not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.
brain-computer-interfaces could fix the paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions at once... Our technology doesn't have to be for war, we can build technology(BCI) so that people can be in the VR world.
We can unite as citizens of planet Earth on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. We can build a global digital platform for collective democracy, avoiding the mistake of electing "representatives" to make decisions for us.
Wow the latter part of this mirrors my thoughts on real solutions that people can pursue tantamount to direct democracy. There is always so much hand wringing and today stress and money attached to representative democracy that is so unnecessary. In the US there can be 90% support for a policy and no action on it. Bigger money'd interests have hijacked all parts of the system and what can people do? I say we use tech applications such as on our phones to constantly vote on policies that we force elected officials to enact. And as you said it is civil rights and environment that are the obvious sacrifices when we have no democracy. When government was totally captured by money. And the so called representatives don't really represent us of course.
@ that sounds like people espousing representative democracy and republics over real democracy. Of course the powerful don't want democracy reigning anywhere. We know this but it doesn't mean democracy is bad. It does mean some people need to be prepped and educated before any vote. We could lose all vestiges of democracy in USA and Great Britain because the Tech companies want total enslavement and human compliance and servitude to them.
Totally agree, we have to fight the Neoliberal project with the tools of direct democracy . Universal digital platform for commonly agreed upon human values. Supplant for profit capitalism with democratic socialism.
Australia isn't capable of being "the adult in the room" regarding America sadly, as Albo is too weak regarding America, and Herr Dutton is too Trump-ish to do any such 'adulting' at all. 😕
There are hundreds of so-called legacy microchips that are used in appliances, machinery, automobiles etc that are not as profitable to manufacture and are now only made in China. Apparently many of these chips are also used in weapons systems, and because of their dual use, China is restricting the sale of these chips to the US. China has also restricted the sale of antimony to the US, an element essential in the nuclear weapons program, and the only other sources of the material are Kazakhstan and Russia. The last antimony mine in the US was shut down nearly 30 years ago.
OR… how can the next years be spent in generating better options & ideally, a better system? Won’t happen, but it’s what should be being asked, & YV has been asking for years
My half German Evangelical brother told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I said he should call his German cousins and ask them what they think of his endorsement of Trump. Prayer got us here, so instead keep telling the truth.
Brilliant work, Emma! Yianis is spot on about almost everything he says, only leaving out that there is also a genuinely rubbishy ‘woke’ element on the left which is largely counter-persuasive, but purveyed in the hope of extra ‘clicks’ and because there’s often a neurotic aspect to caring about those other than our most narrow selves in the first place, which requires some further analysis
What Yannis says is on the whole quite compelling and true (democracy in the US), but I take issue with his characterization of NATO expansion (he should ask himself why countries seek to join NATO) and his views on the Ukrainian war - having said that it is utterly true that Biden’s foreign policy on Israel is an utter disaster ..
I respect your view on NATO. However, the chess board no longer has the 8 x 8 squares it had in 1945. After 1991 the board changed dramatically… To me, it’s unwise to stick to the old rule set and pieces, when or if _our own actions_ reshaped the surface onto which we place those pieces. I did my military service in 1986, never in doubt that we did the right thing - together. Already by 1994, we had re-thought all of it. Our pieces didn’t fit the emergent board, we now communicated (trade, travel, politics, finance) with the exact same human beings we had labeled dysfunctional one Olympic game (four years) earlier… So, we expanded NATO far into this «new Europe». We were obviously wrong, as we deemed the world outside of NATO weak and misguided. Putin got his power from his wealthy supporters, not too different from the two candidates on the US ballot right now. We have some crazy economic fallouts after 2008, making ordinary people support policies to «fix» them. Also in Russia, mostly from that same global 2008 mess. Unlike the USSR period - what’s the difference in the political ideology between ourselves and Russia now? They aren’t the «commies» anymore, but seem to press ahead for the same liberal economic agency we also seek to maintain. That seems a far fetch from how it used to be, closer to an economic showdown. NATO was a defense treaty - we changed it into the offensive opposite through the «positive» 1990’s. That changed Russia, letting Putin stay. It is changing a now expanding BRICS - a trade system challenging ours (financial globalization). How do we improve our own loss of position through NATO, instead of rethinking our own hyper-liberal ways? By electing «stronger leaders» as Russia once did…?
NATO, from its inception, has always been a tool of Western Empire with its goal not only to protect Europe from Russian imperialism but to keep a potentially powerful Russia under the thumb economically. This is why Russia's requests to join NATO have always been refused. Even though Russia may pose a threat as an imperialist force in Eastern Europe without NATO, the biggest imperial threat to the world is the USA. This includes the threat that they pose to the sovereignty of both Ukraine and Russia. NATO does not just act to protect countries from Russia, it is also an existential threat to Russian sovereignty if you look at the behaviour of the US throughout the world. The US would, at the drop of a hat, overthrow Putin or any other potential Russian leader and install a proxy government if it had the right chance and NATO's most influential member is the USA. Do not forget that Putin rose to power and maintains his popularity largely due to his ability to stand up to US meddling in Russian politics. The USA is the most far-reaching empire in world history and it largely maintains its power covertly under the cover of a compliant Western media. Most people in the West are not aware of how much control the US has over other governments due to the manufacturing of consent that our legacy media takes part in, pandering to the concocted narratives of the US State Department. Countries that do not cooperate with the US economically, including by trading in the USD and allowing US corporations to enter and control resources for US corporate profit, are routinely targeted for takeover by US intelligence services that conduct silent coups. It is a giveaway that the US claims to be against authoritarian governments, but these only happen to be authoritarians who maintain independence from US economic influence, while those who do cooperate are regularly considered allies of the USA. One of the biggest lies of propaganda told to us is that America is the leader of the free world when in reality it controls the world. Even my own country, Australia, is essentially a vassal state to the USA because, as was seen with Gough Whitlam who was the last Prime Minister to speak against the US war machine and our cooperation with their military and intelligence services, any politician who does so will have their political career destroyed by the UK and USA. The UK itself has been a vassal state to the US ever since the fall of its empire last century when it hitched itself to the coattails of the US to maintain its neocolonial power and influence. Back during the mid-2010s, under the cover of the people's Maidan Revolution, the CIA was able to directly back a successful far-right coup of the Yanukovych government even though they had already promised to hold elections. The US then went on to heavily influence, if not dictate, who would be able to sit in the post-coup government, therefore turning Ukraine into a vassal state of the USA. When Putin claims that Ukraine is controlled by a Nazi government this is an embellishment of the fact that it was the neonazi Azovs who took out Yanukovych and who the US allowed to take many seats in Ukraine's parliament. The degree of neonazi influence in Ukrainian politics is now far more influential than what is reflected in Ukrainian society because of this. The US government, US corporations, and the US economy and dollar were able to benefit from this setup. The CIA was also then able to set up spy farms close to the Russian border to easily send Ukrainian spies into Russia. It was later discovered that it was the CIA-backed far-right, and not Yanukovych, who was behind the killing of civilians in protests during the Maidan Revolution which at the time was blamed on police snipers. The US is truly in deep with its corruption and meddling in Ukrainian politics. The war we are witnessing in Ukraine is not one just of Ukraine versus Russia, but it is yet another US/ Russia proxy war. Ukraine is not a country to whom the West is a true ally, but one that is stuck between a rock and a hard place of US and Russian control. When Zelinsky was on the verge of negotiating a peace deal a few months into the war that would have, under Russia's demands, included the annexing of ethnically Russian territory and a declaration of neutrality including a promise not to join NATO, Biden stepped in to stop this. When Zelinsky was again going to meet with Russia for similar negotiations in 2022, Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine to scuttle any chance of this happening. This was when the infamous photo of Boris in a bar with the Azov brigade was snapped. Ukrainian neutrality is, after all, a bigger threat to American hegemony than if Russia wins the war. Because neutrality is a destroyer of American hegemony and the supremacy of the American economy and its dollar in world markets. Ukraine has no way to defeat Putin. Russia is fighting a war of attrition relying on the fact that it has more fighting-aged men. The average age of Ukrainian soldiers is now 43 and they have resorted to forcibly kidnapping men from the street before training them for a few weeks and sending them to the battlefield. They will, at some point, run out of men no matter how many weapons the West supplies. It is only the US who benefits from the continuation of this war. The oligarchs of the US military-industrial complex are profiting nicely. Even the economic damage wrought on the EU by the energy crisis it has faced since refusing to import Russian gas is a benefit to the US in maintaining its position as the world's largest superpower for longer. And all the while it is Ukrainians and Russians losing their lives and Ukrainians who are displaced en mass while left with a country that is pockmarked with damage and destroyed economically, without US troops needed to be involved.
@@musiqteeThe USA has a problem reducing the dollars cost of its military, of not actually representing democracy especially outside its borders, and of being truly honest. So you could not expect much good to happen after Soviet collapse because the military just found other things to do and simultaneously continued to provoke countries like Russia and China to not lay down their arms. By destroying domestic freedoms via surveillance and draconian laws post 9/11 the US also drew the blueprint for many other regimes to do the same. And currently the US Military is concerned with robotic wars of the future so good luck pursuing peace now. This is another problem in Israel that capitalists or simply humans with money want to flex technology in war like some kind of new toy even while children are ruthlessly injured and killed.
@ Sadly, I know and agree… I don’t expect our governments to pull out from that narrative. Rather the opposite, as most pundits (and scholars) expect us to elect a far right government next year. Yes, elect. Not forced by anyone but our own richest & biggest transnational «influencers», stuff most don’t talk about. They’re not Russian or Chinese, though… Where you guys go, we clearly follow. A break in the streak of «freedom politics» will occur, but probably not until we realize what we’re doing to ourselves - collectively.
not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.
Australia could be instrumental in bringing USA & China together for binding bilateral agreements. Australia has both the coveted resources & the ideal geostrategic position for initiating a meaningful dialogue of appeasement at a time of Global climatic Metacrisis. Becoming a partner of BRICS & reclaiming onshore US bases may be required for Australia to be trusted by its neighbours. Australian forces are currently engaged in bombing Yemen, in accordance to the Aukus treaty. Basically supporting Israel's & US Genocide in Gaza ...
Australia has resources, right. But Australian resources could sell at good price because American capital owns a big share, they control the price and futures. Australia has the geostrategic position, right. That why they still let you have a good share of money; thus, you have to follow their orders, bases, nukes, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza...whatever.
Israel Hamas: I believe Emma failed to challenge/ check Yanis on the defence used by Israel, that Hamas was unlawfully hiding within citizens and therefore had no choice to be collateral casualties.
"The real problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." - RIP Ed Wilson
not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.
brain-computer-interfaces could fix the paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions at once... Our technology doesn't have to be for war, we can build technology(BCI) so that people can be in the VR world.
Always interesting to hear Yanis.
Always an education to listen to a great man.
We can unite as citizens of planet Earth on the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. We can build a global digital platform for collective democracy, avoiding the mistake of electing "representatives" to make decisions for us.
Wow the latter part of this mirrors my thoughts on real solutions that people can pursue tantamount to direct democracy. There is always so much hand wringing and today stress and money attached to representative democracy that is so unnecessary. In the US there can be 90% support for a policy and no action on it. Bigger money'd interests have hijacked all parts of the system and what can people do? I say we use tech applications such as on our phones to constantly vote on policies that we force elected officials to enact. And as you said it is civil rights and environment that are the obvious sacrifices when we have no democracy. When government was totally captured by money. And the so called representatives don't really represent us of course.
I would love to agree - it sounds great - but the Brexit Referendum shows the fundamental perils of direct democracy...I wish it were otherwise..
@ that sounds like people espousing representative democracy and republics over real democracy. Of course the powerful don't want democracy reigning anywhere. We know this but it doesn't mean democracy is bad. It does mean some people need to be prepped and educated before any vote. We could lose all vestiges of democracy in USA and Great Britain because the Tech companies want total enslavement and human compliance and servitude to them.
Totally agree, we have to fight the Neoliberal project with the tools of direct democracy . Universal digital platform for commonly agreed upon human values. Supplant for profit capitalism with democratic socialism.
Australia isn't capable of being "the adult in the room" regarding America sadly, as Albo is too weak regarding America, and Herr Dutton is too Trump-ish to do any such 'adulting' at all. 😕
Yep, Albo is a dithering and timid do-nothing and far too eager to do dirty deals with the potato.
There are hundreds of so-called legacy microchips that are used in appliances, machinery, automobiles etc that are not as profitable to manufacture and are now only made in China. Apparently many of these chips are also used in weapons systems, and because of their dual use, China is restricting the sale of these chips to the US.
China has also restricted the sale of antimony to the US, an element essential in the nuclear weapons program, and the only other sources of the material are Kazakhstan and Russia. The last antimony mine in the US was shut down nearly 30 years ago.
Good information, thanks
Hey!! Another good video😊 keep it up
Since this was aired Trump won the presidency again. We are in serious trouble. Thank you Yanis for your presence and positive influence on us all.
Trump or Harris 2 sides of the same coin who is the least evil
OR… how can the next years be spent in generating better options & ideally, a better system?
Won’t happen, but it’s what should be being asked, & YV has been asking for years
My half German Evangelical brother told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I said he should call his German cousins and ask them what they think of his endorsement of Trump. Prayer got us here, so instead keep telling the truth.
Given the ever growing cultural tendency toward fascism in Germany, I doubt they'd be phased at all.
We need a united confederal World. United we stand, divided we fall.
Brilliant work, Emma! Yianis is spot on about almost everything he says, only leaving out that there is also a genuinely rubbishy ‘woke’ element on the left which is largely counter-persuasive, but purveyed in the hope of extra ‘clicks’ and because there’s often a neurotic aspect to caring about those other than our most narrow selves in the first place, which requires some further analysis
Exactly, it’s a deliberate trap set for all those who ‘care’
What Yannis says is on the whole quite compelling and true (democracy in the US), but I take issue with his characterization of NATO expansion (he should ask himself why countries seek to join NATO) and his views on the Ukrainian war - having said that it is utterly true that Biden’s foreign policy on Israel is an utter disaster ..
Where do you get your information about the Ukrainian war?
I respect your view on NATO. However, the chess board no longer has the 8 x 8 squares it had in 1945. After 1991 the board changed dramatically…
To me, it’s unwise to stick to the old rule set and pieces, when or if _our own actions_ reshaped the surface onto which we place those pieces.
I did my military service in 1986, never in doubt that we did the right thing - together. Already by 1994, we had re-thought all of it.
Our pieces didn’t fit the emergent board, we now communicated (trade, travel, politics, finance) with the exact same human beings we had labeled dysfunctional one Olympic game (four years) earlier…
So, we expanded NATO far into this «new Europe». We were obviously wrong, as we deemed the world outside of NATO weak and misguided.
Putin got his power from his wealthy supporters, not too different from the two candidates on the US ballot right now. We have some crazy economic fallouts after 2008, making ordinary people support policies to «fix» them. Also in Russia, mostly from that same global 2008 mess.
Unlike the USSR period - what’s the difference in the political ideology between ourselves and Russia now? They aren’t the «commies» anymore, but seem to press ahead for the same liberal economic agency we also seek to maintain.
That seems a far fetch from how it used to be, closer to an economic showdown. NATO was a defense treaty - we changed it into the offensive opposite through the «positive» 1990’s.
That changed Russia, letting Putin stay. It is changing a now expanding BRICS - a trade system challenging ours (financial globalization).
How do we improve our own loss of position through NATO, instead of rethinking our own hyper-liberal ways? By electing «stronger leaders» as Russia once did…?
NATO, from its inception, has always been a tool of Western Empire with its goal not only to protect Europe from Russian imperialism but to keep a potentially powerful Russia under the thumb economically. This is why Russia's requests to join NATO have always been refused. Even though Russia may pose a threat as an imperialist force in Eastern Europe without NATO, the biggest imperial threat to the world is the USA. This includes the threat that they pose to the sovereignty of both Ukraine and Russia. NATO does not just act to protect countries from Russia, it is also an existential threat to Russian sovereignty if you look at the behaviour of the US throughout the world.
The US would, at the drop of a hat, overthrow Putin or any other potential Russian leader and install a proxy government if it had the right chance and NATO's most influential member is the USA. Do not forget that Putin rose to power and maintains his popularity largely due to his ability to stand up to US meddling in Russian politics.
The USA is the most far-reaching empire in world history and it largely maintains its power covertly under the cover of a compliant Western media. Most people in the West are not aware of how much control the US has over other governments due to the manufacturing of consent that our legacy media takes part in, pandering to the concocted narratives of the US State Department. Countries that do not cooperate with the US economically, including by trading in the USD and allowing US corporations to enter and control resources for US corporate profit, are routinely targeted for takeover by US intelligence services that conduct silent coups. It is a giveaway that the US claims to be against authoritarian governments, but these only happen to be authoritarians who maintain independence from US economic influence, while those who do cooperate are regularly considered allies of the USA. One of the biggest lies of propaganda told to us is that America is the leader of the free world when in reality it controls the world.
Even my own country, Australia, is essentially a vassal state to the USA because, as was seen with Gough Whitlam who was the last Prime Minister to speak against the US war machine and our cooperation with their military and intelligence services, any politician who does so will have their political career destroyed by the UK and USA. The UK itself has been a vassal state to the US ever since the fall of its empire last century when it hitched itself to the coattails of the US to maintain its neocolonial power and influence.
Back during the mid-2010s, under the cover of the people's Maidan Revolution, the CIA was able to directly back a successful far-right coup of the Yanukovych government even though they had already promised to hold elections. The US then went on to heavily influence, if not dictate, who would be able to sit in the post-coup government, therefore turning Ukraine into a vassal state of the USA. When Putin claims that Ukraine is controlled by a Nazi government this is an embellishment of the fact that it was the neonazi Azovs who took out Yanukovych and who the US allowed to take many seats in Ukraine's parliament. The degree of neonazi influence in Ukrainian politics is now far more influential than what is reflected in Ukrainian society because of this.
The US government, US corporations, and the US economy and dollar were able to benefit from this setup. The CIA was also then able to set up spy farms close to the Russian border to easily send Ukrainian spies into Russia. It was later discovered that it was the CIA-backed far-right, and not Yanukovych, who was behind the killing of civilians in protests during the Maidan Revolution which at the time was blamed on police snipers. The US is truly in deep with its corruption and meddling in Ukrainian politics.
The war we are witnessing in Ukraine is not one just of Ukraine versus Russia, but it is yet another US/ Russia proxy war. Ukraine is not a country to whom the West is a true ally, but one that is stuck between a rock and a hard place of US and Russian control. When Zelinsky was on the verge of negotiating a peace deal a few months into the war that would have, under Russia's demands, included the annexing of ethnically Russian territory and a declaration of neutrality including a promise not to join NATO, Biden stepped in to stop this. When Zelinsky was again going to meet with Russia for similar negotiations in 2022, Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine to scuttle any chance of this happening. This was when the infamous photo of Boris in a bar with the Azov brigade was snapped. Ukrainian neutrality is, after all, a bigger threat to American hegemony than if Russia wins the war. Because neutrality is a destroyer of American hegemony and the supremacy of the American economy and its dollar in world markets.
Ukraine has no way to defeat Putin. Russia is fighting a war of attrition relying on the fact that it has more fighting-aged men. The average age of Ukrainian soldiers is now 43 and they have resorted to forcibly kidnapping men from the street before training them for a few weeks and sending them to the battlefield. They will, at some point, run out of men no matter how many weapons the West supplies.
It is only the US who benefits from the continuation of this war. The oligarchs of the US military-industrial complex are profiting nicely. Even the economic damage wrought on the EU by the energy crisis it has faced since refusing to import Russian gas is a benefit to the US in maintaining its position as the world's largest superpower for longer. And all the while it is Ukrainians and Russians losing their lives and Ukrainians who are displaced en mass while left with a country that is pockmarked with damage and destroyed economically, without US troops needed to be involved.
@@musiqteeThe USA has a problem reducing the dollars cost of its military, of not actually representing democracy especially outside its borders, and of being truly honest. So you could not expect much good to happen after Soviet collapse because the military just found other things to do and simultaneously continued to provoke countries like Russia and China to not lay down their arms. By destroying domestic freedoms via surveillance and draconian laws post 9/11 the US also drew the blueprint for many other regimes to do the same. And currently the US Military is concerned with robotic wars of the future so good luck pursuing peace now. This is another problem in Israel that capitalists or simply humans with money want to flex technology in war like some kind of new toy even while children are ruthlessly injured and killed.
@ Sadly, I know and agree… I don’t expect our governments to pull out from that narrative. Rather the opposite, as most pundits (and scholars) expect us to elect a far right government next year.
Yes, elect. Not forced by anyone but our own richest & biggest transnational «influencers», stuff most don’t talk about. They’re not Russian or Chinese, though…
Where you guys go, we clearly follow. A break in the streak of «freedom politics» will occur, but probably not until we realize what we’re doing to ourselves - collectively.
not quite medieval more like proletarians became bourgois and the result is that they hate the proletarians . louis the XIV hoped bourgeoisie will help the underclass, they did however everything changed by the 1700 /1776/1913 fed debt civilizatiçon banker s revolution.
Australia could be instrumental in bringing USA & China together for binding bilateral agreements. Australia has both the coveted resources & the ideal geostrategic position for initiating a meaningful dialogue of appeasement at a time of Global climatic Metacrisis.
Becoming a partner of BRICS & reclaiming onshore US bases may be required for Australia to be trusted by its neighbours.
Australian forces are currently engaged in bombing Yemen, in accordance to the Aukus treaty.
Basically supporting Israel's & US Genocide in Gaza ...
Australia has resources, right. But Australian resources could sell at good price because American capital owns a big share, they control the price and futures.
Australia has the geostrategic position, right. That why they still let you have a good share of money; thus, you have to follow their orders, bases, nukes, Afghanistan, Yemen, Gaza...whatever.
Israel Hamas: I believe Emma failed to challenge/ check Yanis on the defence used by Israel, that Hamas was unlawfully hiding within citizens and therefore had no choice to be collateral casualties.
Hasbara
Israel exists on stolen land.
Varoufakis is married to an oligarch
Pretty much all anyone needs to know about him