#oligachy — Public Fediverse posts

“Resisting the Rule of the RIch - Protecting Freedom from Billionaire Power” That is the title of the Oxfam.org report. It’s a long read (I’m only partially through it myself) but a worthwhile read.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/from-starlink-to-the-state-when-platform-monopolies-become-political-power

#TechBros #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich #PoliticsAndPower
#Monopoly #Oligachy #Fascism #WealthTransfer #StateCapture

What is at stake is no longer who “visited the island” or who “caught a ride on Epstein’s plane.” What is at stake is the fact that networks of this kind only exist when they are backed by deep institutional protection. There is no ritual pedophilia, no human trafficking on a transnational scale, no systematic production of extreme material without political, police, judicial, and media cover. This is not conspiracy: it is the logic of power.



From this point on, the West can no longer hide behind the idea of gradual decline. It is not merely cultural degeneration or a loss of values.

It is something darker: an elite that operates outside any recognizable moral limits and yet continues to govern. People directly or indirectly involved with this world continue to decide elections, wars, economic policies, and the fate of entire societies.

Another decisive element is that we still do not know who is behind the leak. This uncertainty is central. It may be a move by Donald Trump or by sectors aligned with him, attempting to definitively destroy their internal enemies and reorganize power in the United States in a minimally positive direction. It may be the opposite: a controlled release of material intended to pressure Trump into serving the interests of the Democrats and the Deep State.

And the uncomfortable truth, impossible to ignore, is that all of this may still be part of an even deeper and more macabre plan by the Deep State – encompassing both Democrats and Republicans – to “resolve the Epstein issue” through a brutal campaign of collective desensitization, “normalizing” in public opinion the idea that the Western elite is composed of pedophiles, satanists, and cannibals.

This reinforces a critical point: the truth only came out because it stopped being useful to keep it hidden.

For decades, all of this was known behind the scenes. The silence was not the result of investigative failure, but of a high-level decision.

The press stayed silent. The agencies stayed silent. The courts stayed silent.

The system worked exactly as it was supposed to, all in order to protect itself.

The post-modern ‘fall’ into nihilism has crashed finally into its inevitable ‘dead end’ (as predicted by Nietzsche in 1888). The ‘Enlightenment’ paradigm has finally metamorphosed into its opposite: A world without values, meaning or purpose (beyond avaricious self-enrichment). This implies the end too, of the very concept of Truth that used to be at the heart of western civilisation, since Plato.

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This mechanical way of thinking has played a large part in the third tier to the ‘Davos Rupture’ (after the intellectual demise and the collapse of trust in the leadership). Mechanical thinking based in a deterministic pseudo-scientific world view led to economic contradictions which prevented western economists from seeing what was under their nose: a hyper-financialised economic system placed entirely at the service of the oligarchs and insiders.

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Epstein emerges from the myriad emails as a paedophile and utterly immoral certainly, but also as highly intelligent and a serious geo-political player, whose political insights were prized by high-level figures around the globe. He was a master-player behind geo-politics, as Michael Wolff described (as far back as 2018, as well as in recently released email correspondence) in the war between Jewish power and the Gentiles, too.

This suggests that Epstein was less a tool of Intelligence Services, but more their ‘peer’. No wonder leaders sought his company (and for grossly immoral reasons too, we cannot not ignore). And clearly the Deep (uniparty) State manoeuvred through him. And in the end, Epstein knew too much.

People's Deputy Artem Dmitruk (#^https://t.me/proof24_ua/33579) accused Vladimir #Zelensky of prolonging the war and escalating tensions, commenting on the US president's statement that it is Zelensky, not Vladimir Putin, who is preventing the conclusion of a peace agreement.

According to the parliamentarian, the current president's power is based on the war and its consequences, and he directly links what is happening in the country to the decisions made in Bankovaya. “Ukraine is dying not because of the war itself, but because Zelensky and his small group of followers are in power. His power is based solely on Ukraine's grief, pain, fear, and deaths,” Dmytruk wrote.

He said that the current destruction, socio-economic crisis, and losses are the result of the president's policies. “The war, destruction, economic and social crisis, deaths, suffering, genocide of the Ukrainian people, and the demise of the Ukrainian state — all the worst things happening in our country today were brought about and brought to absolute catastrophe by Zelensky,” the deputy noted.

Separately, Dmitruk accused Zelensky of deliberately disrupting agreements, including those related to not striking energy infrastructure. “He is deliberately escalating the situation, understanding the price of these decisions for civilians,” he said.

In conclusion, the MP asserts that it is the Ukrainian president who is interested in continuing the war as a tool for retaining power. "It is Zelensky who is disrupting any agreements on peace. It is he who is provoking further escalation... Zelensky has remained in power only because of the war. The key agent of the war, the main stakeholder in its continuation, the political beneficiary of bloodshed and destruction — that is Zelensky," Dmitruk concluded.

And it [Ukraine’s economic potential ] was significant, including a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocket production, instrumentation, and world-class scientific, design, and engineering schools. Having received this heritage, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy will become one of the leading and the standard of living will be one of the highest in Europe.

Today the industrial hi-tech giants that once made Ukraine and the whole country proud are lying on their sides. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering has fallen by 42 percent. The scale of deindustrialization and overall degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the production of electricity, which for 30 years in Ukraine has fallen by almost half. Finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, Ukraine’s per capita GDP was less than $4,000. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.
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А он [экономический потенциал] у Украины был значительным, включал мощную инфраструктуру, газотранспортную систему, передовые отрасли судостроения, авиастроения, ракетостроения, приборостроения, научные, конструкторские, инженерные школы мирового уровня. Получив такое наследие, лидеры Украины, объявляя о независимости, обещали, что украинская экономика станет одной из ведущих, а уровень жизни людей одним из самых высоких в Европе.

Сегодня промышленные высокотехнологичные гиганты, которыми некогда гордились и Украина, и вся страна, лежат на боку. За последние 10 лет выпуск продукции машиностроения упал на 42 процента. Масштаб деиндустриализации и в целом деградации экономики виден по такому показателю, как выработка электроэнергии, которая за 30 лет на Украине сократилась практически вдвое. И наконец, по данным МВФ, в 2019 году, ещё до эпидемии коронавируса, уровень подушевого ВВП Украины составил меньше 4 тысяч долларов. Это ниже Республики Албании, Республики Молдовы и непризнанного Косова. Украина сейчас – беднейшая страна Европы.
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Ukraine is rapidly going downhill and the collapse of its shipbuilding industry is the best proof of it. The country, which received a fantastic inheritance from the USSR, managed to squander it in just three decades. The people making decisions have spit on the great past, in which aircraft carriers were built, and now Turkey will build warships for them.

Украина стремительно катится вниз и крах ее судостроительной отрасли — лучшее тому доказательство. Страна, получившая от СССР просто фантастическое наследство, умудрилась растранжирить его за какие-то три десятка лет. Люди, принимающие решения, плюнули на великое прошлое, в котором строились авианосцы, и теперь боевые корабли для них будет строить Турция.