’t run. toppling Khan didn’t look good either. attacking the Nordstream pipeline? bad optics. it doesn’t matter, those are narrative control problems. minor side effects like destroying economies or democracies are just the price the rest of the world has to pay.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 29 2022 18:01 utc | 250

@249 Yes there probably have been threats. And yes US foreign policy doesn’t seem to change. Yes they use any trick in the book. And yes they keep getting away with it. Write your congressman or woman.

Posted by: dh | Nov 29 2022 18:10 utc | 251

The day after the EU countries condemn the starvation in Ukraine in the 1930s as a deliberate Soviet policy, we get the news that Mark Rutte is going to compulsarily purchase 3000 Dutch farms and shut them down to comply with EU climate rules.

Posted by: Gt Stroller | Nov 29 2022 18:12 utc | 252

@238 james | Nov 29 2022 15:51 utc
That was a very deft move – thank you – linking in Pozsar to the discussion of the true stature of Russia in the world, which evolved into the discussion of civilizations replacing structures.
So yea, here’s the picture of civilizations resurging and forming the world at large, and along comes Pozsar to stipulate that there are two kinds of money in the world: the “inside” money which is essentially the Wall Street/City paper nonsense; and the “outside” money which is essentially the real commodities of the world that feed the real industrial economies of the world.
And wouldn’t you know it, most of those resources that constitute the outside money are held fairly securely by stable civilizations that frequently have thousands of years of history forming their cultural minds. And those holdings are currently working on exchanges with other holdings that can be as securely performed as they are held.
And all the plunderers can do is to attempt to steal the resources and to attempt to destroy the exchanges. With some success, but decreasingly so. The last 500 years are coming to be over, never to rise again.
So guess who’s really holding the winning hand in this showdown game of cards?

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 18:20 utc | 253

I have no conundrum. Please stop assuming you are qualified to speak on my behalf. You do not.
The Three Little Words humankind finds so hard to say:
It’s never been a problem of mine. I cannot speak of others though.
And I cannot control Humanity. I don’t even try to control one of them.
Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 28 2022 23:35 utc
I was not “speaking for you”, merely observing the difficulty of acknowledging when you are wrong, and your tendency to make assumptions out of whole cloth. Unfounded assumptions are a symptom of someone who does not recognize the limits of their knowledge, which is a product of “better than” thinking towards the rest or the average. Not talking about you controlling humanity, it is about you controlling yourself.
The Three Little Words is reference to a segment on The Red Green Show (I added the Little). A JOKE with a truthy edge to it. Steve Smith, the creator of that show couldn’t figure out why is was so popular with men, as it routinely, openly skewered the foibles of middle-aged North American outdoorsy/fix-it men. The show that launched the “duct tape can fix anything” meme, “The Handyman’s Secret Weapon”.
Your use of a parable more suited for children than MoA readers exhibits how intellectually elevated you believe you are above the rest of us here.
You might want to quit while you’re behind… and not catching up.

Posted by: Old canadian | Nov 29 2022 18:28 utc | 254

Re: Chevron in Venezuela. It may have something to do with the revival of the Petrocaribe program. I’m not sure exactly what the connection may be though.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Nov 29 2022 18:59 utc | 255

EU shutting down 3000 farms in the Netherlands. That means more money from Russian grain exports – not to mention more soft power and influence in African countries. Amazing how they just keep shooting themselves in the foot.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/brussels-set-for-revolt-as-netherland-s-rutte-plans-to-shut-down-farms-over-eu-laws/ar-AA14GUMf

Posted by: unimperator | Nov 29 2022 19:21 utc | 256

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 0:52 utc | 213
I’m coming from behind, karlof, but again thank you for the link! My previous muddled ‘existentialism’ thought is so elegantly crafted herein:

“…This has arisen because the non-West now sees clearly that post-modern West is not a civilisation per se, but really something akin to a de-cultured ‘operating system’ (managerial technocracy). Europe of the Renaissance did consist of civilisational states, but subsequent European nihilism changed the very substance of modernity. The West promotes its universal-value stance, however, as though it be a set of abstract scientific theorems which have universal validity…”

And I just now posted on b’s ‘crypto’ thread that ‘money is its own country’ with a quote relating it to ‘stuff’, so had to be delighted in the following from Crooke:

“…Zhang and others have noted that the western focus on ‘finance’ has come at the expense of ‘stuff'(the real economy)…”

We are truly getting some great writing, spirited writing!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 19:41 utc | 257

@ Grieved | Nov 29 2022 18:20 utc | 253
i think this is why we are seeing these wars today grieved… it is not an easy win for either side at this point, but the wall st paper nonsense still has an upper hand in many respects as i see it…i would like to be wrong here obviously.. ultimately we are in a huge shift or change as zoltar notes.. how exactly it plays out is not easy to foresee or know.. obviously i would like to see the real economies of russia and china succeed here, but paper money still has a huge hold on the world.. most people don’t consider any of this, or how it directly relates to this war in ukraine either… thanks for sharing your perspective! the article karlof1 shared was quite good..

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 19:58 utc | 258

dunno if anyone else cares about world cup soccer but the US team is up one goal in their match against Iran. I think both teams are playing well and it has been an exciting match so far.

Posted by: dan of steele | Nov 29 2022 20:12 utc | 259

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 2:56 utc | 219
James, it quasi-posted, but for me there were ‘overlays’ preventing reading. I am so non-technical I could not find my way through, sorry.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 20:16 utc | 260

@ juliania | Nov 29 2022 20:16 utc | 260
it didn’t post and my post @ 219 was a brief mention that it ought to appear right in that same spot – which it still hasn’t.. however, i was able to link @ 238 the link i wanted to share.. check that out if interested.. cheers..

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 20:36 utc | 261

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 29 2022 5:39 utc | 222
Thanks for this link, Grieved! I liked very much this:

“…In my experience, the only moment when a Chinese intellectual or official should be taken literally is when he or she is walking a guest to the car. With no one around and no time to add any commentary, a single sentence can speak volumes. And the sentence I was hearing was this: “Always remember that China is a civilization rather than a nation-state.”…”

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 20:41 utc | 262

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 29 2022 6:56 utc | 225
Your question reminded me of the TPP confrontation years back, and how important it was then that the US was unable to dominate the Pacific nations with its rule-based-order on trade regulations. We’ve been struggling ever since, but I do think that was a significant beginning.
Wonderful links, all.

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 21:08 utc | 263

Following on from my comment above @ SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 9:41 utc | 229
Here are just some of the examples of Alastair Crooke’s plagiarism plus his cribbing of many ideas and phrases from other authors in his latest article.

Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
1)
… is a wounded civilization reasserting itself.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
… wounded civilisations are reasserting themselves …
2)
Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
By accusing Western political ideas of being a sham, of masking their origin under the veneer of supposedly neutral principles, the defenders of the civilization-state are saying that the search for universal values is over, that all of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
… accuse Western political ideas of being a sham; of masking their deeply partisan ideological character beneath a veneer of supposedly neutral principles. They are saying that the mounting of a universal framework of values – applicable to all societies – is finished. All of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies.
3)
Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
…it was not to be a civilization at all but something closer to an operating system.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
….but really something akin to a de-cultured ‘operating system’
4)
Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
Samuel Huntington […] of his book “The Clash of Civilizations” […] Universalism is the ideology of the West for confronting other cultures. Naturally, everyone outside the West, Huntington argued, should see the idea of one world as a threat.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
Samuel Huntington, in his book The Clash of Civilizations, argued that Universalism is the ideology of the West contrived for confronting other cultures. Naturally, everyone outside the West, Huntington argued, should see the idea of ‘one world’ as a threat.
5)
Nathan Gardels November 18, 2022
China is poised to evolve a new kind of non-Western modernity that others, especially in the developing world, can only admire, if not emulate.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
…that China is poised to evolve a new kind of non-Western modernity that others – especially in the developing world – can only admire, if not emulate.
6)
Nathan Gardels November 18, 2022
is not the dominance of any one civilization, but a return to the “natural” order of non-universal realms of influence. In the process, the collective West must itself inexorably become a civilizational state in order to maintain an enduring presence in the world.
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
is not the dominance of any one civilization, but a return to the natural, old order of non-universal realms of influence. […] the collective West inexorably must become a civilizational state per se – simply to maintain an enduring presence in the world.

There are many more plagiarized passages in his latest article from these two sources. But know that where there is smoke, there is fire. Understand that this is not a one off.
I put it to you, especially to Karlof1, that this is an entrenched long term pattern of behaviour. No one does this by accident – it’s typically a set modus operandi of how one goes about compiling information and then writing their “articles”.
This is not my first time researching and uncovering prolific plagiarism by an author. The pattern and method is clear.
My Sources / Hard Evidence
The Attack Of The Civilization-State
A world society seemed to be advancing. But then the civilization-state struck back.
By Bruno Maçães June 15, 2020
https://www.noemamag.com/the-attack-of-the-civilization-state/
The Clash Of ‘Civilizational States’
China and the West affirm each other’s identity.
By Nathan Gardels November 18, 2022
https://www.noemamag.com/the-clash-of-civilizational-states/
The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order
Arresting the Slide to Nihilism
By Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/28/the-crux-of-putin-xi-revolution-for-new-world-order-arresting-slide-to-nihilism/
Are there any questions?

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 21:09 utc | 264

Hmmm
Now I know why even though I like Crooke’s subject matter that I never here a ‘voice’ in his prose and so tend not to read him much any more. Something always feels a little off.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 21:25 utc | 265

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2022 20:36 utc | 261
Thanks to Grieved above, james, I think I have the gist of your posted link.
Sorry, SeanAu, your quibble seems inappropriate. It’s not plagiarism to build on concepts others formulate. Grieved already pointed to a previous formulation of the ‘civilization’ concept without making such an accusation. The essays each are unique, not word for word transcriptions. Taking hold of ideas and having thoughts about them is what we ought to be doing!
Do you have some?

Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 21:40 utc | 266

Hmmm
Now I know why even though I like Crooke’s subject matter that I never here a ‘voice’ in his prose and so tend not to read him much any more. Something always feels a little off.
Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 21:25 utc | 265

That’s right Scorpion. There is nothing “consistent” or “ringing true” about his prose – your lack of a ‘voice’ comment is a good way to put it.
I put it this way – It explains why so many of his articles felt so disjointed, jumping all over the place and sounding discordant. @SeanAU # 229 above
Others had mentioned recently here and elsewhere that they “felt” it was not actually Crooke doing the writing .. thinking maybe he had some underlings doing it for him.
Cheers
———————————-
“The Crux of the Putin-Xi Revolution for a New World Order – Arresting the Slide to Nihilism”
karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 0:52 utc | 213
james | Nov 29 2022 2:56 utc | 219
It’s where Crooke is getting a lot of his theme of civilizations …
Grieved | Nov 29 2022 5:39 utc | 222
and
Grieved | Nov 29 2022 6:21 utc | 223
Yes he links to two articles on noemamag.com, quotes from both of them, but then plagiairises from them verbaitm and stylized many many more times.
K | Nov 29 2022 6:42 utc | 224
Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 13:32 utc | 232 / 236
juliania | Nov 29 2022 19:41 utc | 257 / 262
Please see plagiarism evidence above @ SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 21:09 utc | 264

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 21:45 utc | 267

Thought: might be more than simple plagiarism. Maybe there are editorial connections, shared agendas or funding. The media world is funded; sites we might like are funded by sources we might not feel so good about.
Basically, I assume that most alternative press is controlled opposition which is why I don’t believe anything I read on the internet or see on Youtube which means I don’t feel allied with or supportive of all that many places. I feel pretty good about MoA, though sometimes the comment section is very group-thinky but that sort of thing just happens in groups and many here identify as being part of some sort of identifiable group of sorts with a common view. I enjoy Colonel Macgregor though I do wonder how he is so often on Youtube criticizing the government – a good thing of course but still.
In any case, maybe the plagiarism is just a slip they thought no-one would notice but there are a bunch of people in the alternative geopolitical coverage realm who basically are working together as some sort of controlled opposition. There are some alternative views which can be aired, but not others, so these groups, if not outright coordinated, are somewhat in touch.
Or something.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 22:15 utc | 268

juliania | Nov 29 2022 21:40 utc | 266
Thanks for the comments, and inherent questions they raise. I am not surprised. Your reaction is the most common reaction to such accusations of Plagiarism.
Please do not slip into cognitive dissonance and denial here but keep an open mind willing to look at the evidence and give yourself the opportunity to fully better understand what is going on here – the ideas and concepts Crooke presents may well be compelling and useful – but they are not his own.
That matters a lot. Or it should matter. Because Crooke is intentionally misrepresenting himself and his bonafides to YOU!
It is not a “quibble” juliana – it is a serious fact – and extremely appropriate and necessary that people know about this.

juliana says: It’s not plagiarism to build on concepts others formulate.

True. That is correct. But that is NOT what I am accusing him of – in fact I had already addressed that point above in my comments.
Re-using, cribbing, other writers words, ideas and whole phrases is not automatically plagiarism. I was not suggesting it was.
But Crooke does BOTH these things … he quotes other articles and references them, he users other peoples concepts/ideas and words/phrases and then re-writes it in his own words (which is fine);
BUT THEN at the very same time, in the very same article, he repeatedly plagiarises whole sections of the source text VERBATIM without giving credit or quoting it.
That is what Plagiarism is.
Plagiarism is the verbatim copying, word for word, of the FORM of the writing of others.
This is what Crooke has done here.
Another aspect to define plagiarism and copyright infringement is the total amount of copied text as a % share of the article/document as a whole.
Here there is ample evidence already to indicate to me the likelihood the majority of Crooke’s prose in this article is plagiarized from other sources.
I put it to you and others here, that his two sources from noemamag.com are not the only sources he has plagiarized from for this article. To really know how bad and extensive it is, people will need to look into the evidence by actually looking for it … and not dismissing it out of hand – the hard evidence I have shown already is overt provable undeniable Plagiarism by Crooke.
There is much more to be seen in those two sources – but people have to LOOK AT IT, and not turn away.
The other thing is that people who do this do it all the time – this is not a one off “accident”! It is typically a long term pattern of behavior.
Not looking closely at the evidence presented does not make my self-evident accusations false nor a quibble nor inappropriate.
Not looking at the evidence in those two links already provided now does not make the evidence suddenly disappear or go away.
My 6 examples are barely the tip of an iceberg. How much evidence do people need? Almost the entire article is copied/plagiarized from other sources.
All the ideas presented have been cribbed from elsewhere – I suggest that none of it is an Original thought or writing.
I suggest Crooke should instead be doing what other people do – simply using a Twitter account to offer recommended links to the noemamag.com articles.
I will find abundantly more copying and plagiarism in other articles written by Crooke. It is not hard to do. But it is time consuming also. And it is not my responsibility alone to expose the extent of his pretenses.
Caveat Emptor – Let the Buyer Beware!
If I had a Twitter account I would tell the entire world about this and provide the hard evidence as given here already.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 22:24 utc | 269

Scorpion | Nov 29 2022 22:15 utc | 268
There might be something in that.
But it cannot be seen as an excuse for manipulating conning one’s readers about “how clever one is.”
It is still self-evident Plagiarism though without any reasonable doubt about it.
The author himself is responsible, no one else. It is always done with intent.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 22:29 utc | 270

I wrote the following comment at Pepe Escobar’s VK page in response to his latest column for PressTV, “US paralyzed by Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategic swing”, the graphic at its header being very instructive:
“A growing collage of articles and essays are painting the portrait of the world that will emerge from the ongoing Fracture. What seems likely in the short term is a dual circulation system, one centered on the remnants of the dollar system and another built on the NIEO. One aspect is certain–the ‘wounded civilizations’ won’t cease their drive to cleave the fracture and initiate the New Order and put a halt to the Age of Plunder.”
Thanks for the several comments, particularly those by Grieved and james relinking the Pozsar article, which was the one I anticipated. Yes, the two-year-old essay linked by Crooke is quite important as are the references to Zhang Weiwei, whose thoughts I’d explored two years ago when we were comparing China’s democracy and system of governance with that of the West. Hopefully, some will recall all that. If not, some of those comments and essays are saved as articles on my VK Wall. Ten years ago, Zhang published the first volume of what became a trilogy, The China Wave: Rise of a Civilizational State, which was followed by New Challenges and Perspectives of China: Where is China Going?, also in 2012 and then in 2015, The China Horizon: Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State. But these aren’t all as a click here will show. Do take note of all the linked articles, his YouTube Channel and the link to his column in the Chinese magazine Guancha, which is a fascinating site I investigated along with Zhang. I translated and posted two of his columns at my VK which are still there to be read.
But Zhang Weiwei is only one of a growing number of non-Western geopolitical writers dealing with the reality of what’s occurring, what Hudson called the Global Fracture, most of whom are unknown and untranslated. The large stable of Russian writers are having to play catch-up with Putin, Medvedev, Patrushev, and others who’ve jettisoned Liberalism and are charting a new path for Russia that’s Russia’s, although there are similarities to China’s path. Yesterday, there was a very curious item in Global Times about Nepal, “Nepalese politicians, scholars discuss 20th CPC National Congress, hoping to synchronize development with China”, showing Nepal’s decision to follow the Chinese path to obliterating poverty. Perhaps Nepalese also want to attain the Chinese Dream, “Ten years on, the Chinese Dream explained”, which I’d say is akin, albeit different, to the Russian dream.
And by all means, do click on that link and read what Chinese desire in Xi Jinping’s words–it’s critical to know China’s goal, but then if you’d read the 4 February Joint Declaration you’d know what their goals are. And as articulated by Putin on several occasions since, the overall aim is to end the Age of Plunder and initiate a new world of peaceful development of humanity, not just a few thousand extremely selfish boors or worse–Fascists & Nazis.
Take a good look at what and who are driving the Fracture. It’s not the RoW but the Plundering Nations who can’t seem to devise another way of existence. They are Peter Pans, afraid to mature, grow up and behave in a civilized manner, wanting to remain in their Rules Based Never-Never Land. The RoW is now ready to leave them behind–and will.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 23:21 utc | 271

Do you have some (thoughts) ?
Posted by: juliania | Nov 29 2022 21:40 utc | 266

Why yes juliania, I do have some thoughts. Thanks for asking.
I actually wrote a response to Crookes article that is 3 times longer than his which tear his assumptions and the falsehoods and his woolly incoherent thinking apart … including some of the ideas lifted from his sources.
Would you like to read it?
Here’s a taste:

From start to finish – it’s an exercise in self-centered Sophistry.
Crooke: There can be little doubt: President Putin would concur with Xi whole-heartedly.
Ya wouldn’t bloody know mate. That is for President Putin to decide, not for you!!!
Crooke: The return to plural civilisational matrices precisely is intended to break the West’s claim to speak – or to decide – for anyone other than themselves.
But what will break Crooke’s claim to speak for others? Besides which, does the “west” really make such a claim – I’m not convinced it does.
And btw “plural civilisational matrices” oh boy, is this powdery language really necessary? It’s totally ‘Gay.’ Speak to and for the common man … then all will hear the same message no matter their station in life or personal predispositions.
Then there was this classic:
All of us must accept that we speak only for ourselves and our societies.
Unless you are Crooke or Escobar, or any number of other high profile alt blow hards “making hay” in the “industry sector” selling their wares to the naive and less astute hangers on.
They are doing the exact same thing that the western Politicians, their Think-Tanks, the MSM and Social media hacks have been doing for decades. They even use the same tools and MO to do it! What frauds. It’s Sophistry:101

There are a few thoughts – I have more. 🙂
And I am definitely behind what Russia and China are doing and have no desire for the USA to remain as it is. I have felt this way for over two decades now. People like Crooke do not help one bit IMO. Do not help at all. Why people believe the sun shines out of his backside is a mystery to me.
There is definitely something in this “civilisations” notions but Crooke is by no means an expert on it, nor does he offer anything of note. And how relevant such discussions about this topic are I am doubtful. However going to the knowledgeable experts on this topic are recommended to at least hear and consider.
Such as Fudan University scholar Zhang Weiwei and not some self-appointed expert aka pseudo-journalist who writing is extremely questionable and very disjointed.
In reality what Zhang is pointing to likely all boils down to ‘pie on the sky.’ Not that big a deal. It was a useful way to make a point and instruct the CPC leadership about the bigger picture when invited to do so – it’s called Framing ideas to make them more accessible and understood. Not an uncommon practice, it is a default human trait.
Crooke is not qualified to bend down and tie Zhang’s or Xi’s shoelaces IMO, your ymmv. Adopt better yardsticks is my recommendation. But you do you. (goes for everyone btw)
Now I know why reading him these last few months on Karof1’s repeated recommendations made my skin crawl so much. It just did not read right nor feel right. But I could not put my finger on it why.
Now, it all makes perfect sense. New knowledge can do that for us. It’s a great thing to have verifiability, accuracy, and true factual information and knowledge.
Anyway, as always each to their own. If Crooke is your thing, and plagiarists do not set off alarm bells inside, then hey go for it. People choose to believe and accept all manner of things that I will not. And besides Crooke doesn’t define reality nor will he determine what happens.
Another storm in a tea-cup, that is all it is.
I am simply so happy to have worked this one out so quickly.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 23:27 utc | 272

Paul Robinson who, perhaps wisely, fled back to the Ivory Tower on Ottawa when hostilities broke out in February is back blooging sand thinking aloud’
This article in Canadian Dimension will be of interest to Karlofi and others interested in the development of eurasian ideologies.
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/what-can-nikolai-danilevsky-teach-us-about-todays-struggle-between-east-and-west

Posted by: bevin | Nov 29 2022 23:43 utc | 273

Venezuela Analysis has a pretty thorough story up about Chevron and the so-called sanctions relief. Maduro hasn’t approved the deal yet.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15659

Posted by: Chas | Nov 30 2022 0:00 utc | 274

karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 23:21 utc | 271
“They are Peter Pans, afraid to mature, grow up and behave in a civilized manner, wanting to remain in their Rules Based Never-Never Land.”

That’s a great turn of phrase, lol.
and thanks for sharing the info/links and history about Zhang Weiwei – a far better quality and more reliable source on these issues than others given, that is for certain.
A curious coincidence …

“The world ‘Map’ is accelerating its shift away from the paralysed Washington ‘hub’ – but to what?”
Alastair Crooke November 28, 2022
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/28/the-crux-of-putin-xi-revolution-for-new-world-order-arresting-slide-to-nihilism/
and Escobar’s title: US paralyzed by Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategic swing “

Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ. (smile)
I had some thoughts on that very thing myself:

Crooke – “…in the continuing western fantasy of pulling China away from Russia.”

The belief that is what the US is trying to do is itself a ‘fantasy’ imv. They’re merely game playing, laying down markers and lines and hurdles then demanding China jumps over them – when they don’t then the US uses such “breaches/refusals” as justifiable reason to sell to the gullible public/other western nations to crank up the pain pressure/imposts further on China trying to slow it down, curtail its options. eg the recent Chips bs.
The very same thing it did to the countries of the ME, in South/Central America, in SE asia, in Africa, no matter who they were aligned to, or supported by and before China arrived on the scene as ‘the’ bigger problem …
They’re not that dumb and stupid in the US that they “really” expect China to pull away from Russia or vice-versa.
China will end up being as sanctioned by the US/EU as Russia currently is today. It won’t stop. That is what the US wants – it doesn’t want it free of Russia, and cowtowing to US dictates – it wants China under non-stop pressure and bleeding, and being kept off balance. Jeez, seriously. The things some “experts” think and say – shaking my head.
Once Turkey, the Saudis, or India get really serious with Russia/China and the SCO/BRICS then they will be on the receiving end of similar draconian sanctions and trade embargoes and financial restrictions by the US/West aligned nations.
Crooke is getting way ahead of himself and so are others. There is no “paralysed Washington ‘hub” yet, and won’t be for a very long time … and until it happens, it hasn’t!
There is a gap between “former wounded civilisations are reasserting themselves” and actually breaking free and being truly independent. Like Putin himself, like China’s leaders, every nation had already tied itself to the US/Western ways for decades to centuries. China literally loves Walmart, Apple, Ebay, Amazon and Tesla.
Russia has been selling oil and coal to Europe since Soviets days – the cold war made no difference then either. Germany and Europe are already pushing back – people need to slow down and stop assuming the worst is going to happen in record time without any notice or long lead times.
Crooke et al are not the gods! He’s worse than a Tarot card reader imo.
You do not unpick these institutional, economic, and cultural ties overnight nor simply. What Russia has done has cost it and it is far from finished paying the price required. Nor has it “won” yet. It’s only round 2 of a 15 round heavy weight championship boxing match. The result is not foregone.
IMO people need to really slow down a lot here. There will be no joy being led by the nose relying upon prolific “town criers” repeating the same slogans and myths every day. It’s what the MSM do btw.
And this by Crooke says so much – “So to where are we headed?”
I say: Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the Future. What’s lacking here is some basic humility and honesty.
Handy quick Ref: In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify
by Pippa Norris

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 30 2022 0:16 utc | 275

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 29 2022 23:21 utc | 271
One aspect of the Chinese Dream piece which struck me was the naked display of nationalism. I have nothing against nationalism myself but if any Western polity embraces it they are immediately shouted down as Nazis.
So it seems the Chinese model is verboten for Westerners.
And also the Outlaw Empire business is not a product of nationalism nor necessarily in accord with any of the citizenry involved, but something promolgated by unaccountable elites who derive their power from the blood and treasure of nations but in effect are undermining and destroying them.
The Russian polity seems to encourage nationalism as well.
And indeed the entire ‘civilizational’ question, though distinguishing itself from mere nation states, also involves national – or civilizational if you prefer – pride. Which again I believe is a good thing. More: it’s a sine qua non of a healthy society. But again: verboten for all Westerners.
Verboten by whom?
Am not drawing or meaning to suggest any conclusion, but it is an interesting irony.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2022 0:20 utc | 276

@ Chas | Nov 30 2022 0:00 utc | 274
thanks chas.. good article and overview…too bad more people in the west can’t recognize a bully when it is standing center stage on the world today… reading the article, it is very clear who the bully is.. it seems the rest of the world ROW) is working on addressing the bully.. it is a work in progress…

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2022 0:32 utc | 277

Roger Annis on the newest theme from the China bashers:
“The imperialist countries and media of the world have launched a propaganda assault against the People’s Republic of China using the Covid-19 pandemic as their limp battering ram. They are spreading lies and accusations that China’s highly successful response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a ‘failure’ and that rising numbers of Chinese citizens are speaking out against the country’s Covid safety measures.
“A columnist in the South China Morning Post (owned by the Alibaba Group of Chinese capitalists) writes on November 29: “Most people [in China] have had enough of lockdowns and testing. The time has come for Beijing to accept that reality and make the right choice [to end the government’s successful ‘zero Covid’ policy guideline]….”
Continued at
https://socialistincanada.ca/the-imperialist-countries-of-the-west-are-distracting-attention-from-their-criminal-covid-policies-by-falsely-denigrating-chinas-stellar-record/

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 0:36 utc | 278

@274 Thanks Chas.
“In 2024, the Venezuelan people will vote to elect (or re-elect) their leader through a process that has been internationally credited as transparent by everyone who has bothered to witness it. The White House, however, only considers elections worthy of recognition when a US-friendly politician becomes president. Otherwise, Venezuelans will just have to continue enduring sanctions.”
I’m sure Maduro knows exactly what he’s up against. My sense is that he has the public on his side. I’d like to hear an unbiased account (if there is such a thing) of how ordinary Venezuelans feel.

Posted by: dh | Nov 30 2022 0:38 utc | 279

The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 2022
When Civilisational Clashes Meet Power Shifts: Rethinking Global Disorder Get access Arrow
by Baohui Zhang
– Professor, Department of Government and International Affairs, Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Published: 15 October 2022
Abstract
Samuel Huntington’s famous prediction in 1993 of “clashes of civilisations”, amid that decade’s rosy expectations of “liberal peace”, sparked wide criticism for its rebutting of the then-conventional wisdom of globalisation, global governance, and democratic peace that defined the so-called “liberal” international politics of the 1990s. However, events in recent decades have corroborated his stark prediction. In particular, conflicts between the West and non-Western rising powers have become a salient feature of international politics—an outcome shaped not only by differences in civilisational identity but also by power shifts that trigger civilisational clashes.
In their quest to acquire influence better befitting their expanding material capabilities, rising powers seek to reorder the international system by shaping its rules and institutions according to their civilisational values and norms. This aspiration has generated conflict between non-Western rising powers and the West over ideational incompatibilities, global governance, and the reconfiguration of regional orders.
The consequences of such civilisational conflict have led to escalating fragmentation, disorder, and instability in world politics.
https://academic.oup.com/cjip/article-abstract/15/4/352/6761484?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 30 2022 0:42 utc | 280

When Assad speaks pearls of wisdom as he has been for years. Sanity.
His blessed People and their lands are surging into another millennium as they see off yet another would be crusading conqueror from the Waste.
I think when the UN dissolves next year like a vampire in sunlight. the next World Assembly should be built in Damascus.
It’s a lot nicer and easier to get to than icy NewYork.
I recommend the following article I just read.
https://syrianobserver.com/news/80454/in-private-assad-assesses-many-countries-positions-towards-his-regime.html
‘This was clearly confirmed by President Assad at the end of the meeting, which lasted for four hours when he said: “Our meeting today, as you noticed, was not to give information and explain details, but was based on a discussion and dialogue on ways to view general and current political issues, which in turn can clarify and explore scenarios for the coming political and economic developments. ‘
Read all of it. It’s an amazing interview as good as any multipolaristas now.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2022 0:47 utc | 281

Nationalism is/was viewed as bad as Communism and was often conflated as such. Look at Nasser and other nationalists during decolonialization; they were vilified and overthrown for the same reason all leftist governments were ousted after WW2–they impeded Plundering.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 0:56 utc | 282

In a roundabout way viz the Western countries. I guess you could say that the elites keep the population disunited and demoralized since otherwise they would come together as a healthy united population enjoying a strong sense of shared culture and values who would therefore have the gumption to kick the pernicious parasites overlording them out and hence would indeed: ‘impede plunder!’

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2022 1:39 utc | 283

@ bevin | Nov 29 2022 23:43 utc | 273
thanks for sharing paul robinsons article.. i quite enjoyed it..

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2022 1:51 utc | 284

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 0:36 utc | 278 on Covid in China
There are evidently a few protests which are picked up and magnified by the usual suspects and often mis-reported. The incident in Urumqi for example was not Covid-related as the block in question was not under lockdown. I saw another video in which it was claimed someone was shouting “let me in” allegedly to rescue her poor mother, but it was in fact someone screaming “let me out”. Another which claimed to show instances of apartment doors having been chained and otherwise sealed by the authorities, but all I can say is that I have never seen any such occurrences during the few short lockdowns we have had in our block, and no protesting at all except when the food failed to arrive at a neighbouring block and the residents gathered on the roof and chanted. The fact is that people here genuinely fear the disease and support the measures, perhaps partly because so few have had any experience of it.
Cases in Shenzhen are picking up again, just into daily double figures so nothing like the outbreak in nearby Guangzhou, nevertheless we are still on daily pcr tests, even though under the new rules as we are not high risk this should be scaling down. This is no big deal, unlike the hour long queues at the beginning of the year, we just go down to the third floor of our block, pick the right time and they may be half a dozen in the queue or fewer. This gets you the 24 hour green code on your phone which you need to get into anywhere—even the parks!

Posted by: Walt | Nov 30 2022 1:51 utc | 285

Background info, Misc news reports go like this:

BuzzFeed News has fired a senior reporter it says plagiarized or misattributed information in at least 11 of his articles.
The reporter, Ryan Broderick, was the author of 11 articles linked in a Friday evening note to readers from BuzzFeed News’ editor in chief, Mark Schoofs, who said the articles in question contained information and phrases that were not properly attributed to their original sources.
On Friday, CNN announced that it had fired one of its news editors for “multiple instances of plagiarism” in at least 50 articles on the news
A Daily News Editor Is Fired After Plagiarism Accusations … Shaun King, a senior justice writer at The Daily News
BuzzFeed has dismissed a journalist after a social media outcry sparked a review of his work, and editors discovered at least 41 of his articles contained instances of plagiarism.
In a statement posted Friday, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith said dozens of articles penned by reporter Benny Johnson contained “instances of sentences or phrases copied word for word from other sites.”
Two journalists affiliated with Vice have accused former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson of plagiarizing sections of …
New York Times Reporter Fired for Plagiarism – Although the Times doesn’t drop the P-word, that’s essentially what reporter Zachery Kouwe is accused of doing. His thieving was brought to ….
2 May 2022 … NBC News said today 11 articles written by a now-dismissed reporter during the past eight months “did not meet our standards for original …
Plagiarists include academics, professionals, students, journalists, authors, and others. Consequences of plagiarism include: Destroyed Professional Reputation – A professional business person, politician, or public figure may find that the damage from plagiarism follows them for their entire career.
The legal repercussions of plagiarism can be quite serious. Copyright laws are absolute. One cannot use another person’s material without citation and reference. An author has the right to sue a plagiarist.
https://www.ithenticate.com/resources/6-consequences-of-plagiarism
Daily Mail ‘spits dummy’ after Paul Barry calls out plagiarism – 6 Nov 2018 … The Daily Mail has turned the tables on Media Watch, questioning the ethics of host Paul Barry and story editor Jason Whittaker after the …

There’s also many academic papers that researched the extensive amount of news reporting and opinion pieces plagiarism across the world. For example from 2015.

– ‘Reporter fired for plagiarism’: a forensic linguistic analysis of news plagiarism…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281032163_'Reporter_fired_for_plagiarism'_a_forensic_linguistic_analysis_of_news_plagiarism
extracts – News plagiarism has been perhaps one of the most challenging areas of research into plagiarism. Unlike student plagiarism, text reuse by journalists with little or no attribution at all does not seem to be usually regarded as plagiarism, not even when substantial amounts of text are reused. […]
On the other hand, they often reuse text from other (secondary) sources to write their articles, while not always citing them. This is the case of reusing text from other media organisations, or even from newswire services. Notwithstanding these underlying assumptions, journalists have been punished for plagiarising.
In February 2015, Jared Keller, the news director of the news site Mic, was fired after he was found to have lifted passages of text from other news sources. Keller reproduced the text literally or with minor changes, with little or no reference to the source. Where he provided a reference, this was made in passing.
That same month, the columnist Tanveer Ahmed was dismissed by the Australian after a blogger accused him of plagiarising an American political website.
Two years earlier, the New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer was fired for recycling New Yorker blog posts, among other misdeeds.
One of the most paradigmatic cases, however, is that of Jayson Blair, who in 2003 resigned from The New York Times after facing accusations of journalistic fraud, including plagiarism. In
particular, he was accused of lifting material from newswire services and other newspapers, such as the Washington Post and The San Antonio Express-News.
In 2007, a reader of the Portuguese quality newspaper Público found that the journalist Clara Barata plagiarised from other sources, including Wikipedia. This case is even more complex than the others, as the texts were not lifted from an original in the same language, but instead from an original in another language.
A similar case is that of a reporter of the Telegraph-Journal in Canada, who was fired in
2009 for lifting a news piece from L’Acadie Nouvelle.
This paper investigates how a forensic linguistic analysis can assist the detec-
tion and/or provision of evidence of news plagiarism. It builds on the assumption
that it is crucial to devise a method for identifying the textual elements that can
be used to flag a text as a potential instance of plagiarism, not only to raise sus-
picion about its originality, but also to develop translingual plagiarism detection
techniques (Sousa-Silva 2014). A method of this type is presented below. […]
The Reuters Style Guide states in addition that, in accordance with the Reuters Code of Conduct, the company’s journalists are required to always “search for and report the truth, fairly, honestly and unfailingly” (Reuters 2008, pg. 1). […]
Their journalists are, therefore, required to do a “proper attribution to the source of
material that is not” theirs, and and concludes that “failure to do so may open us to charges of plagiarism” (Reuters 2008, pg. 5).
Likewise, the International Federation of Journalists1(IFJ) and the Portuguese journalists’ union (Sindicato dos Jornalistas2) consider plagiarism a ‘serious professional offense’.
Similarly, the style guide of the main Portuguese quality newspaper, Público3, establishes that plagiarism is forbidden by the newspaper, and adds that all relevant information collected from other media organisations or news agencies must be attributed.
[…] In addition, the style guide explicitly states that texts translated from other languages should be clearly marked as translations and include the translator’s name.
It is then unsurprising that, in accordance with its policy, Público published an apology, in 2006, for one of their journalists, Clara Barata, who published an article that was mainly translated from the New Scientist and Wikipedia. The suspicion was raised by a reader, who noticed that the text looked familiar to him when he first read it, and later identified the original sources. The newspaper initiated an investigation and later realised that the journalist plagiarised 13 significant extracts using translation.
The case was compared to that of the famous New York Times journalist, Jayson Blair, who in 2003 was dismissed after the newspaper was challenged by other news organisations for accusations of
plagiarism.
Cases of news plagiarism have however long been reported. In 1996, another news organisation, the Portuguese news agency Lusa, had submitted a complaint to the journalist’s union, Sindicato dos Jornalistas, claiming that several Portuguese media organisations were plagiarising texts authored and signed by their own journalists, and which were not included in newswire services.
[…] It is thus evident that, despite reporting facts, news are subject to principles of originality as much as other text genres, including student assignments. News plagiarism therefore is not treated much differently from academic plagiarism. Like academic plagiarism, it is not only subject to internal rules and regulations, but also tends to be resolved internally by the respective organisations.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281032163_'Reporter_fired_for_plagiarism'_a_forensic_linguistic_analysis_of_news_plagiarism

Plagiarism is not a crime. It is a matter of Professional Ethics, Morals and Credibility.

Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 30 2022 2:18 utc | 286

“A giant statue of Elon Musk’s head on the body of a goat riding a rocket has gone viral online after someone delivered it to the man himself at Tesla’s Austin headquarters on Saturday, in what appears to have been a crypto marketing stunt.
Costing a whopping $600,000, the strange monument is 30 feet high and weighs some 12,000 pounds. The head alone took the Canadian sculptor Kevin Stone around six months to finish.”
A scene Fellini cut from ‘Satyricon’ Somebody turn out the lights, we’ve arrived in the dark, and we’re too tired to adulate.

Posted by: Elmagnostic | Nov 30 2022 2:24 utc | 287

Mass Formation theory and Dr Peter Breggin run into flak from Dr Robert Malone. Its off to court they go and meanwhile many observers are aghast.
Who woulda thought the scientists and professors, united in cause, could be split by an ego war?
Dr Paul Alexander pleads for calm and reconciliation between the antagonists:-

I am urging that people step back. That Dr. Malone steps back and pulls back and finds a way to discuss his grievance with Dr. Breggin. We have to work this out else the other side wins and gets what they want. That calmer heads prevail. This is not the way to go and I am sure they can address this with a side bar and without this heavy handed approach. There is no need for this and we are in a battle of our lifetime against radical insane deepstate criminals with their COVID madness and we must unify. We face a cabal hell bent on bringing us to heel using COVID to remove all freedoms and liberties and to ransack and re-arrange the world. Breggins are stellar people and to make this step, then Dr. Malone is engaging in the very same actions that have plagued us, this being moving to chill and silence people you do not agree with. IMO this is what the effect will be and IMO and based on the fact I am not a legal scholar, this will get tossed out as frivolous and vexatious. No merit.

From europereloaded.org a project of The Liberty Beacon which I have just come across so do spare the lashing if you think it trash 😉 Time will tell.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 2:25 utc | 288

@bevin | Nov 30 2022 0:36 utc | 278,
It is my impression that South China Morning Post (SCMP) is a western mouthpiece even though it is based in HK and owned by Alibaba Group. Its articles about China basically follow western lines/tones. It’s more like a left-over from an imperial colony that still serves its old british master.

Posted by: LuRenJia | Nov 30 2022 2:39 utc | 289

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 2:25 utc | 288
A good example of truth being stranger than fiction.
I don’t agree with the mass formation business. There is some truth and insight to it but it is an overly simplistic and extreme explanation of what was happening in 2020-21.
Mass formation, for example, doesn’t explain the pandemics of wokeness or Trump Derangement Syndrome that had most of the country actually believing the obviously bogus Russia Russia story. Or now the Jan 6th Insurrection LARP. Or belief that there is ‘no evidence’ that the 2020 election was anything other than perfectly correct. We have a culture that has been structured somehow to rapidly absorb and then follow suggested attitudinal fashions. It’s similar to mass formation but more banal, pernicious and shallow. Society is extremely susceptible to extremely shallow BS and seemingly unable to do anything other than follow along and even fiercely defend that which has been so easily adopted – the Karen syndrome.
Put another way: people don’t believe that wearing cloth masks help prevent a pandemic because of mass formation. They don’t believe that statistics derived from proven useless PCR tests are meaningful because of mass formation. They don’t trust Big Pharma because of Mass Formation. People take sides or choose allegiances essentially adopting what are similar to or actual beliefs. And beliefs trump fact every time.
This belief mechanism is what is being called mass formation. They should give us a good book on that, and how modern media ties into it. And scientism.
It’s not so much mass formation as mass groupthink. Not quite the same thing though some of the elements of mass formation – a general background of all-pervasive anxiety etc. – were definitely part of the general picture.

Posted by: Scorpion | Nov 30 2022 2:51 utc | 290

Now even a simple sheet of white paper is taboo in the PRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WfzishwPM
No.protests.at.all.allowed!!

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 30 2022 3:37 utc | 291

“…it is my impression that South China Morning Post (SCMP) is a western mouthpiece ..It’s more like a left-over from an imperial colony that still serves its old british master.
LuRenJia@289
I agree entirely as, I believe, does Annis.
That the billionaires side with their western brethren is not surprising- capitsist simply don’t care how many poor people, old people, sick or otherwise vulnrable people die, of Covid or anything else.
And the point about Covid is that the mortality rate can be kept very low, provided that there are enough nursing and medical facilities available to ensure that everything necessary is done. This is why the Trumps, Johnsons and Bidens never succumb.
The Chinese government understands this and also understands that the PRC simply does not have sufficient medical facilities to cope with a full bore pandemic. And, unlike the capitalist governments it measures its credibility on its ability to protect the most vulnerable.
The capitalists would sacrifice a few million people just to keep profits rising, the Communist government, its ideas conformed by Confucian tradition and all ethical standards, would rather sacrifice profits to preserve lives.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 3:38 utc | 292

re 292 typos again:
“..capitalists simply don’t care..”
“..its ideas confirmed by Confucian tradition and all ethical standards,..”

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 3:49 utc | 293

@ Bevin 292
If you believe that Xi Jinping’s CCP is only benign you should also be leave in Santa Claus.
Wanting C to be benign just only to counter malicious A doesn’t make it so. Consider B, D, etc.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 30 2022 3:56 utc | 294

“Now even a simple sheet of white paper is taboo in the PRC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7WfzishwPM
No.protests.at.all.allowed!!” Antonym@291
So? What is it to you?
I never see you protesting against any other government’s heavy handed attempts to suppress opinions it doesn’t like. Did you have anything to say about Assange? Have you any problem with the treatment of protests in Israel? Or Kashmir? Or in the Ukraine, where dissenters disappear, are tortured and often killed?
Nope.
Antonym hates China, hates communism, probably hates Chinese people and that is the alpha and omega of Antonym on MoA. (He’s not that fond of muslims either.)

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 3:57 utc | 295

@ Bevin 295
Nonsense! I don’t hate Chinse people. Just the abolute authoritarians amongst them, concentrated in the CCP top. Same for any other nations.

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 30 2022 4:06 utc | 296

moaobserver | Nov 27 2022 17:56 utc | 18
The Indian regime are perhaps playing the best game on the planet. They are working for what they believe is in the best interests of its people.
The problems with China have been managed by India for decades. Their relationship could be described cordial compared to India’s relationship with Pakistan. There is a lot of trade between these two behemoths.
Beware of Empire propaganda when it comes to China but judging by comments I see and hear it is too late.
The Empire is attempting to gear up for the war. They have opened up the borders in order to build up their troop levels. They are starting to get war production ramping up…the trouble is the Empire has squandered its resources in its regime change missions in the ME. It’s manufacturing base has been gutted.
It’s a testament to the Empires malicious nature that part of the plan to get industry back was to destroy the EU in the process.
I will keep saying it, I can do nothing else:
You cannot trust the Empire. Never. Ever.

Posted by: moaobserver | Nov 27 | Nov 30 2022 4:10 utc | 297

@ LuRenJia | Nov 30 2022 2:39 utc | 289
Indeed.
@ Antonym | Nov 30 2022 3:56 utc | 294
It is CPC. Epic fail at the very first step … No journey of a 1,000 Li, for you!
China has brought ~800Million citizens out of generational entrenched poverty from 2010-2020(IIRC).
And the Golden Billion, Empire, has driven how many people into generational entrenched poverty, within Empire’s ‘Garden’ & outside in ‘The Jungle’ 2020, let alone since 1991, where in the US of A even people on $100,000+ salaries live out of cars or tents ? Let alone those who subsist meal to meal on the grace of charities works … hm ?
Would you like some Freedom Fries or a Dumbocracy Burger with that ? Thank you ! And have a Nice Day !

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 30 2022 4:31 utc | 298

@288 uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 2:25 utc
I think your source is reliable enough, given that we now seem to have two sides of a war going on, and it’s representing one of the sides. Well, now that we have the world geopolitical situation in hand (thanks, Russia!), I guess it’s time to get back up to speed with the docs and the latest findings.
I’m going to hold back any comment on this for now. I’ve just now read both sides of the war from Malone and the Breggins, but I want to check all the others too, McCullough and Kirsch especially – et al.
Just as we had to study medicine the hard way, by comparing all the different views (i.e. by practicing science!), we will now have to study the biofog of biowar, the same way.
It will all shake out how it shakes out. Be seeing you in future open threads 😉

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 30 2022 5:04 utc | 299

TL&DR Given the current Ukraine Sitzkreig. History & context re Empires modern Genesis … re Phillipines, China & the South China Sea.
Re aquery from our resident inquisitive Alien, Klaatu, & discussions re Empires latest attempts to once again assume control of the Philippines sovereignty for its own hegemonic purposes, prompted by the WSWS article post from Jun in the Open (Not Ukraine) Thread 2022-205 triggered in my mind perhaps the benefit of a historical frame of reference.
Where did Empire start ?
You may recall the horrors of torture Empire inflicted in Iraq, in Abu Ghraib prison, it’s secret internal CIA Black Site, still open even now Guantanamo Bay facility, other secret ‘Black Sites’ around the globe, in particular certain Junior NATO members, & separate ‘Black Site’ Brigs on secure sovereign US territory, US CVA’s sailing upon the waves.
Water-boarding, & water-torture were & are US torture methods easy to conceal/deny re survivors testimony. The Imperial Japanese Army/Navy is the most well known prior practitioner.
Yet Empire, in it’s initial modern form of the USA, used such methods routinely over 120 years ago, freely, even openly in public, upon summary apprehension/arrest against the civilian population of the Philippines during the Philippine-American War & subsequent Occupation.

The first use of wartime water torture by Americans occurred during the Philippine-American War of 1899 to 1902, when American soldiers and their indigenous minions used the “water cure” to extract information from Filipinos who resisted the occupation of their land, and to punish them.

“The First Wartime Water Torture by Americans”
Maine Law Review, Volume 69 Number 1 Article 2, January 2017, Allan W. Vestal,(65 pages, refs) full PDF download link

US citizens & most westerners know none of the true history, other than some vague recollection of ‘Remember the Maine’, jingoistic empire patriotism & the phrase ‘Yellow Journalism’.
Hence a brief Primer on the ‘formal’ beginning of the ‘Modern’ form of US Empire re the Monroe Doctrine, starting with a snapshot of the Phillipine-American War.
This war triggered the formation of the The American Anti-Imperialist League at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, which at the time prepared briefs/letters/lectures against the war & subsequently Imperialism.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Anti-Imperialist League used Faneuil Hall to protest America’s growing imperialism. The league argued against militarization and the creation of an overseas American Empire and asserted that the principles the United States had been founded upon needed to extend to foreign policy as well.

National Parks Service.

Manila, or the Monroe Doctrine? Courtesy of Library of Congress via HathiTrust. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
The annexation of the Philippines and other overseas territories called into question just how far America’s jurisdiction stretched. Author John Chetwood challenged American imperialistic practice with this 1898 pamphlet. In it he argues: “In the scales with the Monroe Doctrine lie our national honor and our national credit. Will the people of the United States exchange this for Manila?“

The true scale, scope & horror of the war for Empire was hidden from the general public using narratives, reports & illustrations deliberately concealing the reality …

The Philippine-American War was hardly a “skirmish,” as illustrations of American soldiers suggests. By the war’s end, 4,200 Americans and 20,000 Filipino soldiers lay dead, in addition to 100,000(Other, more credible estimates are ~200,000-1,000,000) Filipino civilians.

Please carefully consider the figures, long before ‘modern’ warfare, ie mass artillery barrages, bomber fleets, or ‘Shock & Awe’.

The Philippines waged a fiery, but ultimately unsuccessful, war against American imperialists.
Revolution had been brewing in the Philippines long before the Spanish-American War. In 1896, Filipino nationalists, largely organized by the militant Katipunan group, waged an armed rebellion against Spain. Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of a Katipunan faction, emerged as prominent military and political leader. The resistance even established the First Republic of the Philippines with Aguinaldo at its head. Neither Spain nor the US recognized its legitimacy. Nonetheless, during the Spanish-American War, Filipinos fought alongside the US hoping that an American alliance and victory would mean independence. Allies, however, soon became enemies.
In the Treaty of Paris, the US agreed to annex the Philippines at the cost of $20 million. Angered by the betrayal, Filipinos declared war. The Philippine-American War was a bloodier and more brutal affair than its predecessor. Where the US won in manpower and technology, Filipino rebels made up for their military deficit with tenacious guerrilla tactics. Philippine General Elwell S. Otis promised to “drive the Americans into the sea.” By 1902 the US had captured Aguinaldo and devastated a majority of Filipino cities and communities. The war came to an end, and President Theodore Roosevelt pardoned the insurgents. The Philippines was now officially a US territory.

Fighting the Spanish alongside the US, to achieve Independence … betrayed proxies … Phillipino’s, ‘We’ve got your back !'(USA)
Empire, exceptionalism, expansionist jingoism became entrenched post the war, & the nascent American Anti-Imperialist League promptly lost relevance, support & influence until ultimately disbanding in 1920 …
Peace

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 30 2022 5:51 utc | 300

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