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Top Chinese General Accuses US And Japan Of "Provocative Actions"; Russia Wonders Why "US Has To Lead"
Now that the Ukraine pseudo civil war is slowly drifting off into limbo, with western support for the eastern regions of the nation no longer on the table, and Germany making it clear no further sanctions against Russia are coming, the Ukraine conflict is on its way to becoming a second Syria: a nation split in two, with US support for one group, Russian support for the other, and the only real victor being the Kremlin, which has regained possession of the Crimea (which earlier today officially adopted the Ruble as its currency). Which explains why the US, embarrassed in its foreign affairs for the second year in a row, is pivoting once again, only this time using China as a distraction.
On Friday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said China has taken "destabilizing, unilateral actions asserting its claims in the South China Sea" (which incidentally is not called the South American Sea). Hagel added that the U.S. will continue to raise cyber issues with China, and by raising he likely meant accusing PLA members of hacking, resulting in China dropping more US tech firms as critical suppliers.Following the Us Defense Secretary, it was the turn of Japan's PM, Abe who said Japan would give more support to southeast Asian nations that are facing Chinese pressure.
He concluded that the U.S. takes no position on competing territorial claims, however the damage was already done: according the FT, a top Chinese general on Sunday accused the US and Japan of teaming up to stage “provocative actions” against China, as escalating maritime tensions spilled into an Asian regional defense forum.
Because if the US thought its latest pivot away from Russia and Syria into China (even if supported by Japan) would happen seamlessly, it is about to get an unpleasant surprise:
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Wang Guanzhong, deputy chief of the Chinese general staff, lambasted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chuck Hagel, US defence secretary, for telling the forum of Asian defence ministers that China was using intimidation to assert its territorial claims.
"The speeches by Mr Abe and Mr Hagel gave me the impression that they co-ordinated with each other, they supported each other, they encouraged each other and they took the advantage of speaking first . . . and staged provocative actions and challenges against China,” said Gen Wang.
Mr Hagel on Saturday said China was undermining? its claims that the South China Sea was a “sea of peace, friendship and co-operation” by using coercive tactics, adding that the US would “not look the other way when fundamental principles of the international order are being challenged”.
On Friday, Mr Abe said Japan would give more support to southeast Asian nations that are facing Chinese pressure.
As for Japan, China had one word: "fascist."
In the face of mounting efforts by the US and Japan to shore up or build new security relationships in Asia, Gen Wang said China opposed both the practice of building military alliances and “attempts by any country to dominate regional affairs”. In a jab at Japan’s wartime history, Gen Wang said China would “never allow fascism . . . to stake a comeback”.
In the meantime, with Russia expanding geographically, China is doing the same, and in the process steamrolling over Vietnamese objections.
This year’s event became more heated because of the escalating disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea. China is embroiled in maritime disputes around the region, including with Manila and Tokyo. Scores of Chinese and Vietnamese ships are also involved in a stand-off near the disputed Paracel Islands after China started drilling for oil there in early May.
Gen Wang said China did not take provocative actions, but was being forced to respond to such actions from other countries. But when asked what Vietnam had done to trigger the decision to move the oil rig to disputed waters, sparking the worst crisis in China-Vietnam relations in years, the general did not respond.
While Shangri-La is designed to tackle a range of Asia-Pacific security issues, the focus has, in recent years, shifted squarely to China, with most of the participants this year asking China to explain its policies and actions.
Finally, Russia also chimed in:
Some experts questioned whether a new Cold War was emerging in Asia. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s deputy defence secretary, took exception to comments by Mr Hagel that the US was the only power that could lead in the Asia-Pacific region. “Why does the US have to lead? To lead what?”
Based on his recent remarks at West Point, even Obama is not quite sure of the answer to that.
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Why on God's green earth did we ever let this ass clown purge the true leadership out of our military? If any of these little hot spots goes full retard we're fucked!.
Who is this "we" kemosabe?
"true leadership of the Military" ????... hehehehehhehehehehehehehehehehehheeh.... thaz sum funny chit .... they're busy taking their 150K pensions and 500K/Y consulting fees from Raytheon now..........instead of speaking out on the "game"
Military leadership is an oxymoron. By definition they follow orders. They are nothing but enforcement for a few ultra rich banking and oil families.
Not quite. The reason to acquire territories is to tax productive assets. It is easier to collect those taxes if they are owned and operated by US citizens.
How do you define the military leadership of China and Russia? Am just curious if you see consistency there.
Military leadership is the scapegoating of primate social hierarchies adapted into an accepted moral behavior.
For the good of the group, of course.
"true leadership of the Military"
The true Military ledership saw the writing on the wall & got outa Dodge ASAP so they dont take the fall for the Ass Clown.
No, they were forced out by the dozens. Something's coming.
Next, they'll get rid of the enlisted that are US citizens, to make room for the illegals:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-undocumented-immigrants-will-...
Soon, our military uniforms will be changed to brown shirts and knee-high boots, of the jack variety.
Theatre and another warlet.
Have to show the home crowd you're passionate about your country.
+1 They're only in it for the pensions and the corporate boards they're gonna sit on just like Congress.
You mean the owners of the USA. We no longer, if ever, play a part in the US, just the sheep to be skewered.
There is no WE, it's illusional and delusional.
Make no mistake there is a we. WE be roasting on an open fire.
And Jack Frost is not nipping at our nose...
ref; the "competing claims". the UN said nations can have 200mile territorial waters. Vietnam is a nation. Vietnam has a 200mile territorial water. China is stealing Vietnam's oil. there's no "competing claim". No's body is competing about anything; this is a perfect example of thought management. It's called stealing; not "competing claims". Does China have a "claim" on Vietnam's territory? No. They do not. Then how can there be a competing claim? Every night on TV; the nice man tells you "the dispute over China's oil rig, contnues". there's no dispute. there's nothing to dispute. There's a question to be answered; are we now China Incorporated's Bitch Boy; or not; but there's no dispute.
Nice try SAT, but facts are meaningless (as we see with BLS reports and the economy and stock markets)......"International Law" also pretty meaningless these dayss.
"Might makes Right," is the Rule.
However, I doubt China will do much since their Gubmint officials would not risk losing their 'secret' McManions in Cali, Australia, etc. as well as have offspring in overseass universities driving BMWs and living the high life out of the Chinese' public eye. Just my guess.
Vini, Vidi, Vici. I don't "try"; I do. "Might makes right is the point of the post". Calling the "citizens" attention to the Facts, which by definition cannot be meaningless, is my mission. Try being the Son of somebody else, I don't think this one is working out that well.
There is nothing illegal about having an floating oil rig in International waters like the chinese currently have. Until they start drilling, and have not got permission.
Teritorial waters are 12 miles. EEZ are the resources below the seafloor up to 200 miles.
The dispute is exactly how you classify the Parcel Islands of China. Chinas way the rig is safely in their waters, most other ways it is not.
http://csis.org/publication/critical-questions-china-vietnam-tensions-hi...
I stand corrected; and I appreciate your correction. Like most humans, I'm afraid, I sometimes don't do enough homework.
>> I appreciate your correction.
There is certainly some worthwile commentary on this site. It's a shame one has to wade through so much innane bs to find it.
But where else can you go and read a "serious commentary thread" that makes you laugh so hard you get the hiccups ? The entertainment value is great !
Come for the information leave with a laugh.
Ref: About Us @ CSIS Home Page-- Note: Board of Trustees (USSA Foreign Policy best?!?)
We tried to steal it in the '60's and '70's. Didn't work out so well then, and the Vietnamese kicked the Chinese out soon after.
This time will be different. The only thing stopping the Chinese is full-blown nuclear war between China and the 'satellites'.
Grab the popcorn, boys, the Japanese are selling.
Nuclear self-popping corn. Sweet.
Japanese occupies the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Island and China is the bad guy. China occupies the disputed Paracel Island and surprise, China is the bad guy. You cant have it both ways. The oil rig is set at a distance of 180 nautical miles from Hainan Island and the much closer Paracel Island. So how is that not the same as th 200 nautical miles claimed by Vietnam ? To be fair, it is in disputed area.
The claim that China upsets the balance by setting up a rig there. Well, wait just a minute. Vietnam has teamed up with Exxon and declared those to be its oil block. So Vietnam started the grabbing of the potential oil.
Truth is so inconvenient sometimes.
Apparently the Chinese have the earliest historical record of them.
Are you watching Chinese news? The Senkaku Islands have been a Japanese territory. A Japanese family had owned it for some time.Tokyo bought the islands from the family and nationlized them. So, the "dispute" exists only because China now says they own the islands and keeps sending boats and airplanes in the area.
As for the dispute with Vietnam, why do you think "China occupies the DISPUTED Paracel Island" is OK? Is it because China is the one doing occupying?
I think these thing should be settled in the International Court as Vietnam and Japan are suggesting, but China is ignoring their suggestions because I guess it knows its claims won't stand.
The Chinese and the Japs will hate each other forever. Any issue will do.
WW3 is taking on shape: it is the classic cold-war confrontation on steroids: China/Russia against USA/& whoever decides to be allies with USA (who? I do not really know). The winner will decide who gets at least 2 decades of economic prosperity and who sinks into misery and reconstruction. The Earth will be scorched to near death, but who cares.
Glad you brought that up. We don't need allies. We might need resources but those can be bought. We have nukes and lord knows what all else so allies are not required for the US to stand up for itself.
Alliances are entanglements. We don't need 'em. What we do need is a sane and American foreign policy.
Sane? Where's the sanity or common sense hidden in "The Mandrake Mechanism?"
"Glad you brought that up. We don't need allies. "
Wadda you mean we don't need allies ? Well then, what is the US a gonna do with its excess supply of cannon fodder ?/sarc
The Earth - or at least the Northern Hemisphere right now - is being 'scorched' by Fukushima. Japan and North America are now having a full bio-collapse, Europe is next.
The .001% are going to blow up the world, while they watch from their bunkers. They know it's over, so they're going to create the biggest fireworks party this planet has ever seen. They'll be sipping champagne as they die. Not us.
>> sipping champagne as they die. Not us.
I never really cared for champagne anyway. I'd rather die with my dogs.
An Earth inherited by the US/global bankers, a parnaoid Israel, a facist and aggressive Japan and a a corrupt and brutal Chinese government is not worth living in. Let the nuclear missles starts flying. Lets die together. The human race deserves not to inherit the world. Time for the roaches to take over.
Um - Hey Joenobody12 - the cockroaches have taken over. They just look like humans. Sorta.
Be a lot easier if they just tossed a coin. Funny thing is though, we don't have the numbers; they do. In politics it's all about the head count.
"...true leadership out of our military..."
And the who was that...just a different set of clowns...George Patton and Chesty Puller have been gone for a LONG time. It's been the colon powell/petraeus powerpoint group for decades.
And Patton died looking for stolen gold. Lots of it.
It's a good thing Puller didn't have a nail gun at the house, either.
The gold was in those boats....
"It's been the colon powell/petraeus powerpoint group for decades."
'An Officer Corps That Can’t Score How military careerism breeds habits of defeat'"The most curious thing about our four defeats in Fourth Generation War—Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan—is the utter silence in the American officer corps. Defeat in Vietnam bred a generation of military reformers, men such as Col. John Boyd USAF, Col. Mike Wyly USMC, and Col. Huba Wass de Czege USA, each of whom led a major effort to reorient his service. Today, the landscape is barren. Not a military voice is heard calling for thoughtful, substantive change. Just more money, please.
Such a moral and intellectual collapse of the officer corps is one of the worst disasters that can afflict a military because it means it cannot adapt to new realities. It is on its way to history’s wastebasket. The situation brings to mind an anecdote an Air Force friend, now a military historian, liked to tell some years ago. Every military, he said, occasionally craps in its own mess kit. The Prussians did it in 1806, after which they designed and put into service a much improved new model messkit, through the Scharnhorst military reforms. The French did it in 1870, after which they took down from the shelf an old-model messkit—the mass, draft army of the First Republic—and put it back in service. The Japanese did it in 1945, after which they threw their mess kit away, swearing they would never eat again. And we did it in Korea, in Vietnam, and now in four new wars. So far, we’ve had the only military that’s just kept on eating."
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/an-officer-corps-that-ca...
Read the article. It gets worse.
Good article. Thanks
"So far, we’ve had the only military that’s just kept on eating."
Look how much we have accomplished since the end of the Cold War.
Lebanon
Somalia
Iraq 1 & 2
Afghanistan
Almost made it to Syria
Ukraine
and now the Pivot to Asia, where hopefully we can bring Peace, Freedom and Democracy to the various Asian nations with competing claims over rocks in the South China Sea or is it the Western American Sea ?/sarc
The US has sacrificed, hundreds of thousands of American lives to fertilized European, Middle Eastern and Asian soils. And now we can't wait to commit more cannon fodder to uphold the "territorial" claims of our "Asian" allies ?
For those who believe our "Asian allies" have justifiable claims to those rocks, I humbly suggest they read the history concerning ownership of those rocks.
Those rocks existed long before there was a UN, long before the Law of the Sea convention etc etc and long before those Asian nations achieved independence from their Colonial masters.
Take a moment to reflect before we keep WASTING American lives as if they have NO value.
And I have no recollection of 1 SINGLE INSTANCE where ANY "ASIAN ALLY" has ever stepped forward in support or defence of the US with the exception of Australia and New Zealand.
Why the US haz too leadz. Cause we gotz suts good government burecrat approved atomic power plant designs. Be smart, like the Japenese and buy US Govt. burecrat approved stuffz.
Leadership, shmeadership.
The sheeple were promised free stuff by Santa Clause.
That was all that mattered.
We get the government we deserve.
God help us.
At least 650 servicemen were killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the past ten 10 days, he said. There are 70 foreigners among them and of those 13 agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and CIA were killed and 12 others were wounded,
Read more:
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_18/CIA-denies-its-agents-killed-in-eastern-Ukraine-2156/
Perfect; kill the rest of them.
Back when, the Russians said they were going to hunt US mercs there. Our guys are totally out of their element there. No local support, the Ukrainian forces will give them up for a handful of hryvnia. A lot of Russian military vets locally, with hard experience.
Imagine landing some Russian mercs in Iowa. Good luck with that.
Chinese claiming they don't want fascism. WTF is the difference between communism and fascism???
And for that matter WTF is the difference between fascism, communism, socialism, liberalism, marxism and all those other -ism's created in Europe in the 1800s???
Answer - it's all the same nasty shit - big government, centralized structure.
you left out the biggest nasty ism of all... Capitalism, the destroyer of worlds.
Anarco-capitalism -capitalism minus the gov't mafia sounds good to me. I'd settle for plain ole free market capitalism right now.
Do you also fancy the plain ole mafia?
Nah, we already have that.
Government is a weapon and its use is motivated by beliefs. The victims of government are the non-believers of those beliefs.
The believers are always the intended benefactors - whether it's a religion, the military, banking, corporatism, environmentalism, capitalism, unionism, luddism or any other of a seemingly endless list of beliefs.
The only ones who don't want to benefit from government are those who want to get rid of it, and they are a very small minority.
Congratulations on your ignorance; it's practically perfect. Capitalism is a word; it has a definition. Mafia is a word, it has a definition. they are not related.
Idiot is just a word...
No - not on Zero Hedge.
Words mean whatever nitwits want them to mean at any particular moment, with no historical context and no particular understanding of the English language required.
Normally, ignorance isn't congratulated, but I'll return the courtesy.
Congratulations.
Truth.
fully define the "words" chosen to rally behind,
or expect the concepts to be challenged.
((or just skim the comments for yer fave werds, uptick, scroll on))
But he does have a point. You need to have some kind of government to counter criminal enterprises that are accountable to the community at large. Sure communities could contribute money towards general security, but that is basically a form of government.
If everyone in a community has a gun and they don't put up with shit then why do you need government to put down the competition? The answer is that you don't.
Sadly pandora's nuclear box is open so we do need governments to control that.
How the West was won.
Well, the natives without guns didn't do so well, either.
It's problematic, but at this point, when you need someone with a gun, such as a cop, to help with a violent situation, forget it. Call 911 and wait a half hour.
It's all explained here...
See ADR's response below.
I think the idea is that predatory, privately organized groups like mafias are better protectors of public good than state monopolies.
I find it a dubious hypothesis, not because I'm "anti-capitalism" but because I'm anti-coercion.
Actually the Mafia did a much better job keeping the community safe and protecting business than any government bureaucrat. The pre 1970s mafia, not the drugged up one competing with the black mafia financed by the Jews.
In Cleveland the Mafia protected businesses and kept the ghetto expansion at bay. It was only once it was gone that people realized the role it played. Once the mafia was destroyed in the 1970s it set the stage for the massive ghetto expansion and absolute destuction of every first and second ring suburb. Thousands of businesses went out, crime escalated, and the neighborhoods were no longer safe.
If you were a kid walking home late for supper, Sal would tell Johnny to go get his car and take you home. There was no fear that Johnny was going to kill you, kidnap you, etc. The Mafia most people see is the bullshit put out by Hollywood. And who produces that? Once the Italian mob was put out a different Mafia took control. One far greedier and guilty of far worse crimes.
I'd take the mafia over any three letter government bureau any day. Mafia "organized crime" is nothing compared to what the US government and the true criminals running Wall Street do every day. I've also never been treated better than I have when I've gone to a Mafia dining establishment.
Interesting response - really.
Personally, I'm not keen on submission to anyone, regardless of how good dinner is.
Interesting response-really. So you feel if you eat dinner you're experiencing submission to someone? You'd be dangerous if you had a mind. But fortunately, there;s nothing to worry about there.
I've also never been treated better than I have when I've gone to a Mafia dining establishment.
I don't think mafia dining establishments are soup kitchens.
"I don't think mafia dining establishments are soup kitchens"---congratulations you have reached a correct conclusion. Keep trying, you might get something else right some day.
I wonder if it will ever occur to you central planners
that the MAIN need for a "mafia" is to offer "protection" against other "mafias".
and all these "mafias" are just organised groupings of men intent on fucking shit up.
mebbe the "mafioso-men" can just find a giant arena to work on their cultural evolution, and leave the rest of us out of it. . .
history proves it - the endless story of greed, war lust, invasion, destruction.
Good ole free market capitalism so we can have a couple more Fukushimas and a larger garbage patch in the oceans. Meanwhile we should create some GMO organisms to "fix" everything. Great Idea! Really, what we need is a larger hole in the ozone.
You equate free market capitalism with crony (fascist) capitalism.
Capitalism has its flaws, but those you mentioned are not caused by a free market.
Where there is greed there is destruction. Capitalism fosters corporatism that fosters greed. Here is a lesson on Capitalism. The Hudson River caught on fire for the first time in history when? Anyone ? Anyone? Bueller?
The corporations you equate with capitalism would fail under any true free market system. You really think the massive bullshit built by Wall Street actually makes money? It is all a scam.
Monsanto can only exist under protection from the government and by the Wall Street financiers.
GE got to cut corners on the nuclear reactors because of government ties. Boeing made a substandard plane and their stock rockets because they are protected by activist investors.
Capitalism allows change for the better. If people want clean business, then dirty business fails. The most poluted places on earth are run by the communists and socialists. Take a look at China.
If you really want to find the root of all evil, look at the Federal Reserve and the people that run the financial system.
All that's needed to overcome "benign" capitalism is effective marketing and ignorance.
Either capitalism is a weak force, or marketing and ignorance are stronger forces.
And let's face it, people don't want "clean" anything; they want stuff. We get the stuff, China gets the dirt - and paper money.
Win-Win?
Please spare me. Capitalism created the NEED for unions, child labor laws, etc. Look how well capitalism treated the chinese when building the railroads. Unchecked capitalism is a destroyer of humans AND worlds. I dont have the answers to economics because humans are a flawed specie and destruction is the soup du jour because WE have to one up everyone else. WE is the specie.
By the looks of it you don't have much time left, it's the plank for you matie.
The "root of all evil" (just to quote the term), if any, is the industrial revolution, and not realizing that what made it possible was this :
http://iiscn.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/jlliquidsworld.jpg
(and coal before)
That is cheap available energy.
And that it also resulted in this :
http://www.susps.org/images/worldpopgr.gif
You must live in a different world or been underground for an extended period of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River
Don't disturb him he's pretending he knows something, and it's making him feel good.
Bueller caught fire too? That's terrible. I'm so sorry to hear that.
There never would have been a Fukashima without the involvement of multiple governments.
I really think you need to research capitalism to understand what it means.
Congratulations that's exactly correct. the problem is government not capitalism. I was going to point this out; but it's impossible to make any progress on here.
You have to have ozone in order for there to be a 'hole'. Have you checked the maps lately?
Nuclear power plants wound never exist without .gov crony capitalism as there is no way they could be properly insured.
How would you know anything about capitalism? We haven't had real capitalism in our lifetimes.
In California I started a business manufacturing an electronic control system for electric motors; I borrowed capital. I paid the employees who were able to buy cars, and get married, and live lives. This process, which I'm pretty sure occured "during my lifetime" is called "Capitalism". Because, "Capital" was involved in the organization of the company. Okay ?
Couldn't do that today in California.
the last time I tried to start an electronics based enterprise, here in Hawaii; I was laughed at; literally. And told, I was crazy, only China based companies can survive. The Venture Captal Dude who laughed in my face had Federal Money from kind of Alternate Universe fantasy energy program. So, I think you're probably right.
You can have chocolate flavored totalitarianism, or strawberry flavored totalitarianism.
Let's just chuck all words down the memory hole.
they're already using "shorthand" versions of words, via "txt" - and as the language narrows, certain words lose their real meanings, as they're used repeatedly to illustrate dwindling concepts, minds atrophy.
devolution. it's baked in.
newspeak
nineteen eighty four
I just can't stop myself.
Here you go.
It's a start.
>> WTF is the difference between
Conservatism is conspicuously missing. I think I get it.
the only reason the Chinese are relevant in the discussion is because our politicians sold them our middle class. That being said if anyone of these assholes running a super power wanted to end the US all they have to do is adopt the gold standard.
My oh my! But you just dscribed Washington.
Well, the dictators are getting their panties in a twist. Time for the U S of A's dicktaster to get all tuff and shit.
Functional and beneficial leading is something we should try and master at home; unfortunatley, that seems to be beyond our reach and capability....
“Why does the US have to lead? To lead what?”
"Based on his recent remarks at West Point, even Obama is not quite sure of the answer to that."
And based on the chilly reception given Obama by the 2014 class of new lieutenant's, they are not the least bit interested in him leading anything.
From the front or rear ;-)
he was a lame duck the nanosecond he was re-elected... but, the ultimate sin is that he's a WEAK LEADER, period, end of story
I've said it before many articles ago... you can screw up US foreign policy and have a great domestic agenda, or you can be a great foreign policy visionary and be blind on the domestic side, but you sure as hell can't be poor at both if you're a sitting US President... which is what Obama is, which makes him utterly useless and unrespected
Perhaps you misunderestimate his sneakiness. Many are fairly convinced all of his debacles are by design with the intent of ruining the country. Complete idiots do not get elected to the Presidency. Evil geniuses are much more likely.
George Bush was certainly a complete idiot; he couldn't even get a sentence out of his mouth that actually made sense and was prone to embarrasing public behavior, and he got elected twice. In the history of the intelligence or lack thereof of American Presidents he and his father are ranked the lowest on the bell curve. I don't know where Obama lies, but I do know that the quality of our presidents has been decreasing for some time - certainly since Lyndon Johnson's administration. I doubt it makes much difference at this point whom we elect, as it is just a show for the sheep, and the office of President of the United States a ceremonial title.
And, in addition to all being related to King John, who apparently was a complete asshole, they all get reelected for a second term.
Hmm.
If you go back far enough on just about anyone's family tree you will find someone of historical significance, and often not a pleasant person. I, like Brook Shields, can trace my family tree back to Pope Alexander VI, or Rodrigo Borgia, through a son of Lucrezia by the Duke de Este. After 500 years there are a lot of us. George Washington was a descendent of Alfred the Great.
"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of
sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that
they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save
the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Sun, 1920
What in the hell is "provacative" about holding a big gun to their head?
Geez, some people are so hyper-sensitive.
Why don't the Chinese accept the Pax Obama?
This is what it is like when hypocrisy collides.
strictly for public consumption. the usa and china maggots are on the same page completely.
trade wars with China and Russia should make for some hellish inflation. That should be really bullish when we cant find a coffee maker that works.
People won't be able to afford coffee let alone worry about a coffee maker. BTW the stove top models perc coffee just fine.
FYI - you can roast dandelion roots or the other flower that looks like them (can't recall the name right now), grind them, and then break a coffee substitute.
You can also substitute sand for bread when stuffing your turkey, and a sun-warmed butternut squash with a hole cut in can be an ersatz date on a lonely rural Friday eve.
Chicory historically was substituted when coffee was unavailable.
*
trade war, yeah, right
Six people thought this was worth the time it took to type it; !! That's even funnier than the actual post, which was already cracking me up. Coffee Maker !! Oh, stop; i'm laughing too hard.
If you need a "coffee maker" to brew coffee, you have already lost.
So, I guess you know about coffee presses...
Holy Mackeral...
The pivots are starting to outnumber the divots.
Quick!
Do a hard pivot and focus like a laser on anything besides foreign policy!...form commissions & blue ribbon panels of experts and then split them up into break-out focus groups and report immediately back to King Obama on what you have learned so he can promptly shit can it...it'll buy some time!...lol.
"As explainer sites like Vox.com and FiveThirtyEight.com grow in importance, we are seeking a first-class EXPLAINER EXPLAINER to help readers make sense of the people who would make sense of the world for them. You will have the enviable position of capturing recent trends in explainers by writing between five and ten blog posts a day outlining those trends. While most of your time will be spent creating explainer explainers, you will also occasionally round up other explainer explainers to create explainer explainer explainers. To apply, explain yourself."
Yeah, that's about the size of it alright. I'll go along with the LOL; but it's really not funny; it's tragic.
When I read things like this and also think of the financial situation of the DC US vs. China and Russia, I just laugh.
Then I think of the DC US' hypocrisy, and I laugh some more.
And as for "leading," should others follow the DC US' example in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan?!
What a joke.
Amerika Str0nk!.
Lol now THAT was funny!
The heat is being turned up everyday . just as well Obozo is out playing nine
rather than in the kitchen.
Anybody want a wager on WWIII by Christmas ?
I am tired of wagering on when. I am pretty sure there is no "if" but I have been wrong so often in calling the timing that I have given up.
I think I have worked out the timeline. Could be a lot of zigs, and zags along it.
Hubris and miscalculation could end it sooner though.
We are at the end of the beginning, and just at the beginning of the endgame.
We certainly don't have until 2020, It will really start to snowball this year, and
finish next.
But what do I know ? Just an educated guess from limited(and manipulated )data.
I will probably get the heads up from from at least one of my clients, which I will
share on ZH, if I do.
Did you just reference yourself?
We will fight them on the beaches...
LOL. you noticed that too? The dude is cracking me up completely. one his clients will give him a heads up, and he'll tell us here on ZH. LOL. I think he's been absorbed by his screen name. I can't stop laughing.
Couldn't help myself slipping that in.
But as many postulate here on ZH that all the billionaires are in some exclusive plan
together, I will indeed know.
Personally I think its BS, but I will indeed know if its true.I have 7 billionaires currently
as clients. many would need my help if they suddenly needed to vanish/relocate.
So yes, I would get a heads up.
Roger that, Winston; will be standing by for your inside scope from the "Billionaires". oh shit, laughing so hard again I can't type.
I believe what you have shared, others have implied the same
These folks that are making fun of what you have shared have no idea of what is about to happen
they will not be prepared and do not have an out like the foks that have the recources and knowledge to be prepared
Russia and China are on the move, the US is at a point that bilateral pressure is going to make things happen
Russia's Yeltsin and China's Zemin got together in 97
they made a pact stating that the US should no longer be the leader of the world
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9704/23/russia.china/
In 1996 China set up a blockade of Taiwan to test the US resolve
http://articles.philly.com/1996-03-09/news/25635394_1_taiwan-issue-missile-tests-blockade
It was a dry run for what will go down eventualy
we will mess with China's attack on Taiwan, then Russia will hit from behind over the N. Pole
propheticaly warned of in 95 by a Romanian friend of mine who has since passed
I agree with your timeline
from a different perspective though
you might say it was a sign I was given of a yet to be born family member
the timing of the distress I saw about 3 yrs ago will show it's toll around April 2015
It'll take awhile before everyone loads up on nukes. All restrictions on sales have been lifted.
Forward.
just stop. Just stop all you psychopaths in the United States in the West. As a matter fact all you psychopaths who are in control in all these countries, please stop these unnecessary Wars and rumors of wars. the people of the world demand it, we will not be taken hostage any longer buy a few outta control government officials. We will not allow you to wage war from your failed economic and governmental policies. We get it, you failed but we will not allow you to use the final bailout, which is war,to try to shift the blame to someone else.f*** you. f*** your policies. f*** your war. deal with the consequences of your failed policies in an adult way. turn yourseves in and we won't have to kill you.
Oh Please O4d, moar woar is the answer. It always has been and always will be right up until it isn't. Until then, stfu and eat your greens. Oh, and who is this "we" Kemosabe?
War has always been the answer. The problem is the true enemy has always hid behind a manufactured one, pulling the strings to profit off the conflict.
Once the world finally fights the true enemy and wipes them out, we will be on a path to true peace.
Shit man pass me some of those unicorns and skittles will you? WE will never be at peace because WE are a prideful greedy specie that will always kill each other over a pair of shoes or the coveted Obama phone.
Excellent statement. The point you make is exactly why capitalism is the only system that can possibly work for humanity. It is the only system that even acknowledges greed in our species. Any other system does not account for greed and so is vulnerable to it. Take any authoritarian system, put a greedy bastard at the top, and see what happens.
Crony capitalism is a form of authoritarianism. Obviously if those at the top can control who gets contracts and work it is not a free system, hence, authoritarian.
What you are forgetting to acknowledge is capitalism has been in use in many different forms since humans arrived on this planet, and here we are. Would you like some suchi?
Did you get that Hudson River Fire put out yet? OMG. laughing so hard, I can't type. suchi ? WTF is suchi ? You're too funny, Dude.
Capitalism will only work in a realm of defined moral values subscribed to by its inhabitants collectively. If moral values become person relative, rather than applying to the whole of society, then that society is doomed to failure.
Bullish!!! To the moon Alice!!
Itch Itch Itch, scratch - WTF Amerika is accelerating to stick it's nose up someone elses ass all teh time.
Sheeples need hope and caskets to fill those empty plots and support the fucking VA and yellow ribbons of symbols to show the weakness of the fuckers.
Blow and Hookers are not saving the economy in the USSA. Must go to war no matter what.
Long on Caskets
Long on Tomb Stones
Long on Yellow Ribbon
Merry Fucking Christmas Sheeples of Amerika
The catalyst for war has not been diminished as many people have hoped it would once the world matured. National pride, political agendas, religious and ethnic hatreds are some of the biggest roadblocks to world peace. Often we seem to forget as we look back to World War II and past a dozen "lesser Conflicts" that peace has been the exception rather then the rule for hundreds and thousands of years.
The true reality is that across the world few mothers want to see their children killed and most farmers want to be left along to raise their crops and earn a living. More on the subject of war as a solution to conflict in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/05/war-and-what-is-it-good-for.html
So, the answer is One World Government? The NSA is well on their way towards that goal. Huxley and Orwell were truly prescient or perhaps its a case of life imitating art.