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@Dr D Rich Re: unz.com
I think most of the authors are genuine and are also kept busy there, away from the limelight. Not Unz, I take his articles with a pinch of salt. The Daily Stormer was attacked when Anglin was running it, but unx.com is never attacked for hosting Anglin’s articles. Not a problem for me.
Dr D Rich said
Btw, do you think Ron_Unz.com is just another flytrap playing controlled opposition?
I would say something like 99.9999% chance of it being controlled opposition. These big alternative sites, such as unz.com, zerohedge.com etc are all surviving because they keep people with those views away from other comment boards where those people would do more damage to the ((owners)). Keep people separated so that they only hear one set of views, that way they are more divided than ever. Isn’t that why “conspiracy theory” is an insult in polite society? Shoot the messenger, or better still, corner the messenger on some site, keep the messenger busy there, that way the message will not get out to the broader public. What is most revealing is that the “conspiracy theories” keep on being proven to be the truth. Not all of them, the ((owners)) have tried to throw in some truely crazy conspiracy theories (flat earth as an example) just to show how crazy conspiracy nuts really are.
As socialism seems to be the subject of the day … https://www.unz.com/jfreud/ultimately-it-wasnt-communism-or-capitalism-but-jewish-supremacism-that-undermined-western-nationalism/
jb-hb said
Look, I’m not happy about Gaza either, but then I’M not the one who cynically jumped in with all the “Gaza=We Need MOOAR Socialism!!!” – the instant it became possible, which doesn’t suggest Socialists had any actual humanitarian concerns about Gaza THUS WHY I AM UNIMPRESSED WHEN SOCIALISTS CONTINUE TO HAMMER AWAY AT GAZA TODAY.
You want them to shut up and suck it up like you do in your DEI classes at work? They have tried doing something, something based on the “free speech” that the USA boasts about all the time; their crime is naivette, not socialism. They believed that the USA actually believes its own words, that people should be free, but then learned that the USA is lying; the Empire of Lies. Some people just have to discover the world for themselves.
@WES SCMP (a Hong Kong paper) had an article on that, something about kids not being interested in working for their exams. Other than that, I know nothing about it and would not know if it is one person or loads of them. I have not seen anything about it in mainland, but I am not really into caring about what kids are up to.
HK has all sorts of mind confusion, trying to be western and trying to be eastern, pining for the days when HK was the gateway to China. Now HK is smaller than Shenzhen, is much more expensive than Shenzhen and lots of the HK locals go to Shenzhen for private medical care, for shopping and just for food. Shenzhen is flooded with them at the weekends. But HK is still the financial interface between China and the rest of the world, hence the HKD is pegged to the USD and there are no capital controls out of HK. The large mainland buy side companies all have offices in HK, as do their sell side. A lot of western Shanghai share trading goes through HKEx.
As for Shanghai, I wouldn’t know what is happening there, but I have friends working there and they have not mentioned anything.
There is also a lot of bullshit spread about China, I would take what you read with a pinch of salt.
BTW, there are not many homes with basements in China.
zerosum said
intellectual property issues
Another usury-like system devised to enable rich people to sit back, do nothing, and collect rent; prime example, Fauci’s medicine patents. The USA wants the rest of the world to adopt their bad habits, habits which now include changing the rules mid game and strong-arming countries into buying their stuff.
Do you think countries will start to realise that an economy relying on the USA is probably not a good idea?
@Maxwell Quest China shipping is increasingly (still a small percentage) using the arctic route (https://gcaptain.com/arctic-shipping-boom-continues-as-china-and-russia-push-cargo-volume-to-new-heights/) because it is so much quicker than using the red sea or panama, and those ships do not go home empty.
zerosum said
As of April 2024, the five countries owning the most US debt are:
You forgot the USA, the vast majority of US debt is owned internally by the USA, they should be at the top of your list.
If they can get enough foreign governments to take the zero coupon bonds, then they do not need to care about the interest rate as their debt repayments will be deferred for 100 years. The tariff pressure is all part of this game, borrowing from the future in order to save on pain today. It is a nice idea, will only work on very small and weak countries, China won’t be doing it unless the USA pays such a huge price today that makes it worth their while, and that is unlikely politically.
@WES Indeed, the USG has been pushing zero-coupon, 100 year bonds, on foreign governments, trying to force them to basically pay the US debt. Of course, nobody wants to take them, USG debt buyers want shorter and shorter durations as uncertainty grows. Who knows if the USA will even exist in 100 years, let alone whether they will care about paying 100 year old bonds, and given the uncertainty, 100 years seems like a piss take, but some will buy simply to avoid tariff, but they will be saying goodbye to their money, and they know it. Given the USG is agreement incapable, 100 years is a joke.
The interesting aspect of this article (posted in previous comment) is how this left wing – self confessed communist – is trying to use the redneck real man schtick to promote left wing ideologies. A new approach, where communists are now self-sufficient real men, they are no longer pansies who dress like women. I am not convinced, but there will probably be a flood of similar attempts now that there is a power vacuum in left wing politics.
An interesting article, well worth your time, by a person who grew up in the US south … https://nevermoremedia.substack.com/p/song-of-the-south-rednecks-pirates.
Netanyahu is in Hungary, but Hungary is surrounded by countries that could stop his escape to the USA. Will they do anything or are they all intimidated by the USA’s more explicit leadership role in Zionism?
Ukraine as the new Israel? It has been mentioned before and there are reports of Jews migrating to Ukraine, which is odd for a country at war; how reliable those reports are is as yet unknown.
Disappointed that Orban proved to be a traitor to his own country, same as Trump is proving to be a traitor to the USA, despite the MAGA derangement syndrome of his Christian supporters. We should have seen it coming due to Orban’s claims to be a Trump fan. They are both willing to take Zionist money rather than help their home nations. Yet another reminder that politicians are the decent facade of organised crime.
Getting back to USD bonds. The vast majority of the US debt is owned internally, some even by the US government – the US government buys its own securities, for whatever reasons – even though the Fed cannot legally buy USD securities. China owns something like 4 trillion, last time I looked, Japan about 1.2 trillion, etc. But the vast majority is owned by entities within the USA.
Foreign entities need to own USD for practical purposes, China will also own Euro and Yen debt. Of course, entities within the USA include global corporations who’s customers may include foreigners. Looking at China’s USD holdings, I remembered that China is now lending some of its USD to third-world countries in order to enable them to avoid taking out IMF loans, the IMF being a key component of US imperialism. In the distant past countries were holding something like 80% of their foreign reserves as USD, now that figure is 60% and dropping. Times change but the USD is still pretty solid.
WES said
I am puzzled why the bond market didn’t rein in Joe Boden and company’s totally out of control spending before now?
I am no economist, but I would suggest that it is due to the US balance of payments deficit. Consider China, they sell way more to the USA than the USA can possibly sell to China – other than as bonds. As a result China has stacks of USD. Their only way to use those USD are to buy bonds or buy goods and services from the USA or any other country that wants USD – not many as the USA has a negative balance of payments. They do buy lots of food from the USA, that uses up some of their USD, but basically the balance of payments is so far in China’s favour that they cannot spend all their USD. What can they do? They know that in the end their USD bonds are going to crash, but unless they can convert them into gold first – and they have been doing this for a long time, but there is only so much gold – then they have to hold USD.
Here is an interesting view of the US current account – https://www.bea.gov/news/2023/us-international-transactions-1st-quarter-2023-and-annual-update – and BoP – https://think.ing.com/articles/us-bop-debt-complacency-needs-to-be-watched/.
Although Trump talks very tough on tariffs and China, he is totally dependent on the likes of China to keep the USD afloat; were China to refuse to trade in USD and hence buy bonds, the USD would rapidly lose value, even quicker than via tariffs.
WES said
These tariff resets are one big economic experiment, but rooted in past (pre – 1900) history.
My understanding is that tariffs in the past were the sole mechanism used to fund the federal government. Trump has introduced tariffs but has kept all other taxes, so instead of getting rid of income tax, the tariffs are in addition to income tax. So although the historical angle is interesting, is it really the same? I know Trump has talked about getting rid of income taxes, but Trump talks about lots of stuff, his mouth is not a good guide to his actions.
zerosum said
You hate Trump and his “Tariff war” solution.
Therefore, Propose something that will be better and solve the $36 Trillion problem.First you need to know the root of the problem you are trying to solve; why is the USA in economic decline. Sure, you can blame China, but manufacturing moved from the USA to China because the business owners got better returns in China; some then moved to Vietnam for the same reason. So the real problem is how to make the USA competitive again.
Slapping taxes on imports will either cause inflation (people now paying the uncompetitive US price for goods) or stagnation (people stop buying stuff and make do with what they have). Most likely it will be a combination of both. Increasing taxes goes some way to relieve the debt payments, but does little for the core problem. Inflation does tackle the core problem, the uncompetitiveness of US industry. Germany achieved a similar trick by adopting the Euro, a currency that enabled them to maintain massive exports without paying the price of the Euro becoming a very valuable currency; the DM had suffered that fate.
How are tariffs going to make US manufacturing more competitive? By reducing the value of the USD. How far will the USD have to drop to make the cost of manufacturing in the USA comparable to the cost of manufacturing in China. And what about the impacts on other aspects of the US economy, such as its ability to print money. Who will want to hold USD when it is declining in value? What rates will the US have to pay to keep people buying securities? Will the USA be able to afford those rates?
From an outsider’s perspective, I think the US has to do more than introduce inflation. It seems to me that China beats the USA in a number of ways:
a) China has amazing infrastructure that enables shipping of goods across the country for almost nothing – my sacks of malt (25kg) cost less than 5 USD to ship from anywhere in China. This opens up the Chinese economy to everyone in the country, you do not have to rely just on local businesses.
b) China has very few regulations. For example, CO2 costs the earth in Hong Kong because the old British regulations regarding the transport of dangerous goods are still in force. In mainland China, none of those restrictions apply, so you can get a bottle of CO2 delivered to your door. This even applies to soda stream machines, the little bottles of CO2 cost up to five times more in HK than in mainland, the reason being that the dealers are all licensed and have invested to meet all the safety regulations.
c) China does not waste money on things that do not further the prosperity of the country. Net zero and all these other multi-trillion scams have been happening in the west for decades. China does not have that approach to business, but they will make your solar panels for you if you insist.
d) China’s currency is controlled internally, it does not permit external actors to manipulate its currency for their own nefarious purposes. Sure, the RMD could have taken over from the USD had China wanted that, but they consider the downsides as too costly.
e) Chinese leaders are hugely patriotic. They want to win financially, but they also want all of China to win, not just themselves, but the whole of China. Hence the CK Hutchison deal was scuppered; the leaders of the CCP control the country, not the billionaires. Immigration is closely controlled.
f) China’s government is manned by some of the best people that China can produce. Working for the government is a prestigious job, it attracts the best people. That is how the Chinese government manages to pull off some truely amazing projects etc., projects above the heads of western governments.
g) China does not have the huge legal infrastructure that defines business in the USA. If a company copies your product then make a new one, that is the Chinese thinking. If you cannot keep making new products then you drop behind or you copy an existing product, there is not much room for sitting back and living off past successes.
h) Chinese people love technology, they will adopt new technology without the fear of being spied on by the government. Everybody in China has an ID card, a registered telephone number etc, everyone is being watched by the government, there is CCTV everywhere, so you sort of get used to it, similar to living in London, you know you are being watched, but you get used to it. The difference is that CCTV in China massively reduced the crime rates, whereas in London the knife crime seems to be out of control. Go figure, as they say. Adopting new technology reduces costs even further.I still believe that the USA beats China in innovation, mostly because of financial liquidity. More VC money is being spent in the USA due to the financial controls in China and the once-excellent universities in the USA. But that is rapidly changing as China improves its industry and they start to lead the world in everything.
Until the USA addresses some of its core problems, China and the rest of the world will leave the USA behind, in self isolation.
You have to start from the basis that everything government does is socialist. A government can be more or less socialist depending on how much it does. It is not possible for a government to do something legitimately that is not socialist – of course, all governments are riddled with corruption, which is not socialist, but that is not a legitimate government action.
If you are what you do, then government is inherently socialist. Obviously the left wing folk will like this model and will then tend to gravitate towards government, looking to their socialist actions as the solution to many of society’s problems. The education department of government is inherently socialist, so it is not unreasonable that it is full of left wing nuts helping the common man. Private education is different, many of the people in the government education department see the private pupils as the elite, the privileged, the oppressors, so they would not want to work in a private school.
Western governments have expanded to a ridiculous extent since WW2 – probably before as well – and are now significant players in the economy as well as managing the economy (tiktok, tariffs etc). The world of socialism has grown and has empowered all the left wing nuts, the left wing nuts being the soldiers who approve of government expansion and are also the government foot soldiers.
Why is our current situation a surprise to anybody? The left wing has been empowered by government, the left wing grew to be very strong, especially all this woke shite, they then went a bit nuts (as over empowered people tend to do) and now some less left-wing people are trying to pull it back closer to the center. There is no right wing in the west, nobody is calling for the removal of government or anything like that; just a sliming down of government to get “value for money”, still socialist.
Civilisation cannot survive without government, hence socialism, but the real argument is degree. How much do we want the government to run everything, regulate everything, monitor everything, punish everything. Well, many are pushing for government to do things that were unthinkable even ten years ago, such as censorship, government controlling speech, and for many that is a bit too socialist, for others it is a good thing.
Can the people of the west rid themselves of the government’s continuing expansion? Unlikely, it will simply get bigger and bigger until government controls and provides everything. All other forms of authority will be subsumed by government. As government expands, freedom of the individual reduces until the government and the people are at loggerheads.
The stupid thing about it all is that the left wing people will complain about government, but they still want more of it; we must have evolved to see government like parents, or something like that. A comfortable presence that will pick us up if we fall.
Boogaloo said
Silver is the waste product that nobody really wants, but does not want to throw away either because it is still worth something.
I am brazing this afternoon with 45% silver rods and 56% silver rods. There is plenty of industrial demand for silver, your info is lacking.
Starmer pretending to care about kids …. would work except he was Jimmy Saville’s personal enabler. An interesting view of the UK government manipulating its so-damn-stupid majority.
PCR is completely wrong again. Trump is distancing himself and the USA from Ukraine solely to do a “deal” with Ukraine whereby all the assets of Ukraine are handed over to Trump’s ((owners)) and the country of Ukraine is left with nothing. How can you still believe that Trump wants peace, that is a stupid assertion given that he has restarted Yemen, is enabling the Gaza genocide and enabling Israel to bomb the shit out of the people of Syria and Lebanon. Trump’s owners are pro-war; Trump’s views are simply to enrich himself and ingratiate himself with rich people who can help him get development deals.
Why does he assume that the people who own Trump are not the people who own Starmer and Macron, why would they be different people? If you can buy a US president, all the WEF clowns and more, is it really any harder to buy the UK and France PMs? The owners just put Le Pen in jail for taking the lead in France, the US democrats deliberately put up a sure-to-lose POTUS candidate to run against Trump, so why would anyone rational assume that there is democracy in the west?
We know it is all run by money and the big money owners in Europe are the same as the ones in the USA. How else could the USA run a war in Ukraine, supported by the EU and other politicians, if the owners in Europe were not the owners in the USA. Starmer and Macron are keeping the war going because Trump’s owners want an excuse for Trump to do a “deal” and steal everything that is not bolted down in Ukraine.
A 2015 survey found about 3 in 5 British Jews identify as Zionists, though the term isn’t clearly defined. 9 in 10 British Jews support the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.
Sounds to me like the Jews are confused, wanting to support Israel, not wanting to be labeled Zionistas. Or, maybe these are Muslim fact checkers … https://fullfact.org/news/are-majority-british-jews-zionists/.
The Jews continue to dismantle America, turning it into an authoritarian dictatorship, just like we have here in China. Authoritarian dictatorship is the natural way. The transition is painful, but in the end America will be ruled by a better class of people, a class which will have stolen the wealth of the nation, populism will be dead and the average citizen will have no say.
https://www.rt.com/news/613507-vance-trump-zelensky-ukraine/
Did RT turn into a ZH tabloid? Beginning to look that way, amazing what a bit of flattery will do to Putin.
If you are in the herd, believing what you are told without reason, are you really human or are you a farm animal?
Want to see some US truth?
Look for Harry Potter is this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_filmsLook for Harry Potter in this list:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066758419/Anyone who looks to imdb to provide them with anything other than “pictures” is obviously not getting the truth … this is what happens when you go to sites that “cancel” people. It is easy to go to imdb, it wsa a great site years ago, now is looks more like a cumbling artifact of the USA.
America gets taste of dictatorship delivered by fake democracy and, surprisingly, many seem to prefer it to real democracy. After USAid spent all that time exporting “democracy” to the savages, the USA finally discovers that it’s own problems stem from its democracy. Interesting. I wonder whether experience of the ODJ will give Americans a new respect for the Chinese government …. only kidding.
Look up Axel Springer on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer and you can see that he has been a beneficiary of American funding for decades, since the second world war. You got to wonder how many other companies are funded by the USA.
In 2021, Politico was acquired for reportedly over 1 billion USD by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company. Axel Springer is Europe’s largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired Business Insider. Unlike employees of its German newspapers, the employees of Politico do not have to sign Axel Springer’s mission statement that expresses support for Israel and America’s and Europe’s transatlantic alliance.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico.
All smoke and mirrors; the team that owns Politico is now burning Politico in order to support the Zionist movement. And all the seals in the USA clapped, thinking they were winning.
Trump, the USA’s own Yeltsin, doing the same job as Yeltsin, being paid by the same people as Yeltsin, the people who funded the Russian criminals who became the Russian oligarchs …. the Rothschilds. The USSR Yeltsin was a drunk, but the ODJ is drunk on power, so no real difference – feed the addiction – and same old plan, same old money, but this time the Orange Yeltsin will help the Rothschild Israel project during its demise.
The parrallels are interesting, we shall see whether this turns out to be the case. Who will emerge as the USA’s Putin, the sensible person capable of dragging the country back to its feet? We haven’t seen him yet, the country is not yet on its knees, but he is out there. The rumour is that Joseph Rothchild, the dead one, was pissed off with Putin because he disrupted, eventually halted, the Rothchild Russia plan. We shall see how the Rothchild plan works for the USA.
Oroboros said
Anyone of them with a moral compass and a basic understanding of the Constitution they pledged to defend when hired would have resigned their job out of principle.
So the Orange Dictator Jew, the one trampling over the constitution, is now the rightous sword of God, come down to strike anyone who disobeyed the constitution? What a load of bollocks. Self righteousness is usually a front for vengence, it provides the fake moral authority that permits the next crook to down the previous crook.
Maybe the Orange Dictator Jew should go after the people who made the decisions, in court? Or don’t they do congress or court any more? Is democracy now dead in the USA? To be replaced by dictorship and direct vengence of politicians into civil service life … I guess the civil servants who survive the ODJ will be fired when the next POTUS arrives in four years time, they will be accused of helping the ODJ. It looks like the ODJ was installed to destroy America’s government and turn the country into a wasteland ripe for the picking by oligarchs … USSR anyone?
those darned kids said
they just gonna rebrand the evil.
Indeed, only suckers would believe that the Orange Dictator Jew is doing anything for the USA. USAid will continue, it will just be doing a curruption different to its current corruption. The new corruption will benefit the ODJ’s owners, the same people who own the Rothschild project’s Netanyahu, and will take from the long suffering – for a reason – sheep of the USA. Musk is also owned by the same people and is not working to benefit the US people, he is working for his owners …. the front man is not essential for the survival of his companies? All theatre aimed at building a corruption beneficial to ODJ admin’s owners.
US Will ‘Take Over’ Gaza – Trump (RT)
Onward Christian soldiers off to die for Israel, and we are only in week two of the Orange Dictator-Jew’s power craze … what will he do after he has destroyed all of the USA and brainwashed the people into thinking he made the world a better place by increasing their tariff taxes and creating inflation. The theatre is immense, a lot of planning has gone into the media releases, lots of striking headlines with very little of substance behind them.
those darned kids said
maybe, just maybe, it’s not “the jews” but “the psychopaths”
Why do Americans refuse to see reality when it stares them in the face? You can’t argue with this sort of statement, it is like people who are convinced the Covid jab was properly tested etc so must be safe, despite “time” telling us that such a scenario didn’t happen, couldn’t happen. Here we have the same delusions running rampant; this is why people act like sheep, they refuse to believe their own eyes. My retort is that maybe all Jews are psychopaths … makes as much sense.
tdk said
Excess mortality
Well, iI don’t believe any of these stats, but the story they are trying to tell appears to be: excess mortality is almost universally higher than before, proof that the Jews did not save their own and hence are not guilty; Oct 7th made a huge difference, the Jews really sufferred;Gaza made no difference, there is no genocide, the Jews are being unfairly blamed.
