Sunday, October 18, 2009

The American Self Immolation, Truly a Sight to See

As my readers know, I am a fan of economics and of history, as well as politics, a combination that forms some very interesting cycles to research, discuss and argue on. None is so interesting than the death of great nations, for here there is always the self destruction that comes before the final breakups and invasions. As they say: Rome did not fall to the barbarians, all they did was kick in the rotting gates.

It can be safely said, that the last time a great nation destroyed itself through its own hubris and economic folly was the early Soviet Union (though in the end the late Soviet Union still died by the economic hand). Now we get the opportunity to watch the Americans do the exact same thing to themselves. The most amazing thing of course, is that they are just repeating the failed mistakes of the past. One would expect their fellow travelers in suicide, the British, to have spoken up by now, but unfortunately for the British, their education system is now even more of a joke than that of the Americans.

While taking a small breather from mouthing the never ending propaganda of recovery, never mind that every real indicator is pointing to death and destruction, the American Marxists have noticed that the French and Germans are out of recession and that Russia and Italy are heading out at a good clip themselves. Of course these facts have been wrapped up into their mind boggling non stop chant of "recovery" and hope-change-zombification. What is ignored, of course, is that we and the other three great nations all cut our taxes, cut our spending, made life easy for small business...in other words: the exact opposite of the Anglo-Sphere.

That brings us to Cap and Trade. Never in the history of humanity has a more idiotic plan been put forward and sold with bigger lies. Energy is the key stone to any and every economy, be it man power, animal power, wood or coal or nuclear. How else does one power industry that makes human life better (unless of course its making the bombs that end that human life, but that's a different topic). Never in history, with the exception of the Japanese self imposed isolation in the 1600s, did a government actively force its people away from economic activity and industry.

Even the Soviets never created such idiocy. The great famine of the late 1920s was caused by quite the opposite, as the Soviets collectivized farms to force peasants off of their land and into the big new factories. Of course this had disastrous results. So one must ask, are the powers that be in Washington and London degenerates or satanically evil? Where is the opposition? Where are the Republicans in America and Tories in England?

The unfortunate truth here is: the Republicans and Tories are the Menshaviks to the Democrat and Labour Bolsheviks. In other words, they are the slightly less radical fellow travellers who are to stupid to realize that once their usefulness is done, they will go the very camps they will help send the true opposition to. A more deserving lot was rarely born. Of course half of the useful idiots in the Bolshevik groupings will go to those very same camps.

One express idiocy of Cap and Trade in America will be the approximately additional $.19 per liter of gasoline, which is a rather very large increase in taxation, however indirectly. Of course this will not only hit the American working serfs in the pocket at fuel up, but will hit them in everything they buy and do, as America has almost no real rail to even partially off set the cost of transporting goods.

But how will this work itself out? Very simple and the chain of events has been worked out often enough.

First, the serfs will start to scream at the cost of fueling up and the cost of all their goods. The government, ever anxious not to take responsibility, will single out the petroleum factories and oil companies for gauging the people. They will make demands for them to cut prices, which of course means working for a loss. When plants start to close down or move overseas, they will be called racketeers and saboteurs. Their facilities will be nationalized so that the government can show them how to do things properly. Shortages will follow as will show trials and that's as long as the USD holds up and foreign nations are still willing to sell oil and gasoline for other than gold, silver and other hard resources.

When food goes up, and it surely will, as the diesel the farmer uses goes up as well as his fertilizers, the government will scream that the farmers are hording, thus undermining the efforts of the enlightened. There will be confiscations of all feed crops while the farmers will get production quotas to meet or have their land nationalized again. Do not believe me? Look at the people running your governments and ask yourself: would they rather take some one's land or admit that they screwed up and ruined everything? After a point, only the corporate farms will remain, food by oligarch, just a like the factory farms. There will be plenty of dissidents to work them.

This will of course spread from industry to industry and within a rather short order, you will be living the new fractional dream, that is a fraction of what you have now. But on the bright side, for once, your children, working for government/oligarch run joint ventures, will be able to compete adequately with the Chinese, to feed the demands of Europe and Latin America. But that will take at least a generation or two first along with a cultural revolution or two.

35 comments:

hamilton x said...

Mr. Mishin, I believe you meant "self-immolation" but your points are well made. And no nation would want to any longer emulate the declining USA. This year's federal,state and local public deficits are worthy of a so-called "banana republic" not a healthy superpower...and there is no rational prospect of improvement.

sofa said...

succinct analysis

Stanislav said...

@Hamilton

Yes, you are correct, correction made.

Unknown said...

I think you are exactly right. We in the US are so far down the road of Progressivism / Socialism / Marxism that it feels like it may be too late to turn it around. The attack on the American Experiment was well and truly launched a century ago, knowing that we would not swallow Socialism whole, but we would swallow it in small bites.

I don't believe it even makes much difference which party (Democrat or Republican) is in power any more - the only apparent difference is the speed at which each would take us toward the same end.

I have apologized to my older (teen) children that they will inherit an American in decline, a decline that seems to accelerate daily.

Unknown said...

Many, many America see this. I am 55 and have tried and tried again to turn this tide - to no avail. My children were brought up "depression" style, so when it hits, they will be prepared. Most children are do-nothings and will not be able to adapt to the new "less is more" environment. All we can do now is prepare for the worst. Thank you for you analysis.

Unknown said...

This is basically what happened to start the current crisis. The banks, either through coercion or greed, allowed a large number of people to buy homes they could not afford. Enter stage right the Wall Street speculators who, either again through coercion or greed, drove up the price of oil to $4 per gallon. This, as your analysis shows, also drove up the cost of all goods and services, leaving the average American unable to pay his mortgage. The subsequent cascading failure of the credit markets due to the sub-prime mortgage defaults caused a global credit crisis. Our current crop of leaders (Dems and Repubs) can only seem to try to spend their way out of the recession, which is going to destroy the nation. Everything is pointing to the destruction of the largest economy of the world in just a few years. However, the average American has no time to see what is going on in the economy or politics because they are too consumed in the latest reality show or entertainment award ceremony - you know, the really important stuff.

Gavrick said...

We've already moved East to Germany. If necessary, we will move further Eastward, as my wife is a citizen of a former Soviet country. My German is quite fluent and my Russian is coming along. It brings me no joy to desert the US, but the future freedom of my two small children is more important to me than any feelings of patriotism I may have had.

vonbach said...

I'm very uncertain I care what happens to America.
Honestly it hasn't been my country for 40 years or
more. If not for my family being in this area I'd have
moved away. When America finally collapses we can
rebuild.

Karl said...

Another great post!

We Americans have watched other nations commit suicide. Today we have a front row seat.

Posted a link at Ushanka.us.

Karl

Anonymous said...

Anyone here visited the Sublime Oblivion forum?

I think I was the first to register or one of the first.

I was the first person to post a thread on The Grand Chessboard.

I will be posting a thread on who I think will be the next superpower and it wont be Russia although they will have a prominent position, China or the US.

http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/forum/

@Stanislav

Any recommended books, TV programmes films about Russia not dealing with Communism.

@hamilton x

Read Wolves of Islam what conclusions did you get from the book?

Cobra said...

The USA had been destroyed from within by the same characters who destroyed Russia.
And, URSS itself made things worse, through the KGB methods used to damage the morale of the American people and to change their view of the world.
It is important to note that the same "chosen people" were mostly the agents, or spies, of the KGB/URSS, in the USA.
The battle is not fully lost yet, but the outcome grows bleaker by the day.
In any case, your articles are making waves in the USA...
That's why it is important (for you) to uphold your standards, and not descend in cheap anti-Americanism, that may sell in Russia and the left (in the USA) but nowhere else.

Dale said...

Mat,
I recently discovered your blog and I must say that it was a welcome discovery indeed. I thought your points were well stated and on target.
While it is difficult to single out any one thing in particular that I thought could be considered a "memorable quote" - and please know that that is a compliment, as paragraph after paragraph of your essay was so "on point" - I did want to comment on this sentence;
"Look at the people running your governments and ask yourself: would they rather take some one's land or admit that they screwed up and ruined everything?" Something interesting to note (and something that I have mentioned to groups when I lecture - still amazes me that people will actually pay money to be bored to death!) is this - The deadliest and most horrific weapon EVER devised by the human race is not nuclear - nor is it biological - nor chemical. It is a weapon that has been the cause of more death and destruction that any of those I just mentioned - AND it is a weapon that is carried by everyone, at all times. It is your index finger - "it is THEIR fault", ".. it is HER fault", "... it is HIS fault" - and the most amazing thing about this weapon is that rarely is EVER can one commit suicide with it. When was the last time you have seen anyone turn their index finger to their chest and say, "it was MY fault" ?
Sadly, in this country (I am from the US) we have come to assume that freedom - that liberty have an automatic setting, well we are soon to learn that this is not the case.
What keeps coming to mind are the words of the late American Journalist Edward R. Morrow in his "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" aired on March 9th, 1954;
"he actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.""

David B. Carvalho said...

Hello, Stanislav! I've published a Portuguese translation of this text in my Catholic blog http://cruzadosmaria.blogspot.com

Keep these excellent texts coming! God bless you! Спасиво!

Drama Momma said...

I am a United States Republican. I am doing what I can but it all seems to be without avail. I would agree with your analysis. The future of America looks bleak to say the least.

Since Obama has come to office, my spouse and I have lost many luxuries we used to enjoy, we have no extra cash, no money to give to charity and every month we wonder if we won't have to become subject to one receiving charity.

Friends tell me about the benefits of socialism, education, health care, and benefits of tolerance to all people other than if you speak of God.

We used to be a nation based on capitalism, industry, entrepreneurship, and a nation from the people up not from the government down.

It seems to me we installed overnight an oligarchy. We have sipped the poison too long. As a child I was schooled to believe we were a democracy, we stopped pledging allegiance to our flag our nation and our God in fear of upsetting those who may not agree with the foundation of our nation.

I want my nation back, tell me do you have any suggestions?

hamilton x said...

Jack, thank you for your question. My conclusion from reading "Wolves of Islam" was "what a difference Putin has made". By the time I got the book,the Russians had begun to reassert themselves after the abysmal Yeltsin years.The Turkish and Georgian connections noted in the 2004 book are much weaker now. Chechnya is not even ruled by Islamists; so much for their pretensions back then to take over the whole region. The foolish American neo-cons that once supported Chechen independence are now silent.Indeed the American military usually kills Chechens whenever they find them in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Stanislav said...

@Drama Mama

Republicans were founded by the 48ers, which were the leaders of the first Marxist revolution in 1848, who fled the German principalities and Italian states for America, when they were crushed. Marx fled to England. Look up Lincoln keyword, I have an article about the marxist dictator Lincoln and his republicans.

Education is actually a benefit. Look, as much as I hate the soviets, due must be given where deserved, the Soviets had an excellent education system, as long as you were not in economic facultet. The insanity of the AngloSphere education is an Anglosphere idiocy of the highest caliber.

The oligarchy in America has been there for well over 200 years and the northern oligarches came into real power under Lincoln and it has been worse every year. They, Wall street (have an article on this too, under key word Wall Street) funded the Marxist revolution in Russia and the rise of Hitler.

David B. Carvalho said...

Hello Stanislav

Indeed, I have realized that the Soviets thought that mind-numbing, kid-lib educational system was good only as rope for the Western enemy to hang himself. Inside the communist bloc the educational system was military-efficient. In many topics, the propaganda inside the USSR was opposite to propaganda outside USSR: sex-lib, kid-lib, gay-lib, prison-lib (imagine prison-lib for the GULAG), antipsychiatry, anti-nationalism were good only to demoralize the enemy inside his own country.

I wonder, have you seen the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov videos I published on YouTube? Check my channel www.youtube.com/hermitcleric

Cobra said...

Stanislav,
You are correct, again.
But you must go one step further, beyond the "Wall Street" and the "The 48thers".
Who were they?
Have the courage to go full bore...

Anonymous said...

@hamilton x

I got a different more extensive conclusion from the book coupled with what I have been researching over the years since late 2001.

Turkish assistance may have dwindled manly due to the fact that the Mossad tried to coup the Turkish government causing Turkey to seek closer relations with Russia but Georgian assistance to Chechen militants has intensified through Israeli intelligence which controls Georgian intelligence, the British and the US

Georgia itself is a US/British/Israeli colony.

FSB chief announces that Georgian intelligence is helping Chechen terrorists.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/Top_News/2009-10-13/fsb-georgia-al-qaeda.html

I really hope they actually hold a press conference and disclose the info they have but of course they wont just like they didn’t with the other opportunities they had especially September the 11th and there links to not just one but several foreign intelligence agencies aiding Chechen terrorism, Zarqawi in Iraq and the UN bombing there, Madrid, Nord Ost siege and Beslan and the treasure trove of info gathered during the Georgian conflict.

Sherri Lackey said...

To see my nation slipping away with every passing month has been frustrating. Some of your comments in this article have been my exact thoughts of late. But hardly no one outside of my family and a handful of friends seems to care that the United States Constitution is soon to be a scrap of paper blowing in the wind. People care more about the latest reality TV show. They seem to think their freedoms are secure for them and their children. I just don't understand the apathy.

Anonymous said...

The English education system has been destroyed. Rigour has been stripped out and social engineering has been installed.

It's a premeditated assault on children that will scar them for life. Ostensibly for reason of egalitarian idiology but, in truth, to enslave them.

MaggotAtBroad&Wall said...

We can turn things around. Decline is NOT predetermined.

With GDP of $14.5 trillion, our economy is over 2x larger than Japan, and over 3x larger than China. As much as people whine and moan about U.S. manufacturing jobs being outsourced, we still have the largest manufacturing economy in the world. Nobody invests more in pharmaceutical, medical device, and technology research than we do. We are still the largest exporter of agricultural products in the world.

We have the most advanced capital markets that finances business growth and a venture capital industry that develops and commercializes new technologies that eventually become new companies and new industries.

Our federal government debt is huge (but still manageable over the intermediate term), and the unfunded liabilities for social security and Medicare are astronomical. The size of our federal government is the biggest threat to America and our prosperity. Unfortunately, the American people became mesmerized by a guy who could give a good speech and stupidly elected a borrow and spend populist Marxist to be their president. That was the worst decision they could have made. What is needed is someone to reduce the size of government, create a credible plan to balance the federal budget, and pay down debt.

If American voters re-elect these Marxists who masquerade as Democrats, then the government and currency will probably collapse within 10 years.

Stanislav said...

@Cobra,

That's the interesting thing about the 48ers, while Marx was a Jew, and Engles was a wealth anglo saxon, to say it was a Jewish revolution is nonsense. Almost all of the 48ers were Prussian and other German/Italian minor aristocrats. Look up the names and the peoples, many are on wikipedia, interestingly enough. Most were officers under the Prussian king. Maybe they figure by utilizing marxism, they can over throw the higher nobles and make selves the dictators of the rest of their societies.

Under Lincoln were no jews, under the Confederates were Jews in the government.

In Russia, the Tsar made a mistake of making the Jews absolutely a 2nd class people, with few prospects to get ahead, it made them easy to recruit and many joined in droves.

Stanislav said...

@MaggotAtBroad&Wall

Dollar value of an economy is irrelavent, it is what those dollars can buy, thus the purchasing power parity of a dollar. For example: average american, according to your government, earns $40,000, so lets say in some village in Oklahoma $90,000 would be a lot, he could buy a lot of land, food, and so on. But what could he buy in New York City? Probalby, where apartments run at $1 million starting, not much....but he still has those $90,000.

it is no different comparing nations. Russian jets are as good or better than any 4th generation American jet, yet cost less than half as much. Why? A dollar goes further in Russia, plus there is less corruption in the military industry here than in America with you huge companies who eat up money and produce nothing on time or even near it. Corporate welfare.

--We have the most advanced capital markets that finances business growth and a venture capital industry that develops and commercializes new technologies that eventually become new companies and new industries--

I doubt that. Between the Germans, Japanese, Taiwanese and even the Chinese, these days, I doubt it.

--Unfortunately, the American people became mesmerized by a guy who could give a good speech and stupidly elected a borrow and spend populist Marxist to be their president.--

Yes, that was Clinton and Bush and to a smaller degree Reagan, than they hit real big time with Obama.

--What is needed is someone to reduce the size of government, create a credible plan to balance the federal budget, and pay down deb--

I am pretty familiar with your history, so please tell me, starting with Woodrow Wilson, when has there been such a president in America? Do not say Hoover, since he was a major interventionist and big project man (Hoover Damn).

Cobra said...

Stanislav,
The J word is too wide to describe the villains in the communist/"progressive" movement.
They were renegades from the old Judaism (in fact Farisaism/talmudism-in itself endorsing a racist view of the world-Everything for the "chosen ones" slavery for the rest).
The problem is much more complex.
But the source is undeniable....
The historical factor we all need to ponder is how, when they reach the critical mass of "power and influence", not necessarily number, they always turn hostile to the population/country that hosts them.
I am not aware of any historical exception to the aforementioned statement.

hamilton x said...

Jack,those are definitely interesting points you make. You must have noticed the Georgian Patriarch is distancing himself from Stoogvashvili(or whatever the dope's name). I thought that was interesting. I will look forward to yours and Mr. Mishin's continued analysis.

Anonymous said...

@cobra

Keep going cobra - you're becoming interesting...

Anonymous said...

Looks like Jack has thrown down the gauntlet. Come on Stan, name the Jew

Tartine said...

This is the truth. The Americans have what they deserve. They have been warned right and left and they still are doing the same mistakes. The corruption is flourishing all over. It may be used to be a nation under God but now with God out of the picture America is a nation going under.

Sam said...

In 1970, a KGB agent defected to America, and in the 1980's, he gave several interviews and talks about the KGB and their plans to subvert their enemies. Yuir Bezmenov outlined the essential four part subversion plan. 1. Demoralization 2. Destabilization 3. Crisis 4. Normalization. Demoralization takes the focus of religion, education, etc from the original focus (God/morality, practical learning) to the opposite. Agents were to take advantage of the normal, small opposition to the standing culture of a nation and fuel it to change the culture. Destabilization weakens the nation's defense, economy, and foreign relations. Crisis is the excuse for socialist government takeover, and Normalization is the final communist product, which is often a military controlled society. Even without the USSR, America has continued on this devasting past. The KGB agents helped the dissident and socialist tendencies of groups in the 60's and 70's enough to continue America's socialization. Looking at several headlines from the past few months, I think we are in the destabilization phase. Obama (administraion included) and the congress have made their rounds of the globe with their America Last campaign (Demeaning America in foreign relations). He and congressional leaders canceled the missle defense shield that would have protected our military bases, our allies and us from long range attacks (Ruining our national defense). He and congressional leaders have done everything in his power to ruin our economy and dollar. Look out for the crisis
You can view Mr. Bezmenov's talk on youtube.com (7 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0By0xbst8

G. Edward Griffn also interviewed him(8 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otxHEOdvoaM

Stanislav said...

@Sam

It's funny that you should bring up the Missle "shield", since 70% of Czechs and 60% of Poles voted against it...but their elites, under US $CASH promises ignored the will of their peoples to do the will of their American owners. Or did you not know that your Bush promised Poland $30 BILLION of your monies to make them rich, for making their people nuclear targets.

There is Western "democracy" hard at work.

Anonymous said...

@Sam

He also said there were 30 million prisoners in the USSR and that came to nothing.

The 70's and 80's is when Marxist Trotskyites shifted from socialism to conservatism and on things like race and egalitarianism the US and Western Europe was more Marxist than the USSR and became anti-Communist and that’s when we saw promotion of anti-Soviet forces in the West and a serious effort to undermine the USSR which the West had been keeping afloat with banking loans and food imports preventing it from collapsing many times.

It's ironic that the US has become the USSR through the Neocons supporting Islamists around the world, operating secret prisons in Eastern Europe, open immigration, abortion industry, minority rights, etc. trying to create a globalised one world governing body through "free trade" where a handful of companies control all the industry in the countries of the world and there resources including water.

Anonymous said...

Interesting. Though I'm beginning to suspect the West is on the path no to Marxism but to a form of neo-Feudalism.

The open borders egalitarianism employed seems more adept at creating universal serfdom than social justice.

Capt. Edward S. Isaacs said...

Great article, well written. I am afraid America has already pass the tipping point. we are on a crash course with destiny, on the works for the past 40 years, right on schedule. It's all over now.
Thanks for posting.
Ed.
www.edwardisaacs.com

Texas Longhorn said...

Government Worldwide Remember This  IF you were to tell the governments
what it is supposed to do AND tell them get out of what it has NO business being in:

THAT IS THE SAME as asking a housefly to get a bath before it lands on YOUR food!!!!