No amount of lies can hide the plunging US$

As long as the use of the US$ keeps decreasing, and as long as countries continue to shun away from buying USA debts, the balloon must go bust.

Unsustainable money printing can continue to keep the USA economy in ICU, but inflation will skyrocket and the US$ will continue to depreciate. We have seen the rate of depreciation of the US$ just over the last year and this is going to continue. albeit even faster. Do not be blindsided by the stock market skyrocketing, as that is where all the money printing has really gone into.

The real gauge of the economy is in job creation, business expansion and manufacturing growth. Job creation is in the dead zone; businesses are not expanding, just resorting to round tripping investments to give a semblance of expansion, and are instead laying off staff and company bankruptcies are escalating and trade deficit soaring. Even the tourism industry is facing a severe testing time. When tourists avoiding visits, hotels, food and beverage entities and entertainment sectors suffer. What has added to the problem is the action of Trump's ICE goons that have created a negative image in the minds of visitors. They just avoid the USA, as the world is wide enough to provide an easy alternative for a holiday.


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Netanyahu meeting Trump. Attack on Iran a certainty when two war criminals met

Netanyahu is going to Washington to meet Trump and will talk about how to deal with Iran. Yes, I do think a surprise attack on Iran is imminent. And Iran must never ever be taken in by the fake backtracking.

What is even more certain that an attack on Iran will come is the failure of Trump to blackmail Iran over the just concluded nuclear deal negotiation. Among the deal, I believe, was the demand that Iran surrender all the enriched uranium it still holds in its hands. This is not ever going to happen, and Iran is going to fight to the last over it.

As I said earlier even if the USA and Israel raze Iran to the ground, the result will still change the landscape of the Middle East beyond imagination. The Arab oil producers will suffer all the collateral damage of not being able to export their oil with the Straits of Hormuz and Bab Al-Mandab rendered impassable to traffic for ships. Boots on the ground in Iran to stop the Iranians totally is out of the question. The Iranians (aka Persians) are hardcore fighters, both in the past and today and the USA dread a guerilla war after Vietnam and Afghanistan. There is the Houthis to take care of as well.

So, let us just say Trump and Netanyahu are now between a rock and a hard place. Moreover, a full-scale war with Iran needs the approval of Congress and if Trump goes ahead without Congressional approval, he faces impeachment, clear and simple.


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Jimmy Lai - Release our spy,...release the Chinese traitor

The mastermind and financier of the anarchic Hong Kong riot has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the former colonial courts of Hong Kong. Jimmy Lai orchestrated the violent riots across Hong Kong in the name of democracy, but in reality a treasonous act to disrupt peace and stability in Hong Kong. And ultimately to break Hong Kong away from China, thinking that it was still the heyday of British colonialism. Actually, calling him the mastermind was to give him too much undue credit. 

Jimmy Lai was just a puppet of UK and USA, run by his handlers, the MI6 and CIA. He thought he was the man that could take Hong Kong away from China. But he was just a pawn being used by the Americans and Brits to serve their agenda to bring down China. 

Many Hongkongers still fantasising about the good life as subjects of the British Empire, as third class citizens to be ruled by the Brits, fell into this trap of not wanting to be a real citizen of China. They were so brainwashed to think that being a subject of the British Empire, not a citizen, was a great thing, a respectable thing. They forgot about respect and dignity, and pride of being a truly free and independent citizen of a great Civilisation where they no longer have to bow and say 'Yes Sir' to a white men. After 150 years of British rule, they have got used to be ruled by white men and think it was a natural way of life. 'Yes Sir, yes sir'. Being promoted to a staff sergeant in the colonial police force is their highest ambition. 'This money is for you Sir'. Paying and bribing the white men for a little favour were the normal things for the Hongkongers.

With this disgraceful episode, with the Hongkongers fighting and craving to be ruled by the white men coming to an end, many Hongkongers have realised their folly and go about their lives as full and respectable citizens of China, a superpower, than wanting to continue to be non citizens of a 'has been' Empire that is now a near bankrupt little state in Europe. Many that left for Britain after the Hong Kong riots are now living like rats in the rotten and smelly drains of London and New York, abandoned by their white masters, to eke a living on their own.

But the white men have not given up. They are still demanding that China should release their spy, their puppet, as if they are still controlling and ruling the world. Jeffery Epstein's favourite clients, Starmer and Trump, are now begging Xi to release traitor Jimmy Lai. They did not know how kind the Hong Kong courts have been not to sentence Lai to death for treason. Maybe they are hoping for a Michael Fay repeat, hoping that China will reduce the sentence by a few years because of white men's face. Jimmy Lai's sin is not petty vandalism. It is treason, arson and violent rioting. China is not a little island. China is a superpower and will show the friends of Epstein the middle finger.

This did not stop Lai's children for crawling to their white fathers to beg for mercy, thinking that the white gods can do miracles, can order China around, and release the Brittish and American spy, committed of crimes against the state. The days when China had to behave like Ah Q are over. China is standing as tall as the white men and would not be bullied by the white men again. Never. Who is Trump or Starmer? Release your spy that wanted to harm China?

The other Lai across the Taiwan Strait must also be watching and pondering what his fate would be when he is arrested and charged by the Chinese courts for treason. He may be put in the same cell as Jimmy Lai with a signboard outside reading, Lai Lai Call Centre.

Game Over when Iran can sink aircraft carriers, hit Diego Garcia and American bases in the region

  Trump is still gloating and threatening Iran with his huge and beautiful armada and demanding Iran to surrender or else. Trump still thinks he holds all the cards, that he can hit Iran freely with Israel and Iran will be a lame duck sitting there to be hit like before.

Has anything changed? Why is Iran so confident and not budging? Why is Iran threatening to hit back just as hard, to clean up Israel? Did the American intelligence give Trump a briefing on the current battle order of both sides? Did they tell Trump what Iran is now possessing and capable of doing, to hit back at the Americans? Or they did not know what China and Russia had delivered to Iran, how many Russian and Chinese defensive units and missile batteries or squadrons are operating in Iran?

When Iran has the capability to hit back, to sink aircraft carriers, to flatten Diego Garcia and all the American bases in the region, the game is over for the Americans. All the threats and warnings will now be useless and ineffective. The Americans know that it is now two ways. You can hit, Iran too can hit you. When your aircraft and missiles approach Iran, they can be taken out.  How many aircraft and missiles that the Israelis and Americans have? How many Iran has, with many more coming in from China and Russia that are just next door? 

Never mind if the Arab and Muslim countries are not acting. But if they do, it will be a big bonus. The Arab and Muslim countries have been restrained and bullied for too long, and waiting for a right moment to throw everything at the Israelis and Americans. They have waited very long, they know who are their real enemies, they know about Greater Israel. They know the Americans are with the Israelis to create a Greater Israel. When presented with an opportunity to free themselves, they will.

What is important now is Iran's ability to take out aircraft carriers and Diego Garcia and other bases. Trump may want to continue to bluff, to threaten and to bully. But his generals know the risks and the stakes. When they are no longer the hunter, but the hunted, they better run as far away as possible for their own safety. They are not silly and wanting to be dead heroes and wanting their boys and girls to return home in body bags.

They were brave in the past, eager to hit Iran, because they can hit and Iran cannot hit back. This has changed. The equation is now more in favour of Iran. Don't bet on it that the fighter pilots or bomber pilots can come home again. Don't bet on it that the boys and girls in aircraft carriers, warships and American bases are safe. not even in Diego Garcia or in the Mediterranean. Turkey can play a big part, on the side of Iran to take care of the Mediterranean region.

Game Over!

India is like a stray dog, cannot be trusted

That is why I say India is like a stray dog looking for anyone that throws it a bone. It cannot be trusted, has no backbone to stand its ground, no principles to uphold and has no respect or support whatsoever among its immediate neighbors. India is looked upon by neighbors as just a bully, nothing more.

China has long washed it hands off India, hardly bothering with its antics. The Chinese have seen the behavior of India under the influence of the USA towards its investments in India, with BYD now investing in neighbor Pakistan. India has also banned a number of Chinese companies like Huawei and Tik Tok, all following the dictates of the USA.

India is behaving like its master, the USA, but lacks the economic power to do so and everything is backfiring without enough foreign investments to create enough jobs for its growing population. For India, a touted growing graduate population without corresponding manufacturing jobs for their skills is just throwing good money after bad. Without migrating jobs from largely an agricultural economy towards a manufacturing economy, India is stuck in limbo. Whatever boasting that India has resorted to is not going to change the status quo.

Moreover, changing alliances by following the direction of the wind is not going to help India. India has good relations with Russia, but by straddling two boats, it risks losing the Russian support as well.

Elsewhere in BRICS, India is looked upon as a Trojan Horse, trying to do more harm to the bloc rather than helping to foster the direction of the de-dollarization agenda of the rest of the countries.


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