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Well, actually, Norway is also capitalist, but it successfully mimics socialism.
#compare #capitalism #socialism #economy #money #society #poverty #humanrights
KEVIN OBRIEN schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:13:00 +0200
#compare #capitalism #socialism #economy #money #society #poverty #humanrights
KEVIN OBRIEN schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:13:00 +0200
harry haller schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:08:54 +0200William B. Bland The Restoration Of Capitalism In The Soviet Union ( 1980) https://archive.org/details/william-b.-bland-the-restoration-of-capitalism-in-the-soviet-union-select-editions-1980/
#USSR #soviet #russian #socialism #history #book #Stalin
#USSR #soviet #russian #socialism #history #book #Stalin
The Looting of Russia
Sep 8, 1999
It has been one debacle after another since the IMF introduced its “shock therapy” program in 1992. Like a battered spouse who sees no alternative but to return to her abuser, Russia comes back to the IMF for more credits. But the hundreds of billions that have fled the country in the 1990’s have cancelled out this “aid,” as well as the meager foreign direct investment, many times over. At the same time Russia has accumulated more than $150 billion in foreign debt, with the burden of debt service now reaching a crushing 29% of export earnings.
At some point any rational, non-corrupt political leader in Russia has to question whether the country’s friendly relations with Washington are worth the price of continued impoverishment. That time may be approaching, as Russia elects first a Parliament and then a President over the next 10 months. There will be calls from across the political spectrum to break, or at least loosen, the chains that bind Russia to its Western tormentors.
#^https://cepr.net/publications/the-looting-of-russia/
#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #history #politics #USA #US #american #imperialism #Western #deception #lie #anglo-saxons
Sep 8, 1999
It has been one debacle after another since the IMF introduced its “shock therapy” program in 1992. Like a battered spouse who sees no alternative but to return to her abuser, Russia comes back to the IMF for more credits. But the hundreds of billions that have fled the country in the 1990’s have cancelled out this “aid,” as well as the meager foreign direct investment, many times over. At the same time Russia has accumulated more than $150 billion in foreign debt, with the burden of debt service now reaching a crushing 29% of export earnings.
At some point any rational, non-corrupt political leader in Russia has to question whether the country’s friendly relations with Washington are worth the price of continued impoverishment. That time may be approaching, as Russia elects first a Parliament and then a President over the next 10 months. There will be calls from across the political spectrum to break, or at least loosen, the chains that bind Russia to its Western tormentors.
#^https://cepr.net/publications/the-looting-of-russia/
#Russia #USSR #soviet #russian #history #politics #USA #US #american #imperialism #Western #deception #lie #anglo-saxons
MULTIPOLAR WORLD schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Tue, 13 May 2025 15:53:08 +0200UKRAINE: THE CIA'S 75 YEAR OLD PROXY AGAINST RUSSIA
The CIA, one of President Truman's most destructive initiatives, has been using Ukraine's violently anti-semetic, anti-communist, anti-Russian organizations to sabotage and destabilize the Soviet Union ever since WWII ended. Nothing's changed.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/
#ukraine #russia
#USA #US #american #CIA #britain #UK #MI6 #NATO #colwar #anticommunism #NED #usaid #Maidan #Nuland #McCain #Poroshenko #russophobia #Biden #Zelensky #Kholomoisky #Kholomoysky #ukraine #corruption #ukrainian #nazi #provocation #Western #propaganda #imperialism #war #proxy-war against #USSR #Donbass #Russia #history
The CIA, one of President Truman's most destructive initiatives, has been using Ukraine's violently anti-semetic, anti-communist, anti-Russian organizations to sabotage and destabilize the Soviet Union ever since WWII ended. Nothing's changed.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/09/12/ukraine-the-cias-75-year-old-proxy/
#ukraine #russia
#USA #US #american #CIA #britain #UK #MI6 #NATO #colwar #anticommunism #NED #usaid #Maidan #Nuland #McCain #Poroshenko #russophobia #Biden #Zelensky #Kholomoisky #Kholomoysky #ukraine #corruption #ukrainian #nazi #provocation #Western #propaganda #imperialism #war #proxy-war against #USSR #Donbass #Russia #history
VEF Riga Electrotechnical Plant was the first in the USSR to produce personal computers “VEF Mikro 1025”, 1980.
#^https://foto-history.livejournal.com/21442755.html
#USSR #soviet #history #retrocomputing
A level 80 Hutzpah
The Israeli Foreign Minister pretends that he does not know about the glorification of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine and promises to take action on this issue.
#^https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9705370.html
#Israel #israeli #hutzpah #ukraine #ukrainian #nazi #neonazi #nazism
The Israeli Foreign Minister pretends that he does not know about the glorification of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine and promises to take action on this issue.
#^https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/9705370.html
#Israel #israeli #hutzpah #ukraine #ukrainian #nazi #neonazi #nazism
It is clear that on many levels neither the US, nor Europe ever considered the consequences of this war. Ukraine will never be able to return to its former state or recover from this conflict. As predicted by Prof. Meirsheimer, it will simply turn into a dysfunctional rump state. Its resources will be plundered and pillaged by transnational banks and corporations from countries who will inevitably demand some form of repayment for the money they poured into this war, and the remaining Ukrainian population will only get poorer and poorer trying to service the IMF and other debt.
It is delusional to think that Ukraine's issues will stay in Ukraine. Firstly, many European countries accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees and migrants most of which do not have any plans to return to Ukraine. Secondly, it is inevitable that many of those, who happen to survive the conflict will eventually seek to reunite with their families who settled in Europe after 2022, and it is highly unlikely that they will be looking to do that in their destroyed homeland, which offers them and their children no prospects. So, thousands of mentally and physically broken soldiers will come to Europe to join their families and only God knows whether they will ever be able to recover from the conflict and contribute anything to the societies they would be looking to become a part of or whether they would instead become a permanent burden on Europe's taxpayers for the rest of their lives. So, the cost of this conflict will be much wider and much more painful than the Ukrainian budget beyond 2026 and Europe needs to prepare for supporting Ukrainian refugees and their families beyond Ukraine's borders. I doubt that this is even being discussed among Europe's leadership, let alone that any preparations are happening!
Last year, the Germans published some stats related to the Ukrainians learning German. According to those stats, nearly 70% of Ukrainians either abandoned German language courses or did not put the required effort into learning the language, failed to turn up to classes, exams etc. Remember, this is in a context, where those courses are being funded by the German government and offered to Ukrainians free of charge! As you can see, this shows low interest among Ukrainians to integrate into German society even on a basic level, let alone start contributing anything to it! Has the German government ever considered the cost of millions of the so called refugees from Ukraine never even trying to integrate into their economy? Yes, they do have plans to cut their benefits to force them to work but what is going to be the success of that if the people you are hoping to force to work don't even speak your language and have no desire to learn it? What if many of them to choose to turn to crime instead? Who considered the cost of that? Nobody!
What is to say that other European countries do not have exactly the same or very similar issues? Nothing!
Even where Ukrainians do get jobs and pay taxes, most of the time the jobs they get are low paid and therefore the taxes they pay do not cover what they require from the system to educate their children, provide their healthcare etc, etc...
So, Europe will be dealing with the consequences of this war for a long, long time to come and it will be without the benefit of cheap Russian resources driving economic miracles like post 1960s Germany's!
#ukraine #ukrainian #war #refugees #failstate #poverty for #eu #europe
Your Conscience schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:41:48 +0100The war in Ukraine has come at a vast financial cost to that country. Ukraine's defense spending has risen ten fold since the 2021 budget was announced, when social welfare spending was the country's biggest expenditure.
With the Trump administration looking to pare back its financial commitments the pressure will be on the European states, although Europeans have struggled to agree on an additional funding package. Funding an additional $20 billion will likely cause a backlash from the left and the right who think the war should've ended in 2022.
#^https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/ukraine-could-be-broke-by-2026-even
#Ukraine
It is delusional to think that Ukraine's issues will stay in Ukraine. Firstly, many European countries accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees and migrants most of which do not have any plans to return to Ukraine. Secondly, it is inevitable that many of those, who happen to survive the conflict will eventually seek to reunite with their families who settled in Europe after 2022, and it is highly unlikely that they will be looking to do that in their destroyed homeland, which offers them and their children no prospects. So, thousands of mentally and physically broken soldiers will come to Europe to join their families and only God knows whether they will ever be able to recover from the conflict and contribute anything to the societies they would be looking to become a part of or whether they would instead become a permanent burden on Europe's taxpayers for the rest of their lives. So, the cost of this conflict will be much wider and much more painful than the Ukrainian budget beyond 2026 and Europe needs to prepare for supporting Ukrainian refugees and their families beyond Ukraine's borders. I doubt that this is even being discussed among Europe's leadership, let alone that any preparations are happening!
Last year, the Germans published some stats related to the Ukrainians learning German. According to those stats, nearly 70% of Ukrainians either abandoned German language courses or did not put the required effort into learning the language, failed to turn up to classes, exams etc. Remember, this is in a context, where those courses are being funded by the German government and offered to Ukrainians free of charge! As you can see, this shows low interest among Ukrainians to integrate into German society even on a basic level, let alone start contributing anything to it! Has the German government ever considered the cost of millions of the so called refugees from Ukraine never even trying to integrate into their economy? Yes, they do have plans to cut their benefits to force them to work but what is going to be the success of that if the people you are hoping to force to work don't even speak your language and have no desire to learn it? What if many of them to choose to turn to crime instead? Who considered the cost of that? Nobody!
What is to say that other European countries do not have exactly the same or very similar issues? Nothing!
Even where Ukrainians do get jobs and pay taxes, most of the time the jobs they get are low paid and therefore the taxes they pay do not cover what they require from the system to educate their children, provide their healthcare etc, etc...
So, Europe will be dealing with the consequences of this war for a long, long time to come and it will be without the benefit of cheap Russian resources driving economic miracles like post 1960s Germany's!
#ukraine #ukrainian #war #refugees #failstate #poverty for #eu #europe
Your Conscience schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:41:48 +0100The war in Ukraine has come at a vast financial cost to that country. Ukraine's defense spending has risen ten fold since the 2021 budget was announced, when social welfare spending was the country's biggest expenditure.
With the Trump administration looking to pare back its financial commitments the pressure will be on the European states, although Europeans have struggled to agree on an additional funding package. Funding an additional $20 billion will likely cause a backlash from the left and the right who think the war should've ended in 2022.
#^https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/ukraine-could-be-broke-by-2026-even
#Ukraine
“The Greek-Pentagon Dowry Wedding.” 1970. Drawing for the reign of the military regime of the “Black Colonels” in Greece
Coup "black Colonels"
21 1967 April, the special date in a historic way of Greece. a group of “Black Colonels” in Greece made a military coup, which resulted in the country established a totalitarian regime, which lasted seven years. The main initiator of the military coup were Colonels George Papadopoulos, Nicholas Makarezos and General Stylianos Pattakos.
#^https://en.topwar.ru/114066-perevorot-chernyh-polkovnikov.html
#history #NATO #USA #US #deepstate #CIA #Pentagon #Greece #government #military #coup #imperialism
#^https://diasp.org/posts/24115722
Paid maternity leave for new mothers by country
#map #maternity #civilization #culture
#map #maternity #civilization #culture
Carter Braxton schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0100How Hackers Can Control Anything Remotely Using LoRa Modules
LoRa (long-range) technology is widely used in IoT applications because it can transmit data over long distances without requiring internet access. Because of its long range and low power consumption, LoRa can be used to remotely control devices — even from miles away. Hackers and security researchers have experimented with LoRa for everything from remote payload activation to off-grid communications. In this test, we explore how far LoRa can actually reach using a simple but effective setup: a ...
#technology
LoRa (long-range) technology is widely used in IoT applications because it can transmit data over long distances without requiring internet access. Because of its long range and low power consumption, LoRa can be used to remotely control devices — even from miles away. Hackers and security researchers have experimented with LoRa for everything from remote payload activation to off-grid communications. In this test, we explore how far LoRa can actually reach using a simple but effective setup: a ...
#technology
Carter Braxton schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0100Western Media Silent.‘Safari hunting Alawites’: Relatives of those murdered in Syria’s massacre speak out
In the early days of March 2025, Syria’s coastal regions were engulfed in a wave of sectarian violence that have left an indelible mark on the nation’s collective conscience. Predominantly targeting the Alawite minority, the atrocities have reignited fears of deepening sectarian divides and underscored the challenges facing Syria’s path to stability.
“The gangs of Al Sharaa changed the clothes on some of those victims, dressing them up in uniforms to show the UN delegations and the Al Jazeera crews that they were fighting armed rebels. The bodies of others were buried to conceal evidence”.
“UN employees, who visited some of the villages were accompanied by Al Sharaa militants who chose where to take them, and who they could speak to. Before the arrival of the UN staff, villagers were offered packs of bread. Some were given money to change testimony, others threatened with torture and death if they dared to speak the truth”.
#Syria #middleEast #british #turkish #terrorism #genocide
In the early days of March 2025, Syria’s coastal regions were engulfed in a wave of sectarian violence that have left an indelible mark on the nation’s collective conscience. Predominantly targeting the Alawite minority, the atrocities have reignited fears of deepening sectarian divides and underscored the challenges facing Syria’s path to stability.
“The gangs of Al Sharaa changed the clothes on some of those victims, dressing them up in uniforms to show the UN delegations and the Al Jazeera crews that they were fighting armed rebels. The bodies of others were buried to conceal evidence”.
“UN employees, who visited some of the villages were accompanied by Al Sharaa militants who chose where to take them, and who they could speak to. Before the arrival of the UN staff, villagers were offered packs of bread. Some were given money to change testimony, others threatened with torture and death if they dared to speak the truth”.
#Syria #middleEast #british #turkish #terrorism #genocide