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The New World Disorder - How Empires Die
Submitted Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,
The state-owned Bank of China has been ordered by an American court to hand over customer information to the US. The bank has refused to comply, as to do so would violate China’s privacy law. The US court has subsequently ordered the Bank of China to pay a fine of $50,000 per day.
Any guess as to how this is likely to turn out?
China is a sovereign nation, halfway around the globe from the US, yet the US seems to feel that it’s somehow entitled to set the rules for China (as well as the other nations in the world). When China sees fit to develop islands in the South China Sea that it has laid claim to for centuries, it begins to hear threatening noises from the US military. A candidate for US president declares that he would buzz the islands with Air Force One, the Presidential jet, saying, "They'll know we mean business."
All over the world, those who live outside the US are increasingly observing that the US has become so drunk with power that they’re threatening both friend and foe with fines, trade restrictions, monetary sanctions, warfare, and invasions.
And in so-observing, those of us who have studied the history of empires note that history is once again repeating itself. Time and time again, great empires build themselves up through industriousness and sound economic management only to subsequently decline into debt, complacency, and an entitlement mind-set.
Over the millennia, empires as disparate as Persia, Rome, Spain, and Great Britain rose to dominate the world. Of course, we know how those empires turned out and, by extension, we might hazard an educated guess as to how the present American Empire will end.
In the final throes of empire-decline, we invariably observe the more sociopathic trends of a failing power, such as we’re seeing today from the US.
First and foremost, any empire declines as a result of economic mismanagement. Decline from within (pandering to the populace with “bread and circuses”) and without (endless conquest and/or maintenance of dominance over far-flung geography) drain even the wealthiest government. Even eighteenth-century Spain, with all its billions in stolen New World gold, could not pay its ever-increasing bills and warfare-driven debt.
Typically, the empire of the day enjoys the world’s greatest fighting force/armada/weapons build-up yet, when the money runs out, the war machine simply stops. Soldiers think more about their empty bellies than how much ammunition they have left. Generals continue to issue orders, but they cease to be followed after the supply lines begin to dry up.
And the leaders of a collapsing empire invariably make a fatal mistake: they assume that all the goodwill the empire gained when it was on its rise is permanent – that it will continue, even if the empire behaves like the world’s foremost bully.
This is never the outcome. Invariably, as the decline nears its end, allies, without ever saying so, begin to withdraw their support. We see this today, as European leaders (America’s most essential allies) realise that the empire is becoming an arrogant liability and they begin cutting deals with the other side, as European leaders are now doing with Russia and others.
For a century or more, there’s been much talk amongst highly placed government and industry leaders of a New World Order, and there can be no doubt that this has been a long-term objective for Western leaders. They see themselves as being at the head of this order, with the rest of the powers coming along for the ride and the non-powers being forced to comply.
The US, with its ever-expanding draconian legislation, clearly intends to bring this Orwellian ideal to fruition in the relatively near future as they speed up the process of dominance over all. With some countries, such as the traditional allies, it’s intended to be implemented through coercion and a promise of inclusiveness. For those who the US does not hold close, but needs as trading partners, this is intended to be achieved through fines, trade restrictions, and sanctions (if possible) and force (if necessary). The lesser countries will be overcome through bullying or, if necessary, invasion.
But, again, empires decline principally through loss of economic power. And the US is attempting the greatest world-control in history at the same time as the money is running out.
Many people (conspiracy theory advocates and otherwise) acknowledge that an effort exists to create a New World Order, with the US at its head and the EU as its little brother and co-conspirator. Many of these theorists believe that Russia and China only pretend to oppose the order but secretly only seek to have a place at the table.
I think not.
Political leaders, more often than not, tend to have sociopathic tendencies. Above all their other goals, the desire to be omnipotent reigns supreme. Most leaders will do extraordinarily stupid things to maintain or expand their own personal power. Countless leaders have destroyed their own country rather than relinquish power over it.
To think that leaders of other great powers, such as China and Russia, will willingly comply just to get to break bread with the US in the same room is a faulty assumption.
Of course, as we’re observing, the US is now obsessively demonstrating its perceived power over all, bulling its allies, invading one small nation after another, and threatening its trading partners. They fail, as do all sociopaths, to even consider that it can all come crashing down and, for that reason, are failing to see the warning signs as they occur.
Of course, it’s important to remember that those leaders of other nations, who are holding the cards, will not wish to utterly destroy the US. They will not seek a Treaty of Versailles. They will hope to re-invent America as a consumer, but without its fangs.
To whatever level the US falls in the coming years, their leaders won’t see it coming. They’ll understand that there’ll be pushback from trading partners, but they’ll believe it can be overcome with a combination of cajoling and force. What they will thoroughly fail to see coming is that when the knives are drawn by the other major nations, America’s allies, too, will have had enough. They’ll see a better future with those nations that are still behaving in a reasonable fashion than to continue to side with the fearful US Goliath.
As Doug Casey has stated, “Countries fall from grace with amazing speed.” Quite so. Just as the Roman senators that had previously supported Caesar joined in with those that openly opposed him and took part in his assassination, so America’s formerly staunch allies will join in when the other major powers make their move. There’s been an unstated deterioration in the loyalty of US allies in recent years and, when they turn, I believe they will do so decisively. The Caesar that was bowed to only yesterday will find himself alone in his fate tomorrow when the knives are drawn against him.
So, what do we take away from this? An interesting little history lesson? Well, hopefully more. Hopefully, we’ll recognise that, as threatening as the US Goliath is at present, there will, at some point in the coming years, be dramatic and rather sudden change. When this occurs, our lives, liberty, and wealth will not be unaffected.
In my opinion, we shall see a “New World Disorder” – a dramatic decline in US hegemony, coupled with a scramble by other nations to fill the void. Those who fare best within it will be those who made the necessary preparations ahead of time.
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Entropy is a bitch.
Doesn't matter those accounts will be seized by the communists soon enough.
Que the, ".. but China isn't communist anymore.." nonsense.
China has private property, private enterprise, freedom to travel, and foreign capitalism. It is easier to start and run a business in China than America. It is easier to get rich in China than America.
Look up the definition of communism. China hasn't fit the terms since 1978.
Where do you get your "information" on what goes on inside China? Do you watch Fox News? Do your handlers give you a narrative to follow? Do you have psychic powers? How much time have you spent in China?
"Look up the definition of communism. China hasn't fit the terms since 1978.
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Cool story bro.
However, the communist party controls china.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-politburo-standing-committee-2012-11
The billions of rice eating dog frying experts don't have fake elections like we do.
They are honest commies.
And they cannot "own land".
http://www.loc.gov/law/help/real-property-law/china.php
Sorry to bust your bubble of self delusion, as if there is any other kind of delusion but self imposed.
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood, and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity."
- Robert Paxton, "The Anatomy Of Fascism"
"We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions." Adolph Hitler
Too bad Hitler failed. Humanity is lost.
Would you like to explain how the economic policies of the Chinese government compare with what was outlined in the Communist Manifesto? Marx was pretty clear about how things are supposed to be organized in a communist system. They are a dictatorial and largely totalitarian system, but the term communists does not really fit them at least in practice.
the land is owned by everybody. There is no property tax. You can have the right to exclusively occupy and use the land. There is no property tax.
In America you can only rent your land from the government. If you don't pay your taxes, some men with guns will come and take it.
The "Communist Party" in China is communist only in name. There is a huge spectrum of ideologies with the Party, ranging from people who want to go back to the Mao Zedong day to people who want to change China into America. The Chinese people overwhelmingly believe that they are better off than 10 years ago and that their leaders are making the right decisions. In America, Obama has a 37% rating on a good day, and he was elected by the voters twice.
I had a lot of misconceptions about China whenI first came here in 2009. Within 3 days I realized that I had been fed a ration of bullshit by the American press and the American Governent. If you don't live here, you can't know what's going on. There is no free press in America, just tabloid sensationalists and parrots for the Party line in Washington.
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the land is owned by everybody. "
So it is owned by the state.
Look, I can see how you respect honest commies, but China is a shithole filled with a billion or so self replicating assholes who have zero say.
As opposed to the US which is filled with 300M self important loud mouth, entitled, self replicating, assholes who think their say matters.
I disconnected my cable in 2002 when i realized the horse shit it is spewing out all the time.
Exactly, you have to spend some time in China to appreciate it. It is a wonderful place but changing too fast to look like the West. Mistake in my opinion. You have to keep going farther upcountry.
And they cannot "own land"....
Not disagreeing with you about China, Ghost - but here in the US, we can't own land either. Try not paying your property taxes and see who shows up to take that land.... I would argue that our system in the US is pretty similar to what they have in China - it's just that the Chinese don't spend much effort trying to convince the people otherwise.
The US government/media is pimping an old dream that expired a while ago. Obama admitted it when he said some old blue collar guys were complaining about how he was changing the country and they no longer had jobs. Tough shit US guys I guess.
In the US, property taxes are State/local issues, not Federal. Some States have no property taxes at all, others have very high property taxes.
You are definatly OWNED SLAVES when you cannot even pretend to OWN land as we do in the US.
I was in China a couple of months ago - and was pleasantly surprided with everything - infrastructure, people, how hppy and well-dressed they were etc. Compared to their Beijing airport - DC's Reagan airport looks like a shithole
Yea, same as saying America is a free Democracy
The US government and FCC are now mandating that I registar my toy Phantom 3 Standard Quadcopter or be subjected to a $250,000 fine and criminal penalities.
Any idea how that is going to turn out?
From what I have read about DJI's approach to flight control, there's a very good chance that one day for no discernable reason it will just try and fly back to it's country of origin. Apparently there is even a facebook support group for those who have experienced the "phantom flyaway". I hope it doesn't turn out that way for you.
sooo... you're saying that the tendency of a small drone to fly away to it's place of creation (or to parts unknown) is somewhat similar to Gold's tendency to react strongly to the proximity of gold to boats on deep lakes - the reaction so strong as to cause the boat to sink in deep water?
"It would violate China's privacy laws"? The same China that disappears people for selling stocks? The same country that built its wealth on Western manufacturing in exhcange for slave labor? When you write articles like this, do you consider how absurd is the premise?
"When you write articles like this, do you consider how absurd is the premise? "
Is that a trick question?
We PMI'd some folks...
I find the premise that China wants exclusivity to fuck with its own subjects as it pleases quite compelling.
I think the interesting moment comes when other nations no longer respect the US's declared exclusivity to fuck with its own subjects as it pleases.
Hopefully, when US exclusivity is no longer respected... someone will extraordinarily render George Soros and Lloyd Blankfein to a country that the CIA used to outsource actual torture to...
Sovereignty would an acceptable substitution for exclusivity in this case.
However, I would hazard a guess that this aspect isn't covered extensively in whatever internationalman.com is trying to sell.
I'm fine with China being sovereign all it wants, so long as the US doesn't hand China its manufacturing base on a silver platter and invite it to sell goods and services here with an artificially low currency rate. Of course this situation exists so the oligarchs can profit from the arrangement, including those who run China. China can go fuck itself in the current arrangement.
It always seems to come back to those damn oligarchs... The moral and intellectual superiors who the citizens are suposed to unconditionally enturst with their future... Or at most replace with other oligarchs sporting a different colored tie or toga... since we live in a Republic and all...
Have you seen a long term chart of the RMB/USD? China's currency has strengthened steadily and considerably over the last generation (dollar weaker). 20 years ago, the USD was twice as strong against the RMB as it is now. Who's manipulating? Meanwhile, the propagandists on Faux News and CNN are the idiots labeling China "manipulator".
It's called taking over the Swiss business. It is impossible to get banking information out of China or Russia. The Swiss will pay dearly for being soft with FATCA and OECD.
None of that denies their sovereignty. To think US law would apply in China, regardless of how crappy their government is, is absurd.
Some guys in the US deserve disapearing or at least jail. Holder said no. Think he would have stood up for you? Also the law in the US DOES allow for assassination/disappearing of US citizens even by drone. Look it up patriot.
The way I see it, every Chinese is an employee of The State; subterfuge aside every corporation as well. Hence, the Privacy Law in question is China's Government's right to keep China's privacy.
"China is a sovereign nation,"
Yup. Just like North Korea.
I hear lil Kim's brother parties it up in Macau on the bank roll of high level communists in China.
This article hurt to read it was so cliched.
If I was the writer I would commit harakiri in self disgust. But it takes honor to have self reflection in today's world.
I'm just looking for an honest man.
These days none of us can afford to be honest. It brings some FBI fucker to your doorstep or gets you suicided by nailgun.
Plus being honest and, not a psycopath, means that you have a healthy aversion to the shithole in DC and you tend to sit on your ass and try to ignore the psycopaths as much as possible.
It's a self feeding loop, honest, upright people tend to want nothing to do with public politics while we desperately need honest, upright people in politics....and the psychopaths continue to win.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm a complete asshat, full of bullshit and exaggerations (entertaining, hopefully) and a complete asshole. I've seriously considered running for office, but I could not envision working with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters or many, many others without seeing myself eventually hosing the entire SOTU with an Uzie and hundreds of backup magazines.
So I stay out of actively running.
But I want someone with my mindset, without my rage, to go to congress and fuck shit up.
I was told by a friend who works for pentagon that teh State Dept is about 60% gay. They even have their Facebook page. I asked him why - he thinks it's because gay people like to enetrtain (and control)
@OP
I like your style.
Back in "executive management" days, I would occasionally chuck my blackberry against a wall during meetings, sending pieces of plastic and green board across the room. Shit got done, but people were afraid of me. Fuck em.
There is no saving Congress, or the Senate, or the White House. I believe America is at the same point Rome was when Caesar came waltzing along. Whether he won or lost was irrelevant. The Populusque in SPQR was dead and buried - same as in the States today.
In short folks, like it or hate it, Democracy - including Constitutinal Republicanism is dead - just not buried yet.
My guess is it will be soon - I'd say next election, regardless of who wins.
From my standpoint the only question is:
Will you get a potential Augustus (Trump) or a Nero (Hillary). Either way, centralised all powerful governments will be the norm in the US from here on in.
The U.S. has already had a currency collapse. It began in 1913.......
Renewed in 1932, 1972...2015/16
As each nation body becomes wealthy, the parasites move in to attack the major institutions (organs)...banking/financial system, legal system and government. This invariably causes a slow decline in the general health of the nation body. As the nation body dies, the parasites move to the next prosperous nation body to start the process anew.
It's simple entropy, bleed off the hot spots. Or as someone said "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
I shorted gold.[paper] I like the risk/reward of the trade...
I think gold is going lower, and I like using toilet paper, to accumulate the "real stuff".
There's a topping pattern forming on daily charts, and the bounce off that bottom wasn't convincing.
I want a better "buy-in" level.
Yen, were you able to squeeze any return on your long trade gold recently?
FWIW, I like your short but I still say you have balls of steel to be playing in the casino.
Trade was opened @ $1054.14 [and closed] after the N.Y markets closed @ $1076.09.
Profit was $2195.00, and swap fees were $11.10 for the trade duration.
I should have been MOAR greedy...
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Nice return for a brief duration trade. I hope you have even better success with the short trade.
I was just exposing the Ponzi... Keep stacking my friend.
The[funny money] is going to family charity.
Let's not forget it took the better part of (2) decades, and millions of fryed "brain cells", to occasionally make a few $dollars.
The weak longs[xau] are going to get taken out when London opens. ;-)
Those bonds, on the short end, look tasty...
Kudos for having the balls to be active in the manipulated market and making some fed bucks. Me, I'm too cowardly to put a dime in the market. I just buy physical and keep putting it in the dry lake.
But, seriously, kudos on the win.
I read a quote tonight;
"Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child."
Cicero
The exceptional nation has ignored history.
Here is the best summarization of the Illmerican Empire in 5 minutes that I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rQ6Av0gMY
I have a B.A. in History and showed this to a number of former professors...they agree.
Nice. Thanks for the link.
Here is another one I came across along those same lines:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NteVmdoo1yI
We're all living in America, America. Coca Cola, sometimes war!
Rammstein, cool. Good band.
I can't remember who said this but: Politicians know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Cicero knew his stuff : "We are taxed in our bread and our wine, in our incomes and our investments, on our land and on our property not only for base creatures who do not deserve the name of men, but for foreign nations, complaisant nations who will bow to us and accept our largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace - these mendicant nations who will destroy us when we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and order and the Pax Romana, a document which will fall into dust when it pleases our allies and our vassals. We keep them in precarious balance only with our gold. Is the heartblood of our nation worth these? Were they bound to us with ties of love, they would not ask our gold. They take our very flesh, and they hate and despise us. And who shall say we are worthy of more? ... When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself."
It is always the tendency for spoiled children, parasites of humanity (You know which ones), and the lazy to exploit and take credit for others works and efforts. They even re-write history to coincide with their delusions.
YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT!
Fuck you Obama.
OT History made rocket launch and landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5bTbVbe4e4
Launch at approx 22 minutes landing at approx 32 minutes
The video is almost an hour long... 'Reality Ranch', is beckoning.
Sonny and Cher: The beat goes on (HQ Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS3O5zg290k (3:25)
AtypicalNiggaWithGun&Cash&HighOnDope
DoesntKnowThatHeIsInvitingLynching
&BeingImpaledLikeIvanTheTerrible
Empires never have enough power, never enough wealth, never enough war, and never enough hegemony...the ruthless bastards who espouse these "ideals", are forever falling over each other, to see who can accumulate more.
In the end, empires die...always indebted to the hilt, its leaders, idols that thought they were gods, reduced to the mere mortals, they always were.
John Cusack's War, Inc. trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FauREuZHQSg (2:33)
"(and) Thanks to Tamerlane's cutting edge prosthetic devices we can literally have you up and dancing before you know it"
Funny stuff. By the way, Healthcare.gov "extended" the deadline by two days to sign up for Obamannotgoodforshitnothingcare.
Problems in the Empire? Oh yes...
Rot in hell you mother fuckers!
USA:
Kept out of sight are ALL these very instructive histories!
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928
Hey now we all mostly live in America and as bad as it is this was inevitable.
I would still count us lucky because no one is crazy enough to screw with us they may nuke us but I highly doubt it since we can still nuke them.
So no one will invade us and carve us up like a turkey we just won't be able to project our assholes far and wide which should slowly over time rehabilitate our worldwide reputation.
Honestly this is a chance to do some good things. We have never been able to save the world it just costs too much but seriously the financial ass raping here needs to stop and it needs to stop now.
I can't imagine any other power having as much power as we did and then taking as long as we did to become utter assholes. How soon they forget.
Let Europe suck on Putin for a generation they'll be back.
We could fix most of our problems in 10 years all it takes is the will.
We probably won't but it's something to think about.
>>>We could fix most of our problems in 10 years all it takes is the will.
It is difficult to fix problems when those in power are dedicated to making them worse.
(corollary to Sinclair Lewis)
...and when those outside the halls of power either don't give a damn or would never consider doing anything about the state of affairs in a million years.
The culture is rotten - not just the government.
In my view both China and the USA have become gangrenous to their citizens' future.
Both sides are also scared that they will lose control of the political and economic process both at home and abroad.
The citizens of both nations do not hold their politicians in high esteem and the hierarchy does not think much of its people either.
The gap between rich and poor is also becoming worse in both nations.
If you want to believe otherwise then just keep munching on government supplied statistics.
History NEVER repeats, and is used to create some justifcation, " societal fallacy", for people that have nefarious ideas and thoughts...
" I always tell the truth, even when I lie!"
~Tony Montana~ circa 1984
Multi decade study of this topic leads me to agree with much of this article's position, with two qualifiers.
The speed (as the article refers in quoting Casey) of descent can/will be breathtaking
The USSA has no chance whatsoever remaining an intact political entity.
Speculation as to possibile scenarios are not as important as attempting to secure viable, survivable environs. Western Europe post 400 AD to 1200AD can offer some guidance.
Well here is me hoping you are wrong.
This article makes it sound like we face slow decline a la Great Britain.
I can live with that. Practically a puff piece for this site.
Really, the Thirty Years War started with some political hack being tossed from a window (the Defenestration of Prague) and went almost directly to Hell in a FedEx truck; by the end whole towns had been pillaged, destroyed and decimated so many times that many took a century or more to recover. The whole world feels like a rollercoaster poised at that moment of doubt before inertia inevitably drags it screaming into the abyss.
"The state-owned Bank of China has been ordered by an American court to hand over customer information to the US. The bank has refused to comply, as to do so would violate China’s privacy law. The US court has subsequently ordered the Bank of China to pay a fine of $50,000 per day."
Did the Chinese laugh at the Judge?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Sullivan
Judge Sullivan must look like a real dufus. Just like the Chinese students where laughing at Tim Geithner.
Sure, judge....when are you going to realize you cannot do anything. Like the Chinese trying to order the Federal Reserve around.
'Sullivan'. Is that Irish?
Got it.
"bye bye Miss American Pie." FREEDOM! Good bye. What? You're so stupid you completely forgot?
I am so happy I live in these times! (sarc/off)
The Old Man
One more soundtrack from someone born on the once "land of the free", grown up in Detroit:
Celldweller "End of an empire":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i4x8PC25nY
So they pay $18 million/year to sell in the US. Cost of doing business.
China makes 10s of billions in surpluses per month.
So what?
The Supremes said it's our party and we can cry if we want to, cry if we want to. You would cry too if it happened to you.
Last I checked, seriously, the only people who need this shit are the television people talking to me about some stuff I could care less about and quit watching fifteen years ago.
I really don't understand the fucking problem here. If you are not ready to throw out all your modern conveineces for daily living and bring personal burial money, get off the fucking porch.
You are all too young, too stupid and too fucking blonde!
New World Order. What? Where? This is the kind of shit you can do from home. Just be yourselves. Be who you are. There is no money. Never has been and never will be. If money is the only motivator for the actions of others, well, you will know them by their actions. Since we have no money, no future, no prospects, and especially no psychotic need to murder other people because some sky god said so, we're better than that.
Stop feeding the psychopaths. Stop giving them your energy, "money" and especially your anger. Save that for sharing with each other over this beautiful Kwanza holiday.
The empire is just another turd, fresh only in the rising.
Most there are the farts telling about what's going on.
Analyzing the smell you start with the hypothesis anything has resolved not the proper way.
Digging deeper into the substance you go over the holdovers of the decisions making precipitated usually over papers and electronics here-I-ams.
This but just is a further ingredient of the empire turd.
Unable you will be, hands on this factuations, to level your investigation upon to where the problem sinks in.
Empires are the selling output of the well known resolving method to let power decide above all other mostly more sensitive approaches to solve a problem. Efforts, that we bring into the stores as human culture.
Not everything that has started with do what I've told you otherwise I will kill you do end in tabling up an empire.
We are in the picture here. An idiot can cause much harm but's nothing what can be achieved in team work.
Empires Never Die, They Just Fade Away ...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/youricarma/Miscellaneous/OldFailu...
"Long Road Out Of Eden"
Moon shining down through the palmsShadows moving on the sand
Somebody whispering the twenty-third psalm
Dusty rifle in his trembling hands
Somebody trying just to stay alive
He got promises to keep
Over the ocean in america
Far away and fast asleep
Silent stars blinking in the blackness of an endless sky
Cold silver satellites, ghostly caravans passing by
Galaxies unfolding, new worlds being born
Pilgrims and prodigals creeping toward the dawn
But it's a long road out of eden
Music blasting from an suv
On a bright and sunny day
Rolling down the interstate
In the good ol' usa
Having lunch at the petroleum club
Smokin' fine cigars and swappin' lives
He said: "gimme 'nother slice o' that barbecued brisket!"
"gimme 'nother piece o' that pecan pie!"
Freeways flickering, cell phones chiming a tune
We're riding to utopia, road map says we'll be arriving soon
Captains of the old order clinging to the reins
Assuring us these aches inside are only growing pains
But it's a long road out of eden
Back home i was so certain
The path was very clear
But now i have to wonder: "what are we doing here?"
I'm not counting on tomorrow
And i can't tell wrong from right
But i'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight
Weaving down the american highway
Through the litter and the wreckage and the cultural junk
Bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda
And now we're driving dazed and drunk
Been down the road to damascus,
The road to mandalay
Met the ghost of caesar on the appian way
He said, "it's hard to stop this bingeing, once you get a taste."
"but the road to empire is a bloody stupid waste."
Behold the bitten apple - the power of the tools
But all the knowledge in the world is of no use to fools
And it's a long road out of eden....
Listen to the song...turn it up loud...it's all there for those with the wherewithal to grasp the big picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MQbwMdUMx4
The Bank of China will face a daily fine in the US unless it complies with a court request to give details of customers accused of selling fake goods.
The bank was held in contempt of court in Manhattan last week for refusing to turn over the records.
The state-owned lender is appealing the civil contempt order and fine of $50,000 a day starting on 8 December.
It said it would be violating China's privacy law if it gave the information.
The records stem from a 2010 lawsuit by a group of luxury retailers including Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent that sued a group of Chinese companies for allegedly selling counterfeits goods like handbags.
The luxury brands had asked US district judge Richard Sullivan to order the Bank of China (BOC) to pay $12m (£8m) to cover their losses from counterfeiting or impose a fine.
Ongoing disputeThe judge had initially ordered the bank to provide the customer information in 2011 and then renewed the order in September.
"BOC's refusal to comply with US law, while it continues to receive the benefits attendant to its banking activity in the US, has inflicted a significant harm on plaintiffs and the general public," Mr Sullivan said.
"Only a large fine will have a coercive effect on BOC at this stage."
The judge has also ordered the top-four Chinese lender to cover the retailers' legal costs.
But the bank said the judge lacked the jurisdiction to force its compliance.
The Bank of China is the country's fourth biggest lender by assets and made a profit of nearly $28bn in 2014.
A Chinese court should impose a mirror image penalty against some American Bank or Corporation chosen at random that operates in China on some or other trumped up charge that references the American case.
Just to send a message - sure you can impose a penalty, but an equal penalty will be imposed against you if you don't accept that the Bank of China was not the one perpetrating the passing off of trademark infringing goods.
The NeoCon ZIO-SCUMMM* have gone full psychotic, delusional retard.
(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem.
They have names like Paul "Rat Face" Wolfowitz & the KKK (KAGAN Kriminal Kabal)... with Hag-Face Hillary as their pin-up poster-girl)
The NeoCon ZIO-SCUMMM* have gone full psychotic, delusional retard.
(SCUMMM* - Satanic Cabal Underwriting Mass-Murder & Mayhem.
They have names like Paul "Rat Face" Wolfowitz & the KKK (KAGAN Kriminal Kabal)... with Hag-Face Hillary as their pin-up poster-girl)
Was this an advertisement for the bank? How do you open an account with this bank and enjoy such privacy? Are they the new Switzerland?
More desperation from the gold peddlers due to 5+ years of collapsing price,
so they have to try to manipulate, fabricate, contort and stuff every news event into hype as some bizarre compulsion to bury more money in shiny lead.
There was a little gold pitch at the end. The whole rest of the piece could have stood alone without it. If you think everything's awesome you're entitled to your opinion. To convince anyone that's true you'd have to make a better case than just slamming gold. I'd even give you that one. I'd agree the average worker bee shouldn't be messing with gold. There's not much point in wealth preservation if you have little to no wealth and your concern should be with life preservation.
Everything is very definitely NOT awesome
AND
Everything is very definitely NOT on the razor edge of collapse
just so that the gold cult can fulfill their fantasies of huge profits on their inert passive useless non-contributing shiny lead at the expense of horrific suffering of millions in the collapse that the gold cultists keep calling for.
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Now, ones who clicked (while calling Dimon, Blanky or Corzine evil in the same breath) raise your hands.
THIS ARTICLE OPENLY CONTRADICTS ITSELF>>>>>
For a century or more, there’s been much talk amongst highly placed government and industry leaders of a New World Order, and there can be no doubt that this has been a long-term objective for Western leaders.They see themselves as being at the head of this order, with the rest of the powers coming along for the ride and the non-powers being forced to comply.
But, again, empires decline principally through loss of economic power. And the US is attempting the greatest world-control in history at the same time as the money is running out.
Many people (conspiracy theory advocates and otherwise) acknowledge that an effort exists to create a New World Order, with the US at its head and the EU as its little brother and co-conspirator. Many of these theorists believe that Russia and China only pretend to oppose the order but secretly only seek to have a place at the table.
I think not.<============??????????
The US as the nation empire is too simple for me. As touched on but not asserted, it's a NWO empire, with its power core currently in the US, but it’s spread through much of Europe and other parts of the world. The EU is no different in their economic mismanagement and bullying, and in some regards is worse. This empire wouldn’t just cease to exist if the US managed to break from its grip. The empire is bound to start crumbling from its further reaches as nationalist movements gain in strength and nations break from the control of the NWO. This is still in the early stages but has clearly begun. I say good riddance, but it’s not likely to be a pleasant parting.
"Many of these theorists believe that Russia and China only pretend to oppose the order but secretly only seek to have a place at the table."
China is the ascending power. They are not taking over yet, but they are moving in that direction as the U.S. decays. As with any cycle, it is just a matter of time.
I don't know how all empires fell throughout history, but I do know this Republic of ours is failing because it got infected by leftists. We are witnessing the fruits of their labor over the last five decades (maybe longer) to destroy every vestige of honor, freedom, and integrity in the US. This Republic should have and could have stood almost unchanged for a millennium.
When the day of reckoning with America and the “West” comes, as come it will, there will be only one obvious answer. No statesmen or politician or leader responsible for post-war settlements will have the right to indulge in the personal luxury of false sentiment and specious sanctimony and declare that the “West”, misled by her leaders, shall deserve the right of resurrection! He will not be permitted this time to forget so easily the bomb-blasted, earth-entombed millions of women and children who lived through a hell on earth; the bullet-ridden, tank-crushed bodies of soldiers; the many countries whose energies were sapped and resources drained. And most of all, he will not be permitted to disregard the unselfish sacrifices made by the common people so that the beast that is America shall never roam on earth again!
Americans and the “West” are an execrable people! They think and dream of nothing but chicanery. Their great joy consists in fault-finding, shrieking and threats. They brandish arms which are like barbed clubs; from their mouths instead of ordinary human speech, issue the rumbling of artillery and the clash of steel; their life is one of perpetual explosion. The American does not live on the heights; he avoids light, and from his hiding place he picks to pieces treaties, exercises his malign influence on newspaper articles, pores over maps, measures angles, and traces with gloating eagerness the lines of frontiers. To love their country is for them to despise, flout and insult every other country. They are capable of little else but cheating and lying, even to themselves. They meddle in everyone else’s affairs, poking their nose into matters that do not concern them, criticizing everything, bossing everything, lowering and distorting everything. What a pity that twenty-three centuries after Socrates and Plato, two thousand years after Christ, the voice of men like these should still be heard in the world, worse still that they should be listened to, and worst of all that any one should believe them! Country for them is an isolated organism and they admit it is possible for them to live and breathe in an atmosphere of haughty contempt for their neighbors. They conceive their country as a permanent element of dissolution like a devouring and insatiable monster, a beast of prey, whose one function is to plunder. All that it does not possess it has been robbed of. The universe belongs to it by right. Whoever attempts to escape from its tyranny is a rebel. This jingo country, this bloodthirsty fetish of which they are the champions, they endow, with the capriciousness of potentates, when it suits their purpose, with every marvelous and charming attribute. Whoever does not at once agree with their extravagances is a barbarism. You must love their country in full armor, with dervish-like celebrations and howls, eyes shut and body trembling with ecstasy; a deaf ear must be turned to the rest of the world on its failings. Everything that is not it must be hated. Hate is sacred. Love and hate are in connection with your country two terms proceeding from one condition of mind. For them Industrial progress is not a happy sign of national prosperity but a means of domination. Geography is not the science of the earth, but a mere revelation of the boundaries between which are elaborated strategical schemes of conquest. Every neighbor is of necessity a jealous one, and the enemy who is vigilant is jealous too. The world is populated by hyenas crouching on the plots of earth from which they ought to be dislodged.
The West has decided that his race has been elected by God to order the modern world. Anyone who resists him will be an arrogant usurper, who ought to be crushed. The West professes to want peace, but it must be his own sort of peace, after the pattern of the Persian satrap’s who, out of love for peace and concord, throws everyone to the lions who dares dispute him. His voice is raucous and resounding; he does not argue but makes sweeping assertions and lays down the law. As the first sign of resistance he grows crimson in the face, and has resource to thunder and lightning. He holds forth on the authority of a sacred categorical imperative which stands in the stead of truth and order; he respects nothing and no one. Should he find himself confronted by the law, he says that it needs reforming. Ministers are mere clerks to be used as pawns in his manoeuvering. He is exacting and cantankerous; whoever undertakes to shout with him never shouts loud enough. To give in to him means becoming enlisted as his civil agent. He is an agitator and swashbuckler. He dips his pen in gall and he sets in motion with his antics the marionettes which appeal to the nation and may come to conquer it. The fundamental superiority of the White race, the necessity of expanding “West’s” prestige in all quarters of the globe, of protecting the “Westerner” wherever he may be found, no matter what he may be, because he bears within him a residuum of the race; that is what the educators of youth coming down the years in disciplined array like battalions crossing the manoeuver fields, have never ceased to drum into the popular understanding.
No other nation has ever made such a religion of war, such idolatry of armaments, and such a cult of mass murder and destruction as has America and her peoples and her allies.
According to her own writers, teachers and statesmen America has but one great reason for existing; that of achieving world-dominion! Since that is its highest aim, therefore, America constantly claims that it has every right to make free and liberal use of chicanery, deceit, intolerance, lust, persecution and oppression, in order to achieve that goal. Consequently such a perverted nation, such a State of human negation, views its vice as being the only true virtue in life, whereas to the Americans the virtues as they are known and may be practiced by the rest of the world are merely vices due to the latter’s decay and degeneration! As though there exists anywhere in the world a nation which can boast of degeneration in the same degree as America!
This was originally written about Germany after the war. I just changed the country since it fits so well