Unease From The East

China's shadow stretches across the world, and amid this crisis work is ongoing to achieve strategic and economic goals.

Years ago we became aware that China was rising as an economic superpower, and that it would soon take over the top step of the developed nation's ladder as the largest economy on the planet. What did this mean to us at the time? Not much, except a new chain of stores was opening up, by an American company but with largely all Chinese goods. Walmart came about when the Walton family realized they could replicate their successful Walgreens pharmacies nation wide into retail stores offering household products, clothing, and a wide array of other goods including groceries. Their biggest aid was the price of the products and goods being delivered from China for far lower than domestic or even NAFTA partners Canada and Mexico. Mexico was gaining ground in this new Global economy, but seemingly EVERYTHING had Made in China tags or stamps.

 

Little did we know that by the winter of 2020 nearly 90% of all pharmaceuticals sold in the US markets are manufactured in China. Of course we know how they get these products made for so little money- their economy allows the average person to live off of far less per day than western nations. What was also made clear was the unlevel playing field. You may have heard this but wondered what made it this way?
The answer is distribution. China is able to distribute their goods worldwide through a massive shipping fleet operated by the state. A state-run shipping company gives Chinese producers the ability to compete overseas with no overhead shipping costs.

 

Military Hardware Leads China's Growth

China has grown up as a modern society. Until the late 60's, China was a closed, Mao-controlled society which had not grown with the world's modern development. It had the highest percentage of people living without modern amenities such as clean water, sewer and power. Since then, it has wizened up considerably. Modern Chinese officials have a wider outlook for their country now, and it seems that to be an equal partner with other nations is not the first notion, no it is to be the lead nation "as it rightfully should be". China derives it's name from it's origin of "the center" of the earth. Overcoming foreign obstacles takes up most of the time of the forces from China. They are at odds with their neighbors and have adversaries in the west as well.

 An Audacious Plan

Part of the new strategy comes in the form of gentle persuasion combined with cunning placement of propaganda and strategic procurement. China owns many US bonds which we sold in previous decades. Winning the ambivalent people over takes persuasion and softening them up with propaganda, lies and manipulation. This allows expansion, investment, infiltration and ultimately: conquest.

This is a fascinating article from 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping

-katykarter

Biden's Super Tuesday Victory 2020

Joe Creeps Back In

After dozens of gaffs replayed ad nauseum in the Media Conservative, and an 8 year record of an endless string of controversies, after a aprimary campaign including in the weeks running up to Super Tuesday in which facts and speculation coming to light were rampant about corruption between the candidate, his son and other members of the Obama Administration, against ALL ODDS, Joe Biden triumphed with Super Tuesday voters by a wide margin.

Just 5 days before, Biden was tottering. Facing an increased onslaught from the MediaCons, and providing seemingly endless sound-bite gaffs, " I'm Joe Biden and I'm running for US Senate",
The South Carolina primary took place and it is where Creepy Joe's break out happened. After the results came in, it appeared Biden had succeeded in winning the primary just as he called it. "You're going to see the strongest black turnout so far. South Carolina will show how strong we are with Blacks"

 Bernie's Bros cant keep up with BDV

Showing miserable numbers prior to South Carolina in polling, Biden could not depend on the massive voting bloc of Black Democrat Voters. But he spoke confidently in the media leading up to it and the BDV did not let him down. Over and over during campaign stump speeches, Biden spoke directly to Black Americans with calm assuredness that they could trust him just as they trusted Barack Obama. Even though Obama had not rendered his endorsement to Joe, Joe assumed the Black voters would follow him. Biden evoked the name Barack Obama reverently, and it worked. His confidence in the Black vote didn't seem to match the lukewarm polls. The win in South Caroling seems to have galvanized the bloc across the south and most other Super Tuesday voting states.

 

Bloomberg Exits Race

Late totals in California show a close race with Sanders but with few exceptions, Biden won the wide majority of delegates available, distinguishing himself as the front runner. Late in the day, Michael Bloomberg suspended his campaign and backed Biden, strenghtening his support. 

If his lead holds up, and the remaining states' primaries follow in similar fashion, Biden will face off with Trump in debates and in the General Election.

Standing here today, Creepy Joe doesn't seem so passive an opponent. He has relaunched himself as the moderate candidate to oppose Sanders. I firmly believe the voting public will not elect a change back to the politics of 4 years ago when Joe's previous administration left office.

A time when the Democrat establishment was being assaulted by the persistent and growing grass roots campaign of Bernie Sanders yet over-confidently assumed Hillary Clinton would bring the party together to continue the Liberal, leftist regime begun by Barack Obama.

Modern Times was and is highly recommended

Hello everyone,

Its been a while since I stopped and wrote something for this blog, I think I'll do a little catching you up to speed:

Since taking office, Donald Trump has moved his way through the beaurocrocy of the DC establishment and demanded, either overtly or otherwise, loyalty to his administration and it's goals of changing it, fundamentally changing the mentality of our government. By the way, it has been needed for a long, long time.

DJT is not an established WashingtonDCphile, so his clearly stated efforts to clean out the swamp were met with fierce resistance. I'm happy to say he is scoring some decisive points in this ongoing battle against the deeply entrenched politi-class of the ruling elite. The Russia Collusion probe isn't producing anything lately with the exception of Paul Manafort, who had apparently done side business with Russian contacts not tying into the Trump campaign as they would so desire it be so.
An investigation, or a reopening of the investigation of deleted, destroyed and covered-up emails from then Sec. Clinton appears to be close. For those with a short memory google 'bleach bit'.

At this date, Trump has had his meeting with Chairman Kim from DPRK and further negotiations are presumed to be ongoing regarding denuclearization. If legitimization was Kim's prize, he has won already. If he joins the civilized world his people may soon rejoice also.

"Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties" Paul Johnson

In reading this recommended book, I have found some very strong evidence for the origins of our political climate. The times we are going through have no precedent, which sounds comical, but it's difficult to take direct meaning and actionable advice from the events of the past to some degree. The times are different. Our society has evolved from it's frontier American start-up to the technological and resource-affluent superpower status it has today. We are much more educated, enlightened, sophisticated and open to learning than were the people of previous centuries.

We still feel, with good reason, that, as with most cliche's, they are based in truth: Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. I urge you to pick this book up, and til then read these few excerpts, I am barely half-way along, circa. 1940.



(the following excerpts and commentary from "Modern Times" Johnson)

Cottingham, you won’t have to go home alone”

This from Cambridge Professor Arthur Eddington upon proving Einstien’s theory correct, which if it had been disproven Eddington was said to have gone mad and his assistant, E.T. Cottinham would have to go home alone!

Einstien’s theory was proven on 29 May 1919 by Eddington’s expedition and ushered the world into the modern times.  In the 1920’s relativity became confused with relativism, “…at the beginning of the 1920’s the belief began to circulate, for the first time at a popular level, that there were no longer any absolutes; of time and space, of good and evil, of knowledge, above all of value.”

“ By early 1933, therefore, the two largest and strongest nations of Europe were firmly in the grip of totalitarian regimes which preached and practiced, and indeed embodied, moral relativism, with all it’s horrifying potentialities. Each system acted as a spur to the most reprehensible characteristics of the other. One of the most disturbing aspects of totalitarian socialism, whether Leninist or Hitlarian, was the way in which, both as movements seeking power or regimes enjoying it, they were animated by a Gresham’s Law of political morality: frightfulness drove out humanitarian insticts and each corrupted the other into ever-deeper profundities of evil.”

(p307-8)    The attempt by Western intellectuals to defend Stalinism involved them in a process of self-corruption which transferred to them, and so to their countries, which their writings helped to shape, some of the moral decay inherent in totalitarianism itself, especially its denial of individual responsibility for good or ill. Lionel Trilling shrewdly observed of the Stalinists of the West that they repudiated politics, or at least the politics of ‘vigilance and effort’:

(from ‘The Last Decade’ Lionel Trilling)

“In an imposed monolithic government, they saw the promise of rest from the particular acts of will which are needed to meet the many, often clashing requirements of democratic society…they cherished the idea of revolution as the final, all embracing act of will which would forever end the exertions of our individual wills”

For America, the development was particularly serious because the Stalinists then formed the salient part of the new radical movement, and as Trilling also noted:

“In any view of the American cultural situation, the importance of the radical movement of the Thirties cannot be overestimated. It may be said to have created the American intellectual class as we now know it in its great size and influence. It is fixed the character of this class as being, through all mutations of opinion, predominantly of the Left.”

I am understanding more and more the full origins and meaning of leftist ideology-

Ian Carroll