Weekend Economists Mark the Vernal Equinox and the Infernal Revenue Service March 20-22, 2015

[Ghost Dog]

15. The ear-splitting grating of these blunt tools (LEAP2020)

... So of course, these four pillars of power of the world before have never screamed as loudly as now. And the ear-splitting grating of these blunt tools creates real dangers:

. As regards the media, whilst displaying real attempts at reinvention, the temptation exists to ideologize even more, even permitting itself to counter the very official propaganda of the Russian media machine, for example(11).

. the banks, financial markets, statistics, the size of fines and profits, and especially the increasingly improbable increases in stock prices, fill the pages of the financial media and minds hypnotized by the chasm that separates these astronomical sums from economic reality; but the power which these staggering numbers give authorizes the banking and financial system to lay down its law to the central banks and governments for a while yet.

. the oil price collapse puts the oil producing powers at bay even more at the centre and with a real pressing need for reorganization: Saudi Arabia at the forefront, trying to grab the region through its daesh Islamic armies spreading Wahhabism in the Middle East(12).

. as for NATO, it attempted a military coup on Europe in 2014 taking advantage of an inept management of the EU’s neighbourhood relations. The fact is that it isn’t easy to ask for the wallet of the person who holds the gun… The Western military-industrial complex’s strategy is simple and perfectly logical therefore: capitalize on, or even create conflicts to make itself indispensable and able to maintain/increase its budgets.

Thus the considerable weakening of the tools of power which remained the prerogative of a sick world before, still runs significant risks for the planet for some time to come, namely: risks of war (oil, NATO), risks of a Western camp confining itself ideologically (media), risks of economic collapse (financial markets)…

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(11). Our teams have seen a hysteria about the alleged media war between the West and Russia, which seems to allow the use of propaganda speeches to balance the forces present. Media like Ukraine Today, for example, was created in the Ukrainian Western camp with the official objective of producing counter-propaganda (which is propaganda, of course). It’s interesting to read what the BBC has to say on these issues.(03/03/2015)

(12). Source : New Statesman, 27/11/2014