Taipei has been watching the Ukraine War unfold and is discussing strategies on how it would best respond to an invasion from China, which has a much larger military. Taipei has traditionally looked to expensive missile systems to repel an invasion. Taiwan spent a record $17 billion on its military in 2022 and, in January,...
Tag: april 5 2022
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FACEBOOK: CALLS FOR PEACE AND TO STOP ARMING UKRAINE FORBIDDEN
The only permissible social media and mainstream media speech is talk about more war, more armaments, more death. Corporate media produces the propaganda and Big Tech muzzles “the other side.” This time it is Facebook, the social media giant, that has been accused of pulling a video off its platform that called on Germany to...
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CHINA STANDS WITH RUSSIA. TELLS E.U. AND U.S. FU!
Despite the weeks of pressure from the U.S. and European countries for Beijing to take a firmer stance against Russia for invading Ukraine, the Chinese have made it perfectly clear that not only will they refuse to criticize Moscow for the invasion; they blame the West for having set the stage for the war. China...
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RUSSIA DEALS WITH TO INDIA TO OFFSET WEST’S SANCTIONS
Moscow sent its top envoy to India last week to fortify its relationship with New Delhi in the face of blistering Western sanctions that were put into place following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had previously met with his Chinese counterpart last week with top government officials in India. Both China...
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THE BOTTOM LINE: DAIRY QUEEN FINDS NEW WAYS TO MAKE AMERICANS FATTER, DUMBER, AND SICKER.
The U.S. public is becoming fat, dumb, and blind, which is good for business! Companies can stuff more processed food into mouths and then, when these people come down with a chronic illness, a drug company will have a medication for that… and then another medication to offset the side-effects of the first drug. Dairy...
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MARKETS OVERVIEW
LAST WEEK: U.S. equity markets rose last week after the major U.S. stock indexes turned in their worst quarterly performance since the COVID War began over two years ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week by adding 0.4 percent and the NASDAQ 0.3 percent. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index also gained 0.3...
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“DANGEROUS DISINFORMATION” LABEL BEING USED TO GUT FUNDAMENTAL FREE SPEECH RIGHTS
A new primer “How to Stop Disinformation,” put out by the Union Of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org), shows the tactics that authoritarians are now routinely using to silence and smear dissenting views. Released on 1 April, the step-by-step “how to” is unfortunately no April Fool’s joke. The paper explicitly recommends against fostering open debate concerning policies...
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AMERICAN MEDIA: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY PSAKI JOINS THE PRESSTITUTE CLUB
Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary who was part of President Joe Biden’s Obama 2.0 staff, is in talks with MSNBC to host a show for its streaming service, which is the latest example of the incestuous relationship between the government and the media. Axios was the first to report on the discussions and pointed out that it...
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NATO: MORE WAR, NO PEACE
NATO countries continue to vow to increase their military spending after the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal, citing a NATO annual report released Thursday, said countries in the alliance spent about two percent more in military spending in the past year. The report said the U.S. accounts for 70 percent of the...
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ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
Let’s be stupid. Let’s play politics. Let’s play American politics. Look at the nation’s glorious track record. Politicians from both parties started and lost scores of war across the planet over the past 75 years that cost trillions, killed millions and destroyed nations. As far as education, America spends a lot to be stupid. According...