A Precious Comment by FromSerbia

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Lately, life has been surreal.
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I mean absolutely, and positively surreal. China has decided to move at “warp speed”, and the insane level of advancement and building all throughout China has been stepped up to near frantic pace. It’s no longer just “fast”, it’s gone “hyper velocity”. Factories are all expanding, and international investors, flush with cash, and pouring into China to invest and get a “piece of the action” while the opportunity to do so exists.
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None of this is being reported in the Western media. It’s all “just the same song and dance”, and “dog and pony show”.
A song and dance. 
A long and elaborate explanation or presentation. Primarily heard in US. 


Dog And Pony Show

Meaning of Idiom ‘Dog and Pony Show’ A dog and pony show is a presentation, marketing event, or any other event which has a lot of style and seems very polished and professional, but which has no real content. In a dog and pony show, no real information is presented, and nothing much is accomplished.
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And you can SEE the changes. You really can.
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And for me, who is used to the enormous tidal-waves of change within China, I find it nearly incomprehensible.
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I had a discussion with a friend of mine this afternoon. We shared a few smokes and talked about business over tea. He told me that one of our mutual friends is married to a woman who is now living in America.
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As is the case with many business owners. Once their business gets "off the ground", they send their families off to other nations "for a better life". I guess she thought that the USA would somehow be better. - I don't. I attribute this belief to be an emotional reaction due to a massively funded pro-America propaganda campaign that has been in place for decades.
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Anyways, she said that monthly checks are being cut by the US government every month, and handfuls of money are being handed out by the Biden administration to anyone who owns or runs a factory.
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I find that hard to believe. America is many things, but generous with money is not one of them. If any American MM readers can confirm or deny this impression, I would be very grateful.
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Never the less, there’s this belief that American companies are being given nearly “blank checks” for expansion, innovation and for hiring people. And since America is the same size as China, it means (in the minds of the Chinese) that “finally” America has decided to gear-up, and start trying to be really competitive on the global stage. And thus, here in China, the factory bosses, and owners are taking this very seriously.
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Their attitude is “OK, so America wants to compete. We will COMPETE.”.
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And everyone seems to be doing this.
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At least it just seems that way. And maybe there are other reasons for the expansion, for after all there are all sorts of directives regarding technology development, green energy, and domestic expansion that  is going on right now.
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And as I mentioned earlier; you can see the growth, the changes, and all the many, many improvements.

Pollution

China as described by Western media.

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For instance. I have ranted on about pollution in my other posts. Most it is about how China is depicted as this smoggy filthy cesspool, and then I show pictures of what it is actually like. The narrative is not even remotely close.
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Did you know that the Chinese have the cleanest Coal-fired power plants in the world? Here’s a comparison between American coil-fired power-plants and Chinese ones.
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To better understand where China’s coal fleet is going, CAP compared the top 100 most efficient coal-fired power units in the United States with the top 100 in China. The difference is astounding.

Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies. Coal-fired power plants can generally be broken down into three categories:

  1. Subcritical: In these conventional power plants, coal is ignited to boil water, the water creates steam, and the steam rotates a turbine to generate electricity. The term “subcritical” indicates that internal steam pressure and temperature do not exceed the critical point of water—705 degrees Fahrenheit and 3,208 pounds per square inch.
  2. Supercritical: These plants use high-tech materials to achieve internal steam temperatures in the 1,000–1,050 degrees Fahrenheit range and internal pressure levels that are higher than the critical point of water, thus spinning the turbines much faster and generating more electricity with less coal.
  3. Ultra-supercritical: These plants use additional technology innovations to bring temperatures to more than 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit and pressure levels to more than 5,000 pounds per square inch, thus further improving efficiency.

The U.S. coal fleet is much older than China’s: The average age of operating U.S. coal plants is 39 years, with 88 percent built between 1950 and 1990. Among the top 100 most efficient plants in the United States, the initial operating years range from 1967 to 2012. In China, the oldest plant on the top 100 list was commissioned in 2006, and the youngest was commissioned in 2015.

The United States only has one ultra-supercritical power plant. Everything else is subcritical or, at best, supercritical.

In contrast, China is retiring its older plants and replacing them with ultra-supercritical facilities that produce more energy with less coal and generate less emissions as well. Out of China’s top 100 units, 90 are ultra-supercritical plants.

Coal is one of my passions. I used to work in the mines in my youth, and I have numerous projects involving this most interesting of ores.

Anyways…

Here, I discovered another precious comment. And I want to place it here. It’s… well… precious.
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It’s something you will never find in the United States media, but it ACCURATELY reflects how the rest of the world views China.

 

Comment by FromSerbia

Thank you for clearly explaining the parallels between Euromaidan and the current upheaval in the USA.

Since very few Americans paid attention to what their government did across the globe, they cannot recognize the whole “what goes around comes around” now happening to them.

Donald Trump will not suffer from any of this.

He is obscenely rich, and the worst thing that can happen to him is that he won’t be president anymore. All this anti-Trump talk will disappear the moment he is gone. Who truly suffers from this new American helscape?

From the looks of it, small business owners and low paid employees. Poor and middle class folk. Their business and places of employment are getting looted and torched.

Not Mar-a-Lago (or w/e the spelling of it may be) nor Microsoft, nor Facebook or Twitter HQ. Not Ford plants or Boeing and Lockheed assembly lines.

Here’s an observation from my years in the USA.

I lived there long enough to gain a clear understand of the depth of depravity of its power structures.

I moved to Chicago circa 2007 and made many friends. I lived in a suburb, surrounded almost exclusively by white people.

Before learning how to drive over poor people’s heads by using the highway to get downtown, I drove from the suburb to downtown in a straight line almost, through the city.

The scenes along the way and the neighborhoods were surreal.

I started in a rich neighborhood, eventually entering a middle class neighborhood.

I can tell because houses get smaller along the way.

They still looked fancy and well kept.

Then into a neighborhood where poor white people live.

The state of their infrastructure made it clear that this is such a place. The faces I saw where mostly white.

Then comes the Mexican neighborhood. The state of their infrastructure was even worse, but they seemed to make the best of it. They decorated everything with colorful lights, there were street vendors and other people all over the street. Kids were playing everywhere and the atmosphere was generally positive. I had no qualms about stopping, parking the car and grabbing a bite to eat at local mom & pop restaurant.

Then come the black neighborhoods. I could not believe my eyes that people live like that in the USA. Their infrastructure looked worse than 1995 Bosnia. Most of you probably do not understand what that means, and I hope you never have to learn from personal experience. I believe that the correct term for their state of infrastructure is dilapidated. As in, all of it. Falling apart. There were no valuable businesses in these neighborhoods, save for an occasional McDonalds or Taco Bell, and a post office, free clinic and other such absolutely necessary establishments.

There were liquor stores *everywhere* and crowds in front of every one of them.

I’m not exactly sure what is the point of concealing a bottle of liquor in a paper bag anymore, but that tragically classic scene was on display throughout these neighborhoods. People, sitting on the curb, wasted, or getting there before nightfall.

The only word that can accurately summarize the state of Chicago’s black neighborhoods is “depression.” Total, permanent, and seemingly irreversible depression.

The solution to this catastrophe?

If we are to believe the current news cycle, the solution is to make the rest of USA look like those parts of Chicago.

I can’t tell you how many times I heard…

”Obama is in charge now, he’ll fix everything. My president is black, my lambo is blue, if you say anything against Obama, you’re not cool.”

This was before cancel culture swept across USA and I could still speak my mind freely.

I suppose the results are in and Obama didn’t fix anything.

I still read about Chicago war zones, 20 dead, 50 wounded every other weekend. This was common news in the years preceding the current upheaval.

There is something a friend of mine said back then that stayed with me to this day.

We were driving back home from a bar one evening and all of us were legally drunk. He was very careful to drive the speed limit. He was complaining about cops.

He said how even a few years ago, if cops caught you drunk driving, they wouldn’t make an arrest. They would drive you home, or, at least, have you call someone to come get you.

In a worst case scenario, you sober up in a local precinct and then you can go.

Sure, your car might get taken to a pound lot, but that was a low price to pay (about $150 to get your car back) for committing a felony.

I don’t know if this same treatment was afforded to minorities, but I can’t imagine that most cops wanted to cause a situation like what happened at that Wendy’s in Atlanta recently.

What happened Americans?

How did you get to the point where even rich white people now dislike cops? Well, I lived in Illinois long enough to gain some insights.

Simple answer – “politics”.

Democrats rule Illinois, and they have total control of Chicago.

For decades, they maintained this rule through sheer bribery. Of course, not in a classic sense.

They enacted laws and agreements where every state employee has privileges and benefits that most common folk can only dream to have.

High salaries, early and very generous retirements, top notch healthcare, and the works.

That whole mantra, repeated on every Hollywood cop show and movie, how it’s tough living on a cop salary – it is a massive load of bullshit.

Maybe, just maybe, grunts who just joined the force don’t have it that good. They will, eventually.

This was promised to everybody across the board.

Cops, firefighters, post office employees, clerks, politicians and their mistresses, etc.

Massive spending of monies they did not have.

By year 2000, USA was more or less completely de-industrialized.

Northern Illinois, once a prime target for a Soviet nuclear strike due to its high industrial production capacity, resembled scenes from apocalyptic movies and video games by the time I saw it.

The situation is the following: politicians made promises to gain power.

In order to maintain power, they kept those promises, spending money they don’t have.

So, they issued bonds and borrowed senseless amounts of cash.

Borrowed more than they needed to pay off all those promises.

Because, why wouldn’t they take some of that sweet sweet cash?

Sure, they didn’t pay it directly into their bank accounts. They took it by giving public and city contracts, totaling large sums of money, to their buddies and family business.

Some of these companies were formed, what, a day before they got the city contract?

My family left Serbia only to find the *exact same* method of political corruption permeating the USA.

Don’t take this as an indictment of Democrats only. I have no doubt that this is how Republicans also work. At least, most of them.

Eventually, the debts built up to the point where they could not service them with tax revenue.

So, they raised taxes on everything and invented new taxes.

However, that didn’t work.

What’s left to tax?

Walmart and McDonalds employees making $7 an hour? They certainly were not going to tax WalMart and McDonalds corporate profits.

The situation was growing dire.

So, the solution was to sic the police on the people. To squeeze every $ they could from poor folks.

$100 ticket for not wearing a seat belt.

Why?

If I want to risk my own life, what business is it of yours?

I say this as a person who needs no convincing to wear a belt. But why must you force me to do it?

DUI became a nightmare.

Instead of friendly neighborhood officer who wants to help you get home safe, we now have stalkers who want to ruin your life.

DUI arrest, jail, lawyer, court, trial, plea deal, maybe more jail.

All in all, a nightmare, a criminal record, lots of $$ spent on nothing.

I understand the dangers of drunk driving, but I also understood that the politicians were not thinking about the safety and well being of their communities when they enacted such laws.

I can only guess that there are many more such laws that flay the poor while the rich simply do not care.

It’s not like extra police patrols will be deployed to rich neighborhoods to catch drunk drivers or those not wearing seat belts.

So, what you have in the end is a mess made by corrupt and absolutely incompetent politicians, where the police force was used akin to how mafia bosses use enforcers to collect “protection” rackets.

Except, with the mafia, at least you can point the finger and say “that’s the bad guy.”

Of course, the police went along with it.

(It’s) Not like they were threatened.

And its not like they are wiling to risk their salaries, health benefits, and large retirement funds (either).

If people had to be flayed for $100 every time they didn’t put on a seat belt for a cop to guarantee his salary, so be it.

Why, I was even told by my peers that cops had quotas to keep!

As in, each of them had to issue at least $2000 worth of tickets and citations per month, or week, or whatever.

Now, when the situation reached a boiling point (with no small help from Soros & Co.) the politicians do what they do best. Lie, cheat, and steal.

They just blame the cops and story finished.

Media says it is so and the idiots on the streets eat it up.

They literally cannot see past that which is right in front of them.

Cop writes ticket = cop bad.

No matter the fact that cops enforce laws made by elected politicians.

The paid mercenaries revel in this orgy of stupidity as they lead those idiots into looting, burning, fighting, and generally destroying their own infrastructure and job opportunities.

I apologize for cursing again.

The system in the state of Illinois is such a tangled clusterfuck that there is no untangling it without changing the system.

The politicians in power will never allow this.

They will sooner disband the police and enact law of the jungle.

The survival of the fittest.

After all, Darwin’s teachings are now gospel in the USA. Why not live like that? Disbanding the police will also (possibly?) wipe off all of those enormous salaries, pensions, healthcare, and other obligations.

It’s a good thing American forefathers had the foresight to enshrine the 2nd amendment in the bill of rights.

One more observation, about the police.

I had interacted with police on numerous occasions. Most cops are decent folk, working a tough job in a terrible system.

The jerks among them are of all colors, not just white. There is one very common theme among cops, though.

Most are not well-educated.

I watched and worked with a lot of high-schoolers in the USA.

Also younger kids at times. I noticed a pattern.

Simply put, there are kids at these schools (I worked at public schools only) who are just bullies.

Violent for the sake of violent gratification.

I suspect that this is a result of decades-long indoctrination.

Back in 50s and 60s, kids watched as cowboys slaughtered “Indians” a word which makes me feel dirty every time I use it.

Then they watched war movies.

Then came the violence of 80s television and movies.

As the society went into 90s, violent video games were added to the mix, alongside increasingly violent depictions of fighting on TV and in movies. The tech allowed for portrayal of incredibly graphic violence. Guts and brains and alike.

I am not claiming that movies and video games incite violence.

I am claiming that such graphic depictions of violence make a bad situation worse.

Bullies became ever more violent.

I also noticed that these bullies were generally not intelligent. After free high school education, there was nothing left for them. What are they to do?

Three choices: work $7 an hour job; join the army; become a cop.

Joining the army is out of question. Them A-rabs shoot back. Hell, sometimes you don’t even see them coming. A bomb just blows up near you.

So, it’s either $7 an hour at WalMart or become a cop.

So, they join the police forces.

It is a job tailor made for a bully.

You can dish out abuse all you want, and if somebody dares fight back, shoot them dead.

No consequences.

If not shot dead, ruin someone’s life through arrest, criminal record, constant harassment.

Why not?

The politicians gave such power to them. Add to this mix the fact that they have to meet quotas for issuing tickets and a bully is in paradise.

Derek Chauvin certainly seems like a textbook example of this. I generally reserve my judgment. Not in this case. I can’t tell you how many Derek Chauvin’s passed before my eyes in USA high schools, planning to become cops.

I would also add racists to this mix. Being a cop in the USA is a perfect job for a creature scraping the barrel of human intellect.

A racist is given a free reign to do as he/she pleases.

I have no solution to offer to Americans. I am no genius. However, I do not wish to see the country disintegrate.

The worst case scenario is nukes falling into hands of green-haired, 16 piercings on face, gender-less lunatics. They will have no qualms about nuking those “like terrible racist privileged” people all across the USA, before they threaten the rest of humanity.

American people were pious folk once long ago, both blacks and whites and just about every color in between. The weight of our sins can never be greater than Father’s love and willingness to forgive.

Remember that before it is too late.

Conclusion

He had a lot to say. Perhaps the one thing that snagged my attention was this statement;

"Since very few Americans paid attention to what their government did across the globe, they cannot recognize the whole “what goes around comes around” now happening to them."

Well, it hasn’t even started yet.

America has been VERY, VERY BAD. And for things and karma to be just and fair, the real pain has yet to be felt.

I don’t know what is going on in the USA. Not really. I just get bit’s and pieces. Like this.

And it’s all bullshit.

Would you believe that I actually used to stay glued to the “news” to absorb all this garbage. How many beers could I have drank? How many dates could I have shared with an attractive lady? How many pizza could I have eaten? How many parks and hiking trails could I have walked on? How many adventures could I have had? How many fish could I have caught? And how many new and exciting friends could I have made?

But…no.

I was seduced by the “dark side” and instead I was addicted to the “news” that colored the life that I would lead. And that “news” was always saying the same thing; America is great. the rest of the world is evil.

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Bo Chen

Three years ago I bought a low end bargain basement GTX 1660ti gpu for a friend for $160 bucks… now today the going rate of this same graphics card is $900 on ebay and amazon, with some as high as $2000+ USD…

Hyperinflation is here folks… Amerikkkan dream is completely dead…

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JustAnotherAsian

But aren’t GPU pricing being speculated due to its’ high demand for using it to mine Bitcoin?

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JustAnotherAsian

FromSerbia nailed it !!

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Daniel

Precious indeed. haven’t been in the states since 2005 or something.. good to have this angle covered as well.
10x

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Ultan

Ah, who cares all about that Earthbound trivia, Mr Man.
Look, Bite-em and Fatass have charmed MAJestic into telling us all the troof!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9597715/We-discover-UFO-truth-there.html

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congjing yu

LOL.

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