If people think that there is a secret agreement between Washington and Beijing, or that Jews secretly run the Bank of China, or that China is soon going to collapse, or any of these other theories that somehow explain why the West would be failing on purpose, they need to present some kind of counter-argument to what I’ve put forward that takes into account everything that I’ve argued. I’m not claiming to be God, I’m not claiming infallibility, but every single schizo just ignores every reply I give and comes back at me with “what if the Jews already infiltrated China though???” or “maybe the Chinese economy is going to collapse and the CIA will stage a revolution and install people from Taipei????” It all ultimately hinges on China. At this point, Russia is a de facto proxy state of China. China is the peer competitor for the United States. And all of these schizo theories about Jews infiltrating China, or a secret agreement with China, or an imminent collapse of China – none of them are backed with any facts at all. The simplest and most logical explanation, which takes into account all data, is that the Americans thought the Chinese were stupid and that if they gave them all of this free wealth in the form of exporting industry to China, China would become another “human rights anal democracy” vassal state. Instead, China became an ultranationalist superpower. The globalist agenda had no contingency plan for this eventuality, because they made these decisions about China without any real understanding of the Orient. -UNZ
Yah. It’s a big mystery why the United States “leadership” are acting so crazy. No one has any idea, though all agree that it seems to be some kind of mass insanity.
Here, in this article, we will mosey down the various discussion trails, and end up exactly where we want to be. We with show you WHY, WHEN and HOW the plans by those in American leadership will “right the capsized boat” and reestablish American supremacy in the world on the global scene.
I doubt that it will happen, but those in the leadership positions have other ideas.
As always, we will mix other articles, subject and topics to throw off the troll armies, the spam ‘bots, and other robotic denizens of the powerful elite.
China will normalize epidemic prevention and control as a long-term facet of Chinese life
Beijing will make unremitting efforts to normalize epidemic prevention and control. Unswervingly adhere to the general strategy of [1] "foreign import, internal rebound". [2] The general policy of "dynamic clearing". [3] Compact the "four parties' responsibilities". [4] Implement the "four early" requirements. [5] Adopt fast, flexible, scientific and accurate comprehensive prevention and control measures. [6] Fight the active battle of epidemic prevention and control. [7] Give full play to the role of the capital’s strict entry into Beijing to manage the joint prevention and control coordination mechanism and the emergency response mechanism for epidemic-related risks. [8] Comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency of all links such as flow transfer, transfer, isolation, management and control, and respond quickly to new outbreaks. [9] Control quickly and resolutely block the transmission channels of the epidemic. [10] High-quality promotion of normalized nucleic acid testing. [11] Maintain key screening. [12] Maintain strict inspection of community (village), units and public places. [13] Maintain strict social prevention and control. [14] Maintain strict management of entry and exit from Beijing. [15] Build a strong barrier for epidemic prevention and control in the capital. [16] Strengthen the construction of the public health emergency management system. [17] Implement the special plan for epidemic prevention facilities in the capital. [18] Promote the reform of the disease control system and the standardization of disease control institutions. [19] Continue to strengthen the reserve of epidemic prevention and emergency response capabilities. [20] Intensify efforts to tackle scientific and technological problems in epidemic prevention and control and transform achievements. [21] Carry out in-depth patriotic health campaigns, and ... [22] ...do a good job in creating "epidemic-free communities (village)".
Covid death toll vs China’s puts US to shame
In May and June two milestones were passed in the world’s battle with Covid-19 and were widely noted in the press, one in the US and one in China. They invite a comparison between the two countries and their approach to combating the pandemic.
The first milestone was passed on May 12 when the United States registered more than 1 million total deaths (1,008,377 as of June 19, 2022, when this article was written) due to Covid, the highest of any country in the world. Web MD expressed its sentiment in a piece headlined: “US Covid Deaths Hit 1 Million: ‘History Should Judge Us.’”
Second, on June 1, China emerged from its 60-day lockdown in Shanghai in response to an outbreak there, the most serious since the Wuhan outbreak at the onset of the pandemic. The total number of deaths in mainland China since the beginning of the epidemic in January 2020 now stands at 5.226 as of June 19, 2022.
To put that in perspective, that is 3,042 deaths per million population in the US versus 3.7 deaths in China due to Covid: 3,042 vs 3.7! Had China followed the same course as the US, it would have experienced at least 4 million deaths. Had the US followed China’s course it would have had only 1,306 deaths total.
The European Union did not fare not much better than the US. with 2,434 deaths per million as of June 19.
When confronted with these numbers, the response of the Western media has all too often been denial that China’s numbers were valid. But China’s data have been backed by counts of excess deaths during the period of the pandemic, as The New York Times illustrated in a recent article.
Actually this is old news. The validity of China’s numbers, as shown by counts of excess deaths, was validated long ago in a February 2021 study by a group at Oxford University and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This was published in the prestigious British Medical Journal and is discussed in detail here.
What about the economy?
Clearly China put the saving of lives above the advance of the economy with its “dynamic zero-Covid policy.” But contrary to what was believed in the West at the time, saving lives also turned out to be better for the economy, as shown in the following data from the World Bank:
During the first year of the pandemic, 2020, China’s economy continued to grow, albeit at a slower rate. In contrast, the US economy contracted dramatically, dropping all the way back not simply to 2019 levels, but to pre-2018 levels.
Interestingly, the plot also shows the year that the Chinese GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) surpassed that of the United States in 2017, heralding a new era for the Global South.
The World Bank has not yet released data for 2021, but the International Monetary Fund has PPP-GDP data for 2021, shown here. The US economy grew at 5.97% and China’s at 8.02%.
Unlike the World Bank data shown in the graph above for the years up to 2020, these data for 2021 are not corrected for inflation, which for 2021 ran at 4.7% in the US, whereas China’s was 0.85%. So China’s growth would be even greater in comparison to the US, were inflation taken into account.
The bottom line is that for the first two years of the pandemic through 2021, China’s growth was always positive and greater than that of the US. China’s policy not only saved lives but protected the economy. Win-win, one might say.
Is China’s dynamic zero Covid policy “sustainable”in the face of the Omicron variant?
The Shanghai lockdown
The period of the recent Shanghai lockdown, which we can date from April 1, 2022, ended on June 1, and followed the second-largest outbreak in China since the original outbreak in January 2020 in Wuhan. Each resulted in major lockdowns; the first in Wuhan lasted about 76 days and the second in Shanghai about 60 days. The first in Wuhan was due to the original variant and the second was due to the much more infectious Omicron.
During the recent lockdown in Shanghai, the Western press was awash with proclamations, all too many laced with an unseemly Schadenfreude, that China’s dynamic zero-Covid policy was not sustainable.
This is all too reminiscent of decades of predictions that China’s extraordinary success in developing its economy to number one in the world in terms of PPP-GDP was a passing phase, a Ponzi scheme that was – what else – “not sustainable.”
Recently the same press has gone silent, always a sign that China has met with success. So what are the results?
The Shanghai lockdown ended on June 1 and from that day until the day of this writing, June 19, there have been no deaths due to Covid on the Chinese mainland. Cases nationwide are also way down to 183 per day from the peak of 26,000 on April 15. That was the largest number of cases in a single day for the entire period of the pandemic in China. For comparison, the peak in the US was 800,000 in a single day.
Both the Wuhan and Shanghai lockdowns demanded sacrifices and patience over the roughly two-month period for each. However, these difficulties are generally exaggerated in the West and based on anecdotes of the worst of the difficulties encountered. Such sordid journalism reached rock bottom in a New York Times piece equating China’s hard-working health-care workers to Adolf Eichmann.
As an antidote to this kind of hit piece and to gain a feeling of life in the cities that were under lockdown during the Wuhan outbreak, Peter Hessler’s March 2020 account in The New Yorker, “Life on Lockdown in China,” is enlightening and will dispel many misconceptions. Hessler was living and teaching in Chengdu, Sichuan, at the time.
For the moment China’s approach has succeeded, although we cannot say what the future holds. But the public health measures that have worked so well in mainland China should not be lightly dismissed let alone be the subject of mean-spirited attacks. Such measures may be a means of saving millions of lives when the next variant or the next pandemic strikes.
US needs a people’s tribunal
Turning again to the US, what does it say when one of the richest nations in the world, spending more than $1 trillion a year on its “national security” budget, could not muster the means to deal with Covid-19 and ended up with more deaths than any other nation on Earth? China’s handling of the pandemic certainly shows a completely different outcome was possible. The US death toll was not an inescapable act of nature.
That being so, should there not be a people’s gribunal to investigate those in charge in the US government over the course of three administrations? That that, and not an official whitewash, is certainly needed? And should not punishment appropriate for a crime against humanity be meted out? The 1 million dead deserve no less.
“Free Like the Wind”: Sensual Illustrations Filled with Sunshine and Youth by Peijin Yang
This art, not my preferred venue, speaks to me in soft breezes…
“Hi there! I’m Peijin, a self-taught freelancer illustrator based in Munich, Germany. Two years ago I gave up my engineering career and started my art journey. Drawing is my true love. I believe a lot of you feel the same way.”
Attemps to infringe upon Crimea could lead to WWIII: Former Russian President Medvedev
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that any attempt to infringe upon Crimea by a NATO country would mean a declaration of war on Russia, which could lead to World War III, agencies quoted him as saying.
Russia will be strengthening its border if Finland and Sweden join NATO, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, according to the agencies.
Medvedev also added that any attempt to infringe upon Crimea by a NATO country would mean a declaration of war on Russia, which could lead to World War III, agencies quoted him as saying.
“For us, Crimea is a part of Russia. And that means forever. Any attempt to encroach on Crimea is a declaration of war against our country,” Medvedev told the news website Argumenty i Fakty.
“And if this is done by a NATO member-state, this means conflict with the entire North Atlantic alliance; a World War Three. A complete catastrophe.”
Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, also said that if Finland and Sweden joined NATO, Russia would strengthen its borders and would be “ready for retaliatory steps,” and that could include the prospect of installing Iskander hypersonic missiles “on their threshold.”
Grilled Bacon-Cheeseburgers (Crowd Size)
Crispy bacon and tangy blue cheese dressing add their distinctive flavor to burgers cooked on the grill.
Sitrep: International reserve currency based on a basket of BRICS currencies.
This news just out – MAJOR!
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that banks from BRICS nations can freely connect to the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), Russia’s alternative to SWIFT.
While addressing a BRICS business forum, Putin said that together with its BRICS partners – Brazil, India, China and South Africa – Russia is developing reliable alternatives for international payments.
“The Russian system for transmitting financial messages is open to connecting banks from the five countries,” he said, adding: “The geography of the use of the Russian payment system Mir is expanding.”
The Russian president also noted that work is underway to create an international reserve currency based on a basket of BRICS currencies.
Some thoughts
If you go to any third world country, you will find that people have a lot more personal freedom, that families are much healthier, that people are just generally doing better. The biggest reason for that is that a third world country simply doesn’t have any resources to micromanage people’s individual lives. -UNZ
NATO Announces Increase in “High-Readiness Troops” from 40,000 to 300,000
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced that they are increasing the number of troops on “High Readiness” from 40,000 to 300,000 given the situation in Ukraine.
NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg made the announcement Monday morning in Brussels, adding “Extensive dialogue between NATO and Russia is no longer possible.”
Units deployed across eight eastern and southeastern NATO countries to deter Russia hostilities will rise in size from 1,000-strong battlegroups to brigades, which comprise around 3,000-5,000 troops with more war-fighting equipment in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
“We will transform the NATO Response Force and increase the number of our high readiness forces to well over 300,000,” the NATO chief said.
The NATO Response Force – which are kept at varying degrees of readiness to mobilize, from two days’ notice to six months – is currently around 40,000 soldiers, sailors and air personnel.
In addition to the increase in High-Readiness troops, the U.S. Air Force has deployed F-35 Stealth Fighter jets to the region, with the flight path of at least one such jet allowed to be visible on FlightRadar24:
Day by day the situation between NATO and Russia grows worse, almost as though NATO is TRYING to find a reason to get into direct war with Russia, over the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
Trouble is, there is no NATO or U.S. national security interest in Ukraine. So it seems to many observers that NATO is sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong, and literally TRYING to start World War 3.
At the end of this article
I describe why the United States proxy nations are so fucking Hell-bent on getting in a war with Russia at the very end of this article. Just continue reading on…
Here is a guy that does a great job on what is going on in the front lines in Ukraine
Blackberry Cobbler
Celebrate summer with a homemade cobbler filled with delicious blackberries! If you’re lucky enough to have access to fresh fruit, be sure to use it in this Blackberry Cobbler recipe. Otherwise, frozen berries will work just as well. Top off this delicious, easy Blackberry Cobbler dessert with homemade vanilla ice cream or even whipped cream for a special touch.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups fresh or frozen (thawed and drained) blackberries (do not use blueberries)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup Gold Medal™ All-Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- Cream, whipped cream or ice cream, if desired
Steps
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1In medium bowl, stir together blackberries and sugar. Let stand about 20 minutes or until fruit syrup forms. Heat oven to 375°F.
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2In large bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, salt and milk. Stir in melted butter until blended. Spread in ungreased 8-inch square pan. Spoon blackberry mixture over batter.
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3Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until dough rises and is golden. Serve warm with cream.
Global impact of the first year of COVID-19 vaccination: a mathematical modelling study
Article HERE
But, there is something missing from the study.
With all due respect, I think you miss a major point here. Before the vaccines were rolled out, there were only public health measures throughout almost all of 2020. (It was only in December,2020, that vaccination began in China and the West. During that year, there were about half a million deaths in the US and about 5000 in China. Most all those deaths occurred during the period of 76 days when the virus struck Wuhan and China after some confusion (always happens when an epidemic breaks out) responded with public health measures. There were essentially no deaths after April in China! And in the next year up until the Shanghai outbreak there were no deaths. (5 deaths in all from the end of the Wuhan lockdown in 2020 until the onset of the Shanghai outbreak in March 2022!). The vaccines no doubt helped but the public health measures were so good that they made little difference until Shanghai when I suspect that they saved many lives. And in the next pandemic again it will take time to get a vaccine rolled out. Until then there will be only public health measures. And the West has little interest in them. They require a people's war on the virus and the West does not have the will, the values or the social organization provided by the CPC neighborhood committees and government funding to make it possible.
Yes. This is correct.
Chinese Propaganda Posters From The Cultural Revolution Ages, 1960s-1970s
In 1966 Mao Zedong, the Communist leader of China, started a political campaign that became known as the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Mao called on China’s youth to help him purge capitalist influences and bourgeois thinking in government, teaching, the media and arts, and to reinvigorate the revolutionary spirit.
Calling themselves The Red Guards, radical students set out to destroy the “four olds”: old ideas, customs, habits and culture. They spearheaded the interrogation, humiliation and beatings of teachers and intellectuals, and traveled the country destroying cultural heritage. During the Cultural Revolution traditional artists were condemned as counter-revolutionaries and their work destroyed. A new style of art was required that supported the Maoist line and served the worker, peasant and soldier.
The decade was marked by purges and power struggles at the upper echelons of government, and the mobilization of masses of young people to enforce Maoist thought. One of the primary vessels for disseminating instructions and models of behavior was propaganda art. Vivid posters were created to inspire citizens to put forth their labor towards agriculture, industry and national defense, as well as concerns such as hygiene and family planning.
Slogans are often used alongside imagery in posters, usually written in bold, Chinese script. They include pro-revolution messages about “working hard”, “uniting for victory” and “working towards the general communist goal. “Bright” colors are used in many of the posters and red appears a lot as it is the color of communism and revolution. Much of the work that came out of the Cultural Revolution is attributed to committees or groups, rather than individuals. Thousands of copies of the posters were printed and sold cheaply as the establishment at the time wanted the posters to be something that everyone should have on their walls at home. Many of the posters were painted by hand and then printed as lithographs, a process involving using stone, oil and chemicals to create prints.
Ukrainian military destroy foreign instructors, fearing the disclosure of secret data
Groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remaining in Lysychansk and Severodonetsk have begun to liquidate foreign mercenaries.
"Ukrainian militants received a command to eliminate foreign instructors in Lisichansk and Severodonetsk, since they have certain information about the activities of foreign special services in the Donbass so that they would not be captured and would not tell this information,"
He said. TASS source close to the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).
According to him, the LPR military has already discovered the burned bodies of several dead mercenaries.
On the Eve of NATO Summit, Russian Space Agency Published Coordinates of “Decision-Making centers”
On the eve of the NATO meeting in Madrid, at which Russia is expected to be declared the most dangerous threat in the world, the Russian Space Agency made an interesting post to their web site: The GPS Coordinates of certain “decision-making centers” around the world.
While at the upcoming summit of the alliance, representatives of 30 participating countries and their sympathizers will declare Russia the number one evil, Roskosmos published entertaining satellite images – those same “decision centers” — or rather, their coordinates — just in case . . .
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38.897542, -77.036505
⠀⠀ 38.870960, -77.055935
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51.503049, -0.127727
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48.870433, 2.316842
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52.519903, 13.368921
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50.879986, 4.425771
The coordinates are for:
- The White House in Washington, DC
- The Pentagon
- #10 Downing Street in London, England
- Le Palais d’ Le Elysee in Paris, France
- The German Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt) in Berlin, Germany
- NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
Now, most reasonable people would view this as a terse reminder that Russia can reach out and touch anyone they want; especially folks who are being intentionally “unfriendly” or even hostile.
Of course, the political weaklings of the West will likely start whining that this is some sort of threat, while in actual fact, it is merely a statement of reality.
Before the west goes and declares Russia to be the most evil one, perhaps they should look in the mirror at their own actions: Financing, inciting and fomenting the overthrow of the Ukraine government in 2014. Installing a puppet regime in Ukraine. Moving to bring Ukraine into NATO for the purpose of placing US missiles (aimed at Russia) on to Ukraine soil with a flight time of only about 5 minutes to Moscow. Telling Ukraine to “ignore” Russia’s pre-special military operation ultimatum, and now, supplying deadly weapons to Ukraine, to be used to kill Russians.
It is the West that has done all these things.
It is the West who is the aggressor.
Russia is reminding the West that Russia isn’t some backwards, third-world country like Iraq they’re playing around with.
Russia isn’t playing.
Oh Now They‘re Banning China Spreading Chinese In The UK!
There is a concerted effort by the Western powers to contain the spread of Chinese and to prevent China from teaching Mandarin in the West
By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog
Much of the global media attention is on the sabotaging of everything ‘Russian’ in the West. However, at the same time there is a concerted Western attack on everything ‘Chinese’.
The UK now is basically saying: ‘Chinese’ is the property of the West, and China has no business in teaching Chinese in the West. Something like that. It is definitely spooky.
A British Member of Parliament (MP), Alicia Kearns, recently delivered a strong message to China at the Palace of Westminster, which was attended by maybe 20 of her social mores:
“Our students, our kids, our under-18-years olds are taught Mandarin by the Confucius Institutes which are the arm of the Chinese state.”
She goes on and bashes a 1.4 billion Chinese state just like that, for click-bait and going viral. So we believe MP Kearns is what the UK deserves, and want to promote her. She calls China “a genocidal regime” and demands the 30 UK Confucius Institutes to be punished or “banned.” Wow.
Not knowing Mandarin, many British elites fear Chinese. Fear is a German concept: Angst. And Angst leads to Ohnmacht. Ohnmacht means “without power.”
Did I just use a foreign language and it sounded like a political statement?
The MP knows the effect a foreign language has on fearful natives. To her, language is of course always politics. Therefore, China must not spread Chinese, because it‘s all politics.
She continued: “We recently discovered that Edinburgh University‘s Confucius Institute has representatives of the Chinese Communist Party‘s embassy on its board.“
Oh there are Chinese on the board of the Confucius Institute for Scotland—is that it?!
But the director is a German woman, trained and funded all her life by the powers in Berlin, and Berlin wants Scotland to break off from the UK and join the EU. Think about that, MP Kearns.
British China Studies is heavy stuff, compared to German China Studies, I mean.
This has to do with the British having bombarded Chinese ports in Guangzhou in 1839, the capture of Hong Kong in 1842, the burning down of the Summer Palace in 1860, and the drugging of 30 million Chinese with heavy narcotics.
During the last 150 years of “exchange,” the British meddled in Tibet, Taiwan, Peking, Shanghai and Canton, but never learned Chinese. Call it an “import ban.”
So the past is the past, and now ‘Global Britain’—the official UK slogan under MP Kearns—has this huge pent-up demand for Chinese culture, concepts and terms, right?
Those Confucius Institutes our British MP wants to ban are providing the most authentic, accredited and prestigious Chinese language training there is.
China has the best China Studies universities in the world, and the Confucius Institutes are the best places for learning Chinese outside of China. Period.
I know that many British imperialists still believe No we British are China. But sorry, you are not—China is!
Mastering Chinese requires thousands of hours of hard recitation, rote learning and love for China. Before the arrival of the Confucius Institutes in Europe in 2004, Western professors could not read or write Mandarin. Now they have to.
And the MP continued, that China is “undermining the integrity of the Mandarin education in our country.”
Mandarin education in your country can keep up with China precisely because it cooperates with China, for instance the London School of Economics or the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Read the latter school’s slogan—’SOAS, the world’s leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East’.
Well, SOAS wasn’t the world’s leading institution in any of these things, and certainly not China. China has the world’s leading institutions for the study of China. But now SOAS has a real Confucius Institute and things look much better.
Back to our MP’s politics fear. She went on about how China’s Ministry of Education is a threat to freedom because it only selects qualified teachers.
Think, what she is indirectly saying about UK teachers. She is saying that the UK does not vet its teachers! Just like that German director at Edinburgh University, got it? And just like MP Kearns, who doesn‘t know Chinese but wants to ban it.
The British MP must know that the Confucius Institutes are partly funded by China and partly funded by the host university, and that they generate tuition fees and partner up with British culture makers. All this is transparent, so MP Kearns demands more transparency. She could also have demanded more weather.
There are 100 million Mandarin learners in the world, and most will achieve proficiency when they visit China eventually. About 40% of them study Chinese not in China, and the best place for them to do that is with an accredited Confucius Institute. Britain has no expertness in teaching Chinese, China is best at that. Britain can teach… I don’t know, Irish best?
British educators also fear its name—Confucius. Confucius lived some 2500 years ago, and this could indeed cause misunderstanding. We don’t name European institutes the “Jesus Christ Institutes.” Just saying.
Last, a fair criticism is spies. Britain indeed has a James Bond agent 007 obsession with spies, which is a fiction. Here is how it really works. Before 2003, there were at most 300 China Studies masters graduates in the UK, and MI6, MI5 and DI intelligence services recruited from those because they could read Mandarin, also in Edinburgh.
On the other hand, there were years with 100,000 Chinese students in the UK who could all read English, so everyone is paranoid now.
Well done, if the British MP succeeds in keeping China out of China Studies, this could cancel ‘Global Britain’ once and for all. And Scotland is probably on its way out too.
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Shakedown Successful? Turkey To Green Light Sweden & Finland Entry into NATO
Reports are coming in that a deal has been struck whereby the country of Turkey will agree to vote in favor or both Sweden and Finland joining NATO. The Turks previously said they would never agree; seemingly dooming the entry of both countries.
Turkey, Sweden and Finland signed a tripartite memorandum on the NATO membership processes of Finland and Sweden.
A photo released from the meeting wherein the deal was allegedly struck, shows lots of outright frowns on the faces of attendees.
None of the attendees look happy . . . at all.
One wonders who got how much, and from whom, to make THIS deal happen?
Latest Twitter Alert when you click on “like” on sources link to China websites!!!
From my in-box. -MM
Latest Fascinating discovery on Twitter:
I just posted this on twitter: https://twitter.com/OcastJournalist/status/1541228260595404800 (See the warning on the tweet)
If you cannot access above link, simply go to: https://twitter.com/OcastJournalist (see 1st tweet)
When I clicked on like, there is this warning dialogue box pop up (see below or attached screenshot). Note the statement:
“This Tweet links to a China state-affiliated media website. Help keep Twitter a place for reliable info. Find out more before liking this Tweet.”
Welcome to the free world so afraid of real news!!!
2 x news: Vladimir Putin says Russia’s trade with China, India, Brazil, and South Africa has jumped 38% amid sanctions and war in Ukraine
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A nice discussion on the USA going to war against Russia and China
A good video.
The Musket and the Noodle Stall: A Strategic Comparison
By Fred Reed for the Saker Blog
In big-chunk terms, in the world today we see a contest between the Chinese economy and the American military.
It is between Chinese dynamism and American coercion.
Sure, China has a military and the US has an economy. Yet the emphasis, and spirit are as described.
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- The United States gives priority to the military over civilian economy, with military spending increasing at the expense of internal infrastructure and social needs.
- By contrast, China focuses on infrastructure within and trade without.
I wonder whether Americans are aware of the extent of this. And its likely consequences.
To read the Asian-based press—Asia Times, Nikkei Asia, the South China Morning Post, the Global Times, and various tech sites—is to see a constant stream of infrastructure projects in China and advancing trade outside.
As perhaps many know China promotes the Belt and Road Initiative, a massive program to connect all of Eurasia, as well as Africa and Latin America in a huge trade zone connected by rail, highways, fiber optics, maritime links, and commercial treaties.
If completed it will DWARF the United States.
China, a rising technological center, leads the world in civil engineering, manufacturing, Five G, trade, and clearly intends to maintain the lead.
All power ultimately rests on economic power.
Below a few news stories more or less randomly chosen from around the web. Can you think of American equivalents?
“New international railway route from Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality to Mandalay, southern Myanmar, has officially started operation, with the first freight train departing from Chongqing on Monday, which will arrive in Mandalay about 20 days earlier than what it takes on traditional routes.”
The port will also further connectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative and increase Chinese influence in Myanmar.
Key word: Trade
America leads in phenomenally expensive aircraft carriers with serious developmental problems and no particular purpose. Google “Ford class carriers.”
China’s High Speed Rail
“China’s high-speed rail network hit the 40,000-kilometer mark by the end of 2021, reaching out to 93 percent of domestic cities with a population of over 500,000, An Lusheng, deputy head of National Railway Administration, said on Friday. This comes as the country ramps up a push to build itself into a transportation power.”
Fast, pervasive transportation greatly facilitates almost everything. Beijing has said it will have 30,000 miles in a few years.
Key words: manufacturing, trade, connectivity.
Russia – China Connections
“The first China-Russia highway bridge, which stretches from Heihe, a border city in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, to the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk spanning the Heilongjiang River, opened to traffic on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. It will open a new international highway that will boost the connectivity between cities in China and Russia.“
A few days ago. Here we have more of China’s program to tie all of Eurasia into one interconnected web. Note that it says the “first” bridge.
Key words: Trade, connectivity.
China plans new high-volume space-launch facility
“The new Ningbo spaceport, the nation’s fifth such facility, will give a crucial lift to Beijing’s new space programs as its rivalry with the United States reaches space. The spaceport is said to be tailor-made for Chinese commercial aerospace manufacturers and service providers to one day wrest business and foreign orders from US rivals.”
Typical China. Planning five years in advance. If this follows the country’s pattern, construction will begin and continue without interruption until completed.
Keyword: Commercial.
America leads the world in overpriced fighter aircraft with a history of unending engineering problems. Google “F-35.”
“Cargo carried via New Land-Sea Corridor in western China grows 38% in Jan-May”
“With the RCEP coming into effect, the corridor has played a bigger role in boosting trade between China and ASEAN. On April 8, four trains left Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, carrying aluminum products, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, chemicals and food to Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia The RCEP, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, is a vast commercial agreement among whose members are all of ASEAN, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and China.”
Key word: Trade.
Seabed Trencher
Multi-functional modular seabed trencher developed by a Chinese firm has recently completed 100 kilometers of pipelines construction in “Bangladesh’s first marine pipeline project, setting two world records in directional drilling and deep trenching.”
My knowledge of pipeline trenching would be zero even after three cups of coffee and a hearty breakfast. I note, though that it is in Bangladesh: More connection of China and everywhere else. It also sounds like good engineering.
Key words: Trade, connectivity.
CKU Rail
“The CKU Railways will create significant trade opportunities for Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while linking China directly to the Middle East via Rail, with spin off benefits throughout the region.”
China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will be tied more into the Central Asian ecosystem. Construction begins next year.
Key words: Trade, connectivity.
America is unchallenged in funny-looking Batplane intercontinental nuclear bomber costing, says Aviation Week, $640 million a copy as America prepares to fill intense world demand for nuclear war. Google “B-21.”
The China-Laos Railway: Yunnan to Vientiane by Bullet Train
On December 3rd 2021, the 1,035-km (643-mile) China-Laos Railway was fully opened making possible a bullet train journey of only 10 hours from Kunming to Vientiane, capital of Laos.
Key word: Trade.
China-Europe freight train trips top 50,000, yearly growth of 55% from 2016 to 2021
“The value of goods transported by the cargo service skyrocketed to $74.9 billion in 2021, up from $8 billion dollars in 2016, and its share in total trade between China and Europe has increased from 1.5 to 8 percent, according to the release China State Railway Group sent to the Global Times.”
America will probably try to block this traffic because it goes through Russia. Again, coercion over competition.
Key word: Trade, connectivity.
Proposed US military budget: $857 billion.
Keywords: Profits, stupidity.
China Hosts over Sixty Percent of World’s Five G Base Stations
“China had set up a total of nearly 1.43 million 5G base stations as of the end of 2021….”
And many more this year. As can be found by browsing tech sites, China leads in Five G patents, installed base, technology, and manufacturing capacity.
Keywords: Trade, manufacturing.
Many millions of Americans can’t read, a hundred thousand a year die of opioid overdoses, the economy is a trainwreck, and despair grows, but the Pentagon has Space Command to give America “Total Spectrum Dominance,” which presumably will pay our mortgages.
China’s digital yuan extends usage into finance scenarios
“SHANGHAI, June 17 (Reuters) – China’s digital yuan can now be used to buy wealth management products, pay for insurance policies, and extend bank loans, as the central bank further expands e-CNY’s application beyond retail shopping, though still only in pilot schemes.”
China is the world’s leading major country in digital currency. Beijing is low-key about it but implications for global finance worry the US.
Keywords: Money, connectivity.
US leads world in pricey, unnecessary but glamorous and profitable nuclear-missile submarines. Google “Columbia class submarines.”
China moves toward STEM leadership
Worth reading.
“American” prowess in technology increasingly rests on East Asian and Indian scientists and engineers as the US destroys its schools to further inclusiveness.
Keywords: Abject, stupidity.
“Value of China-Vietnam Cross-border Freight Trains More Than Triples in Q1”
US holds world lead in ratio of money given to the Ukraine to number of citizens living on sidewalks.
China leader in supercomputers:
“As of June 2021, 188 of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers were located in China, a figure which is a third more than that of its nearest competitor, the United States, which accounted for an additional 122 supercomputers. Together, the two nations account for around 60 percent of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.”
This needs to be read with caution.
How the two stack up in aggregate computing power, whatever that means, I don’t know. The US just announced the first exascale computer at Oak Ridge. The Sunway Oceanlight from China is on many websites said to be exascale, but isn’t quite.
The important point is that it is entirely of Chinese design from architecture to chips, using silicon of Chinese design and manufacture. It is remarkable that China can manage this in the face of American attempts to strangle the country technologically.
China Launches World’s Largest container Ship
A gorgeous monster. Check photo. China also has seven of the world’s largest cargo ports.
Keyword: Trade
Boring but worth a glance.
“During 2021, the United States exported $151,065,200,000 in products to China, but then imported $506,366,900,000 in products from China, resulting in $657,432,100,000 in total trade between the two countries–and a $355,301,700,000 deficit for the United States.”
Keyword: Can you guess?
Kim Dotcom Breaks Down the True Scale of US Government Debt
By Alexandra Bruce
Forbidden Knowledge TV
June 9, 2022
New Zealand tech CEO, Kim Dotcom did the math on the United States’ sovereign debt and he tweeted a thread about it, saying it may the most important thread that he may ever make.
Kim explains that US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Government can only raise the money it needs by printing more of it, which means that hyperinflation is guaranteed.
He says this has been going on for decades and there’s no way to fix it and that the US got away with this for so long, because US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. When the US Government prints trillions, it is thereby robbing Americans and the entire world in what he calls the biggest theft in history.
He says the total US debt is at $90 trillion, which together with $169 trillion in US unfunded liabilities totals $259 trillion, which is $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US Taxpayer.
Now, the value of all US assets combined: every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion.
Our total debt, $259 trillion minus our total net worth, $193 trillion equals negative $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off.
So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke.
This is where the ‘Great Reset’ comes in and he asks, “Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it? A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy?”
He notes how the world has changed so much in recent years and how nothing seems to make sense anymore. He sees the blatant corruption and the obvious gaslighting propaganda media and the erosion of our rights but he doesn’t know where it’s all going and he finishes the thread asking, “What’s the end game?”
As Harrison Smith from the American Journal says, “It’s a pyramid scheme. The people perpetrating the pyramid scheme are in charge of everything…they’re going to sacrifice humanity in order to maintain their system…
“The world economy is being collapsed, the food supply system is being destroyed, the energy that we rely on to maintain civilization is being curtailed and eliminated and we’ll be forced into the Great Reset where we will own nothing.”
Former BlackRock stockpicker, Ed Dowd believes that the entire COVID sham was created as a cover for the financial collapse and that new lockdowns are coming, to try mitigate the inevitable violence and chaos that we can expect to be witnessing in the streets.
We also saw how Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer VP also believes that COVID and the death shot are an elaborate hoax to engineer a collapse of sovereign currencies to bring in the Great Reset and the introduction of programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), for a wholly-controlled population, in which people will not be able to buy food, etc. unless the algorithms permit and the undesirables can basically be starved to death via artificial intelligence.
Kim Dotcom June 5, 2022 Thread This may be the most important thread I ever make. Big picture stuff about the major global collapse that is coming. I will try to help you understand why the future is not what we’re hoping for. It’s worse than most can imagine. Our leaders know. But what are they planning? The United States did not have a surplus or a balanced budget since 2001. In the last 50 years the US only had 4 years of profit. In fact all the profit the US had would not be enough to pay for 6 months of the current yearly deficit. So how did the US pay for things? US spending and debt have spiraled out of control and the Govt can only raise the money it needs by printing it. That causes inflation. It’s like taxing you extra because you pay more for the things you need and all your assets decline in value. See the US money printing frenzy: The reason why the US got away with it for so long is because USD is the worlds reserve currency. Nations everywhere hold USD as a secure asset. So when the US Govt prints trillions it’s robbing Americans and the entire world. The biggest theft in history. The problem is that this has been going for decades and there’s now no way to fix it. The reality is that the US has been bankrupt for some time and what’s coming is a nightmare: Mass poverty and a new system of control. Let me explain why this isn’t just doom and gloom talk. Total US debt is at $90 trillion. US unfunded liabilities are at $169 trillion. Combined that’s $778,000 per US citizen or $2,067,000 per US tax payer  Remember, the only way the US Government can operate now is by printing more money. Which means hyperinflation is inevitable. The total value of ALL companies listed on the US stock market is $53 trillion. The real value is much lower because the US has been printing trillions to provide interest free loans to investment banks to pump up the stock market. It’s a scam. Most of the $53 trillion is air. The value of all US assets combined, every piece of land, real estate, all savings, all companies, everything that all citizens, businesses, entities and the state own is worth $193 trillion. That number is also full of air just like the US stock market. US total debt $90 trillion US unfunded liabilities $169 trillion Total $259 trillion Minus all US assets $193 trillion Balance – $66 trillion That’s $66 trillion of debt and liabilities after every asset in the US has been sold off. Do you understand? So even if the US could sell all assets at the current value, which is impossible, it would still be broke. The US is beyond bankrupt. This patient is already dead. This patient is now a zombie. You probably wonder why are things still going? Why didn’t everything collapse yet. It’s all perception, denial and dependency. The perception is that the US has the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. But in reality the US is broke and can’t afford its army. The denial is that all nations depend on a strong USD or global markets collapse. The reason why the US zombie keeps going is because the end of the US is the end of western prosperity and an admission that the current system failed as a model for the world. It doesn’t change the reality. The collapse is inevitable and coming. What are our leaders planning? You may have heard about the ‘great reset’ or the ‘new world order’. Is it a controlled demolition of the global markets, economies and the world as we know it? A shift into a new dystopian future where the elites are the masters of the slaves without the cosmetics of democracy? Without a controlled demolition the world will collapse for all, including the elites. The world has changed so much and nothing seems to make sense anymore, the blatant corruption is out in the open, the obvious propaganda media, the erosion of our rights. What’s the end game?
MM explains the “End Game”
The United States, were it to sell EVERYTHING in the United States, it would still owe $66 Trillion dollars.
However…
The complete net value of everything in Russia is $ 3.4 Trillion dollars. HERE.
It’s not enough to “make a dent” in America’s debt. But China is a big “juicy” target that can “do the job”. America needs to have a war with China, take it over, and sell it off so that it can become a stable nation again.
The complete net value of everything in China is $ 510 Trillion dollars HERE.
But the first step is to disarm Russia. By taking over Russia, it can break it up and disarm it so that it cannot assist China in defense.
The wealth obtained from Russia (in the meantime) can be used to make payments on American debt while forces and pieces are moved into place for a “death blow” that will destroy China and make it easy to absorb and disassemble.
- Destroy Russia, break it up. Use the wealth to continue to make interest payments on USA debt.
Then, use the time to build up an enormous military force to…
- Destroy China. Break it up. Loot it. Pay off the Debt and rebuild America!
Now that you know the “end game”, doesn’t everything look clearer right now?
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Hi there!
I hope you all are doing well.
Most important things first:
This is a good recipe for a cheeseburger!
If you can get hold of it, add a spoon of Worcestershire sauce for every pound of beef – it will be worth it!
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Concerning the “End-Game” – whatever it will be, it will be something else… all these numbers are just sound and fury!
(Think Rick’n’Morty wehere rick sets the value of the Credit from 1 to 0 – hilariuos indeed)
In the episode “The Rickshank Rickdemption”, Rick programmatically changes the value of the blemflarck from one to zero of itself to collapse the Galactic Federation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiC0lL4UdGg
Best regards,
MT
The artwork is gorgeous! Picked a winner this time MM.
” They require a people’s war on the virus and the West does not have the will, the values or the social organization provided by the CPC neighborhood committees and government funding to make it possible. ”
The collective west has TOTALLY given up the fight. They don’t have the will, tenacity, financial nor the discipline to see it through.
All they were interested was helping the Big Pharma (& interested parties) to make money from this pandemic. It was never done in the interest of the citizens.