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President Obama, the US federal government shutdown, the omnipotence of the National Security Agency and the anger of the world at just how much the USA flouts the laws that we thought we might have lived by. These are all reasons and more for the rest of the world to turn their backs on the most powerful country in the world and play a role in its demise. What the USA has not realized is that when the going gets tough, the rest of the world which just turn their backs on them and jump into bed with China. That’s happening right now, but is there actually anyone (except the billions of people that live outside the country) in the USA that believes that this is going to happen? It may not happen tomorrow and it’s certainly not going to happen overnight. But, the necessary groundwork is being laid down and the demise of the USA is in sight already. But, there are probably still 313.9 million people that are under the belief that it will never happen. How wrong they will be. Or have they just been sheepled into a complacent state of acceptance?

Snowden Affair and the NSA

The governments and the leaders of the countries around the world may have serenely played a role in the spying tactics of the NSA. But, now that the citizens of those countries have finally been told what the NSA and those very same leaders that they voted into office were actually up to, the people are ready to perhaps not revolt (although they should), then at least condemn and use the only power that they actually might have left. The leaders of those countries will now do anything they have to, out of fear that the people will exercise their last right (now that democracy has been proved to have gone well and truly into oblivion): the right to vote in and out of office. The people know one thing: those that are attracted to power will do everything or anything (or both at the same time) to get into office and they will do even more to stay there with the bonuses, privileges and power-rush that they get given every time they stand in front of the mike to give a press conference and get whisked away in their chauffeur-driven cars.

As Angela Merkel reels from the revelations that she was also under scrutiny by the USA, the Germans are asking for Snowden to be allowed asylum in Germany. To believe that Edward Snowden might be comfortable in Russia right now is nothing on what he could be in the Germany. It would mean an added victory for the man that has finally had the gumption to reveal that 70.3 million communications were tapped in France, that over 60 million were also listened into in Spain and that Germany was a prime target as a leading industrial nation in the EU and the world.

Please don’t tell us that we are benefiting from the fact that the NSA has taken away a fundamental right that they had no right to actually remove. Harping on about how many terrorists have been caught and how many lives have been saved for the common good of all is nothing more than a smack in the face with a king-size portion of lies (sometimes a splattering of ketchup is thrown in for good measure).  Please don’t be so condescending as to believe that the French would pop their champagne corks if they knew what good the NSA was doing. Please don’t tell us that they are all doing it. Just because everyone does it to their own populations doesn’t mean the US can do it too.

German intellectual Hans Magnus Enzensberger said that “the American dream is turning into a nightmare”. TheAmerican dream is long gone.

Enzensberger said that the UK has become “a US colony” and the British people might be thinking quite the same right now as they are lauded and condemned in the EU today for digging their own grave by siding with the Yanks.

Towards the end of August 2013 the partner of Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian reporter who wrote the majority of the Snowden revelations) was arrested and detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours under anti-terrorism laws. British government officials ordered hard drives at British newspapers to be destroyed or face legal action. Prime Minister of the UK David Cameron used veiled threats last week to say that he would have to resort to “other tougher measures” against newspapers that carried out such investigative journalism. Now, there are 70 international human-rights organizations that have condemned his comments. The British public might have had enough and Cameron will be forced to fall in line with what they have to say. Although, does that mean that it will all come to a halt? Probably not, but, the people need to at least believe that they are living in a country that allows freedom of the press and speech.

Heiner Geisser (former secretary to Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats) said: “Snowden has done the western world a great service. It is now up to us to help him”.

Although it is doubtful if Germany would actually go that far, it will certainly increase the leverage that Merkel has in the world and it will certainly mean that she will have greater clout in the face of the US. One man’s power declines, another (wo)man’s weight increases.

China

When it comes to making money, the world will turn their backs on the USA as soon as they have to. The problem is that the USA still believes that it won’t happen. They have had decades of believing that they will always be top of the roost. But, the wheel turns and fortunes will change. Nobody stays at the top all the time, not even dictators. The USA has been dictating for far too long and now it’s someone else’s turn. The wonderful thing about dictatorships is that you are only a dictator just as long as the people allow you to be one. The Master only exists because the Slave allows him to. So, who’s the real Master?

China has liberalized its industry and it is starting to gear up for liberalization of its finances today. China is talking of its economic ‘masterplan’ today. Next weekend there will be the third plenum of the Communist Party and it will focus on the economy of China and the changes that need to be made. It is suspected that it will be quality and not quantity that is the order of the day in the manufacturing sector. It is believed that the Renminbi will be allowed to operate in a wider trading band and that there will be the possibility of banks going fully into private ownership. Cross-border capital flow will therefore become much easier. China has savings of $4 trillion today and the opening up and liberalization of the financial market would mean that any country would be vying for a piece of that cake. Why would George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, have flown to Beijing last week to try to convince the Chinese that London was the place to trade the Renminbi in the future? The UK and others will turn their backs (or at least they will turn over and move to the other side of the bed) if they can get some of that pie.

Bye Bye Miss American Pie: this is the day that the US died

The rest of the world is ready to jump into bed with China. There may or may not be a divorce between the USA and its old lover, but at least right now the world is ready to play around with China just for the thrill of it, before the USA gets home. But, by the time it wakes up from its shutdown, its self-centered talk on budget ceilings and Quantitative Easing and when it finally comes clean about its illegal and reprehensible eavesdropping on the entire world in a bout of power-struggle that dates back to another era, then it will realize that it has been spending too much time working at the office and the world has had enough of being neglected, down-trodden and ill-treated. Yes, the world is ready to jump into bed with China and it will more than likely be a far better lover. At least we expect China to eavesdrop on us, at least the West expects them to be subversive in their dealings and fake it when they are with us. But, we know all that and so expect it. With the USA the world thought that they were getting something better.

The USA might have been in bed with China in the past, but that's going to change in the future. It will be the others.

It’s not ‘Game Over’ that will echo from the good old land of Uncle Sam as more than one has told the world before, this time, it’s the honeymoon that’s over, guys!

Originally posted: World Ready to Jump into Bed with China

 

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Tue, 11/05/2013 - 00:53 | 4121722 damicol
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Everyone knows the old saw, "you can fool some of the people all the time or all the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time"

Well now just think "you can WATCH some of people all of the time or all the people some of the time, but you can never WATCH all the people aal of the time"

We understand that all too well and it is the achiles heel of all security and spying systems. Creating false flags, lines to nowhere, false positives in Data and all coordinated outside the ether, tying up more and more time, micro SD cards do not travel as fast but they get there all the same, Facebook carries more encrypted and stenographic images every day than in all the years prior to its founding.

Its a vicious cycle, the more it grows the more resources thrown at it and the more is wasted, and the more desperate the attempts to get on top of it by the paranoid insane lunatics from barmy obummer down.

But your premise is totally correct, the world is turning on the US but wht might not be understood so well is that turning is for a huge part originating in the US too.

 

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:59 | 4120572 supermaxedout
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A good article. 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:03 | 4120449 Never One Roach
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Ni hao.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:15 | 4120292 SAT 800
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The whole FX board is green today. Looks very Christmassy. If the dollar continures to sink it'll be good for the Silver prices; nother reason to get out of my short and resign myself to only taking $5,000 from the people who thought they were smarter than I am; this time. Next time, I'll do more damage.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:12 | 4120290 ebear
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"To believe that Edward Snowden might be comfortable in Russia right now is nothing on what he could be in the Germany."

Personally speaking, I'd rather live in Russia.   Far more comical and way fewer rules. 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:06 | 4120264 SAT 800
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I don't know about China, (doubtful, actually); but Putin, who is definetly not a Communist, is making more sense to me all the time. If a Kenyan can be President, why not a Russian? Surely the detail that he's former (?) KGB shouldn't be any obstacle; at least he wasn't an America Hating pot smoking bum of a Commie Symp. most of his life ; like  our present Manchurian Candidate.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 16:43 | 4120192 Gaurden
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please..

the Rothchilds and company have owned China since the 70's. Greed and psychopathy is its own race. USA's usefulness has come to an end so their getting the boot. The Chinese people are just like everyone else. Suckers for evil sociopaths.

Until they are rooted out and  extreme greed and consolidation of power itself is made a crime punishible by death, there will be no peace on this earth.

 

 

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 16:31 | 4120153 kchrisc
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US papertiger caught in the rain, becoming papermache.

 

Is it time foe the guillotines yet?!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 16:21 | 4120117 Martel
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I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords. At least they know the difference between gold bullion and paper, bitchez.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 16:03 | 4120071 squid427
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@yardfarmer

i think i read that the fed reserve gold vault is also connected to the jpm vault

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 16:02 | 4120066 grunk
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And China has 1.3 billion people who will get it in the ass by the banksters.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:39 | 4119995 lasvegaspersona
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tortured writing style, I hope he doesn't do fiction.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:36 | 4119985 ebworthen
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Cooked our own goose we have.

Offshored production and career employment while violating the Constitutional rights of every citizen.

Do TPTB expect good things to come of this skullduggery and legerdemain? 

I haven't even mentioned the bailouts and QE yet...

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:23 | 4119938 Dr. Bonzo
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"...Snowden..."

 

Well... while he might, say might, small "m", be offered a chance at asylum in Germany, however doubtful, for personal security reasons I think he'd be better off in Russia.

If he chose to accept this purely hypothetical German asylum offer, he'd also be an easy target for a covert snatch and rendition. I'd say Equador or bust. Maybe occasional travel to Europe, but asylum? Nice gesture if it ever materialized, but ill-advised.

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:52 | 4120034 Ying-Yang
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Well said Dr. Bonzo

With perhaps 30,000 documents, I believe Snowden's life insurance policy is the release of some really damning intel.

Perhaps Obomber's birth certificate?

Nancy Pelosi's sex change video?

Harry Reid's choking Jack Gorden?

Fill in the blank __________________________________________

Snowden dies and there is a full document dump.

 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:53 | 4120424 roadhazard
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Repubicans in the pocket of  Big Biz...

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:20 | 4119934 Yardfarmer
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The final evidence of a wrecked House of Morguen is the massive property sale for a meager $725 million. David Rockefeller would roll over in his grave, except that he still breathes among the Satanic warm bodies, soon destined for the worms and nether world. His JPMorguen iconic former headquarters at One Chase Manhattan Plaza was sold for a measly $725 million, which deserves repeating. The tower itself is worth twice that figure, in a healthy market that fetches true value. One must wonder if the sweet deal is in return for a truckload of toxic USTreasury Bonds wrapped in a package deal. The same JPM HQ location is the property complex that houses their commercial gold vault. It is the largest vault in the world. One Chase Manhattan Plaza combines three main components: a 60-story tower, a 2.5 acre plaza, and a 6-story base, of which five floors are beneath grade (underground). Excavations, said to be the most extensive in New York City history, reached a depth of 90 feet during its construction long ago. The construction is ornate and elaborate, featuring white Italian marble travertine, and fortified to withstand both a nuclear attack and a massive flood. The L-shaped plaza levels the sloping site and conceals six floors of operations, which includes an auditorium and the bank vault. The motives for sale to a Chinese property conglomerate remain shrouded in mystery. http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1383336180.php

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:04 | 4120455 Hulk
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Jim Willie for the blind, read by the voice of doom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onQIibjVf9U

3 parts, so make sure you listen to parts 2 and 3

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:12 | 4120289 SAT 800
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The motives remain shrouded in mystery?---Maybe they made them an offer they couldn't refuse? It's very interesting news; I"m sure it means something. Too bad I don't know what. Along similar lines; I sold out today at even money on my S&P short; zero-zero, there; and took my 5,000$ off the table for my recent shrot Silver hustle, (short Dec. from 22.69; closed at 21.645 today). I don't feel very prophetic right now; and I can practically feel the heavy breathing of the idiots lined up to buy moar stock market on the back of my neck; too un-comfortable. I'm going with cowardice for the present.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:10 | 4119898 LawsofPhysics
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China is going to "liberalize their finances".  So their plan is to beat the U.S. by doing what the U.S. did (and got us into this mess).  Good luck with that.

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 15:04 | 4119884 kurt
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So, like, americans get boiled down for gutter oil. Bones ground up, tossed in the compost. Radiation fades after 50 years. Chinese cities pop up on the west coast. Stragglers, preppers, bunker dwellers, covered in sores, scabies, bed bugs, lice are exterminated like cockroaches, one by one. The last Rothchild is drug through the street, "he no chinee."

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 14:52 | 4119845 DaveyJones
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I jumped into bed with China and all I got was this yellow river 

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:07 | 4120459 Hulk
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Iv'e been sleeping in bed with a chinese woman for 25 years. Other than the morning breath, it ain't so bad !!!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:14 | 4120476 DaveyJones
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we all trace back to a few peope on another continent anyways

My neighborhood is made up of people from all over the world (Microsoft). Think they have a lot to teach me given our UScentric -  my standard of living can't fall - who needs a parent at home - our government would never do that naivete

the home, and the neighborhood, and the garden - are usually the only thing left standing   

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 18:28 | 4120508 Hulk
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Journey of man, Interesting shit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJDGzzrMyQ

I'm just trying to get back to the beginning !!!

Mon, 11/04/2013 - 14:19 | 4119758 forexskin
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what about the offspring? will they look like the ones from that weekend in bangkok with the man-girl companion? inquiring minds...

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