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Mike Whitney— The Biden administration is determined to provoke China on the issue of Taiwan. The White House now believes that they must take a more aggressive approach to China in order to contain their development and preserve America’s role as regional hegemon. The irony of Washington’s approach, however, is the fact that tens of thousands of US corporations have fled the US over the last 3 decades to take advantage of China’s low-paid work force. In fact—according to Registration China—there are now more than 1 million foreign-owned companies registered on Mainland China, many of which are owned by Americans. These corporations are largely responsible for China’s meteoric economic rise over the same period of time. So my question to you is this: Why is China being blamed and targeted for the explosive growth for which US corporations are mainly responsible? Or do you disagree with my analysis?

Paul Craig Roberts— Your question is really several. Your question itself identifies the main or over-riding reason for Washington’s back-tracking on the one-China policy that has been in effect since 1972—China’s threat to US hegemony. The neoconservatives who dominate US foreign policy, the principal purpose of which, in their words, is to prevent the rise of other countries with sufficient power to constrain US unilateralism, now face both China and Russia as threats to US hegemony. Russia’s punishment is conflict in Ukraine, sanctions, missiles on their border, and blown up Nord Stream pipelines. The goal is to isolate Russia from Europe and to present the Kremlin with sufficient problems to keep Moscow out of Washington’s way.

Just as the US broke its agreement with Russia not to expand NATO and has withdrawn from the agreements made during the Cold War that served to reduce tensions, Washington is now moving toward repudiating the one-China policy as it no longer serves Washington’s interest.

In 1972 with the Cold War and Vietnam war, easing tensions with China made strategic sense. The Soviet Union’s existence precluded any notion of US hegemony. The neoconservatives got their idea of US hegemony two decades later when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. At that time the opinion was that Yeltsin’s Russia was no problem for US dominance and it would be decades before China would be strong enough to get in Washington’s way. But, as you point out in your question, the offshoring of US manufacturing to China quickly turned China into an economic powerhouse, while greatly diminishing the economic prowess of the US. It wasn’t so much that US corporations left on their own seeking higher profits from lower labor costs as it was that they were pushed by Wall Street, which threatened to finance takeovers in order to take advantage of the lower cost opportunity. In short, China’s rapid rise was the result of Wall Street and corporate greed, for which China does not bear responsibility.

American neoliberal economists explained the offshoring of US manufacturing jobs as the workings of free trade from which America would benefit. It was two billionaire businessmen, one American and one English, US textile magnate Roger Milliken and British financier Sir James Goldsmith, who challenged the neoliberal justification for giving away manufacturing. They certainly got me thinking about it, and once I did it was obvious that offshoring of manufacturing jobs had nothing to do with free trade. Economists are as difficult to dislodge from their brainwashing as believers in the 9/11 narrative, the mRNA “vaccine,” and Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. I debated the leading proponents of offshoring who claimed it was a free trade bonanza, with the Wall Street Journal prominently featuring my debate with Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor of Economics, Law, and International Relations at Columbia University. A decade ago my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism, proved conclusively that the relocation of US manufacturing abroad was hugely detrimental to the US economy, but it was all to no effect. I concluded that US economists were all bought by Wall Street as “advisors” or were living on research grants from offshoring corporations and producing justifications for the offshoring policy. In short, America lost manufacturing, because of Wall Street and neoliberal economists.

President Donald Trump understood that America was hurt by the loss of manufacturing. It was Trump who began blaming China. Having no competent advisors, Trump associated America’s large Chinese trade deficit with unfair Chinese practices, and not with the fact that half of the US trade deficit (last time I looked) was accounted for by offshore production of US corporations marketed in the US. The goods enter the US as imports. Trump’s inclination to blame China instead of Wall Street and American economists was reinforced by Russiagate charges portraying Trump as working in Russia’s interest. Being tough on China was a way of showing Trump was defending America’s interest.

To summarize, China’s punishment for displacing the US as Asian hegemon is trouble with Taiwan. Trump opened the door for his neoconservative enemies by blaming China for what Wall Street and neoliberal economists are responsible.

I regard Washington’s threat to the one-China fact as insane–even more insane than the provocations of Russia. The Chinese mainland and Taiwan are undergoing economic integration. There is no way the US can stop this. Moreover, there is no prospect whatsoever of China allowing Taiwan to become a US military base any more than Russia would give up Crimea.

Mike Whitney— Journalist Ben Norton suggests that the big US banks and Wall Street might be the cause of Washington making Taiwan an issue. The Chinese financial system is largely socialized and is used to finance the real economy instead of speculation in financial assets. American banks want to bring the gambling casino to China and can’t. Do you think Washington could be using Taiwan to pressure China to let in Wall Street?

Paul Craig Roberts— Without any doubt the main cause of dangerously rising tensions between Washington and Russia and China and also Iran is the success the neoconservatives have had in imposing hegemony as the over-riding goal of US foreign policy. Of course, for the neoconservative ideology to have traction, it must serve powerful economic interests. Tensions with Russia and China clearly serve the material interests of the military/security complex. Hegemony along with the dollar’s reserve currency role also serve the dominance of American banks. But US foreign policy would not raise tensions with China solely for US banks. Indeed, tensions with China are dangerous for the many US corporations whose production is based in China. These firms could easily be nationalized or refused export licenses. If the US can disobey international law, so can China. Tensions with China are also dangerous to the Treasury bond market and to the exchange value of the US dollar. If China were to dump its holdings of US debt on the bond market, the Federal Reserve would have to print money with which to redeem the bonds so that the price doesn’t collapse. But if China then dumped the dollars from bond redemptions in the currency market, the Federal Reserve cannot print foreign currencies with which to purchase the dollars, and the dollar’s exchange value would fall, raising the price of imports made necessary by the offshoring of US manufacturing and food imports, thus worsening US inflation and lowering US living standards.

The neoconservatives’ hostility toward Russia and China is definitely not in America’s interest. In the Chinese case, it is American corporations and the US dollar that this hostility makes vulnerable, not China. In the Russian case, it is Europe that is suffering from the hostility, not Russia. What the neoconservatives are achieving is the opposite of their aims. Their policy is imposing costs on Europeans, not on Russia, and the Europeans are going to resent the suffering imposed on them. Although all European governments along with European journalists receive, as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs told me years ago, bag fulls of money for representing Washington’s interests (which seldom in my experience have anything to do with Americans’ interests), sooner or later European peoples will come to the realization that “their” governments represent Washington, not them. People will suffer a lot before hardship becomes intolerable. At that point, unless people have been killed off with “vaccines” and released pathogens or in nuclear war, the guillotine arrives and governments fall.

Mike Whitney— America’s critical infrastructure is going to the dogs. The roads are full of potholes, the airports are a disgrace and over a thousand trains derail every year. Meanwhile, a bigger and bigger share of the nation’s net income continues to go to billionaires who already have more yachts and vacation homes than they can count. Would you be opposed to the Biden administration extending an olive branch to Beijing by joining China’s multi trillion-dollar infrastructure plan, the Belt and Road Initiative, so we can work collaboratively with a foreign government to do major overhaul of the county’s roads, bridges, ports and especially high-speed rail? Clearly, the Chinese know what they’re doing and—I would imagine—the project would represent tens of thousands of jobs for American construction workers. Would you support a joint-collaboration like that or do you think we should go-it-alone?

Paul Craig Roberts— Mike, as you know, I regard you as one of the most perceptive persons of our age, but this question is naive beyond belief. First of all, it makes no difference whatsoever what I would support, or you would support, or the American people would support. We neither control nor influence the decisions. This is why in the end it comes to enserfment or revolution. The American people elected Trump twice. The first time the elite would not permit him to govern. The second time they stole the election from him and prevented any examination of the theft. Because of the power of money in campaign contributions from vested interests, now legitimized by the US Supreme Court, it is impossible in the US to elect a government that serves the people’s interest and if happens the elite disposes of the people’s choice using the media it owns.

Second, any American who proposes to cooperate with China in any way will be labeled a “Chinese Dupe/Agent.” We have already experienced this with Russia. The President of the United States was harassed by his own Department of Justice (sic) as a Russian agent simply because he wanted to “normalize relations with Russia.” I was branded a Putin Agent/Dupe by a website given prominence by the Washington Post, funded by we don’t know who, because I provided a truthful, correct account of the neoconservatives’ responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine.

Thirdly, according to Modern Monetary Theory, the creation of money by governments to finance infrastructure projects that lead to greater productivity or reduce costs to business is non-inflationary. Instead it drops production costs and makes a country’s businesses more productive and more successful in international competition. Refurbishing US infrastructure is a goal we can easily accomplish ourselves.

There is no need whatsoever for the US to participate in infrastructure projects such as Belt and Road. What Washington should be doing is removing gratuitous tensions with the two rising powers. Accept them and integrate with their success. This would benefit all and remove the danger of nuclear war.

But where are any American or Western leaders of vision?

 
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  1. Notsofast says:

    there is no need for the u.s. to participate in the b.r.i., because there is no need for the u.s.

    stick a fork in it and flip it, cause it’s done. the indispensable nation is now the indefensible nation and soon to be persona non grata, around the world.

  2. Richard B says:

    Article Summary:
    Supremacy Inc.’s desire to destroy America is incompatible with its ambition to rule the world. Or, Supremacy Inc.’s lust for power is undermining its lust for power.

    A more maladaptive model would be hard to imagine.
    Which is why they constitute a threat to the world.
    No wonder they want us to be worried about “climate change.”

  3. Chris Moore says: • Website

    In short, China’s rapid rise was the result of Wall Street and corporate greed, for which China does not bear responsibility.

    There are those G*D* ((Jew)) sharks again.

    Is it Satan or the golden calf that keeps these psychopaths animated? The two seem to have merged in the person of the ((Jew)) and its Zoglodyte stooge. They have become One vile creature, to be dispatched into the depths of hell (or at the very least prosecuted for 9/11 and “vaccine” treason).

    • Replies: @Grumpy Old Fart
  4. Richard B says:
    @Notsofast

    cause it’s done. the indispensable nation is now the indefensible nation and soon to be persona non grata, around the world.

    Promise? Seriously though, you’re probably right.

    From the article:

    PCR: The neoconservatives’ hostility toward Russia and China is definitely not in America’s interest.

    Especially since that hostility is extended to America.
    In fact, that’s where the hostility started. And it has to be admitted that Supremacy Inc. has successfully completed its hostile takeover of the United States. But this has created some unforseen problems that we’ll get to in a moment.

    What PCR refers to as neoconservative, I refer to as Supremacy Inc. (having come to realize that the phrase Jewish Supremacy is redundant). And Supremacy Inc. never intended to limit its desire for Full Spectrum Dominance to the United States.
    In deed, it couldn’t. It would have to extend its power beyond any national interest. But, there’s a snake in this garden. Now the problem is this:

    Supremacy Inc.’s attempt to impose a social order over the United States that is free of control and sustained by force has only ended up increasing the uncontrolled exercise of naked power.

    And it’s that force, constantly applied, that is fast undermining Supremacy Inc.’s ability to manage the social institutions its power now controls. This is why PCR was right to use the word insane foreign policy. Because it has actually extended what has already proven to be the maladaptive model of its domestic policy, to its foreign policy, both of which of course are dependent on its economic policy.

    Put bluntly, Supremacy Inc.’s Foreign, Domestic, and Economic Policies of Invite The World, Invade The World, In-Debt To The World, is in the process of imploding on itself. Or, to use a phrase it should be familiar with – given its involvement in the events of September 11th, 2001 – the very policies keeping Supremacy Inc. in power are collapsing on their own footprint.

    History just might have a Joker up its sleeve yet.

    “The readiness is all.”

    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
    , @Postoasted
  5. Folkvangr says:

    “All warfare is based on deception.” (Sunzi)

    First, you have to ask yourself two simple questions: What do China and its ruling party want? What means are available to achieve their goals?

    To achieve its goals, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses two doctrines: The “Three Wars” and “United Front”.
    The “Three Wars” doctrine uses psychological warfare to demoralize the enemy; public opinion warfare to shape the hearts and minds of the masses; and legal warfare to use the legal system to deter enemy attacks.

    “The United Front doctrine seeks to

    Eliminate its internal and external enemies
    Control groups that could challenge its authority
    Build a coalition around the party to serve its interests
    Project its influence abroad

    The principles of these two doctrines are used by the Chinese regime to expand its influence and infiltration into Western democracies. The very fact that the CCP calls its doctrine “psychological warfare” proves that it is waging a war against the free world without firing a single shot.

    • Troll: dogbumbreath
  6. On a global issue, Australia is about to be sold out by its “U.S puppet” Albanese government to India with a “free trade agreement” which will see the last of the white population snuffed out by a blanket of Indians being allowed to move freely between both countries for “economic tie” reasons.

    This is how the U.S treats its friends for global hegemony, they will throw you under the bus for the one percent who rule in the U.S.

    What do the U.S get out of this deal?

    The G20 meeting showed you what, an India going cold on the breakaway Russia, China BRICS project.

    The U.S is peddling like crazy under the water diplomatically with threats and inducements to pick-off state after state that talk about BRICS membership.

    If those playing both sides think it a good idea then think again…once -if the U.S is successful- the game is finished then you will go back to your “Uncle Tom” status.

    The people losing are whites because they don’t have the numbers that can stand against a coloured tidal wave, but of course the Jewish one percentage point who own the U.S don’t give a damn, what gangster does?

    • Replies: @One Nobody
    , @Curmudgeon
  7. Folkvangr says:

    Russia’s punishment is conflict in Ukraine, sanctions, missiles on their border, and blown up Nord Stream pipelines.

    Here he goes again, hitting a new low. The only “punished” in this war of annihilation are Ukrainian civilians, Paul Craig Roberts. If you don’t agree with that, just stop writing, stop giving interviews, or even thinking that your opinions still matter. They don’t!
    The Russian oligarchs want Ukrainian uranium, lithium, oil, gas, titanium and other rare earth metals. They want Ukrainian steel mills, they want Ukrainian MotorSich, KrivorizhStal and other jewels, that’s why Putin is not bombing them. If you know this and still whine about sanctions, you are being dishonest.

  8. Mark G. says:

    After World War I Great Britain realized it could no longer afford the large navy that had made it a world power. Over the next several decades the British empire contracted. Before that, there were probably arguments back and forth on whether they should reduce military spending. In the end, those arguments made little difference. Military spending was cut just because they ran out of money. What was going to happen was inevitable.

    The U.S. is in the same situation. The federal government has a 31 trillion dollar and rising debt and almost a hundred trillion dollars in future unfunded liabilities. An eventual default is likely and after that it will become difficult to borrow more money. Any attempt at more money printing will be inflationary and will lead to reduced standards of living for the American population. Wages adjusted for inflation have already dropped twenty months in a row. Within a dozen years almost a third of the adult U.S. population will be retired. Among the remaining two thirds, about half of them will be low IQ nonwhites who will be paying little in taxes. Reductions in U.S. military spending and a move to a noninterventionist foreign policy are just inevitable.

  9. SafeNow says:

    China adroitly initiated commercial-interpreting programs in colleges, graduating tens of thousands of specialists who went on to facilitate the shifting of American manufacturing. They sub-specialized in different industries, and advertised their expertise. Then the takeover became easy, even fun. You were met at the airport, driven to a fine hotel, dinner at the best restaurant in town, and then the next day the factory tours and vendor interviews began. Albout $250 per day per trained consecutive or even simultaneous interpreter, with commercial connections. Smart ladies; it helps to have 300,000 people with an IQ of 160 or above. (the U.S., 10,000 such people, btw)

    • Agree: Franz
    • Replies: @AndrewR
  10. anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:

    contain their development and preserve America’s role as regional hegemon

    A quick look at a map shows that the US is not located in Asia at all but is thousands of miles away on another continent. It inserted itself into Asia as a result of the Spanish-American war and has been there ever since. Being a hegemonic power is going to become very tenuous now with the rise and development of China. An Asian country becoming the preeminent power in Asia seems rather logical and inevitable. The US at this point appears to be fighting against the relentless march of history.

    • Agree: TheTrumanShow
    • Replies: @Levtraro
    , @Happy
  11. camus10 says:

    with Yellen visiting the pianoman– outrageous. its overdue Whitney and PCR turn the tables

    overdue people………, what exactly are you waiting for

    call out the federal reserve, do a sit in at the ustreasury

    atleast , the the most minimal strain a maverick state federal reserve to go astray. testdrive a sovereign bank note as the reflex reaction to the CBDC. state nationalization or a sovereign fund to stimulate essential staples pharma and ONG sovereignity. who is allowing the dod to stage more toxic derailments

    what is your excuse for not asking for a constitutional sanctuary, not asking for a Common pleoples grandjury

  12. This is why the situation in Ukraine is so dangerous. Russia is winning, slowly. It’s holding back most of its army in reserve to react or deter whatever crazy plots the Poles and Biden team are thinking of. This is why it doesn’t take the common sense action of attacking from Belarus to cut off Kiev from the west. Poland might attack Belarus.

    Taiwan is watching Ukraine being destroyed after it followed American advice and played tough with a nearby superpower. It has ignored American suggestions for free military aid and basing troops. As Ukraine is destroyed, Taiwan is moving closer to China, its largest trading partner. Better red than dead.

    Potential American ally Vietnam sees the same thing. There is big talk about new agreements with the Philippines for new bases. That nation’s economy is booming because China is booming. It is packed with Chinese tourists and business ventures. Half of businesses in the Philippines have been run by ethnic Chinese for decades. They will accept millions of dollars in American aid each year to improve its ports and airfields just for signing a piece of paper. But if serious tensions arise and the USA says it will deploy forces to these American built facilities, President Marcos will say no and enjoy a good laugh. He’s probably shared this with China.

    • Thanks: Gerhard57NL
  13. anon[145] • Disclaimer says:

    Jews of the City of London need to control all of the world. They’ve convinced themselves and all Jews that if they don’t have all the money and all the power of the world, another Holocaust will happen. They can’t have governments that are not “democratic” because democratic governments are far easier to control/corrupt/coerce than autocracies, esp. ones that are nationalistic like those of China, Russia and Iran.

    Meanwhile, of the top 10 countries with the largest oil reserves in the world, only 3 are not under direct or indirect US control – Venezuela, Iran and Russia. (((Washington))) knows that whoever controls all the oil controls the world, because China, Europe, Japan, India and most of the rest of the world are 100% energy dependent. Which is why these 3 countries must be brought under US control, because whoever controls the oil controls China, and China is the once and future gold mine. Europe, India and Japan are already our lap dogs, hence China is the biggest (remaining) threat.

    • Agree: Gerhard57NL
    • Replies: @Hacienda
    , @Francis Miville
  14. Biff says:
    @Notsofast

    There is literally nothing that is designed or made in the USA that I/many want or need. The world can do just fine without that dump, and the sooner it is regulated to the trash bin of history the better.

    Ibanez makes better guitars, Isuzu makes better trucks, and the fat lady is about to sing.

    • Replies: @FTB
    , @Wade
  15. @Folkvangr

    To achieve its goals, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses two doctrines: The “Three Wars” and “United Front”.

    Did you pull this out from where the sun don’t shine? No where on Earth is there an official CCP (Chinese Communist Party). You might as well say UFO’s are trying to use two doctrines……

    Great job cementing your TROLL status.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  16. Dumbo says:
    @Folkvangr

    The very fact that the CCP calls its doctrine “psychological warfare” proves that it is waging a war against the free world

    Hahaha. What “free world”, moron? Have you been in a time warp? You’re 60 years late. We can’t even avoid being replaced by immigrants, our children are forced to wear masks and turn gay, and 100 billion of our taxes go to corrupt oligarchs in the Ukrime. Some freedom.

    used by the Chinese regime to expand its influence and infiltration into Western democracies.

    Ha again. It’s not the “Chinese regime” who is promoting gay and transgender stuff in the media and in schools for children, pornography for men, and sluttiness/cat lady feminism for women.

  17. Short-term the military industrial complex and the energy companies and BigAg and BigPharma are making huge profits for their Wall Street investors, so the anti Russia and anti-China policies make perfect sense.

    Long-term: the investors and their political puppets do not make decisions, in fact CANNOT make decisions, based on long term strategies.

    In my opinion the above formulation is accurate and explains everything.

  18. In response to Mike Whitney’s question, PCR wisely responded: “First of all, it makes no difference whatsoever what I would support, or you would support, or the American people would support. We neither control nor influence the decisions. This is why in the end it comes to enserfment or revolution.”

    Thanks so much, Dr. Roberts, and am in total agreement.

    Btw, either wealthy or poor, “enserfment” is the precise American condition, until my divided nation inevitably enters a bloody revolutionary stage.

    My prediction:
    Is all planned by International and America’s Supremacist Jews & Shabbos goy neoconservatives, who will likely transform into the saviors & Founding Fathers of what glorious mess emerges.

    • Replies: @Chuck Orloski
    , @Kali
  19. IronForge says:

    As the H8 Masonic-Zionist Hegemony have run into a “Massive Barricade that pushes back” in RUS over UKRaine+Sanctions, they’re encountering a “Massive Barricade ready to Snuff Out Insurgencies and Mow Over Containment Blockades” in CHN over Taiwan_Island+HKG+SilkRoad+Sanctions.

    Both RUS and CHN can longer be crushed/contained/subjugated/felled by the Hegemony via:

    A) Currency/Economic/Trade/Financing/SovereignDebt Venues; nor by

    B) Proxy-War/5thColumnColorRevos/Direct_Confrontations.

    *****

    The major problems for the Hegemony lie on the fact that CHN will provide “Alternative” Financing+PublicInfrastrureDevelopement+Trading Schemes which won’t be as exploitative as those employed by the Hegemony.

    The Grain/PetroU$D/MIC dominance held by the Hegemony over the World since WW2 are diminishing.

    IRN(Trading Hydrocarbons for major Non-U$D Currencies, Gold, and Barter), RUS(Insta-₽UB Payment Conversions), and CHN(by their PetroCN¥-Gold and DirectPurchaseSchemes) graduated from the PetroU$D Scheme; and their Hydrocarbon Partners don’t need to buy/carry U$Ds and U$Ds for these Trades.

    IRQ are the newest OPEC-GCC Member to Openly Trade with CHN – in CN¥. More are expected to follow suit. As OPEC-GCC Members Trade in CN¥ to CHN and IN₹ to IND, the necessity/influence of the U$D in the Orient will significantly diminish.

    These trends are irreversible.

    The “Rogue States” of IRN and PRK can not be invaded/felled/ColorRevo’d/Collapsed either. IRN are too large, well equipped with Missiles+Drones, well versed with RUS/CHN/PRK Military Gear. CHN_PLA and PRK_KPA advise IRN as CHN_PLAN Ships make Port Calls in IRN; and IRN+RUS collaborations on Fighter Jet Acquisitions and Drone Licencing are impressive.

    PRK – have 8~10Million Troops on Full Activation, Artillery to level Seoul within the Hour, Nukes, ICBMs-that-will-reach-CONUS-probablyDC+NYC, TBMs, Hypersonics, Supersonics, and Cruise Missiles that can reach Taipei. SLBMs imply misery+hardships for Targeted Nation-States crossing PRK’s “RedLines” (I’ll leave it at that – I’m an ex-Naval Officer, so I won’t discuss Specific Strategy+Tactics that can be used against Descendants of friendly Classmates and Shipmates currently Serving).

    That would leave Africa, ISR’s Neighborhood, and the Americas vulnerable to the Hegemony. €URoZone De-Industrialized aren’t that great a prize – their “Consumer Influences” have taken a back seat to CHN, IND, and RCEP-Asia’s in Volume. IIRC, PhD Michael Hudson one stated that €Urope will soon become a Cultural Theme Park for Murica the way GBRittania already are(smh).

    My hunches are that the SCO/SilkRoad/RCEP-Asia Trading Blocks will most likely outgrow+”out develop” the H8_Hegemony this Century.

    The Hegemony’s Plutarchy+VassalOligarchs are facing permanently waning influences over the Orient. Hence the Panic.

    Will the H8 resort to “Scorched Earth” Wars against RUS+CHN? Soros have engaged in Regime Change Ops for RUS+CHN+IND. The Jewish Khazar-Ashkenazi Tribal Faction led by Soros/Blinken/Nudelman-Khagan just might start a full War over Russia – ZATOCeania are Expendable. RUS+CHN+IND declaring the Soros-Schwartz Faction as a Jewish Diaspora and “Greater Israeli Entity” – therefore making All Jewish Diaspora and Israel Culpable for Soros-Schwartz/Blinken/Nudelman-Khagan/ISW/RAND/Kolomoiskyy/Zelenskyy/OtherDiaspora Activities against their States – may get some Tribals motivated to “retire” the Soros Faction.

    The Plutarchy+VassalOligarchs can be targeted as well. RUS+CHN+IND declaring them as Targets could curb Brandon, Blinken, Sunak, Macron, von der Leyen, Borrell, and Baerbock’s Irrational Enthusiasms.

    PS – Trump or De Santis won’t solve this from Murica’s End…

    • Agree: Zarathustra
    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  20. Franz says:

    in the end it comes to enserfment or revolution

    Yes indeed Paul Craig. And the NeoCohans want to control which ever way it goes.

    If enserfment, look for cheap vodka/heroin for schoolkids the minute the ball drops.

    If revolution the Usual Gang of Idiots will back the strongest troops with the weakest minds. We’ll remember Lenin’s Bolshevism as a flowering of genius and riches.

    We need to be creatively rebellious.

  21. @Chuck Orloski

    Two more sentences?

    1. Of course, America’s controlled demolition resembles what happened to the three WTC towers on 9/11.

    2. To paraphrase the Beach Boys hit tune, it’s Serfin USA.

  22. JWalters says:

    Excellent perspectives, thank you.

    My hunch is that China is a stand-in for Trump to personify his attack on the Deep State. Bannon is doing exactly the same. Bannon recently had a guest on War Room who said China “stole” the jobs that Western financiers shipped over there (and that it was a “war crime”). Both Bannon and Trump surely know America is controlled – financially, politically, and media – by Zionist financiers. But they can’t risk saying that outright, at least not yet. Still, Bannon occasionally drops a reference to the City of London when talking about the Globalists. He must know that is the headquarters of the Rothschild bank, one of the preeminent globalist banks.
    https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.html

    And they don’t want to fan the insanely dangerous conflict with Russia (provoked for 20 years by the Zionist financiers controlling America), so they focus on China as a way to manage the anger of their base toward the mysterious Deep State.

    They can’t openly talk about the Zionists because of the enormous power the Zionists still have in America. They would risk an onslaught that could potentially cripple their efforts. Trump has the added problem that much of his base are duped Christian Zionists, who would freak out at any revelations of the truth about the Zionists and Israel.

    In general, he has to stay within an Overton Window that has been partially defined by well-entrenched lies. So he has to at least pretend to go along with some of those lies, at least for now. (Similarly for some politicians on the Left.)

    A big clue about Trump’s view, it seems to me, is that on 9/11 he was interviewed on a NYC news show, and said definitively he did not think a plane could have brought down the Twin Tower, and that additional explosives would have been required. He gave a clear engineering explanation for his conclusion.
    Donald Trump Calls Into WWOR/UPN 9 News on 9/11

    Two days later Trump had gotten in line with the official story. My estimate is that he saw how everybody was covering up the crime, figured out it was an operation from very high up, as a NYC insider quite possibly had a pretty good idea who was behind it, and knew how dangerous they were. Despite being very focused on personal success, and an imperfect vehicle, this attack was too much, and aroused his sense of patriotism.

    Over on the West Coast Steve Bannon was so affected by 9/11 he abandoned a large media project he was working on. From his background, he may also have had a pretty good idea of who was behind it.

    And thus began their stealth attempt to take down the Deep State. The extreme danger posed by the ruthless Zionist mafia gave rise to a careful approach, featuring policy feints and ambiguities. Many of Trump’s apparently contradictory statements and actions may be more understandable in this light. Trump did not have a populist path to the presidency through the Democratic party with Bernie Sanders in that lane, but he was able to steal the Republican voting base away from the Wall Street establishment.

    And thus also began the Deep State’s attempts to attack, marginalize, and effectively destroy Trump (and Bannon) in every conceivable way. The prolonged intensity of those attacks is serious evidence that the Zionist financiers who control America’s establishment see Trump as a serious threat.

    • Replies: @Francis Miville
  23. GMC says:

    There is another elephant in the room and its never discussed – the Department of Commerce. One of the men who ran the department named Roth is a sketchy individual and I see that my search engine has sanitized his name in regards to the DOC

    The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for business and government decision making, and helping to set industrial standards. Its main purpose is to create jobs, promote economic growth, encourage sustainable development and block harmful trade practices of other nations.[3] It is headed by the Secretary of Commerce, who reports directly to the President of the United States and is a member of the president’s Cabinet. The Department of Commerce is headquartered in the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.

    Obviously Roth and others sold out the workers of the USA for Wall Street, International Bankers, and a whole lot of money. Not to mention the main Guys they reported to – The Presidents of the USA. This is Treason – Again and Again and Again.

    • Replies: @Kurt Knispel
  24. @Folkvangr

    Yes, hooray for Russian imperialism. It only took 8 years of provocation.
    And Russia’s “shock & awe” tactics — they’ll have the whole Ukraine in the bag by summer….

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  25. Levtraro says:

    But if China then dumped the dollars from bond redemptions in the currency market, the Federal Reserve cannot print foreign currencies with which to purchase the dollars, and the dollar’s exchange value would fall, raising the price of imports made necessary by the offshoring of US manufacturing and food imports, thus worsening US inflation and lowering US living standards.

    Here you are wrong. The Federal Reserve can and will order the printing of foreign currency to soften the fall of the US dollar because the USA owns the European Central Bank and controls several other central banks, including the Canadian, Australian, and South Korean (the British and Japanese CBs are already maxed out).

    Although all European governments along with European journalists receive, as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs told me years ago, bag fulls of money for representing Washington’s interests […]

    If you understand this, then you should understand that the ECB (and the other CBs I mentioned) are also controlled by the USA, therefore the veracity of my reply above follows.

    At that point, unless people have been killed off with “vaccines” and released pathogens or in nuclear war, the guillotine arrives and governments fall.

    Check out the song by Combichrist called “Fuck that shit”. It’s about politicians and their journos and the guillotine.

    Thirdly, according to Modern Monetary Theory, the creation of money by governments to finance infrastructure projects that lead to greater productivity or reduce costs to business is non-inflationary.

    But you have MMT right now according to wise and knowledgeable TUR commentators eah and skrik, commentators that have no doubt whatsoever about the absolute truth of MMT. They are saying that the federal govt can produce all the dollars it needs, that the federal govt is not funded by the taxpayer, that tax payments are simply economic repression, because the federal govt practices MMT and the taxpayer is not the ultimate creator of all wealth. So if MMT is being applied right now by the federal govt of the USA, why is MMT not doing what you believe it would do?

  26. (((Wall Street))) demands to be able to suck China dry like they have sucked the US dry. The Chinese won’t let them and must be punished for their antisemitism. Vasn’t six million enough?

  27. Levtraro says:
    @anonymous

    Correct, but it should be noted that this did not need to be the case. If wise managers had run the USA empire post Soviet Union collapse, today the USA would be the uncontested world hegemon and the leader of science, technology, industry and commerce in an unipolar world, and would remain at that position for decades. Unfortunately, Americans screwed things up by electing vain, petty, subpar, mediocre leaders that were easily corrupted by destructive internal forces and stupid economists with their silly theories.

    • Replies: @Rev. Spooner
  28. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    You threw your Aborigines off the cliffs and now you are being thrown under the bus. Seems fair.

  29. Wow, a change from Whitney and Roberts individually bashing the American Empire – now it’s a tag team.

    • Replies: @Rev. Spooner
  30. @Notsofast

    It’ll take time for the American Empire to collapse completely, but the process has already started. Let’s just say I anticipate the US passport becoming a less useful travel document each year. Hopefully, the Europeans have the sense to get on a lifeboat before the Titanic sinks.

    • Replies: @anonymous
    , @Miro23
  31. Anonymous[272] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    “The indispensable nation is now the indefensible nation.” Good one!

    • Agree: Kali
  32. JR Foley says:
    @Folkvangr

    What about The Three Stooges—is it the count two or Hey Moe – Hey Larry –nyuk nyuk nyuk

  33. “Just as the US broke its agreement with Russia not to expand NATO and has withdrawn from the agreements made during the Cold War that served to reduce tensions, Washington is now moving toward repudiating the one-China policy as it no longer serves Washington’s interest.”

    I guess it continues. There was no agreement with the USSR. And nothing of the kind was extended to Russia. There appear to have been personal assurances maybe — but they have no weight to policy , no could individuals speak unilaterally on behalf of the UN. Suppose you claim there was a gentleman’s agreement. Well, in that case spell out the authorities empowered to make such an agreement. You gentleman are supposed to be among the best and the brightest —

    lay out the specifics here note the policy — something that profound limits on who can join NATO — one would expect a hard copy somewhere. Pres Putin said it was in the OSCE, it was not.

    —————-

    Well, you have a real problem in this analysis. China’s growth has been at the expense of employment and infrastructure opportunities here in the US. That nearly 1 million business have moved (invested in) to China to avoid US labor costs.

    Solution integrate with the belt road project to improve infrastructure at home . . . in otherwords invest more into China so they can hire US citizens here at home. Of course that would simply boost china’s economic standing at our expense and expand China’s influence here in the US, which does not include our former values. But more importantly, we have a congress that already caters to economic interests at the expense of the US citizen. handing more money to foreign enterprise who will in turn have greater influence against a current congress that already operates in a conflict of interest revolving door — is counter productive to the goal. China is already buying up US properties as part of her belt and road project. Here’s some good news:

    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-us-militarys-greatest-weakness-china-builds-huge-chunk-25966

    not really good news at all.

    If a bought out Congress currently allows and encourages illegal immigrants hires, even in defense contracting, i see no reason why China would not hire illegals as well. That is all the US needs a foreign owner hiring ,more foreigners. Texas is already embracing these commnuities, do state a reason why China would not do the same.

    At the moment the economic relations has the US in a position advantage. As a the largest investor in China , China has a lot to loose should the US policies curtail businesses from doing business in China.

    Before taking any steps regarding investments in China further

    The US should cease: defense products development in China
    cease permitting china or anyone else for that matter owning any US property or business
    slow through policy any ambitions to further chinese investments by US companies
    evaluate the long term impact of the belt road global to US security

    well considerations for those that are actually interested in the US

    While i think the elections had serious issues, those issues occurred under the auspices of state sanctioned decisions. Any chance at evaluating the process was squandered by the jan 6 incursion into the capital. While not a riot and not directly the fault of the executive, those that breached the halls of congress by force and clearly, even the lead in and around was an attempt by police to control the breach.

    While China may desire to save face over Taiwan, i am hard pressed to think she would squander her larger ambitions over Taiwan from which she currently reaps benefits. And while Taiwan is of some concern, the dynamic their regarding sovereignty is very different than what is going down in Ukraine.

    • Replies: @unzrocks
  34. @Mark G.

    Your reasoning & logic seem sound. Unfortunately the thinking of US elites/deep state is pathological — thinking as sound as a cracked bell….

  35. The American Empire: A Private Enterprise . After centuries of care and maintenance the exhausted British elected to turn over the keys of Empire to the US. We had been, for decades, carefully planning for that day to come.

    The Brits had woven their presence into most of the world and the average English citizen felt a part of it all. As a multi generational reality it was quite normal for a citizen to spend a portion of life abroad doing the Empire’s work. This incountry presence over generations had gifted English language and Western ethos worldwide. Upon receiving the keys, as had long been anticipated, America’s approach to Empire was quite different.

    Our Empire was to be a private enterprise and ownership would remain in select hands in perpetuity. In fact the words American Empire were to never appear in any official communique. Ownership was to be allocated carefully with one firm caveat. No elected official was ever to be admitted; too transitory, thus unreliable. Of course, this would apply to the highest offices in the land. Presidents would come and go not fully aware they were considered to be figureheads by the rulers. The British had established and maintained a presence in many countries for centuries. The US would attempt the same but American civilians in-country would not be a dominant feature. Our major presence would be the military.

    It was agreed that a form of governance was the first order of business. Since we would not have a State to control, determine and direct proceeding, we would put in place a Deep State, answerable only to the masters. We had not disarmed as most nations had after World War ll. The war machine was left in place and would be added to for decades. Therefore the military would be welcomed well up into the power circle. The largest business enterprises supplying the military were enjoined as well. Large investment banks were invited gleefully. Especially welcomed was the Federal Reserve Bank which had been created to assure a supply of money for the Empire, always.

    To prevent any inertia remaining that might slow down the dollar flow, gold as value was removed so the dollar could live beyond its means at the will of the elite.. Now, five decades later, the worldwide ensorcellment of the dollar, and money does enchant us so, has allowed creation of unlimited fiat currency and the resultant monstrous debt that is to be guaranteed, of course, by our descendants. The keystone to this most ambitious undertaking has been without doubt, the major media. The early stage was confined to print media; radio tagged along soon after. Television and film were problematic but eager helpers from viewer protection agencies kept close watch; to keep the conversation on a proscribed track.

    The internet should/could have been a problem for the elite, but interest in factual accuracy had long since been excised from the public psyche about our hegemon, that secret power cabal. All aspects of control are solidly in place to permanently maintain an American Empire which does not officially even exist. So…
    The game continues.

    • Thanks: PetrOldSack
  36. To @ Robert Magill

    Emails welcomed.

  37. Accommodation might “benefit all and remove the danger of nuclear war”. But the need for power and dominance is very alluring, primeval even. For power allows people do anything – giving control and security. Unfortunately power is an illusion: no one holds it forever. They think they can. That is why every empire in history has eventually faced the war it was trying to avoid – its own destruction.
    https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/

  38. Expat11 says:

    We know THEY will be able to stop any logical policy to improve the situation. I’m still waiting for the spreadsheet listing of THEY so we can call them up, or visit THEIR neighborhoods and rain on THEM the shit THEY deserve.

  39. Another great simple direct analysis by mr paul craig roberts.

    • Agree: TheTrumanShow
  40. @Chris Moore

    Ah Chris, here we go again. Blame it on the Jews, what a bunch of stuff, but you are entitled to your thoughts and opinions. Like a lot of you “Keyboard Warriors”, it is easy to sit and type and blame others for your or the problems of the world.

    You are so sure that it is the Jews’ fault, explain it to me, on how a population of less than 1/2 percent of the global population is able to do this, or could it be because you are too lazy to work hard and be successful?

    Oh well, as I said guess you are entitled to your opinion, even if it is small and narrow minded.

    • Agree: Realist
    • Disagree: Chuck Orloski
    • LOL: TheTrumanShow
    • Replies: @AndrewR
    , @Chris Moore
  41. Happy says:
    @anonymous

    “It inserted itself into Asia as a result of the Spanish-American war …”

    In the 1830s, (yup, 18) the East India Squadron of the U.S. Navy sent several missions from its regional base in Guangzhou (Canton), China, to Japan but in each case, the Japanese did not permit them to land…
    Source: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/opening-to-japan
    Also, that squadron patrolled the Yangtze river and undoubtedly docked in Wuhan .

    Do you know why we have so many Cantonese restaurants in the US today? In fact, a lot of Cantonese were probably Shanghaied and brought over as virtual slave laborers to work the gold mines and build the railroads. (decades prior to the S-A War) Once those things were done, the Chinese were expendable, but some still hung on. Same thing with the Panama Canal, the land for which was stolen by the US from Colombia.

    Also, look up the American opium traders that were doing business in China in the 1800s.
    “Samuel Wadsworth Russell … founded Russell and Co., the most powerful American merchant house in China for most of the second half of the 19th Century. He landed in Canton in 1819 and quickly amassed a fortune in the opium trade.
    “The Delano Family. Warren Delano, Jr., a grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was chief of operations for Russell & Co., another Boston trading firm which did big business in the China opium trade in Canton.

    Source: Phillip Smith, 5 Elite Families Who Made Their Fortunes in the Opium Trade, Forbes
    http://www.alternet.org/drugs/5-elite-families-fortunes-opium-trade

  42. These Neocons are real simpletons.
    First they couldn’t see that Russia would team up with China&co as a consequence of their provocations and be able to live far better with the sanctions than assumed, and that the weaponization of the $ would inevitably lead to de-dollarizationas and thereby to the very opposite of their intended hegemony, namely multi-polarity.
    And now, they cannot even see that US businesses and citizens will be the hardest hit from their actions against China.
    And these anti-China actions are objectively completely unnecessary.
    To justify them, they invented the idiotic imperialist narrative, which is just as wrong as in Russia’s case and flies in the face of the US military bases encircling China: How dare they putting their border next to these bases?!!!
    No, I fear and am convinced, that the sole real reason for them egging on this conflict and risking WW3 now (besides MIC $s of course) is most banal and unfirtunately oh so American:
    We always have to be No1!
    In particular economically and here in particular on the basis of the still main metric to measure that: total $ GDP ranking position.
    So they decided to fight the mathematical certainty that first China and then eventually even India will displace the US from that No1 position.
    It is of course objectively totally irrelevant who holds that spot and it would actually be great for the people of the world if the cake would be allowed to grow everywhere regardless of those ranking shifts, but they simply can’t bring themselves to let that happen.
    The banality of evil Vol. 2.

  43. @Richard B

    Language, vocabulary, precise terminology, is the lower layer of discussion/opinion/data-analysis. Nobody seems to want to go there, in itself an IQ, formal knowledge, competency test.

    We man-meat fail that test, if not most of the middle-class would not scavenge on the scraps of the power-full, they simply would be redundant, uninteresting, and as they are, way too expensive. Herding cannot be done when whatever signaling is put aside, hubris would implode. Eery silence, the bedrock of a “real” opinion, explanation, system, data-analysis again being open for business.

    …we, the man-meat are a sorry bunch. Not necessarily in-competence at the top, but willing to confuse, albeit miring the short/opportunistic horizon. The driver is loyalty and greed to the “working model”. Criminals are defined as [organized crime lopped in] taking shortcuts, disregard social responsibility and versing into personal/group wealth at the expense of all others. Hence the Jewish Mindset. P.C.R is a Jew? Bad credentials, to say the least, a man of convention, a “career”. Then turning around, but still …looking over his shoulder, hence Sachs, Hudson, and so many others. To me the champion of them all is hall of famer Chomsky.

    Another category are the Kissinger’s, the Soros’s, yes, Jewish mafia dons and made-men, married in foot soldiers, shiksas and woke drivel of color White, these criminals are judged and juried by their own. Imagine!

    • Thanks: Chuck Orloski
  44. Building a civilization is hard work……………just 2 million years ago the human pedigree was one of swinging in trees…….

    Perhaps the natural selection of the higher order of the cerebral cortex frontal lobe is still in enough conflict with our lower brain functioning that we may not be able to keep things from falling apart.

    I concur with Sir Martin Rees observation that humans might have a 50% chance of making it through this current century without going extinct or at least experiencing a worldwide collapse of civilization as we know it today.

    Enough doom and gloom for now…………we have too much going on for now.

  45. Hacienda says:
    @anon

    Europe, India and Japan are already our lap dogs, hence China is the biggest (remaining) threat.

    You can never overestimate the smugness of Americans.

    • Replies: @Rev. Spooner
  46. The irony of Washington’s approach, however, is the fact that tens of thousands of US corporations have fled the US over the last 3 decades to take advantage of China’s low-paid work force. In fact—according to Registration China—there are now more than 1 million foreign-owned companies registered on Mainland China, many of which are owned by Americans. These corporations are largely responsible for China’s meteoric economic rise over the same period of time. So my question to you is this: Why is China being blamed and targeted for the explosive growth for which US corporations are mainly responsible? Or do you disagree with my analysis?

    NOBODY REALLY WANTS TO REMEMBER THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE U.S. ECONOMY WERE BETRAYED BY SAM WALTON AND WALMART STARTING BACK IN THE MID 1980s-

    Excerpted-

    Following the brutal suppression of Chinese students in Tiananmen Square in 1989 by the Chinese Communist leadership, Walton feared a consumer backlash if Wal-Mart were seen as operating in China. He was also disturbed by charges of human rights abuses in his Asian suppliers’ factories.

    To continue growing in Asia, Wal-Mart needed a buffer — a middleman or a buying agency that would purchase Asian products without showing Wal-Mart’s hand. According to the retired Hong Kong senior executive, Walton told Bill Fields, Wal-Mart’s head buyer, that he wanted to “get out” of direct involvement in Asia. “The decision was to go to an exclusive buying agency,” the buyer said. “The main reason for going into [the deal] was not to be exposed as going into Communist China.”

    Walton needed a trusted friend to act as his Asian middleman. He turned to a close friend and tennis partner, George Billingsley, to serve as the titular head of the operation. No matter that Billingsley, a former real estate salesman, knew next to nothing about retail or procurement. To actually run the operation, Walton found Charles Wong, a seasoned Wal-Mart vendor who knew the U.S. retail business well and was at ease operating in Asia. Billingsley would be a figurehead. Wong would run the day-to-day business of procurement out of Hong Kong.

    Within two years, Billingsley and Wong had set up Pacific Resources Export Limited (PREL) as an exclusive buying agent for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart sold its own Asian buying offices to PREL. The links were so close between PREL and Wal-Mart that “most of the people at Wal-Mart, referred to them as us,” said Jay Moates, the PREL accountant. “We hired all the old people from [Wal-Mart’s Asian buying] operation.”

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/wmchina.html

    What has become insane are those who believe that Sam Walton and Walmart had nothing to do with communist China back in the 1980s.

    • Thanks: Dragoslav
  47. Seems to me that sanctions are a two way street. So what happens when China starts siezing American assets. Has no one considered that China can do to America what America has done to many others. The Chinese have every right to use the same tools against America.

    • Agree: Deep Thought
  48. Best comment I saw on this is that the only reason the Taiwanese didn’t want to integrate with China was that China was poor. And that is no longer the case.

    • Replies: @Brian Damage
  49. AndrewR says:
    @Grumpy Old Fart

    Well, not all of our enemies are Jews (Biden certainly isn’t Jewish), and not all Jews are our enemies (Ron Unz is a shining example of a good Jew) but there is a high correlation between being Jewish and being an enemy of humanity. If you’re Jewish or getting paid to write this then you’re my enemy but I can at least understand why you’re doing it. But if you’re a goy writing this comment for free then you are subsubhuman.

    • Replies: @TheTrumanShow
  50. AndrewR says:
    @Folkvangr

    The Ukrainian people are just pawns in an evil game between the regimes in DC/London, Kyiv and Moscow, as well as various groups jockeying for power in Ukraine and Russia.
    But, by far, the most evil of these groups is the regime in DC/London. The Kyiv regime is a close second. The various anti-Russian factions in Ukraine get the third most blame, and the Moscow regime gets the least blame for every dead Ukrainian.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  51. The terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate is not just the US, and its formation predates the existence of the US by several centuries. As old partners of the US-led terrorists, China/Russia will not have much of an issue trading and exchanging stuff even in the case of a US-China or US-Russia “war”. Fuck the “Biden admin.”, the “Trump admin.” and all that shit. Whoever the dog guarding the White House at the time, that “war” will only happen whenever other branches of the business demand it.

  52. Trump kicked this entire thing off but the Chinese are doing the end run with unexpected blowback consequences ballooning all over the place.

  53. @Levtraro

    But you have MMT right now according to wise and knowledgeable TUR commentators eah and skrik, commentators that have no doubt whatsoever about the absolute truth of MMT.

    They are saying that the federal govt can produce all the dollars it needs, that the federal govt is not funded by the taxpayer …

    Levtraro, that’s an important point you raised. It seems PCR has been mixing with that economic charlatan, the Marxist/Maoist Michael Hudson, who believes that MMT will be our salvation.

    Of course ‘MMT’ is just a new fangled name for an experiment that has been tried and failed disastrously every time in human history. ie: endless money printing.
    It always ends badly – runaway inflation and impoverishment of the poor and middle classes.

    In the interview PCR speaks of:

    ‘ the creation of money by governments to finance infrastructure projects that lead to greater productivity or reduce costs to business is non-inflationary’

    Now, what PCR said above would be true IF said government initiated infrastructure projects led to greater productivity and significantly reduced costs to business.

    But …. THEY SELDOM DO.

    You see, the government bureaucrats/politicians entrusted with picking winners or losers, are themselves LOSERS.
    That’s why they’re working in government in the first place – because they were FAILURES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

    Almost invariably said government bureaucrats/politicians pick LOSERS.
    They invest in Green Energy boondoggles that the private sector would not touch with a barge pole.
    They invest in grandiose High Speed Rail (like the fools in California are attempting), or all manner of other hare brained projects, WITHOUT FIRST DOING A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS.

    Yes, High Speed Rail can be made viable in countries with a high population density like Japan or China, where said venture can run profitably.
    But in countries like the U.S (and even more so in Australia where I’m from), where there just aren’t sufficient numbers of passengers travelling over a given distance to make it viable, these ventures will inevitably haemorrhage red ink.
    They’ll be yet another government initiated sink hole that squanders precious taxpayers money.

    Bottom Line: Just about any major product that the Government gets involved with will crash and burn, losing countless billions of finite resources.

    Since it won’t reduce costs for businesses and almost certainly lead to LOWER PRODUCTIVITY, funding by way of MMT will for sure be highly inflationary.

    • Replies: @Levtraro
  54. Miro23 says:

    If China were to dump its holdings of US debt on the bond market, the Federal Reserve would have to print money with which to redeem the bonds so that the price doesn’t collapse.

    More likely that the US would move in anticipation and confíscate Chinese dollar denominated reserves, the same as they did with Russia’s. China is caught.

    The President of the United States was harassed by his own Department of Justice (sic) as a Russian agent simply because he wanted to “normalize relations with Russia.” I was branded a Putin Agent/Dupe by a website given prominence by the Washington Post, funded by we don’t know who, because I provided a truthful, correct account of the neoconservatives’ responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine.

    Wall to wall MSM propaganda.

  55. @IronForge

    The Cabal i-s feeling the stress, it could disintegrate. Hence the turn-over of individuals in the public eye, the fishing for men out of the grave [Kissinger]. Cold sweat, not trusting one another, commands ignored, the head of the snake is affected.

    We man-meat should be grateful for this, regardless of the “nothing better, more of the same, at wish”, Putin, China alternatives. The Western outliers must sanitize, auto-regulate, kick in the immune response, rally our own havoc. The head of the snake must not slither away.

    • Replies: @IronForge
  56. Publius 2 says:
    @Levtraro

    People are still paying $650k for $320k houses! Lunacy.

    We are living in the world portrayed in the movie Braveheart. 13th century. 1% owns everything and the rest of us are renters.

    • Agree: TKK
    • Replies: @Gizmo880
  57. AndrewR says:
    @SafeNow

    You don’t need a 160 IQ to be an interpreter. 105 would easily suffice for most purposes. And frankly at those stratospheric IQ levels, basic human interaction often becomes quite difficult.

    • Replies: @Realist
  58. “Ha again. It’s not the “Chinese regime” who is promoting gay and transgender stuff in the media and in schools for children, pornography for men, and sluttiness/cat lady feminism for women.”

    The china you think you is not the china that is

    https://daoinsights.com/opinions/where-is-china-with-transgender-rights/

    hate to use official sources, but the “binary” essentially static view we have in the US is not held in many parts of asia.

    excuse the use of official sources
    laugh

  59. Miro23 says:

    There’s a great deal of hubris in these events. It’s necessary to admit that since the end of WW2 organized Jewry has been extraordinarily successfull in taking control of the power centres of the Anglo world (UK, US, Canada, Australia, NZ) and much of the EU.

    This now seems to account for arrogant mistakes like Ukraine and the destruction of Nordstream and provoking conflict with China. For more than two generations they haven’t encountered any opposition that they haven’t been able to subvert or destroy, so it looks like they’re basically drunk on Imperial power.

    Rather like the earlier British Empire 1914 marching into WW1 trench warfare to kick Boche arse. That didn’t work out too well and was the beginning of the end for that Empire.

  60. “Has no one considered that China can do to America what America has done to many others. The Chinese have every right to use the same tools against America.”

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/2/21/china-sanctions-us-defence-firms-raytheon-lockheed-over-taiwan

    https://www.dw.com/en/is-china-secretly-imposing-unilateral-sanctions/a-64897766

    https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-passes-law-counter-foreign-sanctions-2021-06-10/

    key take away — China needs western investment with the US at 25% the largest of any nation – that’s a huge risk for her

  61. @Folkvangr

    If this is true then why did Russia wait until 8 years after we overthrew the Kiev gov’t to invade? Does the nation of Georgia also have all these things you say Russia wants to steal? I ask because we attempted a similar thing there in 2008 and Russia beat the Georgians back to where they came from and withdrew. What was in it for Russia to steal when we attacked Germany by destroying their gas supply pipeline? You are not thinking clearly and thus your expressions are nonsensical relative to the obvious truth. Or are you simply blinded by some sort of anti Russian/anti Putin ideology? It can only be one of those 2 things.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  62. anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:

    It wasn’t so much that US corporations left on their own seeking higher profits from lower labor costs as it was that they were pushed by Wall Street, which threatened to finance takeovers in order to take advantage of the lower cost opportunity

    This is a key quote. It has been the actions of finance capitalism that has led the US to this position, finance capitalism that has been the driving force behind US military aggression. It is what’s undermined the US.
    Mr Roberts is correct in pointing out what a hoax the storyline of American democracy really is. They want a war they’ll get it no matter what the mass of Americans may want or need.

  63. Joe Wong says:
    @Notsofast

    Washington’s back-tracking on the one-China policy

    Washington’s negating on the one-China communique and agreement is an evidence proving the USA is a non-trustworthy rough state, a threat to the world peace, a danger to the humanity, and an obstruction to the global common prosperity.

    • Agree: Realist
  64. Gizmo880 says:
    @Publius 2

    “People are still paying $650k for $320k houses! Lunacy.”

    Agreed. Here in S.W Florida people are paying 250K+ for homes that should be no more than 90-100k just to get in some place and have a roof over their head. Lunacy it is.

    As for a movie that describes the times perfectly, I would pick ‘The Running Man’ with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson.

    • Replies: @unzrocks
  65. Perhaps a more forward looking question is this…

    Since China didn’t COVID themselves and it is accepted that the U.S. did a series of low level biowarfare attacks on the Chinese economy… what is China’s eventual response going to be?

    A) Continue to dump U.S. treasuries and then refuse the USD in trade at some point like Russia did

    B) Retaliatory biowarfare attack on customers that owe them at least a trillion USD equivalent

    C) Team up with Russia, Iran and India (SCO) and BRICS etc economically and slowly choke western banks

    D) Invade Taiwan and stop Chinese immigration to Arizona

  66. “But where are any American or Western leaders of vision?” An excellent question because, as it is written, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

    The materialist conceit, which dominates all the socio-economic ideologies at-large today, no exceptions, is not a “vision.” It is rather, as a matter of Natural Fact, a deadly delusion. The obsessive pursuit of material gains, of acquiring the maximum of cold comforts and crippling conveniences, the overwhelming objective of all “economic” and “political” activity among the “civilized” peoples, tries vainly to ignore another Natural Fact. The merely material aspects of this Living Universe where we are All brought to Being, are almost nothing at-all of All There Is.

    So the “civilized” peoples are caught-up entirely in wasting their precious attention on trivia and superficiality. They remain oblivious to such essential things as Organic Functional Integrity, and the consequences of its lack in their behavior and their philosophy.

    Knowledge and understanding of essential things comes by doing the Ceremony for Seeking Vision. The Native Nations of Turtle Island everywhere practiced this, as do us surviving Free Wild Peoples here in Indian Country still. “America,” its “leaders”and muddled masses alike, tried vainly to violently wipe-out The People and their Ceremonies.

    So, “….in America and the West….” there is no vision. Nor is there any among the other materialist “civilized” peoples racing deaf, dumb, and blind toward the destruction that always awaits those who are willfully ignorant, even proudly disdainful, of the TAO, The Way of Essential Things.

    Maybe “Americans” will find some of that cold comfort in all of the company they’ll have in their own terminal misery. Maybe they’ll go on languishing in blissful ignorance a little while longer. Like Custer and his men at the Greasy Grass fight, though, being oblivious to Natural Facts is not going to end well for them….and likely much sooner than later.

  67. unzrocks says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    You do understand that the US is the first true global empire of it’s kind? Everything the US does is to benefit the US, not China. Moving low end manufacturing to China does not benefit China, it benefits the US. More exodus of US dollar, which enforces US global hegemony.

    The US did not build up China. China build up China on it’s own by embracing science and industries. If all China did was doing low end manufacturing (clothes, shoes, toys, etc.) no one would have an issue and China would still be a poor, destitute country doing menial, low end laborious jobs.

    But China embraced the hard science. They educated their students, of which millions were educated in the West (in the fields of science and engineering). Give me an army of BS’s students in the hard science (5 million students), and out of 5 million students, 500,000 will go on to to get their MS’s and out of 500,000 MS’s, you will have 5000 – 10,000 PHD’s. It’s these MS’s and PHD’s that can create and innovate and advance in value chain and create more advanced products (like JD, TikTok, Huawei, international space station, etc.). That’s how the Europeans did it (the Scientific Revolution followed by the Industrial Revolution). That’s how the US did it. That’s how Japan and South Korea did it. That’s what China is doing right now, but at a much greater scale due to a much larger population. That’s the path that India and Africa and South America would need to follow as well.

    It’s called the battle of the brains. Two words and two words say it all. Science and Industries. That’s it.

    That’s why China has grown by leaps and bounds and now is a threat to US, not only in the hard- science but also in the field of financial. China wants to dump the US dollar from global trade and use local currencies instead. They have a payment system in place already and needs greater adaptation of other countries / merchants. That’s what the US fears the most, losing US dollar hegemony which the US military backs up through brute force. The exodus of US dollar through out the entire would is what gives US global hegemony and allows US unlimited money printing and deficit spending. This may be coming to an end in the coming decades.

  68. Realist says:
    @Notsofast

    The current world problems are caused by the rapaciousness and megalomaniacal actions of those that control the United States.
    This is something that elections cannot change.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  69. unzrocks says:
    @Gizmo880

    I suggest you read up on how capitalism / money creation works.
    1) The Money Masters
    2) The Creature from Jekyll Island
    3) Super Imperialism – The Economic Strategy of American Empire
    4) Confessions of an Economic Hitman

    Inflation / high cost of living is reflected in money printing after 1971 when Nixon took the US dollar off the GOLD STANDARD, which means the US dollar is now free floating. This allowed the US government / treasury to spend money way beyond what they take in taxes by simply borrowing money from the US Federal Reserve (Private Bank owned by the bank cartels) or borrowing money from foreign surplus countries through foreign countries purchasing US treasury, etc. That’s why the past 50 years, inflation has risen way faster than actual wages due to unlimited money printing backed by nothing (it’s actually backed by the US military). That’s why the US government debt keeps growing (at 31+ trillion) and increasing every year due to deficit spending. New money is created and exported / sold to the entire world through deficit spending, but it also increases the money supply in the US which results in higher inflation, etc. You do realize that it costs the central banks practically less than 20 cents to create a brand new one hundred dollar bill by which they can lend out money through fractional reserve lending (home loan, car loan, business loan, etc.) or spend money abroad to purchase physical goods (imports from countries like Germany, China, South Korea, Japan – all trade surplus countries) or lend money to trade deficit countries (Argentina, Greece, Turkey, etc. – all trade deficit countries) through the world bank.

  70. Realist says:
    @AndrewR

    You missed his point entirely.

  71. Realist says:

    The Chinese financial system is largely socialized and is used to finance the real economy instead of speculation in financial assets. American banks want to bring the gambling casino to China and can’t.

    In the United States, so much wealth and power are concentrated in only a few hands, which is a major problem. One of the first things that need to happen in the revival of the US is that a limit is placed on the amount of wealth allowed to individuals.

  72. @Levtraro

    Unfortunately, Americans screwed things up by electing vain, petty, subpar, mediocre leaders that were easily corrupted by destructive internal forces and stupid economists with their silly theories.

    Propaganda works, like it or not. The more the repetition, the more the message (true or false) gets accepted.
    The real problem is that elections have been made eligible only for the ultra rich and those that sell out their soul for funding.
    A drastic reduction in funds for election canvassing should be mandated but that will always remain a pipe dream.
    And corporations shouldn’t have human rights.

  73. Dumbo says:
    @TKK

    This is more the “do not interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake” Sun Tzu kind of thing. But it’s not China who’s creating that.

  74. @Dave from Oz

    Best comment I saw on this is that the only reason the Taiwanese didn’t want to integrate with China was that China was poor. And that is no longer the case.

    That is spot on. I have relatives in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and a few Southeast Asian countries. 35 years ago and before that, Mainland Chinese were looked down upon by ethnic Chinese from other places. No one wanted to have anything to do with them. But at the same time, blood is thicker than water. It was the Southeast Asian Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong who invested in China in the 80s and 90s and helped made what China is today. The US and Europe didn’t invest anything. It was hoping China would go the way of Russia in the 80s. Economically in taters.

    • Agree: unzrocks, Deep Thought
    • Replies: @LarryD3
  75. Folkvangr says:
    @Ulf Thorsen

    the obvious truth

    It seems that your “obvious truths” are just tiresome repetitions of the official RT narratives that clog this site.
    Putin did not wait 8 years. He inflamed the civil conflict into a full blown civil war by providing conscripts, volunteers, mercenaries and full scale military support. It’s a PROVEN FACT and he himself has not denied it. He even brags about it, claiming that he INTENDS to defend RUSSKI MIR wherever he finds it.
    Georgia? Stick to the topic.

    “we attacked the pipeline”

    Do you read anything except articles on the subject? This story changes by the hour lol

    Or are you simply blinded by some sort of anti Russian/anti Putin ideology?

    Is that your best argument? lol Are you doped on your pro-Putin/pro-Russian gospel?

    • Replies: @Ulf Thorsen
  76. @Henry's Cat

    That’s because the American Empire isn’t really the American Empire.

  77. Folkvangr says:
    @AndrewR

    The Ukrainian people are just pawns in an evil game

    Well, if your claim is bulletproof, why don’t you take it even further? Just go to Ukraine, find these guys and tell them how wrong they are to fight for these “evil regimes”. Maybe you won’t even need a bulletproof vest because, you know, you can’t kill THE TRUTH. THE TRUTH will take care of itself lol

    • Troll: AndrewR, PhysicistDave
    • Replies: @AndrewR
  78. Folkvangr says:
    @dogbumbreath

    Did you pull this out from where the sun don’t shine?

    If this is your BEST argument, just get lost, simpleton.

  79. @Folkvangr

    Sorry, but what is actually tiresome is the same old excuses for our own behavior that I have been hearing for decades and the trouble is, it’s not just what we are attempting to do to Russia. It’s a long list. We’ve destroyed countries in the M.E. under false pretenses as well. We’ve also got US troops squatting on land in Syria. We’re squandering the freedom and prosperity of our children and grandchildren the way these criminals in DC throw our hard earned money around and at the same time these same criminals work overtime to take our own rights away from us. It’s not Russia doing those things. I could go back also to what we did to Serbia. The list is quite long. It has to stop. The US needs to take care of it’s own country and stop running around the world like it owns the place bullying everyone and anyone who won’t fall in line with their agenda. I don’t even have to like Vladimir Putin. What I think of him personally matters next to nothing when it comes to these issues. America is a sick nation. Morbidly ill in fact, and that isn’t going to be rectified by further military adventurism.

    • Agree: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  80. Pablo says:

    The leading proponents of the benefits of offshoring US manufacturing jobs were FULLY aware that offshoring would gut the US Economy. They just disguised their greed as being good for the Economy. The proponents of NAFTA said the same lies the offshoring advocates did. And, also, the NAFTA proponents, like Bill Clinton and Al Gore knew they were gutting the American Economy AT THE TIME. It is clear that Wall Street and the mega Corporations—plus Billionaires like Bill Gates–that they control the Government, Public Interest be Damned.

    • Replies: @Miro23
    , @Chuck Orloski
  81. @Folkvangr

    Your pretentious and tendentious and tedious missive was, I am sure, intended to sound profound and pronounced. You did not succeed. It was indented, mashed up.

    You have never displayed adequate concrete knowledge germane to the discussion here involving the Real and Actual. That is why you are mocked or jeered dismissively.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @Folkvangr
  82. Dutch Boy says:

    Dr. Roberts points out the obvious: the USA is dependent on China due to the greed and stupidity of our economic oligarchs. He has also pointed out the way to abolish this dependency: a sliding scale corporate tax that would decrease as a corporation’s production returned to the USA. It would put the financial burden of repatriating production on corporations, whereas tariffs would primarily burden consumers. Note to our overlords: provoking nuclear-armed Russia over Ukraine is stupid. Provoking a nuclear-armed country (on whom we are economically dependent) over Taiwan is beyond stupid.

  83. @Hacienda

    India will forever be found sitting on a fence. Europe will again return to petty rivalries and border disputes. Japan has been well trained as a lapdog but biting the master in the crotch cannot be ruled out. China was the World’s leading economic power and will again regain this spot.
    The second scenario (unlikely) is that the world will be a radioactive ruin and the Homeland which escaped war while waging it all around the world it will get an extreme taste of it.

  84. @Folkvangr

    1488ers usually stick to facts. But this one is more likely a deranged Anglo or a FED. Azovstal was destroyed months ago. So was Motor Sich.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  85. Folkvangr says:
    @Ulf Thorsen

    The list is quite long. It has to stop.

    I can easily agree with most of what you said about the woes besieging the USA and its clueless inhabitants. But this one sounds like a letter to Santa Claus.
    I could also come up with a list of crimes committed by the Soviet Union and its proud successor RF. To anyone listening, this “pride” should sound suspicious, and when you start digging deeper, it turns out to be the same Cold War mantra: we’re under siege, we need to arm ourselves to the teeth. What is even more worrying is the fact that even experienced Russian journalists admit that society is becoming more and more “AMORAL”, i.e. it can be turned into ANYTHING, and in fact has been whipped into a frenzy of brother against brother war.
    Bringing all the wrong things committed by US and Russia before 2014 into the discussion will not prevent nuclear war, just let’s stick to Ukraine. Nom du jour: Putin must be stopped, thrown out of Ukraine, and tried for crimes against humanity.

    • Replies: @Ulf Thorsen
  86. Kali says:
    @Chuck Orloski

    In response to Mike Whitney’s question, PCR wisely responded: “First of all, it makes no difference whatsoever what I would support, or you would support, or the American people would support. We neither control nor influence the decisions. This is why in the end it comes to enserfment or revolution.”

    Thanks so much, Dr. Roberts, and am in total agreement.

    Dear Chuck,

    I agree to a point, but I recognise a third possibility also: (beyond revolution or ensurfment): Evolution – into a higher vibrational state of existance, is also a strong possibility.

    People by the millions, around the globe are moving their energy in much more positive, life-afirming, directions, many have been doing so for a very long time, – some dating back to even before the 9.11 coup! 😍

    Many have been preparing spiritually, mentally, psychologically, energetically, phyisically… to be free of “society”, or civilisation if you prefer, for decades (and maybe even lifetimes for all we know).

    So things may not turn out quite as you predict…

    – Maybe the “Neo-Pagans*” will come to the fore,. Albeit a very different “fore” than most can currently imagine. Maybe as the “jabbed” drop down sick and dead (due to the spike protein being produced within their own cells, amongst other toxins), – meaning millions who were willingly compiant with the Covid Biosecurity State will pass into history. (These include many of our loved-ones: may their passing be peaceful and painless.)

    In the meantime the states’ stormtroopers will by kept busy by rioters rioting; subversives subverting and paras militerising. – A fight which can only result in civilisational colapse.

    Rioters, hackers, paras and the like, will be busy burning down the house. Many from the inside. Our Brothers. – They do us (our species) a huge service, in more than one way. There will be many martyrs amongst them.

    In the meantime, men and women and children, establish a new epoch.

    My prediction: Civilisation. is finished, but “Mankind” in the guise of Neo-Pagans* (or something) will continue as a Frree and Sentient Species – rid of all the trapings of “society”- living in symbiosis with our natural environment. Growing stronger, as Rome burns… Again. 😄

    Fond regards,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Kali
    , @Chuck Orloski
  87. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    That is why you are mocked or jeered dismissively.

    By whom? By semi-literate anonymous “guests”? Or by someone like you, posing as the most articulate know-it-all? Technically, you have no right to make any pronouncements about Ukraine or Russia, because your soup kitchen serves you only information that comes mainly from two types of sources: Ritter & Cons/Jewish “dissidents on a mission”. The hysterical promotion of Hersh’s “story” and his supporters is simply ridiculous. But you go ahead and pick fights with any anonymous “guest” like me if you have nothing better to do. lol At least I have enough marbles in my head to not line up for the next bowl of leftovers every morning like the rest of you. lol

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  88. Kali says:
    @Kali

    In the meantime, men and women and children, establish a new epoch.

    Please insert the word “glorious” before “epoch”. – I missed the edit window. Sos. 🙂

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Folkvangr
  89. IronForge says:
    @PetrOldSack

    Hate to suppress your Morale; but the Plutarchy+VassalOligarchs are going to ride this out by fleeing and hiding.

    IMHO, the Exceptions would be where RUS+CHN+IND actively pursue the purging of their Generation “Running the Racket”. That may encourage others to “Join the Fray”; but the Plutarchy’s Trust Fund Descendants will be around unless they’re driven to live in ISR.

    That being said, the USA/GBR_Commomwealth/FRA/NLD/PHL are Masonic-Zionist Countries, so the Jewish-Tribals’ Top 5% probably won’t be driven out.

    However – the State of ISR have their own Issues. They’re on a Trend to “Repeatedly” Double their Population every 25-30years, so I expect them to engage in “Territorial Expansion Campaigns” throughout the rest of the 21stCE and probably onto the 22ndCE.

    If the Diaspora start getting driven out of Host Countries, they’ll live in ISR – fueling the Territorial Campaigns further.

    It didn’t have to be this way. PhD Hudson thinks <> are crazy with the <> never ending ancestors’ mass ruination campaign against RUS who kicked their Arses centuries ago and mass delusional paranoia of (quasi-quoting Hudson’s last Interview) seeing a swarm of Luftwaffe in the Clouds ready to round them up into Gas Chambers¹.

    *****
    ¹Gas Chambers were mostly Ziklon-B de-lousing chambers. Evidence of Mass Murder/Exterminations have not been confirmed by Independent 3rd Parties.

    Tall Fences make for Good Neighbors.

    I’m actually glad I’m an Foreign Born Murican (Late Father+Yours Truly served in the USNavy across the PacificOcean/IndianOcean/PersianGulf); and actually going back to the Far East due to Family reasons. Hopefully, I’ll eventually secure a Masonic-Zionist Free Residence and possibly a Wife+Children.

  90. P.T. says:

    Joe Biden is going to do nothing to contain “Communist” China’s economic development. Major U.S. corporations are heavily invested in China. And Joe “The Big Guy” and Hunter Biden are on China’s (and Ukraine’s) payroll.
    lll

  91. Folkvangr says:
    @The_Masterwang

    Azovstal was destroyed months ago.

    Another dumb ass extraordinaire. lol

    AzovStal was destroyed because its owner Rinat Akhmetov reaffirmed his loyalty to Ukraine and its government back in 2022. That’s why the giant steel plant was destroyed, but you’re not here to learn anything, just to throw around insults and spread lies. Truly pathetic.

    • Troll: Kali
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  92. Notsofast says:
    @Realist

    agree and imo, not only can elections not change it, but it cannot be changed from within.

    that being said, the world can change around it and i believe that is happening now and is accelerating at an amazing pace, much to the delight of the russians and chinese.

    personally i don’t care if we’re trading one hegemon for another, this one’s got to go, by any means necessary. at least the russians and chinese know how to conduct business without sticking a gun in your mouth.

    • Thanks: Realist
  93. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Grumpy Old Fart

    You are so sure that it is the Jews’ fault, explain it to me, on how a population of less than 1/2 percent of the global population is able to do this,

    Here’s how you fake-“Jew” golden calf Semite/Hebrew/Khazar parasites did 9/11 with your Zoglodyte accomplices:
    https://wikispooks.com/wiki/9-11/Israel_did_it

    Here’s how the same bunch of Marxist-Zionist scum did the covid/”vaccine” scam:

    Here’s how you Zionists and Zoglodytes did the slave trade:
    https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/slavery-and-its-discontents/#comment-5852086

    Such conspiracies are really quite easy to pull off when enough of the world has become anti-Christ, anti-Moses, anti-Western Civilization, evil karma junkies.

    You say it’s crucial that we reduce the global population for the sake of humanity? Fine. Let’s start with Marxist-Zionist scum, shall we?

    • Agree: Chuck Orloski
  94. @Folkvangr

    Folkvangr look, I cannot say with any certainty what Putin or Russia is or is not doing within their own country but Ukraine is right on their border. They have been asking for security guarantees from the West for years now when it comes to Ukraine and were essentially given the backhand. After all, only America gets to decide what goes on in other nations no matter what anyone’s concerns are. When you say Putin has to be stopped, I wonder what you think/thought of our own activity when it came to all these other countries we have either bombed, invaded or supplied weapons to do damage to that are 10,000 miles from our borders? How is that protecting our own national security? I think the answer is pretty obvious. Not trying to go off on you here. I’ve seen other comments you’ve made that I fully agree with. I simply cannot fathom how at this point, and with all things considered, anyone can still be on board with the whole ‘Russia must be stopped’ mantra. If nothing else, we’ve made a grave mistake in going about this the way we have and if stopping Russia was the goal, they not only haven’t done it, they seem to be strengthening Russia. Look at the sanctions fiasco. Look at who was really harmed when it comes to Nordstream. As an aside, I have my own opinions about WW2 in particular when it comes to the Russians(Soviets) but that’s a whole separate issue. The Russia of today wants to do business and improve their own lot. The US doesn’t want that so they’ve used Ukraine as a proxy to bring Russia down. As far as crimes against humanity, the US has a lot of nerve wagging it’s finger at anyone. The other issue here for me is this. They’re going to keep pushing and at some point I could see them reinstituting a draft. if they think they’re going to take my sons and suit them up to die for this meddlesome agenda, they’re in for a rude awakening. America itself is a disaster. Our own problems need to be resolved and the forever-war bulls*** needs to come to an end. I’d rather it ended with a quiet whimper than for them to keep pushing and something even more grievous than what we’ve already seen, takes place.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Folkvangr
  95. @Folkvangr

    Cuckoo.lol. Butt hurt?lol. “You have no right to make any pronouncements….lol.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  96. Notsofast says:
    @Kali

    agree sister kali,🔥 burn baby burn,🔥cue nero: come on baby light my fire 🔥.

    • LOL: Kali
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  97. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    “You have no right to make any pronouncements….lol.

    You know exactly what I mean by that and still you pretend you don’t? Yes, you have your right to free speech, and no one has banned low IQ people from using the Internet. Not yet. So enjoy your freedoms while you still can. You can also try to be tolerant and benevolent and not act like your opinion matters more than anyone else’s. If you do, you might earn some respect from me just for that.

  98. Gaetz is better than most on the issue of Syria but, come on, he KNOWS why the US is there but won’t say it. Jews run the US and uses it to destabilize Syria as an enemy of Israel and ally of Iran.

  99. @anon

    Even with the Jews controlling every asset in the world, the risk of a holocaust is even greater : especially with the Jews being in every position of power. Just look at what happened in USSR under Stalin : most of those who bore the brunt of Stalin’s Jewish henchmen’s purges turned out to be early Jewish revolutionists and too sincere believers in Marxism, far more than Christian Orthodox. The Orthodox Church, together with the mass of virtue signallers that had still revered the institution up to its fag end for its symbolic value of past Russian greatness, turned out to be so corrupt that they made the best and surest lower rank bureaucrats : treachery was the virtue sought for first and betraying your former religion while still donning its robes was the best guarantee. Lenin himself insisted on exploiting those unbelieving religious bureaucrats and on persecuting only the sincere believers, the real mystics who counted for less than 1%. Most of those real believers, the Old Believers as they were called, had already seceded from the Established Orthodox Church since Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great anyway and were no longer part of the Orthodox mainstream since centuries before, since before modern Russian had developed as a separate language from Ukrainian slavonic. Solzhenitsyn is pure crap : he catered only for the American corporate market. A holocaust of Jews is perfectly possible in the US under Jewish supervision. In particular they might decide that since they are in power and the third temple is built that all experts in goyish sciences such as physics and medicine are suckers, then losers, then traitors. Jews might also be overwhelmed and out-Jewed by Evangelicals who won’t tolerate any whiff of humanism among any Jews.

    • Thanks: Ann Nonny Mouse
  100. Notsofast says:
    @Ulf Thorsen

    I’ve seen other comments you’ve made that I fully agree with.

    and this is exactly how these trolls work, they try to ingratiate themselves by agreeing with the community on subjects other than that, they are being paid to promote.

    • Agree: Kali, Odyssey
    • Replies: @Ulf Thorsen
  101. Folkvangr says:
    @Ulf Thorsen

    When you say that Putin must be stopped, I wonder what you think about our own actions when it comes to all the other countries we have either bombed, invaded, or supplied weapons to.

    I have already explained to you why we should stop bringing past wars and acts of aggression into the equation.

    I simply cannot understand how, at this point and with all things considered, anyone can still be on board with the whole “Russia must be stopped” mantra.

    Believe me, you won’t “fathom” anything at this point. As a linguist, I can prove by your choice of words that your mind has been irrevocably programmed to support what you support.

    Today’s Russia wants to do business and improve its lot.

    I have already explained in my previous comments what Putin needs from Ukraine (Shevchenko’s interview).

    What Russians do not like about Ukrainians are their good qualities. The people who don’t like them, or whose comfort is disturbed by them, agitate against them the most. The “Russians”, a mixture of more than 170 ethnic groups, hate not only Ukrainians, but also themselves, which is proven by their turbulent history.

    • Troll: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  102. Ko says:

    When Roberts, who severely massacres the word, insouciant, repeatedly to the point where it has not a shred of meaning in his writing, opens his column to comments, I’ll read what he says.

  103. @JWalters

    Trump is Sheldon Alderson’s own alter ego on the business scene and Netanyahu’s alter ego on the political scene : it is he who arranged Netanyahu’s tour of the US. There is no opposition to Zionism. Opposing zionism in the US is like opposing to water for a fish.

    • Replies: @JWalters
  104. @One Nobody

    The funny thing about the aborigines is they never had the numbers and if it wasn’t the British it would of been the Germans or someone else, what is different with the white population is they have gone mad…and done it to themselves, they swallowed the kool-aid of propaganda, you are right we are unfit for survival, another evolutionary dead end.

  105. anonymous[740] • Disclaimer says:
    @brostoevsky

    NOW a USA passport could be a liability look at the US Citizens killed in Mexico

  106. anonymous[740] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    Ucraine already exhausted more than $1 TRILLION…and now they are demanding MORE…This is not a War this is a MONEY Laundering operation…American Tax payers the biggest Patsies..

  107. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    This is how the U.S treats its friends for global hegemony,

    Just be thankful you aren’t an enemy.

  108. @Notsofast

    One can try as they may to reason with people and take the debate out of the ‘this guy vs that guy’ bull**** but it is what it is.

  109. Folkvangr says:
    @Dumbo

    It’s not the “Chinese regime” who is promoting gay and transgender stuff in the media and in schools for children, pornography for men, and sluttiness/cat lady feminism for women.

    But you gobble it, watch it, buy it, spread it, parade it, take your kids to drag queen shows, and DO NOTHING but violating your keyboard and p-ing in the wind! lol

  110. @Mark G.

    The Empire only began contracting, when banker-boy FDR suckered the owned-by-Zionists, drunken bum, Churchill into the lend-lease scam. The Imperial Preference Agreement of 1932 was a big obstacle that Rosenfeld dismantled through the lend lease, while at the same time gaining British assets at fire sale prices.

  111. Miro23 says:
    @Pablo

    The leading proponents of the benefits of offshoring US manufacturing jobs were FULLY aware that offshoring would gut the US Economy.

    Well yes, but they had a whole academic class covering for them from the 1980’s onwards: e.g. allow Americans to take higher skilled work/ retrain / better value added in US / greener – less pollution /post industrial economy / comparative advantage /higher skilled design and management in the US / let Asians de the grunt work etc. etc

    • Agree: unzrocks
  112. @Pablo

    Hi, Pablo!

    Appreciated your comment, but are you aware how President Reagan started G.A.T.T. and President George Herbert Walker Bush started the N.A.F.T.A. process?

  113. @Kali

    To me, kali intelligently commented: “My prediction: Civilisation. is finished, but “Mankind” in the guise of Neo-Pagans* (or something) will continue as a Frree and Sentient Species – rid of all the trapings of “society”- living in symbiosis with our natural environment. Growing stronger, as Rome burns… Again. 😄”

    Thanks, but have you ever read the Jesuit priest, Teilhard DeChardin’s masterpiece, “The Omega Point”?

    There you will read how Teilhard makes a Christian case that the consciousness of the global mankind, since the beginning of time is evolving to the Omega Point where all will realize the reality of what human life is about.

    But of course, Free Will remains.

    • Replies: @Kali
    , @Chris Moore
  114. So the latest version of “who did it” “who blew the pipes” has Ukrainian Gilligans out on a three hour cruise, with a progressive twist of a female doctor instead of the professor.

    I give the CIA D- on this “homework project.”

    • Replies: @nsa
  115. Agent76 says:

    Watch the U.S. debt clock for just 10 seconds.

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/

    Little rascals money toss!

    Debt is Slavery

  116. “You do understand that the US is the first true global empire of it’s kind? Everything the US does is to benefit the US, not China. Moving low end manufacturing to China does not benefit China, it benefits the US. More exodus of US dollar, which enforces US global hegemony.

    The US did not build up China. China build up China on it’s own by embracing science and industries. If all China did was doing low end manufacturing (clothes, shoes, toys, etc.) no one would have an issue and China would still be a poor, destitute country doing menial, low end laborious jobs. . . .

    It’s called the battle of the brains. Two words and two words say it all. Science and Industries. That’s it.

    That’s why China has grown by leaps and bounds and now is a threat to US, not only in the hard- science but also in the field of financial. China wants to dump the US dollar from global trade and use local currencies instead. They have a payment system in place already and needs greater adaptation of other countries / merchants. That’s what the US fears the most, losing US dollar hegemony which the US military backs up through brute force. The exodus of US dollar through out the entire would is what gives US global hegemony and allows US unlimited money printing and deficit spending. This may be coming to an end in the coming decades”

    Oy veh

    Actually no. It is not.

    France, Great Britain, even China, The mongols, Belgium . . . all were empires that actually operated as owners of other countries and entire regions. Rome stretched as far north as Germany and south as North Africa.

    Great Britain remains a curious empire for her size with colonies that stretched across asia, and africa, even Hitler marveled at their size. The US is not even an empire as one would define empire. In terms of empire building, we simply have not imposed our will in that manner. The mere presence of the US in ant location is cause for decrying empire. When you say

    “empire of its kind”

    I assume you are trying to make room for understanding that the US influence has not been through colonial dictate but rather economic influence. And even that is not the case, other powers have used financial, and material strategies to gain favor and influence policy by trade. And the US having been the sole survivor of regional and global wars has managed to be on the top of the global pyramid. Our position today is the direct result of avoiding the troubles of empire. We learned valuable lesson in Iraq and Afghanistan, empire requires more control than we as a nation are willing to expend or need to. We decimated the one power group that would have been a benefit to us during the Iraq and the occupation turned a military victory into a defeat. The same applies to Afghanistan — military victory colonial occupation failure — because our ideals get in the way and we don’t act with the force of what a traditional empire applies. The PANAC lays out quite clearly the goal, essentially bring the globe into a democratic capitalist system and that ensure US longevity. But it requires an old school idea of empire to work.

    The empire that is developing is not one of the US but one of capital democracy, where CEO’s such Mr. Diminion at JP Morgan are managing assesses on a global scale. That is why corporations of the west are increasing their relations and control over governments. The EU was supposed to have been an economic organization unifying and stabilizing the currency of Europe to be more effective. Now they realize that maybe they need a military or major security apparatus to back up their mandates.

    If the neocons were in charge — Russia would have been challenged the day she even suggested making war in Ukraine. The real hold is not the US, it’s the economic forces in Europe. The US is powerful, but most making the claims about this supposed ZOG are off the mark. The US can certainly pull some strings and have enormous influence, But controlling events . . . entotal. Mrs Kagan and company found out in very short order that influence only goes so far. Our support for change does not guarantee that nations will do our bidding. The Shia in Iraq are very happy to have the US do their dirty work and when the job was done — politely and impolitely told the us to go fly a kite. Ukrainians are not talking about Russia leaving Ukraine as far as Donetsk and luhansk, they want Russia out of Ukrainian Crimea.

    I am not sure you comprehend what about China’s growth. When Pres Nixon visited china, he did so in large part as a strategy to get China to refrain their support for Vietnam. In return, he extended the opening the door to China’s most pressing need, feeding nearly a billion people and bringing China into the 20th 21st century, opening her doors to the possibility on being a vast global empire once again. Our investment in China worked to China’;s advantage. Sure the US got cheaper goods, cheaper in more ways than one. But the capital that flowed into china as can happen with wealth often does seeped into the greater population maybe in trickles, but enough to create an internal struggle by those that have it to have more of a say in what to do with it. And systems that are closed, soon, experience convulsions internally.

    When the communists decried western and US decadence, they were not taking about our morals, they were talking about our wealth . . and that in the end is what really upended communism in Eastern Europe. Sure military power to back it — but as it turned out the US did not need to own a single country, all she needed were like minded allies and coca cola, pepsi and macdonalds . . etc. Our moral standing . . . both China and Russia have used our hypocrisies against quite well, linked to greed and material pursuits. Slavery used to make the country wealthy, and then victimizing the descendants of the same process by denying them access — so clear by our color polity. There’s a reason why Russia, but especially China has such a strong foothold on the Africa that remains one of the richest continents on the globe in minerals.

    The factions fighting in the ME were not controlled by the US as the CIA will tell you, the factions often led the US advisors around by agreeing with the advisors to get cash and then proceeding to do exactly what they wanted.

    Absolutely, the Chinese with a deep history of embracing learning, absolutely jumped at the chance to educate their citizens by sending them to the west for an education. But the investment to start those industries came from western capital and companies already established. And they served as the foundation for what came next.

    I am not sure where you get your information, but china is not merely manufacturing low end products. But let;s deal with your central point. That china did it by educating their population in hard science.

    1. China’s hard sciences got hard by the influx of western educators to what once was a closed system to the decedent west.

    2. Excuse me, but china has always had millions, its odd that they suddenly made use of educating them — then why the explosion only near the end of the century. I though the educational exchange programs were great, happy to have chinese debate teams visit where i taught — delighted. But none of that would have been possible with a change in policy initiated by Pres Nixon. The information and technological exchanges that occurred by opening that door — you bet, millions of chinese arrived in the west to get that technical and informational capital.

    3. You think Electric Boat and Ratheon are low end industries. Chines smarts, you bet, they get western defense contractors to hire them to manufacture the nations security apparatus . . . oooopsss.

    You do well to recognize the power of China as a result of western investment — carelessly administered at the nation’s expense. My admiration for China does not include handing them the knife by which to slit my own throat at least not knowingly.

    ———————

    a selfish admission. I am a conservative, i worked long and hard, worked while others played, carried their loads sacrificed just as millions of others to the benefit of others did so gladly, and got sourdough bred — and frankly, before the Us ends, I want the fruits of my labor before the country fades . . .

    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  117. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    So you dimwit “trolled” me for simply pointing out the established facts? Now that is what I call a classic case of mob mentality. Hilarious how you and your fellow criminals prove me right on all counts every hour lol

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Folkvangr
    , @Kali
  118. Kali says:
    @Chuck Orloski

    Thanks, but have you ever read the Jesuit priest, Teilhard DeChardin’s masterpiece, “The Omega Point”?

    No I haven’t, Mr Chuck, but I will be fascinated to do so. I’ll search archive.org for it right now! Thanks for bringing it to my atention.

    And thank you for your kind words too.

    Much love,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Chuck Orloski
  119. @EliteCommInc.

    Had my fill of being run over and then be expected to pay for the dame or live with and say,

    “Thank you ma’am, may I have another.”

    House of cards.

    I am fading, so it may be a while before i respond if you do

    head has been pounding for days. appreciate the response.

  120. nsa says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    “who blew up Nordie 2”
    At the time of the blast, a Bayliner with a couple of snorkelers was seen in the area….and the terrorist snorkelers were heard to be speaking Farsi. What more proof do you need?

  121. Folkvangr says:
    @Notsofast

    I would testify in a court of law, if necessary, that your brain and other sensitive soft parts of yours have been severely damaged by overuse. I can even swear on the Bible.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @Kali
  122. satya says:

    [PCR: The neoconservatives’ hostility toward Russia and China is definitely not in America’s interest.]

    Shame on PCR, the racist. Iran is 44 years under sanctions, war, terrorism and propaganda of the fucking Neocons with cooperation of Russia and China, yet the racists do not mention Iran’s name who has defeated the Neocons “New world order” project.
    Putin was begging the neocons and US for years to be part of NATO and be accepted as a petty servant, but they refused. Iran resisted all these years. Neither Putin Nor China fought the Neocon’s project, Putin and China joined Iran when they were rejected by the Mafia. We never allow the racists forget the Iranian’s role in the NEW WORLD ORDER that US is greatly weaken. This new situation would have not happened if General Soleimani had not been entered the game. Great General Soleimani made the utmost sacrifice for the new development in the world order and everyone including the racists must recognize his contribution.

    Both Putin and China cooperated with the Neocons and voted for sanctions against Iran, to collect few bones as concessions. We never forget.

    • LOL: Thim
    • Replies: @samavat
  123. @Kali

    Love to you also, kali, but Teilhard considered mankind’s atomic particles, held together by gravity, and subsequently, he made a rather scientific case for all human interconnection.

    Btw, after the publication and circulation of The Omega Point, the Jesuits banned Teilhard from serving the Roman Catholic Mass.

    To help your search, please see below?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point

    • Replies: @Kali
  124. Notsofast says:
    @Folkvangr

    brain damage through overuse? well i guess that explains why you use yours so infrequently, you don’t want to wear it out.

    • LOL: Kali
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  125. Notsofast says:
    @Folkvangr

    no, not at all…she did it because you’ve a dimwit troll.

    • Agree: Kali
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  126. Chris Moore says: • Website
    @Chuck Orloski

    Thanks, but have you ever read the Jesuit priest, Teilhard DeChardin’s masterpiece, “The Omega Point”?

    There you will read how Teilhard makes a Christian case that the consciousness of the global mankind, since the beginning of time is evolving to the Omega Point where all will realize the reality of what human life is about.

    From Wikipedia: [Tielhard] also maintained that one-cell organisms develop into metazoans or animals, but some of the members of this classification develop organisms with complex nervous systems. This group has the capability to acquire intelligence. When Homo sapiens inhabited Earth through evolution, a noosphere, the cognitive layer of existence, was created. As evolution continues, the noosphere gains coherence. Teilhard explained that this noosphere can be moved toward or constructed to be the Omega Point or the final evolutionary stage with the help of science.[10] Teilhard refers to this process as “planetization”. Eventually, the noosphere gains total dominance over the biosphere and reaches a point of complete independence from tangential energy forming a metaphysical being, coined the Omega Point.[11]

    Top Marxist-Zionists lack a nervous system. They are reptilian. They don’t evolve; they just are.

    Dupes assume all humans have a nervous system, or are born with a nervous system. And maybe they are. But the Talmudist ((Jews)) and the Marxist-Zionists systematically remove it. This is what Marxism is about; this is what Zionism is about; this is what Judas Capitalism is about. That’s what the “Jewish Century” was/is about.

    They’re creating Zoglodyte subhumans deliberately and systematically. That’s what makes them objectively evil/satanic vis-a-vis human beings with a developed and intact nervous system, and that is ultimately what is going to beget their collapse.

    Oh well. The reptile has its place in the pecking order, but not at the top. It’s somewhere way, way down in the cracks and crevices and under the piles.

    • Thanks: Kali
    • Replies: @Chuck Orloski
  127. Folkvangr says:
    @Notsofast

    Nice try, but no, that’s not what I meant. The brain overload was caused by staying with emotionally abusive partners for a long time. The longer you stay, the worse it gets, the more damage it does to your brain. And this UR “Pravda” has all the signs of a highly abusive environment, which increases feelings of confusion, cognitive dissonance, and abuse amnesia, if those terms mean anything to you. lol

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  128. It’s good to be the king

  129. Folkvangr says:
    @Folkvangr

    “anna nonny mouse”, “annamaria”, “annacat” are Russian troll farm bots code-named “anna-series”. Did you know that you can send thousands of twits at once with a simple Python program? That’s what these bots are doing, polluting the Internet 24/7.

  130. samavat says:
    @satya

    Thim

    You can laugh as much as you want, racist. No one can deny the fact except the racists or dummies. Putin begged for over a decade. Nothing without Iran’s agreement in the region can be fruitful.
    Now, laugh till you are dead.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @Folkvangr
  131. @Chris Moore

    Hi, Chris, thanks, and given the following insight, I admire your creativity, and I agree and hope you’re correct: “They’re creating Zoglodyte subhumans deliberately and systematically. That’s what makes them objectively evil/satanic vis-a-vis human beings with a developed and intact nervous system, and that is ultimately what is going to beget their collapse.”

    • Agree: Kali
  132. While PCR has done much exceptional work, there is something in his articles over the past year that is puzzling. He writes about how the Zionist Isramerican government is persecuting white Americans with the Federal Bureau of Israhell, the Central Iraeli Bureau and other departments. He describes how Edjucation is being perverted to brainwash white children into being ashamed of if not outright hating their own race. He writes about how the Ju World Disorder is opening wide the borders to all white nations in order to flood the West with a never ending anti white invasion army. How Zionist controlled big pharma assisted by the military has produced a bioweapon to exterminate white children, adults and especially the elderly while administering placebos to their chosen ones. Note that the majority of Africans did not take the Zionist bioweapon. In addition global Zionist Corporations are being forced to enforce anti white hiring and firing policies. Therefore my question is why does PCR constantly refer to these perpetrators as NAZIES instead of what they truly are and that is genocidal Zionist Bolshevic Communists.

    • Replies: @samavat
  133. @Folkvangr

    Nobody takes you seriously.lol. Seriously.lol

    • LOL: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  134. samavat says:
    @TruthisAntisemitic

    PCR like his ‘ideal’ Putin are servant of Israel and Jewish mafia. Russia like the criminal west voted for the establishment of Israel in the hearth of Arab land and the middle east in order to rob the people of the region. Putin was begging the west for a LONG time to be accepted as a junior partner, but they refused because they don’t accept anything less than full destruction. The Russian politicians in the Duma were angry screaming to Putin that LEARN FROM IRAN, when he still was dancing with the ‘starts’ meaning criminal George Bush and criminal Tony Blair hoping to be accepted as their junior partner.
    We know and witness that Israel is bombing Syria on a daily basis with permission of PUTIN. Russia like US – UK – France is friend of the apartheid entity. Don’t trust those racists who help the zionist mass murderers.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  135. Zane says:

    There is no ” one ” China.

  136. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Nobody takes you seriously.lol. Seriously.lol

    Ha-ha. Since most of you are NOBODIES, why should I take you seriously? Tell me if I should take “anna nonny mouse”, “annamaria”, “annacat” seriously! They are Russian troll farm bots code-named “anna-series”. Did you know that you can send thousands of twits at once with a simple Python program? You “seriously” did not know THAT, did you? lololol

    • Agree: meamjojo
    • Replies: @Biff
  137. Notsofast says:
    @Folkvangr

    you’re nothing but a cunning linguist, your tongue is for sale to the highest bidder.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @anon
  138. Biff says:
    @Folkvangr

    The only thing you should take seriously is all that sand in your vagina.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  139. JWalters says:
    @Francis Miville

    You may be right. Trump may be a big distraction ploy to lead a lot of anti-establishment energy away from the true Deep State, discredit it, and ultimately derail it. This is the big question with Trump.

    On the other hand, a key strategy of the Deep State is to keep certain topics off the table, out of the public awareness. And Trump has repeatedly made statements that poke a hole in that censorship.

    For example, at the beginning of his 2016 campaign he said he would treat the Palestinians objectively and fairly. This raised such a storm of Establishment criticism from all sides that he immediately did the fastest backflip in political history. (And despite the corporate media’s anti-Trump agenda, no one mentioned this spectacular backflip; total silence.)

    In a similar vein, while president he said the only reason American troops were in the Middle East was for Israel. He then added that we should never have gotten in there, and that we should get out as soon as possible. These comments were also completely ignored by the Zionist-controlled “American” press. He also said 9/11 had never been fully resolved, and the JFK records should be released. All of these topics and statements are serious threats to the Deep State, because if carried out they would unmask the Zionist mafia that has a chokehold on America’s Establishment.

    If the Zionist mafia is unmasked, and especially if their role in 9/11 is revealed, they and their pet project of Israel will be burnt toast.

    So despite Trump’s kissing up to Adelson (and taking millions of Adelson’s money), and his kissing up to Netanyahu, the Zionist mafia does not trust him. And with good reason, in my estimation. My estimate is that the magnitude of their onslaught against him is too huge, and draws too much attention to be pretense.

    • Replies: @anon
    , @Wade
  140. @Richard B

    Well said. I agree.

    • Thanks: Richard B
  141. Folkvangr says:
    @Biff

    Fuck off, moron, I don’t need your “opinion” lol

    • Troll: Richard B
  142. anon[427] • Disclaimer says:
    @JWalters

    I mean, I think the cat is out of the bag as far as Israel’s involvement in 9/11 is concerned. The fact this site now attracts full-time hasbara trolls also shows the level of concern among the zionazis. Also, Adelson died right around Jan 6. Sure Trump promised all kinds of great things to the American people but all he delivered was soured relations with China. The only real purpose of Donald Trump is to whip up the USA against China.

  143. A Negro done laugh at NY Times story of who done blow up da Nord Stream…. sheeeeiiit.

  144. Folkvangr says:
    @Notsofast

    You’re so funny, you act like my Airedale who can’t walk past a fire hydrant without lifting his leg. Grow up.

    • LOL: meamjojo
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  145. anon[427] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    “His” mother says his tongue feels like razor blades on her soft skin.

    • LOL: Notsofast
  146. @samavat

    OK, Schlomo. How’s Hymen Lipschitz doing?.

    • Replies: @samavat
  147. @GMC

    Roth is a Jewish name. If they are not Jews, they are certainly doing the Jewish thing (of capital crimes) and deserve capital punishment:
    https://ru.wikibrief.org/wiki/Roth_Capital_Partners

    And how about this one?
    https://www.rt.com/russia/572650-sergey-grishin-banker-dead/

  148. Economic and monetary stuff are PCR’s field of expertise and when he focuses on that, his work is a gem. On military strategy, not so much. But he is the main publisher who woke me up after 2011, and i am very grateful for that.

  149. Neoconservatives are mostly Jews who seek global supremacy.

  150. @One Nobody

    Hardly fair at all. A wilderness and a settled developed state are as different as night and day.

  151. @Folkvangr

    And all those lovely friends of yours, the Azov cockroaches, were rooted out of their bug-holes. I bet you cried a river, poor old Volkswanker.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  152. meamjojo says:

    So much cognitive incongruence in this article. Both PCR and Whitney should be straitjacketed and placed in padded rooms for the protection of themselves and the public.

  153. FTB says:
    @Biff

    There is literally nothing that is designed or made in the USA that I/many want or need. The world can do just fine without that dump, and the sooner it is regulated to the trash bin of history the better.

    Everything me and my crowd needs – Vortex Rifle Optics, Laser rangefinders, Binos, gym equipment, etc. – are all made in one Asian country or another.

    If there were local industries building that stuff locally, I would gladly buy local but sadly none of it exists.

    Even many books are now printed in China. WTF are the alternatives?

  154. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    I “troll”ed you because I’ve been reading your comments on this platform for a couple of weeks now, and it turns out you are a troll.

    I’m 80% sure I know which one, too.

    Of course, being a troll, you found it impossible not to comment when publicly labled as such. Such is the egotistical naure of you ilk.

    Ttfn,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @Folkvangr
  155. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    Oh, you’re funny.

    My brain got dammaged by over-use? Astonishing! – With all these neural pathways lighting up all over the place, is it any wonder my brain’s in a fog? lol

    Go ahead and swear on you book of myths if you think it will do you any good.

    Regards,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  156. Kali says:
    @Chuck Orloski

    Thank you Chuck. Especially for the link. – My quick search took me nowhere last night, so I planned to dig around a bit more today.

    Naturally, I’m intrigued by Tielhard’s “Jesuit” credentials as well, so will dig around there a bit, too.

    Many thanks, with love,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  157. samavat says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Shut up ignorant and liar.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  158. Levtraro says:
    @Truth Vigilante

    Yes, govts spending decisions are usually poor. So in response to PCR’s glory-to-MMT comment I was asking leftists why are they still complaining about not having MMT? They have MMT right now, it is happening. It happened big time in response to COVID19 and it is happening with the money sent to keep the Ukrainian satrapy running. By the way, we got a surge in inflation after MMT was applied to counter the impact of the freezing of economic activity during the COVID19 epidemic, just like rational observers said it would happen.

    But assuming govts spending decisions are wise is not the main flaw in MMT. The main flaw is the very common error of confusing cause and effect. In the natural reality, as things really work, first work and capital create new wealth, then and only then a structure that sets itself above to control workers and capitalists may spend by confiscating part of the wealth produced earlier by work and capital. I consider this as self-evident, as a natural consequence of the 2nd law of thermodynamics, thus the wisdom of the ‘taxpayer money’ expression.

    MMT believers invert this self-evident logic by asserting that the govt needs to spend first before it can tax, as if govt was the original creator of wealth, i.e. as if govt was itself the single original productive agent or the rightful appropriator of all productivity before that productivity is turned into wealth. Marxism on steroids adapted to the liberal State.

    • Agree: Truth Vigilante
  159. anastasia says:

    The long game of the US may be to impoverish its people to bring corporations back to the US so they can operate in the US with cheap labor.

    Immigration reduces the standard of living.

    How can they bring these corporations back to the US without first reducing the standard of living for all Americans.

  160. It was Trump who began blaming China. Having no competent advisors, Trump associated America’s large Chinese trade deficit with unfair Chinese practices, and not with the fact that half of the US trade deficit (last time I looked) was accounted for by offshore production of US corporations marketed in the US. The goods enter the US as imports. Trump’s inclination to blame China instead of Wall Street and American economists was reinforced by Russiagate charges portraying Trump as working in Russia’s interest. Being tough on China was a way of showing Trump was defending America’s interest.

    Alas poor Trump, a righteous spirit trapped in the body of an imperfect human being, trapped in an imperfect world, trapped in an imperfect universe. As if it were not bad enough for our well-intentioned American hero that his judiciously chosen advisors have spectacularly failed him, even his own body parts (e.g. mouth and hands) seem to openly betray him. Yessir, Trump, for all his apparent failings should nevertheless be seen as a sympathetic figure, deserving of unending moral and political support no matter what. Thanks, Roberts, for never missing an opportunity to drive the point home.

    Of course, for the neoconservative ideology to have traction, it must serve powerful economic interests. Tensions with Russia and China clearly serve the material interests of the military/security complex.

    Yo Roberts, how would nuclear war and TEOTWAWKI (that the “neoconservatives” are obviously pushing for) “serve powerful economic interests” and the “material interests of the military/security complex”?

  161. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    Dear Kali,
    I would like to draw your attention to the fact that “brain overload” does exist. It goes by various names, such as “mental exhaustion

    https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-exhaustion

    Emerging evidence suggests that mental fatigue is a central component of the cognitive and clinical characteristics of stress-related exhaustion disorder (ED).

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32652491/

    general cognitive dysfunction

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35743516/

    See what a simple 5-minute Bing/Google search can do for you? lol

  162. @samavat

    Awwww. Guffaw, Chortle. Do you eat and wipe your ass with the same hand, or forget which one is for which?

    • LOL: Folkvangr
  163. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    I’ve got news for you. Everyone on this site is a troll, including you.

    “troll”: antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content.

    Every single commenter here is a troll, and any lawyer will prove it in court. In fact, this site is a giant troll farm dedicated to publishing inflammatory, offensive, false, hard to prove, demeaning, humiliating, harassing statements that do not serve the original purposes stated by the editor.

    Yes, I must admit that many of Ron Unz’s articles are indeed thought-provoking and useful, but the comments are mostly garbage. I am here for fun. I also know who you are and what troll farm you work for lol.

    • Troll: Notsofast, Kali, Richard B
    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  164. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    it turns out you are a troll… I’m 80% sure I know which one, too.

    Just remembered. Was that you then who tried to hack my laptop a few days ago? Don’t do that anymore, babe. Some other people might not like it either. lol

    • Replies: @Kali
  165. @samavat

    Putin begged for over a decade. Nothing without Iran’s agreement in the region can be fruitful.

    I agree with this statement.

  166. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Did I answer this comment already? Never mind, I’ll do that again.

    I have already told or implied to everyone that I am not here to educate you or waste my time disproving your propaganda. I am here for FUN. You guys are a funny bunch, all right? Just my kind of fun. So please do not try to find any depth or “adequate concrete knowledge relevant to the discussion” in my posts. I have as much right to trash talk as you do.

  167. Treg says:

    Several great ideas in this discussion.

    We could & should list out the interests of America vs the interests of Washington.

    We could & should reward homegrown trade in the Americas vs rewarding outsourcing done in the East.

    And finally, a Belt & Road Initiative of our own for the Americas could bring it all together.

  168. Notsofast says:
    @Folkvangr

    in the words of triumph the insult comic dog: “and you make a fine fire hydrant….for me, to piss on.”

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  169. Folkvangr says:
    @Notsofast

    You asked for it, Ninja. My Airedale knows 36 words and obeys 36 commands. He can count to 5 and pick the right card from a deck. Now, and I mean this, can you obey just one command and leave me alone to prove you are human? I could not reward you with a cheese cube in case of a positive outcome, but I promise not to harass you for the next week lol

  170. Folkvangr says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    And all those lovely friends of yours, the Azov cockroaches

    You have called many people here “cockroaches.” I think you have a special intimate relationship with this species. Didn’t you grow up on a cockroach farm? Otherwise, it would be hard to explain all those Freudian slips coming from your epipharynx. lol

  171. luke2236 says:

    Oh, we know (((who))) funded it Mr Roberts…

  172. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    Kali dot org a.k.a. Chinese hackers posing as trolls on UR,

    Specialties: Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering

    It’s me again. Did you do your “Penetration Testing” on my laptop a few days ago? I have that on record and Ron Unz was notified about that, so was my lawyer.

    • Replies: @Kali
  173. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    Presumably you know of the linux distribution called “kali”, designed specifically for hackes.

    Coincidence? – Let’s face it, even if I told you you wouldn’t believe me.

    Love,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @The_Masterwang
  174. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    What a funny little cockroach you are.

    Enjoy your time here. 🙂

    Love,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  175. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    Kali Linux comes packed with more than 350 tools which could be useful for hacking or penetration testing.
    Like I told you before. My lawyer has been notified about your activity here. He hates your Indian/Chinese guts, so stay tuned.

    • Replies: @Kali
  176. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    What a funny little cockroach you are.

    And I know that you and Mulga mumbledbrain were raised on the same cockroach farm. You even speak the same language and are obsessed with this species, which could be part of your daily diet, I suppose. lol

  177. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    My lawyer has been notified about your activity here.

    Maybe, unlike you, your lawyer will have the good sense to check my comment history. There might be some clues there as to who I am, where I am, and what I do.

    Know your (perceived) enemy, little cockroach! – I mean, that’s just basic common sense for anyone not “braindamaged”. Hopefully your lawyer (or Ron Unz) will be happy to do your thinking for you, seeing your obvious inability to do any for yourself.

    Nap-time little one. Off you go now.

    Love,
    Kali.

  178. Notsofast says:
    @Kali

    oh shit, now the idiot’s going to see ma kali’s angry face, oh please ma kali, don’t kill us all!

    • Replies: @Kali
  179. Folkvangr says:

    It would be interesting to know Roberts’ opinion on the Trotskyist “theory of permanent revolution” and its wide acceptance in China in its literal formulations (“We recognize the order of permanent revolution as the most normal order”) and in the statements of Mao, who declared in 1962 that China would have to “fight the class struggle for ten thousand years.” One aspect of the adventurist “theory of permanent revolution” is that it links revolutionary prospects exclusively to war. Trotskyism is characterized by its denial of the possibility of preventing a world war, its attack on the antiwar movement and its condemnation as a pacifist movement.

    As Xi strengthens his grip on China in China’s 20th Party Congress starting on October 16, it is likely that he will redouble his Maoist focus. The depth of this connection between Xi and Mao has been hard to see as it runs counter to our assumptions about the trajectory of China’s rise. For the last 40 years, we have assumed China was becoming more like “us”—abandoning the shackles of communism, and adopting the “free” market. Thus, Xi’s moves have been a surprise to many savvy observers of China. We need to drop these blinders and better understand the foundational Maoist principles that still guide China.

    ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜˜
    • Dragon’s Breath: Russia, China and the Jews
    • (https://time.com/)

    • Replies: @GomezAdddams
  180. Folkvangr says:

    Both men could be summed up by saying, “Old age comes with wisdom, but sometimes it comes alone.”

    • Disagree: Folkvangr
    • Troll: Richard B
  181. Miro23 says:
    @brostoevsky

    It’ll take time for the American Empire to collapse completely, but the process has already started. Let’s just say I anticipate the US passport becoming a less useful travel document each year. Hopefully, the Europeans have the sense to get on a lifeboat before the Titanic sinks.

    What you can say for sure is that the US will become a lot poorer. It’s loaded with debt, it’s not competitive with other advanced economies and its education is performing badly. Individual states might take charge of their own affairs to try and reverse the trend (de facto secession) or the US may get a dictatorship of some sort which is the usual fate of places like this.

  182. Folkvangr says:
    @samavat

    Let’s assume there are no racists or dummies here. What’s your argument against the fact that Putin fought a proxy war with America in Syria? He did not beg for anything. He plotted and toyed with the idea that NATO would submit to nuclear blackmail.
    To better understand “who is Mr. Putin”, I recommend
    ✿ “The invention of Russia : from Gorbachev’s freedom to Putin’s war” ✿

    • Troll: Richard B
  183. @Kali

    The little fascist shit started making veiled threats, so I’ve ‘disappeared’ him. He was a nassty bore.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @Kali
  184. @Folkvangr

    Yes, I must admit that many of Ron Unz’s articles are indeed thought-provoking and useful, but the comments are mostly garbage

    In fact the OPPOSITE is true in many cases.

    Whilst many of the articles are indeed very good, as good as they are, the comments from the GENUINE TRUTH SEEKERS (ie: most individuals to be found in the UR commentariat), with their posted videos/links to important articles and research etc, are frequently MUCH BETTER and more informative than the articles themselves.

    Then we have that subset of ‘Disinfo Trolls’, like yourself/John’s Johnson/MeanJooJoo/J2/Shitposter_n’_Thief/EliteCommunistInc/Twinkie etc, that approach the UR commentariat with malice aforethought.
    You and your ilk have no concern for getting to the truth of the matter on any issue.
    You have an agenda that you wish to advance and you’ll say anything and conjure up all manner of preposterous theories towards that end – and the truth be damned.

    Many of you are small hat sayanim, employed by your Talmudic benefactors to act as an apologist for Zio malfeasance, to make a case for the Ukrainian side in this proxy war orchestrated by the Anglo Zionist empire, to smear Mother Russia etc.

    The proof of your malevolent intent is the fact that your opinions are in LOCKSTEP with the Zio owned western MSM.
    They say Putin and Russia are evil – SO DO YOU.
    They say that China is a threat – SO DO YOU.
    They say the U.S is a force for good, bringing ‘democracy’ and the ‘rules based order’ to the world – SO DO YOU.

    You have no independent thoughts of your own, you merely mouth off whatever the corrupt establishment are instructing you to say.

    So once again Folk-wanker, your analysis is flawed and your opinions are next to worthless.
    I suggest you keep them to yourself in future, because no one wants to hear them.

    • Agree: Kali
    • Replies: @Folkvangr
    , @Poupon Marx
  185. Folkvangr says:
    @Truth Vigilante

    Look, I don’t need your opinion. I have already told you that you are on the side of absolute evil.
    You and your brethren are the spawn of Satan. You are not looking for TRUTH here. You are feeding your demons of totalitarian control. You worship the Chinese Communists, which is also tantamount to worshiping Satan. I am here on a mission to spread the message of love, truth and forgiveness. Your Demon In Chief Putin is a vengeful diabolical MISCREANT hell bent on murder and destruction.
    You are a person of the past, with no personality, no integrity, always looking for a mob to cling to.
    You and I have nothing to discuss. Please don’t come back. (◔_◔)

    • Replies: @GomezAdddams
  186. “You and your ilk have no concern for getting to the truth of the matter on any issue.
    You have an agenda that you wish to advance and you’ll say anything and conjure up all manner of preposterous theories towards that end – and the truth be damned.”

    This is an interesting commentary, et al.

    I am unclear what the support for this but first,

    EliteCommInc. has no affiliation with any communist or socialist organization of disposition. I am unclear what truth you think is being thwarted.

    Russia did invade Ukraine and that invasion was unprovoked. The global community at large has by and large, rejected Russia’s invasion as appropriate or justified — despite her reasons.

    Russia supposed intervention to stop bloodshed was a one-sided affair that exacerbated the conflict and has been used as cover for the invasion.

    Every contention she had made for the invasion simply has no support. Nazis or no nazis, there is no evidence that Ukraine was preparing an offensive against Russia.

    I would be curious to know what these supposed lies are.

    I would also be curious to know what evidence you have that i have expressed hate for Russia. opposing her invasion has nothing to do with hate. It is tragic and saddening. i keep hoping that the entire affair is a global game play and not real at all.

    I am overly concerned with integrity and truth, and you are welcome to note some actual untruth — hopefully i won’t need to define that term for you. because it appears that many here on Unz, consider any disagreeing comment is a lie. laugh. matters not the support or the matter — if one disagrees — one must be lying by definition.

    Ever turning on the personal much like the authors of articles, conspiracy and lies for those that disagree or of course stupidity . . . laugh.

    ———————–

    my start point here was the contend that western powers had agreed to a stop point for NATO expansion — that is unsupportable. And the references i provided include those comments and the context — and it simply is not applicable here.

    1. those that made the comments had no authority to speak for NATO officially and did not

    2. The scenario in which those comments were does not exist today and existed briefly then as the USSR ceased to be.

    disagree make your case.

    • Replies: @Kali
  187. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    I have no idea where you’re from, but it’s a big, cold, unforgiving world out here. Your attempts to play the innocent victim here are pretty unconvincing. Next time you open your mouth, hold your tongue for a few seconds and try to think, “Is it worth it?” You would save yourself a lot of trouble in the future. One little “coincidence” and you are toast. lol

    • Replies: @Kali
  188. Folkvangr says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    You pathetic liar. I wonder: Will you still pollute this place with your cockroach obsession when you make enough money here to buy a real cockroach farm? I think you should seriously consider it. Maybe you should even marry one. A marriage made in heaven!

  189. @Dumbo

    TikTok apparently promotes decadence abroad, virtues (or at least not degeneracy) domestically.
    see, e.g.,
    https://www.foxnews.com/video/6309696840112
    But, unsure until there’s a better, systematic review.

    No app or other media could do much unless there is such decadent culture to promote, but these could elect to suppress as well. The baseline degeneracy of the youth and city dwellers certainly do not help though.

  190. Folkvangr says:
    @Notsofast

    What is this “Love, Kali” shit? lol Is “she/he/they” fishing for mates here?

  191. Folkvangr says:
    @animalogic

    Animal, your Putin will not see his birthday this year. Mark my words and read my lips lol lol

  192. Kali says:
    @Notsofast

    He would, bro nsf, except I’m in too good a mood to show my angry face atm.

    I am enjoying toying with the little cockroach though. Penetrating his psyche, if not his laptop. lol

    I promise no harm will come of it to any not of the cockroach family. 😉

    Lots of love, brov’,
    Kali.

    P.S.
    Dear Mike and Dr Paul,

    I hope you forgive this wee off-topic diversion (a little fun during these troubled times).

    Please know I have the greatest respect for both of your work. I will only toy with the cockroach from now on if he gives me an irrisistable opening.

    Many thanks for all you do,
    Kali.

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  193. Kali says:
    @mulga mumblebrain

    He still is a nasty bore, Mulga.

    For the moment he seems to have stopped trolling. Now he’s attemting to show how intellectual and well-read he is by copy-pasting the silly nonsense his paymasters have scribed for him.

    Silly little cockroach wants to be taken seriously it seems. Ho-hum.

    Hoping this finds you well and happy, Mulga.

    Love,
    Kali.

    • Thanks: mulga mumblebrain
  194. Kali says:
    @EliteCommInc.

    i keep hoping that the entire affair is a global game play and not real at all.

    Dear EliteCommInc,

    Though I’m in general disagreement with you as to to cause of the current conflict in Ukraine, I feel that this may be part of a global game and that we are all being played.

    The game is real though, and the players seem set on global depopulation and enserfment of the survivors. So, for those with the means to do so, it may be wise to take to the hills and prepare for future food/resourse independance and freedom from the machine.

    By ~2030 anyone alive and still dependant on bankster-money for their continued survival will become the litteral slaves of a global technocracy and the billionaire elite who’ve been designing and planning it for the last half century or more.

    All of that said, I’m not at all pessimistic about the future of our species in the long term – I believe the “elite” have over-reached, and are already beginning to splinter, and I believe there are far too many of us, who actively choose freedom, for them to overcome. But the “fall” which is now beginning to manifest will be hard on so many, and massive depopulation is almost inevitable now.

    Buy a campervan or trailer, fill her with essentials, tools and stock-up on seed, fit a basic solar system and a wood-burning stove, and head to a remote location along with as many like-minded friends and family as you can. That’s my advice, for what it may be worth to you.

    Very best wishes,
    Kali.

  195. Kali says:
    @Folkvangr

    I didn’t say, or imply either my guilt or innocence, little roach. I deliberately left you wondering.

    I may or may not be a hacker. You have no idea one way or the other… because you are too dim-witted and/or lazy to investigate the matter. So sit and sweat it out until the next attemted hack of your laptop. Then pay your lawyer thousands to discover if I’m “toastable” or not.

    Fill yer boots, little roach. Have fun with it… While you can! Muhaha!

    Remember to breathe,
    Kali.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  196. @Folkvangr

    Become like you —give the World a break.

  197. @Folkvangr

    USA has had at least 10 provocations over the last 20 years based on lies—Consider Collin Powell at he UN with his vial of chemical weapon proof ( cleaning soap) —-911 the fact 3 jets could escape the Greatest military in the world and hit 2 buildings but Building 7 fell —with a command from the Fire Chiet–all those buildings were wired for demolision—–Afghanistan –Somolia—Serbia–Yemen–the Iran/Iraq war sponsored by USA —Sudan–Vietnam—Chile –Nicaragua and last September Nord Stream 2.

    War monger is going to get its long overdue just desserts–all this Yankee exeptionalism but ordinary flods working 2 jobs ot make ends meet and those living in tents along Main Street.

    Why can’t the average American person understand the real enemy is perched in the USA at DC—the military industral complex/ Congress —vote for what—Senate—Pentagon —gated communities —they have robber America Blind.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  198. AndrewR says:
    @Folkvangr

    Calm down, tough guy

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  199. @AndrewR

    (

    Biden certainly isn’t Jewish),

    Prove it.

    • LOL: Kali
  200. Samavat says:

    PCR a racist who wants Russia and US working together against the REST.

    [What Washington should be doing is removing gratuitous tensions with the two rising powers. Accept them and integrate with their success. This would benefit all and remove the danger of nuclear war.]

    Shame on you racist. Again, why have you forgotten Iran who has changed the new world order project of the Neocons, NOT Russia or China. You have begged and still continue to BEG.

    Iran with a population of more than 85 Millions been suffering more than 45 years under illegal sanctions that Russia and China voted for in support of the Jewish mafia’s project. Now, you are talking about cooperation of US and Russia under the influence of Jewish mafia’s dick against others?
    What happened to Iran’s contribution idiot? That dick must be chopped off. General Soleimani was able to chop it off in the middle east, and now it is Russia’s DUTY to chop it off in the Central Asia in order to protect the contribution of General Soleimani to the world. Otherwise, no one pays any attention to traitors. US is not a friend of anyone except the Jewish mafia. Are you a member of?

    Stop deceiving others. The criminal elite would not accept anything less than full destruction of its enemies. Is this so difficult to understand? General Soleimani has changed the game before being assassinated by Mafia member, Trump, that you cherish. An illiterate liar who uses anyone and anything to gain billions of dollars, including the use of ‘presidential office’. He is a traitor, and you support his lies because he was soft on Putin, a zionist supporter. Trump was kicked out of the office by the American people. Stop spreading his lies here. He pocketed billions of dollars illegally using the ‘office of president’ from the milking COW, the Saudi MBS which is a treasonous act. He should be put on trial as a traitor.

  201. Folkvangr says:
    @Kali

    I may or may not be a hacker. Fill yer boots, little roach.

    You’re dumber than I thought and you’ve proven that you were raised on a cockroach farm because every comment of yours is laced with their excrement and you can’t put two words together without mentioning your beloved cockroaches several times, you little psycho. And stop adding “Love, Kali” in every comment, weirdo, you are not on match dot com here. Stop fishing for mates! lol lol

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  202. Folkvangr says:
    @GomezAdddams

    all this Yankee exeptionalism but ordinary flods working 2 jobs ot make ends meet and those living in tents along Main Street.

    All those living in tents have allowed all these things to happen to them. The mere fact that they have put up with all the bullshit coming from only two parties proves one thing: they are gullible idiots. The fact that they are not organizing, forming more parties, and protesting their dispossession proves the same thing. They have learned nothing from their history.

    Most psychos here bring up US crimes while talking about Putin, thus condoning the latter’s crimes. This can only come from sick minds. You don’t steal your neighbor’s lawnmower because he stole your weed whacker. You call the police and put him in jail.

  203. Folkvangr says:
    @AndrewR

    If you have a problem with me being a troll, you need counseling, psycho.

    ★ ಠ_ಠ TROLL LIVES MATTER! ಠ_ಠ ★

    • Disagree: Kali
  204. @Folkvangr

    The best way to get rid of your Yuk yukcrainum inferiority complex is to stop being inferior. I can see you now, gazing intently up to the starry abode, and repeating without fail and intent, “Why was I born a Ukrainian sediment”. Your male chromosome was found in a used condom in a dumpster in the alley of a public housing project.

    Tell us the rest of the story. I wait with bated flatulence.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  205. @Truth Vigilante

    Folk-wanker

    Next stroking session, form a circle with meamjewblew, J2 Johnson, and the rest of the crowd at the Tel Aviv Mossad Internet Information Disruption Bureau. This is you week on toilet duty, FW.

    • Replies: @Folkvangr
  206. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Hey, what about your obsession with “poop”. Unlike you, I’ve got a good memory. I parsed your name once as Poupon mustard which is a brand of Dijon mustard and tried to stop your unhinged attacks on another commenter. But you corrected me saying it’s “Poop on Marx” which is definitely a Freudian slip.

    Your male chromosome was found in a used condom in a dumpster in the alley of a public housing project.

    This is what I call a “surprise coming out” because you can’t control it anymore. No person with an ounce of self-respect would say this in a public forum, unless they were on heavy medication.

    born a Ukrainian sediment

    You are truly a despicable, unhinged freak, probably posting from a jail cell.

  207. “Though I’m in general disagreement with you as to to cause of the current conflict in Ukraine, I feel that this may be part of a global game and that we are all being played.
    The game is real though, and the players seem set on global depopulation and enserfment of the survivors. So, for those with the means to do so, it may be wise to take to the hills and prepare for future food/resourse independance and freedom from the machine. . .

    All of that said, I’m not at all pessimistic about the future of our species in the long term – I believe the “elite” have over-reached, and are already beginning to splinter, and I believe there are far too many of us, who actively choose freedom, for them to overcome. But the “fall” which is now beginning to manifest will be hard on so many, and massive depopulation is almost inevitable now. . .et. al.”

    I think that Pres Putin has over reached. And it doesn’t make much sense. The Ukraine actively chose freedom. And if Russia wins, i suspect that she will have to resort to the practices once considered an anathema. While i do believe that the Ukrainians should have held off and simply voted for another candidate next election. Our presence in Ukraine is no less, in fact far less egregious than that of the Russia. despite having the inside track, they lost and then had a temper tantrum. Her demands are simply unsustainable.

    There has always been the chance for nuclear exchange. I neither hope for it or promote it. But by golly gee wow, we should not be shivering at Russia’s threat but should have met it head on.

    Laughing. No compunctions about getting a camper and supplies. but the one I want is out of reach. financially.

    Russia does not own Ukraine and the Europeans should make that clear — and stand to post. Because if Russia prevails, she will own a good part of Europe and a bite of the US as well.

  208. So a big American bank falls.

    It seems the financial war going on in the global power game is taking its toll on Americans and Europeans like was predicted.

    If the Western population don’t move quickly against the ideological morons ruining their societies in record time then they will be the new third world!

    You don’t fight you lose.

    • Replies: @Kali
  209. Folkvangr says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Next stroking session, form a circle with meamjewblew, J2 Johnson, and the rest of the crowd at the Tel Aviv Mossad Internet Information Disruption Bureau. This is you week on toilet duty, FW.

    My Tel Aviv Mossad Internet Information Disruption Bureau keeps tabs on you and your mob here:
    ⚡︎ ⚡︎ ⚡︎ Here is you and your schmucks in 1978: Butirskaya prison ⚡︎ ⚡︎ ⚡︎

    ☣ ☣ And this is you and your cell mate in 2023: ☣ ☣

    WHERE IS THE COMPUTER, JAILBIRDS?

  210. @anastasia

    How can they bring these corporations back to the US without first reducing the standard of living for all Americans.

    Your assumptions are wrong. “They” meaning (((they))) do not want to revive America because (((they))) are not loyal to America. Have you considered that (((they))) want to own America and have the goyim living in America serve the owners perpetually? Raising the normal Americans standard of living certainly goes against this goal.

    Now, if (((they))) were patriots it would be easy to revive America because America already has “Sovereign Credit” and abundant natural resources; mind you human capital has gotten substantially worse over the decades. The USA would have to stop Dollar Hegemony since that is a double edge sword.

    The power of “Sovereign Credit” for domestic development:

    http://www.henryckliu.com/public_html/page3.html

  211. LarryD3 says:
    @Brian Damage

    “Mainland Chinese were looked down upon by ethnic Chinese from other places. No one wanted to have anything to do with them. … It was the Southeast Asian Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong who invested in China in the 80s and 90s and helped made what China is today. The US and Europe didn’t invest anything.”

    No, SOME overseas Chinese might’ve “looked down” on the mainland but not those who knew intimately Chinese history. To those of us who’d at least seen pictures of pre-1949 skinny, shoeless Chinese in rags the Chinese of the 60s and 70s, often with a bicycle, a watch, and a sewing machine, was a great improvement. Despite later propaganda by the Deng people, many overseas visitors from the West had commented on the excellent health of the average Chinese. A young Chinese sprinter was one of the world’s first to run the 100 meters in 10 seconds flat. Chinese table tennis champions like Zhuang Tse Tung and Li FuJun were admired everywhere. To break the West’s monopoly on international sports China organized the Afro-Asian Games and excelled in them even with its motto of “Friendship First, Competition Second.” Boycotted by all sides – the West as well as the Soviet bloc in science and technology – China nevertheless exploded its first atomic bomb in 1965, and broke all international records in following up with the hydrogen bomb within three years. A few years later, China sent its first satellite in space and was starting to make nuclear submarines when Nixon visited Beijing in 1972. There were documents in the Nixon Library about China’s rapid progress in armaments and one reason for the visit was to divert Chinese attention from military to civilian goods. In this the US succeeded beyond its dreams as Deng cancelled many China’s military R&D in favor of civilian stuff like clothes, shoes, and belts. The present Chinese government recently referred to this lack of appropriate defense spending during Deng’s years that forced China to play catch-up today. As for US exports to China, there is a long standing law against selling really high-tech goods – products under the so-called “dual-use” category are banned.

  212. @Kali

    Fiddled with it a little bit. Turns out Wifi can be trivially easy to hack if you aren’t careful.

  213. Folkvangr says:

    We have far less leverage with China today. We don’t have military forces on their soil, and they have a population more than four times our own. We were not involved in the development of their form of government. There is no chance that China will abandon its technological ambitions because it sees the acquisition and development of key technologies as essential to its rise to power. Technological power is economic power is national power. A retreat would be humiliating for President Xi.

    The American administration has not yet come to grips with this central reality. President Trump’s negotiators seemed to believe that tariffs will force the Chinese government to change its technological course, that it will somehow “buckle” under the pressure. But if you understand history, you know that the Chinese party-state will not and cannot back down. China’s demand for technology is non-negotiable. If the government were to back down, it would allow the Chinese nation to be subjected to the same policy of “containment” that the United States used against the Soviet Union.

    • Agree: LarryD3
  214. The Chinese have a new Minister of Defence, General Li Shangfu, who used to work in the space programme and was already sanctioned by the Americans.

    https://www.rt.com/news/572835-china-appoints-defense-minister/

    • Replies: @Deep Thought
  215. Well at least Mr Whitney allows us to post comments… about PCR.
    Mr Roberts, you’re one of the greats, a legend but not allowing comments just takes some of the steam out of your great articles.
    Keep fighting the good fight fellas!

    • Replies: @迪路
  216. @Mark G.

    The British were able to play their old game of “Let’s you and him fight” one last time in 1939 because they knew the leader of Germany, a raving anglophile, would play his role. They could still hide behind Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam in his dotage is like Biden. He’s alienated everyone and there’s no one to run to when the uptarts show up. Expect more spastic desperation moves.

  217. @Commentator Mike

    So, will Lloyd Austin call him on the phone if the USAF finds another US$12.- hobbyist’s balloon again?!

  218. @Mark G.

    The USA’s share of world economic output is rapidly shrinking, just as Britain’s did starting after WW1. WW2 greatly accelerated this process.
    By the 1950’s, with Britain’s debacle at Suez, it was obvious to the world.
    America’s rout in Afghanistan was similar.
    Economic power, or lack thereof, is the determinant of military power. As the USA becomes majority Non-White, America’s economic and cultural decline will only gain momentum.

  219. Kali says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    I’ve just heard that the good folk of the Netherlands have elected the newly formed “Protest Party” to office, even though the party was running against a coalition of the four mainstream parties. (Sorry, no link as yet – hubby read the news to me from one of his telegram channels.)

    Given the traditional “leftist” bent of the Netherlanders, maybe the worm is finally turning..?

    Best wishes,
    Kali.

  220. 迪路 says:
    @Vinnyvette

    What’s interesting is that both the neo-conservatives of the right, led by Irving Kristol, and the Frankfurt School of the left were founded by a group of Jews.
    These men once appeared to be Trottists, but as literati they had to beg for a living from capitalists in the deep state, which reflected their weakness.
    Basically their research is funded by foundations that represent the deep state, like the Rockefeller Foundation and so on.

  221. Wade says:
    @Biff

    Ibanez makes better guitars

    I beg to differ:

  222. Wade says:
    @JWalters

    I basically agree with this assessment, although of course there’s plenty of room for doubt. None of us our insiders, after all.

    However, those who site Trump’s kissing Israel’s butt as proof that he’s against us were never too convincing. If the attempted assassination of president Truman by the Israelis, and it’s coverup, the JFK assassination, it’s coverup, the attack on the US Liberty by the Israelis, its coverup, the Apollo Affair –the theft of fully enriched uranium from Zionist, Zalman Shapiro-run NUMEC facility by the Israelis, and its coverup, the eventual assassination plot of GW Bush by the Israelis, and it’s coverup up, are all known by New York insiders, what exactly did Trump’s anti-zionist supporters expect him to do, walk up to the podium and denounce Israel?

    Remember, JFK insiders at the time of his election reported that when JFK was facing financing difficulties, some New York based jews met with him in private and offered to finance his campaign in full on condition that he give full control over his Middle East policy to them. JFK told them to go F themselves.

    Trump isn’t a self proclaimed messiah. Nor is he Adolf Hitler. He’s a self proclaimed negotiator. And he ran his presidency exactly how you’d expect a negotiator to do. He recognized the existing power structure of the US which is solidly Jewish and made his proposal: As president I’ll support Israel’s interests in the Middle East in full. However, here at home, our government is going to pursue an America First agenda which will probably include bring troops home. This put him into conflict with both the Pentagon and Israeli insiders like Netanyahu who wanted US troops to stay put or increase.

    Once you accept that Trump is just a negotiator, then his presidency makes total sense including how the global Jewish community became divided over him. Israel’s population loved him while American finance-Jews mostly hated him (there are a few exceptions). I’m sure this put Bibi Netanyahu in a difficult bind as he needs both domestic support and New York jewish support. So he remained friendly with Trump publicly while working to undermine him in private. As soon as Trump “lost” his re-election, Bibi threw him under a bus and Trump denounced Bibi for it.

    I don’t believe Trump is involved in a conspiracy against the US, certainly not knowingly anyway.

  223. PCR, the mental midget who thought it’s in Russias interest to escalate things with NATO when they’re not even able to beat Ukraine with military surplus equipment, along with no navy and virtually no Air Force.

    Mike Shitney, the brilliant strategist saying things like Europe will freeze this past winter, rambled about a much vaunted Russian winter offensive that all it did was conquer Bakhmuts garbage dumb.

    Must suck being you guys, I’m amazed anyone still reads this drivel after you’ve been consistently wrong for over a year lol

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  224. @Folkvangr

    If we look back at history, does it mean Russia and the West will split up China again? Or not that history? Lol

  225. @anastasia

    Many people here are fans of Putin and half of rural Russians don’t have indoor plumbing. Since it seems to be acceptable to have half your rural countrymen have to crap in an outhouse, what’s the issue with lowering the standards of living of the people? Lol

  226. @Putinandhisfansaremorons

    Banderites are the lowest of the low, are they not.

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