Washington, is a party, on the Titanic!
I’m still fighting Coronavirus. This is just going to be a simple post.
INTERVIEW: Is the confirmation British commandoes are in Ukraine a deliberate escalation?
When I lived in New Orleans, I saw an altercation outside this bar called Decatur House. This drunk redneck decided he’s harrass a punk. The punk kept beating him down, and the guy kept coming back for more. Eventually the drunk redneck’s wife came with a cop, begging the cop to arrest her husband before he got killed. She told the cop that the punk was just acting in self defense, but her husband was too dumb to know when to give up. NATO needs a wife like that.
How does it feel knowing China is number 2 in GDP but number 76 in GDP per capita?
How does it feel knowing that the US is number 1 in GDP and 5th in per capita GDP and yet it can’t afford to house all its citizens despite there being more than enough houses to, feed all its people despite there being more than enough food, and to provide universal healthcare despite it being more than capable to?
China solved her housing crisis, food shortages and healthcare accessibility decades ago, back when her GDP per capita rivalled that of your average sub-saharan African nation. Meanwhile, America would rather burn all its money on pointless wars against the poor in foreign states, vying for corporate interests instead of putting its money where its mouth is.
Pan Pizza
If you love pizza, you’re in luck. This pan pizza recipe will give you a super versatile dough that you can make into a fantastically pillowy cast-iron skillet pie, or stretch out by hand into a classic New York style slice to bake on a sheet tray. For those no-frills days when you’re not in the mood for sauce and cheese, you can treat this dough just like you would a traditional focaccia and bake it plain with lots of oil, flakey sea salt, herbs or whatever else you want to throw on top for a jazzed-up piece of crunchy-soft bread.
A dough like no other
There are three things that make this pizza dough unlike any other you’ve made before: a tangzhong paste, a little bit of whole wheat flour, and a very long resting time. The tangzhong method incorporates a water roux into the dough to maximize the tender, moist qualities found in your favorite breads. Often used in Japanese-style milk bread, you can make tangzhong by briefly cooking water and flour together over a medium-low heat until a paste forms. This process gelatinizes the starch content in the flour and helps trap moisture inside the dough, giving you a bite of pizza that is pillowy, fluffy, and soft with a little chew on the inside.
Accounting for about 10% of the total flour weight, the whole wheat flour plays two roles: providing a more hearty flavor to the dough, and giving the moisture-rich dough more structure. While you can use entirely all-purpose or bread flour—just substitute in 1/3 cup of white flour instead of 1/4 cup whole wheat—the higher bran and germ content in whole wheat gives our dough a slight nuttiness and depth of flavor. Because whole wheat flour tends to absorb more moisture than all-purpose or bread flour, its addition also makes our relatively high-hydration dough (ringing in at about 81% hydration!) a little bit easier to handle during the stretch and fold process.
More often than not, more time = more flavor in cooking, and this dough is no exception. This dough takes at least one full day to develop into its best self, but your patience will be rewarded! Thankfully, it is a time-intensive but not labor-intensive dough, requiring less than 5 minutes of kneading. We begin with a brief autolyse stage in which we allow the dough to rest on its own without putting in too much work. 30 minutes to one hour later, we begin a series of quick stretch-and-folds to help develop the gluten in a gentle manner, like we do in our sourdough bread recipe. Four rounds of stretch-and-folds later, we divide the dough into two portions, plop each into a well-oiled bowl, then cover and rest overnight in the fridge to further develop the flavor and gluten network. The longer the cold rest, the more flavorful the dough—go up to 4 days if you’d like to have a little bit of sourdough-like tang to your pizza!
Use it or freeze it.
Save yourself a trip to the grocery store and make a double batch of this dough if you are a pizza fanatic—after developing your desired level of cold-rest tanginess in the fridge, transfer your portioned balls of dough to the freezer (either in a lightly oiled resealable plastic bag or in an airtight container) for extended storage. Prior to use, either defrost overnight in the fridge or take out to defrost on your counter at room temperature 2 hours before your intended baking time.
Cheese first, then sauce.
If you want to avoid a soggy slice, top the pie Detroit-style with cheese underneath the sauce. Assembled this way, the sauce gets slightly caramelized and perfectly reduced when exposed directly to the hot oven heat. It also serves as a protective layer and prevents the cheese from browning too much and overcooking in the 500° oven. Ever have the cheese on your cooling pizza coagulate together into a solid sheet that slides off the slice in one piece when you go in for the bite? Not sexy. Keep it sexy and keep it saucy—just keep it on top.
Bake it hot.
Yup, that oven temp is not a typo—we’re baking this baby at 500° Fahrenheit. That’s about as hot as home ovens go, and it’s the perfect temperature to bake at if you want a crispy-bottomed pie with a soft, tender, pillowy interior. Baking at lower temperatures will mean longer cooking times, resulting in a drier pie with a tough bite. If you’re making this pizza in a cast iron skillet, we’re using a 5-minute stovetop sear before the baking begins to set the crust up for crispy success—don’t skip this step if you want the most gorgeously golden pie bottom even known to mankind.
And to top it off—
You can put whatever you want on your pie! Customize with your favorite ingredients: mushrooms, onions, sausage, pepperoni, peppers, olives, anchovies—nothing is off limits. Live your best life, eat your best pie.
RUSSIA TALKS TARGET: Yellowstone National Park – (and its Super Volcano)
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Talk show hosts on Russia-1 TV network, were openly discussing using a SARMAT nuclear missile, with a single “monoblock” 100 Megaton warhead, to target the super volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park, causing a super-eruption, to wipe out western civilization!
The last time the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupted was about 800,000 years ago. That eruption sent volcanic ash over two-thirds of north America, wiping out most of the life at the time. The volcano is already overdue for another eruption, and these Russian TV hosts are openly wondering if a gigantic nuke, striking in the heart of Yellowstone Lake, could trigger another super-eruption to wipe out the United States.
According to the estimates of experts in Russia, “a number of events confirm the direct(!) involvement of the USA and Poland in the massive military-logistical support of the Kiev regime, in the preparation and implementation(!) of joint terrorist attacks on the ground of the Russian Federation”.
Moscow claims that “the drone avionics and control stations were manufactured by American Spektreworks, a company that performed the initial coordination and control of the drones at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona.”
In addition, the relevant services emphasized that “the final assembly and flight tests of these drones took place on Polish territory, near the Rzeszow airport, which is used by the US and NATO as the main supply hub for the Ukrainian armed forces . ”
“The installation of the payload, the flight mission and the launch itself were carried out from Odessa and Krivoy Rog,” claim Russian experts.
Ukrainian drones hit the military airfields Engels-2 (Saratov Region) and Diaghilev (Ryazan Region) on December 6. These strikes were followed by the eighth massive missile attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
“I Was Made In China” – Funniest EVER AGT Audition?
As a child of two Chinese parents, I can confirm literally every stereotype and fun insult she said in this performance.
DPP Losing Streak Marches on with Most Recent Taiwanese Election Result ……
In the delayed mayoral election in Chiayi City, Taiwan, that just concluded today, the DPP party again lost to the KMT, 64% to 35%! This wrapped up the 2022 Taiwan local election, registering the worst defeat of the DPP since its founding in the 1990s, despite widely reported and proven election fraud under the watch of DPP-controlled Central Election Commission, intervention by the judicial branch in DPP’s favor, and DPP’s monopoly and domination of the news media. It is widely conjectured that DPP loss could have been much more extensive without the above distorting factors.
This final episode of the 2022 Taiwan local election capped a year of Taiwanese popular opinion turning from apathy and cynicism to rage and fury toward the DPP. If anything, the lopsided vote count in Chiayi, in not so staunchly pro-KMT southern Taiwan, could indicate this fury is only growing.
How effective will the US export blacklist be to derail and destroy China’s technology development in semiconductors and aerospace?
In the past 20 years, China and the world’s economy have grown rapidly, mainly driven by the development of information technology. The semiconductor industry has become the core driving force of economic and social development and an important pillar of world economic development with its strong innovation, integration, driving and permeability.
In recent years, with the strong support of national policies, China’s semiconductor industry has achieved great development and basically established a complete industrial chain. However, key areas and key links in the industrial chain are still especially subject to materials and equipment, key technology, etc. and heavily dependent on foreign countries. The foreign export bans have blocked the pace of development of China’s semiconductor industry to leap forward to high-end.
Aiming at the world-class level, the Chinese scientists and engineers have united as one, faced difficulties, and successively conquered key core technologies such as inter-satellite links and high-precision atomic clocks. The components of the Beidou-3 satellite department have achieved 100% localization, and the Chinese scientists and engineers have truly achieved independent control. The service life of Beidou-3 satellite is more than 10 years, the positioning accuracy is better than 10 meters, the speed measurement accuracy is better than 0.2 m/s, the timing accuracy is better than 20 nanoseconds, and the service availability is better than 99%. All performance indicators have reached the world-class leading level. Aerospace-grade chips require more attention to safety and stability. Special production processes for aerospace-grade chips are required to meet strict design standards to adapt to complex space environments, such as strong cosmic rays, impacts of meteorite fragments, and steep drops in temperature. The 28nm and the 22nm process chips of the Beidou system have been mass-produced. Compared with those 180nm in 2015, the Chinese aerospace-grade chips have reached the world-class level.
China has become a new big country in the integrated circuit industry. In the past few decades, through continuous efforts, several integrated circuit industry centers have been formed in the Beijing-Tianjin-Bohai Rim, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the central and western regions. Several characteristic integrated circuit industrial parks. China’s integrated circuit is one of the few industries in the world that has five complete sectors: design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment and materials.
China has formed a relatively complete industrial chain and has a huge group of enterprises whose quality is constantly improving. From a global perspective, the size of enterprises is still relatively small, but many enterprises have entered relatively advanced positions in subdivided fields. Even the long-term absence of semiconductor memory has gradually emerged as an emerging force.
The rapid development of China’s semiconductor industry largely benefits from the long-term semiconductor investment mechanism. Although the investment number is not large enough, it has played a huge role in promoting the development of the entire Chinese semiconductor industry. China is a gathering place for the fast-growing integrated circuit industry. In 2021, the revenue of the entire industry exceeded 1 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 1,045.8 billion yuan. In 2004, the largest semiconductor industry in China was the packaging and testing industry, followed by the manufacturing and design industries. In 2009, the design industry surpassed the manufacturing industry to become the second largest industry. In 2016, the design industry surpassed the packaging and testing industry to become the largest Industry. In 2020, the manufacturing industry surpassed the packaging and testing industry and reached the second place.
From the changes in the three-semiconductor links, it can be seen that the industrial structure of China’s semiconductor industry is becoming more and more reasonable. Among them, the design industry is the fastest growing industry, with an average annual compound growth rate of 26.6%. In recent years, China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry has emerged as an important backbone of China’s integrated circuit industry. Although its scale is not large enough, it surpasses the semiconductor packaging and testing industry. It can be said that this is a strategic shift.
China is the largest single semiconductor market. In 2021, the output value of the global semiconductor industry was US$556 billion, and the output value of China’s semiconductor industry was US$192.5 billion, accounting for nearly 35% of the world’s total. According to China Customs data, China imported 432.5 billion US dollars of integrated circuits, accounting for about 78% of the global output value of integrated circuits. At the same time, nearly 35% of the 78% integrated circuits imported by China were used locally, and more than 40% of It is also installed in the whole machines for export. This is an important sign of China’s status as the world’s largest single market.
The competitiveness of China’s integrated circuit products is still improving, especially in the field of high-end general-purpose chips. The achievements of China’s semiconductor industry are the result of long-term investment. China is in a very favorable stage of development, the stage of industrial upgrading and development: from low added value to high added value; from low technology to high technology; from low productivity to high productivity; from the low end to the high end of the industrial chain upgrading.
The status quo of China as the world’s factory will not change in the short term. There are hundreds of products in China that are highly demanded in the world. This has also created very important conditions for the development of China’s semiconductor industry. For a long time, China has deployed manufacturing as the center, and now China should turn to a product-centered industrial development model. The 22 chip design companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board are an example. According to their annual report data, the average gross profit rate of these chip design companies in 2021 was about 47%, which was 15% lower than the average gross profit rate of 62% for American chip design companies. Although the average R&D investment of these companies has reached 25.5%, which is 8.5% higher than the average R&D investment of 17% of American semiconductor companies, the total R&D investment of the 22 chip design companies listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board was only 1.08 billion US dollars.
The innovation capability of Chinese enterprises is still limited by scale and profitability and is actually very weak. The other better methods need to be adopted to promote the improvement of innovation capabilities of Chinese enterprises. The 5G mobile communication in China has an advantage of an important driving force for the future development of China. The 5G technology is a low-latency, massive machine-type communication technology that is still developing and will promote industrial intelligent transformation in the future, such as autonomous driving and industrial automation.
The development of the integrated circuit industry of China will not be achieved overnight. It requires long-term persistence and continuous efforts, and various preparations must be made. The semiconductor industry of China is still facing great challenges, both external and internal. Based on the situation of chip factories under construction in China and the shipments of chip equipment manufacturers around the world to China, it can be confirmed that the goal of self-sufficiency in domestic semiconductors reaching 70% in 2025 is about to be achieved. In other words, chip production needs to more than double in the last three years, and automotive chips need to double more than 15 times, indicating that the investment logic of domestic substitution still exists, and there is still room for at least doubling in three years.
China’s development will not change because of certain people or things, nor will it stagnate because of external suppression. The Chinese have to make all kinds of preparations while running hard. Relying on China’s huge market and the Chinese colleagues in all industries who are struggling day and night, China’s development is just around the corner, and the other side of victory will be surely reached!
The US export blacklist will not be effective to derail and destroy China’s technology development in semiconductors and aerospace but its own high-tech industries. The high-tech industries of the US will suffer huge losses in the coming years. From Tiangong, Beidou, Chang’e to Tianhe, Tianwen, Xihe, the aerospace and semiconductor high-tech industries of China continue to create new history.
It is too late for the US government and politicians to focus only on meddling in the high-tech industries of China.
What a waste of time and energy. Wake up please.
China’s De-Dollarization Strategy – They Want A Global Dollar Dump
Like what Jeffrey Sachs has said : the greed of a 100 year old empire like capitalism America knows no bounds , Karma strikes hard one day…..
Biden Opens Africa Summit With Sanctioning African Leaders
The Biden administration is holding a summit with some 40 leaders of African countries. The New York Times headline of its reporting on the summit is revealing:
Biden Is Bringing Africa’s Leaders to Washington, Hoping to Impress
“Bringing Africa’s Leaders to Washington”? Why not “invited African leaders to Washington”? Isn’t this reminiscent to the millions of Africans who had been “brought to America” in past centuries?
The U.S. is late in fostering better relations with Africa:
NAIROBI, Kenya — In Russia, Africa’s leaders were feted at a seaside resort where military aircraft for sale were parked outside the summit hall. In China, they dined with President Xi Jinping, some of them one-on-one, and received promises of investments worth $60 billion. In Turkey, they won support for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council.Now they are headed to Washington for a major summit hosted by President Biden — the latest diplomatic drive by a major foreign power seeking to strengthen its ties to Africa, a continent whose geopolitical clout has grown greatly in the past decade.
There is little hope that the U.S. will do better than other nations:
As the planes of over 40 African heads of state descend on Washington, a question looms: What can Mr. Biden offer that they want?“The U.S. has traditionally seen Africa as a problem to be solved,” said Murithi Mutiga, Africa director at the International Crisis Group. “But its competitors see Africa as a place of opportunity, which is why they are pulling ahead. It’s unclear if this conference is going to change that.”
What the leaders from Africa demand is first of all respect:
Africa’s top diplomat says that, first of all, they want to be heard.“When we talk, we’re often not listened to, or in any case, not with enough interest,” President Macky Sall of Senegal, who is president of the African Union, said in an interview in Dakar last Thursday. “This is what we want to change. And let no one tell us no, don’t work with so-and-so, just work with us. We want to work and trade with everyone.”
There is no serious attempt to really get into better relations with African countries:
There will be initiatives to tap the African diaspora for new ideas in higher education, creative industries and the environment and for collaborations with NASA on space programs. A guide for summit delegates, obtained by The New York Times, predicts that Africa’s “space economy” will grow 30 percent by 2024 — an opportunity for the U.S. to help with technologies to solve problems related to climate change, agriculture, security and illegal fishing and mining.But there is little sign that Mr. Biden intends to launch a signature policy initiative like previous American administrations.
In short: it is a sales show and at least partly aimed at one of Biden’s constituent groups – ‘diaspora Africans’.
There is not much to expect from the meeting but empty words and not so empty threats. Yesterday, the day before the first summit meeting is supposed to take place, the Biden administration set the tone by … sanctioning African leaders:
The Biden administration on Monday slapped corruption sanctions on the son of Zimbabwe’s president as the U.S. prepares to host a major summit of African leaders in Washington.The Treasury Department announced it was hitting four Zimbabwean people and two companies with penalties for their roles in undermining democracy and facilitating high-level graft. Those sanctioned include Emmerson Mnangagwa, Jr., the son of the previously sanctioned Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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“We urge the Zimbabwean government to take meaningful steps towards creating a peaceful, prosperous, and politically vibrant Zimbabwe, and to address the root causes of many of Zimbabwe’s ills: corrupt elites and their abuse of the country’s institutions for their personal benefit,” Treasury said in a statement.“The goal of sanctions is behavior change,” it said. “Today’s actions demonstrate our support for a transparent and prosperous Zimbabwe.”
I fail to find a participants list for the summit at the State Department’s Africa Summit page. But I am pretty sure that Zimbabwe as well as ten plus other member states of the African Union will not be present. It would be interesting to learn who those are.
Sanctions are typically reviewed by the National Security Council before they are enacted by the Treasury. That the White House let these pass at this time means that the move is intentional.
Those who are coming will notice this well timed action against the leadership of one of their fellow countries. It is likely supposed to intimidate them: “Watch what could happen to You!”
But times have changed. I doubt that they will fall for such a cheap trick.
Posted by b on December 13, 2022 at 12:37 UTC | Permalink
How I See the US After 15 Years Living Abroad
I lived in Asia for 20 yrs… After coming back to the US… I found that everything is failing in the US… Infrastructure, healthcare, education, law enforcement…. Dems and Rep DO NOT want to make the US a better place, they want to enrich themselves and hold onto power…. Political systems do not last forever because a few will figure out how to game the system…. Media, Money, and politicians have found that way…. Average people just suffer the consequences… But if you say this, you will be banned by YouTube. Better set up a channel on Rumble like most independent journalist do….
Russia Deploys **THIRD** Multi-Nuclear-Warhead Missile
Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defense released videos of two separate “YARS” nuclear ICBM’s being loaded into silos. Turns out, there was a third, in Bologovsky. Russia’s message to the West is clear.
In Bologovsky ,from the Strategic Missile Forces, a missile regiment of mobile “Yars” took up combat duty (third deployment of such system so far in a few days)
The “Yars”, which is being put into combat, is replacing the Topol mobile missile system.
The location in Bologovsky is shown on the map below relative to the rest of Europe.
Europe and the USA, via their cute little military alliance called NATO, continue to interfere with what Russia is doing inside Ukraine. Russia has warned against such interference at the start, back on February 24, but those warnings have fallen upon deaf ears in the west.
Now, Russia is moving large, multi-warhead nuclear weapons very near the borders of NATO countries in Europe. If the ears of NATO will not hear, then perhaps the eyes of NATO can see?
The writing is on the wall for any rational person to view: Russia seems to be telling the west something like “If you continue to mess with us in Ukraine, we are going to start messing with YOU.”
Why the West doesn’t seem to get the message is unknown. Perhaps they need to start seeing the bright, white, flashes?
How will China’s switch to the yuan affect the US dollar and global economy?
Initially all that China wanted to do was to create a separate trade ecosystem that could guarantee continuous trade from and to China and ensure China had a continuous supply of Energy and Food in return for which China flooded the other countries with everything else from Machinery to Dry Goods to Canned Goods to Paper to Structural Works to Railways to Advanced Communications
This is called the Yuan Ecosystem
Cross Currency Swaps fuel the Ecosystem and a different settlement system that completely by passes the SWIFT was created
This was done to ensure that US could not block Chinese Trade financially.
Later this Yuan Ecosystem became a haven to Nations sanctioned by the United States
Especially Iran
Irans GDP looks like it crashed from $ 420 Billion in 2009 to $ 233 Billion in 2022 but in reality – Iran has flourished economically and its Yuan GDP is CNY 3.14 Trillion in 2014 to CNY 5.05 Trillion in 2022. Thats because Iran has almost completely moved to the Barter Ecosystem & the Yuan Ecosystem (Now they have also incorporated the Ruble Ecosystem)
So Iran is actually doing pretty well. It has deviated so much from the US Dollar that its Economic Activity is no longer gauged under USD Terms and its closer to measure it in Yuan.
Russia survived and thrived because of the Yuan Ecosystem
They were able to Bypass the SWIFT in less than 2 months by merely expanding the Chinese Russian Settlement System and simply received more payments in Yuan
Today the Yuan Ecosystem is likely to merge with the Ruble Ecosystem and the Barter Ecosystem of Iran and createa Three Country Exchange Mechanism which could be adopted by BRICS in which case Turkey and Saudi Arabia would willingly make deals under this system.
As the US becomes weaker, it becomes a bigger and bigger despot and frankly the entire world is becoming tired of the Anglosphere (US, Australia and UK) and its regular bullying and baiting.
Now they have an alternate – The Yuan Ecosystem
An Alternate Ecosystem of a Separate Trading System and a Separate Currency that bypasses the West entirely
The Yuan Ecosystem of course is nowhere near the Western Ecosystem
Yet it is now an Option for Nations that have had enough of Bullying by the West
FLAT-OUT LIED! Labor Statistics “REVISED” from Q2 this year . . .
Estimates by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia indicate that the employment changes from March through June 2022 were significantly different in 33 states and the District of Columbia compared with current state estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Current Employment Statistics (CES). Early benchmark estimates indicated higher changes in four states, lower changes in 29 states and the District of Columbia, and lesser changes in the remaining 17 states.
In the aggregate, 10,500 net new jobs were added during the period rather than the 1,121,500 jobs estimated by the sum of the states; the U.S. CES estimated net growth of 1,047,000 jobs for the period. Payroll jobs in the nation remained essentially flat from March through June 2022 after adjusting for QCEW data.
Hal Turner Analysis and opinion
Well, there you have it, folks. The illegitimate Biden Regime, corrupting almost everything it touches, has now clearly gotten to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to skew the job numbers as propaganda for the masses. Bankers don’t make mistakes like saying there’s 1,121,500 new jobs when, in fact, there were only about 10,500. But Bankers can . . . ahem . . . . lie.
And that is what I think we have here. I( think the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, in “correcting” their numbers, has exposed themselves to be . . . what many people might call . . . liars.
No rational person makes a mistake like that, and no rational person believes that a Bank (never mind the top bank in the country) makes a mistake like that. Thus, it seems probable the bank flat-out lied. On purpose.
From this point on, it seems to me, the Federal Reserve job numbers simply cannot be believed. Oh, and this might help explain why the economy (out here in the real world) is clearly in a catastrophe, despite what the “reports” say.
This is what is meant by asymmetrical warfare:
- the United States may be sanctioning Chinese companies and individuals
- ban the sales of chip making equipment and chip design software
- prevent Americans from working in China
in order to destroy China’s semiconductor and hi-tech industry.
In response, China is swarming the market with mature chips – which incidentally also make up the larger share of the market and is the most widely used chip which they have now mastered and will saturate it in time. Using their far more efficient manufacturing process, they will drive American and other chip manufacturers out of the market by selling at a price the Americans will not be able to match. As American and other manufacturers become unprofitable with less funds to invest in R&D, they will become increasingly uncompetitive. In contrast, the Chinese companies will earned greater revenues and will be able to invest in more R&D. Over time, they will be manufacturing and controlling leading edge semiconductors.
As the report noted: “The Chinese could just flood the market with these technologies……… Normal companies can’t compete, because they can’t make money at those levels.”
The Americans have screwed themselves to a poorer place. By waging war on Chinese semiconductor industry, they have set the foundation for the destruction of that industry in the United States.
The Americans are now scrambling for a response. They have been out manoeuvred AND that they are NO good pathways out – they have already lost.
French Pizza Bread
Craving homemade pizza, but don’t want to deal with finicky pizza dough? We get it, that stuff can be tricky. Skip it altogether, and grab the nearest loaf of French bread instead. The loaf makes for a delicious pizza “crust” that will get crispy on the outside, while staying nice and soft on the inside. It’s truly the best of both worlds.
Speaking of being the best of both worlds, we took that idea EVEN further. As we were cutting our French bread for these pizzas, we were reminded of another classic Italian restaurant staple—garlic bread We brushed our French loaf with garlic butter here to combine our two favorites, and it is truly to die for. You could skip the garlic if you’re a purist (but hey, we’re making pizza on bread here, so we say anything goes!), but we still recommend toasting the bread for a few minutes before you put your toppings on to keep it nice and crisp.
As for toppings, we went the classic pepperoni route, but there’s no reason you can’t keep it vegetarian with mushrooms, peppers, and onions, or add in some sausage for a meat lover’s pizza. It’s your pizza night, so go crazy!
Want to take this completely to the next level? Take it outside, and turn it into grilled pizza bread. Simply wrap your French loaf pizzas in aluminum foil, and toss them onto a campfire or grill—in 10-15 minutes you’ll be eating pizza, no 500° oven required.
Putin just dropped a BOMBSHELL on next steps in Ukraine War
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How effective will the US export blacklist be to derail and destroy China’s technology development in semiconductors and aerospace?
Ultimately it’s all about Economics
China had the demand and the demand will grow more and more
As demand grows, so will the efforts for maintaining supplies by any means necessary.
If China had been a saturated market like Japan then yes, these moves would have perhaps succeeded
China however is far from saturated and the Chinese are hungrier than ever for more AI, more Automation and more Technology
The law of Economics is older than Biden or even USA
Nations with a Technological edge have always seen their edge diminish over the years and see the rest of the world catch up.
China has the money, the engineers and the world’s strongest espionage network and fingers in every pie in every nation.
China would already be working on many ways to thwart the policies
- Shell companies in Singapore or Europe whose real ownership is buried for minimum 25 years
- A handful of Judges cultivated for years and now placed to help China with favorable rulings
- Thousands of Chinese origin Engineers working in Korea or Taiwan who have helped China bridge a 30 year gap in 5 years.
Simultaneously China would also be
- Bringing up more and more Engineers into Semiconductor Research
- Attract Western Talent to China especially Mainland Origin Talent who despite living for years in USA feel the call back home
This will ensure that China doesn’t slip and keeps its pace of technology to around 60–65% of what it was in 2019 when it had full access to US Technology
That would still ensure Chinas sustained growth albeit a bit slower
China already has the potential to develop core technologies and has done so
The Key is commercialization of these core technologies on a large enough scale.
It’s the same as Anti Russian Sanctions
China will come through because THE ECONOMICS IS WITH CHINA
As long as their Energy is uninterrupted.
And trust me if US play with Chinas Food Or Energy – China would handle things very differently indeed.
I should have asked before.
Is it okay if I link to this site on the place I frequent? It’s the site you see linked with my name (RPC).
I link to your articles in my NYC tour articles that I publish there, which only a small number of people read and even fewer check out all the links I put in for citation.
Your site has a lot of good information that I can use in making these articles and fanfictions/character profiles that covertly retool the information to make it look like it’s fictitious.
Sure. That’s fine. No worries.
MM, hope you make a speedy recovery. I recovered quickly from Covid using the zelenko ivermectin protocol, granted I had the immunizing American strain, and I did not take the poison mRNA shot.