russia-insider--2020-06-29--China's Economy Is the Least Hurt by COVID - How She Is Responding to US Moves

The world community can heave a sigh of relief that there isn ’ t going to be a new cold war between the United States and China .
A Cold War needs two blocs : while Washington is unable to cobble together a bloc , Beijing is disinterested in one , lacking a bloc mentality .
But isolating China in the international community is easier said than done , as the US-led globalisation is replaced by a China-led globalisation .
Nor is there any prospect of a Sino-American hot war .
What is unfolding instead is a standoff between the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ void whose trajectory will now largely depend on the outcome of the presidential election in the US in November .
The world community at large is not party to this standoff except for just two ‘ Indo-Pacific ’ maverick exceptions that have got on to the US bandwagon — Australia and India .
Asia itself remains unscathed .
Japan has taken care not to provoke China .
( See my blog Japan-US alliance gets less intimate . )
The ASEAN countries refuse to take sides between the Trump administration and China .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement , which involves both China and Japan will be signed within this year , radically transforming the regional integration of the Asia-Pacific .
Europe too stands detached and has begun working on the terms of engagement with China for a more equal and balanced partnership attuned to the compelling realities of the post-Covid-19 era in which China stands apart as the least wounded economy .
In a nutshell , all this began with President Donald Trump ’ s decision to raise a China bogey as one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential election in November .
Trump calculated that it would be a smart strategy where the winner takes it all .
On the one hand , he assumed that the ‘ Phase 1 ’ trade deal of January would oblige China to buy over $ 200 billion worth American products including massive quantities of agricultural products , which would inevitably show up as his foreign policy success .
On the other hand , Trump also saw uses in projecting himself as the ‘ toughest ’ American president ever on China — a self-portrayal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ domestic gallery and to differentiate his candidacy from his presumed main opponent John Biden ’ s , whom Trump would hunt down as incapable of standing up to an ‘ assertive ’ China .
Over and above , by conjuring up the ‘ Wuhan virus ’ , Trump hoped to distract attention from his incompetence and dismal failure in addressing the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic that is conceivably surging as the likely nemesis of his presidential campaign .
Arguably , Beijing might not have minded being targeted as a punch bag for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a politician in an election year .
But the Trump administration officials unwisely proceeded to create synergy out of Trump ’ s game plan also on the diplomatic plane with a view to lay the foundations of a future cold-war like strategy toward China under US leadership .
This entire architecture was built on a catastrophic misreading that the Covid-19 pandemic has lethally weakened China , derailed its economic growth which in turn is engendering social disaffection and alienating the public from the Chinese Communist Party , and posing grave unprecedented challenges to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to say , in the US narrative , the present moment presented itself as a rare opportunity to discredit and isolate China and destroy its prospects as a rising superpower rivalling America .
Thus , US diplomacy under the stewardship of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ( a former sergeant in the US Army who replaced James Mattis , a decorated general with a cautious mind ) shifted gear with an anti-China agenda as its main focus .
During the past couple of years as Trump launched the US-China tariff war , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obsessive Churchillian ‘ fight them on the beaches ’ diplomatic agenda — ranging on the one hand from the incitement of unrest in Hong Kong , the tirade on alleged suppression of Uighur Muslims , the robust attempts to create an alliance system with India and Australia to counter China , the increasingly abrasive US military posturing in the South China Sea , the retraction from the sacrosanct ‘ One-China ’ policy commitments of 1972 , and a global campaign of vilification against Huawei and China ’ s 5G technology to a series @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to roll back the broad sweep of US-China bilateral relationship ( including sanctions and visa curbs lately ) , within an eventual long-term policy outlook to ‘ decouple ’ the US-China relations .
China ’ s approach to Pompeo ’ s road map has been largely reactive .
China avoided provoking the US or acting against its core interests regionally or globally .
China ’ s ‘ countermoves ’ included , principally : • overtures to the European Union member countries ( especially , Germany and France ) for a mutually beneficial partnership @ @ @ @ @ @ @ • creation of new supply chains to prepare for an eventuality of ‘ decoupling ’ from the US ; • focus on innovation and indigenous development of technology ; • ‘ regionalisation ’ of its globalisation policies ( ASEAN has replaced the US as China ’ s No .
1 trading partner ) ; • using BRI to spur China-led globalisation ( including the mapping of a Health Silk Road lately to position itself as a global health leader in the COVID-19 pandemic ) ; and , of course , • forcefully rejecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in China ’ s internal affairs elsewhere and countering the perceived threats to its ‘ territorial sovereignty ’ .
Running a fine comb through the Chinese moves , it is not possible to see any of them as ‘ anti-American ’ .
However , things began to change in the most recent weeks and months when Pompeo ’ s roadshows began increasingly frequent targeting and vilifying the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) , caricaturing the venerable party founded by Mao a century ago in 1921 as the fountainhead of all evil on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ got carried away by the ( false ) notion that the social base of the CCP has been dramatically eroded by the coronavirus and Xi Jinping ’ s hold on power has become very shaky , and that a historic opportunity is at hand to finish off the legacy of the Chinese revolution similar to what the US brilliantly exploited in the 1980s to weaken and destroy the former Soviet Union and bury the Bolshevik legacy .
Indeed , the prevailing narrative among America ’ s China experts ( and among analysts in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such immense pressure due to the disarray in its internal affairs that the leadership is forced to ‘ flex muscles ’ abroad in a contrived fashion to dissimulate strength and political stability at home .
However , paradoxically , the empirical data shows otherwise — that it is Trump who has come under pressure to project himself in the current election year as the ‘ strongman ’ capable of decisive leadership , stemming out of the polarisation and near civil war conditions in the US political economy — and fuelled by the Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unrest , and the two-party system locked in mortal political combat , cleaving the nation in the middle into two distinct halves .
Joe Biden has increased his lead to 19 points per latest polls , which is daunting .
If the pandemic becomes more acute in the US in the coming weeks and months ahead , which seems a high probability , Trump ’ s political judgment will come under severe scrutiny — in particular , his fateful decision to reopen the economy even before flattening the Covid-19 ‘ curve ’ .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ worn thin and it is hitting back at Trump where it hurts — by excusing itself from the obligation to buy hundreds of billions of American products unless Trump retracted from his hostile policies toward Beijing .
China is retaliating , knowing fully well that the farm lobby is an important segment of Trump ’ s support base .
It is a deadly body blow .
( Trump is trailing Biden in the crucial state of Wisconsin . )
Meanwhile , it is also beginning to emerge from recently released trade data that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much trumpeted ‘ trade war ’ with China shows that the results are largely the opposite of what the White House has been counting on .
Ironically , as two Carnegie scholars on China pointed out last week , “ Tariffs have produced no real improvement in the United States ’ underlying trade balance , while China ’ s trade surplus has increased and its export markets have become more diversified.
” The data shows that “ Trump ’ s reduction of the bilateral trade deficit with China was quite costly , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an inadvertent increase in China ’ s overall trade surplus.
” While US imports from China fell by $ 87.3 billion year-on-year , it largely manifests as higher prices for retailers and households instead of hurting China ’ s overall trade surplus or triggering a ‘ blue-collar ’ boom in America ’ s manufacturing industry , which Trump had expected to happen .
China has also effectively compensated for the drop in exports to the US by ramping up sales to nearly everyone else .
Chinese exports to ASEAN alone went up by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retaliatory tariffs against American products brought down its import bill by $ 33 billion .
It transpires now that despite the trade war with America , China ended up in 2019 with an overall trade balance exceeding $ 60 billion .
And this is despite the fact that , as the Carnegie study puts it , “ China ’ s dominance in global manufacturing has been gradually waning since its peak in 2015 , due to structural shifts in the Chinese economy , such as its continued graduation from low-skill manufacturing such as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China ’ s role as a location for final assembly , and rebalancing toward consumption and services , which are less trade-intensive than capital investment.
” Clearly , what the above trends underscore is that the trade war with the US and the pandemic-induced supply chain shifts will only further accelerate the trends that Beijing has set for itself as its economic strategy as a middle income country .
In sum , Trump ’ s goal of reducing trade deficits and weakening China ’ s economic prospects is yet unrealised .
Judging from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , China ’ s economy has not been significantly affected by the crackdown on trade and science and technology from the US .
Whatever ailments Chinese economy suffers today are not due to Trump , but are , as a Chinese scholar wrote recently , “ caused by the contradiction between domestic supply and demand , the financial bubble caused by land financing , which has not been fully digested by society , and the bumpy economic cycle between the long-repeated Keynesian aggregate demand stimulus and the excessive issuance of M2 ( per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to say , Beijing had made its calculations while drawing the red line on the sand in Hawaii at the meeting on June 17 between the powerful Chinese politburo member and top diplomat Yang Jiechi and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo .
( See my blog China warns Trump not to risk trade deal . )
The heart of the matter is that since there is no great disparity in the economic strength between the Chinese and American economies today , war against China is no longer an option for Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war , the war of science and technology or the war of ideology can not make a difference to the power gap between China and the US , which is narrowing at an accelerated pace .
On the contrary , the pandemic outbreak has struck heavy losses on the US economy as evident from the sight of the American stock markets successively triggering their circuit-breaker mechanisms in the period since March .
Also , the cumulative impact of the extremely high unemployment rate and the death of over 100000 Americans on social stability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On the geopolitical plane , except for India and Australia , there are no takers for Trump ’ s strategy to suppress China .
What isolates the US most is that the European Union countries are ploughing an independent furrow toward China to advance their distinct interests , with emphasis on Europe ’ s cooperation and partnership with China despite the vigorous economic competition between the two sides .
The EU insists that engaging and operating with China is “ both an opportunity and a necessity ” while robust efforts will continue to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The point is , Europe is heavily dependent on China in trade and investment and can not and will not share Washington ’ s obsessive focus on geopolitics .
Nor will Europe participate in any US military adventures against China .
Even in their rhetoric , European leaders eschew any attack on China in a confrontationist , unyielding , punitive idiom .
Most important , Europeans are deeply distrustful of the Trump administration and regard it as unreliable and unpredictable .
Suffice to say , the Trump administration ’ s current policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further development of that country ’ s comprehensive national strength has no future .
Trump feels embittered to be seen as a ‘ loser ’ , a role that he despises .
The bitterness shows .
It has become personal lately , as seen in the extraordinary outburst at the White House this week bracketing Xi Jinping with Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and an incorrigible Marxist-Leninist , the ultimate pejoratives in Trump ’ s political vocabulary .
Having said that , polemics apart , Trump is also a realist who would know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against China in his first term has not only failed to bring the desired dividends to boost his re-election prospects but also fell short of inflicting any serious damages on the lifeline of the Chinese economy .
If Trump wins a second term , this realisation may prompt him to adjust his China policy .
A new start is possible with a new foreign-policy team on board and with electoral compulsions no longer requiring him to do grandstanding .
If that happens , China will respond to any overtures .
Indeed , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wins the presidency .
Biden ’ s China policy can be expected to be rational and pragmatic , although he was one of the choreographers of the ‘ rebalance ’ strategy in Asia during the Barack Obama presidency .
Biden and the Democrats in general have a relatively more positive and open attitude to navigating the problematic period ahead with China rapidly narrowing its power gap with the US .
Channels of dialogue will reappear , replacing the contrived posturing of the Trump presidency which demonises China as an existential threat .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of US-China relations can only improve — although the fierce competition between the US and China will continue in the high-tech fields and in setting global standards , as the world economy transits an era of accelerated technological progress and new innovations whose rapid application and diffusion causing abrupt changes in society .
The bottom line is that like the European countries , Biden too will face a host of domestic issues — such as climate change , racial issues , social justice , domestic economic recovery after the pandemic , etc , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and coordination with Beijing will become a strategic necessity and the current American economic and technological suppression of China is bound to be tempered by the sobering effect of the prioritisation of dealing with domestic issues in a multilateral international milieu .

The world community can heave a sigh of relief that there isn’t going to be a new cold war between the United States and China. A Cold War needs two blocs: while Washington is unable to cobble together a bloc, Beijing is disinterested in one, lacking a bloc mentality. But isolating China in the international community is easier said than done, as the US-led globalisation is replaced by a China-led globalisation.
Nor is there any prospect of a Sino-American hot war. What is unfolding instead is a standoff between the Trump administration and Beijing in a geopolitical void whose trajectory will now largely depend on the outcome of the presidential election in the US in November.
The world community at large is not party to this standoff except for just two ‘Indo-Pacific’ maverick exceptions that have got on to the US bandwagon — Australia and India.
Asia itself remains unscathed. Japan has taken care not to provoke China. (See my blog Japan-US alliance gets less intimate.) The ASEAN countries refuse to take sides between the Trump administration and China. In fact, the ASEAN has just ensured that Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, which involves both China and Japan will be signed within this year, radically transforming the regional integration of the Asia-Pacific.
Europe too stands detached and has begun working on the terms of engagement with China for a more equal and balanced partnership attuned to the compelling realities of the post-Covid-19 era in which China stands apart as the least wounded economy.
Phobias at centrestage
In a nutshell, all this began with President Donald Trump’s decision to raise a China bogey as one of his main campaign planks in the US presidential election in November.
Trump calculated that it would be a smart strategy where the winner takes it all. On the one hand, he assumed that the ‘Phase 1’ trade deal of January would oblige China to buy over $200 billion worth American products including massive quantities of agricultural products, which would inevitably show up as his foreign policy success.
On the other hand, Trump also saw uses in projecting himself as the ‘toughest’ American president ever on China — a self-portrayal that he plays up to impress the domestic gallery and to differentiate his candidacy from his presumed main opponent John Biden’s, whom Trump would hunt down as incapable of standing up to an ‘assertive’ China.
Over and above, by conjuring up the ‘Wuhan virus’, Trump hoped to distract attention from his incompetence and dismal failure in addressing the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic that is conceivably surging as the likely nemesis of his presidential campaign.
Arguably, Beijing might not have minded being targeted as a punch bag for Trump to look ‘strong’ as a politician in an election year. But the Trump administration officials unwisely proceeded to create synergy out of Trump’s game plan also on the diplomatic plane with a view to lay the foundations of a future cold-war like strategy toward China under US leadership.
This entire architecture was built on a catastrophic misreading that the Covid-19 pandemic has lethally weakened China, derailed its economic growth which in turn is engendering social disaffection and alienating the public from the Chinese Communist Party, and posing grave unprecedented challenges to the leadership of Xi Jinping.
That is to say, in the US narrative, the present moment presented itself as a rare opportunity to discredit and isolate China and destroy its prospects as a rising superpower rivalling America. Thus, US diplomacy under the stewardship of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (a former sergeant in the US Army who replaced James Mattis, a decorated general with a cautious mind) shifted gear with an anti-China agenda as its main focus.
During the past couple of years as Trump launched the US-China tariff war, Pompeo went into an overdrive with an obsessive Churchillian ‘fight them on the beaches’ diplomatic agenda — ranging on the one hand from the incitement of unrest in Hong Kong, the tirade on alleged suppression of Uighur Muslims, the robust attempts to create an alliance system with India and Australia to counter China, the increasingly abrasive US military posturing in the South China Sea, the retraction from the sacrosanct ‘One-China’ policy commitments of 1972, and a global campaign of vilification against Huawei and China’s 5G technology to a series of calibrated moves on the other hand to roll back the broad sweep of US-China bilateral relationship (including sanctions and visa curbs lately), within an eventual long-term policy outlook to ‘decouple’ the US-China relations.
China’s approach to Pompeo’s road map has been largely reactive. China avoided provoking the US or acting against its core interests regionally or globally. China’s ‘countermoves’ included, principally:
the strengthening of China-Russia entente;
overtures to the European Union member countries (especially, Germany and France) for a mutually beneficial partnership based on mutual respect and trust;
creation of new supply chains to prepare for an eventuality of ‘decoupling’ from the US;
focus on innovation and indigenous development of technology;
calming down tensions with Japan;
‘regionalisation’ of its globalisation policies (ASEAN has replaced the US as China’s No. 1 trading partner);
using BRI to spur China-led globalisation (including the mapping of a Health Silk Road lately to position itself as a global health leader in the COVID-19 pandemic); and, of course,
forcefully rejecting the US interference in Hong Kong or in China’s internal affairs elsewhere and countering the perceived threats to its ‘territorial sovereignty’.
Running a fine comb through the Chinese moves, it is not possible to see any of them as ‘anti-American’.
Myths explode
However, things began to change in the most recent weeks and months when Pompeo’s roadshows began increasingly frequent targeting and vilifying the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), caricaturing the venerable party founded by Mao a century ago in 1921 as the fountainhead of all evil on earth.
Conceivably, the American diplomacy got carried away by the (false) notion that the social base of the CCP has been dramatically eroded by the coronavirus and Xi Jinping’s hold on power has become very shaky, and that a historic opportunity is at hand to finish off the legacy of the Chinese revolution similar to what the US brilliantly exploited in the 1980s to weaken and destroy the former Soviet Union and bury the Bolshevik legacy.
Indeed, the prevailing narrative among America’s China experts (and among analysts in India) is that Beijing is under such immense pressure due to the disarray in its internal affairs that the leadership is forced to ‘flex muscles’ abroad in a contrived fashion to dissimulate strength and political stability at home.
However, paradoxically, the empirical data shows otherwise — that it is Trump who has come under pressure to project himself in the current election year as the ‘strongman’ capable of decisive leadership, stemming out of the polarisation and near civil war conditions in the US political economy — and fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, deep economic recession, racial unrest, and the two-party system locked in mortal political combat, cleaving the nation in the middle into two distinct halves.
Joe Biden has increased his lead to 19 points per latest polls, which is daunting. If the pandemic becomes more acute in the US in the coming weeks and months ahead, which seems a high probability, Trump’s political judgment will come under severe scrutiny — in particular, his fateful decision to reopen the economy even before flattening the Covid-19 ‘curve’.
Unsurprisingly, China’s patience has worn thin and it is hitting back at Trump where it hurts — by excusing itself from the obligation to buy hundreds of billions of American products unless Trump retracted from his hostile policies toward Beijing.
China is retaliating, knowing fully well that the farm lobby is an important segment of Trump’s support base. It is a deadly body blow. (Trump is trailing Biden in the crucial state of Wisconsin.)
Meanwhile, it is also beginning to emerge from recently released trade data that the balance sheet of Trump’s much trumpeted ‘trade war’ with China shows that the results are largely the opposite of what the White House has been counting on.
Ironically, as two Carnegie scholars on China pointed out last week, “Tariffs have produced no real improvement in the United States’ underlying trade balance, while China’s trade surplus has increased and its export markets have become more diversified.”
The data shows that “Trump’s reduction of the bilateral trade deficit with China was quite costly, with a significant contraction in economic activity and an inadvertent increase in China’s overall trade surplus.”
While US imports from China fell by $87.3 billion year-on-year, it largely manifests as higher prices for retailers and households instead of hurting China’s overall trade surplus or triggering a ‘blue-collar’ boom in America’s manufacturing industry, which Trump had expected to happen.
China has also effectively compensated for the drop in exports to the US by ramping up sales to nearly everyone else. Chinese exports to ASEAN alone went up by $38.5 billion. China’s retaliatory tariffs against American products brought down its import bill by $33 billion.
It transpires now that despite the trade war with America, China ended up in 2019 with an overall trade balance exceeding $60 billion. And this is despite the fact that, as the Carnegie study puts it,
“China’s dominance in global manufacturing has been gradually waning since its peak in 2015, due to structural shifts in the Chinese economy, such as its continued graduation from low-skill manufacturing such as clothing and textiles, the decline of China’s role as a location for final assembly, and rebalancing toward consumption and services, which are less trade-intensive than capital investment.”
Clearly, what the above trends underscore is that the trade war with the US and the pandemic-induced supply chain shifts will only further accelerate the trends that Beijing has set for itself as its economic strategy as a middle income country.
In sum, Trump’s goal of reducing trade deficits and weakening China’s economic prospects is yet unrealised. Judging from investment, consumption, and price levels, China’s economy has not been significantly affected by the crackdown on trade and science and technology from the US.
Whatever ailments Chinese economy suffers today are not due to Trump, but are, as a Chinese scholar wrote recently, “caused by the contradiction between domestic supply and demand, the financial bubble caused by land financing, which has not been fully digested by society, and the bumpy economic cycle between the long-repeated Keynesian aggregate demand stimulus and the excessive issuance of M2 (per monetary school theory).”
War is not a option
Suffice to say, Beijing had made its calculations while drawing the red line on the sand in Hawaii at the meeting on June 17 between the powerful Chinese politburo member and top diplomat Yang Jiechi and the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (See my blog China warns Trump not to risk trade deal.)
The heart of the matter is that since there is no great disparity in the economic strength between the Chinese and American economies today, war against China is no longer an option for Washington. All of Trump’s trade war, the war of science and technology or the war of ideology cannot make a difference to the power gap between China and the US, which is narrowing at an accelerated pace.
On the contrary, the pandemic outbreak has struck heavy losses on the US economy as evident from the sight of the American stock markets successively triggering their circuit-breaker mechanisms in the period since March. Also, the cumulative impact of the extremely high unemployment rate and the death of over 100000 Americans on social stability is going to be very lethal.
On the geopolitical plane, except for India and Australia, there are no takers for Trump’s strategy to suppress China. What isolates the US most is that the European Union countries are ploughing an independent furrow toward China to advance their distinct interests, with emphasis on Europe’s cooperation and partnership with China despite the vigorous economic competition between the two sides.
The EU insists that engaging and operating with China is “both an opportunity and a necessity” while robust efforts will continue to rectify China’s unfair economic practices. The point is, Europe is heavily dependent on China in trade and investment and cannot and will not share Washington’s obsessive focus on geopolitics. Nor will Europe participate in any US military adventures against China. Even in their rhetoric, European leaders eschew any attack on China in a confrontationist, unyielding, punitive idiom. Most important, Europeans are deeply distrustful of the Trump administration and regard it as unreliable and unpredictable.
Suffice to say, the Trump administration’s current policy of suppressing China and effectively contain the further development of that country’s comprehensive national strength has no future. Trump feels embittered to be seen as a ‘loser’, a role that he despises. The bitterness shows. It has become personal lately, as seen in the extraordinary outburst at the White House this week bracketing Xi Jinping with Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and an incorrigible Marxist-Leninist, the ultimate pejoratives in Trump’s political vocabulary.
Having said that, polemics apart, Trump is also a realist who would know that his administration’s suppression policy against China in his first term has not only failed to bring the desired dividends to boost his re-election prospects but also fell short of inflicting any serious damages on the lifeline of the Chinese economy. If Trump wins a second term, this realisation may prompt him to adjust his China policy. A new start is possible with a new foreign-policy team on board and with electoral compulsions no longer requiring him to do grandstanding. If that happens, China will respond to any overtures.
Indeed, a radical turnaround is almost certain if Biden wins the presidency. Biden’s China policy can be expected to be rational and pragmatic, although he was one of the choreographers of the ‘rebalance’ strategy in Asia during the Barack Obama presidency. Biden and the Democrats in general have a relatively more positive and open attitude to navigating the problematic period ahead with China rapidly narrowing its power gap with the US.
Channels of dialogue will reappear, replacing the contrived posturing of the Trump presidency which demonises China as an existential threat. In a Biden presidency, the overall climate of US-China relations can only improve — although the fierce competition between the US and China will continue in the high-tech fields and in setting global standards, as the world economy transits an era of accelerated technological progress and new innovations whose rapid application and diffusion causing abrupt changes in society.
The bottom line is that like the European countries, Biden too will face a host of domestic issues — such as climate change, racial issues, social justice, domestic economic recovery after the pandemic, etc, which create a matrix in which cooperation and coordination with Beijing will become a strategic necessity and the current American economic and technological suppression of China is bound to be tempered by the sobering effect of the prioritisation of dealing with domestic issues in a multilateral international milieu.


russia-insider--2020-06-29--Putin Announces Big Tax Cuts to Transform Russia Into an IT Hub

In a televised address to the nation Tuesday , Putin also announced big tax cuts for the IT sector , apparently a bid to “ turn Russia into India ” by using tax incentives to attract and retain tech entrepreneurs .
Putin claimed that , even in the midst of a pandemic , it was clear how the Russian IT sector has “ powerful technologies and human capital opportunities.
” Putin said interest rates on insurance payments for IT companies will be lowered from 14 % to 7.6 % while they will also see corporation profit tax slashed from 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even better than “ jurisdictions like India and Ireland , ” according to Putin .
The new profit tax rate is comparable to Cyprus , a favorite location for Russian IT companies ( in Cyprus it ’ s 2.5 percent ) .
But it ’ s higher than Belarus where the rate is 0 % and President Alexander Lukashenko wants to build a local ‘ Silicon Valley ’ .
The initiative is part of major reform of the IT sector and the personal initiative of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a major IT company .
Mishustin has “ big plans to develop IT in Russia , and is always pushing the idea that IT is the most important driver of the economy ” , one of these sources told The Bell .
The tax breaks will hopefully become part of a major tax reform making it unappealing for companies to locate their businesses in offshore zones , according to two IT entrepreneurs from Russia who took their businesses abroad .
The day after the announcement it became clear the proposal was not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newspaper reported the government could increase VAT on software in a bid to compensate its losses from the tax breaks .
Unsurprisingly , it is the companies that stand to gain most from paying less tax that make most of their money from software development — including internet giant Yandex .
Unease about Russia ’ s IT brain drain is justified : there are dozens of IT entrepreneurs who have moved abroad ( from Playrix to Revolut ) .
Taxes play an important role in such decisions , but they are usually not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ important , and so is an impartial court system .
Russia lacks both of these .

In a televised address to the nation Tuesday, Putin also announced big tax cuts for the IT sector, apparently a bid to “turn Russia into India” by using tax incentives to attract and retain tech entrepreneurs. Putin claimed that, even in the midst of a pandemic, it was clear how the Russian IT sector has “powerful technologies and human capital opportunities.”
Putin said interest rates on insurance payments for IT companies will be lowered from 14% to 7.6% while they will also see corporation profit tax slashed from 20% to 3%. This is even better than “jurisdictions like India and Ireland,” according to Putin.
The new profit tax rate is comparable to Cyprus, a favorite location for Russian IT companies (in Cyprus it’s 2.5 percent). But it’s higher than Belarus where the rate is 0% and President Alexander Lukashenko wants to build a local ‘Silicon Valley’.
The initiative is part of major reform of the IT sector and the personal initiative of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to a Kremlin official and a government relations specialist at a major IT company. Mishustin has “big plans to develop IT in Russia, and is always pushing the idea that IT is the most important driver of the economy”, one of these sources told The Bell. The tax breaks will hopefully become part of a major tax reform making it unappealing for companies to locate their businesses in offshore zones, according to two IT entrepreneurs from Russia who took their businesses abroad.
The day after the announcement it became clear the proposal was not as straightforward as many thought. Kommersant newspaper reported the government could increase VAT on software in a bid to compensate its losses from the tax breaks. Unsurprisingly, it is the companies that stand to gain most from paying less tax that make most of their money from software development — including internet giant Yandex.
Unease about Russia’s IT brain drain is justified: there are dozens of IT entrepreneurs who have moved abroad (from Playrix to Revolut). Taxes play an important role in such decisions, but they are usually not key. Political predictability is no less important, and so is an impartial court system. Russia lacks both of these.


russia-insider--2020-06-29--Joe McCarthy Was a Homosexual and a Zionist, Funded by Jews - the Shocking Facts (FTN Podcast + Tran

Joe McCarthy Was a Homosexual and a Zionist, Funded by Jews - the Shocking Facts (FTN Podcast + Transcript)

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Roy Cohn at age 27 , 27 .
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From that point on , Cohn and Hoover traded favors .
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Mamma Mia .
Hoover 's recommendation to Cohn would become a deciding factor in the appointment as Senator Joe McCarthy 's general counsel at age 27 .
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Roy Cohn made his name as prosecutor for Senator Joe McCarthy and trial in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .
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This is surely how the connection was made .
Well , we 'll tell you how the connection was made .
It 's not .
It 's not just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knew each other .
It 's not just that these guys were homosexual and probably both involved in some sordid , disgusting way .
There 's another go between and it goes back to an even earlier sort of how do we say political criminal alliance , some sort of structure .
But let 's talk about this here with McCarthy , because I do n't know how many people , or at least for a while , you know , McCarthy , because he in a very similar way to Trump .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ sides of the kosher dialectic because of how hard he went .
And because of how hard he went on communism .
And he went so hard on the communism .
A lot of people thought , oh , yeah , this guy is a is a brooding anti-Semite and he 's just out to get the Jews .
Right , James ?
I mean , I , I sort of had I had this opinion .
I do n't remember the last time I really even thought much about Joe McCarthy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of McCarthy is much different from what we 're told to believe , is n't it ?
I mean , I 'm sure there are people who disagreed with the tactics that were taken by Cohen and McCarthy .
And certainly there are I mean , ended up with the Rosenbergs in the electric chair .
But , yeah , I mean , what was your opinion on McCarthy ?
Like , when did you first because you hear it in Republican politics , like , oh , that 's McCarthyism , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't go back to that sort of inquisition style of rhetoric .
Well , the way that it always worked or that it worked for me anyways was that you would hear about it in school as this horrible dark time in American history where where Jews were being targeted for no reason at all and being accused of espionage and crimes and treason .
And this is virulent .
I mean , so on and so forth .
It was n't that heavy handed , but that 's basically what you 're @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And then you hear Republicans and Republicans have actually , as of late taking this up not so much in the last year or two , but in the last decade they would take this up as an ode on the Democrats .
Right .
They would say that , you know , these Democrat witch hunts , it 's feeling a lot like McCarthyism , which is evil , right , guys ?
And so then you 're direct and you hate .
Of course , you know , these Republicans suck @ @ @ @ @ @ @ types that we talked about it in the first hour .
And so then you reflexively are like , all right , well , let 's look at McCarthy .
Did he put these Jews in the electric chair ?
He he prosecuted communists .
He was rooting out communist influence .
Therefore , he must be a good guy .
All right .
So I 'm reflexively going to defend McCarthy to to own the own these people who I know suck .
I 'm not gon na look into McCarthy too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you know , there 's reason for that .
Well , OK , look .
And what if McCarthy was just a witch , just a stupid neocon who was preventing leftists in America from bringing around , you know , universal health care and train transportation and everything ?
And it was that you just an idiot rightists who got in the way of all that .
Right ?
I mean , that 's that 's the other the flip side of of getting involved in the kosher dialectic signal .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yet he was also a homosexual and his two biggest defenders were a guy by the name of Ralph de Toll and Dano Toledano , a journalist and subparts Jew and rabbi .
Benjamin Jealous Schultz was opposed to both Nazis and communism , founding the American Jewish League against communism .
The A.J .
L a c in 1948 .
Both Toledano and Schultz have numerous defenses of McCarthy against accusations of anti-Semitism .
McCarthy 's admiration for Rabbi Schulz was reciprocal .
Of course it was .
And he was the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Shultz 's honor .
At that dinner , McCarthy delivered a very philos Semitic speech , riveted upon the ideological , yawning gap between Jews as champions of liberty , whom communists were determined to destroy .
Hence the eternal hostility between Judaism and communism .
My God , dude .
This is just rich McCarthy .
McCarthy noted that Rabbi Schulz and the A.G. LHC , quote , managed to explode the malicious myth that persons of the Jewish faith and communists have something in common .
Yeah .
Yeah .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ says Jewish people are congenital enemies of communism .
Those of the Jewish faith are historically champions of liberty .
They are traditionally jealous guardians of an individual 's freedom , political , economic and social .
These things communism is determined to destroy and remember to the persons of the Jewish faith , have by forces of circumstances a vested big vested interest in tolerance , right ?
Oh , yeah .
Oh , my God .
It 's just incredible .
Yeah .
I mean , you could maybe somebody wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some like McCarthy plan trustor out there who wants to argue that , oh , this is the reason we had to do it .
He had to say this .
I mean , in front of .
It 's like .
Stop it .
Just stop it .
We have sworn testimony talking about McCarthy being a homosexual and the fact that McCarthy is very close to Chaker Hoover , who 's very close with Roy Cohn , who 's radio host with Arthur Finkelstein .
I mean , all of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It 's like .
I mean , what do you you know ?
And then then we have n't even gotten to everything else since some sort of teasing this out , because I 'm sure there are people are like , but dude , you 're not telling those story .
Oh , just wait .
Just wait .
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Roy Cohn at age 27, 27. Just a young gay lawyer who was appointed by an older gay FBI man named J.
Edgar Hoover.
He met him in 1952 when he was even younger. I think he was 23 years old, Holder, when he met J. Edgar Hoover.
It's like I really I think that's the first time that Riken met. Did you really guys, you think that's it's gonna.
But that's not the whole story. During that meeting, as described by Bobby and J. Edgar, the historic face off between the head head Kennedys and Jaegar Hoover that transformed America, Hoover expressed admiration for KONE's aggressive and manipulative tactics and told Cohn to call me directly whenever he had information worth sharing. From that point on, Cohn and Hoover traded favors. A few stiff compliments, gifts.
Probably blood plasm, elaborate private dinners.
It quickly became Roy and Edgar. Hersh also describes Hoover as KONE's soon to be conciliatory. Mamma Mia. Hoover's recommendation to Cohn would become a deciding factor in the appointment as Senator Joe McCarthy's general counsel at age 27. Right. It's like, yeah. Roy Cohn made his qualified man for the job, I'm sure. Yeah. Roy Cohn made his name as prosecutor for Senator Joe McCarthy and trial in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Through his father, you know, people say, oh, well, his dad was a New York state Supreme Court justice and came from an extremely wealthy family. This is surely how the connection was made. Well, we'll tell you how the connection was made. It's not. It's not just it's not just that these guys knew each other.
It's not just that these guys were homosexual and probably both involved in some sordid, disgusting way. There's another go between and it goes back to an even earlier sort of how do we say political criminal alliance, some sort of structure. But let's talk about this here with McCarthy, because I don't know how many people, or at least for a while, you know, McCarthy, because he in a very similar way to Trump. He was he was loathed by both sides of the kosher dialectic because of how hard he went.
And because of how hard he went on communism. And he went so hard on the communism. A lot of people thought, oh, yeah, this guy is a is a brooding anti-Semite and he's just out to get the Jews. Right, James?
I mean, I, I sort of had I had this opinion.
I don't remember the last time I really even thought much about Joe McCarthy. But, you know, the reality of McCarthy is much different from what we're told to believe, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure there are people who disagreed with the tactics that were taken by Cohen and McCarthy. And certainly there are I mean, ended up with the Rosenbergs in the electric chair. But, yeah, I mean, what was your opinion on McCarthy? Like, when did you first because you hear it in Republican politics, like, oh, that's McCarthyism, like these McCarthyite politics. And we can't go back to that sort of inquisition style of rhetoric.
Yeah.
Well, the way that it always worked or that it worked for me anyways was that you would hear about it in school as this horrible dark time in American history where where Jews were being targeted for no reason at all and being accused of espionage and crimes and treason.
And this is virulent. I mean, so on and so forth. It wasn't that heavy handed, but that's basically what you're supposed to take away from it. And then you hear Republicans and Republicans have actually, as of late taking this up not so much in the last year or two, but in the last decade they would take this up as an ode on the Democrats. Right. They would say that, you know, these Democrat witch hunts, it's feeling a lot like McCarthyism, which is evil, right, guys? And so then you're direct and you hate. Of course, you know, these Republicans suck. These are the same never Trump types that we talked about it in the first hour. And so then you reflexively are like, all right, well, let's look at McCarthy. Did he put these Jews in the electric chair? He he prosecuted communists. He was rooting out communist influence. Therefore, he must be a good guy. All right. So I'm reflexively going to defend McCarthy to to own the own these people who I know suck. I'm not gonna look into McCarthy too much. And, of course, you know, there's reason for that. Well, OK, look.
And what if McCarthy was just a witch, just a stupid neocon who was preventing leftists in America from bringing around, you know, universal health care and train transportation and everything? And it was that you just an idiot rightists who got in the way of all that. Right? I mean, that's that's the other the flip side of of getting involved in the kosher dialectic signal.
The reality is McCarthy was a Zionist. Yet he was also a homosexual and his two biggest defenders were a guy by the name of Ralph de Toll and Dano Toledano, a journalist and subparts Jew and rabbi. Benjamin Jealous Schultz was opposed to both Nazis and communism, founding the American Jewish League against communism.
The A.J. L a c in 1948. Both Toledano and Schultz have numerous defenses of McCarthy against accusations of anti-Semitism. McCarthy's admiration for Rabbi Schulz was reciprocal. Of course it was. And he was the keynote speaker at an April 1955 dinner in Shultz's honor. At that dinner, McCarthy delivered a very philos Semitic speech, riveted upon the ideological, yawning gap between Jews as champions of liberty, whom communists were determined to destroy. Hence the eternal hostility between Judaism and communism. My God, dude. This is just rich McCarthy. McCarthy noted that Rabbi Schulz and the A.G. LHC, quote, managed to explode the malicious myth that persons of the Jewish faith and communists have something in common.
It's just incredible.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, dude. And then he says Jewish people are congenital enemies of communism. Those of the Jewish faith are historically champions of liberty. They are traditionally jealous guardians of an individual's freedom, political, economic and social. These things communism is determined to destroy and remember to the persons of the Jewish faith, have by forces of circumstances a vested big vested interest in tolerance, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. It's just incredible.
Yeah. I mean, you could maybe somebody wants to argue.
Maybe so there's some like McCarthy plan trustor out there who wants to argue that, oh, this is the reason we had to do it.
He had to say this. I mean, in front of.
It's like. Stop it. Just stop it.
We have sworn testimony talking about McCarthy being a homosexual and the fact that McCarthy is very close to Chaker Hoover, who's very close with Roy Cohn, who's radio host with Arthur Finkelstein.
I mean, all of this is then they're all homosexuals. It's like. I mean, what do you you know? And then then we haven't even gotten to everything else since some sort of teasing this out, because I'm sure there are people are like, but dude, you're not telling those story. Oh, just wait. Just wait.
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russia-insider--2020-07-03--This Israeli Tech Company Is Spying on the Upper Echelons of the US Government - Why?

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Going back to what Pompei was saying , we do not want the Chinese Communist Party to have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systems .
So , you know , sort of like the Israelis are doing to us .
Guy .
So two very two very big stories this week that have been making well past past few weeks have been making the rounds .
One of them we already talked about , which is Michael Flynn being the Indian agent .
And in the transition in 2016 , essentially trying to facilitate a veto of this this U.N. resolution that would would have been critical of Israel .
And it was done through Netanyahu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media , of course , talks about it like plan was talking .
The Russians say , no , he 's talking to Russian Jews .
And he was doing it on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu .
And Russia was only part of the story .
And they do n't talk about any of this .
And this is a story that we talked about at length .
Another story , and this is a big hat tip to Dr. Philip M. Giraldi over it .
It because he compiled both of these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about , second half of something we have n't talked about , but will fit in very nicely with a previously unreleased deep dive that we 're gon na be dropping this weekend .
On that , James put a hell of a lot of elbow grease into on Israel and how Israeli Israel is spying on you and how they have been and all the different ways that they 're doing that and facilitating that .
But the second story , which we have n't talked about , and this is new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one of the companies that I believe we talk about the deep dive of using U.S. servers for spying .
Say this for spying .
The revelation that Israel was again using its telecommunication skills to spy on foreigners US came from an Oakland , California Federal Court lawsuit initiated by Facebook against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSA group Facebook claimed that NSO had been using servers located in the United States to infect spyware on hundreds of smartphones by use used by attorneys , journalists , human rights activists , critics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People think , oh , just one hundred couple phones .
These are phones of people in very important places .
But oftentimes you 'll see this reported and they really focus on the Saudi people , you know , Jordanian journalists and with the intent of making you not care about it .
But when you really dig into it and you come to find that this was not only happening to people overseas and in the Middle East , this was being done to Americans in the United States , too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done .
Yeah , it 's still being done .
And NSO used WhatsApp , which is a made Facebook app that they have acquired to hack into phones and install malware that would enable the company to monitor what was going on with the devices .
It did so by employing networks of remote servers located in California to enter the accounts .
And also has inevitably claimed that they do indeed provide spyware , but that it is sold to clients who themselves operated draw with , quote , the advice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ setting it up .
This sounds like just another modern rendition of Crypto Agee .
James , where we talked about this before , where you have , you know , this this crypto A.G. is this cover company in Switzerland that was really controlled by the CIA that was selling all these encryption apps to people around the world .
Encryption devices , actually , people around the world .
And they had the encryption keys .
So they were just spying on everybody .
Right .
All of these countries were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just the government has the ability through Israel , of course , to spy on everybody .
Whereas this is like , yeah , we were selling NSA was like , but we 're just selling people are spyware so that they can use it in spy on other people .
And guys were using it to stop terrorism and stop violent crime and save lives .
How dare you .
How dare you .
How absolutely dare you .
And the idea , too , that there is this is just just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and use and .
Well , what do you mean holding the manufacturer liable ?
No NSO group emerged out of an Israeli government effort to become a world leader in technology back in 2012 .
Information technology .
And one of their clients is the Israeli government .
So even if you 're going to say we only contract out our services to two governments .
All right .
Well , Israel and the United States are both clients then this .
This does n't prove anything .
This does n't prove @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , them not being clients would either , but you having the ability to , in fact , any any phone .
By the way , Apple Android does n't matter .
Any phone in the world with this software is should be alarming .
And the fact that the U.S. government has basically has been confirmed to be a customer , that should be especially alarming for Americans .
It should be in so .
We understand , too , because I think people get caught in the trap of believing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of anything .
So the idea that Israel .
Israel has significant control over over a lot of the things in our country .
They have this control through lobbyists .
They have this control through financial leverage with banking .
And everybody understands a lot of how this goes on .
But do n't misconstrue that as complete control .
They do n't have complete control over everybody and they have to worry about people who could disrupt what they 're trying to do .
And in fact , I would even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control than people probably think .
That does n't mean that you should underestimate them or whatever .
But it just means that you should n't just assume that everything that happens in every person who speaks is somehow can get lost in that .
It 's probably not .
Probably not .
Let 's talk about connections that we can actually make .
And so one of the reasons why they 're spying .
One of the reasons why this goes on .
And one of the things that I think I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently is that behind closed doors , if you read intelligence agency documents , they talk about Israel being one of the big four countries that spy on the United States and they 're spying because they want to know well in advance of anything that 's going on so that they can counteract it .
And this spying allows them to have the illusion of complete control of the country because they 're able to get out in front of this stuff and thwart it now .
They do have lots of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the with the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail , all this stuff .
But all these pieces are in place to make sure that they can .
Most of the time , make sure things go their way in one way or another .
And because they want these things done very quickly , it 's part of the whole jig , not philosophy .
The third temple has to be built .
We have to do this now .
We ca n't wait .
It 's the end of end of times and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of this all of this spying that has been going on , this is to further that and make sure that that there are n't any loose ends and any problems that they have .
And they know that they have opposition .
They they know that there are people out there who do the song and dance and say , you know , I love Israel is our greatest ally .
And so on and so forth , but maybe are tired of being under that thumb right under that nose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deal with people .
They want to know is the guy who says they love Israel and , you know , they come to the Wailing Wall .
Is that one of the photo op countries is every person who comes to our country from a photo op country .
Is that somebody that what are they saying behind closed doors ?
Is that somebody who 's going to say , I love Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu behind closed doors ?
Or is that a person that says , yeah , we 're @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and get somebody else ?
So that 's the purpose of this .
So sure that that is absolutely one of the key purposes .
And also blackmail gathering .
Right , intelligence gathering .
And because they 're not only listening to , like , secure government phones , they 're listening to everything .
And as we know and as you will hear in the Israeli spy tech deep dive , we talk of extensively about their intrusion into Internet of Things devices .
Right .
Your your Alexis smart speaker @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have one now , Google , smart speaker , all of these smart home devices that have microphones in them .
Well , those those chips are being built by R.M.
, which is an Israeli company .
And they 're being hacked by by other Israeli companies .
Right .
So so the idea that that you 're safe and secure in your own home and it 's only your devices listening .
That 's absolutely not the case .
So not only do they do they get tabs on what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they also have the ability to build dossiers on just about anybody who especially people who embrace this surveillance tech and bring it into their homes .
Yeah .
And this is why , you know , Mark Zuckerberg is is a preeminent chick , that this is why he 's going to have a dinner at the White House with with Donald Trump .
This is why you have good old George Soros going out there and criticizing Mark Zuckerberg for bad optics because Zuckerberg is participating in this , in being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's data to use it for very advanced thinking .
Think Finkelstein would pore over paper polling , you know , fifty thousand dollars a pop for these polls that would be conducted .
That would not be very accurate , that you have to get somebody on a fucking phone to talk to them .
Why do all that when you can just gather people 's data like JP Morgan Chase has or like Facebook has or like any of these companies have to just pick through that data and you basically @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people 's activities , online activities .
You do n't need to ask them questions .
You just look at what they 're doing and then you can really exact fourth generation warfare , psychological warfare in in weapon ising rhetoric during elections to get people to vote the way that you want either for this side of the kosher sandwich or that 's at a kosher .
Sandwich .
That 's what Cambridge Analytical was all about .
And so a lot of this stuff is covering the gaps is .
All @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that are n't on Facebook ?
What about people who have who have smartly issued social media ?
How do we get their information ?
Well , you hack their phones , you get into whatever device they 're using unless you 're using a , you know , what is it , nineteen ninety nine star tac phone .
Probably not hackable , but who knows , maybe you can hack a star attack at this point .
But smartphones definitely hackable .
And this is something that these , these people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Like Liberata older sister is going to say one closing thought and part one libertarian 's when they 're out there are worried about Big Brother getting information .
It 's really big Tzion getting your information .
It 's not Big Brother .
It 's not the government who 's you know , it 's like , yeah , those fears are rational .
Those fears are definitely rational .
But what they 're using it for , they 're not coming to use it to van you there or do violate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rights .
Do n't remember illegal search and seizure .
Which one is that , James ?
This is how much I care that fourth .
There 's so much I care about the Constitution .
And so , yeah , this is they 're not going to do that .
Just like the lockdown 's .
We 're not about like putting you in a FEMA camp .
It 's it 's just the FEMA camp is your online activity .
It 's you know , that 's that 's what you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can to protect yourself and and .
Yeah .
I mean , this is this is Israel .
It 's not it 's , you know , deep state apparatus .
It 's just that 's all like one big thing .
So .
Yeah .
What else .
Yeah .
There is a cyber attack that Israel did on an Iranian port facility on May nine .
So , yeah , I told you , things are gon na start heating up .
Like you 're gon na start seeing things like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought , wow , did they get the headline backwards that this was Iran doing a cyber attack on an Israeli port facility ?
No , it was Israel doing it .
It 's kind of funny when they admit these things .
But but , yeah , they they hacked a port to see if they could cause a bunch of shipping problems in middle coronavirus .
Very cool Mossad .
But yeah , very cool when these people are already under the yoke of sanctions and the country is essentially being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yeah , I just , uh , you know , tinker around and mess things up a little bit more .
That 's great .
Please do .
Well , let 's let 's .
Cawsey containership truck and goods and services traffic jam in the middle of a health crisis .
That 's cool .
Very cool .
Masad .
Yeah , well , and this would n't be the first time they 've done this , right ?
They 've done this with Stuxnet , which was a an international @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And that was like 2010 .
Wow .
How time flies .
Yeah .
They 've done this with Stuxnet .
They will do this again .
And , you know , at least these these containers were n't carrying any PPE being sent to the country .
Right , guys ?
Because thankfully , the U.S. and Zionists banded together to prevent that from being sent in as aiding and abetting a an enemy regime .
What 's what what sticks net ?
Is that where you get hairbrushes and leather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I believe so .
I 'm just joking .
It 's just bats .
It 's just friendly .
I 'd love to have sticks part of the club .
Great .
Great .
But anyway , we 'll get there .
Good work on people .
So part two .
Be right back .
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Going back to what Pompei was saying, we do not want the Chinese Communist Party to have access to Israeli infrastructure, Israeli communications systems. So, you know, sort of like the Israelis are doing to us. Guy. So two very two very big stories this week that have been making well past past few weeks have been making the rounds. One of them we already talked about, which is Michael Flynn being the Indian agent. And in the transition in 2016, essentially trying to facilitate a veto of this this U.N. resolution that would would have been critical of Israel. And it was done through Netanyahu and Kushner and everything else in the media, of course, talks about it like plan was talking. The Russians say, no, he's talking to Russian Jews. And he was doing it on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu. And Russia was only part of the story. And they don't talk about any of this. And this is a story that we talked about at length. Another story, and this is a big hat tip to Dr. Philip M. Giraldi over it. It because he compiled both of these first half is something we already talked about, second half of something we haven't talked about, but will fit in very nicely with a previously unreleased deep dive that we're gonna be dropping this weekend.
On that, James put a hell of a lot of elbow grease into on Israel and how Israeli Israel is spying on you and how they have been and all the different ways that they're doing that and facilitating that. But the second story, which we haven't talked about, and this is new Facebook accuses NSO group, which is one of the companies that I believe we talk about the deep dive of using U.S. servers for spying. Say this for spying. The revelation that Israel was again using its telecommunication skills to spy on foreigners US came from an Oakland, California Federal Court lawsuit initiated by Facebook against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSA group Facebook claimed that NSO had been using servers located in the United States to infect spyware on hundreds of smartphones by use used by attorneys, journalists, human rights activists, critics of Israel and even government officials. People think, oh, just one hundred couple phones. These are phones of people in very important places.
But oftentimes you'll see this reported and they really focus on the Saudi people, you know, Jordanian journalists and with the intent of making you not care about it. But when you really dig into it and you come to find that this was not only happening to people overseas and in the Middle East, this was being done to Americans in the United States, too. And apparently it's still being done.
Yeah, it's still being done. And NSO used WhatsApp, which is a made Facebook app that they have acquired to hack into phones and install malware that would enable the company to monitor what was going on with the devices. It did so by employing networks of remote servers located in California to enter the accounts. And also has inevitably claimed that they do indeed provide spyware, but that it is sold to clients who themselves operated draw with, quote, the advice and technical support to assist customers in setting it up. This sounds like just another modern rendition of Crypto Agee. James, where we talked about this before, where you have, you know, this this crypto A.G. is this cover company in Switzerland that was really controlled by the CIA that was selling all these encryption apps to people around the world. Encryption devices, actually, people around the world. And they had the encryption keys. So they were just spying on everybody. Right. All of these countries were buying these devices. And then there just the government has the ability through Israel, of course, to spy on everybody. Whereas this is like, yeah, we were selling NSA was like, but we're just selling people are spyware so that they can use it in spy on other people. And guys were using it to stop terrorism and stop violent crime and save lives. How dare you. How dare you.
How absolutely dare you. And the idea, too, that there is this is just just like any other product somebody would purchase and use and. Well, what do you mean holding the manufacturer liable? No NSO group emerged out of an Israeli government effort to become a world leader in technology back in 2012. Information technology. And one of their clients is the Israeli government. So even if you're going to say we only contract out our services to two governments. All right. Well, Israel and the United States are both clients then this. This doesn't prove anything. This doesn't prove your innocence.
Not that you know, them not being clients would either, but you having the ability to, in fact, any any phone. By the way, Apple Android doesn't matter. Any phone in the world with this software is should be alarming. And the fact that the U.S. government has basically has been confirmed to be a customer, that should be especially alarming for Americans.
It should be in so. We understand, too, because I think people get caught in the trap of believing that it's all of something or not of anything. So the idea that Israel. Israel has significant control over over a lot of the things in our country. They have this control through lobbyists. They have this control through financial leverage with banking. And everybody understands a lot of how this goes on. But don't misconstrue that as complete control. They don't have complete control over everybody and they have to worry about people who could disrupt what they're trying to do. And in fact, I would even argue that they have a lot less control than people probably think. That doesn't mean that you should underestimate them or whatever. But it just means that you shouldn't just assume that everything that happens in every person who speaks is somehow can get lost in that. It's probably not. Probably not. Let's talk about connections that we can actually make. And so one of the reasons why they're spying. One of the reasons why this goes on. And one of the things that I think I was talking about on J and J recently is that behind closed doors, if you read intelligence agency documents, they talk about Israel being one of the big four countries that spy on the United States and they're spying because they want to know well in advance of anything that's going on so that they can counteract it. And this spying allows them to have the illusion of complete control of the country because they're able to get out in front of this stuff and thwart it now. They do have lots of control over over government and everything else with the with the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail, all this stuff.
But all these pieces are in place to make sure that they can. Most of the time, make sure things go their way in one way or another. And because they want these things done very quickly, it's part of the whole jig, not philosophy. The third temple has to be built. We have to do this now. We can't wait. It's the end of end of times and so on and so forth. So all of this all of this spying that has been going on, this is to further that and make sure that that there aren't any loose ends and any problems that they have. And they know that they have opposition. They they know that there are people out there who do the song and dance and say, you know, I love Israel is our greatest ally. And so on and so forth, but maybe are tired of being under that thumb right under that nose. And they maybe they want to deal with people. They want to know is the guy who says they love Israel and, you know, they come to the Wailing Wall. Is that one of the photo op countries is every person who comes to our country from a photo op country. Is that somebody that what are they saying behind closed doors? Is that somebody who's going to say, I love Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu behind closed doors? Or is that a person that says, yeah, we're going to get rid of that guy and get somebody else? So that's the purpose of this.
So sure that that is absolutely one of the key purposes. And also blackmail gathering. Right, intelligence gathering. And because they're not only listening to, like, secure government phones, they're listening to everything. And as we know and as you will hear in the Israeli spy tech deep dive, we talk of extensively about their intrusion into Internet of Things devices. Right. Your your Alexis smart speaker, which you should not have if you have one now, Google, smart speaker, all of these smart home devices that have microphones in them. Well, those those chips are being built by R.M., which is an Israeli company. And they're being hacked by by other Israeli companies. Right. So so the idea that that you're safe and secure in your own home and it's only your devices listening. That's absolutely not the case. So not only do they do they get tabs on what people in government are doing, but they also have the ability to build dossiers on just about anybody who especially people who embrace this surveillance tech and bring it into their homes.
Yeah. And this is why, you know, Mark Zuckerberg is is a preeminent chick, that this is why he's going to have a dinner at the White House with with Donald Trump. This is why you have good old George Soros going out there and criticizing Mark Zuckerberg for bad optics because Zuckerberg is participating in this, in being part of the panopticon and mining people's data to use it for very advanced thinking. Think Finkelstein would pore over paper polling, you know, fifty thousand dollars a pop for these polls that would be conducted. That would not be very accurate, that you have to get somebody on a fucking phone to talk to them. Why do all that when you can just gather people's data like JP Morgan Chase has or like Facebook has or like any of these companies have to just pick through that data and you basically like have instant polling results based on people's activities, online activities. You don't need to ask them questions. You just look at what they're doing and then you can really exact fourth generation warfare, psychological warfare in in weapon ising rhetoric during elections to get people to vote the way that you want either for this side of the kosher sandwich or that's at a kosher. Sandwich. That's what Cambridge Analytical was all about. And so a lot of this stuff is covering the gaps is. All right. Well, what about people that aren't on Facebook? What about people who have who have smartly issued social media? How do we get their information? Well, you hack their phones, you get into whatever device they're using unless you're using a, you know, what is it, nineteen ninety nine star tac phone. Probably not hackable, but who knows, maybe you can hack a star attack at this point. But smartphones definitely hackable.
And this is something that these, these people have been doing and. Yeah. Like Liberata older sister is going to say one closing thought and part one libertarian's when they're out there are worried about Big Brother getting information. It's really big Tzion getting your information. It's not Big Brother. It's not the government who's you know, it's like, yeah, those fears are rational. Those fears are definitely rational. But what they're using it for, they're not coming to use it to van you there or do violate your Fifth Amendment rights. Fourth Amendment rights. Don't remember illegal search and seizure. Which one is that, James? This is how much I care that fourth. There's so much I care about the Constitution. And so, yeah, this is they're not going to do that. Just like the lockdown's. We're not about like putting you in a FEMA camp. It's it's just the FEMA camp is your online activity. It's you know, that's that's what you have to know and do what you can to protect yourself and and. Yeah. I mean, this is this is Israel. It's not it's, you know, deep state apparatus. It's just that's all like one big thing. So. Yeah. What else. Yeah. There is a cyber attack that Israel did on an Iranian port facility on May nine. So, yeah, I told you, things are gonna start heating up. Like you're gonna start seeing things like this and you rarely see like I thought, wow, did they get the headline backwards that this was Iran doing a cyber attack on an Israeli port facility? No, it was Israel doing it. It's kind of funny when they admit these things. But but, yeah, they they hacked a port to see if they could cause a bunch of shipping problems in middle coronavirus. Very cool Mossad.
But yeah, very cool when these people are already under the yoke of sanctions and the country is essentially being starved by by U.S. aggression, too. Yeah, I just, uh, you know, tinker around and mess things up a little bit more. That's great. Please do.
Well, let's let's. Cawsey containership truck and goods and services traffic jam in the middle of a health crisis. That's cool. Very cool. Masad.
Yeah, well, and this wouldn't be the first time they've done this, right? They've done this with Stuxnet, which was a an international scandal about 10 years ago. Right. And that was like 2010. Wow. How time flies. Yeah. They've done this with Stuxnet. They will do this again. And, you know, at least these these containers weren't carrying any PPE being sent to the country. Right, guys? Because thankfully, the U.S. and Zionists banded together to prevent that from being sent in as aiding and abetting a an enemy regime.
What's what what sticks net? Is that where you get hairbrushes and leather jackets online? I'm just kidding. I believe so. I'm just joking. It's just bats. It's just friendly. I'd love to have sticks part of the club. Great.
Great. But anyway, we'll get there. Good work on people. So part two. Be right back. Wrecking ball swinging right back on, Athea.
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russia-insider--2020-07-03--Painting Depicting Jesus as Black To Be Installed in One of UK's Greatest Cathedrals (St. Alban's)

Earlier , a Black Lives Matter activist called for the removal of statues and murals portraying Jesus Christ as a “ white European ” amid the ongoing campaign addressing racial prejudice around the world .
And the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby agrees that the Church of England should accommodate global depictions of Jesus in different cultures .
A painting of the Da Vinci-inspired Last Supper portraying Jesus Christ as a black person will now be installed in the UK ’ s St Albans Cathedral in “ solidarity with the Black Lives Matter ” campaign , the Daily Mail reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work in question .
The painting will replace a three-part piece depicting a scene from the Nativity featuring the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus .
The new picture was created by Lorna May Wadsworth who painted the figure of Christ based on the image of Jamaican male model Tafari Hinds .
“ The church is not in a strong position to preach to others about justice , racial or otherwise .
But our faith teaches that we are all made equally in the image of God , and that God is a God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of St Albans , the Very Reverend Dr Jeffrey John , commenting on the move .
“ Black Lives Matter , so this is why we have turned our Altar of the Persecuted into a space for reflection and prayer with Lorna 's altarpiece at the heart ” .
According to the artist , her portrayal of Jesus was “ just as ‘ accurate ’ as the received idea that he looked like a Florentine ” .
“ Painting the Last Supper altarpiece made me really think about how we are accustomed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wadsworth argued .
“ Experts agree he would most likely have had Middle Eastern features , yet for centuries European artists have traditionally painted Christ in their own image ” .
The St Albans ’ s announcement about its new installation was not however widely welcomed by everybody .
The development came shortly after the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby , the most senior Bishop in the Church of England , told the BBC that the way Jesus is portrayed by the western church should be reconsidered .
Prior to this , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ King , insisted that the statues depicting Jesus as a white European person “ should come down ” as being a “ form of white supremacy ” .
His comment weighed in on the ongoing campaign targeting monuments of historical figures around the world allegedly associated with slavery and racial prejudice , following the death of African-American George Floyd in late May .

Earlier, a Black Lives Matter activist called for the removal of statues and murals portraying Jesus Christ as a “white European” amid the ongoing campaign addressing racial prejudice around the world. And the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby agrees that the Church of England should accommodate global depictions of Jesus in different cultures.
A painting of the Da Vinci-inspired Last Supper portraying Jesus Christ as a black person will now be installed in the UK’s St Albans Cathedral in “solidarity with the Black Lives Matter” campaign, the Daily Mail reported, providing the image of the art work in question.
'A Last Supper' (2009) by @Lorna_May_ is a poignant (& beautiful) challenge to traditional, 'western' iconographic assumptions. It was installed today in @StAlbansCath, in solidarity with the #blacklivesmatter movement. I can't wait to see it #arthistory https://t.co/UHByaog0Zz — Dr Emily Guerry (@EmilyGuerry) June 30, 2020
The painting will replace a three-part piece depicting a scene from the Nativity featuring the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. The new picture was created by Lorna May Wadsworth who painted the figure of Christ based on the image of Jamaican male model Tafari Hinds.
“The church is not in a strong position to preach to others about justice, racial or otherwise. But our faith teaches that we are all made equally in the image of God, and that God is a God of justice”, said the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Dr Jeffrey John, commenting on the move. “Black Lives Matter, so this is why we have turned our Altar of the Persecuted into a space for reflection and prayer with Lorna's altarpiece at the heart”.
© CC BY-SA 3.0 / PRZEMYSŁAW SAKRAJDA / ATHEDRAL AND ABBEY CHURCH OF ST ALBAN Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
According to the artist, her portrayal of Jesus was “just as ‘accurate’ as the received idea that he looked like a Florentine”.
“Painting the Last Supper altarpiece made me really think about how we are accustomed to seeing Jesus portrayed”, Lorna May Wadsworth argued. “Experts agree he would most likely have had Middle Eastern features, yet for centuries European artists have traditionally painted Christ in their own image”.
The St Albans’s announcement about its new installation was not however widely welcomed by everybody.
What next - King Henry VIIIth replaced by Kang Leroy Ist?https://t.co/sMgkMTRpbU — Tess Summers (@tesssummers98) June 30, 2020
Expect more of this nonsense. — Celia Parker (@celiaparker65) June 30, 2020
??????a rather frightening Jesus — Celeste (@GiannaMarriotta) June 30, 2020
Looking at what I think is meant to be St John, he seems to be gay as well; or maybe transsexual. — Paul Foster (@pfostr) June 30, 2020
Christ was an Middle East Arabian Jew. End of. — Tom (@Tom47211400) June 30, 2020
Expect more of this nonsense. — Celia Parker (@celiaparker65) June 30, 2020
The development came shortly after the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the most senior Bishop in the Church of England, told the BBC that the way Jesus is portrayed by the western church should be reconsidered.
“You go into churches [around the world] and you don’t see a white Jesus. You see a black Jesus, a Chinese Jesus, a Middle Eastern Jesus – which is of course the most accurate – you see a Fijian Jesus”, Welby argued last week.
Prior to this, a prominent Black Lives Matter campaigner, Shaun King, insisted that the statues depicting Jesus as a white European person “should come down” as being a “form of white supremacy”. His comment weighed in on the ongoing campaign targeting monuments of historical figures around the world allegedly associated with slavery and racial prejudice, following the death of African-American George Floyd in late May.