The BRICS alliance is a strategic geopolitical partnership between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The nature of the alliance is based on trade and big picture economics.
Readers familiar with our discussions of trade and international finance, will remember the importance we previously discussed with BRICS after the 2016 election and President Trump representing economic nationalism for the first time in several generations. In this outline, we are going to share the bigger picture of why BRICS should now be back on the center stage of American focus.
Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Narendra Modi (India) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), the BRICS group.
The BRICS economic partnership was formed during the Obama administration. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) saw President Obama sub-contracting, actually giving away, U.S. trade policy to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In the aftermath of the 2007 economic crisis created by the financial system, the BRICS group connected two central points that concerned them.
In the aftermath of the great housing/financial crisis, the relationships around the World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), EU central banking system and various multinational institutions and, more importantly, multinational corporations, merged even closer with the government. The priorities of the Davos and World Economic Forum (WEF) crowd were now virtually indistinguishable from many national governments.
We are fifteen years downstream from that inflection point, and we are now seeing the outcomes. The WEF is now giving direct instructions to installed politicians for government policy. Put another way, multinational corporations are now telling government officials what to do.
Think of “The Great Reset” or “Build Back Better” or climate change, as examples. Worse yet, those governments are doing exactly what the WEF has told them to do.
This corporate control of government is exactly what the BRICS assembly foresaw when they first assembled. When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem. In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government.
As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the WEF assembly.
BRICS are not against capitalism in its original form; the BRICS assembly is against corporatism controlling the outcome of government policy. The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa joined together in order to make sure their subset of economic power put government at the top of the control and power dynamic, and multinational corporations under them. This is their essential commonality.
President Obama and the people around him from Hyde Park were/are domestically focused ideologues. Much has been written about them, and we will not repeat. However, the lesser emphasized point of the Obama era is how issues that touched on foreign policy were subcontracted to others.
Foreign policy was not a central focus for the Chicago team. They were laser focused on fundamental change inside the United States. Their aspirations were to reduce the geopolitical status of the U.S. on the world stage in the same view as an anti-colonialist would seek to break up the British colonial power structures. This is an important reference point often missed.
Hillary Clinton could essentially manage the State Dept as she wanted as long as the overarching intent of the Obama policy was maintained. Spreading the wealth, diminishing the U.S. role of influence, and raising up the rest of the world was the only objective of Obama foreign policy.
Obama took that same outlook toward U.S. strategic trade interests. This is why President Obama subcontracted trade policy to the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue (pictured above).
During President Obama’s terms in office, the U.S. CoC, the lobbying entity of Wall Street favor, literally was in charge of trade policy. The U.S. CoC wrote the language, the actual terms and conditions of U.S. government trade policy.
At the time when the U.S. CoC was tasked and permitted to do this, the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was being written. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was literally writing the language in the TPP and negotiating with the other nations involved. Put another way, the operational arm of the multinational Wall Street corporations was writing trade agreements. Can you see how the corporations were positioned?
On the Atlantic side, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was also coming next once TPP was finished. It was not the U.S. government negotiating these terms, it was Wall Street and the Multinational Corporate and Financial establishment, via the Chamber of Commerce, writing these deals. See the problem?
The leaders within BRICS could see the future of what this process would mean. Everything is about the economics. There are trillions at stake.
Additionally, the Word Economic Forum, the assembly of the multinational corporations in control of economics and trade, would now be dictating policy to NATO, the European Union, Central Banks, International Monetary Fund, World Bank and eventually the World Trade Organization (WTO).
BRICS could see that corporations would be in control of western government finance and trade, and as a consequence, when those same multinationals approached them for trade negotiations, the size of influence of the corporations would be, could be, too massive to fight. BRICS assembled in 2009 to unite, defend and combat this problem. This was their core mission, their commonality.
When President Trump was elected, for the first time since their assembly, BRICS saw a U.S. President with a completely different agenda. Donald Trump was not in favor of multinational corporations running and influencing government. Ideologically, as an economic nationalist, Trump was of the same mindset as the BRICS group. WATCH (1 minute):
When President Trump took office, he literally tore up the TPP trade agreement that Tom Donohue had established, he kicked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce out of government, and he established his own trade negotiating teams to put government back in charge of trade policy.
President Trump took us out of TPP, withdrew from the Paris Climate Treaty, dropped TTIP, triggered NAFTA renegotiations, initiated tariffs against our economic adversaries (multinationals) and told NATO to start preparing to take care of themselves. Trump was the first economic nationalist president in modern history.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Trade and Economic Advisor Peter Navarro took over from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Trump established the economic and trade goals, the team worked the granular details, and ultimately Trump made the decisions, yes or no.
After Trump took this approach, the BRICS group essentially dissolved.
With the United States now confronting the WEF, NATO, the EU and all the multinationals (often called globalists), the BRICS team could pause their mission.
Factually, BRICS didn’t even meet during Trump’s term, because the U.S. trade and economic policy known as ‘America First‘, was essentially in alignment with the BRICS mission.
Unfortunately, it was the scale of the WEF, EU, NATO and multinational opposition to President Trump that eventually won. All the multinational corporations, including Big Tech and ideological globalists in media, aligned to remove President Trump. That was the scale of the opposition.
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, literally just days after the election, the BRICS group was back on the phone planning to start meetings again in 2021 on the sidelines of the G20 summit. The BRICS group are back together because the multinationals are back in control.
For obvious reasons, part of the BRICS agenda is to create a trade currency that is not the dollar. With the recent sanctions put into place against Russia, we can see why that was always going to be important.
In many very direct ways, what we are seeing in this Russia -vs- Ukraine crisis is a geopolitical battle between the outlook of BRICS (economic nationalists) and the NATO, EU, World Economic Forum, multinational corporate assembly, i.e. economic globalists.
At stake in the Ukraine battle is the modern structure of the global economy and international politics. This is why we see Joe Biden along with NATO, the EU and all of the affiliates under the control of the World Economic Forum going so hard against Russia.
EXAMPLE: India would not denounce Russia during the United Nations Security Council vote. Now Biden retaliates.
- The Biden administration is looking whether to apply or waive sanctions on India for its purchase of the S-400 Triumf missile defense system from Russia, under Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA)
- Lu’s remarks came as India drew criticism from US lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, at a hearing on the “US relationship with India” for being among 35 nations that abstained Wednesday from a UN vote to rebuke Russia’s invasion. (LINK)
We already know which side corporate media, Big Tech, Hollywood and the social media control officer’s support.
Will the multinational corporations win, or will Russia with the ideological support of China, India, South Africa and Brazil be victorious?
If the World Economic Forum beats Russia, that tells me all I need to know.
…I’ll be joining the Amish.
This recent article interestingly argues along similar lines:
Inflation, De-dollarization, and Russia’s Ultimate Goal for War in Ukraine
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/inflation-de-dollarization-and-russias?s=r
Kanekoa is a great rumble subscription – he (?) emails some of the best current information almost daily…
We have thousands Amish and Menonites living in South Eastern Mexico. So myself and family are good. Nicest folks around. Along with the Mayans.
Nearly 60 years ago, true Conservatives were already warning about the “One-Worlders” as we called them back then
There was a group called The United World Federalists who hoped to use the United Nations (which all true, Barry-Goldwater Conservatives hated) to form a world government to dissolve nation-states. Other such groups also existed with the same purpose.
Rockefeller Republicans were involved, of course, who were influenced by Wendell Willkie and his book (you can look it up) titled in fact One World. Some would point to Woodrow Wilson as the beginning of our disaster with his insistence that the U.S. get involved in World War I, start the Federal Reserve, and start the Income Tax.
The Council on Foreign Relations, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the Common Market, the Ford Foundation, and of course the leftist-wing of the DEMS (i.e. almost all of them, a few old-fashioned DEMS still existed), along with many other groups for “international co-operation” have been working constantly for what we have today: anti-nationalist, international entities (banks, corporations, etc.) buying politicians to eliminate borders, to choose them as economic winners in a rigged game of crony capitalism.
My point is that the roots of this movement are 100 + years old, and a massive ax will be needed to chop down this monstrously invasive and destructive weed.
I have maintained for decades that the only way our citizenship becomes ‘sober’ and starts exercising some critical thinking is when all the government sponsored bennies end.
Until our currency has some level of scarcity reinforcing its value, it is all going to be downhill.
Not going to happen before you end the Federal Reserve.
Not going to happen before WE end the Federal Reserve.
Fixed it!
Years ago, I first heard the term “Policy Wonks” which by context I take it to mean people similar to “tech geeks” only instread of focusing 24/7/365 on “tech”, similarly focus on POLICY.
I think a big part of the sheeple concept of “us Ameticans” being asleep, was that we didn’t pay a lot of attention to POLICY.
POLitics, POLicy; same root for a reason; POLitics is the process for detirmining Public POLicy, or what the government will and won’t DO, and how.
Most of the gains THEY have made, in degrading our rights, have been thru changes oin policies and procedures, that we didn’t notice, or object to cause they were slow boiling the frog.
Good news is, NOW we are NOTICING.
Had a 5 minute conversation today, with a lady I met in passing.
Started our conversation while standing in line, continued it for several minutes outside.
She was not a “treeper”, but based on our conversation she would fit right in.
And, she was VERY aware of what was going on, and very aware of the POLICY changes of Brandon and the direct, catastrophic results.
The sheep are looking up, and they DON’T like what they are seeing.
Every single person needs to watch this 45 minute video from Jovan Pulitzer to see what policies ALL of our politicians are involved in.
https://rumble.com/vw427b-the-chinese-connection-behind-the-scenes-in-radio-recording.html
Yes, I am so excited because they ARE waking up! A coworker and I were talking and he said his wife noticed some photos of the ‘war’ were photos of something else years earlier. That made my day.
You all are right, we need to get rid of the Fed and I’ll add the Fake News; that is half the battle right there!
Let’s hope it is wide spread enough for ALL of us to be out raged!
The Great Destruction is what is coming ahead.
The Great Reset has already happened in the Life of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ from His Holy Nativity through His Holy Ascension.
“Everything always turns out all right in the end.
So, if things aren’t all right, calm down! Your not at the end, yet.”
Do not see, as yet any charismatic leader, so the anti-Christ has not yet emerged,…so we’re no where near the end yet.
Fertiliser has been transformed over the past 6 months from a normally traded commodity into a strategic material that will shake the World.
There are two basic types of fertiliser, the stuff dug out of the ground like potash and the type created in a chemical plant like ammonium nitrate. The markets of both have been disrupted since last summer.
Taking potash first, Belarus mines about 18% of the World’s supply and the EU took a lot of it up to last summer when they sanctioned it due to their view on the 2020 Belarus elections. This put the EU in the market for a lot of fertiliser from elsewhere, whilst Belarus’s potash looks to be heading to China. Starting last summer spot prices for nat gas started rising and are now well past the point where it is uneconomic to produce ammonium nitrate, causing a reduction in supply. To add to the problem both China and Russia banned exports earlier in the year until May.
The implecations of this are serious, particularly in grain and soya production, as fertiliser is now roughly 3x last year and supplies becoming limited.
This is where it gets strategically interesting and when BRICS enters the scene. Russia does not use the spot market for internal sales and can effectively supply its large ammonium nitrate industry at whatever price it likes so its production is not limited and it can sell to whoever it likes at prices acceptable to both sides.
So, imagine a situation where Russia supplies the other BRICS members at last year’s prices not the 3x current. This will put Brazil in particular in a very competitive position in the soya market vis a vis say the US when quoting prices into the largest market, China. The same will apply to say Russia’s own production of wheat, a commodity they are the largest exporters of, putting them in a very advantageous position as opposed to say the EU forced to pay high prices for fertiliser.
I think you get the message. But it gets better.
Biofuel uses corn, the yields of which are highly dependent on fertiliser. Someone is going to have to decide, in a restricted supply market, whether cars, animal feed or humans gets that corn!
The demons are likely have it go to PETA. They hate cars and they hate humans.
They actually hate animals too….
They can keep the corn: it’s genetically modified.
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Great Article.
Makes me wonder how much anti-China messaging is really anti-BRICS messaging in disguise.
BRISCS is for national sovereignty over Davos control, full stop, right?
We need our Nation wrestled back into control by ‘the people’.
Multinationals will just keep tightening the leash around our individual necks until we cut the line and punch them in the face.
Besides Russia, viewing this “it’s BRICS vs. WEF”stance, makes me wonder how much anti-China messaging is really anti-BRICS messaging in disguise. “Our biggest enemy is really China” echoes everywhere like Pompeo is Agent Smith in the Martix and has replicated manyfold, all repeating this line.
BRICS is for multi-polar national sovereignty acting against full Davos corporate control of the world, full stop, right? So sovereign nations wearing the pants versus multinational corporations.
If we can win some elections, a goal of the MAGA platform might be joining the BRICS, which would shut out the multinationals in a big way. If they thought round 1 was bad for them, just wait for round 2.
But China! And Russia! They are our enemies! We can’t possibly work with them!
LaRouche said long ago that the only way to replace the corrupt western monetary system (Davos, City-of-London, and related usurious organs) would be for an alliance like the BRICS, which would be the only entity with enough power and clout to pull it off, assuming the American people learn the game and come to their senses and join the BRICS. Now I feel he was right all along.
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Now Putin has Davos off balance. He just kicked them in the teeth. And trucks roll towards DC to reject Great Reset Government overreach.
Support the Truckers, and educate all about this big picture between BRICS and WEF.
There is more to this story than simple linear thinking can understand, and I think Sundance laid it out masterfully.
At the same time, we are in direct economic (and possibly future military) competition with China (not the others). We need to re-shore the industries we’ve literally handed over to them back Here!
I don’t think we can find employees for those industries. My buddy sells to machine shops and they cannot find entry level workers all across the midwest and Canada.
Those machine shops need to offer apprenticeships to qualified high school students. Get the kids before they are ruined by college
CTD, It’s a huge problem for every industry that doesn’t rely on coding. I’m in the automotive industry & we’ve been looking for the next generation of techs for the past decade: setting up very successful OEM-sponsored HS, post-grad, & post-military programs, yet we’re still 20% or more understaffed.
We’re working towards adding an apprenticeship program, but that requires one established tech from a previous generation thats willing to take time out of their day (while working on commission) to teach the next generation apprentice the day-to-day skills necessary for success.
Did I say it’s a huge problem yet?
I can’t see the US joining BRICS, I can’t see the US, Canada and Mexico forming a North American trading bloc which then trades with BRICS and any other trading bloc.
Trump is a nationalist through and through, both politically, militarily and economically so he’s not a joiner unless it’s to America’s advantage and the US is calling the shots, he basically retooled NAFTA into something which not only was much more favorable to the US but forms the basis of a future highly integrated NA trading bloc.
BRICS represents an existential threat to the WEF and they know it, the very fact that Biden is thinking about sanctions on India for not supporting sanctions on Russia tells you all you need to know about how the WEF views BRICS members.
Add to this the fact that Russia and China have an alternate to the SWIFT transaction network in place and this is the final nail in the coffin.
Davos and Schwab, Soros and the Deep State are in a state of absolute panic over the loss of their Ukrainian assets and their base of operations. Look at the constant drum beat for war from the neocons and Dems and the 24/7 propaganda machine going full blast.
In the end though Putin will win in the Ukraine and start clearing out the Deep State assets there while exposing the corruption there and it’s ties to every Western leader including many in Congress besides the Biden crime family.
I look at it like this; there are 3 entities that each want to take control of the World, and dictate to everyone else;
China, i.e. CCP who believe they are destined to be the “middle kingdom” between heaven and earth.
They use 1 million + political prisoners, as a living human organ donor bank. They have pissed of every single one of their neighbors, from India to Viet nam.
In short, they are NOT “GOOD GUYS”.
Second, there are the WEF’ers. Like CCP, they want to restructure civilisation on the model of ant anthill, or beehive, with THEM as the Queen, and all of us nuetered, implanted borg like drones.
So, DEFINETLY not “Good guys”, despite having achieved control of all western Institutions, and Governments.
And lastly, there are the Islamists, who desire establishing a Worldwide Caliphate. Need I say,…
NOT “Good Guys”.
So, no “Good Guys” just 3 different sets of BAD guys, any of which, should they prevail wants you either dead, or a drone.
Still, even as we fight back against WEF infiltration of our society, we should not applaud CCP infiltration.
BOTH are bad, and need to be fought against.
That is spot on, Dutchman.
I’m with you on this, 100%.
The fact that BRICS exists has its good-news side in that they are forming into a large thorn in the Schwabinistas’ flank. Sundance is explaining that elegantly.
But that doesn’t mean we need to “join” them.
Excellent explanation, Dutchman.
Great comment
Good analysis. Many Indians are siding with BRICS to create an alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency.
This will change once they realize that China’s version of the reserve currency is the remnibi. India will not stand for that.
A note of caution. India has been the beta test for digital currency (and therefore digital ID). All the big notes had to be turned into the banks within a certain deadline, and after that they lost their value.
There’s a lot more to the India war on cash story. Zerohedge has done a good job of covering it over the past 5 years.
The enemy of my enemy might be a good ally. That doesn’t mean he’s not just a different species of monster.
And in ANY alliance, particularly one based on “enemy of my enemy”, it MUST be remembered the alliance is a “marriage of convenience” a “shotgun wedding”; any romantisising of the alliance as more than that, is putting emotions and desires ahead of logic and self interest.
CCP China has been ripping of US, for 1/2 Billion $/yr, for 30 years.
The EU has been ripping us off for the SAME amount, for the same amount of time.
One is our avowed enemy, with a military doctrine spelling out how to defeat us, thru unconventional, asymetric warfare.
The other is our…ALLY?
President Trump himself he didn’t blame anyone from taking advantage of us.
He did blame the DC for letting them do it IIRC.
Couldn’t rip us off w/o help from GOPe.
Also it appears barry soetoro truly hatse this country and what better to destroy it then push the world of the $ as reserve currency!
If that happens the US is dead, dead, dead, and most of her inhabitants with her.
BRICS or WEF/EU/English Speakers?
Never EVER thought I would be siding with BRICS.
Reality bites.
WEF globalists only hate and want to torture and destroy… applying the Morgenthau Plan (“Green New Deal”) to all of the First World.
The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Literally nobody else is.
Yes, these people are the most evil on earth. They have no problem killing, starving or torturing innocents. What FDR’s regime did was horrific. Almost as bad as the red army. Morgen Thai and White are hopefully burning, along with Eisenhower. No wonder why Patton hated him so. A politician more than a soldier. If only Patton hadn’t had his “accident”.
Where do you get your info, Mann?
Seems like there’s a few holes in my reading of history.
Sincerely,
ht3
So instead of Axis v. Allies it is WEF v. BRICS
I honestly can’t see good v. evil in this shuffling.
It looks like evil v. evil and the people of the world all suffer.
Also considering the BRICS leaders, that will be a very tumultuous relationship
Not necessarily. These people are more or less nationalists. Trump accomplished a lot along those lines which is the main point SD is highlighting. That doesn’t make them “good” but you’re also having a discussion with an ho est actor and not a puppet for the WEF.
PDJT also got along QUITE well with Amlos, the NATIONALIST leader of Mexico.
Much better than Brandon has.
This is why the Nation State is actually a structure for Stability, and has endured for so long.
I am siding with BRICS at this time. Didn’t we always used to hear that competition is good?! I see nothing wrong with nations and cultures trying to survive. We must also try to overcome the globalist evil that has infiltrated our way of life in the US. BRICS nations had great insight back then. I didn’t like anything about O. I couldn’t even bring myself to listen to the sound of his voice without feeling ill.
The way I see the globalist cabal is as “crony capitalism” or said another way this evil globalist alliance is nothing else but Fascism. It’s the unholy alliance between bribe- able/corrupt governments and greedy globalist monopolists corporations.
This is the cabal seeking to impose on all of us their “credit system” to keep us enslaved to their crappy and in most cases unhealthy products.
The global corporations found a round-about way to circumvent the US Constitution by being the ones who impose injection mandates on their employees and the Courts can’t do much about it because they are so-called “private” companies. The Federal and State Government can’t do much because these companies are private and they can mandate whatever they want to (except if any company decides to not bake the cake for the gay couple!!!)
Besides the US consumer not buying/patronizing their operations, can something be done Constitutionally to stop these greedy unAmerican global corporations from bullying people around?!!! Any legal expert out there on the Treehouse branches who could explain??!!
They controlthe Courts, so depending on the courts to fix the problem, or give us Justice is foolhardy.
Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight them in the courts, just means don’t expect we will triumph.
Two routes to wresting control of Government away from Globalists, and they are not mutually exclusive.
One is a MAGA wave, eventually wresting control of Congress away from McConnell. Gaining the WH, while the Uniparty maintains control of Congress, leaves us a second PDJT term much like the first.
The second way, is Federalism. Running out the Rinos at the local, district, county and State level, both from the Republican party, AND in ALL political offices, from dog catcher to Governor.
A great deal of the Federal overreach over the last 100 years, has never been challenged by the States.
If challenged, most WOULD be forced back.
The FBI is about INVESTIGATE, because that is not a “police power”; ANYONE can investigate, only Police can detain and arrest.
Right now, WE are still working on forcing the enemy to EXPOSE themselves, and developing/growing our movement of Unity.
We HAVE made progress, and have lessons learned to draw on.
They have CONTROL, which is authority without responsibility.
WE have POWER, which is authority and responsibility in eaqual measure.
When our movement grows big enough, we will excercise that power, in Unity, and they will NOT be able to stand against us.
We ain’t there,…YET.
But we’re a LOT closer than we were 2,4 or 10 years ago.
Thank you Dutchman. I agree, we can’t put all our hopes in the Courts. Soros and his ilk have done great damage with the people they have bought to occupy legal offices.
So, it is up to We the People.
Thankfully, I think that many are truly waking up.
The confluence of various things from the stolen elections, to our children’s education, to cancel culture, to the plandemic, to the gene therapy experimental injections, to injection passports, the economy, foreign policy, inflation, the open borders, lawlessness/crime and all the rest are making people aware we are indeed in great peril of losing this nation for good.
Hopefully, we can keep our focus and continue to apply pressure.
I heard that the People’s Convoy is headed today to Ohio, where they expect to add other convoys from other locations there. Before they add the other convoys, the People’s Convoy was approximately 70-80 miles long!!!!! The DC area could be in for a treat: maybe 100 miles long convoy. HONK HONK!!
#HONKING4MAGA
Another insightful comment.
Interesting how Trump could raise up the rest of the world without crushing America in the process!
Because when leaders put their citizens first everybody wins… a concept that is foreign to the demonic hordes.
Rising tide lifts all boats.
Osama and both political parties including our military brass have allowed things to happen to this country most people would never even think of.
https://rumble.com/vw427b-the-chinese-connection-behind-the-scenes-in-radio-recording.html
BRIC will move away from the US dollar. Their trade bloc represents 50 percent of the world’s population and by 2030 BRIC will account for half the GDP. That surely bothers the globalist Hun bastards.
I’m sure it does. The good thing about the BRICS is that none of their currencies are any more trustworthy than the dollar, so the world reserve currency will have to be either a hybrid or a precious metal or the like
I love the Amish can I come? I say every day I’m thankful that I’m old, retired and own my own house, the future for the next generation doesn’t look so promising. Then I’m reminded that God is faithful to the faithful and we are His children. Even though it feels like we are hanging on by a thread we must continue to keep our hope in the One that truly gives us everlasting life.
I wouldn’t romanticize them too much. I stopped off at an Amish deli off I-75 to pick up a treat to bring home to the family. They ran me out of the store because I wasn’t wearing a mask. That was the last place I thought I would need one.
Lots of fake “Amish” out there.
I’m sure that’s true. We have a lot of Mennonite neighbors and they are good folks. They are more wily at business than I would have expected but are genuinely faithful and benefit the community while keeping their own traditions.
Tango I took a tour of the Amish plantation in PA once. By the end of the tour I was very angry. They treat women sub standard. For instance, they eat last after preparing the meal for entire Amish community on Sunday’s where they meet and socialize. They only go to school until 14 yrs of age and are taught by the previous 14 yr olds that went to school. They do not have phones in their homes but they do in their barns. At age 16 the kids are given a choice to stay or go. Keep in mind they have minimal education and can’t drive. It was sad. I could go on and on but it was not a Hallmark movie situation.
You are very wrong about their education. 100% of the Amish can read and write. Only about 41% of kids coming out of public school can do the same. Additionally each Amish kid has skills by 8th grade. “English” kids? No skills but video games and apps. Who is better off?
I had a great uncle who never made it past the 4th grade in 1932. His family lost everything and he had to go to work. He apprenticed as a carpenter, started his own GC business after a few years, and was very successful. He never went back for any additional schooling. Not every career requires 16+ years of education.
Amish crew built my garage in a day. Father and 3 sons two of which I doubt were teenagers and the eldest just barely.
You we be surprised how many Amish millionaires are out there!
When I was young the women always ate after the men and boys. My grandmother wouldn’t have had it any other way. That’s when they socialized w/o men under foot. The women certainly didn’t want to be out in the fields walking behind a hot team of plow horses!
My memories of back then are quite fresh in my mind and a lot better too!
Wasn’t easier but definitely better in many ways.
great point, I forget that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence and nothing is perfect.
The simple life-style of the Amish and their commitment to self-sufficiency appeals to me. Horse and buggy will be immune when the EMP strikes — but our modern, gadgeted-autos will be left in the ditch, and our computers (lacking a Faraday box) will go down too.
I hear you Edna! I was fortunate enough to grow up in the 60’s and 70’s not in an urban area and had grand folks who loved me unconditionally (good thing because I was no angel as a teenager) and they taught me a lot about how life was when they were young. They use to smoke their own meats and can their own vegetables when they grew up on a farm and what I was able to learn from them back then was invaluable to me. I wasn’t looking forward to having to work that hard in my sunset years but if the SHTF I am with you and Sundance.
I hear that. I still live by “Grampisms”!
Are you under the idea you own you house? Try not paying your taxes and see how that works out…
Oh yeh I forgot about Uncle Sam
I love spending time with the Amish, they are genuinely warm, friendly, honest, good natured, kind, helpfully, smart, and I could keep going but you get the idea, I think they are wonderful God fearing people.
“G-d is faithful to the faithful.” And He WILL NOT FAIL you. See Deuteronomy 31:6;8 & Joshua 1:5
Stakeholder capitalism. Look up what Japan just said about it. For reference;
https://mainstreetcrypto.com/articles/what-is-stakeholder-capitalism/
Another brilliant observation by Sundance…
BRICS underlying motivation: they don’t trust the US and the West. And more and more, I agree with them.
I always suspected that this globalism stuff was just for First World countries as a way of reducing 1W wealth and shifting it to other parts.
China and Russia never liked this Kumbaya unless one of them orchestrates it. The view only changes for the lead dog.
MAGA is the only way. We need to fight, with real bullets, those who are destroying America.
That’s NOT entirely true – small local businesses generally didn’t have the cash flow behind them to keep them afloat for 2 YEARS and we ALL know it.
My blood can boil, a extremely rare event, thank God, when I hear people I know say high gas prices are a good thing, especially now with Ukraine throw in the mix.
Almost always from someone with enough money, that the rising gasoline prices don’t hurt them.
Bigots.
My first, unfiltered question, is about their gardeners, the city workers, hourly employees, i.e the service people.
Sundance has pointed this out several times.
My second question, and the rest of them, my PC filter is turned off.
Another ‘tell’ on alignment, is to look at the Government responce to Covid.
We know about Sweden, and saw the disparate coverage, where Swedish gov was diparaged for its initial responce, and when as predicted cases rose, that was pointed to as “See, they were WRONG”
With the passage of time, the ‘data’ indicated they were right, is not reported.
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, India, some countries in S. America, have taken different approaches, and again are ignored (not reported)or disparaged.
Putin is critisised for A) NOT counting CASES, in counting hospitalisations and deaths, i.e counting FROM, not WITH.
And critisised for not using Pfiser moderna vaxs, but of developing thier own, named Sputnic V.
And, laughingly critisised for”rolling out” Sputnik V within a year, without adequate testing, I kid you not!
Anyway, like BRICS, looking at COVID responce is a “tell” on whether a country is WEF clone controlled, or not.
Would like to see China out of Bris, and U.S. and other Nationalist goverments joining.
The battle IN the US is not R vs D, or Lib vs Con, it is MAGA vs Uniparty.
Worldwide, the battle is Globalist vs Nationalist.
Keeping that perspective makes it pretty easy to know WHO to root for, and who to root against.
Here’s a problem for the global demons. What if China decides to move on Taiwan? I guarantee you will not see this kind of reaction. You see, they have been demonizing and stigmatizing Putin for years, so it was quite easy for them all to “align” against Russia.
But China got itself a trump card – several for that matter. The Chinese understood that these demons will sell their souls for a few million bucks and a couple of mansions. What has Chyna done? Bought off the whole lot of them. what’s more Chyna has the receipts. None of them, not a single one would dare treat Chyna as they are doing Russia. Because the moment they do their “secrets’ will start getting revealed – starting with the “big guy”.
Big tech? Nike? UPS, big Banks? Nope. Chyna got them all covered. I would not be surprised if Chyna makes a move on Taiwan just to prove to them that they are bunch of useless, spineless, sellouts.
Lynch pin: Chyna has the receipts.
Agreed. Chyna “owns” most of DC and the country at large.
Especially Pig Media.
Tom Donohue, Klaus Schwab and Sean Hannity can go to hell.
Wasn’t Putin a WEF trainee?
https://www.younggloballeaders.org/community
NO! Look for yourself.
I heard a clip of Klaus Schwab saying Putin was WEF.
I provided a link and you can look for yourself. Do you have a link to what you heard?
Here is a link from The Remnant TV’s Michael Matt. Go to the 9:50 mark, listen to Klaus and then to Michael Matt discuss that Putin was too old to have attended the WEF Young Leaders.
https://remnant-tv.com/video/551/the-errors-of-globalism-russia-ukraine-and-the-suicide-of-the-west?channelName=RemnantTV
I hope this helps.
Actually Putin was one of the WEF young global leaders. He was in the same class as Merkel back in the 1990s.
I provided a link above you with all the WEF Young Hoodlems and Putin and Merkel were NOT in there. My link lets you see the alumni and neither one is there.
York Rite vs. Scottish Rite.
Looks like the great reset is moving at warp speed.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10561999/The-END-ATMS-Australia-Thousands-cash-machines-removed-banks-digital.html
Now that you mention this, it is similar to what’s been happening here, northern California, the last few years.
Branches closing, and ATMs are slowly disappearing.
FGN and FJB
We’re Amish in SoCal suburbia… undercover… I shave, we have two cars. 😉
The obvious question… if you buy Iranian oil, would the Iranians sell you sanctioned Russian Urals Oil? How do you tell the difference?
Looking at a map, shipping by Caspian Sea means Russian Oil can be sent to Iran.
Russian Urals Oil is similar to Iranian Light
Is Biden getting 10% of these oil sales?
You can test it for it’s impurities which tell a geologist where it came from.
The question I have is, why are we using Russia to negotiate with Iran? What are we getting out of this deal, or should I say what is the big guy getting?
I think the big guy is getting his cut. Russia is selling it’s oil, and Iran is back in business.
Convinced now Trump has to be Speaker – January 2025 is waaaayyyy to far off.
Good idea. If WEF defeats Russia, we should join the Amish. They do know how to live off the land as if it were 1722.
The WEF crowd, backed up by all the woke far-left soy idiots infesting the West, basically wants to impose the Morgenthau Plan — the so-called “Green New Deal” — on the entirety of the First World.
All they do is hate and wish to destroy.
It’s easy to take sides here. Just think of our country as under enemy occupation, except between 2016 and 2020.
Go BRICS.
I have to say the Canadians were far more creative decorating their trucks than the Americans. Just an observation.
the only way to win is not to play. Go Amish
I don’t trust BRICS. I see China working to push countries to align with them. Considering the levels of espionage, bribery and other corruption that China has sponsored in the US alone, it does not give warm and fuzzy feelings.
Supporting BRICS to knock out one evil globalist faction to replace another evil globalist faction doesn’t seem like a win.
All the BRICS countries are very corrupt at many levels.
BRICS is welcoming new members Hondorus, Indonesia, Tunisia, Haiti, Oman, Uganda, Syria and Ethiopia.
We might need another acronym?
BRICS HIT-HOUSE
So every thing going on in Ukraine is creating crises that help the left usher in “ The Great Reset”. A new energy crisis with gas expected to cost more than $5 a gallon. Food shortages in wheat, corn and others to make food prices climb exponentially. Now a fire at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe….All this helps the Left create the crisis which they will use to implement The Great Reset….the longer this goes on, the more it helps the left take control. So maybe Putin is working with or for the people that are pulling Biden’s strings?
”Never let a crisis go to a waste”….If he isn’t working for them, what he is doing is sure helping them….
Can we get a message to the BRICS that a majority of people in the US do not support Resident Biden’s policy to destroy Russian currency and banking because we know it will hurt most the average Russian citizen, not the decision making elite. The US wag the dog foreign policy is going to get us into war and end dollar reserve status.
Liberal policy decision makers now follow Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, John Bolton, GW Bush, Lindsay Graham and Sean Hannity in some crazy scheme to convince the CCP to work with us to undermine Russia. Didn’t Biden celebrate getting out of Afghanistan just 6 months ago? Where are our sane anti-war GOP?
Volodymyr Struk, Mayor of Kreminna in the Luhansk (breakaway – pro -Russian separatist region) expressed favorable comments about Putin. So he was executed for that.
Isn’t the pro-Zelensky Ukrainian government guilty of a war crime?
A Treeper in this thread mentioned the case and so I looked it up using my phone as desktop is updating right now -so now I can’t find your post but thank you for sharing info about it – I found it and will post link again to article in case my first effort did not pan out.
Volodymyr Struk, Mayor of Kreminna, Luhansk, executed.
Only thru the grace of God Almighty will BRICS prevail. Like our President Trump, they are hugely outnumbered. Never stop fighting.
I’ve thought highly of the Amish since Sharyl Attkisson did a video report on them … Amish Covid: ‘No hospitalization, isolation or vaccines = herd immunity’ | Sharyl Attkisson
Meanwhile, I’m working hard on my parallel society … The Parallel Society vs Totalitarianism | How to Create a Free World – YouTube
Sundance: Ohio has the biggest Amish community in Holmes, Wayne, Tuscarawas and Stark County.
Having grown up in Amish country Ohio, yeah, it’s pretty sweet.
Sorry, gonna have to burn it to the ground
This dude has connections to the WEF: http://www.brics-info.org/highlight/mr-patrice-motsepe/
The way things are headed, going Amish is looking better all the time…
This is very interesting to me. Our supplier quality management program at work applies the highest risk rating to suppliers from BRICS countries. And I note my employer is in the WEF. Things that make you go hmmm….
With some countries wanting entry into EU and NATO, you will see more countries aligning with Russia and China.