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George Soros Warns "No Exaggeration" That China-US On "Threshold Of World War 3"

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While admitting that reaching agreement between the two countries will be difficult to achieve, George Soros - speaking at The World Bank's Bretton Woods conference this week - warned that unless the U.S. makes 'major concessions' and allows China's currency to join the IMF's basket of currencies, "there is a real danger China will align itself with Russia politically and militarily, and then the threat of world war becomes real."

Much in global geopolitics depends on the health and trajectory of the Chinese economy, was the undertone of George Soros' comments as he spoke this week, but as MarketWatch reports,

Billionaire investor George Soros said flatly that he’s concerned about the possibility of another world war.

 

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If China’s efforts to transition to a domestic-demand led economy from an export engine falter, there is a “likelihood” that China’s rulers would foster an external conflict to keep the country together and hold on to power.

 

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To avoid this scenario, Soros called on the U.S. to make a “major concession” and allow China’s currency to join the International Monetary Fund’s basket of currencies. This would make the yuan a potential rival to the dollar as a global reserve currency.

 

In return, China would have to make similar major concessions to reform its economy, such as accepting the rule of law, Soros said.

 

Allowing China’s yuan to be a market currency would create “a binding connection” between the two systems.

 

An agreement along these lines will be difficult to achieve, Soros said, but the alternative is so unpleasant.

 

“Without it, there is a real danger that China will align itself with Russia politically and militarily, and then the threat of third world war becomes real, so it is worth trying.”

And while on the topic, Soros also spoke recently, as ValueWalk notes, on the situation in Europe...

“The European Union was a very inspiring idea to people like me,” he commented, reflecting back to when EU economies were more balanced. “It was the embodiment of the idea of an open society, like minded countries getting together and sacrificing part of their sovereignty for the common good.  It was meant to be a voluntary association of equals.”

 

Soros continued to say: “Because of the Euro crisis, [the E.U.] has been transformed into something radically different.” He also emphasized that over time two different classes of countries have evolved: creditors and debtors. “The debtors had difficulty meeting their obligations and this put the creditors in charge. They (the creditors) set the rules and made it very difficult for the debtors to exit their inferior status. A voluntary association of equals turned into an involuntary association of un-equals.”

 

While avoiding making predictions, on Greece Soros noted: “Greece is a poisonous situation. All sides have made a lot of mistakes, and there is a lot of hostility, a lot of negative sentiments…Both sides are willing to hurt the other side even if it hurts them.”

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The billionaire investor concluded by pointing out that military spending is currently on the rise in both Russia and China, warning ominously...

"If there is conflict between China and a military ally of the United States, like Japan, then it is not an exaggeration to say that we are on the threshold of a third world war."

 

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Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:02 | 6121010 Kolchak
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George is eager to get the military industrial complex some work. And he loves fear mongering, one of his favorite propaganda means.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:08 | 6121026 Kina
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 China executes more people than any other country!!!

 

I think the metric is executions per million of population. Not surprising China does more of everything given its population.

 

(and why the fuck can't I get rid of the bold?)

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:17 | 6121031 Skip
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I recall when Billy the KID KILLER Clinton sent, over the objections of the Pentagon, super-computers to China so they could have their ICBMs make course corrections to hit US Mainland.

They STEAL what they can't get through bribery of politicians. Whether through ON SITE espionage or computer hacking they get what they want. Chinese officials were found in IOWA going through a corn field collecting state of the art corn seeds for shipment back to China.

The largest foreign body of students in the USSA is from China, and we have been teaching them all about nuclear and other high tech information.

Then the wholesale shipping of our jobs to China.

Also China ships to US consumers RADIOACTIVE waste hidden in the products and you want to know what .gov does about that? NOTHING!

Years ago His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, was speaking at a University in Washington DC, during his entire talk he was LOUDLY and RUDELY heckled by Chinese students, screams it was an outrage. Of the espionage, commercial and military, conducted via hacking or as at Los Alamos and elsewhere, it has been Chinese, in the case of military ON THE GROUND espionage, US CITIZEN CHINESE.

A Unemployed Reader Describes Language Discrimination By A Chinese(-American) Bank February 22, 2015

Of course, this is de facto racial discrimination–there are almost no whites fluent in even one kind of Chinese in America.

A White Reader Tells Of Being Rejected By A Chinese-American Firm Even Though He CAN Speak Chinese February 27, 2015

A Software Engineers Writes That Companies That Lose Their Trade Secrets To Chinese Engineers Were Asking For It May 19, 2015

EB-5 Visas: Selling Our Birthright for a Mess of Pottage

An American Defense Worker Cautions Us On Asian Immigrants

Look at the politics now in San Francisco. Indians are hardball players in US also. Frankly this is no longer America and once you understand that you can look at the news reports in a more understandable way. This was all planned, not mere happenstance. You won't like living in a nation that has a majority of people who HATE you because the color of your skin is pale and your eyes are round.

It is not mere supposition on my part, it has been based upon, not just personal experience, but polls done by even the NEW YORK TIMES, on Asian viewpoints of White Americans. Do you think YOUR children will escape it? Or YOU?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:23 | 6121113 gwar5
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I remember the Clinton treason.

 

He got paid $300K from the president of Loral to segregate the component parts of our Top Secret precision missile guidance system so they could be declassified and treated as commercial products, hence not restricted from being sent to China. Loral sent advisors to China to help reassemble.  

Within a couple of years China demonstrated their ability to shoot down an orbiting satellite traveling at 9000 MPH. 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:22 | 6121589 WillyGroper
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agree except the Dalai Lama is all for Agenda 21 & 1 world religion.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 13:13 | 6122014 Monty Burns
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No surprise there. Chinese and Indians don't go in for the diversity thing at all.  Then again they were never meant to. It was aimed exclusively at us White mugs.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:09 | 6121033 Batman11
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Wall Street did more damage to the West in 2008 than Russia achieved in four decades through the cold war.

China, Russia and ISIS are not the real danger, it comes from within.

 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:11 | 6121046 gwar5
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Sociopath Soros would love to see another World War because he was a self-admitted, bonafide, Nazi collaborator who turned in his fellow Jews in the last one. To save lives, I hope he expires before there is a next WW.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:11 | 6121050 TheFourthStoog-ing
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Oh my God, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:15 | 6121063 Unknown Rider
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This is the same guy that broke the Bank of England: short selling the Pound Sterling. He's probably looking to make another Billion or ten off of shorting the dollar too. Should be plenty of people out there willing to grease his skids to get a piece of our hide.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:16 | 6121064 Kina
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China has observed the geopolitics and economic strategies of the US since WW2. It understands that the USA will also try the same games of geopolitical and ecnomic control on it as it has with others, and likewise the games of USSR cold war.

 

China's only hope to escape a US yoke was to be proactive and aggressive and also set up its own geopolitcal/economic foundations, Russia, Africa, South America, SE Asia etc 

 

The US has been too arrogant with Russia and China, rather than bring them into the tent to control them they have sought to thwart their growth and encircle them in various ways, causing them to take counter measures.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:18 | 6121077 Kina
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I guess China would only have to credibly hint at a gold backed Yuan (but never do it) to cause a lot of chaos for the USD (but also itself with a surging Yuan).

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:20 | 6121091 Dr. Engali
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China would have to follow the rule of law? WTF? Since when does the U.S follow the rule of law mother fucker? I'm sick of these hypocritical old fossils trying to run this world.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:20 | 6121094 unplugged
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Your world is coming down Soros, I know, and I can understand why you are a bit frustrated, and throwing a baby tantrum.  But you know as well as I that China & Russia are ALREADY aligned and have been for years.  So shut your lies up and speak truth for the first time.  You might even like it, might be refreshing, if it wasn't for the fact that your empire of evil is soon to be gone.  Good luck, you're going to need it.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:42 | 6121109 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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He also emphasized that over time two different classes of countries have evolved: creditors and debtors.

The minute you issue money with interest aka $1 at $1.02 for example the math guarantees if the money is not backed by anything there is always going to be someone in debt for .02 when they pay back the $1 and not enough money to cover the .02 in circulation. Issuing more money just creates more debt that can never be paid off. The math is simple to understand. The problem is the money not the EU. In these Unions debt is not shared equally there is always debt inequality. There shouldn't be any Euro monetary debt in the first place, especially not among the sovereigns within the union. Are US states responsible for the Federal Government's USD debts or if the Federal Reserve goes tits up? NO the Federal Government is. None of these meat puppets seem to get this simple point or purposely ignore it.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:42 | 6121176 Skip
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Dewey Cheatum Howe

You put it just beautifully. This is a free PDF download that explains it simply and insightfully, THE SUMERIAN SWINDLE, best book I've ever read on the subject:
http://www.bamboo-delight.com/download/Sumerian_Swindle_v1.pdf

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:24 | 6121112 Kina
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Also the West and Westerners ought to understand that mainland Chinese are a totally different animal to them. Their modern history since WW2, Mao Communism, the one child policy (princes and princesses) and the later opening of the country has created something quite different.

 

They now posses the same self belief, arrogance and aggression for the future as a post WW2 USA did, but probably deeper.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:24 | 6121115 hedgiex
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War ? The 1% will not allow it. A progression towards a bipolar World more likely with plenty of proxy fights. Japan and/or S. Korea more likely to be used.

China far too smart when it is not ready to escalate. It will just keep pushing the envelope to trigger aggression. They know that Pax America is now a strawman and just adding fuel for more burn-outs.

They also know that smart nations want money not talk.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:25 | 6121118 Theremustbeanot...
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Which massive false flag is Soros in on so the elite can get the "show on the road" and eliminate several billion of us before tea on the pavilion? 

 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:38 | 6121120 Dathedr
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Scum George Soros. A Jew. Didn't even read what that filth had said, but now looking at it, seems like Rothschild agent and employee wants to frighten everyone to go along with their bancor (SDR) schemes -- to print their world reserve currency. Western oligarchs, which Jew Soros is working for, would control the supply of that currency, and nothing would change. It would be even worse than with the dollar rule. Well, Murica dies, so maybe not, but certainly nothing would change. Those oligarchs Jew works for would print that currency as they wish and direct it as they wish too, just like they are doing with the dollar. They retain the power of currency supply thus, and nothing changes!

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:29 | 6121128 Counterpunch
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Zero insight from a guy currently sowing chaos, via nuland and the perpetually jewish led NED, in Montenegro.

 

The thing about world war 3 is the US will lose it.

 

You want to prevent it? Execute those who will most highly profit from it.

 

As to China, would you bet your LIFE that Israel has not read the wall writing and given or sold them highly sensitive tech and secrets?  of course they have. Israel is not an ally and but for zionist power, the two states are profoundly different in virtually every way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:53 | 6121212 Herodotus
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The US does not have any alliance with Israel. 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:50 | 6121445 Counterpunch
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thats why I wrote 'Israel is not an ally.'

for fuck's sake, man.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:48 | 6121149 Dathedr
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Just watch when all the wealth of this Jew transfers to his owner -- the Rothschilds (before he dies, which shouldn't take long *hopefully*). You know what happened to that Jewish scum Khodorkovsky who stole the Russian public wealth in the 90s? First thing Jew did was to transfer all "his" (stolen) wealth (Yukos and its branches) to Jacob Rothschild. That also explains all there one needs to know about the nature of the things to all moronic Westerners around here who are selling the notion that Vladimir Putin is Western oligarch's agent!

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 15:30 | 6122579 Benjamin123
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Everybody knows that. Its funny to see you preaching to the choir.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 20:24 | 6123312 Dathedr
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If everyone knew this, Trotskist, there wouldn't be those constant theories about Russia and China playing for the same team -- your Jewish oligarchs from the West, now would it? Sounds like you don't like mentioning your fellow Jews' crimes, hm, Felix? What do you think about Stalin's purges of you 5th column Zionist filth in '39? And how do you feel about the repetition of that great Stalin's feat in this time and age?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:38 | 6121160 RealityCheque
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Soros pumping his position in Lockheed Martin.

Fucking piece of human trash. There's a reason he's nicknamed "The Destroyer of Worlds"

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:41 | 6121169 Polymarkos
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Someone needs to kill this old bastard Soros. He's a monster, a pathological hate filled power obsessed wicked old man.

 

Him and Fidel Castro both need to die already.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:45 | 6121187 Dathedr
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Why nobody in Murica can kill this Jewish scum, hm? He's not untouchable you know! Contrary to popular idiotic Western belief (which Corporate media is feeding stupid populace in the so-called West), they are not some demi-gods or "powers." They are just human scumbags of mostly Jewish origins who are hiding behind goverment... directing, regulating... ruling in its name, nothing more!

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:51 | 6121206 Dathedr
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Oh, and rest assured -- they die just like any other creature in this world. You Westerners are nothing more than whores, and that is why they have been doing what ever they want to you. If you hadn't been so servile, obedient and stupid, they couldn't have done what they did.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:12 | 6121297 flysofree
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Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:51 | 6121454 Counterpunch
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that's a lot of poison for one well, son.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 15:28 | 6122574 Benjamin123
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Kill him yourself then, lazy goy.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 20:26 | 6123323 Dathedr
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I would... gladly. Haven't got the chance though. But maybe I'll get one with you. I would skin you alive, Jew! It would give me such a pleasure, let me tell you.

Sat, 05/23/2015 - 03:20 | 6123974 Benjamin123
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Yes, keep hoping to get your "chance". If you wait long enough the "chance" will show up. By magik. Its not as easy as finding his location and paying him a visit. Oh no, cant do.

Must-wait-for-a-chance

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:48 | 6121196 Klemens
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Albert Pike, William Guy Carr and 3 World Wars: Who Is Trying to Scare Us?

http://new.euro-med.dk/20150520-albert-pike-william-guy-carr-and-3-world...

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 09:55 | 6121222 MFL8240
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What business does this scumbag have at Brent Wood meeting and where the hell are the American politicians to protect the public?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:06 | 6121273 flysofree
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It makes no difference that Soros is Jewish: he is 1% percenter. Bill Gates through his foundation will cause more misery than George Soros could in 100-years!

 

The Gates Foundation now employs more than 1,000  analysts -hedge fund investors. They'll lock up hundreds of billions in their Foundation for generations like the Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords et al while skimming profits from everything and throwing a few bones to charities while advocating pro elite agenda.

There is no distribution of wealth from this Foundation: they plan on harvesting even more wealth which diminishes returns for everyone else. To put it simply: there is no velocity of accumulated wealth, it just stays in the Foundation.

At least the Robber Barons built hospitals and universities.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:55 | 6121470 Counterpunch
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I actually agree with you. I think Soros acts out of greed and ego, not {primarily} out of any kind of Jewish tribalism or "zionism."

He's just a cunt, who happens to be Jewish.

He may be contrasted with Sheldon Adelson, whose Jewish ethnocentrism and Supremacism is bound up with his evil fuckery.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:09 | 6121799 schnydz
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LOL the guy is not a practicing Jew. He removed himself from that religion years ago. 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 16:18 | 6122747 IronForge
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DH - LeftHook

Is that you?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:12 | 6121300 LetsGetPhysical
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Why would I believe anything this guy has to say? You don't think he's talking his book?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:17 | 6121313 escapeefromOZ
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If the criminal Soros says so then it is certainly a pile of BLS . I thought that there was an international warrant for arrest of that human piece of SH...  Is He still around ? This is the proof that there is no dog ( god ) and the Karma is a pile of horse dung !

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:20 | 6121319 tony wilson and...
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what monster
vampyre
drinker of the bloods of der kinder.
listen to der children howl for lifes as soros slurps.
please please mister let us live.
how the rothschild laugh with satan agents like these.
living off pain blood and terror for youth attainment age suppression.

playing paying all sides ruining all for the talmud and tora bora.
the eyes wide shut masonic demon mask slipped long ago with this hungarian liar.
pick pocket gold teeth typhoid camp puller no nazi gas chambers just endless compensations.
openheimer,teller einstein how clever they are all nuclear all saturn cube death agent blood wrangler.
the chosen ones indeed right royal human butcher

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:22 | 6121335 Berspankme
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Fuck you soros. Sacrificing "part"of sovereignty? Fuck you. Give not one inch

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 10:26 | 6121351 kowalli
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i hope he will go to hell

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:30 | 6121624 DutchBoy2015
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His next life will be homeless guy living on a park bench.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:08 | 6121521 Franktastic
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goog good, all going according to plan...all wars are banker wars. Old men (with lots of money) start em and young men (poor without money) die in em.

I see we are still in the caveman days..when will the planet grow up? or grow a brain?

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:11 | 6121540 Counterpunch
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How Israel wants to restart the war in the Levant
http://www.voltairenet.org/article187601.html

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:11 | 6121541 northern vigor
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SOROS...I spelled that backards intentionally.

Whatever Soros says to the media is usually a diversion  to be the opposite. Some of his comments are practically  a Catch 22... they are so twisted.

He has never felt  a warm hearted need to warn the public about anything in his entire life... unless he is shorting something.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:33 | 6121638 SmittyinLA
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China is our bitch and vice versa, we have 40B monthy trade deficit with China, besides you dont wage war against "across the ocean America", you just slowly buy it, China is if anything pragmatic and patient.

Russia with its 143M people and vast oil and gas reserves has far more to fear from energy poor 1.3B people China.

The tribe would love to see the US and China duke it out, Im sure theyre ready to provide fiat financing at a moments notice.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 11:39 | 6121666 DutchBoy2015
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History they don't teach you in school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8i-QriYIU

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:09 | 6121797 gcjohns1971
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Not sure why anyone should accept Soros' word on what concessions the Chinese would or would not make after they already have US Concessions in hand.

 

Believe a more likely scenario is that Oligarchs have put their money into China, and have acted to shift their 'bad' assets to the US Fed and US Taxpayer balance sheets...in effect making the US a 'bad bank' that can then be torpedoed, bankrupted (to the extent they haven't already done it) and then dissected for its assets.

 

Frankly, a world-wide nuclear war is preferrable.

In nuclear fire you die once.

In slavery you die every day.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:18 | 6121824 Billy Shears
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Not happening! Never take by force what you can obtain by the stupidity of your adversary. Nothing to be gained by a war, especially one instigated by the U.S. China has problems, big ones but the U.S. is a hollowed out economy wirth nothing but a printing press that is of any value, dubious value I hasten to add.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:44 | 6121916 reader2010
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This tells us there is fraction of opinions within CFR,  just as it was case before the War with Japan. History told us Rockefeller favored China while Morgan favored Japan initially. I don't think Washington has necessary resources available for waging a major war with a major Asian nation. If it decides to fight,  the likely case will be using the Japs, Koreans, or even Taiwanese first before it dares to act. 

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 12:49 | 6121934 Flash44
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Soros is evil personified. That fact that he is not locked up like a death camp nazi 

Commandant is beyond belief and is a gruesome statement of the current state

of this planet.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 20:17 | 6123305 Crocodile
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You are a sinner just as he is; Jesus shows no partiality, as we do, when it comes to righteous judgment with the authority to exercise it and He will, does, and has.  All sinners are commanded to repent and to believe the gospel; those that do have eternal life and the most that don't have only eternal death to look at..sad.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 14:25 | 6122327 fightapathy
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Allow China's currency into the basket so he can fuck with it and make a ton of money before the severely agitated Chinese retaliate with whatever they can muster, thus starting WWIII? Thanks, but no thanks, George. Is he itching for processing Jewish corpses like when he was young? Maybe he's in his second childhood...

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 20:15 | 6123302 Crocodile
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China wants in and they will get in and then you know the official surrender has taken place.  I is all designed by the Central Planners, for the elitist, no matter the country, are not nationalist, they are globalists.  All the world and industrial and banking leaders are in the same boat and on the same page and they laugh as they get militaries to fight for them.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 15:39 | 6122605 kchrisc
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"...George Soros - speaking at The World Bank's Bretton Woods conference this week - warned that unless the U.S. makes 'major concessions' and allows China's currency to join the IMF's basket of currencies, "there is a real danger China will align itself with Russia politically and militarily, and then the threat of world war becomes real."

The Zionist tool outlines Zion's dilemma and the trap they have backed themselves into.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission. 

 

Must keep the plunder and murder going, but more and more of the spoils are flowing to the east.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 20:11 | 6123295 Crocodile
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Russia and China are joined at the hip, but this East VS West is part of the "divide and conquer" strategy used since the "Garden of Eden".  It is akin to Republican vs Democrats...war will come because that is how the globalists will usher in the One World Economic and Religious System and murder many in the process and many will, and have volunteered to fight for the globalist at the expense of their own future, their children's future, their friends, neighbors and nation...it is called the US Military in the United States...keep waving that flag and believe in the American Dream that was always only a nightmare dressed as a dream.

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