China's aggression is changing the nature of sovereignty.

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On 12/4/2021 at 3:33 AM, Tomasz said:

Maybe some George Kennan late thought. Yap Mr X architect of US strategy of containment after Second World War. 

He died before he could become russian troll or agent.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-from-x.html

 

Russia is the real aggressor, Europe is not interested in going into Russia at all. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aDZe-RoMA Byelorussia is using refugees to undermine Europe. They have no interest in helping them. They are using them as a weapon. It is doing Putin's bidding. 

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https://apnews.com/article/business-china-japan-united-states-taiwan-4a096fb0c783d1a089d38c5a5802074b

Japan sets a record military budget to deter Chinese aggression. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-30/australia-unveils-10-year-defence-strategy/12408232

https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/2021/09/03/philippines-received-three-batteries-of-israeli-spyder-sam-worth-141-million/

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20 hours ago, Wombat One said:

 Do you think the Saudi's or Nigerians etc would accept the worthless "Chinacoin" in exchange for their oil?

Actually, the world is moving towards dropping the US dollar for trade and even your Australia is looking into it.  This is inevitably the result of technology advances, and not geopolitics.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3147311/australia-malaysia-singapore-join-forces-test-digital

However, by massively printing dollars and producing very little that the world needs, the US appropriates the wealth of countries that hold US currency, and, exports inflation.  Some countries, like Indonesia are rapidly dropping the US dollar from trade, because they are  alarmed, and don't want their wealth stolen. 

https://jakartaglobe.id/business/indonesia-pursues-local-currency-settlements-deal-with-philippines-singapore

https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/market/20210722183624-17-262922/kabar-gembira-transaksi-ri-china-tak-lagi-pakai-dolar. (use Google translate)

The trend towards digitalisation, cashless transactions, e-commerce and Fintech is making the US dollar system and SWIFT anachronistic.  I recently bought some industrial equipment from overseas and paid for it using Cryptocurrency.  That supplier accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and USDT as payment tender.

It will be interesting times in the next few years, but I am placing my bets on Crypto. 😉

Edited December 27, 2021 by Hotone

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1 hour ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

There has never been such a thing as petrodollar, only petrogold. That is, the only way to clear several millions gazillions worth of oil spot contracts near instantaneously is to have the brokers go into the back room in a commodity exchange and move some gold bars between their safe deposit boxes. China has gold, and US does not really. China wins. I don't need to explain why and how the US/UK commodity exchanges are woefully short on physical gold, do I?

In the US the contracts sell out on a specific day with an expired date. At the expired date of the contract, the one who own the contract have to go get the oil. This is the reason WTI was in negative last April because no one wanted the oil and they pay money for people to get their oil contract. Maybe that is how thing works on Russia commodity exchange?

But the gold price and oil contracts are both measured in USD. The gold China accumulated overtime rarely leave China, only USD. I don't believe the official number of  1,948 tons China has. I expected 10 times more as 1948 tons maybe the official number in Chinese Central Bank that China is obligated to report to the IMF.  I don't believe China want to store their accumulate gold out of the borders. 

The gold price are manipulated by futures contracts and the spot is just the added premium price + delivery. Most of the case the gold custodies only change the label with allocated gold in gold custody. If everyone who have a contract for spot deliveries do a version of bank run, it would be very interesting. However more and more people reports that the spot gold custody send them the USD rather than physical gold delivery, it depends on the contract with the spot gold custody.

Most of the gold custodies have 3rd independent parties to regularly check but I guess they can trust rent the gold from somewhere to pass the check. I recall last September JPMorgan fined $1.26 billion for manipulating precious metals. I haven't keep up with the gold for months. 

Mostly developing countries Central Bank in Asia, include China and India's use gold as reserve to  hedge their currencies or USD inflation. They make good use of the gold price manipulation for accumulations. Even the gold bugs in US has been waiting for decades for this to happen as they will get rich if USD is back to gold standard, aka short USD. 

Since Xi got into power, instead to use the USD China has from exporting for buying US treasuries, they lent them out to set the debt traps in Belt and Road. Yet the US treasury bond yield in last 10 years keep dropping, suggesting  USD long term trend monetary deflation as the velocity aka economics activities world wide are slowing down. 95% of the money printing is from bank lending out, this lead the demand of USD to pay back the loan--> rolling back the printing. 

But the Euro Dollar bubble historically always  make USD deflation compares to other currencies in the long run as people need USD to pay back the debt and governments tends to manipulate exchange rates to make their products cheaper for exporting and to have USD.  China can no longer have enough USD to roll over USD bonds for many real estates companies and real estates bubble, not gold, is the form of middle class Chinese storing their wealth to. China real-estate bubble is about $55 trillion, twice the size of US real estate equivalent. 

You can check China tech stocks like Alibaba in the last 10 months.  Do you think Xi want to call out for “common prosperity,” in booming time?

 

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49 minutes ago, Hotone said:

Actually, the world is moving towards dropping the US dollar for trade and even your Australia is looking into it.  This is inevitably the result of technology advances, and not geopolitics.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3147311/australia-malaysia-singapore-join-forces-test-digital

However, by massively printing dollars and producing very little that the world needs, the US appropriates the wealth of countries that hold US currency, and, exports inflation.  Some countries, like Indonesia are rapidly dropping the US dollar from trade, because they are  alarmed, and don't want their wealth stolen. 

https://jakartaglobe.id/business/indonesia-pursues-local-currency-settlements-deal-with-philippines-singapore

https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/market/20210722183624-17-262922/kabar-gembira-transaksi-ri-china-tak-lagi-pakai-dolar. (use Google translate)

The trend towards digitalisation, cashless transactions, e-commerce and Fintech is making the US dollar system and SWIFT anachronistic.  I recently bought some industrial equipment from overseas and paid for it using Cryptocurrency.  That supplier accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and USDT as payment tender.

It will be interesting times in the next few years, but I am placing my bets on Crypto. 😉

The first signal for USD dropping is the price of US treasuries bond 2y,5y or 10y dropping, with leads to the % yields increasing.  But currently all the yields are  flatted out or even inverse between 10y and 5y.  USD is kind of the measurement standard and I couldn't see any new measurement standard is coming. People speculate it should be back to gold or even bitcoin. But I don't want to bet on it.  As I locked my mortgage interest rate in 15 years, I certainly don't like USD get stronger as I am shorting USD myself and I hold crypto in long run. 

However I have fixed income salary so I don't mind USD is up and the price of goods going down.

I predict most currencies will inflate faster than USD in next few years because there is no currency have a debt bubble as big as USD 's which creates USD demand in the long run. Even if some currency would be favored than USD, it will face the curse of a world reserve currency with trade deficit like the US have. 

I like the cheap and fast transfer from crypto as well, especially blockfi credit card doesn't charge oversea fees, but this only affect Western Union banks and the credit cards issuer at the moment. The crypto currently is in infancy state and more regulations is coming not only from US politicians but from EU, Japan, India, China politicians. They would fight hard to keep their power.

Stable coin like USDT or USDC pegged in USD so it only make USD more in demand.

With USDT there is a risk that they keep secret about the a large proportion Commercial papers which very likely high yield  junk bonds of Chinese corporations and it is worry some as even the big one like Ever Grande defaulted its USD bonds. However it only got into trouble if everyone do the bank run to convert USDT to USD.

Another risk is Fed increases interest rate next year which may make the stocks, real-estate and crypto markets go to bear mod. I am betting crypto on the long run doesn't mean it is not in bubble now.

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3 hours ago, ronwagn said:

You are probably right. I am thinking of the policewoman with a 26 year spotless record who shot the black person and was recently sentenced severely. He was not complying with commands. She thought she was shooting a tazer. Adrenaline can do that to you. Especially if you think your rookie partner is at risk of dying. If she had just shot him, any sentence would have actually been lighter IMHO. 

To me, it was unfair sentencing like that, which will discourage good people from going into law enforcement. 

https://www.city-journal.org/police-recruitment-crisis?wallit_nosession=1

I  think the African American community is looking for payback against White society.  If the person shot was White, the officer wouldn't be punished to the same extent.  Kyle Rittenhouse was lucky that he shot and killed White people.  If he had shot some Blacks, there would be non stop rioting and he would also be severely punished.

The African community is pushing for reparations for slavery.  As long as they are not getting anything, they will take reparations with their own hands.  Note the recent spate of organized looting in major cities, which you can't describe as looting because that would be racist.  As long as you don't pay reparations there will be lingering paybacks, such as riots, crime, discrimination against Whites, diversity programs which goes against meritocracy, and revision of history.

https://m.thebl.us/us-news/major-companies-faced-allegations-of-discrimination-against-whites-in-hiring-and-training-policies.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/07/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-statue-melted

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/

Mind you, any reparations have to be substantial; if you make token payments, they are not going to be satisfied, and there won't be any healing. Maybe Kamala Harris can be assigned to look into this.  She was in favour of reparations before becoming VP.

 

Edited December 27, 2021 by Hotone

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48 minutes ago, Hotone said:

I  think the African American community is looking for payback against White society.  If the person shot was White, the officer wouldn't be punished to the same extent.  Kyle Rittenhouse was lucky that he shot and killed White people.  If he had shot some Blacks, there would be non stop rioting and he would also be severely punished.

The African community is pushing for reparations for slavery.  As long as they are not getting anything, they will take reparations with their own hands.  Note the recent spate of organized looting in major cities, which you can't describe as looting because that would be racist.  As long as you don't pay reparations there will be lingering paybacks, such as riots, crime, discrimination against Whites, diversity programs which goes against meritocracy, and revision of history.

https://m.thebl.us/us-news/major-companies-faced-allegations-of-discrimination-against-whites-in-hiring-and-training-policies.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/07/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-statue-melted

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/

Mind you, any reparations have to be substantial; if you make token payments, they are not going to be satisfied, and there won't be any healing. Maybe Kamala Harris can be assigned to look into this.  She was in favour of reparations before becoming VP.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/us/reparations-poll-trnd/index.html

Nearly 75% of African Americans support reparations for slavery. Only 15% of white Americans do, a poll says

What about the Irish indentured servants, the Italians, the Chinese workers, the Native Americans? What about those of us who are part Black? Should we get a share? Most African Americans are part White or Hispanic. 

 Biden wants to give $450,000 to every immigrant family that was separated. 

 I think that this is all instigated by the far left including communists and socialist. One of communists and socialists main goals is to divide Americans into factions of all kinds. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics, native Americans etc. They have taken over our universities and feed this kind of racism while saying that whites are racist that are trying to hold down others. Actually Asians make more money ,on average, than whites do. American Blacks make far more money that Blacks in any other country in the world aside from Jamaica, which is very small. Kamala's father is from Jamaica. 

Obama did more to divide Americans and foment racial problems than any other president in modern times. He sent the FBI to watch over the Ferguson riots so that the police wouldn't enforce the law. Ferguson burned. The perpetrator was totally guilty but the innocent policeman was portrayed as a racist murderer. He is now laying low somewhere in Idaho. This media fed Big Lie was the beginning of Black Lives Matter and all of its trouble making. It is openly socialist, yet many major corporations have given it millions of dollars to leave them alone. Even Dolly Partin gave them a million dollars to protect her entertainment centers. 

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5 hours ago, TailingsPond said:

 

Occasionally look at reality.   Losers will continue to lose.

Have you ever made a correct prediction?  Time to eat crows not double down.

P.S.  "more than probably" is funny.  Tell us more of your intellect.

 

Sen Cramer: Joe Manchin may have just saved the Democratic Party

North Dakota senator says Manchin's 'no' to Build Back Better benefited the left

 By Fox News Staff | Fox News

In my mind, what's such a great tragedy about it is that a once-great Democratic Party has become this bizarre socialist agenda where they seem to be putting all the chips on the table this year while they have control of the House, the Senate and the White House. And thank God for Joe Manchin and others like him, but especially Joe Manchin, who is trying to save America and in the process may very well save the Democratic Party.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-cramer-joe-manchin-may-have-just-saved-the-democratic-party

Better Said....what's left of it. Pun Intended. 

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2 hours ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Sen Cramer: Joe Manchin may have just saved the Democratic Party

North Dakota senator says Manchin's 'no' to Build Back Better benefited the left

 By Fox News Staff | Fox News

In my mind, what's such a great tragedy about it is that a once-great Democratic Party has become this bizarre socialist agenda where they seem to be putting all the chips on the table this year while they have control of the House, the Senate and the White House. And thank God for Joe Manchin and others like him, but especially Joe Manchin, who is trying to save America and in the process may very well save the Democratic Party.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-cramer-joe-manchin-may-have-just-saved-the-democratic-party

Better Said....what's left of it. Pun Intended. 

Come'on man.  This is a commentary from Fox News.  You think they are interested in saving the Democratic party??

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6 hours ago, ronwagn said:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/us/reparations-poll-trnd/index.html

Nearly 75% of African Americans support reparations for slavery. Only 15% of white Americans do, a poll says

What about the Irish indentured servants, the Italians, the Chinese workers, the Native Americans? What about those of us who are part Black? Should we get a share? Most African Americans are part White or Hispanic. 

 Biden wants to give $450,000 to every immigrant family that was separated. 

 I think that this is all instigated by the far left including communists and socialist. One of communists and socialists main goals is to divide Americans into factions of all kinds. Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics, native Americans etc. They have taken over our universities and feed this kind of racism while saying that whites are racist that are trying to hold down others. Actually Asians make more money ,on average, than whites do. American Blacks make far more money that Blacks in any other country in the world aside from Jamaica, which is very small. Kamala's father is from Jamaica. 

Obama did more to divide Americans and foment racial problems than any other president in modern times. He sent the FBI to watch over the Ferguson riots so that the police wouldn't enforce the law. Ferguson burned. The perpetrator was totally guilty but the innocent policeman was portrayed as a racist murderer. He is now laying low somewhere in Idaho. This media fed Big Lie was the beginning of Black Lives Matter and all of its trouble making. It is openly socialist, yet many major corporations have given it millions of dollars to leave them alone. Even Dolly Partin gave them a million dollars to protect her entertainment centers. 

1 Historically Black tribes captured and sold each other for slavery with Arab merchants after Britain banned slave trading in 1 May 1807 . West Africa economies used to boom because of slave trading. 

2 Secondly most of US white nowadays are not descendants of slave owners but poor people from Europe and USA is the land of immigrants in history . Harris is one descendant of a slave owner and a female slave herself, in Jamaica.

3 Lots of African female politicians who are advocating for reparations based on recently refugees or immigrants from Africa, longs after the Civil Wars in the US. Why should they have any reparation?

4 Should any ex colonial  countries asked for reparation from Europe if we use current moral standard to judge the history? 

5 Why should the way teaching Maths in the US change to the easier or better methods if the current Math standard in US college is ways bellow high school level in Asian and Europe countries?  Off course learning STEM or useful skills always a headache because it is how it is in the real world needs for high paying careers: learn how to learn. In Asia countries, learning STEM is the only way to escape poverty. If you cannot success in US with your skills, do you think you can success elsewhere, even in the 3rd World Countries?

5 Why should US mainstream and Woke politicians keep repeating these obvious lies? How much stupid/entitlement do they expect from their voters? 

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12 hours ago, Hotone said:

I  think the African American community is looking for payback against White society.  If the person shot was White, the officer wouldn't be punished to the same extent.  Kyle Rittenhouse was lucky that he shot and killed White people.  If he had shot some Blacks, there would be non stop rioting and he would also be severely punished.

The African community is pushing for reparations for slavery.  As long as they are not getting anything, they will take reparations with their own hands.  Note the recent spate of organized looting in major cities, which you can't describe as looting because that would be racist.  As long as you don't pay reparations there will be lingering paybacks, such as riots, crime, discrimination against Whites, diversity programs which goes against meritocracy, and revision of history.

https://m.thebl.us/us-news/major-companies-faced-allegations-of-discrimination-against-whites-in-hiring-and-training-policies.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/07/charlottesville-robert-e-lee-statue-melted

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/bigideas/why-we-need-reparations-for-black-americans/

Mind you, any reparations have to be substantial; if you make token payments, they are not going to be satisfied, and there won't be any healing. Maybe Kamala Harris can be assigned to look into this.  She was in favour of reparations before becoming VP.

 

I do believe it is time for this race baiting game to truly be exposed. Frankly it has very little to do with skin tone and everything to do with culture. 

Ive said this many times the US press has lost its way. Sensational headlines take precedence over hard unpopular truths. Below is a very good example of culture divides not racial divides. 

 

 

 

The black-Latino blame game

You have one race of people exterminating another race of people,” said one African American woman.

“We’ve been invaded,” he said. “There’s no other word for it.”

https://www.latimes.com/la-op-hutchinson25nov25-story.html

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9 hours ago, Hotone said:

Come'on man.  This is a commentary from Fox News.  You think they are interested in saving the Democratic party??

Chris Wallace helped harm Trump's chances in the election and never liked him. Now he is moving to more friendly territory. People have seen what the mainstream media is. The relatively very small conservative media is growing rapidly in the news sector. The internet now has several small conservative mini Twitter or Facebook opponents. I post to the most popular sites including Facebook and Twitter. 

Facebook and Twitter outright censored Trump toward the end of the election season. They also blocked any comments regarding Hunter Biden and his laptops, prostitutes, drugs and handgun crime. That censorship was the biggest reason Trump "lost" the election IMHO. 

The January sixth "attack" on the Capitol was a red flag operation by the FBI AKA FIB. The military presence and the giant fence around part of Washington D.C. was a farce. It should never have been approved. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qLxuaWqyPKPsE7xyT2ATV6-I9J_BhfvkChb3E-NL4o/edit

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29 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Chris Wallace helped harm Trump's chances in the election and never liked him. Now he is moving to more friendly territory. People have seen what the mainstream media is. The relatively very small conservative media is growing rapidly in the news sector. The internet now has several small conservative mini Twitter or Facebook opponents. I post to the most popular sites including Facebook and Twitter. 

Facebook and Twitter outright censored Trump toward the end of the election season. They also blocked any comments regarding Hunter Biden and his laptops, prostitutes, drugs and handgun crime. That censorship was the biggest reason Trump "lost" the election IMHO. 

The January sixth "attack" on the Capitol was a red flag operation by the FBI AKA FIB. The military presence and the giant fence around part of Washington D.C. was a farce. It should never have been approved. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qLxuaWqyPKPsE7xyT2ATV6-I9J_BhfvkChb3E-NL4o/edit

Giuliani provided the Post with a subpoena for the laptop dated December 19, 2019, an indication it has been in the bureau's possession for months. 

FBI and DOJ agree with DNI Ratcliffe's assessment that Hunter Biden's controversial laptop and emails are NOT part of a Russian disinformation campaign 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8861635/FBI-taken-possession-Hunter-Bidens-laptops.html

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3 hours ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

Giuliani provided the Post with a subpoena for the laptop dated December 19, 2019, an indication it has been in the bureau's possession for months. 

FBI and DOJ agree with DNI Ratcliffe's assessment that Hunter Biden's controversial laptop and emails are NOT part of a Russian disinformation campaign 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8861635/FBI-taken-possession-Hunter-Bidens-laptops.html

There is a lot more on that laptop that should have been acted upon by the FBI AKA FIB. For a better picture of the whole thing look toward China and his illegal dealings, prostitutes, drug use etc. 

https://www.gnews.org/ was the best source and had numerous salacious photos and information on his business dealing selling out to China in exchange for money or "jobs" serving Chinese companies. They were censored by Facebook and Twitter. 

For an in depth understanding of the laptop information see Laptop From Hell, Big tech,

Hunter Biden, and the secrets the president tried to hide. 

 by Miranda Devine 

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21 hours ago, ronwagn said:

Russia is the real aggressor, Europe is not interested in going into Russia at all. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aDZe-RoMA Byelorussia is using refugees to undermine Europe. They have no interest in helping them. They are using them as a weapon. It is doing Putin's bidding. 

Russia is getting attacked by combined forces of Western Europe every hundred years or so. Of course, an excuse is made up every time how it is for our own good. Sorry, zero belief this time around. The Western civilization is not sustainable without looting others.

The Belorussian refuge crisis has absolutely nothing to do with Russia. However, if other countries may down a plane looking for a wanted criminal, so may Belarus. US is, as usual, the worst offender in the field. Having downed a plane of the Bolivian president looking for Snowden. Who wasn't there.

The total number of refugees stuck on Belarusian border is about as much as Europe accepts in a single day sneaking in through the Italian route. So, thee is no danger of any actual undermining of anything.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Andrei Moutchkine

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https://gnews.org/1744872/

U.S. House of Representatives Passes Three Bills Targeting Human Rights Issues in Communist China

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52 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

https://gnews.org/1744872/

U.S. House of Representatives Passes Three Bills Targeting Human Rights Issues in Communist China

US House of Representatives needs a reminder about their jurisdiction.

Especially with US itself being the largest (ab)user of forced (prison) labor worldwide.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Andrei Moutchkine

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8 hours ago, ronwagn said:

The January sixth "attack" on the Capitol was a red flag operation by the FBI AKA FIB. The military presence and the giant fence around part of Washington D.C. was a farce. It should never have been approved. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/19qLxuaWqyPKPsE7xyT2ATV6-I9J_BhfvkChb3E-NL4o/edit

yeah, so clearly not sedition:

https://youtu.be/_a3RGlu5yLs?t=2503

I think you give the FBI too much credit.

Trump lost because like any midterm election, it's always a referendum on the incumbent, and the majority of Americans wanted to move on from the Trump era. He and his crew's actions after he lost will be written in the history books as lessons on what not to do in a democracy.

Hopefully we're past peak-fake news in America. 

Edited December 28, 2021 by surrept33

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2 hours ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

US House of Representatives needs a reminder about their jurisdiction.

Especially with US itself being the largest (ab)user of forced (prison) labor worldwide.

That is a major lie Andrei. 

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40 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

That is a major lie Andrei. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-signs-768-billion-defense-spending-bill-into-law_4180252.html

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-anti-slavery-law-will-impose-cost-on-china-for-its-genocide-in-xinjiang-expert_4179192.html

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29 minutes ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-anti-slavery-law-will-impose-cost-on-china-for-its-genocide-in-xinjiang-expert_4179192.html Plus Christians, Falun Gong, any religious group they cannot control, even a female tennis player. 

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8 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-anti-slavery-law-will-impose-cost-on-china-for-its-genocide-in-xinjiang-expert_4179192.html Plus Christians, Falun Gong, any religious group they cannot control, even a female tennis player. 

US has by far the largest prison population in the world, containing some 22% of world's inmates. Most have to work. That's more than China, which got 4x the population.

US cotton industry has its history with slavery, don't it? Which is continuing as we speak. Before the current hit on Xinjiang cotton, they paid for a hit leading to boycott on Uzbek cotton, depriving the whole country of its main export. I specifically seek Uzbek cotton now, which is difficult to do. Needless to say, I boycott all and any US products too and invite everybody to do the same. You should boycott Procter & Gamble with me for example, as they were the immediate cause of political censorship of YouTube content. (Or, arguably, useful idiots for Google, who needed appropriateness for advertisers as a fig leaf)

Falun Gong appears to be quite a cult, given that they can get people to set themselves on fire.

The tennis player seems to be all right.

Whatever evil the Chinese are up to, US is so much worse.

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24 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-anti-slavery-law-will-impose-cost-on-china-for-its-genocide-in-xinjiang-expert_4179192.html Plus Christians, Falun Gong, any religious group they cannot control, even a female tennis player. 

They are also way, way loose with the term genocide. I know what genocide means and this ain't it, even if it were true. Which it isn't.  Because Xinjiang is open to tourism. People went and checked. I know for a fact that the previous hit on Uzbekistan cotton was a commercial job US cotton industry paid for. You can safely assume that 100% of news US propaganda machine is churning out is 100% fake. I have yet to be wrong once about this.

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45 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-signs-768-billion-defense-spending-bill-into-law_4180252.html

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-anti-slavery-law-will-impose-cost-on-china-for-its-genocide-in-xinjiang-expert_4179192.html

How many hundreds of other unrelated bills did they have piggyback riding this "Defence appropriations" bill this time around? Should be simply "appropriations" as in "stolen American taxpayer funds" The world has yet to see a system more corrupt than yours. You also have neither a need nor a desire for actual defence. All you do is offense. I am quote versed in American Newspeak now - everything is the exact opposite of what they say! Than, and only than, it is making sense.