Is Revolution Coming Driven by the Youth?
A lot of questions have come in regarding the youth. Many are deeply concerned parents and others are youth who write thanking for the understanding of the truth. I have focused upon the youth because this is part of the generational cycle and the divide between the generations is reaching maximum entropy. This is the force of creative destruction. The two greatest forces of revolution are food and jobs. It was the unemployment of the youth that became a major driving mechanism that transformed China from a Communist State to a Capitalist Society destined to be the world’s largest economy and new financial capital of the world. Both Russia and the West do not understand this mechanism, but it is vital to comprehend for this is a critical element behind the rise and fall of empires, nations, and city states. This is why I have stated that the youth may be the savior of Western Society.
Communism in China changed radically with the death of Mao on September 9th, 1976. The Chinese understand cycles, but they also are practical unlike Russia. After Mao’s death, China re-embraced pragmatism. “Seeking truth from facts” became the Party’s new guideline. This is so critical to just allow the facts to lead you to the truth whereas in the West and Russia it has been the suppression of truth to sustain power. Then the most restrictive constraint in China for economic growth was the lack of knowledge. My invitation to China was an eye opener. To walk into a room and see everything you have ever written printed out in volumes and meeting people who read everything showed me that indeed government was seeking truth not trying to sustain power alone.
The revolution in China began with the marginal revolution in private farming, which was nothing new in China. Prior to 1949, private individual farming had existed for millenia. During the early 1950s, Mao tried rather ruthlessly to collectivize farming creating the communistic system of the French Commune that impressed Marx. Many peasants believed that Mao’s collectivization would offer them a way out of poverty. However, after 20 years of collective farming and 40 million famine deaths, the peasants knew better and by 1976 many returned to private farming after Mao died, despite the fact that Beijing was still trying to promote the commune system. In September 1980, we find that just by one Pi cycle 3.14 years following the death of Mao, Beijing was forced to allow private farming in areas where “the people had lost their confidence in the collective.”
This reform that was forced upon Beijing from the farmers opened the floodgates of private farming as it sprung back to life. China could no longer be controlled from a centralized planning position central to communism and the government responded appropriately whereas in the West government tends to be more authoritative demanding compliance with old ideas to retain control be regulation and threats of imprisonment.
By early 1982 private farming became a national policy and the rebirth of capitalism was under way 31.4 years from the birth of Communism in 1949. Chinese collectivized agriculture was therefore dismantled – the first step back toward capitalism – the freedom of being self-aware and deterministic. Of course, the official account of reform credited government for launching agricultural reform when it was very much a bottom-up reform. The Beijing reform merely raised the purchasing prices of grain and increased grain import; which was facilitating the emerging trend of reestablishing private farming.
The next great change that forced the Chinese government into capitalism was the vast unemployment among the youth. It was here where we saw the first private businesses in China emerge driven by the people who did not have a job in the state sector. Most were city youths who had recently returned from the countryside. During Mao’s era, we find some 20 million middle school graduates (ranging from 15 to 18 years old) in cities were sent to the countryside simply because the government’s centralized planning could not create enough jobs – precisely the problem we see with socialism in Europe today.
Once again, only with the death of Mao, we begin to find the unemployed youth returned to the cities, but still found no jobs in the state sector. The Youth, jobless, and restless, began to take to the streets and even blocked the railway. This mounting pressure forced the government to open the door for self employment. Private shops started to emerge in Chinese cities; they quickly ended state monopoly of the urban economy. The youth in the cities led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the June 4 Massacre in 1989.
This is why I pay close attention to the level of unemployment among the youth. It is why I take the time to speak to 18 year-olds, To save the world – we need the youth.
Timeline:
April 15, 1989 - Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party leader, dies. Hu had worked to move China toward a more open political system and had become a symbol of democratic reform.
April 15, 1989 - Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party leader, dies. Hu had worked to move China toward a more open political system and had become a symbol of democratic reform.
April 18, 1989 - Thousands of mourning students march through the capital to Tiananmen Square, calling for a more democratic government. In the weeks that follow, thousands of people join the students in the square to protest against China’s Communist rulers.
May 13, 1989 - More than 100 students begin a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. The number increases to several thousand over the next few days.
May 19, 1989 - A rally at Tiananmen Square draws an estimated 1.2 million people. General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, appears at the rally and pleads for an end to the demonstrations.
May 19, 1989 - Premier Li Peng imposes martial law.
June 1, 1989 - China halts live American news telecasts in Beijing, including CNN. Also reporters are prohibited from photographing or videotaping any of the demonstrations or Chinese troops.
June 2, 1989 - A reported 100,000 people attend a concert in Tiananmen Square by singer Hou Dejian, in support of the demonstrators.
June 4, 1989 - At about 1 a.m. Chinese troops reach Tiananmen Square. Throughout the day, Chinese troops fire on civilians and students, ending the demonstrations. An official death toll has never been released.
June 5, 1989 - An unidentified man stands alone in the street, blocking a column of Chinese tanks. He remains there for several minutes before being pulled away by onlookers.
June 5, 1999 - Approximately 70,000 people in Hong Kong take part in a memorial vigil.
EU Commission to Reject Hollande’s Budget
Hollande is in deep trouble. His socialistic policies are destroying France. The European Commission in reviewing the budgets of the French Government find that they violate EU rules and no run the risk that they will be rejected by the EU. The Commission will ask the government in Paris in late October to submit a new budget plan for 2015. The EU Commission just may for the first time request changes to a draft national budget according to the surrender of France’s sovereignty to Brussels.
According to the plans of the French government debt will be 4.4% in 2015 and 4.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year. Also in 2016 the minus 3.8% are still be well above the EU ceiling of 3%.
Growing Organs First the Penis next Brains?
Believe it or not, they are growing penises in a lab: Scientists say organs could be tested on humans within five years. While the penis is a very useful organ, perhaps this could solve politics where heads of state just duel it out to see whose is bigger, at least until they can grow brains that come like a computer preloaded with wisdom.
Europe’s Answer to Reform – More of the Same
Jean-Claude Juncker won the support of Europe’s lawmakers to become European Commission president, despite the opposition from Britain. It was clearly a slap in the face to Britain and it is highly doubtful that his leadership will be able to patch up relations with the U.K..
Juncker, a former Luxembourg prime minister and will now head the EU Commission succeeding Portugal’s Jose Barroso as of November. 1. The commission is the European Union’s executive arm that operates as a dictatorship with no democratic checks or balances. The Commission need no abide by the votes of elected ministers defeating democracy in Europe. It proposes and enforces EU laws, not the people of Europe, monitors national economies, negotiates trade deals, runs a diplomatic service and administers the bloc’s 140 billion-euro ($191 billion) budget.
Juncker was previously the Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013. He was the longest-serving head of government of any European Union country, and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, by the time he left office. He was also Luxembourg’s Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009 and the first permanent President of the Eurogroup from 2005 to 2013, his tenure encompassing the height of the European financial and sovereign debt crisis. Therein lies the problem. The state of Europe is very much part of his ideas and theory. He will defend the system rather than reform it and this was at the core of British opposition.
The 59-year-old must boost economic growth, deal with massive deflation, rising civil unrest, tremendous dissatisfaction with the idea of the EU in Italy, France, and Spain especially, and confront the possibility of a British exit from the 28-nation EU stemming from U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s pledge to scale back the bloc’s powers and to hold an in-or-out referendum on membership. Each member state appoints one commissioner, whose portfolio is assigned by the president.
The assembly endorsed Juncker by a vote of 422 to 250 with 47 abstentions. He will now become the new dictator with no new ideas for a five-year term once Barroso, in office since 2004, steps down at the end of October.
Biden – Always the Loose Cannon
The White House defended Vice President Joe Biden on Monday as expected after he was forced to call leaders in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to apologize for remarks he made suggesting they had supported Islamist militants in Syria. Biden has a reputation for shooting off his mouth constantly.
European Scientists Trace AIDS back to 1920
A European team of scientists have reconstructed the spread of HIV (AIDS) and found it began in the city of Kinshasa, capital of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its spread from their following trade routes.
TASS Reports in Russia Obama’s Attempt to Cut Off Russia from the Entire World Economy
The Russian Press has now reported that Obama attempt to have Russia cut off from the world economy removing from the SWIFT transfer system. This is absolutely an outrageous attempt by Obama that would amount to a declaration of war for that is the only time when such measures have taken place between world powers.
Gorbachev One of the last few world leaders Blasts Obama as the Great Plague
I have known world leaders as everyone knows. There was a time when before Bush, Jr., you could have an intelligent conversation with such people. Ever since, the quality of leadership has crashed and burned. One of the few true leaders who had courage and the brains behind it was Mikhail Gorbachev.
Now Mikhail Gorbachev has been a serious critic of Obama and Putin. In his new book Gorbachev writes in the epilogue of his just-completed book “Posslje Kremlja” (“After the Kremlin”). “The world stands on the brink of a major disaster.” Gorbachev argues that the only way for peace in Ukraine and in Europe to unfold requires a new dialogue between Russia and the United States.
Gorbachev has stated the obvious that the US press will not address. He sharply blames Obama and the Government of the United States. In a radio interview he has stated bluntly: “There is today a great plague – and this is the United States and its leadership.” The former Soviet leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner has criticized the global leadership of the United States in no uncertain terms.He rejects the demonization of Russia by the United States. So far, Gorbachev had always argued more pro-Western. However, Obama is simply out of control and he should be removed from office to save the world.
Gorbachev has been a target of the Russian nationalists who want to put him on trial for allowing the Soviet Union to break apart. Yet Gorbachev has repeatedly also criticized Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless, he has stated that “We [Russia] are a strong nation (…) and have something to say,” he says now confidently.
Gorbachev is now criticizing the West and compares the merger of Crimea with Russia on par with the German reunification. Indeed, I stated from the outset that Ukraine should be split and the former Russian regions be handed back. That was indeed on par with the German Unification for Crimea was part of Russia.
Gorbachev has often voiced in recent years critical to the developments in the Kremlin. Unforgotten is the accusation Gorbachev that the lust for power of the Kremlin United Russia party is worse than the Communists in Soviet times today. Internally, they will never forget how he criticized an increasingly authoritarian course under Putin.
Gorbachev may be one of the last few world leaders who deserved that title. We have entered an era of a severe lack of world leadership. Where is our Churchill when the world so desperately needs wisdom and reason.
Obama clearly fails to understand that he is turning the United States into the Great Satin. What is emerging is a starkly different culture among the younger generation that in many nations is more nationalistic than their parents. This is happening also in Russia with what is being called the Putin Generation. We need fresh ideas and faces and a return to wisdom and reason.