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[Tom Mazanec]

Interest of my putative descendants (I have no children), not me. And that assumes there will be survivors.

[Guest]

‘Several Things Have Shocked Me’: An Ex-Insider on Business in China

First, the perception of China has become more negative. Covid has had a lot to do with it, especially in shifting the general public’s views. That has helped to speed things up in terms of how policymakers deal with China — they now have a tide to ride.

Second, the outside world underestimates how badly the Chinese economy is deteriorating. Several things have shocked me in conversations I’ve had with businesspeople in China. A big dairy company is producing more milk powder because people are cutting back on buying milk. Normally this is one of the last things you would cut out.

Many executives also say that staff are blatantly robbing and stealing from companies since the pandemic. Why? They have lost hope because the economic outlook is so bad.

https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/08/several-th ... -in-china/

[Bob Butler]

‘Several Things Have Shocked Me’: An Ex-Insider on Business in China

Yes. If China were really ready to jump, they would have gone while Putin was still a threat and NATO was busy. They need oil from the Middle East, which could be easily blocked. They need what is left of global trade. While desperation might tempt them to jump, they recently have been more bluffers than a real threat.

[Another guest]

‘Several Things Have Shocked Me’: An Ex-Insider on Business in China

Yes. If China were really ready to jump, they would have gone while Putin was still a threat and NATO was busy. They need oil from the Middle East, which could be easily blocked. They need what is left of global trade. While desperation might tempt them to jump, they recently have been more bluffers than a real threat.

Isn't this what the US congress said when they voted to end the military draft one week before Pearl Harbor?

[Another guest]

https://rmx.news/france/former-head-of- ... migration/

French Riots Show That Decades Of Mass "Colonizing Immigration" Could Lead To "Collapse", Says Former Head Of French Counter-Intel Agency

After mass riots during the past week shocked France and the world, the former head of France’s powerful DGSE intelligence agency says the root cause of his country’s tragic situation is above all “the dominant ideology, which has justified and even glorified the massive colonizing immigration that has been taking place over the last half-century.”

[Bob Butler]

‘Several Things Have Shocked Me’: An Ex-Insider on Business in China

Yes. If China were really ready to jump, they would have gone while Putin was still a threat and NATO was busy. They need oil from the Middle East, which could be easily blocked. They need what is left of global trade. While desperation might tempt them to jump, they recently have been more bluffers than a real threat.

Isn't this what the US congress said when they voted to end the military draft one week before Pearl Harbor?

I don't believe Congress said anything about Putin in 1941. Even if they had, the Axis powers were already in full expansionist mode before Pearl. They saw war as cost effective, weren't worried about forcing a defensive alliance. Besides, they were in the throws of the Marco Polo bridge instinct. Kill and oppress those that are different. FDR however wanted the US involved in WW II. Among other things, he cut Japan's oil supply off to force the Axis to attack the West and stationed the fleet at Pearl. I'll wager that after Pearl and the Prince of Wales and Repulse were lost, FDR and Churchill were questioning their move, but in the long run FDR did manage to defeat the isolationists. Oh yes. The Axis too.

We will see if Ukraine is cost effective for Russia, and how the Chinese economic collapse goes...

[DT Subscriber]

John might be right about deflation after all.

China on brink of deflation as prices plunge
Sharp fall in pork prices sees inflation hit zero as economic woes mount

China is teetering on the brink of deflation amid mounting concerns about the health of the world’s second largest economy.

Consumer price inflation (CPI) fell to zero in the year to June after a sharp fall in pork prices. The official figure was the weakest reading since February 2021 and below economists’ estimates of a 0.2pc annual rise in CPI.

Producer prices also fell by 5.4pc in June, marking the ninth straight monthly decline and the steepest fall since the end of 2015.

China has struggled to break out of an economic malaise caused by draconian zero-Covid policies that were only scrapped at the end of last year.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... es-plunge/

[Guest]

https://rmx.news/france/former-head-of- ... migration/

French Riots Show That Decades Of Mass "Colonizing Immigration" Could Lead To "Collapse", Says Former Head Of French Counter-Intel Agency

After mass riots during the past week shocked France and the world, the former head of France’s powerful DGSE intelligence agency says the root cause of his country’s tragic situation is above all “the dominant ideology, which has justified and even glorified the massive colonizing immigration that has been taking place over the last half-century.”

From the posted news article:

This is not new, as Pierre Brochand said that he remembers when he was the French ambassador to Hungary in the years 1989-93, just after the fall of communism in that part of Europe, he would often hear from his Hungarian interlocutors: “We are lucky we can see first-hand the damage that non-European immigration is causing in your country, and we certainly don’t want to imitate you.”

“In everyone’s eyes, we are now the ‘sick man’ of the continent, the Security Council, the G7, and the G20,” laments the former head of France’s counter-intelligence, as France is indeed the country with the highest proportion of inhabitants with a non-European immigrant background, and immigration figures have been beating new historic records under President Emmanuel Macron.

Others, like in neighboring Italy where mass immigration began at the beginning of the 2010s when Berlusconi’s right-wing government was overthrown with the help of Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, know very well that what is happening in France now will likely happen in their country in a decade or two if nothing is done.

An illustration of such apprehension can be found, for example, in an article published on July 5 by the Italian conservative daily newspaper Il Giornale with the title: “The roots of France’s ill and the fear that looms over Italy.”

Meanwhile, a large majority of French people are strongly opposed to what increasingly appears to be a dangerous social engineering experiment by the liberal elites, something Éric Zemmour has called a Ribbentrop-Molotov pact between Western liberals and Islam against the White, heterosexual, Catholic French man. Indeed, 74 percent of French people now think there are too many immigrants in their country and 62 percent would want France to disobey EU treaties and EU law to stop immigration.

Western Europe is completely finished. Game over.

I'm glad I lived in France decades ago before things got this bad.

What a bizarre end to Europe. None of this makes any sense to me.

[guest]

Native French citizens have voted for their own extinction. If they hate themselves that much, **** em. They deserve it.

[FullMoon]

Yes. If China were really ready to jump, they would have gone while Putin was still a threat and NATO was busy. They need oil from the Middle East, which could be easily blocked. They need what is left of global trade. While desperation might tempt them to jump, they recently have been more bluffers than a real threat.

Isn't this what the US congress said when they voted to end the military draft one week before Pearl Harbor?

I don't believe Congress said anything about Putin in 1941. Even if they had, the Axis powers were already in full expansionist mode before Pearl. They saw war as cost effective, weren't worried about forcing a defensive alliance. Besides, they were in the throws of the Marco Polo bridge instinct. Kill and oppress those that are different. FDR however wanted the US involved in WW II. Among other things, he cut Japan's oil supply off to force the Axis to attack the West and stationed the fleet at Pearl. I'll wager that after Pearl and the Prince of Wales and Repulse were lost, FDR and Churchill were questioning their move, but in the long run FDR did manage to defeat the isolationists. Oh yes. The Axis too.

We will see if Ukraine is cost effective for Russia, and how the Chinese economic collapse goes...

Semiconductors are the new oil. And the embargo is ongoing

https://interestingengineering.com/cult ... argo-china

Missile technology is the only check that they've got vs the US military. They have the upper hand in their backyard and everyone knows it. They also know what the ramifications are.

https://www.youtube.com/live/io0D0CgTXS4?feature=share

TEOTWAWKI is coming to a theater near us all soon.