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Post by peterman on Nov 3, 2024 3:57:42 GMT
China is a significant grower of non-GMO soybeans in the province of Heilongjiang in northeastern China as a seasonal crop. It was developed by government policy after Trump started the first trade war in 2018. Currently, China imports seventy percent of its annual soybean requirements from Brazil. Rest assured that Russia and Kazakhstan are taking the opportunity to fill any gap in China's demand. In fact, since 2019, China has established comprehensive trade agreements with Russia to produce food in Russia to be delivered overland to China. Currently, China is almost, if not already, self-sufficient in food production. China's newly enacted Food Security Law requires it. China also has an immense strategic storage of grains and meat, lasting at least a year or more and growing. In the case of import disruptions, people and livestock in China can change their diet, but none will starve.
On the other hand, America's Asian vassals will suffer a catastrophe because they depend on imports for 50% to 60% of their food and 90% to almost 100% of their energy. As I said, China is much better prepared than it was four years ago. So, does the US threaten to stop Chinese shipments? Make my day, punk!
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Post by jeff on Nov 3, 2024 16:30:24 GMT
True, but China is still 100MMT of soybeans short, which is a monstrous quantity.
With salt water resistant rice varieties coming online, they can use some of that rice land for soybeans, but will hard pressed to equal its imports. Ditto land and desert reclamation. China also has massive forests and national parks it wants to keep.
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Post by peterman on Nov 5, 2024 10:18:44 GMT
Today is Election Day. It's not the time to worry about China's food supply. The Chinese Communists have learned the lesson on food security since the last famine in 1960. They'll be fine. American, Canadian and Australian farmers, not so much.
Here is a concise idiot's guide for voting in America, in case anyone needs it.
First, erase from your stultified mind the delusion your vote matters. Your vote and you do not matter, especially if you're not from a swing state with a small population and a large number of electoral votes. Ask any statistician. The result will not be affected if you stay home and binge-watch Will Smith movies. If, however, you want to waste your time and exercise your right to vote, the following guide will maximize your influence.
Don't vote for Kamala. She says she would end the Gaza War and protect abortion rights if she is elected. Why should anyone trust her empty promises? Kamala says she would do everything in her power, which means she would do nothing, as she would be an empty suit if elected. Kamala was appointed to be the Democratic Party's candidate. She is a puppet, at best. She also promises Israel would be satisfied with the arrangement, which is impossible. Kamala promises a paradox and an oxymoron, in other words, a paradoxymoron. I would rather believe in a thousand angels dancing on a pinhead.
As for protecting abortion rights, it's a bald-faced lie. For fifty years, the Democratic Party never enacted Roe vs Wade into law, even when they held the Trifecta, and they meekly gave up the Supreme Court to Trump and the Republicans, so they can now use abortion rights as a rallying cry during elections. Out of the blue, Kamala the Saviour descends upon humanity to protect women's rights. It's worse than a lie. It's a disgraceful lie.
Last but not least, they call themselves the Democratic Party and Trump's party as authoritarian. However, Trump was elected in the primaries while Kamala was appointed. "The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who is a hypocrite," quoth Tennessee Williams. And the only thing worse than a liar and a hypocrite is someone who is also a genocidal murderer and blabbering idiot. You vote for Kamala at your own risk.
For even stronger reasons, never vote for Trump. Aside from the mendacious and moronic miscreant he is, his first term empirically proves he is an imbecile. His easy-to-win US-China trade war was a complete failure, causing more self-harm as China continued to rise. Total Covid deaths during his term were over a million, while China's were about 14,000. Even India only had half a million. The West shrugged off Trump's murderous record but cantankerously chastised China for not opening up sooner and incurring a more respectable mortality.
As if such a pitiful record is not enough to disqualify him, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse by a jury and guilty on thirty-four felony counts of falsifying business records. He also has three outstanding indictments, two federal cases and one in Georgia. America is such a place where non-white people get killed while sleeping in their own beds by law enforcement. Yet a brazen, lawless scofflaw is defended by otherwise thoughtful and sane people and elected to be the president. Go figure.
Some people may vote for Trump because they think he is peaceful. Don't let his thirty thousand lies, give or take a few hundred, fool you. He is only telling you what you want to hear. He supports Israel's genocidal slaughter of babies and women in Gaza. Almost in the same breath, he accuses Liz Cheney of being a war hawk. His suggestion of having guns trained on warmongers is actually not a bad idea, but he tells only half the story because the whole story affects him. How about making war hawks spend their own money to make war? Capitalists would rather die than use their own money for war. The next time Trump wants to fire forty Tomahawks at some place, assassinate someone or deliver bombs to allies for killing babies, make him pay for the expenses and send Junior, Eric or Baron to do the job. That is how you can magically turn war hawks into peaceniks.
Don't waste your time on the fringe candidates. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a supporter of genocidal murder and has endorsed Trump for president. Jill Stein talks the good talk, but wielding no votes in Congress or the Senate, she will not implement even one of her dreams. Vote for Jill Stein by all means, but you will not move the needle.
Americans, if you want change, don't expect your elected officials to deliver it. You may need to change the system by revolution. If you don't know how to start a revolution, learn from the Chinese. And if you don't know what the Chinese did to succeed. Read Unconquered. Go to my website and leave me a message.
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Post by peterman on Nov 8, 2024 1:52:13 GMT
Patrice Greanville's post: Korybko’s crystal ball
Here’s What Trump’s Peace Plan Might Look Like and Why Russia Might Agree to It
What does the CWG think of this prognostication, and Korybko himself as a geoanalyst? Making this kind of “peace” might weaken Putin more than many other CIA plots…If the Kiev regime is about to collapse, perhaps in a few months, why make such a deal at all? How can Putin justify leaving a Nazi-infested regime, or even a NATO-infested amputated Ukraine in place after so much Russian sacrifices?
Opinions, please.
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My opinion:
Korybko writes too many assumptions and uses too many "ifs" in a wordy essay, expatiating on subjects he likely knows little about. Since I don't know what goes on inside Putin's and Trump's minds, I will comment based on what I would do if I were Russia's leader.
First, we must talk with the U.S. but distrust everything they say. If you haven't learned after "not an inch" and Minsk, why blame liars for lying to you? Second, we will not cease the field operation until we have reached an agreement ratified by all relevant parties. Third, if the other side and their supporters escalate, we will respond accordingly and suspend the talks, assuming the U.S. has no sway over the events and the participants.
With these simple rules, we can talk as much as we want while establishing facts on the ground. America has experience holding peace talks with North Korea and North Vietnam. They know it takes time.
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Post by jeff on Nov 12, 2024 11:25:16 GMT
After all the lies and backstabbing of Russia by the West, and given that Russia is in the catbird seat in Ukraine, I think he will drive a hard bargain with Trump.
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Post by peterman on Nov 13, 2024 6:40:30 GMT
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Post by jeff on Nov 13, 2024 11:16:14 GMT
Western empire never rests. It's nonstop terrorism across the planet and against all of humanity.
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Post by peterman on Nov 15, 2024 5:19:54 GMT
What is the true result of the American Presidential Election?With everyone discussing the consequences of a Trump presidency, I would like to add my two cents' worth, naturally based on my abnormal logic.First and foremost, Trump did not win the election. Surprised? You shouldn't be. Trump was handed the presidency on a silver platter by the Democrats. It's very different, although the result is the same. Didn't I say Trump should beat Kamala hands down? If someone who doesn't even follow American politics can see, why didn't the Democrats?
What's my reasoning? The presidential election depends on winning over non-committed voters in a few swing states. Kamala and the Democratic Party have nothing to offer to these voters other than lip service and bullshit, promising democracy and freedom for people needing to put food on the table. I figured if a very progressive person such as myself would rather die than vote for these genocidal hypocrites, what was the chance they could convince fence-sitters in the swing states? Hence, Trump should win hands down, and he did. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.Some liberal-minded people, so-called global leftists, and perhaps a few progressives seem to be okay with a Trump presidency because Trump may be better than Kamala. No, he's not. I made it quite clear in my Idiot's Guide to Voting. In the following video, the usually perspicacious Daniel Dumbrill (Canadian making craft beers in Shenzhen) outlines the condition, "As long as he (Trump) isn't derailed by pro-war neocons on his team, that might become a net positive ..." O the horror! Even Dumbrill? How about "... political figures in Japan came out to say that if Trump won, Japan might finally need to and will be able to take control of their own foreign policy..." It's all blather and balderdash until Japan kicks out all the US soldiers and bases. C'mon, Dumbrill, where is your common sense? And the last straw, "I think it's unlikely for Trump to turn into a full pro-war neocon even if he surrounds himself with some unfortunate characters. But even if he does, it would be hard to recover from him telling the whole world the way it really is ... the only thing to do from here now is to cross our fingers and wait and see where he takes us." My God! Dumbrill has lost his mind pinning his hopes on Trump. Has he been consuming too much craft beer? How did he lose his political mojo? Luckily, we have Brian Berlectic (Ex-US Marine living in Thailand) to remind people who have been mesmerized by Trump, the relentless lying machine, that he is no peacemaker. Here is Berlectic's latest video: The Trump Administration, from "No war hawks" to all war hawks.I'll make it simple for those who don't have time to contemplate. 1. The people of America have elected a convicted criminal to be their president. He also has the subservience of both Congress and the Senate. He has made the Supreme Court overwhelmingly Republican and will add to it. He will soon flood the Federal courts with loyal Republican judges and government departments with Republican employees. Every institution of power, such as the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the DEA, the Pentagon and the Justice Department, will be at his beck and call. A lawless criminal will reign supreme with complete impunity in America. Which part of this do we not understand?
2. Trump tells incessant lies. He told over thirty thousand lies publicly during his last term, about twenty-one per day on average. This does not include his private lies. Why would you trust anything he says?
3. Trump does not keep his word. He deserves no trust. If you have to make a deal with him, make sure it's short-term and you get paid upfront. If he makes a promise, make sure he keeps it before you do your part.
4. Biden, Kamala and the Democratic Party promise to cede power peacefully. In truth, they are meekly surrendering to the criminal in chief and ceding power for good, meaning forever. If I were as lawless as Trump and wielded such supreme power with impunity, I would spend much of the following years consolidating dynastic power, ensuring Trumpian succession for the foreseeable future.
5. All the vassal states will now cower and grovel in front of Trump. He may not be able to threaten China or Russia. But America's so-called allies will crawl in the dust before the mighty Hegemon and do his bidding without hesitation, including self-immolation. Japan wants to have their own foreign policy? I still can't believe the words coming out of Dumbrill's mouth, even though he was repeating someone else's rubbish.
6. Trump will redouble his trade war and low-intensity conflicts with China. He will ignore the Taiwan red line by meeting with Lai Ching-te to test China. He will give the DPP the green light to prosecute and imprison TPP (party leader Ko Wen-je already imprisoned) and KMT lawmakers in a reign of terror. Will China react angrily and issue more toothless protests? Or will they make the nation whole again swiftly and bloodlessly at the time of their choosing (hopefully before being forced to act)?
7. Everything Trump does will hasten the fall of the empire, but he will be more concerned about consolidating his power in America. A hot war, especially a losing one, will scupper his plans. He will try to avoid it. Trump is not hard to understand. He is as predictable as gravity. His presidency will be a train wreck for America and its vassals. The rest of the world, who are not vassals, can humour him and let him bloviate about how great a deal-maker he is. Let him delude himself and America. In the meantime, pull the Dollar rug from under him and watch him flounder trying to deal with the financial crisis. The House of Cards will collapse slowly and then all at once. |
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