Jul 10, 2019, 1:13 PM Well, it puts the lie to the common perception that China is this awful place where people are regimented automatons. Of course that is ridiculous but many people in the US actually believe it. Well guess what, it just ain't true. There are just as many flamboyant over the top people in China as in the US and they are not carted off to re-education camps.
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Jul 10, 2019, 11:26 AM The point being, not that China abandon HK, that is admitting defeat and handing it back over to the Empire, which will never happen, but that HK has to solve its own problems. The first prerequisite is that HKers accept the fact that HK is not exceptional or indispensable, but an integral part of China. Until the majority does that and isolates the traitors in their midst, HK will become more and more irrelevant.
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Jul 10, 2019, 10:38 AM RT Falsely Claims U.S. Uses SWIFT as Weapon polygraph.info What a bullshit headline and what a bullshit website, promoted by Google News 'Fact Check' sidebar. If you read their analysis it's clear that the US does use SWIFT as a weapon in its economic warfare against its self-declared adversaries. The stupid article even admits that, "It may be technically accurate to say the U.S. government does not ‘control’ SWIFT. But the U.S. clearly applies political pressure on the institution and that pressure yields results.” So, yes, the U.S. does use SWIFT as weapon and RT's claim are true not false.
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Jul 10, 2019, 12:04 AM Why does new Chinese head of UN food agency feed US suspicion? scmp.com What kind of bogus headline is this? US suspicions? The only one who should be suspect is the US, which never acts as an honest broker, but is always conniving to advance its own interests ahead of anyone else's. Doesn't it say something that support for China's Qu Dongyu was universal among delegates from Africa and Latin America? They know a friend when they see one. Washington, has concern "o ver whether Qu would use China’s position at the FAO’s helm to further the ambitions of the Belt and Road Initiative?" Give me a break, as if the US doesn't use the international agencies it controls to further its own foreign policy goals. And of course all the US can do is impugn Qu's integrity as a last resort. It seems anyone from China is totally beholden to Beijing and has no independence from its dictates. Really? Others don't think ...
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Jul 9, 2019, 10:56 PM A Conversation With Chairman Adam Schiff cfr.org Below is an extended excerpt from an interview with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA),* Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence * Schiff's comments accurately reflect the opinion of Democrats regarding China. Don't expect any Democrat presidential candidate to offer anything different. When it comes to China the only difference between Democrats and Republicans, progressives, conservat ives, and Trumpsters is tactical, not strategic. Friends of China should have no illusions about where Democrats stand. They are as rabidly anti-China as can be. Their media sycophants at the NYT, WaPo, MSNBC and CNN are as disingenuous and dishonest as FOX and other Trump supporting media. None of this is anything new. We all know it. But it is worth repeating. FEIST: I want to shift gears a little bit, Congressman. I think it’s appropriate, we are here at the Council on Foreign Relati...
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Jul 9, 2019, 3:09 PM With Anacho-syndicalists like Chomsky and Hedges, Democratic Socialists like Sanders, et al. and Trotskyites like WSWS occupying the "Left" space in the US there is very little breathing room for true anti-imperialists to get their message across. That is the intent of having a controlled opposition. They're very successful at infiltrating and corrupting left-wing groups and spreading their anti-communist propaganda which interestingly enough is the sane as that of the bourgeois media.
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Jul 9, 2019, 12:58 AM Love Thy Neighbor: The Bible Belt Is Becoming a Dumping Ground ozy.com Toxic waste being dumped in powerless rural redoubts, skyrocketing cancer rates, radioactive contamination. Another scare story about China? No, this us what is happening in Trump's backyard, the American South.