RSS“…it was Trump 1.0 who withdrew the US from the INF treaty, in 2019. If the US had remained, Russia would not have been able to develop and use Oreshnik.” But China, not being a signatory to the treaty, would have no such restriction.
“you’re not going to have an Israel if Kamala wins”. If I believed that, I would hold my nose and vote for Kamala. But I don’t believe it, so Jill Stein gets my vote.
Trump says: Jews who vote Democrat hate Israel. Fair enough Mr. President, but then, who doesn’t hate Israel?
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. ISIS is funded by the USA, is (or was) supplied with the Captagon combat-enhancing drug by a certain Saudi Prince and receives medivac services for it’s fighters in the Syrian Golan region from Israel. Do the math.
When the last Ukrainian has died fighting the “Moskals”, and Israel has been expelled from Palestine, Ukraine will become the new “land without a people for a people without a land”.
The American Jew is more coddled and protected than a Delta Smelt. The claims of attacks, harassment and discrimination against Jews are conjured from any perceived slight, and often manufactured from thin air. Senator Rosen’s claim of a “Bond” between USA and Israel are risible – ‘Bondage to Israel’ would be a better description. Israel is not an ally of the USA; it is a deadly parasite which we need to dislodge from it’s burrow in our body politic.
The “elite” don’t have to worry. They have access to Ivermectin and other highly effective treatments. These medications are largely prohibited to the rest of us, that’s why we, and not they, are dying (needlessly) from this disease.
Droplets with a diameter of 5 microns at room temperature and 30% humidity evaporate within a few milliseconds. Repeat: millisconds = 1/1000’s of a second. Larger droplets, say 100 microns, evaporate in less than 3 seconds. Droplets of .5 microns evaporate essentially instantaneously. Evaporation releases the virus to the air as individual viral particles of about 0.1 micron diameter. Particles less than 0.3 microns behave (due to Brownian Motion) more like an ideal gas than an aerosol. There is no mask available to you (medical grade, N95 or otherwise) which can filter out this (or any similar) virus. That’s why there are no clinical studies which show that the spread of the virus is attenuated, let alone stopped by the wearing of the mask. Masks don’t work. Stop wearing them; they are bad for your health, they make you look silly and they encourage public health bureaucrats, governors, mayors, even city councils to behave like tin-pot dictators.
The autopsy report clearly stated that Floyd had no serious injuries or bruises and did suffer anoxia, suffocation or lack of blood to the brain. Kneeling on the neck will not kill anyone without producing one of those effects, or damaging the spinal column. He did not die from the neck restraint. Nor has anyone else police have applied this technique to. He had more than a fatal concentration of Fentanyl in his blood, in addition to methamphetamine. You are spreading lies.
Sorry Mulga, but the debate is essentially over from a scientific standpoint. 1. CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere, and nowhere near sufficient to present a climate threat even if Tripled. The IPCC group had to assume a vast increase in water vapor (resulting from CO2 increases) to get their results, and it has not happened. Moreover, The IPCC model has been wildly non-predictive of the actual climate changes for decades. 2. The real clincher comes from the studies of ice cores, which provide a record of temperature and CO2 spanning hundreds of millions of years. Years ago, it was found that periods of extreme warming and increase in atmospheric CO2 did in fact coincide. But when the cores were examined in greater detail, it was discovered that in ALL cases, periods of massive warming and cooling always preceeded – they did not follow – changes in atmospheric CO2. Our planet has already carried out this experiment, and the CO2 theory has failed the test. Warming is occurring; has been since the end of the Ice Age. If you want to fix this, you need to find the real culprit(s) and stop chasing shadows and discredited myths.
Do yourself a big favor and skip the “vaccination”. leave it for a youngster who is more likely to survive the side effects.
So, if those 80 million voters remained in a state of denial, how well would that work out? We will never have a “free and honest” election until the voters wake up to the corruption in our past elections and demand a thorough cleanup.
@Wiz – The failure of FBI/CIA communication is a mainstream narrative, and almost certainly false. Some lower level FBI investigators were stymied in their investigations, but by their own superiors in the FBI. 9/11 was well coordinated between many agencies and actors, before, during and after the fact. There were no failures related to 9/11. A few minor slip-ups perhaps (e.g., BBC reporting collapse of bldg. 7 before it happened) but overall a nearly flawless operation and a smashing success.
This is an instance were the assumed omniscience of physicians can be quite tedious - and I have huge respect for Dr. Paul.
... science has demonstrated that most masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of a virus.
To this I say I say "tough cheese".Replies: @Sollipsist, @Adam Smith, @Curmudgeon, @showmethereal, @MOG
Medical science also shows that wearing a mask for extended periods of time can cause health problems. For example, mask wearing interferes with proper breathing. Long-term mask wearing may also cause serious dental problems
“East Asians have long believed in masks”. Masks are worn in Asia (esp. China) to protect against the dense smog produced by their intensely industrial (and coal-burning) society. They have been doing this for decades, long before the current viral outbreak. The SARS-Cov2 virus particle has a diameter of 200 nano-meters, way too small for your mask to filter. Filtering “mucus droplets” is equally futile, as the evaporation time for these ranges from a few milliseconds (5 micron droplet) to about 2.5 seconds (100 micron), after which time the viral particles they contain are released to the atmosphere as an aerosol which easily penetrates your mask. Some “Health experts” (not all!) “recommend” masks but cannot produce any scientific proof to support their recommendations. It is political opinion masquerading as science, not “scientific opinion”, which has done a sudden about-face since March of this year. The mask is a uniform, a reminder to all to remain constantly fearful and to accept the emerging Tyranny of the “New Normal”.
The lower mortality rate in China is due to their willingness to employ off-patent treatments (e.g., Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin/Zinc, Vitamin D, etc.) which actually work. Nothing to do with masks.
You have registered some of the frequently heard technical objections against mask wearing. However, a simulation by researchers at the Univ. of Illinois showed that cotton and some other common household fabrics were effective in filtering out coronavirus-size particles in expelled droplets, especially when the fabrics were layered.
The SARS-Cov2 virus particle has a diameter of 200 nano-meters, way too small for your mask to filter. Filtering “mucus droplets” is equally futile, as the evaporation time for these ranges from a few milliseconds (5 micron droplet) to about 2.5 seconds (100 micron), after which time the viral particles they contain are released to the atmosphere as an aerosol which easily penetrates your mask.
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/808377Another study from the U of I had similar results:
We fill the nozzle of an inhaler with distilled water mixed with 100-nanometer fluorescent particles, which mimic the coronavirus in size. When puffed, the inhaler forces the water through the nozzle and generates high-momentum droplets that we collect on a plastic dish placed vertically in front of the inhaler. We then repeat the process with the fabric we are testing over the collection dish. We measure how much water landed on the dish in both cases by counting the nanoparticles using a microscope. We can then use the ratio of the volume collected with and without the fabric to give us a measure of droplet-blocking efficiency. [...] Our work produced two key findings.First, most common household fabrics, such as T-shirt material, have 40% or higher droplet blocking when used as a single layer. In two layers, to our surprise, T-shirt fabric had a 98% droplet blocking efficiency – exceeding that of the medical mask, while maintaining better breathability.Second, most common fabrics are hydrophilic, meaning they up soak water, whereas medical masks are hydrophobic, meaning they repel water. This tells us that common household fabrics use an alternative mechanism to hold droplets by retaining them.
https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/performance-of-fabrics-for-home-made-masks-against-the-spread-of-Even without considering these studies, common sense should tell one that passing air through a fabric will reduce the number of suspended particles by blocking and trapping them, directly upon impact, and also through the hydrophilic and electrostatic properties of the fibers of the fabrics themselves.Although SAVS-Cov-2 is indeed tiny, ~80-140 nm, it is helpful to consider the action in 3D, and realize that anything trying to pass through three layers of fine cotton has a relatively long journey with many obstacles standing in its way, as the studies show.https://www.flickr.com/photos/zeissmicro/12695764203/sizes/l/Photo by Todd Simpson presented by Zeiss Microscopy on Flickr1 µm = 1000 nm
We found that most fabrics have substantial blocking efficiency (median values >70%). In particular, two layers of highly permeable fabric, such as T-shirt cloth, blocks droplets with an efficiency (>94%) similar to that of medical masks, while being approximately twice as breathable. The first layer allows about 17% of the droplet volume to transmit, but it significantly reduces their velocity. This allows the second layer to trap the transmitted droplets resulting in high blocking efficacy. Overall, our study suggests that cloth face coverings, especially with multiple layers, may help reduce droplet transmission of respiratory infections. Furthermore, face coverings made from materials such as cotton fabrics allow washing and reusing, and can help reduce the adverse environmental effects of widespread use of commercial disposable and non-biodegradable facemasks.
“Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of a 46-year-old Black man by the name of George Floyd, causing his death”. Great article until this. Why do people (and you) insist on perpetuating this vicious lie? The autopsy found no indication of suffocation, appoxia or serious injuries in Mr. Floyd. The autopsy did find levels of methamphetamine and fentanyl at levels several times that which would be fatal in most people. The knee-on-neck is widely used to restrain out of control arrestees, and has not resulted in any deaths. The “I can’t breath” phenomenon is common if cases of Fentanyl overdose. Floyd died from an overdose, not from police abuse.
There are at least 26 (and counting) partially burned-out, vandalized, terrorized cities in America which are highly unlikely to be still pro-Dem. The Dems did this to themselves by standing down the police in the face of violent riots, publicly “taking a knee” to the vandals/arsonists and donating money to NGOs that routinely bail out these thugs as quickly as the police can arrest them. America is sick, sick, sick and tired of these attrocities and they know who has been funding and enabling them. They are also sick and tired of Democrat mayors and governors assuming the role of tinpot dictators and ordering business lockdowns, house arrest, mandatory masks/social distancing. And just wait to see what happens when these lamebrains try to force mandatory messenger-RNA based vaccines on everyone. I expect a GOP landslide and the subsequent collapse of the Democratic Party. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Agreed, and thanks for the article.1stly, it should be obvious that Covid-19 is spread person-to-person, and the way to stop that spreading is to prevent as many person-to-person encounters as possible. Der. 2ndly, it should be obvious that the 1st wave was more or less controlled by 'social isolation' and such efforts. 3rdly, it should be obvious that anywhere there is a second (third, etc.) wave, that person-to-person encounters are becoming more [and far too many more] than is 'healthy.' [Here referring to physical/virus health, not mental/libertarian health.] Lastly, it should be obvious that without effective action, almost every person on the planet will eventually get infected [surviving - or not, gaining ‘herd immunity’ - or not] OR we get a both effective and accepted vaccine.It should be noted that my so-termed 'mental/libertarian' faction includes persons alleging 'scam,' 'hoax' and 'deep-state conspiracy against us, we the people.'Finally, it should be noted that whilst waiting for ‘the end game,’ our society can only begin to recover by defeating the ‘next wave’ and the only way we know that works is by 'social isolation' and such efforts. IMHO *all* better get weaving on getting some distance, eh?PS The main point of the face-mask for the general population is to prevent [as far as possible], aerosols being projected into the public space by possibly unsuspecting infected and contagious persons coughing or sneezing.PPS For sceptics: "Covid-19: At least two thirds of 225 000 excess deaths in US were due to virus"
The evidence is mounting that a sizeable part of the population is voting with their feet and opting out of the elaborate regulatory system that is supposed to prevent the spread of the epidemic
The things you point out as “obvious” are not obvious at all. The virus may be transmitted by contact in some cases, but the lion’s share appears to be spread by airborne aerosol particles (100-200 nanometers in diameter) which accumulate in buildings which recirculate the indoor air without sufficient external ventilation. Thus the large fraction of new hospital admissions of patients who got sick while sheltering in place. They should have gone out for stroll in the sunshine instead. Masks do not impede the spread of virus. This has been shown repeatedly in clinical studies performed over decades. Trapping mucous particles is no help either, as these evaporate rapidly (a few milliseconds for the smallest, 5-10 microns to 2 seconds for the largest, about 100 microns) releasing any entrapped virus particles into the air as an aerosol, to be expelled with your next breath. There is nothing you can do to “defeat” the virus. We’ve tried various methods, lockdowns, masks, distancing, and the virus is receding, as all seasonal flus do after a few months, but is still with us. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. We have a number of highly effective treatments which vastly reduce Covid deaths (here I exclude Remdesivir, which does not work), so widespread mandatory vaccinations are NOT needed. Moreover, vaccines for CORONA viruses tend to produce deadly ‘antibody immune enhancement’ reactions and should not be used. The virus will abate when we achieve herd immunity, and not a minute sooner. So let’s get out of the house, get back to work/school, start socializing again, lose the masks, and get on with our lives.
Thanks for your input; sounds good, but IMHO 180° *not* what we need.
So let’s get out of the house, get back to work/school, start socializing again, lose the masks, and get on with our lives
Would not help at all; the contaminated 'aerosol' will contain lots of tiny little trouble-bombs, and you can get quite enough of them from a single exhalation by any contagious person standing/sitting/singing/dancing near you.Perhaps you could consult some statistics:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/Note that many places are going into a 2nd[+] 'wave.'The 1st wave subsided because people both listened and concurred; they heard 'social distancing' and most did enough such. Whatever, but let's run the clock back a bit:AFAIK, Covid-19 was 1st noticed in Wuhan; they went 'full-bottle' to defeat it and did so, using total lockdown and subsequent exhaustive contact-tracing strategies.(Kindly note here that IMHO Covid-19 is a bio-warfare agent [*not* developed by China] but detected by them when they recognised the PRRA spike-inclusion for what it is = *BIG* trouble. Note also that only psychpaths could develop such a weapon without providing themselves with an antidote.)‘The West’ ridiculed China as reacting in a ‘totalitarian’ way, so when Covid-19 showed up in the West, they obviously had to avoid being totalitarian themselves, so Covid-19 was ‘allowed’ to spread madly.But all along, lots of people [libertarian bolshies?] kept yelling “It's only a flu!” {My word: nurFlu} – and so the civil-disobedient libertarian bolshie nurFlus are now ignoring/contravening the sensible/serious suggestions being made by ‘the authorities’ [as in the headline article] and so we're getting ‘next waves.’IMHO, it will only stop when Covid-19 is banished from the planet:https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 rgds
They should have gone out for stroll in the sunshine instead
During the peak of the NY City Covid season, a 1-week survey was taken of 100 NY hospitals, to determine who was getting sick. Turn out that 66% of new hospital admissions for Covid during that period were people who were “sheltering in place”. So, how are the lockdowns providing protection from the disease?
“It is about obeying the law even when it isn’t comfortable …” NO. It’s about obeying the law when it is Orwellian and unconstitutional. It’s about obeying unelected charlatans and propagandists who lie about the “science” and ignore everything we know about viruses and epidemiology. It”s about obeying health gurus who deny sick people the medication (e.g., HQZ+AZ+Zn) which could quickly, safely cure them, in order to strengthen and prolong the “epidemic” which provides them an excuse to install a permanent draconian tyranny to replace our free republic. It’s about terrorizing the public into accepting mandatory vaccinations which will alter them at the cellular level (e.g., Gates/Moderna mRNA based vaccine) – a power which no dictator in history has ever dreamed of. You are building a prison for yourself, and trying to force the rest of us to join you there. This will not stand.
A shrinking time window alert is in order. The MODeRNA vaccine is a comically nasty construct. Anyone who is thinking of taking an mRNA vaccine, listen up:one: Genes are patentable under the Global Cabal's merchantile order.two: Your offspring, post vaccination, will carry the patented genes, since your genes are now modified.three: Future generations will pay licenses with scheduled wage garnishments ("taxes and fees").four: the collection mechanism is in your blood stream. It is called ID2020. (Certificate Of Vaccination ID - C-O-V-ID)five: while you were in "lockdown" to survive "the killing zones of New York" (thanks for the laughs, Gilad), your city was being decorated with 5G stations.six: The debated health issues of 5G aside (which are also worth researching), you should know the reason goverments worldwide are pushing 5G:six-a: 5G enables real time remote control of drones; abilty for drone to transmit hi definition audio-video; ability to reduce location resolution to 0.1 Meters. six-b: without 5G, boston dynamics robots and flying police state drones can not work as desired. The technical subject is called "command and control (CnC)". Real-time CnC requires very low latencies. 5G and 5G+ have the required low latency.Once you are waiting for your daily rations, handed out by a fine young boot-camp re-educated enforcer of military, which will require full obedience on your part (if you want to eat), talk like "this will not stand" will not stand ...
This will not stand.
The logic of that is much more obvious to me for AIDS. I think it is quite interesting that Fauci's earlier claim to fame was claiming heterosexuals were as much at risk for AIDS as homosexuals. How can someone who makes such a boneheaded call keep climbing the ladder?
BTW, this is similar to the type of hypotheses used by those modelers who best projected the spread of AIDS early on in that epidemic.
Q: “How can someone who makes such a boneheaded call keep climbing the ladder?”
A: He solicited and obtained funding from the Gates foundation for his projects. He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
Well OBWAN, you certainly gave us a Postgrad level discourse on the eloquent use of language (eg., “Fuck You”), sophisticated, fact-based reasoning (“…you are wrong … you don’t know a Fucking Thing…”), ad hominem attacks (“… you think you are all smart … Fatuousness … sophomoric dunce…”) and the “… please … with a cherry on top” was a touching display of humility.
You’ve managed to illustrate all the distinctive traits of a basement-dwelling Troll in a mere five sentences. Good work! But how long since you have changed out of your PJs and left your grandmother’s basement? I can’t imagine what it must smell like down there.
3 months? Baloney. recent studies have shown that exposure to other Corona viruses (e.g., SARS1, adenovirus) creates T-cell immunity to SARS2 for at least 17 years. The new Russian vaccine takes advantage of this known cross-immunity by injecting an adenovirus virus which is harmless to humans – no messenger RNA, CRISPR or other GMO techniques such as are planned for the Moderna (CDC, WHO, Gates Foundation sponsored) vaccine.
Fuck you! I don’t pick sides, and the blue can go get stuffed.Replies: @MOG
By all means let’s Back The Blue.
That brings to mind the Virginia woman who called 911 during the riots there when hoodlums were vandalizing her house and threatening her. The 911 operator told her to call the mayor’s office.
You do realize that the whites, the cops, the hoodlums, and the mayor himself will sell you out and down the river in the name of their own self interests(the human condition).
That brings to mind the Virginia woman who called 911 during the riots there when hoodlums were vandalizing her house and threatening her. The 911 operator told her to call the mayor’s office.
Why is anyone still using Google Search???? It is rarely helpful at all. Easy fix: use duckduckgo.
Maybe, maybe not. But you should certainly know.
So …. explain to me one more time, why did the CDC force the shutdown of the Fort Detrick biolab last September?
Sound familiar? Now, what it goes on to say:
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.
The disease starts in pig farms in Brazil, quietly and slowly at first, but then it starts to spread more rapidly in healthcare settings. When it starts to spread efficiently from person to person in the low-income, densely packed neighborhoods of some of the megacities in South America, the epidemic explodes. It is first exported by air travel to Portugal, the United States, and China and then to many other countries. Although at first some countries are able to control it, it continues to spread and be reintroduced, and eventually no country can maintain control.
Well, I haven't paid any attention to the "Building the Wall" nonsense, but that apparently official statistic strikes me as pretty amusing...
And the CBP’s own figures, according to Reuters, show that 90 of those 93 miles already built replace existing structures.
Is it stupid to say that replacing totally ineffective chain-link fence (“existing structures”) with a real wall qualifies as new wall?
The keyword in your comment is “men”: “… labor force participation rate of MEN”, “… percent of working age MEN…”.
In 1950 the labor force consisted of MEN; women who did not work (most women) were not considered “unemployed”, they were “homemakers”. Today, non-working women are counted among the unemployed labor force. So the percentage of working age MEN and WOMEN with a job in 1950 was roughly half the number you stated, and that (43%) is what should be compared to today’s 69%.
Again, you can either kvetch about Jewish influence – and be marginalized for your trouble. Or you could try to learn from the Jews and how to emulate their success.
Their success seems to be achieved through deceptions, lies, false narratives, and cruel authoritarian schemes of control (-several mentioned in this article) – not to mention usury. I don’t think anyone should emulate those at all.
The Germans effectively tried to and things didn’t go to well for them – or the millions of Russians who died on that eastern front.
If one holds a criticism of Judaism specifically for it’s essential core belief in exceptionalism/ supremacism then this view of the world as one of ‘competing nationalisms’ is seen as nothing but a step backwards.
A genuine universalism is the only response with any moral logic to it as far as I can see. That elite Jewish interests co-opted and then subverted 19th and 20th century attempts at creating a universalist politics is the story that needs to be told to the public. Guyenot’s book concludes with the assertion that ‘Jewish universalism is a lie’ – and none know this more keenly than the Russians.
Also worth reading (if you haven’t) are Peter Levenda’s works on political witchcraft titled ‘Sinister Forces’. The trilogy is kind of bookended by consideration of the Manson murders, but branches out in many directions – particularly the connections between occult groups, significant individuals and political power.
Levenda shies away from serious consideration of Jewish power or zionism as an organising principle within the dark state, but there is a lot of research in there none the less.
Mike Rudin did the heavy lifting in covering for the 9/11 lies on BBC. David Aaronovitch also in there with several appearances as ‘a debunker’, promoting his book, during and after his journalistic stint promoting the Iraq massacre.
Jonathan Kay got similar sales over the Atlantic.
Penn and Teller did a bit of derisory slamming on the subject of 9/11.
James Randi hosted the main forum for self proclaimed ‘debunkers’.
9/11 was memorialised in the UK primarily with help of Peter Rosengard. The Manhattan memorial was famously designed by Michel Arad.
Of course the original official narrative was on the BBC through the lips of Barak, and on US TV through the mouth of L Paul Bremer.
It was ‘carved into stone’ through the work of Philip Zelikow.
Maybe I am cherry picking….?
9/11 wasn’t an ‘inside job’ surely.
I am not expert in any of this and don’t want to pose as one.
I am interested in the significance or otherwise of the Shanghai fall. The SE is listed at a value of $4.46Trillion (with the Shenzhen at 3.4) in some figures from 2016. A 20% loss on this is no insignificant amount of money, or am I misunderstanding it?
The article I originally linked to, itself linked to a UKgov report which showed figures of slowing Chinese growth – although the article hedged by saying that some opinions suggest this might be due to the transitional stage of the Chinese economy toward more domestic consumption.
I think I grasp the significance of different kinds of debt, and the importance of relationships between these different kinds of debt, their rate of expansion and the rate of GDP growth. Is it not true that several researchers who have studied these variables in pre-2008 scenario see similar patterns emerging in China? i.e. an economy unsustainiably increasing its reliance on credit to expand and survive?
The biophysical argument is often dismissed because it is misrepresented. The key aspect is not that materials and energy are ‘running out’, but that resource quality is declining as ‘the low hanging fruit’ are used up. This doesn’t always present as the most obvious movement in price (especially with regard to oil). The long term trend, it is argued, is toward greater reliance on asset bubbles, which can temporarily keep prices low. That, and the accompanying instability that comes with bubbles.
It is a resources ‘affordability problem’ rather than a supply problem. Charles Hall is the key academic in the field to my knowledge.
Another piece compiled by N Ahmed about a Chinese report into a looming energy crisis:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/chinas-economic-boom-is-about-to-be-cut-short-by-peak-oil-warns-state-funded-study-exclusive-2533df2aeb6b
Not significant
>I am interested in the significance or otherwise of the Shanghai fall. The SE is listed at a value of $4.46Trillion (with the Shenzhen at 3.4) in some figures from 2016. A 20% loss on this is no insignificant amount of money, or am I misunderstanding it?
Just from looking at the first 4, they are state owned companies. Which means the Government owns 51%+ over the shares and has no intention of ever putting the shares on the market.
SSE's Top 10 Largest Stocks[edit]
Source: MarketCapitalizations.com[17] (market values in RMB/Chinese Yuan). Data arranged by market value. Updated on Jan 1st 2015
PetroChina (1,750.3 billion)
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (1,289.1 billion)
Agricultural Bank of China (1,090.9 billion)
Bank of China (813.0 billion)
China Life (711.1 billion)
China Petroleum & Chemical (592.4 billion)
Ping An Insurance (357.5 billion)
China Merchants Bank (342.2 billion)
China Shenhua Energy Company (334.6 billion)
Citic Securities (333.5 billion)
Completely untrue, pre-2008 scenario had debt skyrocketing but it wasn’t translating into GDP growth
>Is it not true that several researchers who have studied these variables in pre-2008 scenario see similar patterns emerging in China? i.e. an economy unsustainiably increasing its reliance on credit to expand and survive?
If we were running out of oil, it would be reflected in the market
>It is a resources ‘affordability problem’ rather than a supply problem. Charles Hall is the key academic in the field to my knowledge.
Another piece compiled by N Ahmed about a Chinese report into a looming energy crisis:
Mixed picture here, IMHO.
The Shanghai Index has dropped 20% or there abouts since the beginning of the year and the Chinese currency has been hit hard by the US tariffs
Have you read about, or do you ‘buy into’ the biophysical argument?
There are certainly plenty of contrary views out there. The UK gov recently issued a report suggesting that the US is ‘winning the trade war’. Maybe they are necessarily biased (?)
The Shanghai Index has dropped 20% or there abouts since the beginning of the year and the Chinese currency has been hit hard by the US tariffs.
There are longer term trends that point to a major downturn in China (and consequently, everywhere) sometime in the next 12 months. The unavoidable effect of diminishing resource quality (especially energy sources) means that the promise of half a billion heavily consuming middle class in China is disputable to say the least. Roberts’s article brushed over the debt problem without considering it in any depth.
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-next-financial-crash-is-imminent-and-chinas-resource-crisis-could-be-the-trigger-be108b2731e9
Mixed picture here, IMHO.
The Shanghai Index has dropped 20% or there abouts since the beginning of the year and the Chinese currency has been hit hard by the US tariffs