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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 17, 2020 12:37:33 GMT -8
As you all know, for years I have been banging the drum that our elites have been selling Americans out for 30 pieces of silver. (In fact the stakes are much larger) Having been involved in the international commodity trade since 1977, I was able to see how this situation developed.
The attached piece is the best explanation I have ever seen of how this happened and how the system works. As I have mentioned before, my first experience with the China Trade was in 1977. I lived in Hongkong from 1985 to Dec 1991. During my stay in Hongkong, I saw the enormous changes which were taking place in China and could not understand why the USA was being so helpful to the Reds. To say that I could not understand is not entirely correct. I was of the opinion that there could be only two reasons, 1) The powers that be saw the desperate situation in the PRC and decided that unless something was done to assist them, millions would starve and this might upset the situation in Asia, i.e. the powers-that-be were somewhat benevolent. 2) The powers-that-be saw an enormous possibility to make billions-upon-billions of dollars by opening up China, Americans be damned.
I am ashamed to admit it took me a couple of years to decide that point 2 was the motivating factor. This has been clear since the late 1980s/early 1990s. Once the WTO was formed only a blind man could not see this.
The attached piece is somewhat long and perhaps complicated for someone not in the international trade, but it is well worth reading. The only point the writer misses is the effect modern communications technology has had on trade. In 1977, when I started in the trade, the most modern information source was a Reuters ticker that slowly printed out information on what happened around the world. In our case, being metal traders, we subscribed to information about the metals markets.
Even at that time I thought the Reuters machine made too much information available to too many people too cheaply. Prior to that, traders had to have people working for them around the world who could let them know what was happening before others found out.
The moment vast amounts of information are available to everyone, the margins on trade become thinner and thinner. This became clear in China in the 1980s. To simply make an international call in China during most of the 1980s was difficult and expensive. But that changed when cellular phone technology reached a high level and it was no longer necessary to install hardlines to make calls. In effect, China jumped over a generation of phone technology that the USA and Europe had invested billions in. With this jump, everyone and his brother in China could find out anything they needed.
By the late 1980s, it was clear to me that the number of medium-and-large-sized companies in the metals trade would shrink drastically. In effect, the metals trade would be divided into two areas, finance and specialty. Basically, huge multinationals with banks would handle the lion's share of the business, and the smaller companies would have to specialize in geographical region or metal. Such has come to pass.
While many will think, "serves um right" as regards the metal traders who have gone out of business because information is so easily accessed, those many should realize that the resultant business model is now oligarchy/monopoly. Not good. This is why they hate Trump. This along with the permanent war party backed by the military-industrial-financial-intelligence-foreign-policy cabal, is what the Russia Hoax, impeachment and attacks against Trump are all about. He is the only person in their way.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 17, 2020 20:32:01 GMT -8
I cannot speak for the truth of this piece, but it certainly has the sound of truth to me. Go to the first video and read the English translation of what the speaker is saying. This originally appears to have been broadcast in September. Of course, the hard-drive which has just come out would seem to confirm at least part of the story. Furthermore, the fact that this man claims the hard drive was sent to the DOJ and they did nothing about it would also make this believable. Note, the whistleblower claims that the families of some very high members of the CCP sent these hard drives as they see the damage Xi and his enforcer Wang are creating. Jiang means Jiang Zemin, a previous head of China.
I can believe this since, as I have said before, the only way China has out of its present mess is to dump Xi. All the problems which China has created can be laid at his feet.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 18, 2020 10:59:49 GMT -8
The link is to a 35 minute video in which Rudy Giuliani lays out the case of corruption against Joe Biden and his family. If Biden is elected, we are truly finished as a country
Funnily enough, I received this video from a friend in Singapore who cannot believe what is happening in the USA. He is very worried because as he says, "if America falls the rest of the world is in danger and come under the control of the CCP."
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 18, 2020 11:26:59 GMT -8
Even the Daily Mail is publishing more info showing Biden's shady dealings. This time with Kazakhstan and Russia.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 18, 2020 11:47:01 GMT -8
I hadn't heard about Kazakhstan, but I will add that the Yellow Jester was also the Obama Gang's point man for Romania. Naturally, Hunter profited nicely as a result.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 19, 2020 9:42:44 GMT -8
Another shoe drops in the Biden corruption scandal. The way things are going, it looks like we will need a centipede to handle the number of shoes which will drop.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 8:21:56 GMT -8
An old case of Joe and Hunter corruption. Who pays a $100,000 retainer to a 21 year old?
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Post by artraveler on Oct 20, 2020 8:46:27 GMT -8
In a word, never
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 10:19:40 GMT -8
An interesting piece by Selwyn Duke. He would seem to agree with me on the possibility that the reason the FBI has been holding on to the Biden file is that they could use it to blackmail him. He has also figured out that one of the reasons the Deep State so hates Trump is that they can't break him, and I would add they can't buy him, due to his personality and more importantly his wealth.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 20, 2020 10:30:35 GMT -8
This makes too much sense. It's another reason for clearing out at least the DC office of the FBI -- especially including FBI director Wray.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 10:51:47 GMT -8
I wrote this last week.
Even Rush has finally come around to the idea that the Deep State has been and will further use this info to control Biden. He just mentioned this on his program.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 20, 2020 11:22:44 GMT -8
That makes sense, given a total lack of ethics by the Demagogues and the Deep State. And for that matter, by Romanian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, and Chinese oligarchs. (In the latter case, that includes the Chinese Communist party-state as a partner of every oligarch.)
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Post by artraveler on Oct 20, 2020 11:24:48 GMT -8
Even Rush has finally come around to the idea that the Deep State has been and will further use this info to control Biden. I don't think Rush ever discounted this idea. Like many people he just did not want to believe it was true. Franky, I would love to live in an age when we could again, trust our government. I don't see that happening soon. Reagan had it correct, "don't ask government to solve the problem, government is the problem", and that was almost 60 years ago. We now set on the verge of an election that is sure to result in political violence across the country. Arms and ammo sales are at an all time high, as are prices for those items. When President Trump wins the left will unleash a series of violence that will make this spring look tame. If Biden wins there will be little change in the violence but it will be coupled with even more mandates from leftist governors, and mayors. The fervently of the issues has passed rational debate. There is another place where Rush has not gone and that is Civil War. He clearly does not desire to talk about the possibility or even admit that tensions are reaching that level. However, I see among people I know the anti-Trump are no less passionate than the fire eaters of 1860. President Trump's second term is going to be a rocky one. If you don't have adequate supplies for at least a two week siege, build a bug out bag today. |
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Post by artraveler on Oct 20, 2020 11:27:37 GMT -8
It's another reason for clearing out at least the DC office of the FBI No, it is time to shut down the FBI, CIA, and DOJ and start over. No rehires above the grade of GS-11. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 11:44:46 GMT -8
I am afraid to say that I have been thinking the same thing for some time now. All bureaucracies tend toward corruption and the more powerful they become, the worse the corruption that arises. Instead of shut down, I would say, "burn down."
While I know that they will never burn down these agencies, over the last few days, I have been pondering the possibilities Trump might have if he wins. Could he fire everyone above the grade of GS-11? Would the departments function if he did? Does he have the right people to appoint as the new leadership of these departments. The mind boggles.
How about this? What if Trump went to the leadership of these agencies and told them "here's the deal, everyone who hands in his or her resignation today will not be prosecuted for crimes they have committed. Those who stay take their chances. This offer does not include those who have already resigned or people like Haspel of the CIA and Wray of the FBI."
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Post by timothylane on Oct 20, 2020 12:56:33 GMT -8
Civil war comes when at least one faction will not tolerate the other in power, and it happens. The abolitionists disliked doughface government in the 1850s, but never thought of rebellion (perhaps partly because they expected to win eventually anyway). But when Lincoln (anti-slavery, though not an outright abolitionist) was elected, the fire-eaters refused to accept it.
Similarly, in the 1930s Spain had the Right and Left, neither of whom would tolerate the other in power. So the initial establishment of an anticlerical republic led to Sanjurjo's 1932 uprising (which failed), the entrance of the Catholic leader Jose Maria Gil Robles into the Center-Right government in 1934 was intolerable to the left and they revolted, especially in Asturias (another failure). Then the establishment of the Popular Front government (after the now-centrist Radical Party collapsed due to the straperlo scandal) in 1936 led to the nationalist pronunciamento that resulted in the Spanish Civil War and eventually the lengthy Franco dictatorship.
Note that triumphalist leftists reacted to the Popular Front victory with continuing violence, as I expect will happen if the Yellow Jester wins. This anarchy (and anarchists were a very large faction in Spain at the time) undoubtedly contributed to the decision of Mola, Goded, Franco, and Sanjurjo to revolt.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 17:00:52 GMT -8
I was wondering when they would do something like this. If everything Giuliani and others claim is true, the Bidens will be in very big trouble now.
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Post by artraveler on Oct 20, 2020 19:11:06 GMT -8
If everything Giuliani and others claim is true, the Bidens will be in very big trouble now. I think President Trump was aware of this long before it hit the press. Was it his intent to hold it as an October surprise. It does have the feel of one. Given how many times republicans have been on the receiving end of false surprises does call it into question. However, even with that stipulation it seems there is proof. No one in the democrat camp has claimed the e-mails are fake. If they were fake why did the FBI hold them for over a year? The timing of the emails and all the other information is enough to make a prosecutor seek more information. Here we have a very real example of the violation emoluments clause, suborning of justice and bribery of an elected official. There is reason to wonder what is going on in the state attorney office in Delaware and US attorney office for Southern District. Will there be a grand jury, indictments and trials? In the America we grew up in the answer would be yes, voiced by democrats and republicans. I am reminded of a quote in Smilies People, "half angels, chasing half devils and no one knows where the goodies are". Perhaps, if Comey and his little group of traitors had been indicted, but we know now that is not going to happen. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 20, 2020 19:33:22 GMT -8
I have a suspicion that the hard drive was also turned over to the Delaware State Police to put pressure on the FBI, or at least, to keep them somewhat honest. The Feds are now seen as completely corrupt.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 21, 2020 20:19:37 GMT -8
The water keeps rising on the Bidens.
I still can't figure out why this info wasn't released, at the very latest, in September. The Bidens, Democratic Bolsheviks and media (sorry for redundancy) may be able to dodge this for a couple of weeks.
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