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Addendum 2—Putin’s Misidentity
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While I have the greatest respect for the difficulties that beset post-Soviet Russia in its efforts to make an economic recovery, and have generally perceived Russian President Vladimir Putin’s (b. 1952) http://eng.putin.kremlin.ru/bio efforts in this perspective, I remain skeptical of the direction Putin is taking.

One of the reasons for my skepticism about Vladimir’s leadership is not because I suspect him of dishonesty and lack of transparency, but—as readily noticeable in the above link—his obvious identifying of himself as an urbanite. True, his parents, identified themselves not only with St. Petersburg, but also with Pominovo, a village in the Tver Region, where Vladimir’s grandmother came from. Nevertheless, this is Putin’s family history, not a matter of personal experience.

The reason, why I emphasize Vladimir’s lack of experience with the Russian countryside is that while I was also born in an urban setting, the Soviet occupation of Latvia (1939) forced my family a year later to seek refuge and survival in the countryside, which is why at the age of seven, I became a country boy. At that age, I was still young enough to switch identities. That I identified with the city, at first, is evidenced by the fact that as a ‘city’ boy, I picked a fight at elementary school with a country boy, and paid for it with a broken front tooth. It introduced me to having new respect for the people who were dominant in my new environment.

More than seventy years later, I hold my ability to identify with the countryside as an essential ingredient for my geopolitical and economic orientation with regard to the future. My distancing from the urbanite set began early, at about the age twelve thirteen, when in Displaced Persons camps, I discovered that all the patriots of Latvia there were Latvian urbanites, mostly from Riga—even if they were born in the Latvian countryside. The latter can be ascribed to the fact that in those days the movement of countryside people to the more promising urban setting ended in Riga (up to the time of independence—1918) a German city. Of course, today a similar movement to an urbanite setting uses Riga as a city of transit only. Riga itself is dramatically losing population, down from about a million inhabitants to slightly over 600,000.

So, alright. What makes the countryside so important for the future, and what does it have to do with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin?

Briefly this: While the movement of people from the countryside to the city was already notable in Latvia in the 1920s and 30s, emigration as such had no yet reached popular levels. Such took place for the most part only within the context of religious belief; for example, many Baptists moved from Latvia to America and South America, because not only were many from the countryside, where the economic conditions were less promising for the future than in the city, but because religious discrimination by then dominant Lutheran Church was demeaning of personal achievement simply because of one’s religious affiliation. Incidentally, this same religious intolerance forced my grandfather (a descendant of Herrnhuters, now said to have morphed into the Moravian Church) to leave the countryside for Riga and almost never speak of religion. The way that I know of his religious affiliation with so-called dualist theology is that one of his sayings, passed down by an oral tradition, was—when urged not to work late at the office: “Don’’t worry about me, worry about my Devil.” Evidently, for him, the Devil was not a theological reality, but personal energy. Interestingly, that same saying has survived in America http://www.thefreedictionary.com/like+the+devil , re: “Work like the Devil.” Later Catholic Christian orthodoxy changed this to: “Work like the Devil for the Lord.”

When I am arguing that President Putin may not be the man to save Russia from the attacks of the West, I base my doubts on such small differences or what French historians call longue durée (long term) influences on history. That is to say, in the present economic setting, where the economy of the future is explained by the media and politicians to the public as more of the same as in the last hundred years http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20131125-rebuilding-the-future , moreover, in an increasingly urban setting, is likely himself suffering from the longue durée cultural virus in that he has no idea of country life and that it suffered a Stalinist like repression from a modernist movement known as urbanism.

It is worth while mentioning in this context that Pope Francis and the Vatican (an urban site since the 15^th century) have just identified capitalism (largely to be identified with urbanism) as tyranny http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25102720 . Of course, the Pope may have made the statement because of Israel, which (according to an article at voltairnet http://www.voltairenet.org/article181169.html claims: “It [Iran and its former President Ahmadinejad] feined “ignorance about the direction of the conference [planned to be held in Iran], which was to show that Europeans had replaced their Christian culture with the religion of the Holocaust.) Not surprisingly, Pope Francis may agree; well knowing that it was the Franks and the French who established the Vatican to try a hand at reestablishing the Holy Roman Empire of the East (Jerusalem cum Constantinople) in the West.

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Addendum 1--History Husked
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The reason to read  up on the Dayton Accord regarding the deliberate dismemberment by the ‘West’ of former Yugoslavia is that that failure directly reflects on the current agreement with Iran and beyond http://original.antiwar.com/malic/2013/11/22/an-unlikely-peace/

I am no fan of the Zionists of Israel, especially not their PM Netanyahu, and see their role as a mirror image of the Muslims in Bosnia, a position that for eighteen long years (as the link argues) has fanned hatred (a la the late “Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic who reneged on the agreement reached in Lisbon, reportedly at the urging of the American ambassador to Yugoslavia, Warren Zimmerman.”) Likewise the statements by Netanyahu who (see flwg link): “Speaking to his Cabinet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is not bound by the deal and reserves the right to defend itself. That is a reference to possible military action against Iran.” http://bigstory.ap.org/article/israel-minister-iran-deal-based-deceit

One reason why I believe Latvians have a direct interest in these treaties (contrary to our own Foreign Ministry where brains are believed to come as models in calcium) is that my paternal genes link me with Bosnia; and while my ancestors may not have arrived in Latvia (270 years ago) from Bosnia directly, but via the ‘heretical’ Herrnhuters from Germany, it causes me to take a ‘sovereign’ perspective of Latvian interests.

A short digression: in the 15th century Bosnia was a haven for the Cathars (Ķeceri according to Latvian Catholic derived theology) or ‘heretical’ or early (not yet usurped) Christians of Europe. Interesting evidence of this may be found in my great-great grandfather’s first name, re Gusts, which is likely submerged and out of sight evidence of what was once the highest Office among the Cathars, re gost. Preceding the ‘gost’ were two other identities, re: Krstjan (source of the name ‘Christian’? and Latvian Krišjānis) and Starac (Latvian ‘starasts’, aka ‘star-east’). Now my grand-grandfather did not identify himself as ‘vagars’, re slave driver (but ‘starasts’ or leader of a community; while owner of an inn, he also held regular Sunday religious services there); while my grandfather was a school teacher (later a newspaper editor) and at one dime the choir master of all the choirs in the Vidzeme region.

A major reason this ought to be of interest to other Latvians is because the Herrnhuters (like the Cathars) did not believe in introducing a middleman (a priest) between the individual and God; and because they are credited with rebuilding the Latvian community after the Great Northern War (Sweden vs Russia) at the beginning of the 18th century. The Herrnhuter position of maintaining a sovereign perspective cost them their due, because both the Catholic and Protestant churches inserted the priest-minister-policeman between the people and the State and essentially denied the Herrnhuter perspective. The latter calamity has permitted the current State leadership of Latvia to become ‘vagars’ (no longer identified with ‘slave driving’, but with ‘do nothing’ that helps escape the reputation of dependency on the State) to the Latvian community vis a vis Brussels, which, in the final analysis, means the denial of sovereignty or special identity for Latvians.

One further argument in support of Latvians as former Cathars: The Cathars came to their Christianity long before it was usurped by Catholicism (i.e. early globalization efforts); evidence for this is that the Cathar cross reflects the rays of the Sun (simplified to four beams). I find it amazing that a former prezident (VVF) of ‘renewed’ Latvia has researched and written so extensively about the reflection of the Sun in Latvian folk poems, without once making the connection that it was the Ķeceri who are responsible for maintaining this symbolism in Latvian folk culture. Perhaps the reason is that she spent early childhood in France and Algeria, where the persecution of Cathars began.

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Dreams De-Aestheticized
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When one spies on dreams, dreams are being invaded. In the Western World spying on dreams began with the French Catholic Church insisting that the people of the wood, among whom they built their obscene donjons gazing over the treetops http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=donjon+photo&qpvt=donjon+photo&FORM=IGRE . Looking over the top also means an implicit desire to see what is happening below the treetops. This is where the so-called Confession and Confession of Sins came in, and why the secret police in the disguise of the Catholic priesthood was necessary. Later came Sigmund Freud and dream interpretation; and later yet behavioral psychology, which aimed to control human beings through drugs and creation of culture under the control of a Central Authority. American led Military-Bankster Culture is the result.

While drugs are ever more extensively used, the ‘reading’ of the subconscious mind is being replaced by an ever greater analysis of what part of our brain has what function, which function then comes under the control of tiny electrodes inserted into the brain whence by a ‘tele-’ apparatus come signals from some government facility, for example the NSA , i.e., National Security Agency, an agency without constraints when it comes to exercising  control over the population. A new God has arrived to terrorize humankind.

Be that as it may, this is the opposite to what humans perceived was necessary to form a community at the beginning of ‘civilized’ time.

As discussed in previous blogs, in dream-time, we imagined that in mythical space-time there was a castle in which resided a mythical King (sometimes also called ‘god’), who at the end of his rule died by self-sacrifice. Self-sacrificial death was understood by all the dreamers who lived in the woods as atonement by a never seen or met communal authority as a divine sign sent to beg pardon for the misfortunes that humankind living under the guidance of its own dream-space and time experienced.

One of the short-comings of government by self-sacrificial death is that it demands its leader to be an individual of great will and dedication. This is why self-sacrifice, if not forthcoming, was replaced by various forms of sacrifice of others. In the early days, failure to self-sacrifice was replaced by sacrifice that used the garotte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote. Early on the public was never told about the king’s failure to die on the its behalf, but however he died, it was told that he died for his people and kingdom. The telling was done, of course, by those who succeeded the King and had performed the sacrificial ritual. Such a lie made leading the community by the Dream-King’s successors easier.

In later years, after many individuals had gathered up the courage to form a community through their self-sacrificial charisma, and when, for that very reason, public failures happened more often, sacrifice was replaced by a ritual theatre. The most impressive theatre of this kind was performed by the Azteks, the predecessors of the Mexican people of today. Once sacrifice reached such a high degree of ritualized and, therefore, theatrical state, the theatrical ‘devices’ employed in realizing the ritual were many, including the skinning of the sacrifice. By this time, the sacrifice no longer necessarily included the King, but was often replaced by captured ‘enemies’.  Anthropologist David Carrasco describes the ritual-theatre in his book “City of Sacrifice” thusly:

“Once the victims had been sacrificed and skinned, the ‘skins’ were worn by the captor’s assistants, in prodigious displays of male power and success. As these skins worn by Aztec males moved through the city, the experience of the ideal battlefield permeated the public spaces of Tenochtitlan, and transformed the neighborhoods into miniature battlefields….” This ritual-theatre, which introduced the ‘magic’ or ‘charisma’ that was necessary to bind individuals into a community is sometimes called as “synesthesia”, which Carrasco describes (p157) as a study in ritual and theatre that “…gives emphasis to the anthropology of experience and especially the process of synesthesia (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synesthesia), which awakens in the ceremonial atmosphere, the whole human organism to the ontological and political message of rituals.”

The exclusion of the King from existential syneththesia rituals eventually became an existential flaw in the ritual that was meant to form and maintain the community.

To put it simply: ‘the word got out’ that self-sacrifice was being faked and the ritual ceased to be charismatic in the way it had been when the people had still lived in the wood and had survived as animal herders, root, berry, and fruit gatherers, and mushroom pickers. As governments tried to cover the lack of their charisma by increasing the numbers of the sacrificed, they thereby substituted charisma with a dread that overwhelmed society (note no longer ‘community’). It is an open secret, that society today is no longer held together by charisma, but through the threat of annihilation. Society has an implicit understanding that increased social chaos and war casualties are not something to be accepted as truisms, but are a consequence of cynicism bred by political de-aethesia http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aesthesia. No, not aesthesia, but de-aesthesia.

Widespread pessimism and a sense of despair has led society to understand that this ‘game’ of ‘de-aesthesis’ cannot, inspite the demand and insistence of governments, be long-lived. This is why on the one side of the social scale, superpowers and the elite who form their backbone are preparing for war, while the poor, on the opposite end of society, are going berserk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVHDlPqZWE with no glue to hold them together.

Small countries, like my own Latvia, have been seized by one party governments, who get their support from one party super governments like the U.S., E.U., but also take as their examples from such other supergovernments like China, Russia, India. The war of which I speak above, is to be among the superpowers http://rt.com/op-edge/us-encircling-russia-via-nato-957/ in the inter-national realm, while intra-nationally it is waged as per the example set by NSA. Incidentally NSA’s invasion of intra-national space and private communications may not be so much to gather personal information, but to instill fear and repress individual sub consciousness.

If the wood hid the terrible deeds of our forebears, the city has no moss, grass. or leaves to hide a head torn off by an explosion, and will be seen lying in the street by every child and of course everyone else who lives in the city http://albumwar2.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/39024-728x481.jpg . Nothing will be hid, and there will be no dreams.

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Dream-time Long Lost

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In the preceding blogs I tell how when the West speaks of ‘democratic’ governments it speaks of self=securitizing governments, which means that the Parliaments of these governments stand for self-interest, though they may have some diversity of personal opinion. Since most of these governments are now ready to merge in one or another kind of federated union, it means that the emergent super states are also going to be super-fascist states; re: Super Self-Securitizing Centralized Powers (SSSCP).

As readers know, I trace the beginning of this self-evident catastrophe to the flight of the Goths (formerly Vikings) from the fall of the Byzantine Empire, which they had much to do with screwing up. I hold that before the arrival of these Vandals (but another name for the Varangians and Vikings), the Byzantine Empire existed in a “dream-time”, a time which remains reflected in much neglected fairy-tales.

If anyone cares to note, fairy-tales reflect the life of humankind living deep in the forest ‘dreaming’ of some far off Kingdom where peace and fairness rules. The King of this Dream Land was most likely known by a number of names: Prester John, G(Y)enghis Khan, John The Baptist, or simply John (Yan, Han, Huan, Ian, Ivan, Johann, etc.). It is likely that this King was real, one of the founding priests of a Temple in the Forest.

Since human beings were still used to exercising the liberties offered by the environment of the wood, and, therefore, disobedient to all disciplinary directives from anyone who presumed authority, the authority in order to be obeyed had to prove itself through self-sacrifice. It was the charisma of self-sacrifice to death what impressed the unbelieving men and women of the wood and named the authority, Him-Her, the Thing, das Ding, King or Queen.

As time went by, the Temple grew, developed, and acquired wealth. The latter caused envy among certain men of the wood who may have deemed themselves Cynics or Realists. It was easier and safer to be a Realist to come raid the Temple from far away than one who was living nearby. This is how the first traitors emerged—from afar. When the men who lived in destitution in a land known as Scandinavia heard of this wealth, they went Viking (literally wading) down rivers of Europe East and West, brought ‘dream-time’ to an end, and instituted the secular kingdom. Evidence of this, if we care to look, lies in pieces of half-truths all about.

When the Vikings or Varangians wiked their way during the 8^th and 11^th centuries to the Black and Caspian seas http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4454202,00.html , and discovered Jerusalem [then Byzantium (tsargrad or koenigsberg)] certain ‘Hans’ or ‘Huns’ (or was it Johns?) attacked the Vikings from the East and forced them to retreat whence they had come. It is then that so-called Goths arrived into the area now known as the Benelux, began to fight among themselves, out of which fights emerged what we today know as the French, the English, and the Germans.

It should not be surprising that the descendants of these Goths-Anglo Saxons remembered the tales of their forebears, and once stabil in their new home land looked for a pretext to return to the southeast of Europe and attack the Huns. By then the Children of the Wood had changed their name from “cross my heart and hope to die”, Johns of the Cross (the cross meant my signature), to the Children of Johns (Yohammads). Contrary to the Catholic Church, founded by the Goths as an alternative to the religion of the East, which claims history to begin with the birth of Jesus some two thousand years ago, the actual history begins with the sacrifice of a Jesus like being, probably a version of Prester John, John the Baptist, or Ghegis Khan about the time of 11^th or 12^th centuries. If anyone wishes to discover more on the matter, I recommend Anatoly Fomenko’s, “History: Fact or Fiction”, 2^nd  vol. In other words, the Crusades began with the attempt by the French to return to Byzantium.

Today, the French, just like the Jews, are a mirror image of their former Viking and destitute selves. Let us remember Jehanne D’Ark or la Pucelle, who saved the craven secularists in the 15^th century by her self-sacrifice. Today, knowing that their nation is about to be submerged into a centralized state known as the European Union, all three nations that emerged from the Vikings are desperately looking for a way out. The French, finding themselves geographically and economically in a vulnerable position, are—like the Brits and Germans—looking for a way to escape this fate. The French, in the personage of their socialist Prime Minister Hollande http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.558565 are willing to risk WW3 to save France as a nation, while Israel and Saudi Arabia are making plans of their own to attack Syria http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4454202,00.html

Regarding the domestic troubles of the French, the following link is enlightening: http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/11/22/the-most-despised-tax-and-retreat-french-president-sinks-dee.html

The cycle of history--fictional history by the way--is about to repeat itself. If Jesus was crucified in 1083 or 1183, as per Anatoly Fomenko, and the First Crusade was the one that began in 1204 and ended with the sacking of Constantinople (then Jerusalem), then the French Prime Minister is fishing for another blood bath today.

 

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Feral Gov. 102

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The following quote perfectly defines what I mean by “Feral Government” http://esoschronicles,blogspot.com , a two word name that pretty well reveals our civilization and the state of communities within it. From a post at ZeroHedge.com:

 

“According to many, the hidden leverage embedded in the securitization pipeline is what catalyzed the 2008 near-death experience of the financial markets. All of this is well-known to most.

What however is certainly not known, because until a few days ago the concept did not technically exist, is what emerged deep from the bowels of the FSB's 2013 ‘Global Shadow Banking report’, and what is barely even defined anywhere in popular literature, which thus we have defined as the "unspoken, festering secret at the heart of shadow banking."

Presenting self-securitization.

What is ‘self-securitization’? Go ahead and Google it: there doesn't exist any technical definition of this heretofore unheard of phrase.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-15/unspoken-toxic-secret-heart-shadow-banking-self-securitization-central-banks

 

If the 2008 event can be described as a “near-death experience” for the world economy without undue exaggeration, the experience today, at least for a small nation like Latvia, is elimination by death as fact.

 

The President of Latvia, interviewed by an early morning television show in Riga (15-11-13) spoke of Latvia as a country where death of nationhood was done, finished, and sealed by a small group of Latvian fascists (my description) having seized the Parliament (Saeima) in the interest of SELF-SECURITIZATION (busy-work in the shadows). Not a few present and past members of the Latvian government are on the millionaires list (also just released), where they intend to stay at the expense of, both, the indigenous and immigrant work force.

 

Here is what the President of Latvia had to say yesterday on an early morning television show (my translation):

 

“I am of the opinion that patriotism is the good work of every individual whose work benefits everyone else. The world is open today; practically, a third of the work force migrates. The world is global, enterprises are forced to invite workers from the entire world. This is nothing new or surprising.”

 

When asked what the President thought the role of the role of the Nation in the life of the individual, President Behrzinjsh responded: “The role of the nation is diminished…. Its place is taken over by the global economy. The State concerns itself with security, education, and health care. Everything else is open.” http://www.apollo.lv/zinas/prezidents-latviesi-pasaule-vairs-nav-tikai-senu-lasitaji/622369

 

Note that the Latvian President does not define a patriot as a Latvian, but as ‘everyone’ who has a job.

 

Unfortunately, the President’s description of the Latvian government’s concerns is also inaccurate. The Foreign Ministry of Latvia has not had one original idea come to its mind during the past twenty-one years of ‘renewed’ independence. Only yesterday the government issued a warning that Latvians in certain regions are likely to be inconvenienced by NATO boots, vehicles, and other engines of war. Higher education in Latvia has faced decades of neglect, literature except for translations and biographies is practically nonexistent, and when I took the son of an acquaintance to the hospital a few days ago, because of an injury was causing water to collect behind the eleven year old’s knee cap, the doctor said he rather postpone the drainage until an x-ray was taken. Alas, the x-ray line extends to August 2014, and the mother does not have Ls 13 (~ $26) to sign the boy up for a private line. When I heard this, I promised to cover the bill. The President with his Ls 5000 monthly pension will not do that.

 

While “self-securitization” by the Latvian government has been long suspected and this writer has long called it by its other rightful name: a closed ‘democratic’ (fascist?) circle; to this time no government official has so blatantly and cynically confessed to abandoning the nation to the hyenas (some Latvian delegates included) of Brussels as this President.

 

At this time, what with the 18^th of November, the Independence Day of Latvia, a few days away, government propaganda is grinding out the bloody mush of once true patriots, even supporting the creation of a movie about Latvia’s Independence Battles during WW1 (Aleksandrs Grihns: ‘Dveseļu putenis’) http://www.apollo.lv/zinas/iecerets-ar-lidzekliem-politiski-atbalstit-filmas-dveselu-putenis-uznemsanu/617776

 

Hail, Latvia, full of Grace! Blessed art Thou among communities; and blessed be the tomb of Thy forebears and creators.

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Feral Gov. 101
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Dictionaries define ‘feral’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child  as wild, but with a significant difference from our usual understanding of the word. In this instance, ‘wild’ describes a domesticated animal that returns to the wild state as a result of insufficient human attention (for example, a feral goat) or even abandonment as in the case of a feral cat.

I have theorized that the ‘feral’ state may also visit human beings, but not as the psychologist Freud http://psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/a/wolf-man.htm imagined it, when he described the dream of a human as that of ‘a wolf man’, which description he imagined because the dreamer as a child had witnessed his parents engage in a sexual act. My interpretation has little to do with Freud. I imagine that in our time humankind as a whole finds itself at a feral mental stage. In other words, after becoming somewhat like a ‘domesticated’ or ‘civilized’ cat, a further ‘taming’ of it by government development, not to say repression, reverts the human to an unintended ‘feral’ stage.

The previous four blogs (230-233), which I wrote on the theme of the famous tank Battle at Kursk in the background, imagines the soldiers and leaders involved in the battle as human beings who were forced to regress through an accumulation of negative experiences from a ‘civilized’ to a ‘feral’ stage. Perhaps not surprisingly, this regression is being accomplished through the involvement of governments.

To understand fully and correctly the role of government in turning a human into a feral creature, we have to understand the role of democracy in turning a human being into an isolated and socially cut off libertarian ideologue through the promotion of a capitalist economic system. As Professor Caroll Quigley of Georgetown University states in his book, Tragedy and Hope (1966): “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley Whereas Professor Quigley believed that democracy is determined by ready accessibility of arms to individuals [re: “Democracy tends to emerge only when the best weapons available are easy for individuals to buy and use.^[9] ”], my belief is that it is no less dependent on the environment within which the individuals reside, that is to say, that it must also be a setting of the wood rather than that of the city.

Though I speak of ‘democracy’ and ‘capitalism’, I include among ‘democratic’ governments ALL modern governments, communist and fascist governments including. The inclusion of the last two can be explained if we stretch our imaginations a little and remember that the modern system of machine capitalism is a consequence of ‘democratic’ governments (be the ‘democracy’ limited only to a circle of princes and parliamentarians), and that communist and fascist governments have to bend to the greater energy of private interests in exploiting human potential through better utilizing competition to the ends of coercion. Another way of putting it is that secular communism has to expend great amounts of collective (communal) resources in arming itself against democratic-capitalist aggression, rather than invest its energies in bringing humankind back to the feral stage, by which human beings had achieved their highest civilized state some centuries earlier. Similarly fascism, even as Hitler’s mythology promoted rites by torch light in forest at night, by the daylight had to tame and check the interests of the armaments industry (which provided the average German with jobs) by feeding it with soylent meat from unmarked cans canned in unmarked factories in the city.

The destruction of the feral (verbal sans letters) and forest civilizations occurred more or less simultaneously in a number of cultures and communities. I have already mentioned (blog 231) that when Buddha left his father’s castle, he entered the feral kingdom of the people, where he was killed by his mistress Amarita (Amanita Muscaria? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria ) when he revealed to her his father’s plans to enlarge his city-castle by some 24000 housing units by cutting down another great swath of the forest surrounding the city. The theme of ‘feral’ plays no lesser role in the story of Jesus, when we remember that his father [or perhaps he himself (Matthew 13:55 & Mark 6:3).] were said to be carpenters, that is, men close to the wood, where every tree is not only a ‘feral’ being, but a guarantor of ‘social support’ (so called ‘green gold’) without exacting taxes to be paid into a ‘cashbox’ of the welfare state.

Both Hitler and Stalin were welfare state men, even if one saw it from a capitalist, but the other from a communist perspective. Hitler’s fascist socialist state needed Lebensraum, whereas Stalin  needed a platform from which to proclaim the return of democracy without taxes.

It is interesting that the return of humankind to the feral state is best promoted through an urban environment rather than from the countryside. It is somewhat of a paradox, because the countryside is identified with a highly developed oral culture (song, story, language), whereas an urban culture has become identified with information transmission through letters and other technologies that readily copy information. Though technology can transmit massive volumes of data, on the whole it promotes illiteracy, which provides the quantum gap through which one falls into the abyss of the parallel universe of urban feralism.

Not surprisingly, modern governments seek and are able to gain ever greater control over the feral urban state of mind, which of itself appears helpless to resist either government-authoritarian encroachment or the ether of fiction injected in vacant mind-cells (once occupied by an oral culture) by capitalist controlled media.

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The HKG-RIX Axis 04
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Hong Kong-Riga axis: the first a part of China on the Europe-Asia south east end, while Riga is on the north-west end of the two continents that dominate the largest remnant of the huge landmass once called Pangaea. If one draws a straight line between the two cities, one transects Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, located perfectly in between.

This observer has been arguing for some time that the present capital of Europe, Brussels, has outlived its usefulness, for the simple reason that the business activity of Europe has moved eastward, from England and France to Germany—an eventuality that two world wars tried to prevent. At this time, no one questions the claims of Hong Kong, though by comparison Riga seems a small provincial city. But is this likely to remain so into the future?

Of course, the plans to make it so go ahead:  http://rt.com/op-edge/eu-us-pact-devastating-566/ But it need not.

If the leading nation of Europe in the future is Germany—as many signs cause one to believe—then Riga, arguably the city which Germans once may have planned to make their capital (see blog 228)—may soon revive. True, unlike in the past, Germany is no longer directly linked with Latvia by way of Prussia, what with Poland, Lithuania, and Russia occupying the middle distance http://www.harveypowers.com/eller/Kaliningrad_map.jpg ; but then Canada separates the mainland of the U.S. from Alaska, and that does not stop Alaskans from being Americans. Given the sell-out of Latvia by the current government of Latvia to Brussels and little good coming of it for Latvians, it is likely that Germany would find most Latvians ripe for the picking.

There is not only TAFTA, but some other geopolitical arguments, which insist that it is not Riga, but Russian Konigsberg that should take the prize of the dominant city in the area. But given the unhappy experience of Latvians with the Soviet Union in the not long ago, and the propaganda barrage against Russia by the Latvian government during the past twenty-one years, the people will feel safer and be less reluctant to consider their future if it comes to them with Germany as mediator. As for the Germans, they can choose TAFTA or an independent course.

The reason for this potentially sudden turn-about in the fortunes of Riga is not Riga of itself or Germany, but the fact that Riga is perfectly situated for a German-Russian relationship and has a similar past relationship to relate to. Moreover, the foreign policy direction of the Latvian government for the past twenty years plus has been a disaster when it comes to hewing a direction that can be considered as promising. Indeed, most Latvians are only superficially aware that there is such an institution as the Foreign Ministry. For the most part, the FM has been an arm of Brussels and/or NATO, which has no interest in the Baltics except as a frontier that abuts Russia it considers its potential enemy.

Russia has for a long time faced serious problems vis a vis NATO, which does not have economic well-being of Europe as its major interest, but subordination of Russia as its chief aim. As Zbigniev Brzinski wrote in his book, “The Grand Chesboard”, in discussing the Ukraine and the nations belonging to the Turkic languages groups (p148): “Russia is too weak to regain imperial domination over the region or to exclude others from it, but it is also too close and too strong to be excluded.”  Brzinski recognizes that the U.S. is “…too distant to be dominant”.

The very same words can also be used with regard to the north-east region of mittelosteuropa, where the Baltic nations are located.

The great danger in the present situation in the Middle East is that instead of acting as if is “too distant to be dominant”, the U.S. by supporting the interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Georgia, Turkey, Kurds, and others, has appeared to want not only to dominate, but to undermine the belly of Europe-Asia (Russia-China) with a pepper plaster compress so hot that similar to Soviet Russia, the nations so embraced would expend the greater part of their wealth in armaments, which—like in the case of the Soviet Union—would cause permanent discomfort to their people. One may hope that at this time the financial and economic situation in the U.S. has somewhat corrected American aggression and will cause it to reconsider its strategy.

For the last twenty-one years, the Latvian government has favoured a similar U.S. tactic in the Baltic region. While it has no support of its people for this strategy other than their fear of a repetition of Soviet style dominance, it can be easily seen that with regard to economic policies, this strategy is not only a failure as such, but has exposed the country to existential dangers, re: economic outmigration, demographic decline, chronic under education, chronic poverty, chronic amorality at all levels of society, chronic absence of a positive self-generated culture, and this is only the beginning of the list of compacted social ills, not to mention the  suffering of the people.

So, why not think of a HKG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_Airlines_B-KBE_taking_off_at_Hong_Kong_International_Airport.jpg -RIX economic axis? If at this time Riga http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/13/bc/0c/riga-old-town-in-the.jpg  is nowhere near a comparison with Hong Kong, then the industrial capability of Germany and the Scandinavian countries more than compensate for the yet undeveloped infrastructure.