American politicians are so childish and silly

 Every USA election has to have a bogeyman to blame for all the ills of the USA itself. Russia and China, because of their rising clout and influence, have been the perennial bogeymen for both parties in the USA, as their favourite punching bag. By capitalising on and hyping up the threat of these two countries, the USA voters ultimately will choose the one party proclaiming itself as the most anti Russia/China in its stance. That is how the system works in the USA-styled democracy and it did work for decades, from the era of the former Soviet Union, when it was a competitor against the USA.

Today, this tactic is used to divert all the USA domestic problems, including personnal problems of the White House occupant himself, resulting in a show of brinkmanship as to who can demonise Russia and China better. That same modus operandi had also been displayed in Little Britain, between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, when both were trying to capitalise on who is more hardcore anti-China in their recent election stunt. This is how most other Western system also works.

There is now hysteria, or rabid dog syndrome, after China stated its stand in a position paper and indicated its plan to broker a peace deal in Ukraine. Look at how agitated the USA and the West have reacted, fearing that China could realistically come up with a peace deal, which they are trying very hard to sabotage even before it began.

When China refused to get involved in the Ukraine War, they tried to forced China to take a stand against Russia, which China refused. They even tried to put pressure on China, trying to play the psychological card, by saying that Xi is capable of inflencing Putin to stop his liberation move in Ukraine and must do something. Why must China condemn Russia according to the dictates of the USA? Russia is an important ally, an important and evolving trade partner. Like India, China has its own security and domestic interest to take care of first, and no country can change that.

Now that China is trying to step in to foster a peace deal, they straight away raised ridiculous claims that China is not sincere, raised conjectures and throwing spanners against China's effort, as a peace deal is not in their interest.

So, as in all things, whichever way China deals with problems, it is always wrong and not to the liking of the USA and the West. Take COVID19 as an example. China's lockdown had been continually demonised to no end. China's re-opening had been hyped up as a doomsday event.

Ostensibly the only agenda of the USA and the West is to split the alliance between Russia and China, so that the USA can continue with its divide and rule agenda, and sustain its hegemonic intention. I believe Russia and China are perfectly aware of the intention, so does countries of BRICS, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and Central Asia. East Asia and ASEAN countries do not appear that clear in their awareness.

Anonymous 

Ukraine - Please return some of our money, please, we are broke.

 

Yellen flew to Kiev to beg Zelenskyy to return some money to the US.  Photo credit to RT.

Actually the US has a lot of money to give away.

'Yellen’s visit comes days after Washington announced $12 billion in additional aid for Kiev, including a $2 billion arms package and $10 billion more to support energy costs and the Ukrainian government’s budget. She noted on Monday that US support since last year has nearly exceeded $50 billion, much of it devoted to weapons.

In an op-ed published during her junket to Kiev, Yellen acknowledged that Ukraine still has “vast unmet economic needs,” arguing that Washington must continue “fortifying” Kiev’s “home front” to enable “Ukraine’s stalwart frontline defense against Russia.”...

With Congress nearly reaching its $31.4 trillion debt limit, Yellen said the Treasury has been forced to take “extraordinary measures” in order to avoid a disastrous default, which, in a worst case scenario, could mean suspended welfare payments to Americans and chaos in the financial markets....

RT

The big question, the US got money or no money? If no money, can anyhow throw money everywhere to pay for wars, military bases, military exercises, buying influence and dishing out propaganda? If got money, why got so huge debt?

The western debt traps and the real creditors behind this woe

WASHINGTON : A new global sovereign debt "roundtable" that will include China, other creditors and some borrowing countries will meet for the first time next month on the sidelines of a Group of 20 finance officials meeting in India, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday....

The Bulgarian economist, who has pushed hard for quicker movement on debt relief, said she would travel to Zambia in two weeks, and hoped the African country would become the second nation after Chad to complete a debt treatment process under the Common Framework.

The framework was set up by the Group of 20 major economies and the Paris Club of official creditors in October 2020 to help countries weather the COVID crisis, but it has been plagued by long delays.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other Group of Seven have grown increasingly frustrated about what they see as foot-dragging by China in moving forward on debt treatments for countries seeking help. China, for its part, argues that multilateral institutions should also required to accept reductions in the debt they are owed....

Georgieva first discussed the new roundtable last month after a visit to China, noting it would also include private sector creditors and multilateral institutions such as the IMF and World Bank....CNA

The above will tell the full picture, or almost, about the real western debt traps created by you know who but not telling, and keeping the poor nation poor, and spreading the mischievous narrative that Chinese loans were the cause of debt trap. Look at the last sentence that I highlighted in bold. They have hidden this in the middle of the article. These are the institutions that are the creators of the debt traps of African and other developing countries. They have been hiding under the narrative of Chinese debt trap, as if China was the main cause of the debt trap. 

Chinese loans are very different and very small compare to the years and decades the other institutions have been preying on the debtor nations. For one, infrastructure debt is not debt trap in reality. The infrastructure are real assets that stay in the countries for decades or hundreds of years to benefit the countries economically.  In extreme cases, when countries are exceptionally burdened by debt from World Bank, IMF and other western private institutions, like Sri Lanka, the infrastructure could be turned into a long lease and the country, instead of being a debtor, could become a lease owner, collecting rent. No more debt to talk about but collecting revenue.

The real long term debt are those offered by the world Bank, IMF and private western institutions on spurious and suspicious loans that are hardly assets in nature and charging higher interest rates than Chinese loans. Many developing countries have been caught in these debt traps for ages and unable to free themselves. Outrageously, some of these debts are reparation for colonial rules instead of colonial countries paying compensation for invading, ruling and looting these countries. And many of the loans actually gone into the pockets of corrupt leaders propped up by the West but then disappeared, leaving the countries in debt.

Now the liars and bandits are dragging China into it, wanting China to write off debt but not theirs or wanting China to share their dubious debt.

The real devils and demons of debt trap cannot hide themselves anymore. Please tell the full story of the debt the poor nations owe to them.

PS. 'France invaded Algeria – then a hub of piracy ruled by an Ottoman satrap – in 1830, and spent the next century settling the North African nation with hundreds of thousands of white Europeans. Muslim rebellions were quashed, and French forces tortured, murdered, and displaced hundreds of thousands of locals. The occupation ended in 1962 only after up to 1.5 million Algerians had been killed in an eight-year war of independence.

“I don't have to apologize” for these events, Macron told the magazine. “There was a war. Apologies or no apologies, that doesn't fix anything.”'

Don't apologise is one thing.  Would France return the hundreds of millions of reparations paid by Algeria as compensation for colonisation?

Empire of Lies - making dangerous viruses is called gain of function research

The irony is that while thinkers, scholars and ordinary Americans are saying 'America is a terrorist state', the Residents still infesting the Swamp are claiming they are freedom protectors and upholding democracy. When others in the Middle East fight for their freedom against the USA installed stooges, they are branded as terrorist.

What do we call those who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines? Who were those people who blew up the bridge linking Russia with Crimea. Putin called them 'International Terrorist' and he is perfectly right.

The trouble is that the Evil State will never call a spade a spade, but twist around using 'word salad' popularised by Kamala Harris, to musk many things that were apparently wrong with their system, but inventing nonsensical answers to parry or deflect away the blame for their mistake.

One such example is recession, which they are trying to re-define themselves, while the whole world have to stick to one definition of what constitutes a recession, while the USA is trying to invent one definition that fits their agenda for their own use. So, never expect the USA to admit falling into recession today. Just using words to steer the problem away will solve the problem.

Another more sinister move is inflation. There is now a new definition being used - 'Super Core Inflation'. It is a very telling move that the world better take note, which they are now going to use, by removing the key components of inflation - food, energy and housing cost from the calculation of inflation. These three are the most important key elements of inflation, and the most compelling, and removing them means inflation figures in the USA will ultimately tank.

That they are eyeing inflation of 2%, which if they used the normal way of calculation by including food, energy and housing, will never be achieved in a thousand years. Raising interest rate to tame inflation has obviously failed and is hurting the economy. Using the Super Core Inflation calculation will allow them to achieve the 2% target, but that will be one big lie and really pulling wool over eveyone's eye.

So, by hook or by crook they have to pull the inflation figure down to fool the ground. The reality is, will people continue to be fooled when inflation figures fall, but cost of living remains in the stratosphere?

Anonymous 

The best job in the world

 

This 1min 18 sec clip tells you what is the best job in the world. No, it is not selling tissue papers or driving taxis to be your own boss. It is not even lawyers or doctors or highly desirable professions that you would need to work very hard, train very hard to get a degree to qualify. And you do not need to worry about being sued for negligence or failure to do a good job. So no need to buy expensive insurance to protect your self.

In this job, you do not need to arm yourself with expensive degrees. All it takes is for you to be likeable or acceptable to your interviewers. There is also no need for a string of job experience as demanded by head hunters. This job is called politician.

And the job is so rewarding especially in Singapore. It is not that the job is not rewarding in other countries. There they are compensated differently. In Singapore, if you are a politician and in the ruling party, becoming a millionaire is taken for granted. And, although the job comes with heavy responsibilities, so far very few have been taken to task for failing in the job. The normal penalty for failing in the job is resignation or losing an election. That is as bad as it can be, and very rare indeed.

In many professions, failing to do due diligence, failing to perform or causing injury, you can be sued to bankruptcy, and also losing your licence. Oh, in this job there is no need to apply for a licence. And once you are a ruling party politician, you become an instant knows all, an expert in everything, can be advisor everywhere, and can take on 20 or 30 jobs. Not sure these additional jobs come with additional pay or perks. Think some do, and some just honorary.

As for the licences, you cannot lose your licence for malpractices or being sued. There is no licence to lose and no one can be sued as a politician, or at least so far there is no such a thing of being sued.

And there is no need for regular upgrading courses. Your ability to be promoted to higher appointments as a politician does not depend on more certificates, more degrees or certified training skills. Once you are a politician in a ruling party, you are assumed to have all the required skills for any or whatever position in the govt or in the private sector. The qualification is being a politician, a qualification that does not any degree or training.

Ok, ok, correction, politicians can also be sued, if you are not in the ruling party. Can a politician in the ruling party be sued, not sure about this. So far never heard of.

What do you think? True or not.