veteranstoday--2020-06-13--Truth for Dummies, or: Ms Jones and Mr. Bagman

Gerard “ Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil ” Menuhin is one of Europe ’ s most interesting and controversial authors and commentators .
The son of famous peace activist and anti-Zionist musician Yahudi Menuhin , Gerard has gone several steps further in calling out the forces he deems responsible for most wars and avoidable human suffering .
I fully agree with his suggestion in this piece that riba ( usury ) is the prime force behind the ever-worsening enslavement of mankind .
Listen to him on my radio show discussing his autobiography , his book Lies and Gravy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ classic Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil .
–Kevin Barrett “ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him , If ye continue in my word , then are ye my disciples , indeed ; and ye shall know the truth , and the truth shall make you free.
” And how did that work out for him ?
‘ The truth will make you free ’ .
In truth , the truth will get you jailed .
Yet , quite a few well-meaning folks take this saying as their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as it turns out .
They have discovered that the truth is highly selective .
Some truths may be free , as in ‘ free of charge ’ .
Others will rate prosecution and a fine , or possibly imprisonment .
The ethnic unbelievers , on the other hand , despite this proffered boost to their morality , were confirmed in their ideology that the opposite is true , or better put , they opted for the lie instead , the lie being more profitable than the truth .
Mark Twain , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , said ‘ If you tell the truth , you don ’ t have to remember anything ’ .
In his day he may have been right .
Among the generality , this consoling thought endured until quite recently , when it became apparent that principles such as truth , honesty , uprightness , straightforwardness , etc.
, etc.
, are outdated .
They have lost their meaning .
To hear someone voice them now is almost embarrassing .
Even the implication that a good memory is required to sustain a lie is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that someone has lied is ‘ so what ?
’ We must accustom ourselves to intimate relationships in which loyalty is unimportant , and to business agreements in which a contract doesn ’ t mean what it says .
Lasting was yesterday .
Endurance has given way to expedience .
Constancy has ceded to convenience .
For those at the receiving end of such capriciousness , life may be unnerving .
Yet for those who control communal transformation , their own laws are immutable .
It was ever so and so it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ principal facilitator and conveyor of their agenda .
Does this agenda apply to all earthlings ?
That depends on your definition of ‘ earthling ’ .
If by ‘ earthling ’ is meant ‘ Earth dweller ’ , then yes it does .
If ‘ humankind ’ , then no it doesn ’ t .
What ’ s the difference ?
Well , those for whom the above-mentioned sentiments once had value are humans ; those for whom they never did are mere Earth dwellers .
Parasites like bedbugs and lice are also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group from the other is their relative reliance on money and the comparative worth of objects on a monetary scale .
The production of money is relatively inexpensive , even more so now that paper and coinage are not required .
To produce untold digital billions it suffices to enter the desired sum on a computer .
So why do governments make such a song and dance about money ?
Why do they always regret the impossibility of providing a functioning national health service and a decent education system – while billions are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answer this question , we must eavesdrop on an exchange of opinions .
Ms Jones : Surely if a state – any state – decides it needs to fund something , all it has to do is to press the keys on a computer at the national bank and bingo !
There are the funds .
Mr. Bagman : What do you do when you need money ?
Ms Jones : I go to the bank .
Mr. Bagman : What if the bank doesn ’ t have any money ?
Ms Jones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of last resort .
Mr. Bagman : No , the central bank is the lender of last resort .
It lends to other banks or the government .
Ms Jones : So it doesn ’ t work like that ?
Why not ?
Mr. Bagman : No state can afford to spend additional money on top of the national debt .
Ms Jones : Ah yes , I was forgetting the national debt .
The debt to whom ?
If the state is the debtor , who is the creditor ?
And why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agreement to borrow money in the first place ?
Was some venal minister responsible ?
Mr. Bagman : Probably , but not in the sense you mean .
He may well have been corrupt in his private life , he probably was .
But as he only entered the system at a stage when it had been long existent , he can ’ t be blamed merely for carrying on where his predecessor left off .
Ms Jones : OK , let me get this straight .
A perfectly normal government in , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide public services , like transport and communication and power and water , and health and education , etc .
for its citizens .
To pay for these major outgoings and installations , like power plants and dams and railways and all the rest , it has to pay contractors to build and staff to run these operations .
That ’ s obvious .
So when it perceived its initial need , why didn ’ t this perfectly normal government just print the money it needed back then , and if it still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Why doesn ’ t each country create as much money as it needs ?
Mr. Bagman : You ’ re confusing simple transactions , like exchanging something for something else , for instance cash for an orange , or for work , with the system .
Systems are different .
That ’ s not how this system works .
Ms Jones : So how does it work ?
Mr. Bagman : The government has to borrow what it doesn ’ t have and basic accounting predicates that you can ’ t borrow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be repaid with interest .
Mr. Bagman : Usury is an ancient business practice .
It ’ s in your bible .
See the parable of the talents : “ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers , and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
” ( Matthew 25 ; 27 ) Ms Jones : So you ’ re saying all this is like any normal transaction ?
Mr. Bagman : The system generates credit and debt , just like any business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agree that you have to factor in costs in every transaction ?
Ms Jones : Yes , of course .
Mr. Bagman : With the orange , you pick an orange off a tree , or maybe all the oranges off all the trees , and sell them .
That ’ s it .
Oranges are perishable , you have to sell them within a specific time or they ’ re worthless .
With national budgetary requirements , you ’ re dealing with financial resources themselves and they don ’ t grow on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a different order .
That creates costs .
Ms Jones : Money may not be perishable , but its value deteriorates through inflation .
Mr. Bagman : Inflation is inevitable .
Workers and employers expect prices to rise .
Ms Jones : Government profits from inflation because taxes rise too .
So , either way , whether through higher taxes or through inflation , the citizen loses .
It comes to the same thing .
Why should prices rise ?
Ms Jones : Why ?
Why shouldn ’ t costs remain the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s an artificial bubble-type rise in worth .
Mr. Bagman : No , inflation is a law of nature .
People always want to make more money .
So that drives up the cost of salaries and production which , in turn drives up the cost of an item to the consumer .
So money has to be increased to enable the consumer to consume , thus reducing money ’ s worth .
Ms Jones : Consumers respond to what the media tell them .
Mr. Bagman : The media interpret the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , vox dei : the voice of the people is the voice of God .
If that ’ s greed , then greed drives markets .
Ms Jones : So my greed is to blame for inflation ?
Mr. Bagman : Maybe not you personally , but yes generally .
Mr. Bagman : You can ’ t .
If you did , the entire economy would stall .
Ms Jones : So the economy relies on me to consume ?
Mr. Bagman : That ’ s about the strength of it , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Value Added Tax .
Ms Jones : It seems to me that governments just invent new taxes all the time .
What ’ s the point of a value added tax ?
Mr. Bagman : Government imposes a tax on value added to a product or service .
You pay for the product plus whatever additional value it has gained before it reaches you .
Ms Jones : Why ?
Why should I pay more for a product or service than the shopkeeper or service-provider wants to charge me ?
I don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added to my can of beans .
I ’ m just buying the can of beans .
The shopkeeper has to decide how much to charge me for it , that ’ s all .
If he asks too much , I ’ ll go someplace else .
Mr. Bagman : But that doesn ’ t fairly account for the process that has produced the beans .
Ms Jones : That ’ s not my problem .
I don ’ t know or care how the beans were grown or came into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fixed a profitable price for himself and so has the canner .
So when the retailer buys the beans , he ’ s already paid the cost of producing them .
Mr. Bagman : Look , VAT compensates the labour and other input that has produced your purchase .
The value-added effect is achieved by prohibiting end-consumers from recovering VAT on purchases , but permitting businesses to do so .
Ms Jones : What do you mean by ‘ effect ’ ?
That may be the fabricated explanation for this baloney tax , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If you didn ’ t have this made-up tax in the first place , business wouldn ’ t have to go through the rigmarole of recovering part of it .
Mr. Bagman : You may not be able to understand the fiscal necessity for VAT , but it prevails all the same .
Ms Jones : You mean like ‘ necessity is the mother of invention ’ ?
There has to be another tax , so there is one ?
Mr. Bagman : No , VAT is vital to the economy .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state ’ s income .
Ms Jones : That just means that France is badly run .
With VAT , I ’ m paying a penalty for buying something – it ’ s extortion all over again .
Who came up with this scam ?
Mr. Bagman : The concept of VAT originated in 1918 .
The costs of the First World War caused widespread bankruptcy , so countries had to recoup their finances .
VAT , a tax on consumption , was the best way to refill a country ’ s coffers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the Ivory Coast colony .
The experiment was successful , so France introduced it in 1958 .
Ms Jones : So more money all round , except for the consumer .
Ms Jones : I still don ’ t get the correlation between a national budget and national debt .
Why should an entire country go into debt to pay for what it needs ?
If you accept that states have to borrow against interest to maintain themselves – which I don ’ t — why don ’ t they simply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mr. Bagman : Nothing is unaffordable , if the state is willing to assume debt .
Ms. Jones : So the national debt is voluntary ?
Ms Jones : But someone must persuade the state to ask for a loan .
Mr. Bagman : Well , you ’ ve seen those advertisements for credit on your television , of course .
Ms Jones : That ’ s not the same thing .
Mr. Bagman : Why not ?
Nothing differentiates an individual from a state borrower .
The ultimate creditor remains the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , as is the reliability of the debtor .
Mr. Bagman : An individual may disappear or die , making his loan unrecoverable , but a state can not default and repayment is guaranteed through taxes .
Ms Jones : Sounds just like loan-sharking , only on a bigger scale .
Mr. Bagman : No , it ’ s a very old system without which the world would collapse .
Ms Jones : Explain to me why the world would collapse if there were no debt .
Mr. Bagman : Simple .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the system has to do their job for them .
Ms Jones : Why are there no responsible politicians ?
Ms Jones : If instead of ministers and representatives doing their jobs , the system does it for them , why do we pay politicians ?
Mr. Bagman : That ’ s where the system becomes complicated and the creditors earn their interest .
The people have to believe in something , in government and elections , for instance .
Juggling a state ’ s internal affairs requires foresight and experience , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loans .
Ms Jones : The state should just pay off the loan .
Mr. Bagman : If a state paid off a loan , it would return to the position it held to start with : it would need another loan because the interest isn ’ t included in the sum of the loan .
The state is thus an eternal debtor .
It has to issue ever more money for its requirements , thus inevitably creating inflation and reducing the purchasing power of money .
Ms Jones : You said the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cover inflation due to consumers ’ greed .
Now you say it has eternally to issue more money to cover interest payments .
Which is it ?
Ms Jones : That alone doesn ’ t explain the lack of resources for education and health , while simultaneously funding the military .
Ms Jones : That means armies and weapons will always be favoured over communal commitments .
Mr. Bagman : There ’ s a return on investment in military outlays ; none on health and education .
Ms Jones : Doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , recognize the advantage of a healthy and educated population over one dependent on inadequate resources ?
Mr. Bagman : The state is composed of irresponsible politicians of whatever colour .
So the state ’ s position is immaterial .
There are enough healthy and intelligent people for its needs .
Increasing their number might challenge the status quo .
Mr. Bagman : Too many potential contrarians might disturb the state ’ s creditors .
Ms Jones : How can that be ?
Mr. Bagman : If you were an investor in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started making soap , how would you feel ?
Ms Jones : So the creditors would stop lending money to this state if it elects to change its course ?
Mr. Bagman : Until it atones for its mistakes and repays its existing loans and that , as said , can ’ t happen .
Ms Jones : Who are the creditors ?
Mr. Bagman : The World Bank , the International Monetary Fund , the Bank for International Settlements , the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development , the European Investment Bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the big international banks ?
They all want to get in the game of lending at interest ?
Mr. Bagman : If you like to think of the system as a game , think of central banks as of a doll ’ s house in which each country occupies a separate room , but the child whose toy this is plays the same game in each room .
Central banks are only national in the sense of their geographical location .
These banks provide an essential service .
Their mandate is to keep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rate of the national currencyand create an environment that is conducive to investment and high growth .
Ms Jones : Instead of juggling with currency exchange rates , why don ’ t countries simply exchange goods of the same worth ?
Wouldn ’ t that solve the other problems too ?
Mr. Bagman : Someone tried that once , it didn ’ t end well .
Mr. Bagman : It was a dangerous delusion .
For one thing , it didn ’ t take account of compound interest which is fundamental to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries go along with this system ?
Mr. Bagman : All except Iran and North Korea .
Syria is a nuisance and needs some persuasion and Yemen has been an exception , in that civil war has resulted in two central banks .
Support for the legitimate government may stabilize the country and bring it back into the fold , although a proxy war pitting Iran against Saudi Arabia continues to trouble the system .
Ms Jones : As far as I can see , the system does the opposite of what you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their domestic development and reduces the value of their currencies by imposing debt .
Mr. Bagman : Haven ’ t you been listening to me ?
Ms Jones : Of course I have , but your concept of debt bothers me .
Debt is an owed thing , a deferred payment , but these national debts are too large ever to be repaid .
For instance the U.S. has about 26 trillion dollars debt .
The World Bank estimates 2018 U.S. GDP at $ 20.5 trillion , so how could the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : It can ’ t , obviously .
But the debt was never intended to be repaid .
Think of debt as a good thing , as an investment by creditors in the community .
Ms Jones : I can ’ t do that .
Besides , you ’ re misusing the meaning of the word ‘ debt ’ .
That ’ s like so many other words which have lost their meaning — like ‘ tolerance ’ which now means intolerance of any other opinion , or ‘ integration ’ which means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ which used to mean merit and now means a loan .
Words don ’ t express what they used to .
Mr. Bagman : I wouldn ’ t mention those opinions , if I were you .
Mr. Bagman : I ’ m only telling you the truth .
Ms Jones : Your truth is a lie .
If a country is perpetually obliged to pay interest on its debt , it causes a perpetual drain on its economy , so how is that a good thing ?
Mr. Bagman : As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inevitability .
Ms Jones : How long can this inevitability continue ?
Mr. Bagman : The system has a limit , of course .
Ms Jones : You mean that this tower of inflated money will topple one day ?
Mr. Bagman : I mean that the system isn ’ t primarily about money .
It ’ s about generating reliable management , where citizens don ’ t have to put their trust in corrupt politicians .
Ms Jones : Once the system has metastasized all over the planet , who does the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just the name for a bank ?
Mr. Bagman : The citizen must trust the system .
Mr. Bagman : The new management forgives the debt when it takes over .
Ms Jones .
When will that be ?
Mr. Bagman : Very soon .
As soon as the system is global .
Ms Jones : How will we know when that happens ?
Mr. Bagman : A contagious revelation should do it .
Ms Jones : Like in the bible again .
Some sort of apocalypse .
The end of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book of the bible .
The end of the world as we know it .
* Some of the others :

“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye
my disciples, indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
(Gospel of St. John, 8;32)
And how did that work out for him?
‘The truth will make you free’. In truth, the truth will get you jailed.
Yet, quite a few well-meaning folks take this saying as their mantra in life. To their cost, as it turns out. They have discovered that the truth is highly selective. Some truths may be free, as in ‘free of charge’. Others will rate prosecution and a fine, or possibly imprisonment.
The ethnic unbelievers, on the other hand, despite this proffered boost to their morality, were confirmed in their ideology that the opposite is true, or better put, they opted for the lie instead, the lie being more profitable than the truth.
Mark Twain, one of perhaps a dozen significant Americans*, said ‘If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything’. In his day he may have been right. Among the generality, this consoling thought endured until quite recently, when it became apparent that principles such as truth, honesty, uprightness, straightforwardness, etc., etc., are outdated. They have lost their meaning. To hear someone voice them now is almost embarrassing.
Even the implication that a good memory is required to sustain a lie is invalidated when the response to the accusation that someone has lied is ‘so what?’
We must accustom ourselves to intimate relationships in which loyalty is unimportant, and to business agreements in which a contract doesn’t mean what it says. Lasting was yesterday. Endurance has given way to expedience. Constancy has ceded to convenience. For those at the receiving end of such capriciousness, life may be unnerving. Yet for those who control communal transformation, their own laws are immutable. It was ever so and so it will ever be: the lie is the principal facilitator and conveyor of their agenda.
Does this agenda apply to all earthlings? That depends on your definition of ‘earthling’. If by ‘earthling’ is meant ‘Earth dweller’, then yes it does. If ‘humankind’, then no it doesn’t. What’s the difference?
Well, those for whom the above-mentioned sentiments once had value are humans; those for whom they never did are mere Earth dwellers. Parasites like bedbugs and lice are also Earth dwellers. What best distinguishes one group from the other is their relative reliance on money and the comparative worth of objects on a monetary scale.
The production of money is relatively inexpensive, even more so now that paper and coinage are not required. To produce untold digital billions it suffices to enter the desired sum on a computer. So why do governments make such a song and dance about money? Why do they always regret the impossibility of providing a functioning national health service and a decent education system – while billions are wasted on unnecessary military outlays?
To answer this question, we must eavesdrop on an exchange of opinions.
Ms Jones: Surely if a state – any state – decides it needs to fund something, all it has to do is to press the keys on a computer at the national bank and bingo! There are the funds.
Mr. Bagman: What do you do when you need money?
Ms Jones: I go to the bank.
Mr. Bagman: What if the bank doesn’t have any money?
Ms Jones: But the bank is the lender of last resort.
Mr. Bagman: No, the central bank is the lender of last resort. It lends to other banks or the government.
Ms Jones: So it doesn’t work like that? Why not?
Mr. Bagman: No state can afford to spend additional money on top of the national debt.
Ms Jones: Ah yes, I was forgetting the national debt. The debt to whom? If the state is the debtor, who is the creditor? And why did the state enter into this odd agreement to borrow money in the first place? Was some venal minister responsible?
Mr. Bagman: Probably, but not in the sense you mean. He may well have been corrupt in his private life, he probably was. But as he only entered the system at a stage when it had been long existent, he can’t be blamed merely for carrying on where his predecessor left off.
Ms Jones: OK, let me get this straight. A perfectly normal government in, say, Western Europe needs money to provide public services, like transport and communication and power and water, and health and education, etc. for its citizens. To pay for these major outgoings and installations, like power plants and dams and railways and all the rest, it has to pay contractors to build and staff to run these operations. That’s obvious. So when it perceived its initial need, why didn’t this perfectly normal government just print the money it needed back then, and if it still needs it now, create more digitally? Why doesn’t each country create as much money as it needs?
Mr. Bagman: You’re confusing simple transactions, like exchanging something for something else, for instance cash for an orange, or for work, with the system. Systems are different. That’s not how this system works.
Ms Jones: So how does it work?
Mr. Bagman: The government has to borrow what it doesn’t have and basic accounting predicates that you can’t borrow money without creating debt. And debt must be repaid with interest.
Ms Jones: Not at usurious rates. Argentina pays 67% interest rate. That’s extortion.
Mr. Bagman: Usury is an ancient business practice. It’s in your bible. See the parable of the talents: “Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.” (Matthew 25; 27)
Ms Jones: So you’re saying all this is like any normal transaction?
Mr. Bagman: The system generates credit and debt, just like any business with a balance sheet. Would you agree that you have to factor in costs in every transaction?
Ms Jones: Yes, of course.
Mr. Bagman: With the orange, you pick an orange off a tree, or maybe all the oranges off all the trees, and sell them. That’s it. Oranges are perishable, you have to sell them within a specific time or they’re worthless. With national budgetary requirements, you’re dealing with financial resources themselves and they don’t grow on trees, also with magnitudes and schedules of a different order. That creates costs.
Ms Jones: Money may not be perishable, but its value deteriorates through inflation.
Mr. Bagman: Inflation is inevitable. Workers and employers expect prices to rise.
Ms Jones: Government profits from inflation because taxes rise too. So, either way, whether through higher taxes or through inflation, the citizen loses. It comes to the same thing. Why should prices rise?
Mr. Bagman: Production costs always increase.
Ms Jones: Why? Why shouldn’t costs remain the same?
Mr. Bagman: Raw materials always cost more.
Ms Jones: Why?
Mr. Bagman: Because of inflation.
Ms Jones: But that’s an artificial bubble-type rise in worth.
Mr. Bagman: No, inflation is a law of nature. People always want to make more money. So that drives up the cost of salaries and production which, in turn drives up the cost of an item to the consumer. So money has to be increased to enable the consumer to consume, thus reducing money’s worth.
Ms Jones: Consumers respond to what the media tell them.
Mr. Bagman: The media interpret the sentiments of the consumer. Vox populi, vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. If that’s greed, then greed drives markets.
Ms Jones: Whose God?
Mr. Bagman: Ah.
Ms Jones: So my greed is to blame for inflation?
Mr. Bagman: Maybe not you personally, but yes generally.
Ms Jones: What if I simply stop buying?
Mr. Bagman: You can’t. If you did, the entire economy would stall.
Ms Jones: So the economy relies on me to consume?
Mr. Bagman: That’s about the strength of it, and on taxes of course, like the Value Added Tax.
Ms Jones: It seems to me that governments just invent new taxes all the time. What’s the point of a value added tax?
Mr. Bagman: Government imposes a tax on value added to a product or service. You pay for the product plus whatever additional value it has gained before it reaches you.
Ms Jones: Why? Why should I pay more for a product or service than the shopkeeper or service-provider wants to charge me? I don’t care what so-called value has been added to my can of beans. I’m just buying the can of beans. The shopkeeper has to decide how much to charge me for it, that’s all. If he asks too much, I’ll go someplace else.
Mr. Bagman: But that doesn’t fairly account for the process that has produced the beans.
Ms Jones: That’s not my problem. I don’t know or care how the beans were grown or came into the can. I figure the bean-grower has fixed a profitable price for himself and so has the canner. So when the retailer buys the beans, he’s already paid the cost of producing them.
Mr. Bagman: Look, VAT compensates the labour and other input that has produced your purchase. The value-added effect is achieved by prohibiting end-consumers from recovering VAT on purchases, but permitting businesses to do so.
Ms Jones: What do you mean by ‘effect’? That may be the fabricated explanation for this baloney tax, but it’s still baloney. If you didn’t have this made-up tax in the first place, business wouldn’t have to go through the rigmarole of recovering part of it.
Mr. Bagman: You may not be able to understand the fiscal necessity for VAT, but it prevails all the same.
Ms Jones: You mean like ‘necessity is the mother of invention’? There has to be another tax, so there is one?
Mr. Bagman: No, VAT is vital to the economy. In France VAT contributes 50% of the state’s income.
Ms Jones: That just means that France is badly run. With VAT, I’m paying a penalty for buying something – it’s extortion all over again. Who came up with this scam?
Mr. Bagman: The concept of VAT originated in 1918. The costs of the First World War caused widespread bankruptcy, so countries had to recoup their finances. VAT, a tax on consumption, was the best way to refill a country’s coffers. France tried it first in 1954, in the Ivory Coast colony. The experiment was successful, so France introduced it in 1958.
Ms Jones: So more money all round, except for the consumer.
Mr. Bagman: That’s right.
Ms Jones: I still don’t get the correlation between a national budget and national debt. Why should an entire country go into debt to pay for what it needs? If you accept that states have to borrow against interest to maintain themselves – which I don’t — why don’t they simply cancel unaffordable programmes instead of borrowing?
Mr. Bagman: Nothing is unaffordable, if the state is willing to assume debt.
Ms. Jones: So the national debt is voluntary?
Mr. Bagman: Certainly.
Ms Jones: But someone must persuade the state to ask for a loan.
Mr. Bagman: Well, you’ve seen those advertisements for credit on your television, of course.
Ms Jones: That’s not the same thing.
Mr. Bagman: Why not? Nothing differentiates an individual from a state borrower. The ultimate creditor remains the same. The sums are different, of course, as is the reliability of the debtor.
Ms Jones: How so?
Mr. Bagman: An individual may disappear or die, making his loan unrecoverable, but a state cannot default and repayment is guaranteed through taxes.
Ms Jones: Sounds just like loan-sharking, only on a bigger scale.
Mr. Bagman: No, it’s a very old system without which the world would collapse.
Ms Jones: Explain to me why the world would collapse if there were no debt.
Mr. Bagman: Simple. There are no responsible politicians, so the system has to do their job for them.
Ms Jones: Why are there no responsible politicians?
Mr. Bagman: Human nature again, greed.
Ms Jones: If instead of ministers and representatives doing their jobs, the system does it for them, why do we pay politicians?
Mr. Bagman: That’s where the system becomes complicated and the creditors earn their interest. The people have to believe in something, in government and elections, for instance. Juggling a state’s internal affairs requires foresight and experience, and loans. No state could survive without loans.
Ms Jones: The state should just pay off the loan.
Mr. Bagman: If a state paid off a loan, it would return to the position it held to start with: it would need another loan because the interest isn’t included in the sum of the loan. The state is thus an eternal debtor. It has to issue ever more money for its requirements, thus inevitably creating inflation and reducing the purchasing power of money.
Ms Jones: You said the state has to issue more money to cover inflation due to consumers’ greed. Now you say it has eternally to issue more money to cover interest payments. Which is it?
Mr. Bagman: Both.
Ms Jones: That alone doesn’t explain the lack of resources for education and health, while simultaneously funding the military.
Mr. Bagman: Defense is important.
Ms Jones: In peace time?
Mr. Bagman: There’s no such time.
Ms Jones: That means armies and weapons will always be favoured over communal commitments.
Mr. Bagman: There’s a return on investment in military outlays; none on health and education.
Ms Jones: Doesn’t the state, whether Conservative or Social-Democratic, recognize the advantage of a healthy and educated population over one dependent on inadequate resources?
Mr. Bagman: The state is composed of irresponsible politicians of whatever colour. So the state’s position is immaterial. There are enough healthy and intelligent people for its needs. Increasing their number might challenge the status quo.
Ms Jones: How so?
Mr. Bagman: Too many potential contrarians might disturb the state’s creditors.
Ms Jones: How can that be?
Mr. Bagman: If you were an investor in a successful car company and that company suddenly started making soap, how would you feel?
Ms Jones: I would shift my investment.
Mr. Bagman: See?
Ms Jones: So the creditors would stop lending money to this state if it elects to change its course?
Mr. Bagman: Until it atones for its mistakes and repays its existing loans and that, as said, can’t happen.
Ms Jones: Who are the creditors?
Mr. Bagman: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank –
Ms Jones: So, basically the big international banks? They all want to get in the game of lending at interest?
Mr. Bagman: If you like to think of the system as a game, think of central banks as of a doll’s house in which each country occupies a separate room, but the child whose toy this is plays the same game in each room. Central banks are only national in the sense of their geographical location. These banks provide an essential service. Their mandate is to keep inflation under control, stabilize the exchange rate of the national currencyand create an environment that is conducive to investment and high growth.
Ms Jones: Instead of juggling with currency exchange rates, why don’t countries simply exchange goods of the same worth? Wouldn’t that solve the other problems too?
Mr. Bagman: Someone tried that once, it didn’t end well.
Ms Jones: Why not?
Mr. Bagman: It was a dangerous delusion. For one thing, it didn’t take account of compound interest which is fundamental to the system.
Ms Jones: Do all countries go along with this system?
Mr. Bagman: All except Iran and North Korea. Syria is a nuisance and needs some persuasion and Yemen has been an exception, in that civil war has resulted in two central banks. Support for the legitimate government may stabilize the country and bring it back into the fold, although a proxy war pitting Iran against Saudi Arabia continues to trouble the system.
Ms Jones: As far as I can see, the system does the opposite of what you claim. It destabilizes countries by interfering in their domestic development and reduces the value of their currencies by imposing debt.
Mr. Bagman: Haven’t you been listening to me?
Ms Jones: Of course I have, but your concept of debt bothers me. Debt is an owed thing, a deferred payment, but these national debts are too large ever to be repaid. For instance the U.S. has about 26 trillion dollars debt. The World Bank estimates 2018 U.S. GDP at $20.5 trillion, so how could the U.S. ever repay its debt?
Mr. Bagman: It can’t, obviously. But the debt was never intended to be repaid. Think of debt as a good thing, as an investment by creditors in the community.
Ms Jones: I can’t do that. Besides, you’re misusing the meaning of the word ‘debt’. That’s like so many other words which have lost their meaning — like ‘tolerance’ which now means intolerance of any other opinion, or ‘integration’ which means disintegration of society, or ‘credit’ which used to mean merit and now means a loan. Words don’t express what they used to.
Mr. Bagman: I wouldn’t mention those opinions, if I were you.
Ms Jones: You’re not me.
Mr. Bagman: I’m only telling you the truth.
Ms Jones: Your truth is a lie. If a country is perpetually obliged to pay interest on its debt, it causes a perpetual drain on its economy, so how is that a good thing?
Mr. Bagman: As I said, it’s an inevitability.
Ms Jones: How long can this inevitability continue?
Mr. Bagman: The system has a limit, of course.
Ms Jones: You mean that this tower of inflated money will topple one day?
Mr. Bagman: I mean that the system isn’t primarily about money. It’s about generating reliable management, where citizens don’t have to put their trust in corrupt politicians.
Ms Jones: Once the system has metastasized all over the planet, who does the citizen trust, or is trust now just the name for a bank?
Mr. Bagman: The citizen must trust the system.
Ms Jones: And the debt?
Mr. Bagman: The new management forgives the debt when it takes over.
Ms Jones. When will that be?
Mr. Bagman: Very soon. As soon as the system is global.
Ms Jones: How will we know when that happens?
Mr. Bagman: A contagious revelation should do it.
Ms Jones: Like in the bible again. Some sort of apocalypse. The end of the world.
Mr. Bagman: Like the last book of the bible. The end of the world as we know it.


veteranstoday--2020-06-14--Saudi Child Killed by Bulldozer in her Home Destroyed

At the age of 11 , she would have died crushed by the rubble of her home torn down by bulldozers .
From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia comes the tremendous story of Noura first reported by an Arabic website and then by PressTV , the television in English of the IRIB ( Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting ) , by Middle East Monitor ( MEMO ) and by Uprising Today .
« Humanity is nonexistent .
Here an innocent girl was run over because her family built these houses in the wrong place » Tweeted @ bodour_alyami attaching the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ viral with over 190 thousand views .
The tragedy occurred in the southern Asir region of the Harajah governorate .
« She died on Wednesday as several bulldozers were ordered to raze buildings alleged to have been constructed without permits – told Middle East Monitor – A report by the New Khaleej yesterday revealed that Noura was killed while she slept in her home » It is hoped that she died immediately under the rubble and not after a slow agony .
Images of the slain child and video footage of the demolition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Critical assaults kill the girl Noura ” in Arabic being used to highlight the crime .
Public Prosecutor Sheikh Saud Bin Abdullah Al-Moajab has apparently ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the girl ’ s death .
But no other news has leaked from the official sources of the Kingdom of Riyadh who in the past has been very skilled in burying between many mysteries and an ambiguous sentence the truth about the death of the journalist Jamal Kashoggi , killed and torn to pieces to hide the corpse inside the consulate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2018 .
The dramatic story of Noura also emerges in a context of political and religious rivalries because in April , Saudi forces shot and killed a citizen who refused to leave his home to pave the way for the construction of the so-called mega-project NEOM of the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman .
Abdul Rahman Al-Huwaiti was a prominent member of the Al-Huwaiti tribe , which had lived in the north-western area Al-Khuraybah for hundreds of years .
Eight tribal members were arrested days after his murder .
But as early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ PressTV points out , a violent campaign of the regime against political dissidents had started in the eastern part of the country and precisely in the city of Awamiyah , populated by Muslims of Shiite confession hated the Sunni Wahabites of the royal family , suspected to be among the founders and main recruiters of Al Qaeda fundamentalist militiamen .
On April 13 , Saudi regime forces killed dissident tribal activist al-Howeiti because he « had censured the House of Saud over uprooting Saudi nationals for the sake of a project that runs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the region » highlighted Teheran ’ s TV .
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced the contentious NEOM tourism development project at an international conference in October 2017 , which will turn 50 islands and other sites on the Red Sea into luxury resorts .
The plan is also supported by the Israelis who , through the Check Point Software Technologies company , have taken on the task of protecting the cybersecurity of the megacity .

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
At the age of 11, she would have died crushed by the rubble of her home torn down by bulldozers. From the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia comes the tremendous story of Noura first reported by an Arabic website and then by PressTV, the television in English of the IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), by Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and by Uprising Today.
«Humanity is nonexistent. Here an innocent girl was run over because her family built these houses in the wrong place» Tweeted @bodour_alyami attaching the video of the destruction that immediately went viral with over 190 thousand views.
The tragedy occurred in the southern Asir region of the Harajah governorate. «She died on Wednesday as several bulldozers were ordered to raze buildings alleged to have been constructed without permits – told Middle East Monitor – A report by the New Khaleej yesterday revealed that Noura was killed while she slept in her home»
It is hoped that she died immediately under the rubble and not after a slow agony. Images of the slain child and video footage of the demolition circulated on Twitter, with the hashtag “Critical assaults kill the girl Noura” in Arabic being used to highlight the crime.
Public Prosecutor Sheikh Saud Bin Abdullah Al-Moajab has apparently ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the girl’s death.
But no other news has leaked from the official sources of the Kingdom of Riyadh who in the past has been very skilled in burying between many mysteries and an ambiguous sentence the truth about the death of the journalist Jamal Kashoggi, killed and torn to pieces to hide the corpse inside the consulate Saudi Arabia of Istanbul on October 2, 2018.
The dramatic story of Noura also emerges in a context of political and religious rivalries because in April, Saudi forces shot and killed a citizen who refused to leave his home to pave the way for the construction of the so-called mega-project NEOM of the Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.
Abdul Rahman Al-Huwaiti was a prominent member of the Al-Huwaiti tribe, which had lived in the north-western area Al-Khuraybah for hundreds of years. Eight tribal members were arrested days after his murder.
But as early as August 9, 2017, as PressTV points out, a violent campaign of the regime against political dissidents had started in the eastern part of the country and precisely in the city of Awamiyah, populated by Muslims of Shiite confession hated the Sunni Wahabites of the royal family, suspected to be among the founders and main recruiters of Al Qaeda fundamentalist militiamen.
On April 13, Saudi regime forces killed dissident tribal activist al-Howeiti because he «had censured the House of Saud over uprooting Saudi nationals for the sake of a project that runs counter to the history and traditions of the region» highlighted Teheran’s TV.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced the contentious NEOM tourism development project at an international conference in October 2017, which will turn 50 islands and other sites on the Red Sea into luxury resorts.
The plan is also supported by the Israelis who, through the Check Point Software Technologies company, have taken on the task of protecting the cybersecurity of the megacity.


veteranstoday--2020-06-15--Intel Drop: Trump’s Presidency, Such as it Was, Ended Some Weeks Ago, Then Things Got Worse, Much Wo

Intel Drop: Trump’s Presidency, Such as it Was, Ended Some Weeks Ago, Then Things Got Worse, Much Worse

VT has an initial diagnosis , after conferring with real medical specialists .
Trump has had either a stroke , most likely , Parkinson ’ s Disease or has a brain tumor .
Insider access has given us a real look at the Trump White House , now a carnival act with Trump the dancing bear His West Point speech had inexorable signs , the shuffle down the ramp and the incident where he uses a second hand to steady a drinking glass .
From the Guardian : “ Donald Trump attempted to solidify his bond with the US army @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to cadets at the United States Military Academy and boasting of a “ colossal ” $ 2tn rebuilding of American martial might .
Trump ’ s West Point speech was studiously vapid , with only a modicum of partisan boasting .
But the political setting crackled with civil-military tension .
When all else fails – and that has happened a lot – the president has embraced the flag and hugged the military .
But these days the military is not hugging back .
It stands to attention as duty demands , but as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which Trump has taken to fondling at public events .
The president likes to refer to the soldiers around him as “ my generals ” and “ my military ” .
The possessive pronoun always jarred with the spirit of civ-mil rectitude , even before it became evident how literally Trump interpreted it .
Saturday ’ s ceremony at West Point was the embodiment of the president ’ s approach .
More than a thousand cadets from the class of 2020 were called back from their homes to the campus , 50 miles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus pandemic , so Trump could give a televised speech .
Fifteen cadets tested positive .
The rest had to quarantine for two weeks .
The whole show was widely disparaged as stage dressing for Trump ’ s re-election campaign , days after the president crossed a line in the exploitation of military leaders as props.
” VT has strong evidence ( proof ) Trump has been pushed aside and others are running the country , others we didn ’ t elect and whose capabilities , even while supposedly “ fully functional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this task or any other .
Imagine Barr and Mueller running the country ?
Hell , it would be up in flames .
The neurological issues alone don ’ t preclude the presidency but with the other symptoms , processing deterioration in what was never the “ brightest bulb in the pack , ” and extreme emotional instability , meaning not only is Trump calling for military to overthrow the constitution , he is going further , way further .
48 hours ago , I took a call from a Trump advisor ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ want to make the call but was forced to for reasons best left unstated .
Not a nice call .
“ They ” ( which includes Barr and Pompeo , Esper as well ) think he is nuts and have walled off Trump from his religious nutso friends like the one that buzzed him up into doing the bleach thing .
From the Guardian : “ The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “ miracle cure ” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In his letter , Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “ a wonderful detox that can kill 99 % of the pathogens in the body ” .
He added that it ‘ can rid the body of Covid-19 ’ .
A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter , Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus .
To the astonishment of medical experts , the US president said that disinfectant ‘ knocks it out in a minute .
One minute !
’ ” Trump was spoken of as addled , then the call abruptly ended .
Is this good news or bad news ?
From what we are told , the military is “ holding the fort ” at the Pentagon but who they hell are they ?
Anyone know any of them anymore ?
Anyway , back to Trump and the current Twitter frenzy .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden quite probably means he fears dementia and is very aware of his deterioration .
The problem is , by our estimation , that Trump actually doesn ’ t notice he has been pushed aside .
Trump can still fire everyone around him but Trump is terrified of Barr .
Why ?
You know , Trump was , and had been for some time , the consummate “ fastest mouth in the West.
” No more .
He is confused , bumbling , has no filter , continually misspeaks and has lost the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put this down to the White House gossip machine , which the military has a strong tie to , as does VT and other media .
The reports are that Trump is falling apart physically for sure , and is half the foul mouthed idiot he was in 2016 .
Catch this from Twitter :

VT has an initial diagnosis, after conferring with real medical specialists. Trump has had either a stroke, most likely, Parkinson’s Disease or has a brain tumor.
His West Point speech had inexorable signs, the shuffle down the ramp and the incident where he uses a second hand to steady a drinking glass. From the Guardian:
“Donald Trump attempted to solidify his bond with the US army on Saturday, delivering the graduation speech to cadets at the United States Military Academy and boasting of a “colossal” $2tn rebuilding of American martial might.
Trump’s West Point speech was studiously vapid, with only a modicum of partisan boasting. But the political setting crackled with civil-military tension.
When all else fails – and that has happened a lot – the president has embraced the flag and hugged the military. But these days the military is not hugging back. It stands to attention as duty demands, but as inertly as Old Glory, the banner which Trump has taken to fondling at public events.
The president likes to refer to the soldiers around him as “my generals” and “my military”. The possessive pronoun always jarred with the spirit of civ-mil rectitude, even before it became evident how literally Trump interpreted it.
Saturday’s ceremony at West Point was the embodiment of the president’s approach. More than a thousand cadets from the class of 2020 were called back from their homes to the campus, 50 miles north of New York City, despite the coronavirus pandemic, so Trump could give a televised speech.
Fifteen cadets tested positive. The rest had to quarantine for two weeks. The whole show was widely disparaged as stage dressing for Trump’s re-election campaign, days after the president crossed a line in the exploitation of military leaders as props.”
VT has strong evidence (proof) Trump has been pushed aside and others are running the country, others we didn’t elect and whose capabilities, even while supposedly “fully functional,” aren’t up to this task or any other. Imagine Barr and Mueller running the country? Hell, it would be up in flames.
Wait a minute, it is.
The neurological issues alone don’t preclude the presidency but with the other symptoms, processing deterioration in what was never the “brightest bulb in the pack,” and extreme emotional instability, meaning not only is Trump calling for military to overthrow the constitution, he is going further, way further.
48 hours ago, I took a call from a Trump advisor (top advisor) who didn’t want to make the call but was forced to for reasons best left unstated. Not a nice call. “They” (which includes Barr and Pompeo, Esper as well) think he is nuts and have walled off Trump from his religious nutso friends like the one that buzzed him up into doing the bleach thing. From the Guardian:
“The leader of the most prominent group in the US peddling potentially lethal industrial bleach as a “miracle cure” for coronavirus wrote to Donald Trump at the White House this week.
Hysterical Sarah Cooper miming Trump's bleach cure for Covid-19. https://t.co/uWflQS9XaK — Candace (@nativelah) June 7, 2020
In his letter, Mark Grenon told Trump that chlorine dioxide – a powerful bleach used in industrial processes such as textile manufacturing that can have fatal side-effects when drunk – is “a wonderful detox that can kill 99% of the pathogens in the body”. He added that it ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’.
A few days after Grenon dispatched his letter, Trump went on national TV at his daily coronavirus briefing at the White House on Thursday and promoted the idea that disinfectant could be used as a treatment for the virus. To the astonishment of medical experts, the US president said that disinfectant ‘knocks it out in a minute. One minute!’”
Trump was spoken of as addled, then the call abruptly ended.
Is this good news or bad news? From what we are told, the military is “holding the fort” at the Pentagon but who they hell are they? Anyone know any of them anymore?
Anyway, back to Trump and the current Twitter frenzy.
The pattern of accusations Trump has orchestrated against Biden quite probably means he fears dementia and is very aware of his deterioration. The problem is, by our estimation, that Trump actually doesn’t notice he has been pushed aside.
Trump can still fire everyone around him but Trump is terrified of Barr. Why?
You know, Trump was, and had been for some time, the consummate “fastest mouth in the West.” No more. He is confused, bumbling, has no filter, continually misspeaks and has lost the confidence of the American military.
We put this down to the White House gossip machine, which the military has a strong tie to, as does VT and other media. The reports are that Trump is falling apart physically for sure, and is half the foul mouthed idiot he was in 2016. Catch this from Twitter:
Obvious cognitive decline, clear loss of motor skills. If you didn’t watch his West Point address today, it was a compilation of mush-mouthed clusterfuckery. He butchered Gen. MacArthur’s name several times. https://t.co/giOoIXLa1r — Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) June 13, 2020
Look Donald, this is how someone who is normal walks. What happened at Walter Reed? Trump has both neurological and balance and motor skills problems They probably carried him down to his bunker #trumpisnotwell #rampgate #BunkerBoyhttps://t.co/Ig4vRpXDx9 — Orrite Then (@OrRite_Then) June 14, 2020
Symptoms of a chronic neurological problem or brain damage from a pinprick stroke, or both. Trump shouldn’t be around inanimate objects that can’t defend themselves. Get Trump out of the WH now.#TrumpIsNotWell pic.twitter.com/njoQ4iyjEh — 99ermikeb 🍑 (@99ermikeb) June 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1272124166305648640?s=20


veteranstoday--2020-06-15--WUHAN-GATES – 13. New Pandemic: Merkel’s Forecast & Suspicious Bet on Big Pharma’s German Bonds

« We must find ourselves prepared to handle a second wave of infections , which , however , if it ever happens , I don ’ t think will have the size and scope of the first .
Predicting if and when there will be a second wave is a fortune teller ’ s exercise rather than a scientist ’ s exercise , but it is possible that with the return of the colder months , in late autumn or winter , there may be a recovery because the virus still circulates in many countries the world , as we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and India » .
This was said by Franco Locatelli , president of the Italian Superior Health Council ( CSS ) and member of the Technical Scientific Committee ( CTS ) , during the Agorà broadcast , on RAI3 TV as reported by Ansa Salute .
It is a false claim .
I say it in no uncertain terms because if this site and I are sued we can at least bring before a public prosecutor those clues and evidence that attest to the construction in the laboratory of the SARS-CoV-2 , also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 to mislead the investigation into its genesis .
We have collected these data in 22 reportages not full of opinions as “ fortune teller ” like those of Dr. Locatelli but of scientific studies .
To date , 15 scientists of the world in 5 different researches argue without a shadow of a doubt that the virus of this cursed pandemic was built by biological engineers .
Experts say that HIV genetic sequences have been inserted within it .
This is detailed in 4 out of 5 studies as the latest , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the intelligence of the United Kingdom for foreign operations , has not yet been published due to the fears of a researcher .
Dr. Franco Locatelli , Dr. Walter Ricciardi , Italian representative to the World Health Organization and Advisor to the Minister of Health , Roberto Speranza , together with the minister Speranza , an exponent of Liberi e Uguali and graduated from the LUISS University named after the well-known Freemason Guido Carli , ignore and slyly avoid any effort of investigation and research on the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ President of the Istituto Superiore della Sanità is a liar : because he lies knowing that he is lying , omitting in his sentences every reference to the existence of reliable and coinciding research on the true origin of the virus … T ESTS WITH VIRUS SARS AND HIV FINANCED BY EU They are indeed well aware , by virtue of the experiments funded by the European Commission chaired by Romano Prodi in 2004 in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology , that any in-depth scientific research could demonstrate a hypothetical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus built even 16 years ago with a strain of CoronaVirus SARS-1 ( the one that made 814 victims in 2003 in 26 countries of the world ) infected with HIV in an experiment worthy of Victor Frankestein , made famous for his monster by the fantasy of Mary Shelley .
Today we do not write about novels but about scientific literature , stubbornly and treacherously ignored , because those 4 studies by 13 scientists who today demonstrate the presence of traces of the AIDS virus ( HIV-1 ) in SARS-2 take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only disturbing , but also devastating .
The question is so simple that it is child-proof : how can a new wave of pandemic be hypothesized if the first had really originated from a virus that had escaped or intentionally released by a laboratory to create a biological war or promote the world business of industries pharmaceutical vaccines ?
You already know that someone will shoot a second time ?
?
?
If it were ascertained that it is of natural origin – something hypothesized in various ramshackle studies in which science assumes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as mantra – one could well fear the so-called second wave announced in the Daily Mail by 30 world scientists .
But how could one foresee instead if the SARS-2 pandemic was caused by a laboratory virus , destined to attenuate precisely for its engineering construction as explained by Luc Montagnier , Nobel Prize for Medicine and researcher in China , who has tried l insertion of HIV sequences confirming the previous study of 9 Indian scientists and anticipating that of his compatriot and fellow bio-engineer ?
How would it be possible in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CoronaVirus if not thanks to disturbing intelligence information kept hidden from people ?
It would only be so if the scientists who predict it were aware of information they claim not to know or conceal .
It would only be if the scientists who are heralding the hypothetical return were intrigued with the Big Pharma ’ s business of vaccines .
MERKEL ’ S PROPHECY ON THE NEW PANDEMIC It would be minimal and very reductive to blame some chatterers of that World Health Organization which , as blamed by the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CoronaVirus 1 report and as demonstrated in WuhanGates 9 , supported Wuhan ’ s experiments on the pathogen SARS-1 infected with HIV .
We therefore remain on the official notes of the nations implicated in this terrible deadly epidemic devastation .
« German Chancellor Angela Merkel , French President Emmanuel Macron and four other members of the European Union have sent a letter to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to ask that the EU prepare for the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic » ANSA wrote on Tuesday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and in a policy paper , the leaders write : “ We hope that the paper will serve as inspiration for further and fruitful European-level comparisons on how to ensure EU preparation for future pandemics » added the Italian news agency that for four months has insisted on ignoring the hypothesis of the laboratory virus and did not give prominence even to the interview of the former British intelligence chief Richard Dearlove , published by Telegraph , Indipendent , Daily Mail , Il Giornale , Il Mattino , TgCom24 to name a few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This prophetic statement by Merkel on the second wave of the pandemic , which for Locatelli would be weaker but for other international scientists could be more lethal , reminds us of the prophecies that were of Bill Gates , main sponsor of the world vaccination project ( regardless of safety and clinical trials of vaccines that do not require more than 18 months under a pandemic regime ) and his collaborator Avril Haines , former deputy director of the Central Intellugence Agency during the administration of American President Dem Barack Obama , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CoronaVirus organized by the John Hopkins Center in the USA in October 2019 , therefore in very suspicious times .
Doesn ’ t the German Chancellor ’ s statement become even more suspicious when it turns out that on the local German stock exchanges in 2018 there was a huge speculation on the titles of the pharmaceutical multinational GlaxoSmithKleine which is the world leader in vaccines ?
London ’ s big pharma GSK is owned by American investment funds that speculate without restraint on the Weapons Lobby , as demonstrated by the CoronaVirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a partner of Saudi Arabia which funded the global immunization plan ( WuhanGates report 1 ) that brought the Gentiloni government to Italy imposed the obligation of 10 vaccines in school age with obvious huge revenues for GlaxoSmithKleine herself , administered by a CEO who is director of Microsoft , founded by Gates , as discovered by Gospa News .
Thanks to the collaboration in vaccine research with the University of Queensland ( in that Australia which played a role in financing the first SARS-1 HIV experiments in Wuhan ) imposed by CEPI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ always founded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017 , GSK has chances to distribute the SARS-2 vaccine in Italy and Europe as soon as it will be discovered thanks to Australian research or to the synergies that it has already started worldwide with Sanofi , Pentagon partner in dangerous experiments on viruses conducted by Fort Detrick ’ s IRF Frederick ( WuhanGates 7 ) .
In light of all this it is right to remember that GSK has incorporated SmithKleine ended in the investigation for bribes to the former Minister of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the general manager Duilio Poggiolini ) after which the vaccine against Hepatitis B was made mandatory in Italy .
In light of all this it becomes much more suspicious that in Germany , affected superficially by the pandemic from Covid-19 , a maxi bet-speculation had been started on GSK starting from June 2018 with hundreds of Certifikat , the notorious Derivatives at very high risk , on the local stock exchanges in Stuttgart and Frankfurt .
Just think that the investment of each Bond was equal to 1,800 GBp ( British pounds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ current exchange rate but with a guarantee of result equal to 18 euro .
The profit margin , being specified in private deeds , is not known but it could also be 50 times the amount wagered due to the very high risk margin .
These are over 719 bonds , of which over 363 Derivatives , some of which are recent and issued in France .
The goal of the Certifikat / Derivative is itself unknown .
But just take a look at the performance of GSK shares to see the jump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going from 1,400 GBx ( Penny converted sterling ) to more than 1,600 .
This is why Chancellor Merkel ’ s prediction for a new pandemic becomes suspicious mainly because nobody wants to investigate the causes of the first wave of infections but resignation reigns supreme .
« We must not believe that this emergency is over : the emergency will end only when the vaccine is discovered and when it will be sufficiently produced to make all the citizens who must be immune » said on RAI3 Italian TV the emergency commissioner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , supported by that same Democratic Party ( PD in Italian ) which strongly wanted the Lorenzin Decree of the 10 mandatory vaccines which indirectly enriching the GSK laboratories in the Tuscany Region , PD political stronghold .
Also Romano Prodi former President of the European Commission which funded the dangerous SARS-1 tests with HIV , was a the Italian former PM and Dem ’ s prominent exponent .
Merkel ’ s prediction was lacking that could enrich the German stock exchanges by virtue of their speculation on GSK to make not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy of the TheaterCracy , as Plato would have called it .

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Europe
VERSIONE ORIGINALE IN ITALIANO
«We must find ourselves prepared to handle a second wave of infections, which, however, if it ever happens, I don’t think will have the size and scope of the first. Predicting if and when there will be a second wave is a fortune teller’s exercise rather than a scientist’s exercise, but it is possible that with the return of the colder months, in late autumn or winter, there may be a recovery because the virus still circulates in many countries the world, as we see from the data of Latin America and India».
This was said by Franco Locatelli, president of the Italian Superior Health Council (CSS) and member of the Technical Scientific Committee (CTS), during the Agorà broadcast, on RAI3 TV as reported by Ansa Salute. It is a false claim.
I say it in no uncertain terms because if this site and I are sued we can at least bring before a public prosecutor those clues and evidence that attest to the construction in the laboratory of the SARS-CoV-2, also called by scientists the new CoronaVirus or Covid-19 to mislead the investigation into its genesis.
We have collected these data in 22 reportages not full of opinions as “fortune teller” like those of Dr. Locatelli but of scientific studies. To date, 15 scientists of the world in 5 different researches argue without a shadow of a doubt that the virus of this cursed pandemic was built by biological engineers. Experts say that HIV genetic sequences have been inserted within it.
This is detailed in 4 out of 5 studies as the latest, reported by the former head of MI6, the intelligence of the United Kingdom for foreign operations, has not yet been published due to the fears of a researcher.
Dr. Franco Locatelli, Dr. Walter Ricciardi, Italian representative to the World Health Organization and Advisor to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, together with the minister Speranza, an exponent of Liberi e Uguali and graduated from the LUISS University named after the well-known Freemason Guido Carli, ignore and slyly avoid any effort of investigation and research on the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2.
This is why the statement of the President of the Istituto Superiore della Sanità is a liar: because he lies knowing that he is lying, omitting in his sentences every reference to the existence of reliable and coinciding research on the true origin of the virus …
T ESTS WITH VIRUS SARS AND HIV FINANCED BY EU
They are indeed well aware, by virtue of the experiments funded by the European Commission chaired by Romano Prodi in 2004 in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, that any in-depth scientific research could demonstrate a hypothetical link between today’s pandemic and the virus built even 16 years ago with a strain of CoronaVirus SARS-1 (the one that made 814 victims in 2003 in 26 countries of the world) infected with HIV in an experiment worthy of Victor Frankestein, made famous for his monster by the fantasy of Mary Shelley.
Today we do not write about novels but about scientific literature, stubbornly and treacherously ignored, because those 4 studies by 13 scientists who today demonstrate the presence of traces of the AIDS virus (HIV-1) in SARS-2 take on not only suspect weight, not only disturbing, but also devastating.
The question is so simple that it is child-proof: how can a new wave of pandemic be hypothesized if the first had really originated from a virus that had escaped or intentionally released by a laboratory to create a biological war or promote the world business of industries pharmaceutical vaccines? You already know that someone will shoot a second time???
If it were ascertained that it is of natural origin – something hypothesized in various ramshackle studies in which science assumes the not-scientific word of “probability” as mantra – one could well fear the so-called second wave announced in the Daily Mail by 30 world scientists.
But how could one foresee instead if the SARS-2 pandemic was caused by a laboratory virus, destined to attenuate precisely for its engineering construction as explained by Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize for Medicine and researcher in China, who has tried l insertion of HIV sequences confirming the previous study of 9 Indian scientists and anticipating that of his compatriot and fellow bio-engineer?
How would it be possible in this case to predict the return of the CoronaVirus if not thanks to disturbing intelligence information kept hidden from people?
It would only be so if the scientists who predict it were aware of information they claim not to know or conceal. It would only be if the scientists who are heralding the hypothetical return were intrigued with the Big Pharma’s business of vaccines.
MERKEL’S PROPHECY ON THE NEW PANDEMIC
It would be minimal and very reductive to blame some chatterers of that World Health Organization which, as blamed by the American bacteriological weapons expert Francis Boyle in our CoronaVirus 1 report and as demonstrated in WuhanGates 9, supported Wuhan’s experiments on the pathogen SARS-1 infected with HIV.
We therefore remain on the official notes of the nations implicated in this terrible deadly epidemic devastation. «German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and four other members of the European Union have sent a letter to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to ask that the EU prepare for the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic» ANSA wrote on Tuesday 9 June.
«In a letter and in a policy paper, the leaders write: “We hope that the paper will serve as inspiration for further and fruitful European-level comparisons on how to ensure EU preparation for future pandemics» added the Italian news agency that for four months has insisted on ignoring the hypothesis of the laboratory virus and did not give prominence even to the interview of the former British intelligence chief Richard Dearlove, published by Telegraph, Indipendent, Daily Mail, Il Giornale, Il Mattino, TgCom24 to name a few, but ignored by big media.
This prophetic statement by Merkel on the second wave of the pandemic, which for Locatelli would be weaker but for other international scientists could be more lethal, reminds us of the prophecies that were of Bill Gates, main sponsor of the world vaccination project (regardless of safety and clinical trials of vaccines that do not require more than 18 months under a pandemic regime) and his collaborator Avril Haines, former deputy director of the Central Intellugence Agency during the administration of American President Dem Barack Obama, in the exercise on the pandemic from CoronaVirus organized by the John Hopkins Center in the USA in October 2019, therefore in very suspicious times.
Doesn’t the German Chancellor’s statement become even more suspicious when it turns out that on the local German stock exchanges in 2018 there was a huge speculation on the titles of the pharmaceutical multinational GlaxoSmithKleine which is the world leader in vaccines?
GSK DERIVATIVES ON GERMAN STOCKS EXCHANGES
London’s big pharma GSK is owned by American investment funds that speculate without restraint on the Weapons Lobby, as demonstrated by the CoronaVirus 3 report, but it is also a partner of Saudi Arabia which funded the global immunization plan (WuhanGates report 1) that brought the Gentiloni government to Italy imposed the obligation of 10 vaccines in school age with obvious huge revenues for GlaxoSmithKleine herself, administered by a CEO who is director of Microsoft, founded by Gates, as discovered by Gospa News.
Thanks to the collaboration in vaccine research with the University of Queensland (in that Australia which played a role in financing the first SARS-1 HIV experiments in Wuhan) imposed by CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) always founded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017, GSK has chances to distribute the SARS-2 vaccine in Italy and Europe as soon as it will be discovered thanks to Australian research or to the synergies that it has already started worldwide with Sanofi, Pentagon partner in dangerous experiments on viruses conducted by Fort Detrick’s IRF Frederick (WuhanGates 7).
In light of all this it is right to remember that GSK has incorporated SmithKleine ended in the investigation for bribes to the former Minister of Health Francesco De Lorenzo (sentenced together with the general manager Duilio Poggiolini) after which the vaccine against Hepatitis B was made mandatory in Italy.
In light of all this it becomes much more suspicious that in Germany, affected superficially by the pandemic from Covid-19, a maxi bet-speculation had been started on GSK starting from June 2018 with hundreds of Certifikat, the notorious Derivatives at very high risk, on the local stock exchanges in Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
Just think that the investment of each Bond was equal to 1,800 GBp (British pounds) equal to 1998 euro at the current exchange rate but with a guarantee of result equal to 18 euro. The profit margin, being specified in private deeds, is not known but it could also be 50 times the amount wagered due to the very high risk margin. These are over 719 bonds, of which over 363 Derivatives, some of which are recent and issued in France.
The goal of the Certifikat / Derivative is itself unknown. But just take a look at the performance of GSK shares to see the jump they made from March to June, going from 1,400 GBx (Penny converted sterling) to more than 1,600.
This is why Chancellor Merkel’s prediction for a new pandemic becomes suspicious mainly because nobody wants to investigate the causes of the first wave of infections but resignation reigns supreme.
«We must not believe that this emergency is over: the emergency will end only when the vaccine is discovered and when it will be sufficiently produced to make all the citizens who must be immune» said on RAI3 Italian TV the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri appointed by Conte Bis government, supported by that same Democratic Party (PD in Italian) which strongly wanted the Lorenzin Decree of the 10 mandatory vaccines which indirectly enriching the GSK laboratories in the Tuscany Region, PD political stronghold.
Also Romano Prodi former President of the European Commission which funded the dangerous SARS-1 tests with HIV, was a the Italian former PM and Dem’s prominent exponent.
Merkel’s prediction was lacking that could enrich the German stock exchanges by virtue of their speculation on GSK to make not only suspect but even ignoble and criminal this policy of the TheaterCracy, as Plato would have called it.
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veteranstoday--2020-06-14--NEO – Geopolitical power balance is tilting from West to East

by Valerie Kulikov , …with New Eastern Outlook , Moscow , …and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa .
[ Editor ’ s Note : We have had a lot of articles here on the US-China growing showdown .
China and Russia are the lead opponents to US Unipolarism , with the EU somewhat behind as it remains a semi-colony of the US due to the Federal Reserve Bank and SWIFT clearing system .
The US attempt at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ closer to Asia with the New Silk Road .
That is why the US is trying to hem in China ’ s growing economic power via the trade wars , and now by moving US military forces closer to its borders to give it a better first strike capability as it has been doing with Russia for years now .
Valerie leads off with what a watershed the virus has been to clearly expose how much better the Asian countries dealt with the coronoavirus than the West , and especially the US , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military power could be viewed as having led to being unprepared to deal with Covid-19 .
And the main point there is not so much the higher infection and death rates , but in the economic damage .
Trillions of dollars in US damage from a war would be blamed on the attacking or defending adversary , depending on who started the conflict .
When Trump finally realized he screwed up , as in “ It ’ s a hoax , and “ It ’ s all just going to go away ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he thought he could find a scapegoat .
It was a cheap shot , with no proof ever being offered as so many other of this self-serving claims .
Trump doubled down on the George Floyd tragedy , with the ensuing riots giving him another lifeboat to save his reelection prospects .
He posed himself has the great commander-in-chief that would put the US military into the streets to save the day .
The revolt of the generals killed that desperate ploy , a humiliation never experienced by a former president .
Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but the ex-Dept .
of Defense top people joined the generals , as did 2000 ex-Dept .
of Justice people calling for Attorney General Barr ’ s resignation , also unprecedented in US modern history .
Joe Biden has a 10 point lead nationally , but Trump won in 2016 despite the Democrats having three million more votes .
The battleground states where Trump got the electoral votes needed saved the day , and they will be critical to saving him in November .
Both sides will save any political bombs they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days , as sadly Americans tend to have a short memory .
Covid might re-serge , or we could have a war going due to the proverbial false flag kicking one off .
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However , the response to the coronavirus pandemic that has engulfed the world has been the complete opposite so far .
Many analysts including those in the United States now note that the world order and how it is tilted depends on a number of conditions , and a strong leader of a country that could guide the world through these times is particularly important .
However , this kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
On the contrary , countries are refusing to share their personal protective equipment ( PPE ) , there is what you could call a sort of arms race to develop a vaccine faster than other countries , borders have been closed completely , and the finger is being pointed at who is to blame for the all the suffering caused by the outbreak without any proof , which certainly does not further global unity .
Some of the obvious causes of the current disputes that can easily be discerned include how US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find external excuses to blame for steps he himself has taken to withdraw from international agreements , withdrawing from any agreement of an international legal nature that gives Washington responsibilities and puts America on an equal footing with its other global partners .
President Trump ’ s announcement that America would be terminating all its relations with the WHO and its official withdrawal from this international organization is not the only example , as the Iran nuclear deal was also scrapped , which had taken more than a decade of negotiations to secure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cracks in the supporting pillars propping up global security by pulling out of other international treaties : the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ( INF Treaty ) , the Treaty on Open Skies , and there have also been statements made about America ’ s possible withdrawal from the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) .
By exploiting anti-Chinese sentiment to further his election campaign , Donald Trump is stoking tensions with China to boiling point , and this is not just a trade war anymore , the conflict has spilled over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus pandemic that the world is currently grappling with .
The heated confrontation between the world ’ s two biggest economies , nuclear-weapon states and permanent members of the UN Security Council , which are ultimately the world ’ s most influential countries , is affecting the entire world .
In a situation where countries all around the world are facing a common challenge and looking for the same cure , a vaccine which has not been created yet , it would be logical for countries to work together within international organizations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soon as possible .
However , the American President is now busy promoting his 2016 campaign slogan about how useless international structures are .
That is why The Washington Post notes the need to acknowledge that the White House is to blame for this global disunity .
The article explains why , reminding people that the United States had been the most powerful country in the world , led by presidents who understood the responsibility to countries around the world that comes with this power , and who understood that the best way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fruits of their labor with other countries .
However , they are now led by a president who despises international cooperation , and a staunch anti-globalist who believes that the United States will prosper as a nation state , by putting “ America first !
” .
This is why the world is now unfortunately becoming more divided .
A report was published on the RAND Corporation website titled “ Peering into the Crystal Ball : Holistically Assessing the Future ” .
The report is the fruit of the labor of over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ USA , the UK , Belgium , China , Germany , Israel , Japan , Jordan , Poland and the UAE , and it paints a clear picture of how America ’ s military might is now waning in comparison to other countries amid China ’ s growing economic , geopolitical and military ambitions along with Russia ’ s actions .
The digital publication Defense One also heavily criticizes White House ’ s US military strategy and military spending , writing that the kind of actions Washington is taking will only lead to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans themselves who will forfeit their own security .
Although the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak is on a global scale , Western countries seem to have suffered the most .
The US and EU are mournfully watching the cataclysmic collapse of their economies , facing what is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s .
An analytical report from the Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) predicts that the pandemic will accelerate the shift in the global balance of power from the West to the East @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accelerant of existing geopolitical trends , in particular the growing rivalry between the US and China and the shift in the economic balance of power from West to East , ” the report states .
As the coronavirus pandemic has shown , multilateral cooperation and partnerships are more important than ever in a world facing existential threats .
The exceptionally high coronavirus mortality rates in the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the socio-economic systems in these countries are far from ideal .
The Anglo-American model of capitalism has essentially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prevalent social democratic ideological models have been more successful than others in fighting the pandemic , commitment to the values of neoliberal capitalism has nevertheless made a significant contribution to the damage caused by the infectious disease in the European Union , the most visible examples being Italy and Spain .
The point is made in the French media that the West can no longer consider itself an example to the rest of the world after the whole world has watched Western foreign and domestic policies fail , especially considering the massive coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many EU countries .
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that Asia ’ s political and socio-economic systems were better at dealing with the crisis , and the West has a lot to learn from Asia .
Even countries such as Thailand and Vietnam which are considered far less affluent than countries in the EU were able to put practical measures in place straight away , such as distributing free masks and making it compulsory to wear one , and many Asian governments strengthened their positions during the first phase of the crisis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approval .
This is just one small example .
French daily Le Figaro highlights that while policymakers in the United States , Britain and France thought their empire of capitalism and democracy was growing as part of the process of globalization , Asian countries pursued a policy of national revival , involving rearmament and building a richer middle class .
It has been said many times over the last few years in the West that “ the 21st century will be the Asian Century ” , but no one really gave it that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came crashing down over politicians and hospitals in a huge wave , and they sank like stones .
The human cost of the pandemic which is still taking its toll has become a reliable barometer of the quality of sanitary and healthcare systems around the world , and it is the developed countries that have taken a nosedive .
It turned out that “ the Emperor has no clothes , ” Le Figaro comments .
Although there is still a long way to go in the battle against the coronavirus before a complete @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already safe to say that we will see significant changes in international relations .
The main showdown will be between China , which will be looking to strengthen its foreign policy , and the United States , which will be trying to hold onto its global hegemony .
A serious confrontation between the US and China unfortunately looks set to be the main feature of the historical process that is currently taking place , which could not only ultimately transform international organizations , but could also change relations between individual countries , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has also recently stated that the coronavirus pandemic could be the catalyst to shift power from West to East , noting that the upcoming EU-China summit this autumn could be an opportunity to do so .
He recognizes that the future of the EU lies with Eurasia .
As China , India , Japan , Indonesia and Russia will become some of the world ’ s biggest economies by 2030 according to Standard Chartered PLC , the 21st century is known as the “ Asian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between the US and China in the near future , the world has now clearly seen the very effective approach taken to combating the threat posed by the coronavirus in example set by people living in countries in the East , while the United States and Europe made a show of themselves with a chaotic policy of containment that has had disastrous consequences for societies which pride themselves on their civil liberties .

by Valerie Kulikov, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow,…and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
[ Editor’s Note: We have had a lot of articles here on the US-China growing showdown. China and Russia are the lead opponents to US Unipolarism, with the EU somewhat behind as it remains a semi-colony of the US due to the Federal Reserve Bank and SWIFT clearing system.
The US attempt at dominating the EU is actually being pushed closer to Asia with the New Silk Road. That is why the US is trying to hem in China’s growing economic power via the trade wars, and now by moving US military forces closer to its borders to give it a better first strike capability as it has been doing with Russia for years now.
Valerie leads off with what a watershed the virus has been to clearly expose how much better the Asian countries dealt with the coronoavirus than the West, and especially the US, by exposing that its investments in expanded military power could be viewed as having led to being unprepared to deal with Covid-19.
And the main point there is not so much the higher infection and death rates, but in the economic damage. Trillions of dollars in US damage from a war would be blamed on the attacking or defending adversary, depending on who started the conflict.
When Trump finally realized he screwed up, as in “It’s a hoax, and “It’s all just going to go away”, blaming it on China is where he thought he could find a scapegoat. It was a cheap shot, with no proof ever being offered as so many other of this self-serving claims.
Trump doubled down on the George Floyd tragedy, with the ensuing riots giving him another lifeboat to save his reelection prospects. He posed himself has the great commander-in-chief that would put the US military into the streets to save the day.
The revolt of the generals killed that desperate ploy, a humiliation never experienced by a former president. Not only were the leaders four star generals, but the ex-Dept. of Defense top people joined the generals, as did 2000 ex-Dept. of Justice people calling for Attorney General Barr’s resignation, also unprecedented in US modern history.
Joe Biden has a 10 point lead nationally, but Trump won in 2016 despite the Democrats having three million more votes. The battleground states where Trump got the electoral votes needed saved the day, and they will be critical to saving him in November.
Both sides will save any political bombs they have to drop for the last 30 days, as sadly Americans tend to have a short memory.
Covid might re-serge, or we could have a war going due to the proverbial false flag kicking one off. We are on schedule for the one hell of an election year that VT predicted in January… Jim W. Dean ]
Jim's Editor’s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal
Jim's work includes research, field trips, Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more. Thanks for helping. Click to donate >>
– First published … June 14, 2012 –
Most global crises and disasters compel countries and people to join together to tackle the troubles they are faced with more successfully, and to build a better society and wider world. However, the response to the coronavirus pandemic that has engulfed the world has been the complete opposite so far.
Many analysts including those in the United States now note that the world order and how it is tilted depends on a number of conditions, and a strong leader of a country that could guide the world through these times is particularly important. However, this kind of leadership is not being shown today.
On the contrary, countries are refusing to share their personal protective equipment (PPE), there is what you could call a sort of arms race to develop a vaccine faster than other countries, borders have been closed completely, and the finger is being pointed at who is to blame for the all the suffering caused by the outbreak without any proof, which certainly does not further global unity.
Some of the obvious causes of the current disputes that can easily be discerned include how US President Donald Trump is constantly looking to find external excuses to blame for steps he himself has taken to withdraw from international agreements, withdrawing from any agreement of an international legal nature that gives Washington responsibilities and puts America on an equal footing with its other global partners.
President Trump’s announcement that America would be terminating all its relations with the WHO and its official withdrawal from this international organization is not the only example, as the Iran nuclear deal was also scrapped, which had taken more than a decade of negotiations to secure.
The White House has added to the cracks in the supporting pillars propping up global security by pulling out of other international treaties: the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the Treaty on Open Skies, and there have also been statements made about America’s possible withdrawal from the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
By exploiting anti-Chinese sentiment to further his election campaign, Donald Trump is stoking tensions with China to boiling point, and this is not just a trade war anymore, the conflict has spilled over into international politics and the fight against the coronavirus pandemic that the world is currently grappling with.
The heated confrontation between the world’s two biggest economies, nuclear-weapon states and permanent members of the UN Security Council, which are ultimately the world’s most influential countries, is affecting the entire world.
In a situation where countries all around the world are facing a common challenge and looking for the same cure, a vaccine which has not been created yet, it would be logical for countries to work together within international organizations to get through all of this as soon as possible. However, the American President is now busy promoting his 2016 campaign slogan about how useless international structures are.
That is why The Washington Post notes the need to acknowledge that the White House is to blame for this global disunity. The article explains why, reminding people that the United States had been the most powerful country in the world, led by presidents who understood the responsibility to countries around the world that comes with this power, and who understood that the best way to promote national interests is to share the fruits of their labor with other countries.
However, they are now led by a president who despises international cooperation, and a staunch anti-globalist who believes that the United States will prosper as a nation state, by putting “America first!”. This is why the world is now unfortunately becoming more divided.
A report was published on the RAND Corporation website titled “Peering into the Crystal Ball: Holistically Assessing the Future”. The report is the fruit of the labor of over 120 military experts and academics from the USA, the UK, Belgium, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Poland and the UAE, and it paints a clear picture of how America’s military might is now waning in comparison to other countries amid China’s growing economic, geopolitical and military ambitions along with Russia’s actions.
The digital publication Defense One also heavily criticizes White House’s US military strategy and military spending, writing that the kind of actions Washington is taking will only lead to suffering in the world and suffering among Americans themselves who will forfeit their own security.
Although the economic damage caused by the coronavirus outbreak is on a global scale, Western countries seem to have suffered the most. The US and EU are mournfully watching the cataclysmic collapse of their economies, facing what is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
An analytical report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts that the pandemic will accelerate the shift in the global balance of power from the West to the East.
“It will act as an accelerant of existing geopolitical trends, in particular the growing rivalry between the US and China and the shift in the economic balance of power from West to East,” the report states. As the coronavirus pandemic has shown, multilateral cooperation and partnerships are more important than ever in a world facing existential threats.
The exceptionally high coronavirus mortality rates in the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the socio-economic systems in these countries are far from ideal.
The Anglo-American model of capitalism has essentially failed. While some European countries with prevalent social democratic ideological models have been more successful than others in fighting the pandemic, commitment to the values of neoliberal capitalism has nevertheless made a significant contribution to the damage caused by the infectious disease in the European Union, the most visible examples being Italy and Spain.
The point is made in the French media that the West can no longer consider itself an example to the rest of the world after the whole world has watched Western foreign and domestic policies fail, especially considering the massive coronavirus death toll in the United States and many EU countries.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that Asia’s political and socio-economic systems were better at dealing with the crisis, and the West has a lot to learn from Asia.
Even countries such as Thailand and Vietnam which are considered far less affluent than countries in the EU were able to put practical measures in place straight away, such as distributing free masks and making it compulsory to wear one, and many Asian governments strengthened their positions during the first phase of the crisis, and they have certainly gained greater public approval. This is just one small example.
French daily Le Figaro highlights that while policymakers in the United States, Britain and France thought their empire of capitalism and democracy was growing as part of the process of globalization, Asian countries pursued a policy of national revival, involving rearmament and building a richer middle class. It has been said many times over the last few years in the West that “the 21st century will be the Asian Century”, but no one really gave it that much thought.
But then the coronavirus came crashing down over politicians and hospitals in a huge wave, and they sank like stones. The human cost of the pandemic which is still taking its toll has become a reliable barometer of the quality of sanitary and healthcare systems around the world, and it is the developed countries that have taken a nosedive. It turned out that “the Emperor has no clothes,” Le Figaro comments.
Although there is still a long way to go in the battle against the coronavirus before a complete victory can be declared, it is already safe to say that we will see significant changes in international relations. The main showdown will be between China, which will be looking to strengthen its foreign policy, and the United States, which will be trying to hold onto its global hegemony.
A serious confrontation between the US and China unfortunately looks set to be the main feature of the historical process that is currently taking place, which could not only ultimately transform international organizations, but could also change relations between individual countries, including traditional allies.
The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has also recently stated that the coronavirus pandemic could be the catalyst to shift power from West to East, noting that the upcoming EU-China summit this autumn could be an opportunity to do so. He recognizes that the future of the EU lies with Eurasia.
As China, India, Japan, Indonesia and Russia will become some of the world’s biggest economies by 2030 according to Standard Chartered PLC, the 21st century is known as the “Asian Century.”
However the confrontation may unfold between the US and China in the near future, the world has now clearly seen the very effective approach taken to combating the threat posed by the coronavirus in example set by people living in countries in the East, while the United States and Europe made a show of themselves with a chaotic policy of containment that has had disastrous consequences for societies which pride themselves on their civil liberties.
Valery Kulikov, expert political scientist, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.