Debt Rattle August 24 2019
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Frank Walton Crows on a beach 1884 • World Needs To End Risky Reliance On US Dollar: BoE’s Carney (R.) • China Strikes Back At US With New Tari
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 24 2019]Frank Walton Crows on a beach 1884
Very nice; in fact quite excellent actually; IMO.
Reminds me of the many beaches along the cenral and southern Oregon coasts.
The schooners and freighters were also a good touch.
The north coast; especially Astoria, has spectacular and violent weather almost every year, generally beginning in September and ending after the first of the year…“CNN Hires Former FBI #2 Andy McCabe, Who Was Fired For Leaking And Lying (ZH)”
Trump and his circus lie every day. Sarah Sanders and several others have been hired by Fox who lied every day. Liers being hired by Trump is just a job interview for Fox.
Gabbard?? She has no chance. She’s friends of Russia.
US pressure on Venezuela was Trump’s way of rewarding Russia, pushing PDVSA into hands of Rosneft and Putin.
Rosneft has become Venezuela’s top oil trader, helping offset US pressure. Rosneft is the main trader shipping oil to buyers in China & India, helping Caracas offset the loss of traditional dealers who are avoiding it for fear of breaching US sanctions.
Trump and family have to refill their Russian money chests.
I found the public link about the meeting of the 7 alpha dogs
https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/french-g7-presidency/
When in public viewing, I expect to see a lot of action meaning nothing.Gabbard is the dark horse who knows maybe she splits the Russian vote so we get a fair election. The DNC hate her so she gets my vote. keep her in for nothing else but getting the 5 trillion dollar forever wars in the public eye. If Biden is the chosen one many including me (for the first time) will stay home and Gabbard will look pretty good after 4 more years of Trump.
William Barr
The most depressing article today was about William Barr.
After the Mueller fiasco faded I expected him to start draining the swamp and going after the ‘bad guys’. It seems that he WAS one of the bad guys! No wonder CNN is okay with hiring McCabe. It may explain his non-action in the Epstein case.
It seems like game, set and match to the Deep State. While a lot of detail is emerging about its actions it is so encompassing and pervasive there seems no scope to change anything.
The whole of the USA now seems to be complete fantasy, with most people happy to take the ‘blue pill’!
Tulsi Gabbard does seem to be an exception, but I think she can only make headway by starting a new party, but if she is only polling 3% in real life then perhaps not. I am surprised it is that low, but hey, ‘blue pill’.
http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/08/already-in-progress.html
They say that no battle plan survives the first contact with the enemy.
The struggle to define the next structure for global trade and finance is underway. China is both in ascendancy, and infected with parasites, while the western financial and military empire has long been ruled by parasites, and is pervasively diseased, as are all of the surviving tributary states. The tributary states that tried to break away, like Iraq, Libya, Venezuela and Syria got gut-shot, but are still in some kind of existence, never to willfully comply again.
Their crime was against the Petro-Dollar, the extractive agent of the Petrobuck empire. The mutiny against the Petro-$US is spreading, quietly, with Russia, China and Iran trading outside the $US constructs, forming new trade mechanisms in other currencies.
We know that China and Russia have massive holdings of physical gold, that Venezuela mines it, and that Iran and Turkey have done gold for oil deals in the past decade to get around US sanctions.
The US is now using both the global military forces and the $US trade and finance structure as billy clubs, instead of just the military. It takes time to develop alternative trade structures, pricing, and market formats, but that is underway, with China, Russia and Iran being fully invested.
This is an open secret, and it seems to be why Trump can use the $US as a billy club, now, knowing that it is still possible, and will soon be impossible, whether used now or not.
Trump can be pretty unconstrained in his short-term actions with the global reserve currency. His battlefield tactics are quite different from the calm that global banking tries to portray, and their ends are not quite the same.
Trump seems to be fronting for nationalist-invested power elites, not globalist-financial-elites.
Are there other sides? Can we get another quarterback in the game for the nationalist team, in the second half, maybe?Peace might break out in the Mideast under Chinese/Russian tutelage.
I’m suspicious about what looks like so much good free-information from OilPrice.com. What false information might be in here? Their story about Iran letting the Russians have a naval base seems to have been untrue. A detuned version is in this story. I appreciate so much detail and context. I’ll be glad to post corrections from those with good sources.
The handling by the Trump White House of the Iranian shootdown of the US RQ-4A/BAMS-D Global Hawk drone on June 20, 2019, only exacerbated further the anguish of both MBS and MBZ. Both of them, along with other Arab leaders, urged the Trump White House to strike hard at Iran in retaliation. Both MBS and MBZ communicated in person with the most senior individuals at the White House. They were stunned to learn that Trump communicated directly with Tehran on the possibility of a largely symbolic retaliatory strike, and the prospects of bilateral negotiations.
Both MBS and MBZ consider the last-minute cancellation of the US retaliatory strike a personal affront and humiliation because Trump did not accept and follow their positions and demands for action. Both MBS and MBZ are now convinced that not only the US demonstrated weakness and lack of resolve, but that Pres. Trump was personally not committed to fighting Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf sheikhdoms.
Furthermore, there is growing trepidation in Saudi Arabia about the viability of the Pakistani guarantees to the Kingdom, particularly concerning nuclear deterrence.
In the past, Islamabad mediated the Saudi purchase of ballistic missiles from the PRC (procurements which are supported by Pakistani military technicians and security personnel) and had allocated two nuclear warheads for launch from Saudi Arabia in case of an Iranian attack, all in return for lavish Saudi funding of Pakistan’s nuclear and strategic weapons programs.
However, there has been a profound turnaround in Pakistani policies starting in the Summer of 2019.
First, Pakistan reached a comprehensive military agreement with Turkey with the latter providing weapons and other military systems, as well as training, in order to replace US and Western systems which were no longer available. In the first area of active cooperation, Turkey mediated modalities for trilateral cooperation (Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan) in fighting Baluchi jihadists and insurgents. Second, Pakistan is expediting the shipping of huge quantities of Iranian gas to western China by mainly using existing pipelines, from the Fars fields to Chabahar, then via the Iran-Pakistan pipeline to Gwadar, and then via the CPEC (the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) pipeline to Xinjiang. As well, Iran and Pakistan cooperate closely in negotiations with various Afghan factions to ameliorate any US achievements in the Doha negotiations with the Taliban.
Hence, both MBS and MBZ wonder, can Saudi Arabia trust Pakistan to deter and confront Iran and its allies on behalf of Saudi Arabia? …
“The UAE and China are moving towards a promising future,” MBZ said in his concluding meeting with Xi Jinping. His visit aimed at “developing co-operation and a comprehensive strategic partnership, as well as opening new horizons for joint action in various sectors,” MBZ explained. Xi Jinping responded by stressing “the profound significance of China-Arab relations”. The PRC and the UAE would now work closely together to transform the Persian Gulf into “a security oasis” rather than a new “source of turmoil”...
According to PRC senior officials in Beijing: “China continues oil imports from Iran to show independence from US sanctions.” The PRC also agreed to purchase oil with yuans, euros, and other currencies in order to reduce their vulnerability to US financial sanctions. The PRC would continue to import its Iranian crude via at least a dozen Iranian tankers also in order to demonstrate to all that “China [is] a country powerful enough to bust US sanctions”. …
For the first time, an official PRC defense document acknowledged the rivalry with the US military and clearly articulated China’s long-term goal to confront and challenge “US dominance”. These goals would be attained through, among other things, the expansion of the PRC “power projection capabilities”, particularly the Navy’s. The White Paper heralded a significant shift in maritime strategy from “near seas defense” to “the combination of near seas defense and far seas protection”. Adopting the “far seas” strategy, the White Paper stated, would enable the PRC to “build itself into a maritime power”.
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Chinas-Ultimate-Play-For-Global-Oil-Market-Control.html At a moment that Iran and the US/UK are effectively already at war on the open seas in an ongoing “tanker war,” Tehran is set to unveil a new Iran-manufactured long range air-defense missile system which could rival Russia’s S-300 system.
Citing state media, the Associated Press described “the Bavar-373 is a long-range surface-to-air missile system able to recognize up to 100 targets at a same time and confront them with six different weapons.” …
Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro claimed early this week that the Iranian system is “superior” to the S-300. It’s reportedly been undergoing testing since 2017, but it’s unclear how quickly it will actually be deployed into operation.
“The Iranian Bavar-373 radars can detect air targets at distances of up to 300 kilometers, and, in addition to aircraft, the radar is able to detect cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as small drones,” the publication stated, according to a translation.
“According to unconfirmed data, the radar is also capable of detecting stealth aircraft, which makes it an effective means of combating F-22 and F-35 fighters.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-21/superior-s-300-iran-unveils-domestic-made-long-range-air-defense-system The US military is no longer the primary force in Asia, and missiles from China’s rapidly improving military could overwhelm its bases in hours, according to a new report.
The study by the United States Study Center, at the University of Sydney, in Australia, warned that America’s defense strategy in the Indo-Pacific region “is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis” and could struggle to defend its allies against China…
“China has deployed a formidable array of precision missiles and other counter-intervention systems to undercut America’s military primacy,” the report states. Those missiles number in the thousands, the report says.
Almost all US military installations in the Western Pacific, as well as those of its key partners and allies, “could be rendered useless by precision strikes in the opening hours of a conflict,” according to the report.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/20/asia/australia-china-us-military-report-intl-hnk/index.htmlThey report that she is polling at 3% but who knows they are not counting the polls where she does better than 1.4. and almost 1/2 the respondents have never heard of her. I think if she can stay in the debates and in the media with her actual message and not the brutal treatment she is getting from the media. She may appeal to the masses. Maybe not. the interview from Colbert and the View were extremely bias for the never ending wars. I imagine ole Megan nearly had a seizure when Gabbard said regime change is bad. I wonder how many refugees would be in Europe and heading up from south America if the CIA just stayed home.
I would like to prove this asshole wrong
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