First and foremost dont get fooled by all this news being circulated that you have alliances against China.

This is entirely false. There are no alliances.

China is NOT Single.

China controls 24 African countries, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and has a very close friendship with Russia and Iran which it can use to its advantage at any minute.

China has a lot of trade and business influence in almost every country. Deutsche Bank since 2019 does more business with China than with USA. Banks, Manufacturers, Consumer Goods all depend on china for manufactured imports and on the chinese market for consumption and exports.

So automatically the Big Businesses – the Money Men – the People who fund elections and who can decide the fate of Democratic Governments are completely pro china.

So the Politicians can strut and shout but they cannot take any action against China as it will bring a stronger repercussion against their own country.

Simple example – India recently banned Tik Tok and many Chinese Apps. The Impact on China was minimal and only the companies were affected.

Say as a retaliation China would have stopped the export of Pharma Raw Stock to India. It would have taken us 6 years to find a substitute of that much quantity. It would rise costs by 240% to 700% depending on the drug. A Strip costing Rs. 35/- would now cost Rs. 145/- and there would be a massive supply crunch by 2023 when the inventories would dry out. There would be massive protests and literally revolutions and would create Chaos for us.

It would be the same for the United States.

China cut down its supply of the Raw Stock for Diabetic Insulin in 2019–2020 after the COVID Crisis to ensure it has enough for its own people. Trump promptly subsided the extra cost of importing insulin raw stock from other countries which cost the US Federal Government $ 38 Billion between May 2020 and February 2021 to keep the prices the same.

Biden has cut this subsidy resulting in Insulin prices rising. Biden plans to get back the Stock delivery from China and he has succeeded in getting the business back to scale by June 2021.

Sadly no country can affect China in the same way.

This is because while the world was sleeping or leaders like Bush and Obama (US), Blair (UK), Scroeder and Merkel (Germany), MMS (India) did not realize how dependent they were becoming on China.

Today it is too late.

China knows this

So unless you have an alternative – China can easily remain single.

If they get really angry and decide to use one of their many Nuclear Options – the West will promptly back down without a seconds hesitation.

Frankly I dont care too much about the West myself.

However i do wish We were in the same position that China is in today. Had we followed the Doctorine in 1991- established manufacturing bases in 14 of our uninhabited Islands on the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, Focussed on Manufacturing, we could be in a far stronger and influential position than we actually are.

Simple, because the UK is a totalitarian state, where you can participate in pretend elections where nothing really changes. Their recent elections changed nothing other than the front man who acts on the behalf of the corporate masters.

We can see when PC Kane Haywood, was found guilty of sexual assault by penetration (commonly known as you know rape) and received a 1 year suspended sentence. Westerners are like YEAH that’s JUSTICE! (Note how people planning a protest were given 5 years in prison).

“I smelled something smoking and I looked down … and I was smoking,” he said.

US soldiers and doctors risked their lives to extract a live RPG lodged in a US marine which could have exploded at any point- they broke dozens of regulations as well just to do the morally right thing.

Thursday, March 16, 2006, was a beautiful sunny day in Paktika Province, eastern Afghanistan. It borders a lawless region of Pakistan that is home to some al Qaeda and Taliban forces. Snow in the mountain passes along the border had melted giving them access again to Afghanistan where they came looking for American soldiers. They soon found them.

At dawn, the 10th Mountain Division’s Alpha Company headed out on a mission. Four hours into the drive and just miles from the village, gunfire broke out. They’d been ambushed from above. Twenty-three-year-old Pvt. Channing Moss, the gunner, said it sounded like rattling spoons. A hail of RPG fell onto the convoy, destroying a friendly Afghan vehicle and also hitting the humvees. One humvee commander turned to tell Moss to aim his gun when he saw his sides smoking.

The RPG that had plowed into Moss’ lower abdomen stretched from one hip to the other. If the RPG went off, it would kill everyone within 30 feet of him. Yet the company medic Spc. Jared Angell stayed close, bandaging his wounds and stabilizing the weapon so that movement wouldn’t cause it to explode.

Reports of injuries had been radioed to the medical evacuation helicopter (MEDEVAC) base in Salerno, Afghanistan — minus one crucial piece of information.

“We didn’t tell them that, you know, Moss had live ordnance in him,” Mariani said, “because there was that possibility that, you know, they might not want to transport him with live ordnance in him.”

Preparations began for the rescue mission. But first the Blackhawk crew had to wait for clearance from commanders because the area was “hot” — the battle was still raging. For MEDEVAC crew chief SSG Christian Roberts, it was a very long 15 minutes.

“When you know you have wounded people out there that are waiting for you to come pick them up, it seems like an eternity,” he said.

“Doc” continued working frantically to stabilize Moss even though the RPG was a danger to everyone around Moss. Angell knew Moss’ only chance for survival was to get out of there and to a hospital quickly.

“I constantly was looking at my watch, saying, you know, ‘When is the bird gonna get here, when is the bird gonna get here,'” medic Doc Angell said.

When Lt. Mariani pulled “Doc” aside to ask him if he thought Moss would make it, he could only shake his head no.

If Pvt. Moss didn’t survive, his wife, six months pregnant with their second child, would lose her husband and his daughter Yuliana would lose her father. But just as Moss felt he would die, he heard the choppers. An Apache helicopter escorted the MEDEVAC chopper in case there was more gunfire.

Spc. Collier, the flight medic, quickly realized what they faced with Pvt Moss.

“I see a metal object protruding out, and there are fins on it, and I am like, ‘This looks like this guy got hit with something, and it’s stuck in him, and it didn’t blow up,'” he said.

Army policy states that they are not supposed to transport soldiers in Moss’ condition. The risk of catastrophic loss is too great — four MEDEVAC crew members, three wounded soldiers and a helicopter could all be blown out of the sky.

But they also knew if they didn’t take Moss, he would die.

Pilot CW2 Jorge Correa conferred with his soldiers: “I asked my crew, you know, ‘Are you guys comfortable with this?'” he said. “Because I wasn’t gonna put my crew in jeopardy if they weren’t comfortable with it.”

The crew quickly decided to take the risk.

Co-pilot Jeremy Smith recalled the tense moment.

“We all said, ‘Yeah, let’s get him on board and let’s get outta here,'” he said.

As crew chief Christian Roberts said, “We are not gonna leave a U.S. soldier to die in the middle of Afghanistan.”

But reports of the true nature of Moss’ injury had not reached the closest medical facility at the Orgun-E base — a former goat shed transformed into a rough field hospital. They were told it was “shrapnel injury.” The aid station had two doctors, Maj. John Oh, a general surgeon, and Maj. Kevin Kirk, an orthopedic surgeon. At this point it wasn’t clear which Moss needed most — a surgical team or a bomb squad.

Incredibly, both Oh and Kirk had drilled for this exact scenario, because the Army has a protocol to handle patients with unexploded ordnance in them.

“You’re actually not supposed to bring them into an aid station,” Oh said. “And actually, he wasn’t supposed to be flown with the other patients either.”

According to the “War Surgery Manual,” Moss should have been placed far away from other patients and operated on last. If procedure had been followed, Moss would likely have bled to death, but the doctors felt compelled to save him.

Then Pvt. Moss had another life-saving break — Staff Sgt. Dan Brown, the explosives expert who spends his time disposing of bombs and captured weapons, was on the base. In his spare time, Brown had been watching an episode of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” about a patient with an unexploded grenade in him. In that story, the bomb technician is blown up. Brown was about to play a leading role in his own non-fiction drama.

Brown, shocked to see that Moss was still alive, confirmed that they were dealing with an RPG. Moss’ life hung on whether or not they would remove the rocket.

Brown explained the different scenarios of what could happen. The worst case was that they would all become “pink mist” — everyone in the room would be killed. But to identify how much explosive power they were facing, they needed an x-ray to determine whether the RPG’s warhead was inside Moss. Their notoriously temperamental x-ray machine malfunctioned, and it wasn’t until the third attempt that they got a decent image.

The doctors and Brown were relieved by what they didn’t see. The deadliest part of the RPG — the main explosive charge — was not in Moss. But their relief diminished when Brown explained to the surgeons that it would still have enough force to kill Moss and destroy their hands.

At that point, Oh ordered everyone except the critical staff out of the aid station, the two doctors and three surgical staff remained. They all knew the risk they faced.

“I looked everybody in the eye and said, ‘You guys understand what’s going on here, right?’ And I knew everybody heard me, but nobody said anything. They just kept doing their jobs,” he said.

Oh told them it was okay to leave — but nobody did. With no words exchanged, each had decided to risk their life to save Moss.

Extreme blood loss had caused his heart to stop. Unable to do chest compressions for fear of setting off the round, they gave him epinephrine. His heart soon restarted and they could finally operate to remove the RPG.

Sgt. Brown used an unusual instrument to gently remove the RPG’s tail fins — a hacksaw. The surgeons reached inside Moss, steadying the still lethal rocket, inches from the soldier’s beating heart. They then gently eased the rocket out, with the detonator aimed at Brown’s flak vest.

Brown quickly walked out of the aid station to a bunker and detonated it. The sound of the explosion thundered through the base. As the surgeons closed up Moss’ incisions, Sgt. Brown sat down outside to collect himself. Finally, the impact of the drama hit him.

“I started shaking. I just sat there. I knew I did everything I could to help him live. And that was very, very intense for me after the fact,” he said.

The problem is that IBM failed

Political reasons are only the catalyst for IBM’s failure in China, but not the root cause.

In the past 20 years, IBM is no longer the top company in computer technology.

The blue giant rose with computer technology and once led many fields of commercial computers in the entire human world. From operating systems to servers, from giant computers to floppy disks, from mice to color monitors, the development of human computer technology and network technology is inseparable from the contribution of IBM.

But those great stories are only stories of the past. IBM once made a lot of money, which made IBM become bigger and bigger, less efficient, and in many fields, IBM was surpassed by other emerging companies.

Since many businesses were in the red, IBM had to get rid of those “unprofitable” businesses to maintain a better financial situation. In the past 20 years, they sold the PC department, the storage department, the server department, the printer department, the network hardware department, the storage device department, the health department, the semiconductor department…

But all the businesses sold by IBM have been proven to be very promising and profitable by other companies. Why did they stay in IBM and become “unprofitable” businesses?

IBM started to get sick a long time ago. There is a joke in the United States that IBM is the company with the lowest efficiency and the most complicated processes in the world. IBM is the company with the lowest per capita output among the major IT companies in the world.

I list the per capita output/per capita profit of several famous IT companies

Apple: $2.38 million, $600,000

Microsoft: $1.07 million, $380,000

HP: $926,200, $56,300

Huawei: $470,000, $58,600

Oracle: $333,100, $65,400

IBM: $219,200, $26,600

IBM is not only sick, but also very sick.

IBM once proudly claimed that they had transformed from a manufacturing company to a technology company, and from a technology company to a service company. They only serve the most valuable customers, large banks, governments, airlines, and insurance companies. Their employees wear the best suits, hold meetings in six-star hotels, and only strive for the most profitable orders.

Because, orders with meager profits will lose money at IBM!

Have you used any IBM equipment or software in your life? Very little, right?

Because the money in your wallet is too little for IBM. Making money from consumers is too hard and difficult for IBM.

IBM’s largest customers in China have always been the Chinese government, state-owned enterprises, banks and securities industry. They once generously gave huge orders to IBM, and IBM also opened a research and development center in China to provide services to these customers.

The main directions of IBM China Research Institute are the Internet of Things, big data and cloud services, which are also the areas where Chinese customers purchase more.

But in the past five years, these orders have become increasingly difficult to obtain.

1. Chinese companies are growing rapidly

Lenovo, Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu. Many Chinese companies have grown into international giants. They are in their respective fields with technology and strength that is completely not inferior to IBM, and their fees are lower and their services are more efficient.

2. Trump’s “China Plan”

The US government has imposed comprehensive sanctions on Chinese technology companies and provoked a trade war. In order to defend and counterattack, the Chinese government launched a “de-Americanization” plan: requiring the government, banks, and state-owned enterprises to reduce their purchases of American technology every year.

Under the dual effects of commercial competition and geopolitics, IBM’s disease broke out completely. It is like a patient who has been ill for a long time and has been relying on expensive drugs to maintain superficial health. When these drugs are no longer so easy to obtain, it is time for him to fall.

IBM’s performance in China has been declining rapidly:

In 2021, it grew by 2%

In 2022, it declined by 22.7%

In 2023, it declined by 19.6%

In 2024, it declined by 25% (estimated)

IBM’s market has almost been completely occupied by Chinese local companies.

In 2023, IBM’s global revenue was $60 billion, while China’s Huawei was $100 billion and Alibaba was $120 billion. IBM is no longer the blue giant it once was, but a second-rate IT company.

Do you think IBM is only collapsing in China? No, in 2023, IBM laid off 3,900 people worldwide, and they moved all the jobs in Europe to India. Because India is cheaper.

Now IBM = India Business Machine.

Maybe India is the last medicine for IBM to maintain operations.

There I was, in Iraq. We, the US, had just agreed to sell Abrams tanks to the Iraqis and we (my unit) were at a range to put on a demonstration. Our plan was to use a section of Bradleys and a section of Abrams to demonstrate their capability to deliver a high volume of accurate fires at long range. We had the viewing area rigged with a speaker so the audience could hear the platoon leader and his fire commands. It was going to be a sweet demonstration of something we rarely got to see ourselves!

The Iraqis decided they would also put on a demonstration and showed up with a T72 and a BMP1 (with the unimpressive 73mm low pressure gun). They would go first.

The time to fire came….and went. People climbed around the BMP and we waited. Finally….one boom. We saw a puff of sand maybe halfway to the target (which was only a couple hundred meters away). Several minutes pass and then another boom. More sand flies in the air; closer, but still nowhere near the target. Minutes pass. It’s getting awkward. There’s a third round-still well short.

My boss, the brigade commander, calls me over to where he is sitting next to the Iraqi Army division commander. He whispers to me to call our crews and have them dial it back some because he doesn’t want to embarrass their guys.

The BMP finally falls pathetically silent, having fired a max of 4–5 rounds (it was 2010, I can’t recall for sure how many!). The target is unscathed.

Despite the crewmen busy around the back deck and gathered behind it, the T72 never fires at all.

It is our turn. I’ve called them to dial it back and they’ve acknowledged but when our crews fire, I’m not sure exactly what they dialed back because it looks like thunder and lightning where the vehicles are and a sand storm around and beyond their targets as both 25mm and 120mm rounds are punching through. The Brads reduce fires and shift to alternating fires. Cool, it’s ’talking guns’ with 25mm! (This was the highest volume of fires I’ve ever seen from armored vehicles!)

My boss is initially perturbed but then settles in to watch the show.

My flatmate moved a gay couple, Paul and Stefan, into our spare bedroom back in 1991. Stefan was gentle and okay to live with, but Paul was 6’8” tall with a menacing undertone. While he and I didn’t have any issues personally, there was something not quite right about him, something unsettling.

Paul and Stefan broke up while still living with us in 1992, with Stefan moving out. I came home soon after to find Paul’s belongings all packed up and him about to leave. He told me he’d taken his rent money back, having gone into my drawers to find it. We started having an argument about needing to give notice. I phoned my flatmate to do something about it, but he said unequivocally, “Don’t argue with him. Just let him go.”

So Paul moved out and I never saw either of them again.

Fifteen years later the police called me and asked if I knew a Paul Armstrong. I said not for a long time. They asked questions about the kind of car he drove when we lived with him. I replied that I had no idea as they parked it in the underground car park and I didn’t socialise with them.

I asked why they were asking me these questions – the police said they had arrested Paul for the murder of Felipe Flores, a man from Ecuador who had been living in Sydney. Paul had bashed him to death in a small park back in 1991….then moved in with us less than three weeks later.

It turned out the police had been reviewing a cold case, using blood found beneath the fingernails of Felipe Flores. The DNA led to Paul, who by then was also a convicted rapist. He was sentenced in 2014 for murder.

Paul Armstrong jailed for killing gay lover over HIV admission

Paul Armstrong, my former flatmate and, it turns out, convicted killer and rapist

Felipe Flores, the man bashed by Paul in a park, who was then dragged unconscious under a bush where he died.

Again

I look at China and believe whatever they did is the winning formula

That’s because nobody else did anything else that could be described as winning unless it’s done over a century or two

So

1. Quality Public Education
2. Manufacturing by offering Low Cost Labor and Land
3. Use proceeds of manufacturing to build Supply Chains, Educate more people and then Build Ports and and Roadways and Warehouses to distribute and supply the products manufactured worldwide
4. Invest in Technology especially R & D
5. Develop Indigenous Technology in many areas
6. Develop Key Critical Technology in a few areas
7. Use the money made from 6 to create a stronger middle class and use them to start transforming to a Consumption Driven Economy
8. Once you have sustainable money, focus on Healthcare and Elderly Care and Social Benefits for Citizens
9. Focus on Higher Education and Advanced Degrees and use those degrees to maintain a supply of talented labor to various advanced manufacturing jobs

That’s literally the Chinese Model

That Transformed the Nation into a 19 Trillion Great Power from an Agrarian Backwater in 1960

Ultimately there are some Dos and Donts along the way

A. Spend wisely. Dont Stupidly borrow to build Infrastructure especially Airports unless you can generate sufficient revenue and make money

B. Education should be guarded. Dont be lazy and hand over Education to private Vultures to destroy and finish off the entire base

C. Careful use of earnings. Use Proceeds of Manufacturing to create Supply Chains & Research, not to create Obnoxious Gaudy Thelawallahs who load their own pockets

D. Focus on building a Middle Class. Use Money made from Economy into creating a stronger middle class through Jobs & Housing not by the SHARE MARKET

E. Merit driven everything. Don’t abandon Meritocracy for any other Model

F. Avoid politics. Don’t put Politics before Country and Don’t regard any LEADER as a God or as someone who can’t do anything wrong

G. Concentrate on the roles of education. Focus on Higher Education meaning make it more accessible to the common man and practical,not building 40 premier institutions and diluting their value

H. Accept your mistakes. Don’t be embarrassed to admit your lack of achievement in area and LEARN AND IMPROVE

I. Focus. Don’t use petty Nationalism if it comes in the way of Potential Development

Thats Literally India today

That is holding back a 1.4 Billion Nation and making it a Paper economy day in and day out

So First

[1] We need Good Leadership

Modi is a failure

He must go

Future leaders must be judged based on pre set Goals and Standards

If they don’t achieve this, they must resign and someone else must take over

Leadership based on Caste or Religion or Brainwashing is certain disaster

And no Party politics please

[2] Second – Priorities

We need something that benefits the maximum number of people

Education is critical

Far more critical than Airports for 5% passengers

Food security is critical

Far more critical than 40 new IITs

[3] Third – Stop saying the System is fine

The System is flawed and needs massive reform

Maybe the reform could be different from person to person

Yet anyone who says the system is fine as it is and we are going to be Viksit Bharat in 2047 without any effort , is a Fool and is Genetically a flawed product

Once you reach 1,2,3

Then it’s a Custom made solution based on how your Society and Economy is structured

Just that

INDIA IS DOING EVERYTHING WRONG TODAY

So everything must be overhauled completely

How it must be done different?

That depends on various factors

My daughter’s 2009 BMW 335I had the twin turbos fail. I watched several videos to see how difficult it would be for she and I to repair it. The videos showed that it was a complicated, time consuming repair, but we felt we could do it. We ordered the parts and started working one Saturday morning. After working for a few hours, she called her boyfriend, who lives a couple hours away. He drove up to help. Her boyfriend has a lot of experience working on BMWs. He said he would not have attempted this repair. I had to take the intake manifold off this car once, to replace a heater pipe. So, I knew it wouldn’t be simple.

It took us three long days to replace the turbos. Many, many times we were forced to get just a couple fingers into a place no human should be able to touch. Everything was crammed together so tightly it was torture. We lost a lot of skin on our hands and arms. We had the foresight to put all the parts in ziplock bags and label them well. We arranged the parts in order, as we took them off. There were many, many parts.

We did get the turbos installed and working well. We made one mistake that took me 2–3 hours to fix after my partner in torture drove back home. That was about four years ago. I have only done minor repairs on that car since. I will never attempt a major repair on an BMW again.

Are there Uyghurs and Tibetans who are members of the CCP?

I’ll show you a famous one, known by all Chinese.

When the tourists came to Xinjiang, they looked like four or five young people in their twenties. Their cars were stuck in the mud.

The old man from Xinjiang helped this group of people to take the car out of trouble.

When tourists tried to pay him cash to express their thanks, he refused, but his language was difficult to communicate, so he showed his party emblem.

He is not an Uygur or a Tibetan, but rather a smaller ethnic group in Xinjiang, Khalkhas.

His name is Abdugapal Mad, who lives in Muji, as a CPC member for 24 years.

Well, America is the flagbearer of western civilization and it’s all of 250 years old.

And where did western civilization originate?

Modern day middle-east/Mediterranean.

America is an ocean away, but it spells in the Latin alphabet, and prints “in God we trust” on its currency.

Clearly, western civilization is unbroken, because it can be traced from the time of the ancient sumerians, Egyptians and Persians, as recorded in the Bible. In fact, the way we tell time today is based on a recorded event in the bible: the birth of Jesus. Hence it is AD 2024 today. Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of our lord”.

But is it continuous, in the sense that today’s Americans share cultural and historical commonality with others that also identify as western and those that came before them?

The modern American may read Tacitus, quote Plato, and study machiavelli, but he doesn’t identify as a Roman, Greek or Italian. The refrain “it’s all Greek to me” is illuminating.

In other words, western civilization share a loosely linked pool of knowledge, but what sets the westerner apart is still geography and DNA. After all, North Africa and the Middle East have suffered massive destruction in recent years despite being the cradle of western civilization.

China is different. The fossil and DNA record clearly show modern Chinese are descended from paleolithic ancestors who settled and called it home. Elements of Neolithic culture found their way into the earliest xia and shang dynasties, including burial practices and cultural wares.

Chinese writing can be traced to the oracle bones of the Shang, and character evolution remains a topic for active scholarship. There was a period of fragmentation during the long decline of the zhou in the spring-autumn and warring states, but qin unification consolidated Chinese block writing. It has remained a consistent whole for the past 2,200 years.

The answer to “what it means to be Chinese” is rooted in continuity. History, culture, language, philosophy, the arts, technology, even governance and politics.

Take for example the genealogy of confucius, which has been continuously maintained over 2,500 years tracing more than 80 generations, the world’s longest extant record of human pedigree. There are over 2 million living descendants registered, with the estimated total well in excess of 3 million.

Similarly, an educated Chinese youth today can visit the Shandong museum and read Sun Tzu’s art of war off 2,200 year-old bamboo strips written during the Han dynasty.

You can’t do that with spelled languages. Even Shakespeare’s prose is unwieldy to the point of being unreadable because a 4-century gap separates modern English from the romance of Shakespearean times.

Chinese is drawn, not spelled.

This has allowed Chinese civilization to build and maintain the largest databank in history before the advent of digital storage.

Why did the kjv peoples expend significant cultural and political capital to preserve deep Chinese roots, especially Chinese literacy over tens of generations?

Because the Chinese language, especially block writing, remains the key to unlocking the priceless databank. Surely their survival as intact states must be in great part attributed to the umbilical link with the living Chinese body of knowledge.

True story.

When I first moved to Macau, one of the first people I met was a guy named Mark from the UK. He was a professional card counter. He played everyday. If he won US $3500 or lost US $3500 he would stop playing. He won more than he lost, so he was pretty good at discipline.

The casino security spotted him. Then they changed the rules. Changed from a four deck shoe to a six deck shoe.

They followed him home. And when he came out of his home, someone would follow him. He became uncomfortable and went to Korea to play.

When he came back, he was told he was blacklisted. No reason given.

Casinos make up their own rules.

But the basic rule is the house always wins.

There are no strategies to win. Just keep your money in your wallet and you win!

Stanley Ho, the founder of the modern casino industry in Macau was asked what game he played at his casinos. And he said “I don’t gamble “

Is it true that China in the 1700-1800s, while having a large army, still used ancient technology (arrows), compared to Europe?

In the year 1523, Ming dynasty captured a few Muskets during war with the Portugueses. In the year, 1548 Ming dynasty replicated and mass produced it. That became the Ming dynasty’s main firearm, and later the Qing dynasty. In the year 1765, Qing dynasty had a “conflict” with Myanmar, Burmese had already switched to the newly invented flintlock received from the British. That was when Qing dynasty started falling behind in the weapons department.
It didn’t have a large army either. Military cost money, there was no neighboring country could threaten China at the time, why keeping a large army?

What is the best habit you’ve taken up from another person?

I have a friend who spent 9 years in jail. When he came out, he showed me a couple tips that can literally save your life.

• Always have an extra door lock (especially if the regular one is not strong enough). That way, it will be much harder for someone to break in. Bonus: you will sleep better at night too.

• Never wear headphones in public (especially in the crowd). You become a lot more vulnerable to all kinds of accidents or attacks. Stay aware – it will be much harder for anyone to do any harm to you.

• When stopped by the police, stay calm, slow down your pace, appear relaxed, stay confident, and say as little as possible.

• Always pay off your debts. It does not matter if it is big or small, 10 years ago or 10 days ago – return whatever you owe to other people.

These 4 habits have saved me from a lot of trouble in life.

Today I read that a country exists where –

1. Only goverment approved haircuts are allowed (18 for women and 10 for men) any other haircut is illegal.
2. If a person commits suicide or crime then his family upto 3 generations are punished
3. There is powercut every night. Need permission to use electricity.
4. only three television channels for people to choose from and all of them are government-controlled.
5. Making international call is illegal (may also get killed for it) even leaving country is illegal. Any means to connect outside to the country is banned. There’s no social media.
6. Sanitary pads, Jeans Internet, Religious practices Owning private property or car, international travel is banned
7. Choice of the profession of an individual is decided by the government based on the country’s needs.
8. Any tourist who enters the country is closely monitored by the government throughout the trip. Each tourist is assigned a guide who accompanies him throughout the trip. If someone leaves their group or tries to talk to a local, they will be arrested. Along with this, tourists are taken only to certain places and along certain routes. Tourists visiting the country have to deposit their phones and computers and are allowed to take them back only before returning.
9. If house is on fire then saving president’s potrait is priority over saving own children and can cause death penalty
10. Very limited and restricted use of phones (cell phones not mobile phones) and internet (intranet – govt regularised) only 28 websites may be accessed under government supervision. The list of people with Internet access includes political leaders and their families, students attending elite schools, and the military’s cyber-warfare department. Only state-sanctioned operating system Red Star OS, designed in country, is allowed to use and not the standard Windows or Mac. Wi-Fi has been banned from use at all national embassies worldwide.
11. The government chooses where people can live depending on their relationship with the state. Living in the capital needs government permission.
12. The government restrictions allow only one in a hundred people to use a car.

Interesting but terrifying.

Yes they are so poor they have 60% driving the latest EVs and the US has less than 3%. Yes they are so poor 99% used digital money without carrying one cent in coins or notes today! 100% of Yanks still carry cash around! Yes they are so poor they have a hard time choosing between Bentley and Roll Royce? Or Mercedes and BMW! Yes they are so poor there are more Starbucks in China than there us in USA and for every 10 new Starbucks in China one is being planned in US! They are so poor they travelled in 400km an hour high speed train! They are so poor there is ZERO homeless to 2.5 million Americans livin in the streets!

I think you should finally admit that you are so poor in brain cells to asked this question! It is too obvious to the world.

Gambling revenues.

Macau government got rid of it’s gaming monopoly and issued six licenses including Wynn and Sands (Venetian).

When Sands opened its first casino which cost US $260 million, the crowd broke the doors! They recovered their investment in eight months.

With that success,they built the Venetian, a property three times the size of the Vegas property. It opened during the third week of August, yet tourist numbers went up by 24% for the entire month. Gaming revenues were unbelievable.

All six operaters have similar operations.

In 2005 we had 12,000 hotel rooms. Now we have over 42,000. Hyper growth. New hotels are 2000–3000 rooms.

Macau has 44 casinos and revenue of 5–6 times that of Vegas.

The government charges for each license, Charges rent for land lease and gets 39% of gross gaming revenue in taxes.

That’s why Macau is rich.

Car salesmen: who was the most “shrewd negotiator” customer you’ve ever had?

I used to have a boss that wanted a new Corvette. He waited to go to the dealership until the middle of winter when it had snowed like a foot the night before. Many of the city businesses had closed their offices, including ours. We had a “free day off.”

He KNEW exactly which car he wanted, and that dealership had one. So he went down there. Due to all the snow, the dealership was empty of customer — NOBODY was car shopping that day.

He pretended like he wasn’t sure which Corvette he wanted. He got the eager sales guy to clear the snow off of one, so he could sit in it and check it out.

“I dunno…. I like it, but do you have another one with the XYZ features?”

Clear off another car, sit in that one, chat with the sales guy for 15 minutes

“I dunno…. I like this one better, but do you have one in Red?”

Clear off another car, and chat another 15 minutes.

He farted around for more than THREE HOURS with that salesman, pretending he couldn’t make up his mind about which one to buy. The entire time, the car he really did want was RIGHT THERE on the lot.

He wore that poor guy ragged, jacking around all day. He made the guy clear off every single ‘vette they had, which was like 20. By the time they started talking price the sales guy was already PLENTY TIRED of this shit, and the negotiations had just begun.

My boss got the exact car he wanted at the EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT price, plus the factory incentives, plus some extra shit thrown in for free.

Does Russia have the technology to build a helicopter similar to a Chinook?

A Chinook is obsolete in today’s warfare context

Yes during the Vietnam War and those older wars, a Chinook made sense to transport heavy equipment and men from a safe zone to a war zone

The enemy didn’t have Air Defense and certainly not guided air defense with missiles

Today?

Even the Houthis can blow up a Chinook with a handful of limited air defense missiles

A Chinook is a lumbering elephant that is easy enough for a basic drone to attack and destabilize and cause to crash

Neither the Russians nor the Chinese have any use for the Chinook or its design

The Russians move on land and transport their equipment on land

Same for the Chinese

Neither need Lift Choppers because neither would ever target a Nation that is fighting with Guerilla Tactics

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Attack Choppers

That’s what Russia wants and has

Like the KA-52

Rapid movement, Rapid assault and Rapid retreat

Tough for a Drone to latch onto and too much of a blur to lock on and blow up with an Air Defense Missile without accuracy

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