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J “Global climate change, as a product and by-product of human activity and avarice, is the greatest threat to the Planet. China, particularly affiliated with Russia and other countries, is the greatest threat on this threatened Planet to the U.S. and thus to the West.”
K “That does make you wonder who the bachelor will pick this week. The lethargic but lovable American people are in many ways the greatest threat on this threatened Planet to the threatened U.S.”
J “The Chinese and their colleagues and cohorts are snatching the mantle and the future from the West in plain sight, yet the theft is unseen and unknown by most Americans.”
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J “China has many if not most of the rare-earth elements on Earth under control or contract. China has a substantial horde of gold and silver in hand not under contract. China has growing hordes of hungry consumers who could drive the Chinese economy into prosperity or drive the Chinese economy into penury . . . or a mix of both.”
K “China continues to colonize Africa economically not militarily. China is following the Western play book developed and delineated in Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man, the economic and financial equivalent and update of a Chinese creation, The Art Of War. China is manufacturing indentured servants and vassals throughout the world.”
J “The ‘Hit Man’ preyed on Latin America. China has investments in Venezuela and may not cotton to the U.S. stealing its oil and the gold. The flash point may not be in Asia.”
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J “Chinese authorities can flip a switch and trip a chip nestled in any random grid-tied solar panel and trigger a systemic grid shutdown . . . and only by lifting a finger. China may be able to monitor conversations in subway cars. China has stolen intellectual property and yet now just buys the companies and acquires the technology. China can do things we do not even know they can do.”
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K “Three decades ago, friends parked their BMW rig at the airport on their way to China and returned to share pictures of people pulling and riding rickshaws. Now the Chinese are driving the BMWs. There simply are not enough resources on the threatened Planet to allow Americans to continue driving BMWs. We must turn over the keys and share the resources. America must now take its turn at the wheel pulling and riding rickshaws.”
J “I see it. In short order, there will be an ad for ‘Rick’s Rickshaws. The Best in the West’ advertised during the Stupor Bowl.”
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K “The world knows where this is heading and how this ends. The first worldwide vote in the history of humankind to determine the ‘Empire of the Future’ was conducted and completed in 2015 with the most lopsided outcome in the history of humankind. China was endorsed and embraced by the whole world; U.S.A. was shunned and sidelined with a few stragglers.”
J “It was not a plebiscite because the plebes did not vote. It was an elitescite because only the elite voted. And they voted clearly and loudly and in their interest.”
K “America was in first place among the losers.”
J “America was the runner up and is out of the running.”
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J “We are in trouble. Big trouble. Big. Big. Trouble.”
K “We can scribe tomorrow’s history in today’s journals not as history happens but before history even happens. In real time. Today’s Toynbee. Gibbon. Spengler. Bachelorette number 3, I say.”
J “We do not know it and we do not get it.”
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[See the article titled “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” in “Bloomberg Businessweek” magazine by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley dated October 4, 2018, “Clandestine Chips Are The Perfect Hack And Technology Needs To Catch Up” in “Forbes” magazine by Anna-Katrina Shedletsky dated October 4, 2018, “Senators urge Metro to guard against Chinese spying in new subway cars” in “The Washington Post” by Robert McCartney dated January 19, 2019 and the poetic challenge by Greta Thunberg to the Davos crowd and the crowded denizens of the world on January 25, 2019.]
[See the discussion between an old Chinese party official (C1) and a young comrade (C2) eight years ago transcribed in an earlier e-commentary at “The Silent Takeover (May 23, 2011)” reprinted below; a discussion by two concerned American citizens, A and B, regarding the results of the election to determine the ‘Empire of the Future’ in “AIIB: China: 1; U.S.A.: 0? (April 6, 2015)”; and an architectonic analysis of the world situation at “The China-Russia Affair: Advancing The Petro-Yuan; Dictating The Future (March 26, 2018)” that includes many links to other commentary and previous e-commentary.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
We. Are. In. Big. Trouble.
The year of the pig
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
The Silent Takeover (May 23, 2011)
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C1 “Take over America. Of course we are. You say that you have a better plan, comrade.”
C2 “The primary lesson of the Twentieth Century is that it is easier to take by investment than by invasion.”
C1 “Clear thinking, little butterfly. Invasion is costly and ineffective. Invasion only assists the defense industry. You can eat butter; you can’t eat a gun. We focused our spending on efficient invasion technology. We are letting the Americans spend on offensive technology to allow them to go bankrupt.”
C2 “They are already bankrupt.”
C1 “They are. They are also too big to fail, but not too big to own and operate efficiently.”
C2 “Increase the purchases of t-bills and t-bonds by another fifty percent to a holding of 1.5 Trillion U.S. They will be worthless, but they are one of the tickets to control.”
C1 “We will decide what they are worth later.”
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C2 “America has an unproductive class of third-rate minds and fifth-rate characters who suck staggering amounts of money without contributing anything of value. They are identified as CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and their like and ilk. They run companies and run them into the ground.”
C1 “Comrade, we plan to teach them how capitalism really works. Survival of the fittest. They are not fit. They will not survive.”
C2 “They do not have a working market for talent at the top of American corporations. The market is broken . . . and fixed. The brigands and hooligans run the companies. The American schooling institutions feed and fuel the broken market.”
C1 “The brigands and hooligans will be fixed like the mongrel dogs they are. They will be sent to regional re-education camps . . . to be re-educated.”
C2 “Were they ever educated?”
C1 “Very good. You will go far. What about the cyberfun we are having with them.”
C2 “You should taunt them with simple technology and gauge what they have to combat the efforts.”
C1 “We can send a message internally to the Seventh Fleet to ‘stand-down’ at any time that looks like it is one of their own. We can even send a message to have the crew stand on their heads.”
C2 “We can? What will you do with the people? The people do not produce.”
C1 “We provide the goods and the money to buy the goods for now. They will be allowed to consume as long as it is in our interest to allow them to consume.”
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C2 “We have our own domestic problems.”
C1 “Not if we don’t acknowledge them.”
C2 “Look at the problems we don’t acknowledge.”
C1 “Who asked you?”
C2 “Our comrades are becoming . . . filthy running dog consumers. We are creating our own mess.”
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C2 “I have another plan. What if we tried to work with them? Why don’t we have a beer with Gary.”
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Bumper stickers of the week:
Is it possible to go through the day and encounter something or anything not made out of oil and not made in China?
Gary Locke – nominated to be the Ambassador to China. O’Bama’s most astute and foresighted appointment.
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