Listen to a reading of this article: Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.
I continue to observe all this with disgust from the other side of the pond but I have to say first that I am not referring to the good people of your nation when I say it is just yet another instance of the United States of Arseholes going round rubbing salt in the wounds they have inflicted across our beautiful planet - may this iniquitous Western Imperial Project continue to disintegrate before our eyes.
I am a US citizen (born in San Francisco). I no longer recognize this country. Homeless camps springing up everywhere. It's more common to see grocery shelves empty of certain stock. Americans unable to see a doctor because they fear economic bankruptcy. Increasing crime and violence now in the larger urban centers - many of which have had their life sucked out of them by de-industrialization. And then look at the US govt, the last two US presidents were Trump and now Biden - who has problems reading his teleprompter when addressing the American population.
Australia has not quite reached that stage as yet. We'll get there, no doubt being seen as what was called in today's article one of the USA's "imperial assets". Never read that description of any country before and I don't like the sound of it either, as we took from 1788 to 1945 to shed a very similar function as Britain's little bag carrier joining in all the imperial wars of that colonising empire.
Now we have another, not a coloniser any more but a hegemonic killer intent on owning and controlling the world. All likely to stay that way until the 50% of non-voting US citizens demand a change back to decency, peaceful coexistence and no nuclear weapons and the close down of 850 military bases scattered throughout the world.
The UK, all over again.
Still have a soon to be English King as our head of State. How do you like that? One wonders how soon it will be before the feeble appearance of Biden appears on our bank notes.
There are some "crazies in the basement" in Washington D.C who launched a global biological attack on the planet in 2020 and who are selling "experimental medical countermeasures" masqueraded as "vaccines" to the planet.
Justification for the $100's of billions wasted on defense spending. Strange that the Pentagon has $100's of billions it can't account for. US aggression will lead to WWIII if we aren't there already.
It will stop when the earth is one gigantic ball of fire. I read somewhere that the earth's crust can be compared to the skin of an apple. Put an M80 next to an apple, and see what happens.
Am I the only one to notice that the NY Times wrote an obituary on David Crosby and failed to mention the Vietnam War and songs of protest against that war?
The elites sure don't want the kids to know of and emulate that history! And it just might stir feelings of guilt with their current war mongering and expose their own hypocrisy.
I wonder how people in the district of criminals would react if DRC's foreign minister, or for that matter Sergei Lavrov were to pay a visit to Hawaii? Just asking.
The irony being that China, after the Biden Administration moved to cut off Chinese access to the latest microchips (which was far more aggressive than anything Trump's bluster accomplished) has been making new advances in chip design, far more quickly than anyone would have predicted.
Actually, this does not surprise me too much. Given that China has numerous institutions for higher education, and technology, it only remained a question of time.
China had been extremely smart in demanding that US and Western companies put billions in manufacturing into the country, and who knows how much of technology was transferred. Plus, there are numerous individuals who trained in the West, stayed and went back, or trained in West and went back. But fundamentally, China most assuredly has been investing in its own critical infrastructures, to become far less reliant on the West, instead moving towards more self-reliance.
I presume the Billions of dollars that the US owe China has been halted. I believe they could not even afford the interests on the loans. So going to war takes care of that.
The moneymaker for the bankrupt USA is the American Defense Complex. Another motivation for their aggressive action.
Imagine if this was taking place in the American back waters, Mexico, Hawai or Cuba. Would they show the tolerance of the Chinese?
It's a category error to use personal finance analogies for governments. Those who create a system are not, and cannot be, strictly bound by its rules. We are taught to value and respect gold because religious temples tend to accumulate the stuff. It's all command, just mystified.
To the point, the Federal Reserve can create money without anyone's permission, simply by redeeming Treasurys for cash. As far as the Fed's books are concerned, it's an asset swapped for an asset. China's supposed nuclear option of dumping all their Treasurys would simply give them more cash to spread around African nations and delay the austerity "medicine" that the IMF, World Bank, and other market totalitarians want to inflict on everyone involved. It would inflate the USD by putting more money in circulation, but that can be soaked up quickly, witness the past couple of years.
Wow! I knew that was standard procedure for banks and loan companies for bad debt nationally but had no idea that it happened on an International government scale. The shame of it and impact on doing business with independent countries must be staggering.
By "US debt" they mean Treasury bills. Anyone can hold them as investments, buy them on the open market, and redeem them for dollars by selling them.
China gets those dollars and turns around to offer them to IMF-targeted countries, and the IMF hates it. The countries love it, though. I don't see any distress narrative in there.
The USofA Swamp Monsters are looking for & even begging for trouble. The rest of us on the planet should therefore take them along with their malevolent ilk in other countries to a safe place for treatment designed for the criminally insane, prestissimo.
Excellent article. It reminds me of the "Left Wing" aka "The West Wing" where CJ Craig seeks to make changes to "alleviate" violence in Sudan. There she goes to the Chinese, to make changes... and when that happens, she thanks the Chinese Ambassador, and the Chinese Ambassador says, "Thank you. You have been an excellent teacher"....
I mention this given the fact that the United States is "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality. In fact, the United States must maintain its military presence overseas in order to distract the American population from what is happening at home. And fact remains that what has been happening at home was predicted by George Orwell in his seminal book "1984." Do not forget that we are seeing it happen in real-time... in fact, it has been happening for decades...
The United States has never forgiven the Chinese people for rejecting Chiang Kai Shek, when Mao's Chinese Communist Party prevailed in their Civil War in 1949. The "Who Lost China Crowd" really was asking "Who lost our god given right to own China?!?" Fundamentally, that remains at the core of US and Western foreign policy.
call me a silly optimist but this may resolve itself quite organically. economic blowback can hit the USA so hard it learns its place in the new multipolar framework, particularly when the petrodollar is no more. Europe Japan and Australia excluded, look what the world is choosing - to be neutral or even siding with China
All this is nothing new. It's just like the yapping about a "missile gap" fifty years ago to justify endless ramping up of weapons purchases. That's the primary purpose today too, along with hysteria on the part of some at observing that China is soon to supersede the US economically, while offering a better deal to the third world so they don't have to go deep in debt to the IMF enforcers. Pu it together with the loss of the petrodollar, and the changed attitude in Saudi Arabia, and the empire managers must be feeling desperate. But they still have control of the narrative!
The US thinks it should have as much access to and rights in the South China Sea as does China, but, it goes without saying, the equivalent off the N or S Atlantic or Pacific bordering N or S American would bring on a catatonic fit. The Plan probably is to get China to spend as much of its GDP on war and weaponry as does the West, at the expense of social programs: that would constitute an even playing field, because as it is, the natives - in the US that is, are starting to rumble.
There is a catch in military spending. The US spends $850Billion per year on the military and Russia $65 Billion! Unfortunately, Russia is the 1st military superpower on the planet, not the US!!!
The explanation is very simple. The US buys EXPENSE weapons from the MIC and they are of low quality compared to Russian weapons. On the other hand Russia manufactures its weapons (state corporations) with performance and cost in mind. The same is true for China.
So, China can match the US military by just spending 1/10th of the money that the US congress launders every year through the military industrial complex which is what China already does since their military budget is $290Billion.
That's why as usual, the US is barking up the wrong flag post. Graft and equipment expense padding aren't just brushed off in China, as in the US, as the cost of doing business and buying congress.
CCP officials involved in money laundering are Mussolinized!
In the US, such officials are celebrated by their victims:
1. The Federal Reserve that has no reserves and is not federal has NEVER been audited since 1913.
2. The DOD is audited yearly but has NEVER passed an audit and the missing $trillions just vaporized. BTW: they were printed out of thin air and disappeared into the ether as expected!
Actually the stars and stripes represent a magician's cape: throw it over a pile of money and the money disappears. It does the same with meanings: the federal reserve is a private bank -as you point out. Or a laundry- for slightly soiled money. Everything is considered virtual, even severe austerity and war: if you don't think about it, it doesn't exist, and you can imagine anything you do want into existence. Rumsfeld very casually mentioned the fact about $2 trillion had disappeared into the Iraq fable. Real bombs. Real massacre. Real suffering. Nothing else about it was real. Especially the nuke Baghdad had ready for London -according to the celebrated war criminal Blair.
And Criminal T. Blair (33rd degree Mason and pious Catholic) was knighted last year for his bravery in Iraq in 2003 where he sacrificed 300+ British soldiers to seize the WMDs that existed only in the head of Colin Powell, the Washington cabals and The City of London.
>It is now no longer permissible for you to talk about the aggressions that led up to a nation going to war; we must all pretend that history began the day their troops crossed the border.
Acceptance of abuse is a necessary condition for complex society to exist. Only by abuse can hierarchy be established and reproduced. Remember that every time some middle-class boomer screeches a demand for empathy.
Cooperation and collaboration is the hallmark of civilization, and is the greatest survival trait of the human species. Abuse, competition, and rugged individualism is how barbarians lived, and is the least valuable survival trait in nature.
Any middle-class parasite would say the same, simply to preserve the system that guarantees them the right to parasitize. Childish prayers to complexity are simply a professional-managerial class ideology. Nothing you say is valuable because you are only speaking for your property.
I continue to observe all this with disgust from the other side of the pond but I have to say first that I am not referring to the good people of your nation when I say it is just yet another instance of the United States of Arseholes going round rubbing salt in the wounds they have inflicted across our beautiful planet - may this iniquitous Western Imperial Project continue to disintegrate before our eyes.
I am a US citizen (born in San Francisco). I no longer recognize this country. Homeless camps springing up everywhere. It's more common to see grocery shelves empty of certain stock. Americans unable to see a doctor because they fear economic bankruptcy. Increasing crime and violence now in the larger urban centers - many of which have had their life sucked out of them by de-industrialization. And then look at the US govt, the last two US presidents were Trump and now Biden - who has problems reading his teleprompter when addressing the American population.
A very sad summary of life in the US, Jamenta.
Australia has not quite reached that stage as yet. We'll get there, no doubt being seen as what was called in today's article one of the USA's "imperial assets". Never read that description of any country before and I don't like the sound of it either, as we took from 1788 to 1945 to shed a very similar function as Britain's little bag carrier joining in all the imperial wars of that colonising empire.
Now we have another, not a coloniser any more but a hegemonic killer intent on owning and controlling the world. All likely to stay that way until the 50% of non-voting US citizens demand a change back to decency, peaceful coexistence and no nuclear weapons and the close down of 850 military bases scattered throughout the world.
The UK, all over again.
Still have a soon to be English King as our head of State. How do you like that? One wonders how soon it will be before the feeble appearance of Biden appears on our bank notes.
Now an "imperial asset".
There are some "crazies in the basement" in Washington D.C who launched a global biological attack on the planet in 2020 and who are selling "experimental medical countermeasures" masqueraded as "vaccines" to the planet.
Wake up folks!
The DOD OTA bioweapons contracts are hidden in plain sight - see below FOIA
Reviewing the DOD Contracts for Covid "Countermeasures" - 2020
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/reviewing-the-dod-contracts-for-covid
US Air Force Lt. Col. Dr. Long confirms it live below (31 minutes):
Nuremberg 2 Artifacts: Self-inflicted castration of our national defense: Heartfelt whistleblower testimony Lt. Col. Dr. Long
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yfvKOif3smoI/
As a member of the Feline-American Community, don't worry about hurting my feelings.
No offense taken.
I'm already planning my exit, once my wife retires in a few years. (I hope we're all still around by then.)
Says you're in the UK in your profile. Anything in the direction of your own govt?
This iniquitous project has a name. It's called Project Overmatch.
https://youtu.be/fkAetJtQq-U
As long as defense contractors are allowed to lobby for multi-billion-dollar defense contracts, this will be the norms.
Justification for the $100's of billions wasted on defense spending. Strange that the Pentagon has $100's of billions it can't account for. US aggression will lead to WWIII if we aren't there already.
I think it will happen if the US supplies weapons to "liberate" Crimea.
Long range missiles or drones, will continue the escalation. And where will it stop?
It will stop when the earth is one gigantic ball of fire. I read somewhere that the earth's crust can be compared to the skin of an apple. Put an M80 next to an apple, and see what happens.
It's underway, well into the shaping phase. It's just not very hot yet.
Am I the only one to notice that the NY Times wrote an obituary on David Crosby and failed to mention the Vietnam War and songs of protest against that war?
The elites sure don't want the kids to know of and emulate that history! And it just might stir feelings of guilt with their current war mongering and expose their own hypocrisy.
So, it's all down Orwell's Memory Hole.
I wonder how people in the district of criminals would react if DRC's foreign minister, or for that matter Sergei Lavrov were to pay a visit to Hawaii? Just asking.
The irony being that China, after the Biden Administration moved to cut off Chinese access to the latest microchips (which was far more aggressive than anything Trump's bluster accomplished) has been making new advances in chip design, far more quickly than anyone would have predicted.
Actually, this does not surprise me too much. Given that China has numerous institutions for higher education, and technology, it only remained a question of time.
China had been extremely smart in demanding that US and Western companies put billions in manufacturing into the country, and who knows how much of technology was transferred. Plus, there are numerous individuals who trained in the West, stayed and went back, or trained in West and went back. But fundamentally, China most assuredly has been investing in its own critical infrastructures, to become far less reliant on the West, instead moving towards more self-reliance.
Gee, I can't imagine why China might do that. Must be aggression!
I’ve never heard of a more aggressive move than returning to one’s place of birth.
literally shaking rn
How many bases does China have in the West?
Rightttt. None
I presume the Billions of dollars that the US owe China has been halted. I believe they could not even afford the interests on the loans. So going to war takes care of that.
The moneymaker for the bankrupt USA is the American Defense Complex. Another motivation for their aggressive action.
Imagine if this was taking place in the American back waters, Mexico, Hawai or Cuba. Would they show the tolerance of the Chinese?
It's a category error to use personal finance analogies for governments. Those who create a system are not, and cannot be, strictly bound by its rules. We are taught to value and respect gold because religious temples tend to accumulate the stuff. It's all command, just mystified.
To the point, the Federal Reserve can create money without anyone's permission, simply by redeeming Treasurys for cash. As far as the Fed's books are concerned, it's an asset swapped for an asset. China's supposed nuclear option of dumping all their Treasurys would simply give them more cash to spread around African nations and delay the austerity "medicine" that the IMF, World Bank, and other market totalitarians want to inflict on everyone involved. It would inflate the USD by putting more money in circulation, but that can be soaked up quickly, witness the past couple of years.
I believe that the PRC has been selling US debt, as has the government of Japan.
Wow! I knew that was standard procedure for banks and loan companies for bad debt nationally but had no idea that it happened on an International government scale. The shame of it and impact on doing business with independent countries must be staggering.
By "US debt" they mean Treasury bills. Anyone can hold them as investments, buy them on the open market, and redeem them for dollars by selling them.
China gets those dollars and turns around to offer them to IMF-targeted countries, and the IMF hates it. The countries love it, though. I don't see any distress narrative in there.
Well written & bang on target. Thanks.
The USofA Swamp Monsters are looking for & even begging for trouble. The rest of us on the planet should therefore take them along with their malevolent ilk in other countries to a safe place for treatment designed for the criminally insane, prestissimo.
America needs blood to survive. Everyone else's blood, preferably.
That preference is surprisingly weak in practice, due to the Anglo-classical tradition's love-but-mostly-hate relationship with labor.
I'll fucking frame this! Keep going, Stinky.
JFK - 1963: Unveiled Ruthless Conspiracy.
There is a Plot in this Country to Enslave every Man, Woman and Child..
https://i0.wp.com/www.elliswashingtonreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/image-14.png?w=287&ssl=1
Pretty obvious why they killed him.
Excellent article. It reminds me of the "Left Wing" aka "The West Wing" where CJ Craig seeks to make changes to "alleviate" violence in Sudan. There she goes to the Chinese, to make changes... and when that happens, she thanks the Chinese Ambassador, and the Chinese Ambassador says, "Thank you. You have been an excellent teacher"....
I mention this given the fact that the United States is "Do as I say, not as I do" mentality. In fact, the United States must maintain its military presence overseas in order to distract the American population from what is happening at home. And fact remains that what has been happening at home was predicted by George Orwell in his seminal book "1984." Do not forget that we are seeing it happen in real-time... in fact, it has been happening for decades...
The United States has never forgiven the Chinese people for rejecting Chiang Kai Shek, when Mao's Chinese Communist Party prevailed in their Civil War in 1949. The "Who Lost China Crowd" really was asking "Who lost our god given right to own China?!?" Fundamentally, that remains at the core of US and Western foreign policy.
call me a silly optimist but this may resolve itself quite organically. economic blowback can hit the USA so hard it learns its place in the new multipolar framework, particularly when the petrodollar is no more. Europe Japan and Australia excluded, look what the world is choosing - to be neutral or even siding with China
And this is the very thing they want to go to war over! So it quite literally couldn't happen soon enough!
Chinese are very dangerous people.
Do you see how they surround our military bases in Asia with their country?
Kevin, we need $250billion to teach them a lesson.
They should withdraw their country from East Asia!
--Austin.
All this is nothing new. It's just like the yapping about a "missile gap" fifty years ago to justify endless ramping up of weapons purchases. That's the primary purpose today too, along with hysteria on the part of some at observing that China is soon to supersede the US economically, while offering a better deal to the third world so they don't have to go deep in debt to the IMF enforcers. Pu it together with the loss of the petrodollar, and the changed attitude in Saudi Arabia, and the empire managers must be feeling desperate. But they still have control of the narrative!
The US thinks it should have as much access to and rights in the South China Sea as does China, but, it goes without saying, the equivalent off the N or S Atlantic or Pacific bordering N or S American would bring on a catatonic fit. The Plan probably is to get China to spend as much of its GDP on war and weaponry as does the West, at the expense of social programs: that would constitute an even playing field, because as it is, the natives - in the US that is, are starting to rumble.
There is a catch in military spending. The US spends $850Billion per year on the military and Russia $65 Billion! Unfortunately, Russia is the 1st military superpower on the planet, not the US!!!
The explanation is very simple. The US buys EXPENSE weapons from the MIC and they are of low quality compared to Russian weapons. On the other hand Russia manufactures its weapons (state corporations) with performance and cost in mind. The same is true for China.
So, China can match the US military by just spending 1/10th of the money that the US congress launders every year through the military industrial complex which is what China already does since their military budget is $290Billion.
That's why as usual, the US is barking up the wrong flag post. Graft and equipment expense padding aren't just brushed off in China, as in the US, as the cost of doing business and buying congress.
CCP officials involved in money laundering are Mussolinized!
In the US, such officials are celebrated by their victims:
1. The Federal Reserve that has no reserves and is not federal has NEVER been audited since 1913.
2. The DOD is audited yearly but has NEVER passed an audit and the missing $trillions just vaporized. BTW: they were printed out of thin air and disappeared into the ether as expected!
Actually the stars and stripes represent a magician's cape: throw it over a pile of money and the money disappears. It does the same with meanings: the federal reserve is a private bank -as you point out. Or a laundry- for slightly soiled money. Everything is considered virtual, even severe austerity and war: if you don't think about it, it doesn't exist, and you can imagine anything you do want into existence. Rumsfeld very casually mentioned the fact about $2 trillion had disappeared into the Iraq fable. Real bombs. Real massacre. Real suffering. Nothing else about it was real. Especially the nuke Baghdad had ready for London -according to the celebrated war criminal Blair.
And Criminal T. Blair (33rd degree Mason and pious Catholic) was knighted last year for his bravery in Iraq in 2003 where he sacrificed 300+ British soldiers to seize the WMDs that existed only in the head of Colin Powell, the Washington cabals and The City of London.
Money Making-Magik:
https://www.elliswashingtonreport.com/2021/03/07/a-brief-history-of-the-rothschild-khazarian-mafia-part-i-100-1200-ad/
>It is now no longer permissible for you to talk about the aggressions that led up to a nation going to war; we must all pretend that history began the day their troops crossed the border.
Acceptance of abuse is a necessary condition for complex society to exist. Only by abuse can hierarchy be established and reproduced. Remember that every time some middle-class boomer screeches a demand for empathy.
Cooperation and collaboration is the hallmark of civilization, and is the greatest survival trait of the human species. Abuse, competition, and rugged individualism is how barbarians lived, and is the least valuable survival trait in nature.
Any middle-class parasite would say the same, simply to preserve the system that guarantees them the right to parasitize. Childish prayers to complexity are simply a professional-managerial class ideology. Nothing you say is valuable because you are only speaking for your property.
Talk about showing your true colors right away! Kevin Pelosi! When it comes to war these filthy Warmongering Whores are all the same!