So Bill, what did the U.S.A. do after it vanquished it's enemies in Japan, Germany, etc.? Did we enslave their populations, pillage their assets and natural resources or did we help them to rebuild after losing wars that they started? It seems to me that a Bad Guy would have taken advantage of the situation and extracted as much as possible from the vanquished.
"At more than 600 people per 100,000 in the hoosegow, the US locks up twice as many of its own people as Russia, and five times as many as China." -- Bill in this missive
You might want to ask a Russian or Chinese national that escaped from those places if living there as a common man is any worse than living in a prison here. You might be surprised by their answers.
The Chinese will not answer that question. The will disappear. Is that like going to jail. The Chinese Cassocks in western China are spending a lot of time in reeducation centers. Is that like jail. Will not even go into the Islamic problems in the south west. That is enslavement. Certainly not jail. Most Chinese do not know about Tinniman Square. They do not teach that in school. My driver took me up the northeast boarder and showed me the miles of graves from the Korean war. Chinese never did tell these moms what happened to their sons. Yes China is nice, if you keep your mouth shut.
The Allied Forces did a lot of things. Japan, Italy and Germany did a lot more. China continued a war with the Nationalist with weapons it had horded that had been given to it by the US. The Nationalist did the same. The Nationalist lost and went to Taiwan. But the Taiwanese have not enslaved there people. They have built a properest nation and not caused China any problems except that they for a long time were making more money. Today the Chinese have caught up by using capitalist ways. Now they want something they have never held. The Nationalist held Taiwan before 1900 and have held it ever since. No China wants a one China rule to cover Taiwan, because it keeps them from ruling the sea in that area. Poor Bad Guys!
Bad guys usually eventually eliminate themselves, or get disappeared. It is the evil ones that seem to hang on because the spirit of evil is so strong and spreads rapidly. Especially if others think they can get a piece of the pie for free. China may flex their muscle, but they are not ignorant. No one has seen a nation unite as quickly as this one when threatened. No less than President Lincoln said, "this country only can be taken from within", so even the powers that be would have issues. No, we don't have f-16s or anything near as powerful as the govt. but the will and spirit would be something to behold. I pray it never comes to that. I am still to old to shoot, but still one hell of a loader!! Just sayin'
Calling shenanigans on this one. Had an up-front view of Chinese corporate espionage; it's real and they respect no one's property rights. For example, ask ARM what they think. And about the Caribbean; my experience is that the lefties in the Caribbean islands blame the US for everything. Just read any day's Miami Tribune op-ed page. And honestly, nearly all countries have spies and meddle in the affairs of foreign countries. Compare how the US treated Iraq compared to how Russia is treating Ukraine. The US genuinely tries to avoid civilian injury if possible. Russia/Putin is leveling whole towns WWII-style. I'm getting tired of these arguments.
Hey James. When America illegally invaded Iraq, they did a complete shock and awe. From what I can read, Putin has prosecuted this war carefully compared to that. If you are reading the New York Times and the Atlantic, they will tell you Russia is killing many civilians on purpose. I am reading different publications. I prefer to read the opinions of people who agree that a man can’t have a baby. A recession is not a recession, etc.. There is no crisis at the southern border. Just my humble opinion, sir.
Yeap that was the origin of the problem , and we want to live without Our Creator , and here we are in the biggest mess of all times . We know the end .
China is our largest creditor and god knows the bill collector is always the bad guy when he's not tossing money around.
If USA has stayed out of WW1, WW2, would never have happened Russia would not be Communist, nor would China. However the citizens of France and UK might be speaking German. JB Morgan and a lot of other banks would be history. USA would probably still have the world's reserve currency and the deficit would be a lot less with the smaller Federal government that would have resulted in not entering WW1.
Dennis T -- Are you sure that China is the USA largest foreign creditor? I thought it was Japan. Checked the Internet before I wrote this. Investorpedia says Japan with China second and UK third. Could be wrong though.
I maybe wrong but China is a strong competitor, while Japan and UK act more like trading partners. This makes China bad while Japan and UK are good.
However that said Japan was the bad guy up until we dropped two nuke and UK no longer rules the sea or really anything we're interested in ruling, putting them squarely in the good guy category.
China is the second creditor of the USA , but I don’t know why is it bad , they got the risk , as someone said , the US dollar is our currency but it s your problem ...
China holds lots of our Treasuries, when they don't want them any more redeeming these will cause USA to default or print to cover the debt with paper.
USA is the Titanic after hitting the iceberg with hard assets as the only lifeboat. One's primary residence is not for 90% of the populace an asset, but is a liability. Proof of that fact is how quickly in the last RE bubble many dream homes became the owner greatest nightmare.
Literally there will be blood in the streets, most of the Nation has no wealth or access to wealth, even in the 6 figure category earners a great percentage lives paycheck to paycheck.
When credit cards stop working people will starve, walk, and sweat or freeze depending on the season. Uncle Sam will step in to save the middle-class, the playing field will be leveled the middle-class will be no more.
Aie aie aie , Bill , poor article today , actually you just wrote it because you are not in China or Russia or Iran ... I wonder if you could have wrote it there , and by the way , the Japanese did attack the USA but that you know it don’t you . There is no theory of good guys and bad guys , sauf pour vous Bill , we know we are all good sometimes and bad a lot of time , my country did a mess with South America, ( Señor Cortes ) the USA with the natives , the australiens with the Natives, the British etc etc etc , one day a hero an other day an assassin.
Now what is coming is totalitarisme ag a soit disant démocratie, if we don’t fight we may end up centuries of slavering , just look at the freedom in Russia , China and Iran , now may be Bill are you an adept of there ways to handle, ?
Yes Bill, New York had more lawyers than China before the turn of the century. I kind of agree with their system of prosecuting criminals. Who needs lawyers and prisons when you just make the criminal disappear...Would save our tax payers hundreds of Billions, which could be much better spent on supporting more welfare, which supports the birth of more criminals, which supports...ad infinitum
Worth listening to the Spectator’s Chinese Whispers podcast to get more insight into the changing relationship between the US and China - first good though patronising, then bad, then good and bad again.
Hey Bill. I don’t really think we need statistics regarding the foreign countries that we have invaded illegally. That’s all out in the open. I think I looked about 10 years ago and we had about 5% of the worlds population and about 25% of the worlds incarcerated population, we do love to put people in jail. I believe the cash prison system is a big reason why.
So Bill, what did the U.S.A. do after it vanquished it's enemies in Japan, Germany, etc.? Did we enslave their populations, pillage their assets and natural resources or did we help them to rebuild after losing wars that they started? It seems to me that a Bad Guy would have taken advantage of the situation and extracted as much as possible from the vanquished.
"At more than 600 people per 100,000 in the hoosegow, the US locks up twice as many of its own people as Russia, and five times as many as China." -- Bill in this missive
You might want to ask a Russian or Chinese national that escaped from those places if living there as a common man is any worse than living in a prison here. You might be surprised by their answers.
The Chinese will not answer that question. The will disappear. Is that like going to jail. The Chinese Cassocks in western China are spending a lot of time in reeducation centers. Is that like jail. Will not even go into the Islamic problems in the south west. That is enslavement. Certainly not jail. Most Chinese do not know about Tinniman Square. They do not teach that in school. My driver took me up the northeast boarder and showed me the miles of graves from the Korean war. Chinese never did tell these moms what happened to their sons. Yes China is nice, if you keep your mouth shut.
The Allied Forces did a lot of things. Japan, Italy and Germany did a lot more. China continued a war with the Nationalist with weapons it had horded that had been given to it by the US. The Nationalist did the same. The Nationalist lost and went to Taiwan. But the Taiwanese have not enslaved there people. They have built a properest nation and not caused China any problems except that they for a long time were making more money. Today the Chinese have caught up by using capitalist ways. Now they want something they have never held. The Nationalist held Taiwan before 1900 and have held it ever since. No China wants a one China rule to cover Taiwan, because it keeps them from ruling the sea in that area. Poor Bad Guys!
We have met the enemy, and they are us.
Said Pogo, the opossum.
From 321Gold, 03/07/2023 "An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
- Sun Tzu
"Guy" refers to a man. Bill needs to get "woke"! I am reporting him to the Thought Police! "Bad Guy Theory" should be "Bad Person Theory".
Bad guys usually eventually eliminate themselves, or get disappeared. It is the evil ones that seem to hang on because the spirit of evil is so strong and spreads rapidly. Especially if others think they can get a piece of the pie for free. China may flex their muscle, but they are not ignorant. No one has seen a nation unite as quickly as this one when threatened. No less than President Lincoln said, "this country only can be taken from within", so even the powers that be would have issues. No, we don't have f-16s or anything near as powerful as the govt. but the will and spirit would be something to behold. I pray it never comes to that. I am still to old to shoot, but still one hell of a loader!! Just sayin'
There are no "good guys" with the exception of Jesus Christ. Everyone is a "bad guy", though some are (much) worst than others. My two cents...
Calling shenanigans on this one. Had an up-front view of Chinese corporate espionage; it's real and they respect no one's property rights. For example, ask ARM what they think. And about the Caribbean; my experience is that the lefties in the Caribbean islands blame the US for everything. Just read any day's Miami Tribune op-ed page. And honestly, nearly all countries have spies and meddle in the affairs of foreign countries. Compare how the US treated Iraq compared to how Russia is treating Ukraine. The US genuinely tries to avoid civilian injury if possible. Russia/Putin is leveling whole towns WWII-style. I'm getting tired of these arguments.
Hey James. When America illegally invaded Iraq, they did a complete shock and awe. From what I can read, Putin has prosecuted this war carefully compared to that. If you are reading the New York Times and the Atlantic, they will tell you Russia is killing many civilians on purpose. I am reading different publications. I prefer to read the opinions of people who agree that a man can’t have a baby. A recession is not a recession, etc.. There is no crisis at the southern border. Just my humble opinion, sir.
Yes sir! Lines between Good Guys and Bad Guys get very blurry!
I wonder why God told us NOT to eat the fruit of “that tree”.
Appears mankind’s arrogant arse knows better!
Yeap that was the origin of the problem , and we want to live without Our Creator , and here we are in the biggest mess of all times . We know the end .
And then a great beginning for ever .
J Scott
In 1961 our departing president warned us to be fearful of the military industrial complex; todays article shows who the bad guys really are!
China is our largest creditor and god knows the bill collector is always the bad guy when he's not tossing money around.
If USA has stayed out of WW1, WW2, would never have happened Russia would not be Communist, nor would China. However the citizens of France and UK might be speaking German. JB Morgan and a lot of other banks would be history. USA would probably still have the world's reserve currency and the deficit would be a lot less with the smaller Federal government that would have resulted in not entering WW1.
Dennis T -- Are you sure that China is the USA largest foreign creditor? I thought it was Japan. Checked the Internet before I wrote this. Investorpedia says Japan with China second and UK third. Could be wrong though.
I maybe wrong but China is a strong competitor, while Japan and UK act more like trading partners. This makes China bad while Japan and UK are good.
However that said Japan was the bad guy up until we dropped two nuke and UK no longer rules the sea or really anything we're interested in ruling, putting them squarely in the good guy category.
China is the second creditor of the USA , but I don’t know why is it bad , they got the risk , as someone said , the US dollar is our currency but it s your problem ...
China holds lots of our Treasuries, when they don't want them any more redeeming these will cause USA to default or print to cover the debt with paper.
USA is the Titanic after hitting the iceberg with hard assets as the only lifeboat. One's primary residence is not for 90% of the populace an asset, but is a liability. Proof of that fact is how quickly in the last RE bubble many dream homes became the owner greatest nightmare.
Literally there will be blood in the streets, most of the Nation has no wealth or access to wealth, even in the 6 figure category earners a great percentage lives paycheck to paycheck.
When credit cards stop working people will starve, walk, and sweat or freeze depending on the season. Uncle Sam will step in to save the middle-class, the playing field will be leveled the middle-class will be no more.
Mr. Bonner: I've been a practicing large animal veterinarian for 50 years. Perhaps I can help you reduce the death loss in your calves.
Todd Bershad, D.V.M.
What about asking a vet ? 10% lost calves is way to much ! What about the dead cows your son in law has found last week or so ?
Heinrich Dahmen , DVM
Aie aie aie , Bill , poor article today , actually you just wrote it because you are not in China or Russia or Iran ... I wonder if you could have wrote it there , and by the way , the Japanese did attack the USA but that you know it don’t you . There is no theory of good guys and bad guys , sauf pour vous Bill , we know we are all good sometimes and bad a lot of time , my country did a mess with South America, ( Señor Cortes ) the USA with the natives , the australiens with the Natives, the British etc etc etc , one day a hero an other day an assassin.
Now what is coming is totalitarisme ag a soit disant démocratie, if we don’t fight we may end up centuries of slavering , just look at the freedom in Russia , China and Iran , now may be Bill are you an adept of there ways to handle, ?
Yes Bill, New York had more lawyers than China before the turn of the century. I kind of agree with their system of prosecuting criminals. Who needs lawyers and prisons when you just make the criminal disappear...Would save our tax payers hundreds of Billions, which could be much better spent on supporting more welfare, which supports the birth of more criminals, which supports...ad infinitum
Worth listening to the Spectator’s Chinese Whispers podcast to get more insight into the changing relationship between the US and China - first good though patronising, then bad, then good and bad again.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/best-of-the-spectator/id793236670?i=1000602999358
Can you provide your sources for all the US statistics re. Jails, wars etc
Hey Bill. I don’t really think we need statistics regarding the foreign countries that we have invaded illegally. That’s all out in the open. I think I looked about 10 years ago and we had about 5% of the worlds population and about 25% of the worlds incarcerated population, we do love to put people in jail. I believe the cash prison system is a big reason why.