by Jim Rickards, Daily Reckoning:
The story of China’s explosive growth from 1978 to 2008 is well-known.
China’s GDP surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to over $3 trillion by 2008. China’s average annual growth rate exceeded 10% from 1978 to 2005. During this period, over 600 million people escaped poverty to obtain at least a stable if low-income standard of living.
Between 2000 and 2008, China became the factory to the world providing everything from simple assembly to textiles to world-class automobiles and laptop computers.
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On September 7th, NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged that the war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, like Western ‘news’-media say, but much earlier, in 2014, and that Russia’s invasion in 2022 resulted from NATO’s efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO and to bring NATO’s military forces closer to Russia’s borders: “He [Putin] went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.” In other words: Russia’s invasion actually was defensive, not aggressive, on Russia’s side. And Stoltenberg proudly proclaimed that Russia has been defeated in that defensive objective, because instead both Sweden and especially Finland (one of the nearest nations to The Kremlin, other than the nearest of all, which is Ukraine) rushed to join NATO as a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Stoltenberg was so proud of having turned to dust Putin’s goal of making Russia safer, that Stoltenberg repeated many times NATO having done the exact opposite of what Putin was urging. Stoltenberg was clearly proud to have overseen the frustration of Russia’s need for a defense against a possible blitz-nuclear attack by NATO.
The world needs international digital ID systems like coronavirus passports and Artificial Intelligence should be regulated by a global body similar to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday.
Sixty years ago, the one US Secret Service agent was just feet away when he experienced a moment that would forever change history. In the years since, the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy has raised a series of questions and sparked various conspiracies.
A few years ago, I was shocked when I saw in our streets a bunch of odd-looking people on small motorcycles doing stunts in the middle of one of our main avenues in the city I used to live in. To top it off, I found out it was a homage to some dead guy who came in a funerary car. Go figure. It was a public farewell act to a gang member. A ritual burial. There were women I could identify as Santeria priestesses wearing necklaces and stuff on the back of pickup trucks, which is “forbidden” here, theoretically. All of this spectacle is out in the open, for the consternation of us, hard-working law-abiding citizens cruising peacefully through the streets with our families. Shots in the air, as if my wonderful tropical country was some dirt hole ruled by non-Christian warlords in some God-forgotten parts of the world.
The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the US government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest.