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  • @Carlton Meyer
    From my blog:

    Nov 10, 2012 - Drop PBS Funding

    I like a few PBS shows, just a few. It has become just another corporate sponsored and controlled public disinformation channel, with full commercials. "PBS Frontline" was great, until is was somehow "acquired" by the New York Times propaganda machine and muzzled. I've been indifferent to the federal PBS funding debate because the amount is small. However, I just read that PBS has become a profitable racket for insiders. While they demand federal dollars and ask working class folks to send them a few dollars, I learn:

    "According to CPB's 2009 tax forms, President and CEO (and former senior Republican party leader) Patricia de Stacy Harrison received $298,884 in reportable compensation and another $70,630 in other compensation from the organization and related organizations that year. That's practically a pittance compared to Kevin Klose, president emeritus of NPR, who received more than $1.2 million in compensation, according to the tax forms the nonprofit filed in 2009."

    So now I oppose any federal funding for PBS, which should employ only those willing to help provide a public service at limited salaries. I know the cost of living in DC is high and they have important positions, but earning more than $80,000 a year at PBS is immoral. I'll run it for half that amount! PBS would need that savings after most of their corporate sponsors end funding in protest to my airing of truthful news. For example, we've been forced to watch hundreds of hours and Democrat/Republican "democracy", but saw zero news about our nation's "other" political parties that offer real change and collected a few million votes.

    Replies: @WJ, @Joe Wong

    The decline of the USA caused by the ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil puritan likes a flood outbursting from a dive, a few good men standing in the way cannot stop the flood but a few insignificant obstacles got swiping aside.

  • Forget those “bad hombres down there” in Mexico that U.S. troops might take out. Ignore the way National Security Adviser Michael Flynn put Iran “on notice” and the new president insisted, that, when it comes to that country, “nothing is off the table.” Instead, focus for a moment on something truly scary: the possibility that...
  • @Simon in London
    I think a US-China naval war in the South China Sea is definitely possible, especially if both parties believe they can prevent it escalating into a nuclear holocaust. Looking at the Korean War, Vietnam War, and the UK-Argentine Falklands War provides hints at how such a conflict might be 'quarantined', with both sides restricting the area of operations (South China Sea, no attacks on enemy mainland) and weaponry (no nukes). A classic inter-state 'limited war' of the kind that was standard 1815-1914.

    What would be the result of such a clash? My guess would be that China would 'lose', in the sense of losing control of many or all of its bases in the South China Sea, but also 'win' in the sense of inflicting heavy losses on the USA, and the result would be something like the Yom Kippur War in which both sides might claim victory. This 'peace with honour' result is always the best you can hope for in inter-state war. Especially if China got to retain some territory, she could claim to have successfully repelled attack by a stronger enemy, and everyone would be happy (except possibly the relatives of the dead).

    Conversely, an overwhelming victory for either side could be very bad, destabilising the loser. A defeated Chinese leadership would be discredited and might be overthrown. There might even be a disastrous State Collapse of the type William S Lind warns against, turning east Asia into the Middle East. Defeated but intact China would be a less severe result - it would nurse its wounds and plot revenge, but have limited ability to gain revenge in the near term. The world would darken but this might be recoverable.

    A defeated US leadership would likely also be overthrown (impeached/forced resignation) but this would not likely result in US State collapse. A likelier result would be that the US under new leadership, seeing itself as still militarily stronger, would refuse peace and seek a rematch/revenge on more favourable terms, resulting in a long drawn out war with the possibility of nuclear escalation and global holocaust (especially if Russia were drawn in on the US side).

    Replies: @KA, @Randal, @Joe Wong

    Your comment is the typical brain washed from cradle to grave old days British Empire subjects’ uneducated delusional view based on the fallacy that only the White can invent and only the White can succeed.

    If it is a limited war, the American Navy and Air Force will be wiped out within 72 hours as well as all the military bases in Japan and SK by China’s massive missiles bombardments from air, warships, submarines and land. The USA military’s single point failure weapons will all cease to work due to their GPS and internet communications being hacked by Chinese Space Strategy Corp. Besides most of the American weapons rely on parts from other nations, the EU will use this opportunity to get the American off their backs by withholding their parts and let the American being defected by the Chinese like the Argentinian in the Falklands War due to running out foreign supplied parts and weapons.

    In the last 75 years the amount of wars, atrocities and chaos created by the American in the SE Asia make them the most hated people and nation in the SE Asia, everybody can’t wait to help China to put an end to the presence of this do no good psychopath in the SE Asia.

    American initiated aggression war will allow the CCP to rally the Chinese people around it like it did in the war against the Japanese, Korean War and Vietnam War by reminding the Chinese the hundred years of humiliation and suffering as well as the dark age of Unequal Treaties caused by the foreign devil invasions.

    On the other hand, a defeated USA will render Washington totally discredited and weakened that it has no mean to put down the boiling over separatism that has been simmering underneath decades in the USA, the USA will be broken into 7 pieces as projected in some Russian scientists’ hypothesis.

    • Replies: @Astuteobservor II
    @Joe Wong

    this is like the chinese version of "wet dreams"

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @Randal
    @Wizard of Oz


    Why doesn’t the US (or Japan, or the US and Japan jointly, to mention only some of the possibilities) lease an atoll or reef or three from the Philippines and/or other states and build its own island and facilities?
     
    One point that immediately occurs is cost. If as Steve Sailer recently guesstimated just the repairs to the spillway on one dam will cost "nine figures", how much do you think it would cost the US to construct an entire island and military base facility in the ocean on the other side of the world? Especially if the garrison based there are going to expect US military standards of comfort and facilities?

    Bear in mind the context as outlined in the article referenced by Steve:

    we see similar effects in infrastructure. The first New York City subway opened around 1900. Various sources list lengths from 10 to 20 miles and costs from $30 million to $60 million dollars – I think my sources are capturing it at different stages of construction with different numbers of extensions. In any case, it suggests costs of between $1.5 million to $6 million dollars/mile = $1-4 million per kilometer. That looks like it’s about the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $100 million/kilometer today, though I’m very uncertain about that estimate. In contrast, Vox notes that a new New York subway line being opened this year costs about $2.2 billion per kilometer, suggesting a cost increase of twenty times – although I’m very uncertain about this estimate.

    Things become clearer when you compare them country-by-country. The same Vox article notes that Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen subways cost about $250 million per kilometer, almost 90% less. Yet even those European subways are overpriced compared to Korea, where a kilometer of subway in Seoul costs $40 million/km (another Korean subway project cost $80 million/km). This is a difference of 50x between Seoul and New York for apparently comparable services.
     
    Considerations On Cost Disease

    China can afford to do these things not just because it's in their backyard rather than on the other side of the world, but because they can do public works at a fraction of the costs the US pays.

    Bearing in mind that neither freedom of navigation in the SCS, nor (as we know from the Iraq and Kosovo wars) the supposed "principle of enforcing the rule of law" is actually of any real concern for the US, for which noisy disputes over islands in the SCS are solely for the purpose of generating pretexts for confrontation of a rising rival power and preserving its past dominance of the region, is it worth spending that much just to try to gain a slightly better pretext? Wouldn't it be cheaper just to make a few provocative military forays there in the hope the Chinese might make the same mistake Japan made in the face of similar US hostility, and sink a US destroyer, or something like that?

    Replies: @Wizard of Oz, @Joe Wong

    A US war plane has been taken down and A US war equipment has been confiscated, so what is the American waiting for? Are you saying the American is all like Donald Trump, big mouth loose cannons?

  • @Sean
    Yes, the US is poking its nose in China's back yard, and the US not only can it must because it is the global superpower and there can only be one. Read Mearsheimer to understand why not interfering in every part of the world is a hardly an option. If the US is so worried about annoying China now that China is left alone, in a generation or two China will be number one and then they (in self defence) will be will interfering in the US's backyard. This is the time to pick a argument, and exert military pressure on China with a economy-overheating arms race.

    There is going to be war, a cold war, whereby the US will prevail as against Russia. One county has the world's most powerful economy / innovative technology and thus cannot be defeated--yet. Double down on China and stop them achieving world domination.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Randal

    China surpassing the USA in the next decade not in a generation or two is a matter of fact, China not only will surpass the USA in GDP, it will surpass the USA in full spectrum. USA’s decline is USA’s own doing or USA’s own incompetence by spending all the money on losing wars.

    American education is third rated and broken, they rely on the immigrants to do the science and technology works. Americans cannot do maths and cannot read manuals that is a known norm. In addition the skyrocketing USA national debt and excessive military spending are handcuffing the USA spending on R&D like the defunct USSR. The USA is walking the same path as the dying days of the Roman Empire and will soon imploded like the USSR.

  • @Astuteobservor II
    @Joe Wong

    this is like the chinese version of "wet dreams"

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    So you admit what “Simon in London” spewed is a Western version of “wet dreams?”

    • Replies: @Astuteobservor II
    @Joe Wong

    I have never denied it :P

  • The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism." McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a "post-West world order." Russia has "immense potential" for that said Lavrov,...
  • @KenH

    Now McCain is not wrong. Nationalism is an idea whose time has come again. Those “old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism” do seem everywhere ascendant.
     
    Funny how the old codger McCain has absolutely no problem with "old ties of blood and race" when it concerns the Jews of Israel or LA Raza who he's spoken lovingly to on occasion. Only the stirrings of white racial identity in Europe and America that have long been dormant has the decrepit old fool to gnashing his teeth and hissing like a feral tom cat.

    Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world and you are a candidate for martyrdom.
     
    What? I thought Islam was a religion of peace? Pat must be confused.

    Otherwise it seems U.S. government officials cling to a view of the Russians that dates back to the 1950's during the cold war. It's time to bury the hatchet and move forward together. An alliance with Russia is an idea whose time has finally come. I believe the two nations can achieve great things as friends and staunch allies.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Russia may not regard itself the enemy of the USA, but USA definitely regards Russia as the sworn enemy because Russian orthodox Christianity make the Anglo and Western European an illegitimate Christian pretender and reminds them they are the barbaric ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil ‘the Franks’. Getting rid of Russian will make their authenticity and legitimacy as sole Christian linkage to the creator unquestionable and authoritative.

    In addition, Russia is the sole nuclear power that can put the American ambition on global full spectrum dominance in check. Russia is the prime target for the USA to remove to achieve its US Primacy doctrine, i.e. “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”

  • Here are embeds to my two most recent videos for Newsbud. They pair together nicely as they track the evolving stories on Pakistan/Afghanistan and North Korea. Trump may be sucking all the oxygen out of the mediasphere, but the usual suspects are still out there conducting the usual business of murder and mayhem. The most...
  • The author is stilling living in the world with a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism and constrained by the zero-sum cold war mentality, he is trolling staled cold war rhetoric like a broken record.

    The American has been waging reckless wars around the world in the name of heightened phantom threats, like phantom WMD in Iraq, fabricated genocide in Yugoslavia, Libya and Syria, … , the author is portraying American, the Empire of Chaos’, way of life onto others in order to make sense to his life, to the author if the Americans go freaking out due to their internal uncivilized ongoing Cold Civil War caused by the election of Donald Trump to the POTUS against the will of the deep state, others must go crazy too because nobody can live differently from the American otherwise it won’t fit his “American is the final form of civilization, American Exceptionalism, and American is the global hegemon” box of thinking and mentality.

    To the Radio Free Asia and the author Asia is always in chaos and lawlessness, if it is not they will create enough fake news to create Asia a crazy place like the freaking out USA.

    • Replies: @Daniel Chieh
    @Joe Wong

    What in God-Emperor's name of non-sequitor is this crap response?

  • Tectonic shifts are continuing to occur in the political landscape of the Ukraine. Last week, following the imposition of a total blockade against Novorussia by the Ukronazis, Russia declared that she will from now on recognize the official documents emitted by the DNR and LNR authorities. This week, the Novorussian authorities have nationalized all the...
  • @anonymous
    Seems like it's been a done deal for a while now with just the threads being pulled tighter slowly so as not to give the impression of abrupt movement. They've already had their own national anthem of the Donetsk People's Republic viewable on YouTube for almost two years. Not much to be gained by being shackled to the dysfunctional Ukrainian state currently being run like a gangster state. With them out the hardline western part will play an even more outsized role in the remainder Ukrainian state so we'll see what sort of great nation building work they're capable of. We'll also see how much their foreign patrons are now willing to support and help them out. The US funded coup is what set this chain of events off in the first place. This is just one in a series of countries that the US has deliberately destabilized and destroyed from Yugoslavia to Iraq and now the still unwinding Ukrainian story. Where to next for the US or has this country destroying momentum come to a halt for now?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    USA is in the state of cold civil war since Donald Trump won the election, soon USA itself will be the state this destroying momentum come to dwell and wreck havoc like the dying days of the Roman Empire; people predicted it would be broken into seven pieces.

    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    @Joe Wong

    After handing your comment to one of my proof reader editors I was apprised of the idea that you think the USA will evolve through cold war into an economic collapse of some parts which other parts will not be compelled to give generous support to cf. 1860s and 1870s South rather than Marshall Plan. Then there will be a geopolitical disintegration based no doubt on the non citizen Latinos being disgruntled Goths. I think perhaps you need more reading of history and fewer wet dreams.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @Felix Keverich
    @AP


    You are repeating Russian nationalist Mythology.
     
    And you are projecting. "nationalist Mythology" is something that Ukrainians have to dabble in, for the lack of a genuine national history. You guys believe that Vladimir the Great was an oldest Ukrainian nationalist, and history books use terms like "Rus-Ukraine" to describe a 10th century state. LMAO.


    That must be why Lviv, the center of Ukrainian nationalism, has Ukraine’s lowest crime rates, one of its most educated populations, and highest livability outside Kiev
     
    I'm pretty sure you don't actually live there. People don't aspire to live in Lvov, in fact pretty much the entire population of Western Ukraine would love to get out.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Anglo-Saxon and their the Franks cousins love to write other people’s history for the others stuffed with fake news, so they can white wash their barbarism, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace they have been committing around the world in the last few hundreds of years, and portray themselves as the the final form of civilization with hypocrisy.

    They have been quite successful in white washing and glossing over their ugly past, perhaps they are so deep in the fake news they don’t even know they are bubbling fake news.

  • @Wizard of Oz
    @Joe Wong

    After handing your comment to one of my proof reader editors I was apprised of the idea that you think the USA will evolve through cold war into an economic collapse of some parts which other parts will not be compelled to give generous support to cf. 1860s and 1870s South rather than Marshall Plan. Then there will be a geopolitical disintegration based no doubt on the non citizen Latinos being disgruntled Goths. I think perhaps you need more reading of history and fewer wet dreams.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    USA is in the cold civil war is not my idea, it was a comment made by an American intellect on the UNZ Review. It was a Russian scientist’s scientific analysis that the USA would decay and break up in the 7 pieces. Besides a thousand years old Roman Empire was broken into pieces and never returned, and the Romans also claimed they were exceptional just like the American does. It seems you are the one need more reading of history.

    Remember the USSR? it was broken up overnight despite it’s all mighty and power, so will the USA, believing American Exceptionalsim will protect USA from the fate of Roman Empire and USSR is like believing pigs can fly, it is really delusional, USA as an empire is very ordinary, it is walking all the steps all the previous collapsed empires have walked.

  • @Wally
    The Saker's favorite, infantile word, Ukronazis, is an indication of his pathetic indoctrination.

    There were the ‘Nazis’ with the mythological '6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers' and there were the ‘Nazis’ without the mythological ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’.

    The '6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers' are scientifically impossible frauds.
    see the 'holocaust' scam debunked here:
    http://codoh.com
    No name calling, level playing field debate here:
    http://forum.codoh.com

    "Alone the fact that one may not question the Jewish "holocaust" and that Jewish pressure has inflicted laws on democratic societies to prevent questions—while incessant promotion and indoctrination of the same averredly incontestable ‘holocaust’ occur—gives the game away. It proves that it must be a lie. Why else would one not be allowed to question it? Because it might offend the "survivors"? Because it "dishonors the dead"? Hardly sufficient reason to outlaw discussion. No, because the exposure of this leading lie might precipitate questions about so many other lies and cause the whole ramshackle fabrication to crumble."
    - Gerard Menuhin / Revisionist Jew, son of famous violinist
     
    Why have supremacist Jews have been marketing the '6,000,000' lie since at least 1869?
    http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k598/WhiteWolf722/TheSixMillionMyth.jpg

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    http://forum.codoh.com and http://codoh.com are created by the unrepentant war criminal Japanese who wants to create a precedent to legitimize their denying their barbaric, beastly, inhuman and evil war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace they committed before 1945.

    • Replies: @Wally
    @Joe Wong

    Put down the bottle & pipe.

    , @Daniel Chieh
    @Joe Wong

    Dude, just stop it already.

    Replies: @Nathan Cook

  • I have gotten many hundreds of emails–OK, three emails, but I am rounding up–asking me whether there is a super-race. There are different views on this matter, discussion being carried on with the manners of a hockey match. For people who have better things to do than study abnormal psychology, the players are briefly as...
  • @DCBillS
    Gunpowder wan't so much invented as discovered. Somebody built a fire in a cave (with a saltpeter deposit) and noticed something unusual and it was taken from there.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Isn’t it true for everything? Following your logic everything is a discovery and there is no invention, in fact everything is a remix if you can apply your logic intelligently.

    • Replies: @interesting
    @Joe Wong

    Was electricity discovered, harnessed or invented?

    Replies: @Immigrant from former USSR, @Joe Wong

  • @Buck Turgidson
    If Asians, say the Chinese, are so wickedly supremely otherwordly smart and brilliant, why are their air and water systems so ungodly polluted and why do so many of them want to leave these nations with all those brilliant people? There are ways to gauge intelligence and achievement beyond the score on a physics or math exam.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Are the air and water systems so ungodly polluted in China? Or it is simply fake news fabricated by the people with a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism and constrained by the zero-sum cold war mentality and their lives is nothing but trolling negativity about others relentlessly and endlessly, and waging reckless wars based on those fake news.

    Why do so many Asians, say the Chinese, want to leave their nations? Perhaps they find it is easier to make a better living in places where people are less smart and brilliant like the USA as the author suggested.

    In fact it is all capitalism’s fault, it makes people worship money and gauge everything in according to money including intelligence and achievement, people good at physics or math exams make more money, so the natural conclusion is people good at physics or math exams are more intelligent and have higher achievements. You should blame capitalism not the Asians.

  • @anonymous coward


    The Alt-Right believes that the whites are innately–i.e., genetically–superior to all other races
     
    Technically they are correct, insofar as 'whites' are the original and most genetically diverse human stock.

    Replies: @RaceRealist88, @Joe Wong

    When the West overtook China, China did nothing like the West trolling relentlessly and endlessly with fake news and manufactured orientalism to demonize China, so that they could invade China, wage reckless wars against China, drugg Chinese with opium, loot China, commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace in China, destroy Chinese environment, corrupt Chinese culture,… on the moral high ground.

    When China is catching up with the West in prosperity, the West again resorts to their mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism, and constrained by the zero-sum cold war mentality to troll relentlessly and endlessly with fake news and manufactured orientalism to demonize China. It proves the West is a ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil ‘religion fanatic’ and beggar-thy-neighbor civilization that is detrimental to the harmony, progress and prosperity of humanity, and they will bring the end to humanity.

    • Replies: @Wes
    @Joe Wong

    Agreed!

  • @Rich
    @Godfree Roberts

    45,000,000.
    It's conservatively estimated that your bloodthirsty hero caused 45 million Chinese to be murdered during his great leap forward. Countless others never born due to his strict birth control and abortion laws. Millions imprisoned and tortured. Not until years after the vampire's death were the Chinese able to lift their heads just a bit. He was one of the most evil men to have shared this planet with us.

    As to your contention of his military genius, his genius was in that he allowed the Nationalists to do most of the fighting and dying against the Japanese, leaving them vulnerable to the Commie army following WWII.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Anonymous

    In 1981 (25 years after the event) Judith Banister at the US Bureau of the Census proposed 30 millions killed in the Great Leap Forward (GLF) based on her “massive death toll” hypothesis, this figure is the mother of all subsequent numbers when the westerns write about the GLF; Frank Dikotter quoted 45 millions murdered in the GLF to win the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; recently Jung Chang and Jon Halliday said 70 millions killed in the GLF in their book “Mao: the Unknown Story.” All of them claimed their number based on secret sources in China. The latest number is 100 millions murdered in the GLF in some western current affairs analysis sites.

    Rich, how many do you believe deaths (or percentage) would attribute to polices of the Great Leap Forward?

  • @Clyde Wilson
    Math is not the only intelligence, Fred

    Replies: @RaceRealist88, @Joe Wong

    It is all capitalism’s fault, it makes people worship money and gauge everything in according to money including intelligence and achievement, people good at physics or math exams make more money than those not good at physics or math exams, so the conclusion is people good at physics or math exams are more intelligent and have higher achievements. You should blame capitalism not the Asians.

  • @Hubbub
    Things are what they are. Let it be. What many of us object to is not that some groups may, in some respects, be superior to other groups, but that the differences are acknowledged and accepted. Only then, will there be peace.

    I'm white and somewhat intelligent; I'm willing to accept that some Asians are more innately intelligent than I am. I do not 'feel' inferior by any means. What I do want, however, is the right to succeed to the degree that I can, without my chances being given to those who are undeserving or of lesser quality - which has happened to me.

    Replies: @Oldeguy, @MMM, @Joe Wong

    The West or more strongly the American need a easily identifiable boogeyman to whip their people into supporting their morally defunct and war monger oligarch governments to wage endless reckless wars to fill their greed. Chinese fits the bill.

  • @interesting
    @Joe Wong

    Was electricity discovered, harnessed or invented?

    Replies: @Immigrant from former USSR, @Joe Wong

    Are you saying electricity does not exist in the universe before the 19th century? No wonder the American is patenting DNA and stealing other’s discoveries as their inventions, and law suing others relentlessly for using naturally existed things to quench their bottomless greed.

    • Replies: @interesting
    @Joe Wong

    Interesting how you missed the point, typical. And patenting DNA should not be allowed.....UNLESS that DNA strand was created in laboratory and is unique to that process.

  • @neutral
    I keep hearing about these Asian superhumans, but then I keep reading about the greatest minds in the sciences, maths, etc, and I come across Gauss, Newton, Leibnitz, Euler, Ruthorford, Pascal, etc. Where are all these Asian superhumans ?

    Replies: @Sunbeam, @Pachyderm Pachyderma, @Joe Wong, @AlwaysRight

    History proves inventions will come along in due course when the environment is right. Gauss, Newton, Leibnitz, Euler, Ruthorford, Pascal, etc. were so happen to be in the right time and at the right place, if they did not discover somebody else will come along discover what they discovered.

    Both of those guys were competing with others working in the same field to get their works published and to be known in order to get their fame and fortune, they were all busy stealing from others and jealously guarding their own works in order to beat the other to the gate.

    All other civilizations share their inventions and discoveries generously in order to advance humanity, but only the West hogs their inventions and discoveries and use them to fill their bottomless greed at the expenses of others’ well-being thru organized violence, destroying societies, genocides, enslaving human beings, … evil sins.

    Patenting is a Western invention which deters new inventions and discovery building upon the patented inventions and discoveries. You should know large portion of inventions and discoveries by the West are harmful and detrimental to humanity.

    • Replies: @Talha
    @Joe Wong

    Hey JWong,


    Patenting is a Western invention
     
    And a relatively recent one. I gotta admit - I think the proposition of 'intellectual property rights' would have elicited howls of laughter from the medievals on any continent.

    Peace.
    , @Art
    @Joe Wong


    All other civilizations share their inventions and discoveries generously in order to advance humanity, but only the West hogs their inventions and discoveries and use them to fill their bottomless greed at the expenses of others’ well-being thru organized violence, destroying societies, genocides, enslaving human beings, … evil sins.
     
    Gee - those West hogs created 95+% of what science knows - and created nice things with the knowledge - maybe the West has the right formula - what do you think?

    Gee - I kind of like my warm house well stocked with food and electronic devices.

    Peace --- Art

    p.s. Let's work on making the Earth a peaceful safe place to live for all, by eliminating tribalism as a system of living.
  • @Pachyderm Pachyderma
    @neutral

    Also, you see great many a musician who happened to be East Asians but they (the Orient) didn't produce the likes of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Mendelssohn et al...

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, Mendelssohn et al… are never my cup of tea, their music are noisy and unsophisticated. When Chinese producing sophisticated musical instruments like dual tone Bianzhong 4000 years ago, the West was in the era of animal skin nomads and music did not exist. But then even the modern Western youth does think those guys much, that’s why all those people playing those old days music written those guys need government subsidies to survival.

    • Replies: @DerSohndesAllvaters
    @Joe Wong

    Wagner unsophisticated? Ok... Like the Hadron Collider is unsophisticated.

    , @Anonymous
    @Joe Wong

    @Joe Wong --

    If China is so superior as you say, why do you prefer to live in the West? East Asia is plainly not superior in some important ways, since so many East Asians seek out the West; far more than the reverse.

    Seriously:
    Why do you prefer to live in the West, and among Westerners rather than among Asians? This is a sincere question.

    Replies: @Astuteobservor II, @anon

    , @Pachyderm Pachyderma
    @Joe Wong

    Your taste in musicality as it pertains to the standards established for classics is irrelevant and as to the modern youth ignoring the gold standard in music is certainly regrettable but more importantly, attributable to the dumbing down of the recent times.

  • The WikiLeaks exposure of thousands of documents relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) hacking program, which was expanded dramatically under President Barack Obama between 2013 and 2016, has created something of a panic in the users of cell phones, online computers and even for smart television viewers. The documents describe “more than a thousand...
  • @Thomas O. Meehan
    There is much here to consider. Can we at least keep the spies and the cops separated? I fear a national security state that smudges the line between legitimate defense against foreign threats and the insatiable appetite of political prosecutors to hammer particular citizens.


    We need an American MI5, separate from the FBI. Spying is about gathering information for the common defense. This is very different from acquiring info to build a legal case.

    Replies: @Tom Welsh, @Joe Wong

    More peeking eyes and surveillance surly will satisfy one of the traits of the Westerners, exhibitionism.

  • Last week, Retired General Wesley Clark, who was NATO commander during the US bombing of Serbia, proposed that “disloyal Americans” be sent to internment camps for the “duration of the conflict.” Discussing the recent military base shootings in Chattanooga, TN, in which five US service members were killed, Clark recalled the internment of American citizens...
  • @Priss Factor
    OK, how about a deal?

    We put radicals in internment camps, and we send the likes of Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Hillary to the Hague for war crimes.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    This is the best idea ever appeared on UNZ Review.

  • There’s a lot of talk these days about the “Deep State,” especially among supporters of President Trump, some of whom believe that this Deep State is working hard to destroy anyone loyal to Trump, both inside and outside of the government, and ultimately, Trump himself. General Flynn was forced to resign after a media scandal...
  • @Miro23
    The legend goes that when Alexander arrived in Gordium, he found the Gordian Knot, which had proved impossible to unravel, but which promised the ruler ship of Asia to anyone who could untie it.

    Alexander didn't have any success either, but (the story goes) he cut the knot with his sword (or took out a lynchpin) removing this frustrating object - and going on to become the ruler of Asia.

    The CIA has many of the features of a Gordian Knot. It's complicated, useless and impossible to unravel, but it also promises a great future for the person who can remove it - hopefully Trump with some "outside the box" thinking.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    The minute Donald Trump moved into the White House, he moved into the box, he cannot think “outside the box.” Donald Trump needs to set up a new commander-in-chief command and control center in where his strongest support is if he is as smart as he claims and tries to do what he campaigned.

    • Replies: @Joe Wong
    @Joe Wong

    Donald Tump needs to learn from Mao, when Mao engineered Culture Revolution he was not in the capital, Beijing; draining the deep state of the USA swamp in the Washington is no smaller project than the Culture Revolution, in fact Trump and Mao are in the same position, trying to clean up the corrupted establishment while he is isolated by the establishment.

    Replies: @bluedog

  • @animalogic
    Great article.
    Like the fact the author does not fail to link the deep state with various elements in the 0.01%.
    Think his view that Elites are , to some extent, split between globalists & nationalists has real merit.
    Connection between Trump & JFK (& Johnson/ Pence) is very interesting.
    Hope Trump can do what JFK couldn't: start draining the filth from the swamp, beginning with that leaking pus filled wound on the Constitution: the CIA.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Donald Tump cannot drain the swamp while he is deep to his throat in the swamp, Donald Trump only can drain the swamp by operating equipment outside of the swamp.

    If Donald Trump is educated, he should know all major changes come from outside, so he cannot make major changes while he is within Washington.

  • @Joe Wong
    @Miro23

    The minute Donald Trump moved into the White House, he moved into the box, he cannot think "outside the box." Donald Trump needs to set up a new commander-in-chief command and control center in where his strongest support is if he is as smart as he claims and tries to do what he campaigned.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Donald Tump needs to learn from Mao, when Mao engineered Culture Revolution he was not in the capital, Beijing; draining the deep state of the USA swamp in the Washington is no smaller project than the Culture Revolution, in fact Trump and Mao are in the same position, trying to clean up the corrupted establishment while he is isolated by the establishment.

    • Replies: @bluedog
    @Joe Wong

    Trump will do as he was elected to do, and that's to serve the corporate state ,doubt it just look at his budget cuts to education cuts to this cuts to that including corporate tax, while increasing the defense some $56 billions and adding billions more to the separate services and most of this due to outsourcing will end up in the pockets of the corporations.
    Meanwhile most states will have to increase taxes to make up the shortfalls in education and health, the same as what happened under Reagan and his tax break for the working class, which ended up as the largest tax increase in history, as people saw your property taxes go thru the roof, because he the simply cut the Federal money to both the states and the cities .No its going to be a lovely ride and one that is probably long overdue..

    Replies: @prusmc

  • "The senator from Kentucky," said John McCain, speaking of his colleague Rand Paul, "is working for Vladimir Putin ... and I do not say that lightly." What did Sen. Paul do to deserve being called a hireling of Vladimir Putin? He declined to support McCain's call for a unanimous Senate vote to bring Montenegro into...
  • @Anon
    Cuckaine

    Ignore the dog. See who's the master.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    USA must limits the terms of the Congress and ban private funding in elections if the Americans want democracy instead of a oligarchy Orwellian police state.

  • @jacques sheete

    And so it did when the Austrian archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo June 28, 1914 by Serbian ethnonationalist Gavrilo Princip.
     
    Good gawd, Mr B, how can a "premium" historian such as yourself utter such nonsense? It's trite, simplistic and about the dumbest claim a person could make.

    The war was ready to happen and everyone knew it. Any half significant incident would've escalated the hostilities.

    Simply put, the war came because a handful of dipshit knuckleheads in power (as distinct from the people) in Serbia, Russia, France and Britain wanted it. The Great War came (began) long before the deaths in Sarajevo, and to put it any other way just perpetuates the myths and largely exonerates the main evil doers.

    The point is that we'll never make any progress unless we hold accountable those who are responsible. The hothead Princip was nothing more than a small time tool who continues to take the rap, while the real perps remain unknown and the real causes go unexamined.


    In and around the waters of the Persian Gulf, United States warships are harassed by Iranian patrol boats...
     
    With all due respect, sir, but are you nuts???? Who's harassing whom? The very presence of US military ships in Iranian waters constitutes aggressive harassment of Iran by the US.

    Heaven help us.

    PS: McCain needs to be in Guantanamo, and I agree that Rand Paul is correct here.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Wizard of Oz, @Anonymous, @L.K

    McCain should be sent back to Hanoi Hilton.

    • Agree: jacques sheete
    • Replies: @Biff
    @Joe Wong


    McCain should be sent back to Hanoi Hilton.
     
    I've been to the Hanoi Hilton, and the have McCains flight suit displayed in a glass case. He was a little man back then, and only his head and mouth got bigger.
    Sang like bird to get the comfy pillows!

    Replies: @Eagle Eye

  • Panmunjom, the ‘peace village’ on the incredibly tense demilitarized zone (aka DMZ) between North and South Korea, is one of the weirdest places I’ve ever visited. Tough North Korean soldiers lurk about, watched by equally tough South Korean troops in one-way sunglasses and an aggressive judo ‘warrior’ stance. When I was filming at Panmunjom, we...
  • @Diversity Heretic
    American involvement in the Korean peninsula in the 21st Century is stark, raving mad. South Korea, aided by Japan if it feels the need, should be able to defend South Korea. American troops should have been withdrawn decades ago. If China, Japan and the two Koreas want to fight it out on that peninsula, by all means let them (I predict that they'll reach a modus vivendi very quickly). U.S. involvement just destablizes things.

    Is the Korean lobby all that powerful in the U.S.?

    Replies: @Corvinus, @iffen, @Joe Wong

    South Korean would rather live under North Korean rule instead of inviting the unrepentant war criminal Japanese to step a foot on the Korea peninsula. The last time the Korean asking Japanese to help the Japanese turned Korea into a military occupied colony, their empress got raped and burnt by the Japanese, and the Koreans were ruled like subhuman species with brutality.

    Talking about the American arrogance and ignorance about the world, your comment surely laid it bare.

    • Replies: @Diversity Heretic
    @Joe Wong

    Well, let this ignorant and arrogant American express his opinion that it is a damned shame that any European-origin American has suffered so much as a broken fingernail to prevent various Asian tribes from as*-fu*king each other. Every one of you slant-eyed yellow bastards (Korean, Chinese, Japanese--it may matter to you but it sure doesn't to me) can go plumb to hells of your own making and stay there. And joining you there will be every American who ever advocated meddling in Asia

    Replies: @denk

  • @iffen
    If we wait, the likely outcome will only be worse.

    Assurances should be given to China that after we will nuke N. Korea, a unified Korea will be neutral and we will withdraw from Korea and Japan.

    Replies: @Randal, @Joe Wong

    Can China give Donald Trump assurance that China will not nuke the USA then it goes ahead to nuke the unrepentant war criminal Japanese?

    • Replies: @iffen
    @Joe Wong

    Not to worry, angelic Chinese have never attacked anybody, anywhere, ever.

    Replies: @denk

  • Introduction: From their dismal swamps, US academic and financial journal editorialists, the mass media and contemporary ‘Asia experts’, Western progressive and conservative politicians croak in unison about China’s environmental and impending collapse. They have variably proclaimed (1) China’s economy is in decline; (2) the debt is overwhelming; a Chinese real estate bubble is ready to...
  • @Gross Terry

    In contrast, China has not unilaterally attacked, invaded or occupied anyone in hundreds of years. It does not place nuclear missiles on the US coast or borders. In fact, it does not have a single overseas military base. Its own military bases, in the South China Sea, are established to protect its vital maritime routes from pirates and the increasingly provocative US naval armada. China’s military budget, scheduled to increase by 7% in 2017, is still less than one-fourth of the US budget.
     
    lol whats the sino-Vietnamese war?

    FAKE NEWS

    Replies: @DB Cooper, @Anonymous, @Ram, @Joe Wong, @Anon

    After the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese claimed they were the 3rd strongest nation in the world based on the the amount of military hardware left behind by the US, and the Vietnamese started to invade China to reclaim their “entitled land, ” and conqure Laos and Cambodia to build their Great Indo-China Federation. The Sino-Vietnam war was the war Chinese repelled Vietnamese invadors just like war in 1962, China repelled Indian invadors in Tibet.

    • Replies: @Gross Terry
    @Joe Wong

    the chinaman cries out in pain as he invades your country

    , @K
    @Joe Wong

    ''China repelled Indian invadors in Tibet.''

    *facepalm*

    Dont rewrite history! Stick to discussing china-vietnam. You know nothing about the sino-indian war.

  • @Sergey Krieger
    @DB Cooper

    China showed own impotence and lack of serious military capabilities in that war. Vietnamese forces were not even participating while local militia was kicking Chinese military back side. They obviously had to withdraw telling they gave a lesson. It is typical Chinese way to cut losses and avoid total loss of face aka du lian.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Two elite Vietnamese divisions that kicked the American out of South Vietnam were destroyed by the PLA in that short period of time. The Vietnamese central government had to vacate Hanoi before the PLA’s bombardment of Hanoi. Without Deng’s order PLA would divide Vietnam in two again. Finally the American was on China’s side on the war to punish the Vietnamese; the American was so grateful that Chinese took vengeance against the Vietnamese for them.

    Russian should know Russia is not USSR, and they should not be upset when USSR’s incompetence is mentioned and troll fake news with boiling blood neck.

    • Replies: @Sergey Krieger
    @Joe Wong

    I know it hurts, but China failed to achieve war objectives hence masquerading as lesson given and withdrawal. Chinese army lost lost about 10% of total army strength and had to withdraw. While USSR did not participate directly Soviet advisors were helping with military operational planning.
    http://izvestia.ru/news/288083

  • @anonymous
    "Vietnam is the most aggressive of all the parties in the South China Sea disputes by a wide margin."

    Curious about this. How do you draw that conclusion.

    Separately, while I agree with the tone of the article and general direction, a few comments:

    - China has an overseas military base under construction in Djibouti. Brigade strength force will be deployed there.
    - China's national (not provincial or locally published GDP numbers) GDP growth figures are approximately correct. However, currently there is lots of state directed lending to keep the growth up. The credit bubble might not pop but down the line dealing with so many bad loans will prevent fresh loans and that will slow down growth.
    - While the economy is a miracle for blue collar workers, for non-workers in the most hard up parts of the country, social conditions are horrendous for a middle income country with lots of central revenue and administrative ability. In the western hills of Guangxi 10% of the kids are malnourished.
    - China hasn't been expansionist in 250 years (not since Qing Empire into present day southwest Xinjaing in the 1760s) however there are still a few black marks: Sino-Vietnamese War, supporting nuclear proliferation in Pakistan, not doing enough to control North Korea (this is the stupidest blunder of all and leaves Beijing vulnerable to nuclear attack one day if the Kim family is about to go), and threatening war publicly against Philippines at one point during the South China Sea crisis of the past several years (all forms of pressure are permitted but its uncivilized to outright threaten war).

    Replies: @DB Cooper, @Ram, @Joe Wong

    It seems here is another insect in the US dismal swamps trolling zero-sum cold war mentality wet dream. You should know Chinese lend RMB to the locals to bust growth and Chinese can print RMB thru the thin air just like the Fed, in addition China has already set up state owned funds to offload banks’ debt load in exchange for their equity ownership, so the banks are back to healthy books and do the lending again just like the Fed, it is puzzling why such sophisticate safety mechanism will allow bad loans preventing fresh loans to be made.

    Not doing the American bidding is black mark? Wow, this is surely an example of American exceptionalism without bound.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    @Joe Wong

    "Chinese can print RMB thru the thin air just like the Fed"

    Explain how a high rate of inflation will not disrupt economic stability and therefore growth.

    "China has already set up state owned funds to offload banks’ debt load in exchange for their equity ownership"

    The equity ownership is in companies that are troubled is not worth much. What you are therefore talking about is not an exchange but write downs equivalent to hundreds of billions of dollars. To put it in the most elementary way, the depletion of resources to write down hundreds of billions of dollars of bad loans diverts finite resources that would otherwise be used for new lending.

    "Not doing the American bidding is black mark"

    Do you recognize there are various positions besides against us or with us? So not supporting China publicly using threats of war to settle disputes (e.g. a general appearing on state tv threatening war against the Philippines during the height of the diplomatic dispute in 2014), in your mind means being pro-American, anti-Chinese. Do you recognize there are several other positions than simply either being this or that?

  • @Alfa158
    @Robert Magill

    Seems like they are operating as a National Socialist system now. The means of production are owned by corporations but a powerful government keeps close control and directs business activities to the benefit of the nation. The owners are rewarded with wealth and the government advances their mutual interests for national progress.
    They also place a heavy emphasis on cultural and racial pride.
    Downside of course is that the types of civil liberties we enjoy are constricted and getting out of line gets you smacked real good, sometimes supposedly up to the point of bullet to the back of your head, and your family gets billed for the bullet.
    A tough system to compete against unless the powers-that-be lacking effective external checks and balance do something stupid like invade Russia or bomb Pearl Harbor.

    Replies: @jacques sheete, @Joe Wong, @alan2102

    Would you accept that the USA is a ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil ‘puritan’ nation? If you don’t then you should not take what you are fed from cradle to grave the propaganda cooked up by those insects with a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism and constrained by the zero-sum cold war mentality from their dismal swamps.

  • @interesting
    @Sergey Krieger

    It took until 22 comments for anyone to really take a look at reality. These article always only look at one side of the balance sheet. China has gone on a MASSIVE printing spree to achieve the "growth" they currently have, the US is no better but for some reason facts matter for the US.

    China also has a demographic (as was mentioned in another comment) time bomb waiting in the wings (just like all western nations) and yet it's also never mentioned in these "China = great, USA = lame" hit pieces.

    A market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

    And finally, what is the author really saying? That socialism or quasi communism is a better economic system? It appears so......

    p.s. And apparently China economic statistics are honest and accurate......at least to this author.

    Replies: @skrik, @Joe Wong, @Sergey Krieger

    In the USA. a war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other’s ‘fake news’. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.

    To the Americans anything does not fit their liking is fake news, malevolent liars, even including their elected president.

  • @Uncle Dan
    Has there ever been a communist regime that Prof Petra has not adored?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Shouldn’t all the governments be “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” regardless their ideology? It seems you have been brainwashed from cradle to grave and are so deep in the ideology that you don’t know what a government is for.

    • Replies: @denk
    @Joe Wong

    murkkans like to bleat about their 'freedom' to choose their leaders.

    Well every four/eight years that vaunted system offers them a choice bet the likes of Bush senior/Bush junior/Clinton the sex fiend/Clinton the witch/Obomber/Donald *The swamp thing* Trump,
    the end result being a continuous streak of 45 war criminals in the WH.

    Well if thats something to be proud about,
    good luck to them !

    hehehe

  • Whether one likes Russia or not, I think that everybody would agree that this country is really different, different in a profound and unique way. And there is some truth to that. One famous Russian author even wrote that “Russia cannot be understood rationally” (he used the expression “cannot be comprehended by the intellect”). Add...
  • @Kiza

    ... his [Putin's] real power is in the undeniable fact that the Russian people recognize him not only as their leader, but also as their representative, if you wish, at the helm of the Russian state and in international affairs. There is a personal trust ...
     
    This is something very few Westerners understand and this is why even the rare ones with the right (antiwar) attitude still succumb to and parrot propaganda adjectives such as "authoritarian", "dictator", "strongman" and so endlessly on.

    I fully sign under Saker's understanding and explanations of history, it agrees 100% with my own. One small miss, though, is that he failed to mention that most other Orthodox Christians have shared the Russian history: the Greeks, The Serbs, the Macedonians, the Bulgarians and some Romanians. Most of these nations had elites which well striving to become Westernized, which they never could, and are still trying just like the deluded Russian Atlantic Integrationists.

    Perhaps Russia is going through a cultural, religious and national Renaissance right now, but as Saker says - the roots are in Putin and a few people around him, which could disappear tomorrow. This is the main reason other friendly Orthodox Christians, such as the Greeks and the Serbs are not rushing into Putin's embrace (which one would expect them to, considering what the West has been doing to them: bombing and financial pillaging). In other words, this Renaissance is still quite shallow - Russia needs to secure some continuity for its own sake and for the sake of its traditional friends. Great essay Saker!

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Norcal

    Saker presenting Russian uniqueness is as pervasive as those toxic Europeans creating Orientalsim which plunged the world into racial segregation and hatred unprecedented in human history.

    • Replies: @Avery
    @Joe Wong

    {Europeans creating Orientalsim which plunged the world into racial segregation and hatred unprecedented in human history.}

    Racial and ethnic hatred has existed throughout human history.
    To wit, Imperial Japan did not need Europeans to take over most of Asia in WW2, to commit the Massacre of Nanking, to kill and murder millions of other Asians - Filipinos, Koreans, Chinese. Japanese Imperialists also sex-enslaved 10s of 1000s of young women of the conquered lands, and on, and on,.......

    Japanese treated the other Asians like subhumans.

    btw: one of the original practitioners of 'toxic racial hatred' were the Mongols, who murdered upwards of 100 million people (estimated), mostly Caucasians/Caucasoids. So that there is no misunderstanding, Mongols are not Europeans.

    Replies: @jacques sheete, @Boris N

    , @Andrei Martyanov
    @Joe Wong


    those toxic Europeans creating Orientalsim which plunged the world into racial segregation and hatred unprecedented in human history.
     
    Ah, a "wonderful" thought by Edward Said's faux-scholarship's follower. Remarkably, if not for those oh, so "racial" and "segregationist" orientalists whom else would Islam blame its own catastrophic failures on?
  • "If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will." So President Donald Trump warns, amid reports North Korea, in its zeal to build an intercontinental ballistic missile to hit our West Coast, may test another atom bomb. China shares a border with North Korea. We do not. Why then is this our problem...
  • @Gapeseed
    The old saying "personnel is policy" has a corollary for military projection: "equipment is policy." Our intentions are made clear by our multitudes of aircraft carrier groupings - force projectors which make it easy to swagger on the world's stage and dole out protection guarantees. Never mind that carriers are easy to spot and almost impossible to defend against a First World adversary - a barrage of nuclear tip cruise missiles wouldn't even have to score a direct hit to take out a fleet. We can protect ourselves from entanglement and our sailors from early death by changing the mix of spending options - fewer carriers, more subs! And while we're at it, encourage Japan to remilitarize with some deterrent offensive capacity to provide a counterweight to Chinese ambitions. There is a happy medium between a purely defensive ward Japan and full Tojo - let's find it.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Japanese is an unrepentant war criminal, and they have the most lethal military in the western Pacific, yet you call such deadly combination a purely defensive ward Japan? No wonder the American is calling bombing and killing on the fabricated phantom WMD allegation as humanitarian intervention, having forward deployment military bases all over the world and a warmongering state that put the world in constant fear.

  • @blah blah teleblah
    A NATO that never expanded beyond Germany would help keep the peace with Russia, but for reasons that are often misunderstood. The thing that any Russian statesman, including Putin, fears more than anything is a truly independent Germany, i.e. a Germany whose military is not constrained by the United States. Right now, Germany is more or less a pacifistic nation. However, who knows what happens if the influx of refugees accelerates, there's some sort of economic collapse or some other shock. The last thing Russia wants is an angry Germany free to re-arm as it wishes and perhaps with nuclear weapons. As long as Germany is in NATO, and to a lesser extent the EU, it's freedom to do that sort of thing is severely limited.

    I imagine that there's a similar dynamic between Japan and China. While China sometimes saber rattles a bit against Japan when it wants to whip up public sentiment in one direction or another, it probably realizes that its security is ultimately guaranteed by the US's de facto military dominance of Japan.

    Maintaining this dominance of Japan and Germany costs a pretty penny, but it has made another European war or another Sino-Japanese war seem unthinkable. Small price to pay I guess.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @El Dato

    The Washington beltway warmongers has been explaining away their reckless wars, war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity like yours ever since WWII.

  • There are so many problems with the propaganda campaign against Assad getting unrolled now. (1) You can't treat exposure to sarin with your bare hands without falling ill/dead yourself, as the White Helmets were apparently doing in the aftermath of the Idlib attack. (2) As Syrian war reporter @Partisangirl noticed, some journalists were apparently discussing...
  • @michael dr
    On Trump - the less he intends to do, the more strongly he positions himself.
    So one way to interpret his remarks is that he is occupying a position that fully takes advantage of anti-Assad sentiment, but with no intent to act on it at all.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Hibernian

    The only guy used chemical weapons in wars against civilians on record is the USA during the Vietnam War; Agent Orange, Agent White and Agent Rainbow are still wrecking havoc in Vietnam. The only guy conduct false flag ops to blame the victims for violating human rights via its NED sponsored NGOs then wage reckless wars against the victims on the moral high ground is the USA and its NATO partners.

    This poisonous gas attack on Syria civilians bears too many similarities to the past records of the USA and its NATO partners’ behaviour.

  • @Felix Keverich
    Well, let's see: Tillerson makes a statement that overthrowing Assad is no longer a priority. Neocons disagree. And within days this "chemical attack" happens, the biggest chemical attack in Syria - we are told - since 2013.

    Coincidence? I don't think so.

    I think it's possible that chemical attack did happen, and it was the CIA or its terrorist buddies that arranged to poison these children. Unlike Assad, these actually have a plausible motive - manipulating Trump and influencing his policy.

    Replies: @Ram, @DanFromCt, @Joe Wong

    Tillerson has just made a statement that Assad must go. Sorry to break the news for you. Trump is losing ground to the warmonger deep state fast or sinking into swamp faster than sinking into quick sand.

    • Replies: @El Dato
    @Joe Wong

    Saker puts its best:


    This is why so many Americans voted for Trump and his promise “to drain the swamp”.

    Alas, the swamp drained Trump and all is back to “normal”.

    2018 will be a very tough year. I don’t think that there is any hope left for a real change in US policies and I am afraid that we are going to have to learn how to live with some kind of Obama 2.0 or some other form of “neo-neoconism”.

    It felt really good to hope for a while. Now we have to accept that our hopes never materialized and resume the struggle.

    Commentary Mag is already celebrating: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/step-toward-rational-national-security-council/ like it’s Purim all over again.

     

    It's over, lube up, hunker down.
    , @Felix Keverich
    @Joe Wong

    Trump is losing ground so fast, Tillerson was forced to make a complete U-turn in 48 hours! That being said, scores of Western politicians told president Assad he "must go". Simply repeating this mantra yet again will not make him go away.

  • It is very unlikely that Russia will change its support for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, despite calls to do so from foreign ministers from the G7 nations gathered in Italy in the aftermath of the use of poison gas in Syria and the US missile strikes. Russia owes its return to great power status...
  • @ka
    Boris Johnson said that the chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April had “changed everything fundamentally”.

    This boorish stupid is using emotion, bias,distortion of facts and jettisoning reasoning ,obscuring the facts and creating false reality in order to commit violence. Just the way fiery clerics or the tyrants or the dictators do .

    Boris is pretty good at inciting violence on a large scale on those who can't decide by voting or writing or through court to influnece his fate .

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Boris Johnson is either using what works on the 99% to get his fake news across or he is one of the 99% he does not know that he is trolling fake news.

  • The latest US cruise missile attack on the Syrian airbase is an extremely important event in so many ways that it is important to examine it in some detail. I will try to do this today with the hope to be able to shed some light on a rather bizarre attack which will nevertheless have...
  • @Kiza
    This is a very nice and entertaining write up, but its reasoning often has big holes. For example, “those who hated him still hate him while those who supported him now also hate him“ is a nice flowing statement but meaningless. What does it matter to Trump if those who voted for him now hate him? This has always been the principal problem of "democracy" and "elections", that the candidate only has to say the right things before the elections and after the election can serve any constituency he wants (always the moneyed and weaponized one). By the time of the next election, the dumb voters will vote for him again, because the people he served will promote him as a lesser evil again by offering an even worse alternative.

    In other words, the way things are shaping up, if the planet survives till the next US election, Hillary is likely to be again the opposition candidate. Given such impossible choice, I would still have to vote for the war criminal who warned his victims two hours before killing them, than vote for a war criminal who kills without compunction. To understand this think of the Serbian TV station that Clinton hit in 1999 by a Tomahawk missile killing 16 civilians: TV technicians, face makeup artists, cleaners, janitor and similar staff. And if I abstain from voting somebody else will vote for the lesser evil and Trump will be elected again anyway, because he killed for the Establishment.

    I will address the issue of the missing Tomahawks in my next comment.

    Replies: @Wizard of Oz, @Joe Wong

    This is real synicsim ;, American people can vote politicians who will do what they campaigned, all the American people need to do is to ban private donations in elections and to make all elections public funded only. Americans need to mobilze like anti-Vietnam war for the election reform and overhaul. If Americans do not do that then they are the willing partners of the current evil war criminal empire.

  • “If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.” So thundered President Donald Trump last week. Unfortunately, neither China nor North Korea appeared intimidated by this presidential bombast or Trump’s Tweets. What would ‘we will’ actually entail? This clear threat makes us think seriously about what a second Korean War would be like....
  • @Vendetta
    @Joe Franklin

    Why not allow that?

    Replies: @Joe Franklin, @Joe Wong

    That will not sit very well with American global full spectrum dominance and end the day that American can commit war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity on the phantom WMD allegation as humanitarian intervention.

  • What’s wrong with gassing your own people? After all, California does it and Oklahoma plans it, and these are fine advanced states. I would not like the Russians to send their howling missiles to Sacramento: they gas their own people. While gassing someone’s else people may be considered a sort of interference in their affairs,...
  • “What’s wrong with gassing your own people?” The American and the unrepentant war criminal Japanese delight it, they said because you killing your own people so their bombing, killing, torturing and gassing your people is not crime at all, that is why the American and the unrepentant war criminal Japanese continue to commit war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity unrepentant.

  • @Wally
    " ... by the same measure, the Jews of Germany weren’t “their own people” for the Germans, and then, Hitler did not “gas his own people” making him a great improvement on Bashar Assad, according to the ADL-authorised version"

    Hitler & the National Socialists gassed no one and there is no proof they ever did.

    If you start with false premises, everything you subsequently extrapolate from those premises will likewise carry along the original error and thus exhibit error within themselves; aka: garbage in, garbage out.

    We're talking about an alleged '6M Jews & 5M others' ... 11,000,000.
    There is not a single verifiable excavated enormous mass grave with contents actually SHOWN, not just claimed, (recall the claim of 900,000 buried at Treblinka, 1,250,000 at Auschwitz, or 250,000 at Sobibor) even though Jews claim they still exist and claim to know exactly where these alleged enormous mass graves are.

    The '6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers' are scientifically impossible frauds.
    see the 'holocaust' scam debunked here:
    http://codoh.com
    No name calling, level playing field debate here:
    http://forum.codoh.com

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Wally, you should say the ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’ is questionable or exaggerated but not ‘scientifically impossible frauds’; in the Nanking massacre the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese had massacred nearly 400,000 just using Samurai swords and bayonets within few weeks without gas chambers, Nazi and its minions were the same breed as the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese, they were out doing each other in atrocity to fill their wrecked egos, killing ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’ in so many years from 1938-1945 is entirely possible, otherwise the Nazi and its minions would be a laughing stock to the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese.

    The stuff in the forum.codoh.com is the same tricks used by the Japanese to white wash and deny their war crimes and crimes against humanity, questioning the minute details, presenting false evidence, watering down events, outright denial, pointing fingers, accusing victim aggressively, …., the same morally defunct evil propaganda the American is using to wage reckless wars around the world on the moral high ground.

    • Replies: @CalDre
    @Joe Wong


    Nazi and its minions were the same breed as the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese, they were out doing each other in atrocity to fill their wrecked egos, killing ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’ in so many years from 1938-1945 is entirely possible
     
    Except the Holohoax claim is that the death campaign did not commence until 1942, after (according to the Holohoaxers) the"extermination decision" was reached at the Wannsee Conference held in Jan. 1942 (which, however, reached no such decision; indeed Germany's war industry was utterly dependent on the Jewish laborers in the camps to produce munitions and other war materials).

    Nazi and its minions would be a laughing stock to the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese
     
    LOL, how to respond to such utter absurdity? Whatever barbarity there was in WW II was shared on all sides. Wasn't it the US that firebombed Tokyo and other cities, and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, murdering millions of civilians in cold blood? Wasn't it the US/UK that firebombed Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne and countless other cities, murdering millions of civilians? And we need not get into the massive crimes of Stalin.

    Also the Holohoaxers always forget that the International Red Cross has constant access to all of Germany's camps throughout their existence. In 1946, after war's end, the Red Cross published a mammoth treatise on the camps. Not a single mention of gassings or mass killings. Of course, this led to accusations of "anti-semitism" by the Holohoaxer crowd ... But IRC has NOT backed down in all the years since.

    Replies: @Anon, @Joe Wong

    , @Wally
    @Joe Wong

    "The stuff in the forum.codoh.com is the same tricks used by the Japanese ...."

    Say what?

    What tricks do you see at forum.codoh.com ?

    IOW, you cannot prove the impossible claims of the 'holocau$t' and have simply become unhinged.

    See the impossible & laughable 'Nazi gas chambers' debunked here:
    Cyanide Chemistry at Auschwitz
    http://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4111


    We're talking about an alleged '6M Jews & 5M others' ... 11,000,000.
    There is not a single verifiable excavated enormous mass grave with contents actually SHOWN, not just claimed, (recall the claims of 900,000 buried at Treblinka, 1,250,000 at Auschwitz, or 250,000 at Sobibor) even though Jews claim they still exist and claim to know exactly where these alleged enormous mass graves are.
     
    , @Joe Levantine
    @Joe Wong

    Yes you can kill millions in matter of years but only the forensic evidence can prove or disprove the act. The Turks killed between a million to a million an had Armenians and the massacre sites are very well known and can be excavated anytime to prove the story.
    The problem with the Holocaust is that the body trail does not exist. It is said that all cadavers were burnt. Then let someone show us the industrial plan that was executed by the Germans to burn these millions of bodies. Fred Lucer, the nerdy unbiased non political expert sent to Aushwitz stated that the whole incinerators capacity was about 20 bodies a day based on Eight incinerators with a time to burn one body between 10 to 18 hours. Moreover the sign at Aushwitz that once stated that 4 million Jews perished there was changed to 1.5 million.
    I do not seek to discredit the Haulocaust story nor do I seek to confirm it, but would anyone engage my confused mind about this controversy in a meaningful way?

    Replies: @Anon

  • There is a popular point of view in some of Russia’s political circles, especially among those who profess monarchist views and cling to a famous meme of 1913 Tsarist Russia development statistics, that WW I was started by Germany to forestall Russia’s industrial development which would inevitably challenge Germany’s plans on domination of Europe. A...
  • @Anonymous
    Russia spent almost 5.4% of GDP on military spending. The US last year spent 3.3% and with Trump's proposed increase this number will increase by a few decimal points.

    Russia is a middle income country while the US is a rich country, in the top 10 of GDP per capita. If oil prices don't substantially improve and Russia continues to spend the way it does on the military it will simply go broke.

    Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita (Russia is between Mexico and Suriname)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

    Replies: @AP, @Anonymous, @Carlton Meyer, @5371, @Joe Wong, @Joey Zaza, @annamaria, @Serg Derbst, @Anonymous, @Anonymous, @polskijoe, @RadicalCenter, @pater eusebius tenebrarum

    “Russia is a middle income country while the US is a rich country, in the top 10 of GDP per capita.” this is very funny, how about the 20 trillions of US national debt and it is skyrocketing fast? If you only count asset without counting liability US maybe in the top 10 GDP per capita, but if you count net asset the US is in the negative GDP per capita, a broke nation. Perhaps it is American Exceptionalism logic, claiming credit where credit is not due, living in a world detached from reality.

    “If oil prices don’t substantially improve and Russia continues to spend the way it does on the military it will simply go broke.” this is even funnier, Russian does not use USD in Russia, nor Russian government pay its MIC in USD, meanwhile Russian Central Bank can print Ruble thru the thin air just like the Fed, why does oil price have any relationship with Russian internal spending? Another example of “completely triumphalist and detached from Russia’s economic realities” which is defined by meaningless Wall Street economic indices and snakeoil economic theories and rhetoric taught in the western universities.

    • Replies: @Erebus
    @Joe Wong


    Russian Central Bank can print Ruble thru the thin air just like the Fed
     
    No, it cannot.
    The Russian Central Bank, like all "emerging market" central banks are treaty bound to print local currency only in a prescribed ratio to their "hard currency" reserves. The latter are the USD, the UKP, the EUR, the JPY, and now the CNY.
    As IMF treaties are considered International Treaties, they stand above the law of the land.
    These treaties are the instruments whereby the US' IMF-USD $ystem keeps the dollar in demand, and extracts value from the "3rd world" which are thereby forced to sell raw commodities to print enough currency to develop their internal economies. Of course, they can never really sell enough, and so they stay where they are.
    So, when the USM buys some insanely expensive aircraft carrier, or fighter aircraft, the rest of the world pays for it. In turn, the US uses that same carrier or aircraft to enforce the treaties. A self-reinforcing arrangement that allows the US and its allies to enjoy all the benefits of thievery over honest toil. "Extraordinary privilege", DeGaulle called it.

    The Russian Central Bank is doubly constrained by virtue of its (American authored) constitution which all but prohibits its restructuring.

    You can read a rather lengthy, but eye opening treatise on this subject here:
    http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf

    Replies: @pogohere, @Joe Wong

  • @DannyMarcus
    @Intelligent Dasein

    There is a very important and perhaps most decisive aspect of possible US war with Russia or China, which is completely missing in Andrei Martyanov piece and the related comments.
    Don't you think European NATO countries, as well as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan will loudly resist, when their very well-being and existences is utterly jeopardized by American ambitions for hegemony well beyond its shores?
    I imagine and hope that well before a shooting war breaks out with Russia or China, US' present subservient allies will show enough courage to put the brakes on American designs long before any future global wars involving their vital interest is invoked.
    The South Koreans, over 10 million of whom are living in Seoul, are most likely right now pressing the Trump Administration hard to avoid any foolhardy military adventures in North Korea.
    The Europeans, Japanese, South Koreans and the Taiwanese are the best hope of stopping American adventurism because in the final analysis they will refuse to be the sheep marching willingly to the slaughterhouse of a WWIII.

    Replies: @Art, @anon, @martino from barcelona, @Joe Wong

    There are a lot of nations wanting wars between USA, Russia and China, from top of the list is Japan, India, UK, … They believe they will be the next global hegemons standing on the ashes of USA, Russia and China.

    Taiwanese are mentally colonized Japanese wannabes, they will be happy just returning to the Japanese colony status.

    • Replies: @Sam J.
    @Joe Wong

    "...There are a lot of nations wanting wars between USA, Russia and China, from top of the list is Japan, India, UK, … They believe they will be the next global hegemons standing on the ashes of USA, Russia and China..."

    Fixed it for you.

    "..There are a lot of nations wanting wars between USA, Russia and China, from top of the list is "the Jews", … They believe they will be the next global hegemons standing on the ashes of USA, Russia and China..."

    They know that more and more people are understanding the vile evil of the Jew and how they attacked us on 9-11 and are destroying Europe and the US. They figure they can knock out China, Russia and the US in one swoop while nuking Europe and the middle East with them surviving in the middle to promote more evil.

  • @anonHUN
    @Intelligent Dasein

    I think the military and intelligence guys (and the big contractors) need Russia as the enemy, the bogeyman, probably many of them were secretly disappointed back then when the Soviet Union collapsed. The Deep State wants an endless race, a race where America is always leading but not by too much. A Cold War with a worthy opponent, not with tinpot third world dictatorships. Many of them don't even hate Russia, even respects it to some extent. Now they are probably happy that the old days are back.

    On the other hand there are of course real Russophobes, who really want to win and finish the "job" that was left unfinished in the 90's according to their view. They want regime change in Russia and preferably break it up, with all the republics of the RF declaring independence etc. Brzezinski, McCain or the neocons are like that. But they don't want WW3 either, they are not nutcases, just they want to settle an account with Russia badly.

    Regarding Russian military they are still 20 years behind on average, the gap didn't close since Soviet times, if anything, it widened in many respects.
    US military might is still unique and unrivaled, on the long run China has the most chance to challenge it. Russia is simply too poor, an economic dwarf compared to China (China is the workshop of the world, Russia mostly exports raw materials), also it's population is probably too small.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @AtomAnt, @NoseytheDuke

    “still 20 years behind on average?” since you are fabricating thru the thin air, why did you stop at 20 years? Why didn’t you say 30 years behind, 40 years behind, … ? You should know fake news is always fake new regardless it is a small fake news or a big fake news.

    • Replies: @anonHUN
    @Joe Wong

    It depends on the area, in some things they are 30 years behind, or even 40. The USSR collapsed in 1991 and for at least 10 years Russia had no money even to pay its soldiers. As the Chechen debacles had shown they were in shambles. Their new projects weren't going much forward, as you can see they resumed their 1980's projects after 2000 when they had more oil income and Putin made the Russian state working again (well, kind of... it is still hindered by corruption, disincentivizes citizens from being entrepreneurial (in a state where the rules can be changed overnight at the ruler's whim (no real rule of law) and you can be a billionaire oligarch but you can't be sure the state doesn't simple take everything from you and throw you in prison overnight, even arranging for your "accidental" death, except the money you siphoned to foreign accounts and real estate abroad etc.) It is mafia state, or a mafia (ex KGB) presenting itself as the state. Of course it is more ore less true everywhere (in the US too of course), deep under the veneer of democracy and rule of law, but in Russia it is almost open and blatant. Also the Russians don't have any traditions of enterpreneurship, private incentive, contrary to China, which is also a very corrupt country with a corrupt and totally nondemocratic regime (contrary to Russia which has token Western-style democratic institutions now), but thanks to the industriousness of the Chinese people they have risen to where they are now. Average Russians still seem to expect the state to provide for them as it was in the USSR, they need a "Father Tsar" which is now Putin, or they are just drinking too much and are in a rut, idk.

    As for the years it was only an estimate of course, but as I said they first had to make up for the lost decade after 1991, like finishing subs that were left unfinished since 1992 and things like that. First really new gadgets were the Armata (and Kurganets) which is still a newcomer, and T-50, still not an operational fighter. Regarding SAM's I must say the Russians always were the fans of SAM's but they were ineffective in the ME and Vietnam too. Didn't stop the enemy from achieving air superiority. I don't doubt that the S-300 /400 is much more advanced than the SAM systems of the 60's and 70's were, but they would have to face a much more advanced opponent too. Like low RCS planes that cannot be detected until they are well within the range of their air-to-surface weapons or dozens of targets flying at 20-3o m coming in from multiple directions.
    The F-35 is derided around here, the US spent a fortune on it, true. It has problems (only known because the US is more open, you usually don't read in the media about problems with the new Chinese or Russian planes, sure you think it is because they don't have any with them?) but it's capabilities are something. Stealth is not some scam as some believe. It is serious business when your SAM's or AAM's cannot lock on the damn thing even if you have a monster longwave radar that can detect it from a few dozen miles...

  • @reiner Tor
    @mp

    Don't worry, when the going gets tough, suddenly the US military will only send straight white men to die for LGBT and black "equality".

    Replies: @Avery, @anon, @Joe Wong, @in the middle

    US military will only send straight white men to die for LGBT and black “equality”

    That did not happen during the Korean War and Vietnam War. The straight white men stayed behind and played gook hockey games.

  • @Erebus
    @Joe Wong


    Russian Central Bank can print Ruble thru the thin air just like the Fed
     
    No, it cannot.
    The Russian Central Bank, like all "emerging market" central banks are treaty bound to print local currency only in a prescribed ratio to their "hard currency" reserves. The latter are the USD, the UKP, the EUR, the JPY, and now the CNY.
    As IMF treaties are considered International Treaties, they stand above the law of the land.
    These treaties are the instruments whereby the US' IMF-USD $ystem keeps the dollar in demand, and extracts value from the "3rd world" which are thereby forced to sell raw commodities to print enough currency to develop their internal economies. Of course, they can never really sell enough, and so they stay where they are.
    So, when the USM buys some insanely expensive aircraft carrier, or fighter aircraft, the rest of the world pays for it. In turn, the US uses that same carrier or aircraft to enforce the treaties. A self-reinforcing arrangement that allows the US and its allies to enjoy all the benefits of thievery over honest toil. "Extraordinary privilege", DeGaulle called it.

    The Russian Central Bank is doubly constrained by virtue of its (American authored) constitution which all but prohibits its restructuring.

    You can read a rather lengthy, but eye opening treatise on this subject here:
    http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf

    Replies: @pogohere, @Joe Wong

    The Russian Central Bank, like all “emerging market” central banks are treaty bound to print local currency only in a prescribed ratio to their “hard currency” reserves.

    The above is your fabrication, the link is a write out by an over zealous nationalist with half baked truth, and the link is neither a treaty quoted by you to support your claim nor saying there is such IMF treaty.

    Most nations hardly have any hard currency reserves, yet the amount of local currency they printed proves your “prescribed ratio” a fake news. Even those nations have hard currency reserves, the amount of local currency they prints makes your “prescribed ratio” a Hollywood fantasy.

    Putin has begun de-dollarization Russian economy long time ago, Russian has signed currency SWAP with China, EU and Japan, so that Russian can trade without USD. China also has set up AIIB and Alt-SWIFT for rest of the world to bypass the USD as well. Time has changed, man.

  • @Anon
    @Andrei Martyanov


    Here is a dilemma. Gazprom extracts and delivers energy without which Eurasia can not exist. Facebook? Turn it off tomorrow and bar some impressionable teenagers committing suicide, the world will continue on living just fine. But that is just one example. You will not find, however, such a hi-tech monster as Rostec on any financial market. For a corporate giant which employs half-a-million people and produces state of the art weapon systems and civilian products–ask yourself a question whose “capitalization” is more important for economy–of useless Facebook or of the corporation which produces civilian jet engines. But let me add insult to injury. While Facebook “capitalizes” on almost half-trillion, a gem of the American industry, aerospace giant Boeing barely makes it to 109 billion. Most US economic indices are fraud, the same as most of US economy is virtual–a collection of virtual transactions with virtual money and virtual services.
     
    The above is a classic example of elementalism. It is a flawed perspective. Humans do not need much more than clean air, clean shelter, food, water and perhaps some antibiotics to live perfectly well. Every desire is born of the limbic system, which includes the hippocampus and the amygdala.

    Don't speak so dismissively of Virtual Reality.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Ondrej

    I guess what Andrei Martyanov was trying to say that virtual is not real, intrinsic or tangible, it is fabricated or created thru the thin air, hence the American economy is not real, intrinsic or tangible, it is fabricated or created thru the thin air.

  • What’s wrong with gassing your own people? After all, California does it and Oklahoma plans it, and these are fine advanced states. I would not like the Russians to send their howling missiles to Sacramento: they gas their own people. While gassing someone’s else people may be considered a sort of interference in their affairs,...
  • @CalDre
    @Joe Wong


    Nazi and its minions were the same breed as the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese, they were out doing each other in atrocity to fill their wrecked egos, killing ’6M Jews, 5M others, & gas chambers’ in so many years from 1938-1945 is entirely possible
     
    Except the Holohoax claim is that the death campaign did not commence until 1942, after (according to the Holohoaxers) the"extermination decision" was reached at the Wannsee Conference held in Jan. 1942 (which, however, reached no such decision; indeed Germany's war industry was utterly dependent on the Jewish laborers in the camps to produce munitions and other war materials).

    Nazi and its minions would be a laughing stock to the barbaric and beastly unrepentant war criminal Japanese
     
    LOL, how to respond to such utter absurdity? Whatever barbarity there was in WW II was shared on all sides. Wasn't it the US that firebombed Tokyo and other cities, and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki, murdering millions of civilians in cold blood? Wasn't it the US/UK that firebombed Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne and countless other cities, murdering millions of civilians? And we need not get into the massive crimes of Stalin.

    Also the Holohoaxers always forget that the International Red Cross has constant access to all of Germany's camps throughout their existence. In 1946, after war's end, the Red Cross published a mammoth treatise on the camps. Not a single mention of gassings or mass killings. Of course, this led to accusations of "anti-semitism" by the Holohoaxer crowd ... But IRC has NOT backed down in all the years since.

    Replies: @Anon, @Joe Wong

    Whatever barbarity there was in WW II was shared on all sides.

    You are muddying water to legitimize the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the war criminals. Only the West committed the barbarity in your claim, and Japanese is considered an honorary White despite an unnormal one, so they behaved like the West and committed barbarity, war crimes and crimes against humanity without repent in order to be one-of-us in the West/White group.

    The Japanese is an unrepentant war criminal, they have been using the techniques used in forum.codoh.com to white wash and deny their war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as questioning the minute details, presenting false evidence, watering down events, outright denial, pointing fingers, accusing victim aggressively, …., the same morally defunct evil propaganda the American is using to wage reckless wars around the world on the moral high ground.

    • Replies: @CalDre
    @Joe Wong



    Whatever barbarity there was in WW II was shared on all sides.
     
    You are muddying water to legitimize the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the war criminals. Only the West committed the barbarity in your claim, and Japanese is considered an honorary White despite an unnormal one
     
    Your reading comprehension gets a solid "F" for "Fail". "Shared on all sides", I wrote. My goodness.

    The Japanese is an unrepentant war criminal, they have been using the techniques used in forum.codoh.com to white wash and deny their war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as questioning the minute details, presenting false evidence, watering down events, outright denial, pointing fingers, accusing victim aggressively, …., the same morally defunct evil propaganda the American is using to wage reckless wars around the world on the moral high ground.
     
    It's called debate. Such "techniques" are used by lots of people, both those who are right, and those who are wrong. Does China admit the monumental atrocities perpetrated by Mao against his own people? Talk about white-washing and denying crimes against humanity. Mao is still a "hero" in China and he killed far more Chinese than Hirohito did.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Daniel Chieh

  • Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation, prevented its government from accessing foreign capital and markets,...
  • @Anonymous
    "Negotiations are not possible"

    The new mantra of America.

    This is America's position in every conflict. I can't think of a single conflict that America is trying to resolve through peaceful negotiations. Including internal conflicts. At this time, America only knows force. America only tries to resolve conflict by force. Headline after headline about crisis point after crisis point screams that America does not negotiate.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    “America only knows force. America only tries to resolve conflict by force.” It should be said American only knows barbaric organized violence, American won the world not by any superior ideology, religion or technology, but by applying beastly barbaric organized violence with hypocrisy.

  • @The Grate Deign
    Not defending D.C. at all, but let's be honest: The crackpot regime in North Korea is a big problem.

    It's just not our problem.

    The USA should have let South Korea manage its own affairs generations ago. If we had, chances are the Korean peninsula would look a lot like China today. Korea would not be a western client state. It would be firmly in China's orbit, and an economic rival. But it would not be nearly as impoverished, oppressive, and bellicose as the NORKs who have been led into ruin by a succession of genuinely crazy despots.

    Replies: @Diversity Heretic, @Anonymous, @ltlee, @Joe Wong, @Z-man, @anon

    For over seventy years the US has dominated Asia, ravaging the continent with two major wars in Korea and Indo-China with millions of casualties, and multiple counter-insurgency interventions in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Timor, Myanmar, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The strategic goal has been to expand its military and political power, exploit the economies and resources.

    USA is 8,000 miles on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. In history no aliens ever have the well-being of locals in heart; they are the invaders and troublemakers; the only way they can benefit from a faraway place is to create chaos, insert wedges, sow discords and incite animosities between the locals. The current tensions in the Korea peninsula are the result of aliens from far away land creating chaos, inserting wedges, sowing discords and inciting animosities between the nations around the Korea peninsula.

    Please spare us the thought the USA is doing anybody a favor, such pretension is simply conscientious, psychopathic and evil.

    • Agree: Beefcake the Mighty
    • Replies: @anon
    @Joe Wong


    In history no aliens ever have the well-being of locals in heart; they are the invaders and troublemakers
     
    so you oppose mass immigration?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @anon
    Wrong about the US involvement in the Korean war. That happened because the north attacked the south. South Koreans should be grateful Americans died saving them from Kim-Jung and company.

    I do agree 100% that America should just leave the Korean peninsula altogether.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    North Korean attacked the South is as truthful as Saddam Hussein has WMD.

    • Replies: @Kiza
    @Joe Wong

    On who really started the last Korean War please check out Justin Raymondo at antiwar.com: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/04/18/who-really-started-the-korean-war-2/

  • @Anonymous
    This is a article written by the North Korean propoganda department. Why didn't the Sunshine Policy work then Mike? Aid with no strings attached, rewarded by North Korea with a nuclear test. Why did North Korea shoot a unarmed South Korean tourist? Why did they bomb a South Korean airliner?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    “Why did North Korea shoot a unarmed South Korean tourist? Why did they bomb a South Korean airliner?” because they are the CIA’s covert false flag ops to keep the tension in the Korean peninsula high and to keep the Western Pacific in perpetuate state of pig’s breakfast.

    • Replies: @basedKRN
    @Joe Wong

    What are your sources? I'm genuinely curious.

  • What’s wrong with gassing your own people? After all, California does it and Oklahoma plans it, and these are fine advanced states. I would not like the Russians to send their howling missiles to Sacramento: they gas their own people. While gassing someone’s else people may be considered a sort of interference in their affairs,...
  • @CalDre
    @Joe Wong



    Whatever barbarity there was in WW II was shared on all sides.
     
    You are muddying water to legitimize the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the war criminals. Only the West committed the barbarity in your claim, and Japanese is considered an honorary White despite an unnormal one
     
    Your reading comprehension gets a solid "F" for "Fail". "Shared on all sides", I wrote. My goodness.

    The Japanese is an unrepentant war criminal, they have been using the techniques used in forum.codoh.com to white wash and deny their war crimes and crimes against humanity, such as questioning the minute details, presenting false evidence, watering down events, outright denial, pointing fingers, accusing victim aggressively, …., the same morally defunct evil propaganda the American is using to wage reckless wars around the world on the moral high ground.
     
    It's called debate. Such "techniques" are used by lots of people, both those who are right, and those who are wrong. Does China admit the monumental atrocities perpetrated by Mao against his own people? Talk about white-washing and denying crimes against humanity. Mao is still a "hero" in China and he killed far more Chinese than Hirohito did.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Daniel Chieh

    In 1981 (25 years after the event) Judith Banister at the US Bureau of the Census proposed 30 millions killed in the Great Leap Forward (GLF) based on her “massive death toll” hypothesis, this figure is the mother of all subsequent numbers when the westerns write about the GLF; Frank Dikotter quoted 45 millions murdered in the GLF to win the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; recently Jung Chang and Jon Halliday said 70 millions killed in the GLF in their book “Mao: the Unknown Story.” All of them claimed their number based on secret sources in china. The latest number is 100 millions murdered in the GLF in some western current affairs analysis sites.

    CalDre, how many do you believe deaths (or percentage) would attribute to polices of the Great Leap Forward? Americans are so deep in fakes news they even do not realize they are congenital liars.

    • Replies: @CalDre
    @Joe Wong

    Estimates of any mass criminal event always vary as the criminals normally do not keep good records, and Communist China in particular did not either. Here is an estimate of 45 million dead in the Great Leap Forward. But let's not forget the Cultural Revolution, right?

    You Chinese are far deeper in fake news than Americans. You don't have anything resembling a free press and your government censors the internet like nobody's business. Take your lame brain justification for Mao's crimes and keep them behind the Great Wall where you worship that madman mass murdering psychopath Mao like a divine hero.

  • @phil
    Chang and Halliday did not claim that 70 million people died prematurely as a result of the Great Leap Forward. Roughly half of the deaths were said to be due to other, police-state activities of Chairman Mao's regime, as in the Walker Report to the US Senate. The Chang-Halliday book includes a photo of summary executions outside of Harbin.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Are you saying as long as anyone can show Photoshop evidence presented by Colin Powell in front of the UN Assembly Hall, mass murdering millions of innocent civilians old, young, women and children with indiscriminating bombing and killing is OK? While executing the convicted after trials despite the trials were primitive is not?

    Did you ever ask the question why didn’t Chang-Halliday show photos of trial before executions if you are so righteous and fair minded, or you are so deep in the ideology that you even don’t know you have one.

  • Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation, prevented its government from accessing foreign capital and markets,...
  • @anon
    @Joe Wong


    In history no aliens ever have the well-being of locals in heart; they are the invaders and troublemakers
     
    so you oppose mass immigration?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    I cannot support the stealing of lands from the indigenous people by the aliens with atrocities in the North America and Australia as legitimate.

    • Replies: @anon
    @Joe Wong

    Who cares what you think. There were 200,000 Aborigines in all of Australia. The continent was basically empty so nothing was "stolen". But I guess you also support China leaving Tibet and Xinjiang too, huh sport.

    Replies: @serious

    , @Sarah Toga
    @Joe Wong

    What about immigrants raping and mass murdering the indigenous peoples of Europe?

    , @Maj. Kong
    @Joe Wong

    So, you're just another anti-white racist. This "imperialism" whining is ridiculous.

    , @basedKRN
    @Joe Wong


    I cannot support the stealing of lands from the indigenous people by the aliens with atrocities in the North America and Australia as legitimate.
     
    This is typical leftist bullshit propaganda used to undermine the sovereignty of America as a white nation. European descendants conquered the land, and of course they did some bad things to the natives, but the natives weren't all noble enlightened peaceful people themselves, were they?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K84c7NlZzno

    White America built something GREAT that the natives never could have, and any minority including our own people, benefits from "white privilege" and the vast wealth, liberty and prosperity that can be enjoyed just by virtue of living there.

    Although it may be too late, I don't want America to turn into anything less than a white majority nation. Our people who live there will be affected negatively should the country balkanize, and I do not want more blacks or Hispanics living alongside my people. From what I can see, Koreans are better off living in mostly white societies.

    It wouldn't help whites (a minority) living in South Korea to have the stability and social cohesion of Korean society to be compromised by having mass immigration of other peoples into South Korea, now would it?

    Replies: @Agent76, @anon, @denk

    , @Gleimhart
    @Joe Wong

    That's okay. Your support is meaningless and not at all required.

  • “Weimerica” is a common term for neoreactionaries and right wingers disgusted with the decadent culture and self-hatred of the modern United States. But it took on a whole new meaning Saturday when street fighting between organized groups of the Left and the Right broke out in Berkeley, California as antifa tried to shut down a...
  • @Inque Yutani
    @Diversity Heretic

    I'll advocate. Put the prog-left into the ground. That whole cancerous ideology needs to be purged before it's too late. It might already be too late.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Don’t you ever feel jealous and resentful about the luxurious and decadent lives Ivanks and Donald Trump have while you are working day and night to pay the rent for a basement, and you cannot afford to see doctor who will bankrupt to fill his greed? Mind you the 1% say you guys deserve the rotten life because you guys are lazy bums.

    • Replies: @John Smith.
    @Joe Wong

    Don't you just love how the left promises free health care, free education and free housing plus Internet for everyone.

    But also kerps forgetting to telp everyone that it is the working class who will foot the bill through rampant tax increases and confiscation of property/businesses while also being denied access to any of the services based on their skin color and race.

  • There was a time when boys played games of marbles following strict playground rules: contestants had to stand a prescribed distance away from the little pyramid of marbles, and chuck only marbles of the prescribed size. Rules ruled. Piaget was intrigued by the explanations children gave for moral judgements, and the playground is the arena...
  • @Santoculto

    This would suggest that people have an innate preference for socialism and the re-distribution of wealth.
     
    You start well, =)

    But not, =(

    Socialism don't/ never re-distribute[d] ideally the wealth NOR the power-decision, something extremely valuable as wealth in terms of individual well being.

    So, in the next time, try to analyze firstly this differences between what socialistic propaganda tell you and what real socialism, aka, communism really is.

    Less inequal than capitalism*

    Likely in some official socialist countries has been...

    but still very inequal and extremely inequal in other values such free speech and proportional fairness in individual power-decision = government deciding everything about your life without any negotiation or dialogue between interested parts.

    Replies: @pseudonym, @Joe Wong, @John Smith

    This comment reflects a serious case of redneck capitalist paranoia syndrome.

    We all know USA is a Orwellian oligarchy police state and it is a warmonger and war criminal on the international arena despite it claims itself a democracy, so shall we say democracy does not work because USA’s failure to implement democracy ideally? On the same token, it is moronic to say Socialism does not work because some jackals hijacked Socialism for their own greed just like the ‘god-fearing’ morally defunct evil ‘puritans’ hijacked democracy in the USA to fill their own greed.

    • Replies: @Santoculto
    @Joe Wong

    Your opinion...

    but the truth...

    ''Socialism'' is even worse than capitalism, this is its monumental sin.

    Be worse than a tra$h called capitalism.

  • @Jason Liu
    It's almost as though egalitarianism is a primal, unthinking position mostly adopted by children who don't know any better. The simplest and most knee-jerk definition of "fairness", defined by feeling.

    The moment you step back and examine the world, inequality starts to make more sense.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Perhaps inequality is inevitable and way of life, but definitely for the humanity sake we cannot grant it moral legitimacy, inequality is the dark side of humanity, it should always be treated as it is.

  • @RobRich
    @Daniel Chieh

    Native Americans were devout property owners. The myth of native communism has long been debunked.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    I would be very sceptical about any proof provided by the White to debunk anybody anything, historically the Whtie demonizes or badmouths others with fake news to make themselve superior. Orientalism and casting South American civilizations as bloodthirty barbarians are some of the ancient examples, phantom WMD and Maidan Square mob putsch are the recent examples.

    • Troll: Daniel Chieh
    • Replies: @Daniel Chieh
    @Joe Wong

    Yes, because whites are apparently a monolithic bloc dedicated to the suppression of everyone else, especially Sweden these days. Please.

    良药苦口. China needed the lesson we received. Never forget the price of weakness. That doesn't mean we should denigrate the achivements of anyone else.

    , @Anon
    @Joe Wong

    Two wongs don't make a white

  • @OutWest
    Perhaps it’s the engineer in me, but I’ve observed that some driving force is necessary to make a process run. Voltage, temperature/pressure difference, or maybe wealth disparity are examples.

    I had the choice of working in a local mill for good wages but a killing environment, or working my way through college with little money. Intermediate term sacrifice paid long tem dividends for me and my kids/grandkids. There’s also a good argument to be made that society is also better served by such self-serving efforts.

    If everyone is truly equal, what is there to drive society?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    I remember one epsoide in the Star Trek, Jean-Luc Picard explained humanity to an less developed alien that in the 23rd century, human is no longer valued material procession, human being is motived by wanting to excel, to make himself and the human being better. Are you saying we never can get there?

    • Replies: @OutWest
    @Joe Wong

    I'll need to know how we measure excellence before I commit. A pat on the head while someone else makes off with my excellent work product won't cut it.

    , @OutWest
    @Joe Wong

    Checked with Sulu; He says Picard has a permanently numbed brain from witting in the big chair too long.

  • @Wally
    @Mao Cheng Ji

    Michael Chrichton on the not-so-noble savages.

    http://principia-scientific.org/crichton-environmentalism-religion/
    excerpt:


    And what about indigenous peoples, living in a state of harmony with the Eden-like environment? Well, they never did.

    On this continent, the newly arrived people who crossed the land bridge almost immediately set about wiping out hundreds of species of large animals, and they did this several thousand years before the white man showed up, to accelerate the process.

    And what was the condition of life? Loving, peaceful, harmonious? Hardly: the early peoples of the New World lived in a state of constant warfare. Generations of hatred, tribal hatreds, constant battles. The warlike tribes of this continent are famous: the Comanche, Sioux, Apache, Mohawk, Aztecs, Toltec, Incas. Some of them practiced infanticide, and human sacrifice. And those tribes that were not fiercely warlike were exterminated, or learned to build their villages high in the cliffs to attain some measure of safety.

    How about the human condition in the rest of the world? The Maori of New Zealand committed massacres regularly. The dyaks of Borneo were headhunters. The Polynesians, living in an environment as close to paradise as one can imagine, fought constantly, and created a society so hideously restrictive that you could lose your life if you stepped in the footprint of a chief. It was the Polynesians who gave us the very concept of taboo, as well as the word itself.

    The noble savage is a fantasy, and it was never true. That anyone still believes it, 200 years after Rousseau, shows the tenacity of religious myths, their ability to hang on in the face of centuries of factual contradiction.
     

    Replies: @Mao Cheng Ji, @Santoculto, @Joe Wong

    I am very sceptical about any proof provided by the White to debunk anybody anything, historically the White demonizes or badmouths others with fake news to make themselves superior and righteous. Orientalism and casting South American civilizations as bloodthirsty barbarians are some of the ancient examples, phantom WMD and anti-communism are the recent examples.

  • Make no mistake: after 15 years of losing wars, spreading terror movements, and multiplying failed states across the Greater Middle East, America will fight the next versions of our ongoing wars. Not that we ever really stopped. Sure, Washington traded in George W. Bush’s expansive, almost messianic attitude toward his Global War on Terror for...
  • USA must put her feet down in the ME to make sure nobody has any doubt about its Exceptionalism and the global full spectrum dominance.

  • It was one hundred years ago this month that America entered World War I, which began July 28, 1914. [1] On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint session of Congress and requested it to declare war on Germany. The Senate would vote in favor of war on April 4 and the House...
  • @Wizard of Oz
    A lot of interesting detail but, surely, two blind spots.

    One is the too common moralistic treating of International Law as if it were closely comparable to domestic law when itis very unlike it, as a slight acquaintamce with both should remind you. Cf. Someone with standing (who?) seeking an injunction by a court (which?) agsinst the German authorities in Belgium executing Nurse Efith Cavell and handing the court order to a sheriff to serve and enforce.

    More simply, who can't see the fifference between building up pressure which forces people to make tough decisions on the one hand, and, on the other, grabbing a few people at random to shoot so that everyone else will be frightened into immediate obedience or surrender? Consider: if proud and dangerous Hillbilly Henry was on the run and holed up with his weapons in his farmhouse with wife and ten children do you just cut off sll supplies and patiently let the pressure build up over a week or do you grab two of the children who were found in a barn and kill one of them in front of the homestead and threaten to kill the other if Henry doesn't surrender immediately? Yes, I can quibble too, but I would like to think you would get the point.

    BTW didn't the Kaiser have the choice of cutting soldiers'rations to prevent death by starvation at home?

    Those Americans at the time who saw a difference between a country whose desire to impose its will on fellow Europeans could be measured by the small size of its totally volunteer army in comparison to the militarised Kaiserreich with its vast conscript army backed by a fertility rate only matched in Russia surely got it right.

    Replies: @fnn, @Peter Akuleyev, @Joe Wong, @anon, @Alden

    The British imitates the Romans and the Americans were born out of the British; the Romans slaughtered a race and salted the land then called it creating a peace, both of them are ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil ‘puritans’. The Anglo was the instigator of the WWI.

    • Replies: @Wizard of Oz
    @Joe Wong

    Have you some information to impart or are you content to contribute what might be expected of an uneducated semi-literate person after a few drinks in a bar?

    Replies: @Daniel Chieh

  • I expect the PRC government has a team of spooks and doctors whose main job is to monitor the Dalai Lama’s public appearances for indications concerning his health. The Dalai Lama’s April 8 visit to Tawang probably gave them something to chew on, because he didn’t look that good to me. He was mentally acute...
  • @Anonymous White Male
    "I doubt the successor will carry anywhere near the current Dalai Lama’s prestige and authority."

    And yet, every time a Pope is elected, he does carry all the previous "Vicars of Christ"' prestige and authority, doesn't he? Organized, structured religious belief is a strong delusion among large populations. I don't think the Tibetans are any different in this.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Pop carries all the previous “Vicars of Christ” prestige and authority because he was elected through the due process. The next Dalai Lama can carry previous Dalai Lama’ prestige and authority if he is elected through the due process. Mind you the due process of electing a Dalai Lama has to be approved and supervised by the Beijing authority as well as the elected candidate has be blessed by the Beijing authority in order to become a Dala Lama, this due process is hundreds years old ritual and as sacred as Jesus and Cross.

  • For Russians, "Aurora" is not the Goddess of Dawn; it is first of all the battleship Aurora, the legendary cruiser whose thundering salvo over the Winter Palace had started the Russian Revolution in November 1917. Recently I participated in a conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution in the Mirror of World Left...
  • @wayfarer
    Communism ideology, just another soulless philosophical, social, political, and economic train wreck, that's done nothing more than to help litter humanity's pathetic history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGkKKAogDs

    Replies: @Anonymous, @jilles dykstra, @The Scalpel, @Ivan, @Joe Wong, @Thales the Milesian

    The Five-Eyes and its minions are where it is now, still filthy rich (although always complaining), because of those hundreds of millions of people all over the world who were robbed and murdered, those who become victims of the very madness of colonialsim, of the crusades and the slave trade. Cathedrads and palaces, museums and theatres, train stations – all had been construted on horrid foundations of those hundreds of millions’ bones and blood, and amalgamated by tears. There were so many centuries of pluder that the acts of looting the world for the sole benefit of the few, turned into inseparable part of the ‘Western existence and culture’ something that gets almost never addressed, let alone critized.

    Comparing the crimes against humanity committed by the communism and Nazism with the Five-Eyes and its minions, it is like a child play.

  • Farming in South Africa is the most dangerous occupation in the world. Farmers there suffer more murders per-capita than any other community on earth outside a war zone. Since the dawn of democracy in the country, farming South Africa has been slaughtered by black South Africans in ways that would do Shaka Zulu[*] proud. The...
  • @Renoman
    They should just abandon it to the blacks, they'll destroy it soon enough. At some point a biological weapon will be developed and the whole Continent will be cleared. Just watch.

    Replies: @Realist, @MBlanc46, @Joe Wong

    Perhaps all the White in the South Africa should borrow a page from the Jews and fight for an independent nation in the South Africa.

  • @Mark Green
    This was a very strong article. But in true Israeli fashion, Ms. Mercer cannot bring herself to describe the ongoing targeting of white farmers by blacks for what it truly is: genocide.

    And why is this? It's possible that Mercer cannot bear the thought of diluting her special status as a member of the world's most precious victim class by sharing that special word.

    Thus the systematic murder of white farmer by blacks doesn't earn that special label. Instead, she calls it 'ethnocide'--as if two ethnic groups of the same race are killing one-another. But that is not the case.

    It's genocide, Ms. Mercer. This is race-driven and race-targeted murder. Black on white.

    And these murders are particularly egregious since this is not a time of war. Indeed, these farmers are not attacking blacks and the white world is not collectively fomenting war against blacks. The same cannot be said of the more famous instance of genocide that occurred during WWII.

    The great 'non-racial' political experiment is underway in So. Africa. Whites are attempting peaceful coexistence as an unprotected minority in black-ruled So. Africa. But it's not working out very well. Whites are being exterminated.

    These white So. Africans deserve refugee status in Europe and America.

    Replies: @Almost Missouri, @AceZwane, @Joe Wong, @Newsel, @rpdiplock, @Anonymous

    If the White in S. Africa bands together and fight for a small independent nation, they will have a lot better chance to survive and prosper; the American and European will support them like they support Israeli, a White enclave in southern Africa will has the same geopolitical value as Israeli in the ME.

    • Replies: @Mark Green
    @Joe Wong

    That idea of a white homeland in South Africa was quietly floated around decades ago. But the global progressives and 'anti-racists' (Jews) shouted it down, calling it white supremacism, Naziism, and racism.

    Whites are not allowed to establish white-only countries or even white neighborhoods anymore. It's racist! Racial exclusion and ethnic enclaves are reserved for Jews and designated approved minorities only. These kosher double standards are carved in stone.

    Replies: @AceZwane

    , @Dan Hayes
    @Joe Wong

    Joe Wong:

    It is utterly delusional to think there would be any meaningful American and/or European support for a small independent white nation in southern Africa! It would be utterly against the current zeitgeist.

  • @anarchyst
    @The White Muslim Traditionalist

    The white South Africans have been there for centuries and were able to extract resources that the blacks were unaware of and were "just there for the taking".
    Whites brought more benefits to the black population than they will ever know or appreciate.
    Wait till the Chinese start to colonize South Africa for the natural resources. That time is coming. They will not be as kind to the black South Africans was the whites have been.
    This is the one misplaced trait that affects all whites of good will--externalized altruism...

    Replies: @AceZwane, @Rdm, @Joe Wong

    Chinese is building Africa for the African with money and labour, not like the White has been ransacking Africa with organized violence and atrocities as well as hunting the Africans as merchandise and selling them as slaves.

    The White should take responsibility for their own deed, creating Chinese as a boogeyman with fake news to white wash their crimes against humanity in Africa shows the White is morally defunct and unrepentant criminal like the unrepentant war criminal Japanese.

  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a study, on 1 March 2017, which opened: It continues: This study was co-authored by America’s top three scientists specializing in analysis of weaponry and especially of the geostrategic balance between nations: Hans Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, and Theodore Postol. Their report continues: This vast increase in US nuclear...
  • @Nils
    If you think the President makes final decisions on all matters, I have a beach front property to sell you in Iowa. He is the public face of career Pentagon, State Department, and other Deep State proxies. Not a capstone critical thinker but a fall man.

    Nuclear war isn't a reality, it's a game of chess bluffs and the winner defeats the loser when there is only a logical option of loss. Because when supremacy is achieved, and understood by the opponent, you don't suddenly nuke them - you take its periphery (Ukraine, Baltics and E. Europe, and other color revolution hot-spots), you destabilize it's source of income (oil), you cut her off from the financial world (sanctions), you ostracize them politically (media/hacking), and you deny them future income (Syria) while cementing their future (denying the New Silk Road by local animosity - maritime disputes, arming India, etc).

    Real sudden catastrophic loss never materializes because we live in a non-zero sum situation - called living on the same planet - where abrupt destabilization backfires onto you from nuclear fallout and global market failure. It's just a check-mate scenario understood by both parties that begets a slow suffocation due to 'pawn sacrifice'.

    Unless you don't have nuclear weapons...then your country and lore is up for the taking on a whim.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Aren Haich, @Astuteobservor II, @Anonymous, @Erebus

    US is losing military ground in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan to the Russian, while USA is losing economic ground in SE Asia, Africa, South America and North America to the Chinese, are you saying the super-fuze is a fake news? And the American understood they are being check-mated by the Russian and Chinese?

  • Sharmini Peries: The European Commission announced on May 2, that an agreement on Greek pension and income tax reforms would pave the way for further discussions on debt release for Greece. The European Commission described this as good news for Greece. The Greek government described the situation in similar terms. However, little attention has been...
  • @Anon
    And yet the Greeks still do not rebel. Then what hope is there for the men of the West?

    Replies: @Priss Factor, @Joe Wong

    Why doesn’t the Greek leave EU and refuse to pay IMF? Greece is a democracy, perhaps austerity is what the Greeks want, and Hudson has misread the situation.

    • Replies: @Wally
    @Joe Wong

    Because the Greeks would then have to stand on their own two feet.

    It's easier to keep playing the victim.

  • @boogerbently
    NO sympathy for the Greeks. Their public unions bankrupted the nation, and rather than take a cut, they ruined the nation.
    NOT unlike what's happening now in the major cities of the US.
    But, we haven't learned from the EU immigration disaster, why would we learn from the EU failed pensions. The difference here is,we CAN print our own money.

    Replies: @Anonymous, @anon, @Joe Wong

    Rightly or wrongly the Greek unions work for the people who pay them, i.e the workers, unlike the unions in the USA they are the double face and double talk thugs who take money from the workers then work for the oppressors to suppress the workers. It seems snakeoil salesman is the idol you adore.

  • In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities is to provoke the communal punishment of all Muslims, thereby alienating a portion of them who will then become open to...
  • @Anonymous
    Why do those responsible deliberately miss the target and have gone on doing so? Because they all profit greatly from it. Who are they? The war industry and its various 'communities', the Jews. the media, you name it, they're all in it for fun and profit. None of them would have an income if it all just stopped, if they actually wanted, you know, peace whatever that is.

    They can manufacture an invasion of Iraq based on non-existent WMDs as punishment for 911, when apparently the real culprits were supposed to be Saudis. They can pretend that the conflict in Syria is a 'civil war' rather than a proxy invasion by the US, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. They can manufacture groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS but pretend that these groups arose independently from their own funding, operations and just plain meddling in everybody else's business. They can pretend that Iran is the major sponsor of terrorism in the ME when clearly it isn't. They can bullshit really anything they want and everybody just buys it.

    If they can do all this, then 911 ought not be too difficult either. The press and so-called intellectual class just buys into whatever the narrative is supposed to be. Karl Rove's statement that 'the empire can create it's own reality now' is fairly obviously a sly reference to 911. How does the empire get to this level of expertise? Clearly a military industrial complex funded to the tune of a trillion dollars per year that can research any problem and do whatever it wants could run such a project without much difficulty. It can also buy off the press and influence the intellectual classes in all sorts of ways that conform to some manual in some top secret facility that nobody has ever heard of and never will.

    The release of the redacted 28 pages shows that Prince Bandar, good friend of the Bush family, funded two the supposed hijackers for a year while they prepared for the 'attack'. This indicates without any doubt that the hijackers were Saudi intelligence assets pretending to be hijackers. (Unless you are wacky enough to believe that Prince Bandar, good friend of the Bush family, secretly sought to stab his good friends in the back by committing a heavy atrocity upon them, or at least didn't tell them about it in advance). So its obvious that the Saudis were running the hijacker side of the 911 operation for their good friends in America because thats what good friends do. That's why the hijackers were Saudi, rather than say Iraqi or Iranian, and thats why America didn't invade the Saudis as punishment for the terrible deed.

    Of course we also know that the CIA let these same two hijackers, or rather Saudi intelligence assets, into the United States without telling the FBI about it although it had several occasions to do so. How odd, yet these same two hijackers, or rather Saudi intelligence assets, were known terrorists and the CIA definitely knew all about them.

    Please Mr Cockburn can you explain in your own words why believing 911 was an inside job is somehow crackpot?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Now all focus is on the Islamic terrorists instead of the real culprit, before the bombing and killing on the fabricated WMD allegation as humanitarian intervention there was no suicide bombers or Islamic terrorists. Manufactured consent never stops by the West under the leadership of the Empire of Chaos.

  • Here’s a quiz about Israeli politics. Are there any strongly identified Muslim or Christian Arabs high in Israel’s ruling conservative party? Do those Arabs write for Arab newspapers setting out the central principle of their lives: “Arabs must come first”? Finally, do those Arabs lavish praise on an opposition leader who opened Israel’s borders to...
  • @NoseytheDuke
    A chilling article. It will not end well, it never has.

    Personally, I'd settle for true separation of church and state. People can then be free to imagine whatever they wish to be the source of everything, as long as they contribute fair taxes along with everyone else. Surely that isn't too much to ask or insist upon?

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @anon

    You need to move to China.

    • Replies: @NoseytheDuke
    @Joe Wong

    For the food? The fresh air? What's your point?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @NoseytheDuke
    @Joe Wong

    For the food? The fresh air? What's your point?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Aren’t you looking for “true separation of church and state?” I’m giving you the pointer, or you don’t know what you are talking about like all the Americans who are so confused that they can claim bombing and killing on the fabricated phantom WMD allegation as humanitarian intervention.

    • Replies: @NoseytheDuke
    @Joe Wong

    I'll cut you some slack since clearly, English is not your first language. I'm still unsure as to what your point is though or why you're giving me the finger.

    , @Anon
    @Joe Wong

    I don't know whether the Chinese government still regulates Chinese Christians' places of and meetings for worship and the Catholic church's appointments of bishops but I know it still oppresses Falun Gong. But perhaps you are actually unfamiliar with the Western, or merely Anglosphere, notion of separation of church and state???

  • The Pink Revolution of 2017, better known as Russiagate, is now more or less a fait accompli. Whether the corporatist ruling classes and their servants in Congress formally impeach him or force him to resign in disgrace, Donald J. Trump is being regime-changed, or at the very least effectively neutralized until he can be replaced...
  • @JustJeff
    Weird. I could've sworn Trump won because American's trust in experts is at an all-time low.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    But the Americans have no say whether to impeach Donald Trump or not, the experts are calling the shots.

  • By now most of you have heard the latest bad news of out Syria: on June 18th a US F/A-18E Super Hornet (1999) used a AIM-120 AMRAAM (1991) to shoot down a Syrian Air Force Su-22 (1970). Two days later, June 20th, a US F-15E Strike Eagle shot down an Iranian IRGC Shahed 129 drone....
  • @Andrei Martyanov

    The modern western culture is centered on various forms of instant gratification, and that is also true for geopolitics. If the other guy does something, western leaders always deliver a “firm” response. They like to “send messages”
     
    Excellent point. That is why "West" (US mostly) can not win a single war in 70 years.

    Replies: @TipTipTopKek, @Joe Wong, @ROBERTO

    The Americans just want to know how good the Russian is to reassure themselves; all the top dogs do this test constantly to reassure themselves. As long as the Russian is not giving the American a real feedback, the American will be reckless and continue to probe.

    • Replies: @Cortes
    @Joe Wong

    A very true statement. Blindingly obvious on reflection and it must be frustrating as hell not to get the rise expected from the series of provocations. Plenty of attention has been focused on "failure" of the RF to respond adequately to events instigated by or at the behest of the USA. As you have pointed out, the reverse holds true. Why should the RF "telegraph" its intentions to a potential adversary or adversaries? Why deploy ALL its new hardware unless totally required?

  • All over America, I’ve seen posters warning against drug addictions. In Cheyenne, it’s “METHAMPHETAMINE / Don’t live this tragic story.” A few blocks away, I stepped over used needles on the sidewalk. In Buffalo, it’s an image of a beer bottle and a pill bottle, with “HEROIN addiction starts here...” Appended to it was a...
  • @jilles dykstra
    The USA has but one problem, the 19th century society hat exists to this day, the robber baron society.
    There never was a revolution in the USA, as in GB.
    The response of the May government to the tower fire made clear what kind of society GB still is.
    In any W European country the government would have acted immediately.

    Replies: @restless94110, @Joe Wong

    The American is lucky, nobody has waged reckless wars like Opium Wars, Eight-Nation Alliance War, etc., against the American when they are trying to eradicate the poisonous illicit drugs in the name of protecting the right of free trade by the drug warlords, the British, French, American and other Europeans, then demanded billions ounces of silver (the amount is equivalent to decades of Chinese total tax revenue), extraterritorial concessions, and other unequal treaties as war reparations in addition to the looting and plundering Chinese historical sites and societies for nearly a century, then demonize the victims with Orientalism.

    The American and their western partners may want the rest of world to forget their evil deeds by not mentioning them, let alone criticizing them while raising themselves on the democracy and human rights pedestal, but the non-White never do.

    • Agree: jacques sheete
    • Replies: @Bill P
    @Joe Wong

    To this day, Chinese remain more butthurt about the humiliations inflicted by what amounted to a handful of Western troops in the 19th century than the Mongol invasion, the Qing destruction of the Ming dynasty, and even the Japanese rampage of the mid 20th century. This despite the fact that of the countless times China got its butt kicked by foreigners, these Westerners inflicted the least damage in terms of destruction and loss of life, and ultimately contributed greatly to the development of China.

    Shanghai and Hong Kong would still be sleepy little villages if it weren't for the territorial concessions. Instead, today they are the economic crown jewels of the PRC.

    If you think about it, the "billions of ounces of silver" (actually, this is wrong -- it was a few million), are a paltry sum compared to the enormous amount China gained in the long term. In fact, maybe the West should demand fair compensation. Did we ever derive a comparable benefit from China? I don't think so.

    Here's a little visual example:

    Shanghai Bund vs. San Francisco Chinatown.

    So Mr. Wong, it's pretty clear this misplaced rage is a national feeling of inadequacy that afflicts Chinese, who are culturally conditioned to think of themselves as at the center of the universe, and just can't handle it when the facts don't fit this conceit. I'd suggest they get over the 19th century embarrassments and try fixing more pressing problems, like the unrestrained greed and corruption that are ruining China's environment and destroying its cultural heritage.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @denk, @jacques sheete, @denk

  • @Bill P
    @Joe Wong

    To this day, Chinese remain more butthurt about the humiliations inflicted by what amounted to a handful of Western troops in the 19th century than the Mongol invasion, the Qing destruction of the Ming dynasty, and even the Japanese rampage of the mid 20th century. This despite the fact that of the countless times China got its butt kicked by foreigners, these Westerners inflicted the least damage in terms of destruction and loss of life, and ultimately contributed greatly to the development of China.

    Shanghai and Hong Kong would still be sleepy little villages if it weren't for the territorial concessions. Instead, today they are the economic crown jewels of the PRC.

    If you think about it, the "billions of ounces of silver" (actually, this is wrong -- it was a few million), are a paltry sum compared to the enormous amount China gained in the long term. In fact, maybe the West should demand fair compensation. Did we ever derive a comparable benefit from China? I don't think so.

    Here's a little visual example:

    Shanghai Bund vs. San Francisco Chinatown.

    So Mr. Wong, it's pretty clear this misplaced rage is a national feeling of inadequacy that afflicts Chinese, who are culturally conditioned to think of themselves as at the center of the universe, and just can't handle it when the facts don't fit this conceit. I'd suggest they get over the 19th century embarrassments and try fixing more pressing problems, like the unrestrained greed and corruption that are ruining China's environment and destroying its cultural heritage.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @denk, @jacques sheete, @denk

    Bill, the westerners always like to say “let bygone be bygone, past has nothing to do with the present” so they can swipe the slate clean in a broad stroke and start exploiting and committing crimes against others like their evil forebears all over again without any moral burden. Oh well, the bombing and killing on the fabricated phantom WMD allegations as humanitarian intervention since WWII is just the continuation of the West’s “let bygone be bygone” tradition.

    • Replies: @Bill P
    @Joe Wong

    Hey, you don't have to forget the past -- just get over it.

    As for these crimes, why don't Chinese start with their own crimes against their own people? Is it too unpleasant for delicate Chinese sensibilities to admit that the lion's share of depredations have been committed by their own people?

    Chinese have the same mentality in this way as Black Lives Matter. Despite the overwhelming evidence of dysfunction and predation upon their own people, both blame all their problems on the relatively few incidents of aggression committed by outsiders.

    Frankly, it's a stupid mentality, devoid of self-awareness. I think it's a big reason the Chinese were held back in development compared to the Japanese, Nordics and others who came to civilization later.

    Instead of improving their own collective lot, Chinese like to roll around and wallow in self-pity. It's a very effeminate tendency, and it's a shame because given their talents Chinese people should be better than that.

    , @woodNfish
    @Joe Wong

    Bill P. only refers to chinese in his response to you, but I think he should just write "asians". You Asians are still a totally racist feudal society that actively engages in slavery, war, crime, and genocide. Any modernization Asians have absorbed into their societies has been from us white Westerners. Are we perfect? No, but it has been your choice as to what to take and what to refute. So when you start laying out the blame, look in the mirror while you do it. You are not innocent bystanders.

    Replies: @Bill P, @denk

  • To one watching the advance of Chinese science and technology, or to me anyway, several things stand out. First, the headlong pace. Second, the amount of it that appears aimed at making China independent of the West technologically and getting the United States off Beijing’s back. Third, the apparent calculated focus. It looks like intelligent...
  • @Daniel Chieh
    I have suspected that stealth has been a boondoggle for some time to fund members of the defense industry, and has limited utility against any of the other rival military powers. Nonetheless, it still serves its essential purpose of making certain people very rich as they use the latest high tech to decimate fearsome goat-riding desert warriors.

    That said, China usually has Something In Mind, which has its upsides and downsides. The upsides is at times, surprisingly cohesive and effective results that give the sense that hey, someone actually thought this through. The downside is that expensive basic research often gets nixed because it didn't seem like its part of the plan.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Stan d Mute

    The author has underestimated the Ignorance and Arrogance of the American, the American not only regard the rest of the world as unimportant, they also want to define what others can think and cannot think, the American hubris and stupidity are without bound.

  • @songbird
    China has a large built in problem: the Communist Party will not give up power. They still control large sectors of the economy. Not to mention, their rhetoric discourages the transfer of technology. These more or less all sound like government projects. The quantum stuff is unverified, the rest all based on outside ideas.

    That's not to say they don't also have huge advantages. There's no racial spoils system. Minus political and social nepotism, it is a lot closer to a meritocracy. That alone should scare the hell out of the West.

    Replies: @Daniel Chieh, @willem1, @Anonymous, @Rdm, @Joe Wong, @Nexus321

    German was most productive in innovation and prosperity under the Nazi, it proves you have a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism and constrained by the zero-sum Cold War mentality.

  • @jim jones
    @The Alarmist

    We had some Chinese move into our street in Windsor, they were astounded when I told them you could drink the tap water:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9AEQ8ZLRnE

    Replies: @Rob McX, @Joe Wong, @NoseytheDuke

    The author is fear mongering and crying wolf is coming, there is nothing for the Americans need to worry about Chinese. The American is doing great, just keep doing what the American is doing, carry on.

  • @The Alarmist

    "I’ll believe China has reached first world status when you can drink the water."
     
    It's not their problem your soft Western belly can't take their water.

    Replies: @jim jones, @Joe Wong

    The American falling behind in academy is the result of drinking water containing too much invisible lead and other industrial components, this is a scientific report, not a video like the phantom WMD in Iraq.

  • @MarkinLA
    @Si1ver1ock

    They have been working on fusion reactors since I was an undergrad. The first physics class I took was from a professor that showed us his work on plasmas as that was where the current research was for developing a fusion reactor. There was probably little coverage because it has been around for so long with so little progress.

    China's supercomputers are massively parallel designs of relatively insignificant microprocessors - anybody could build a seemingly fast computer that way. That is why you no longer have those headlines you had 20 years ago or so where it was announced that Japan had the fastest computer and a few months later, the US did, then Japan. Nobody cares anymore.

    Replies: @Si1ver1ock, @Joe Wong, @DB Cooper

    So R&D achievements are fab, not about inventions and innovations? All these Chinese-can’t-invent is fab talk of the uneducated red neck colonialists?

    • Replies: @MarkinLA
    @Joe Wong

    I never said Chinese can't invent so I don't know what your point is. All I said was that utilizing present every day technology and making minor advances is nothing to write home about.

    When the Chinese (or anybody for that matter) actually produce more energy that can be harnessed than it consumes in a controlled continuous fusion reaction, let me know.

  • @dearieme
    "Heavy investment in solar power": do they plan to get rid of their smog first?

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    They aimed to get rid of smog before the American get rid of fake news.

  • Pretty much everything our media tells us about China is wrong–or at least one-sided–including its tales of a China ‘debt problem’. The Chinese are, in all times and places, debt-averse and China’s government which, unlike ours, must take long-term responsibility for the economy, is no different. Mao set the example and grew GDP by 6.2...
  • @The Alarmist
    Yep, this time it's different.

    Heard that song a few times in my life.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Not a few times, but in thirty years, the American and their beggar-thy-neighbor lackeys have been saying the incoming collapse of China already thirty years. And you will insist you heard that song until end of your life too.

    • Replies: @The Alarmist
    @Joe Wong

    Thanks Mr. Wong, but the context of my remark was a reflexion of my experience with such comments in the western markets.

    China may well be different this time ... then again, it may not.

    , @interesting
    @Joe Wong

    That's interesting because I didn't hear a peep about China until about 2001 and then it didn't really become an issue, at least in my business, until about 2004......so 2017-2004 = 13 years.....could you check my math as it sure sounds like you are exaggerating by saying 30 years.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • Top Russian and Chinese leaders are busy comparing notes, coordinating their approach to President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg this weekend. Both sides are heralding the degree to which ties between the two countries have improved in recent years, as Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visits Moscow on his way to the G20....
  • @Real Time
    Have to love this guy. The Western nations controlled by the One World/New World Order globalist 0.1% White Collar business and banking mafia have done everything possible to take over Russia as they drool over the massive storehouse of natural treasures Russia has. Putin and the Kremlin leaders along with the military, KGB/FSB, and the Orthodox Church have no intention of allowing this conquest to happen. Currently NATO has moved troops and missiles up to the very frontiers of Russia. It has occupied Afghanistan and is moving further into the Balkans. The U.S. and E.U. have deliberately fomented trouble inside Russia and former soviet republics like Georgia, Armenia, and Ukraine to install anti-Russian puppet governments to aid in undermining Russia. When Russia responds in a very careful and restrained manner as in occupying and annexing the Crimea, which was Russian for centuries before the Communists "gave" it to Ukraine a few decades ago, the West swiftly puts harsh economic and financial sanctions on Russia and conspires with the oil and gas companies to drive prices down on Russia's main sources of revenue. In desperation Russia is forced into the arms of her old enemy China. Now the neo cons and globalists are in an uproar over this supposed Sino-Russian Alliance----a marriage of convenience only as China needs Russia's natural resources at cheap prices and Russia needs China to "cover her back". Also China is increasingly concerned about her own national sovereignty and independence from the NWO. Now Putin has sent a very clear message to the Western bandits: "Back off". No doubt Russia supplied the icbm to North Korea that was set off to coincide with America's Independence Day. Putin in a recent interview also pointed out that international cooperation has kept Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Russia has land borders with both North Korea and Iran and hundreds of extra icbms and atomic warheads which they could easily disassemble and send to them. Russia also has the largest military in Europe and the largest nuclear arsenal of any nation on earth. The neo-cons and banksters and crapitalists better heed the signs and back off from Russia. A word to the wise is sufficient. Unfortunately I fear there are very few wise heads in the Western One World Order hierarchy or their political prostitute puppets. I hope and pray cooler, wiser heads on all sides will prevail and World War III, which would destroy all life on this planet, does not happen.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Delinquent Snail

    “Russia supplied the icbm to North Korea that was set off to coincide with America’s Independence Day.” that explains the miracle progress of the NK’s missile technology.

  • Pretty much everything our media tells us about China is wrong–or at least one-sided–including its tales of a China ‘debt problem’. The Chinese are, in all times and places, debt-averse and China’s government which, unlike ours, must take long-term responsibility for the economy, is no different. Mao set the example and grew GDP by 6.2...
  • @interesting
    @Joe Wong

    That's interesting because I didn't hear a peep about China until about 2001 and then it didn't really become an issue, at least in my business, until about 2004......so 2017-2004 = 13 years.....could you check my math as it sure sounds like you are exaggerating by saying 30 years.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Please check your math with Gordon Chang, Peter Navarro, and all the China pundits in the USA, UK, and the unrepentant war criminal Japan.

  • It is not an easy task for someone without a background in Chinese culture, including the language and the history, to write about this country. However, this becomes necessary when looking at the Chinese view of the outside world and especially when writing about the emerging Russo-Chinese alliance. There is very little doubt anymore about...
  • @utu
    Q: What's the secret behind success of Aeroflot?

    Aeroflot: from world's deadliest airline to one of the safest in the sky
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/Aeroflot-from-worlds-deadliest-airline-to-one-of-the-safest-in-the-sky/

    A: Out of 199 passenger aircraft only 30 are Russian made (SSJ-100).

    The SSJ-100 carriers 12 passengers in business class and 75 in economy class. With a range of 4000KM, it can cover a fair distance but the Russians are pragmatic—they understand that people do not like flying “Russian” planes and so keep this model off most European routes.
     
    Russia Grounds Its Newest Airliner Over Safety Concerns (DEC. 24, 2016)
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/business/russia-grounds-sukhoi-superjet-safety-concerns.html

    Russian aviation authorities have grounded the country’s fleet of its newest model of civilian airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100. Metal fatigue, a problem usually associated with older airplanes, was discovered in the tail section of a new Sukhoi plane, the Russian regulator Rosaviatsia said Friday.

    Safety concerns with the Superjet, Russia’s first post-Soviet passenger plane, emerged soon after its introduction in 2008. Dozens of employees at the Siberia plant were found to have faked their university engineering diplomas.
     
    https://airwaysmag.com/safety-industry/russia-grounds-superjet/

    The SSJ was the first Russian airplane in a couple of generations to gain genuine acceptance from a major airline outside of a Communist nation. Given that status any sort of safety issue, real or perceived, harms the public perception of Russian airliners (already relatively poor in the eyes of Westerners). At the same time, the pre-emptive nature of this AD and grounding is actually a signal of the rising professionalism of Russian aviation regulators, who have historically not had the best reputation for safety. Despite the headlines, this AD could actually be a positive for the reputation of newer Russian jets within the industry.
     

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Are saying “only the West can invent and only the West can succeed?” So nobody should do anything to make themselves self-reliant? The Western colonial imperialists have been saying the same thing since they can sail out of the Mediterranean Sea, they also bad mouthing others to justify the crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and war crimes they committed as humanitarian intervention too.

    How about those toxic secularized sub-prime mortgages and their backed bundled loan portfolios, derivatives and credit default swaps provided by the Wall St. And London financial crocodiles that caused the 2008 global financial meltdown? Shall we stop using Wall St. and London financial facilities? The Americans are so deep in the ideology that they even don’t know they have one.

  • @Andrei Martyanov
    @Anatoly Karlin


    There remains a large gap in aerospace – China’s continuous underperformance on engines is becoming a bit bizarre
     
    It is more than that. There are huge issues with design of air frames--they simply, for some reason, lack this ability. Nothing indigenous of any decent, forget good, quality. And speaking of quality--this is the issue across the whole spectrum of Chinese-produced technology.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Andrei Martyanov, it is not easy to build an alliance between Russia and China, I am not about falling into the Anglo’s divide-and-conquer trap/trick to ruin that precious alliance, nor should you let the blind Russian pride to put a wedge in that alliance unwittingly for the Anglo.

    Xi delivered a speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations as following.”We are now living in a rapidly changing world…Peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit have become the trend of our times. To keep up with the times, we cannot have ourselves physically living in the 21st century, but with a mindset belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism, and constrained by zero-sum Cold War mentality.” Chinese do not believe superiority, we believe win-win five principle of peace coexistence.

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Joe Wong


    nor should you let the blind Russian pride to put a wedge in that alliance unwittingly for the Anglo.
     
    What pride? Does me stating that American-made cars are better than Russian ones tell about my...American pride? Is pointing out the fact that Siemens MRI machines are still better than Russian-made ones makes my pride German? I work with cold hard facts and call them as I see them. Least of all I do this for anybody's benefit--Anglo or anybody's else--least of all unwittingly. My task is to be as close to the actual truth as possible. People will decide if I succeeded or failed. I am keenly aware in whose sails the winds of history are blowing.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @Rdm
    @Jason Liu

    I think I agreed with your sentiment.

    China absolutely lacks soft power, and cultural pull to gain its socioeconomic status. It all roots back to mainland Chinese people. I came across many mainland Chinese. There's nothing to be awe-inspiring to hold your breath and be reckoned with their behavior.

    They're hard working, decent and smart. That's it. Nothing to write home about.

    If you're ethnically Chinese, and look like an American Born Chinese (ABC), mainland Chinese will instantly make a snide remark at you for not knowing their 2000 ass-long years old Chinese civilization.

    I asked "你知道泉州航运港吗?" (translation: "Do you know about Quanzhou shipping port?")
    The answer's always been "BU ZHI DAO!!! (translation: "don't know.")

    The fact that they don't know a particular historical landmark is nothing to chide about. But it's the entire landscape of the people when you look at it, tells a lot more about the softpower. Professionalism is what Chinese need to learn. I have a close mainland Chinese friend, Ivy educated, got an interview from Amazon and Alibaba. What did he say? "Alibaba lacks professionalism". He's now at Amazon.

    All western-educated Chinese don't like their homeland Chinese behavior. The only force that drives them to go back to China after education is "money". I remember reading somewhere they even got a huge clash for western educated Chinese professors, receiving millions while home-grown professors are getting paid less.

    1. Mainland Chinese holding doors for you? Dream on.
    2. "Excuse me" is out of their vocabularies while they squeeze through narrow lanes. A typical excuse is "We don't say in Chinese", I asked what does it mean "不好意思" then?

    The constructive criticism is never heard of. The notion of 2000 years old civilization and culture is the major throwback punchline for all the criticism they receive.

    I only hope this kind of lady attitude takes over the whole of China sooner. Until then, Ciao softpower !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoOS92NZbwE

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Have ever come across your mind that you are in the bad company? You should know there are 1.4 billion Chinese there are bound to be some bad apples. If I take your approach I can tell you that the American if is not worse definitely they are undesirable. Let’s take the number of population in incarceration as a yard stick (USA has largest incarceration population in the world), the impoliteness of Chinese is more preferable to the serial killers, rapists, drug dealers, gun tottering kids killers, etc. in the American prisons and Guantanamo like camps, at least the Chinese won’t harm you.

    If you want Chinese to gain soft power like the American thru applying organized violence, stealing thru Kangaroo Courts and crime permeated constitutions, fake news, etc., sorry Chinese won’t do.

    • Replies: @Rdm
    @Joe Wong

    That thought came into mind. The legend says, if you're walking down the street, 1 in 5 persons you meet are Chinese. Regarding social skills and communications, mainland Chinese in general suck at this. It's not language per se. Speaking in Mandarin as well. The reason why people notice is China is now at the world stage. People expect some kinds of noticeable authority from Chinese. If you're from Fiji, no one gives a damn what Fijians do. But we're talking about the world largest economy country that is deemed to take over America any time soon.

    If you can't digest this fact, I can't help it. Soft power means when one thinks about a nation, there's a particular attraction they want to experience and absorb into their culture.

    It's not dumpling soup they want to experience. It's not being able to walk at night kind of soft power.


    Let’s take the number of population in incarceration as a yard stick (USA has largest incarceration population in the world), the impoliteness of Chinese is more preferable to the serial killers, rapists, drug dealers, gun tottering kids killers, etc. in the American prisons and Guantanamo like camps, at least the Chinese won’t harm you
     
    Let's be absolutely honest, and free from PC version. This is not an impression most Chinese have back home, isn't it? This issue, most Chinese associate with Black people. C'mon. Don't make it like you don't know it. Before you came to America, the first caution your parents said was "Be careful around Black people". How strong the softpower is. Even organized crimes and serial rapists, most Chinese want to migrate to the US. Irony.

    If you want Chinese to gain soft power like the American thru applying organized violence, stealing thru Kangaroo Courts and crime permeated constitutions, fake news, etc., sorry Chinese won’t do.
     
    Ugh, Noble mindset.

    Anyway, you might know by now, I'm not dissing on 1.4 billions Chinese. But to gain China softpower at international level, we all can agree that's the domain China has to work on a lot. If you think China already has one, I'm not denying your assumptions. Be free to have yours.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

  • @Israel Shamir
    Excellent piece, like the previous one by Martyanov. He knows his subject perfectly. However, the biggest lag of China (comparing to Russia) is that of will. Observe the two states regarding Snowden affair - Russia took him, China was scared to. And without will, the weapons are of little importance.

    Replies: @Randal, @Anatoly Karlin, @Andrei Martyanov, @Joe Wong

    Chinese has bent backwards to help Snowden by letting him stay safely in HK and Macau, meanwhile sending a special force to fold the CIA assassination team to kill him in Macau; about 6 CIA assassination member which included a senior intelligence member in the HK USA general consulate were killed in that episode, while Snowden is not giving any leaks to the Chinese, most likely he is just anti-China as rest of China Hawks in the USA.

    • Replies: @Erebus
    @Joe Wong


    ... sending a special force to fold the CIA assassination team to kill him in Macau; about 6 CIA assassination member which included a senior intelligence member in the HK USA general consulate were killed in that episode...
     
    Really? Are there any accessible resources to corroborate your extraordinary claim?

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Ron Unz

    , @SteveRogers42
    @Joe Wong

    Cool story, bro.

  • @Erebus
    @Joe Wong


    ... sending a special force to fold the CIA assassination team to kill him in Macau; about 6 CIA assassination member which included a senior intelligence member in the HK USA general consulate were killed in that episode...
     
    Really? Are there any accessible resources to corroborate your extraordinary claim?

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @Ron Unz

    Stop being navies, the among of false flag ops and unscrupulous activities the American and their thug minions conducted in regime changes and introducing democracy around the world make the assassination not a surprise but routine. The failed Snowden assassination by the CIA was all over in HK newspaper like the SCMP. You should know there are newspapers other than the fake news media in the USA and its minions.

  • @Andrei Martyanov
    @Joe Wong


    nor should you let the blind Russian pride to put a wedge in that alliance unwittingly for the Anglo.
     
    What pride? Does me stating that American-made cars are better than Russian ones tell about my...American pride? Is pointing out the fact that Siemens MRI machines are still better than Russian-made ones makes my pride German? I work with cold hard facts and call them as I see them. Least of all I do this for anybody's benefit--Anglo or anybody's else--least of all unwittingly. My task is to be as close to the actual truth as possible. People will decide if I succeeded or failed. I am keenly aware in whose sails the winds of history are blowing.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    You should know all those with a brain belonging to the past, stalled in the old days of colonialism and constrained by the zero-sum cold war also belive their endless trollng of fake news to put the world in constant fear are working with cold hard facts.

    • Replies: @Andrei Martyanov
    @Joe Wong


    You should know all those with a brain belonging to the past
     
    I am aware of that, hence my public "coming out" in 2014 when I understood that what combined West was committing in Ukraine was a testimony to a complete blindness (not to speak of delusions of a grandeur) and ignorance--I just wanted to contribute what I could, however tiny bit, in educating people on the nature of the beast. As last three years dramatically demonstrated I was correct, including identifying total incompetence of US (not to speak of European) "elites", establishment whatever one wants to call it. The systemic epistemic crisis is upon combined West.
  • @Rdm
    @Joe Wong

    That thought came into mind. The legend says, if you're walking down the street, 1 in 5 persons you meet are Chinese. Regarding social skills and communications, mainland Chinese in general suck at this. It's not language per se. Speaking in Mandarin as well. The reason why people notice is China is now at the world stage. People expect some kinds of noticeable authority from Chinese. If you're from Fiji, no one gives a damn what Fijians do. But we're talking about the world largest economy country that is deemed to take over America any time soon.

    If you can't digest this fact, I can't help it. Soft power means when one thinks about a nation, there's a particular attraction they want to experience and absorb into their culture.

    It's not dumpling soup they want to experience. It's not being able to walk at night kind of soft power.


    Let’s take the number of population in incarceration as a yard stick (USA has largest incarceration population in the world), the impoliteness of Chinese is more preferable to the serial killers, rapists, drug dealers, gun tottering kids killers, etc. in the American prisons and Guantanamo like camps, at least the Chinese won’t harm you
     
    Let's be absolutely honest, and free from PC version. This is not an impression most Chinese have back home, isn't it? This issue, most Chinese associate with Black people. C'mon. Don't make it like you don't know it. Before you came to America, the first caution your parents said was "Be careful around Black people". How strong the softpower is. Even organized crimes and serial rapists, most Chinese want to migrate to the US. Irony.

    If you want Chinese to gain soft power like the American thru applying organized violence, stealing thru Kangaroo Courts and crime permeated constitutions, fake news, etc., sorry Chinese won’t do.
     
    Ugh, Noble mindset.

    Anyway, you might know by now, I'm not dissing on 1.4 billions Chinese. But to gain China softpower at international level, we all can agree that's the domain China has to work on a lot. If you think China already has one, I'm not denying your assumptions. Be free to have yours.

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    You should know Rome is not built in one day, the criticism on Chinese soft power is just a replay of the criticism on Chinese economy, the contradictions make one wonder do they really say what they mean?

  • @Priss Factor
    5 Reasons Why The Chinese Military Is WEAKER Than You Think

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH-_LVlxmc

    Replies: @Joe Wong

    Chinese builds American destroys. American is the final form of ‘God-fearing’ morally defunct evil empire.

    • Replies: @Avery
    @Joe Wong

    If America had not opened its vast, wealthy market of 300-320 million people, China would have nothing to build, because nobody would buy the products it built.

    For all its warts, America was the economic engine of the world for decades.
    The enterprising, industrious America lifted all boats.
    Japan, South Korea, and now China owe their prosperity to the American consumer.
    Oftentimes, at the expense of the American workers and (former) American middle class.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @jilles dykstra

  • @Avery
    @Joe Wong

    If America had not opened its vast, wealthy market of 300-320 million people, China would have nothing to build, because nobody would buy the products it built.

    For all its warts, America was the economic engine of the world for decades.
    The enterprising, industrious America lifted all boats.
    Japan, South Korea, and now China owe their prosperity to the American consumer.
    Oftentimes, at the expense of the American workers and (former) American middle class.

    Replies: @Joe Wong, @jilles dykstra

    Europe and its offshoot North America is where it is now, still filthy rich (although always complaining), because of those hundreds of millions of people all over the world who were robbed and murdered, those who become victims of the very madness of colonialism, of the crusades and illicit drug and slave trades. Cathedrals and palaces, museums and theaters, train stations – all had been constructed on horrid foundations of bones and blood, and amalgamated by tears. There were so many centuries of plunder that acts of looting the world for the sole benefit of the few, turned into inseparable part of the ‘Western existence and culture’, something that gets almost never addressed, let alone criticized.

    The founding dogmas of the ‘Western existence and culture’ are based deception, its history on false pathos and insincere heroism. Claiming credit where credit is not due like everybody else owes their prosperity to the American is consistent with their tradition and culture. It is the same as claiming bombing, killing and exploiting you on the fake news is humanitarian intervention, so that their crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and war crime will never be addressed or criticized.

    BTW American is neither the first one to invest in China, the biggest trading partner to China, nor they are the biggest FDI in China. The overseas Chinese is the one bootstrapped China’s economic miracle, the overseas Chinese took the risks and the American reaps the benefits, the American is a freeloader but they always want to claim the credit where credit is not due. American sanctions and embargo China the most.