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[daifo]

Is the poor man ok, is their any suspected foul play here given well, the current climate

Of course the probability is likely a scooter accident but...

He did complain about someone doxxing him yesterday. Rather than being completely professional about explaining geopolitics , he does sometime make some loud semi-jokish comments similar to "The US empire will not exist by xxxx so there is no need to worry" that may anger someone. IMO, he probably should not have made public his location if ****posting about the empire using his real id unless he lived in like Hong Kong. Bali/Indonesia seems like a place that can be lawless or easy to hire a low level criminal.

 

[Chevalier]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1830651223722119223

clearly the U.S. were going to use twitter to instigate a colour revolution in Brazil.

 

[BlackWindMnt]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1830651223722119223

clearly the U.S. were going to use twitter to instigate a colour revolution in Brazil.

Mr Xi please bring more Chinese social media platforms in the west, the peoples want choices......

 

[chgough34]

What does the US even produce that is of any real value to real consumers, that can genuinely compete in a fair open market, Big Macs?

Plenty - Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, oil & gas, agricultural products, software, IT services, measurement and navigation tools, machinery, wafer fab equipment, semiconductors, aircraft, gas turbines, healthcare services, higher education, etc.

 

[chgough34]

It's probably fake growth from the MIC and deals scored at gunpoint from colonizing and sanctioning competition. All temporary stuff and the bubble will eventually burst as more and more countries stand up to the US.

Which countries are “stand[ing] up to the U.S.” that haven’t previously? And if the U.S. can flawlessly erase foreign competition with sanctions and colonize effortlessly, that’s no longer “temporary” since the more the U.S. does it, the stronger the U.S. gets and the weaker the rest of the world gets which means in the next time period, the U.S. can do more of the same.

 

[iewgnem]

Plenty - Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, oil & gas, agricultural products, software, IT services, measurement and navigation tools, machinery, wafer fab equipment, semiconductors, aircraft, gas turbines, healthcare services, higher education, etc.

Saying size of US economy is greater than zero is very different from US economy being anywhere near it's claimed size.

Current US interest rate is 5.5% and debt spending make up all US "growth", every month that passes is more ZIRP debt rolling over to 5.5% to sustain that illusion of "growth", debt servicing has already exceed US military spending and at this interest rate it'll be 2x military spending before end of 2025, the US is literally eating itself alive to sustain the illusion of life.

Course Feds can cut interest rates, as they already hinted they will, but without any growth in real productive capital it'll drive up inflation and cause USD to depreciate, and America's nominal GDP is the only thing they can use to pretend to be the size they are.

At it's core US simply lack enough human capital, technological capital nor industrial capital to back up its claimed economic size, the natural place for the US, with it's population size, education, political system and work ethic is a large Argentina, and US will be lucky to land at that position softly. The lottery winnings from 20th century has run out, and US has one last shot to avoid the pains of sudden wealth syndrom.

 

[9dashline]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1830651223722119223

clearly the U.S. were going to use twitter to instigate a colour revolution in Brazil.

I been saying Elon Musk is a CIA frontman for years...

 

[supercat]

Yep. The research papers are leading indicators, on the future, but for now, US productivity is substantially higher than China. No one seems to be disputing this, but instead, qualifying it on what will happen in the future.

And the original point was about the present productivity differences. Appeals to the first derivative are irrelevant.

Thank you for confirming that the future belongs to China. China will grow 4-6% a year in the next decade or so, with 2-3% appreciation of its currency, its effective growth rate will be 6-9%. That's a very decent growth rate as the world's largest economy on a PPP basis, regardless of its productivity.

Political rivals getting cleansed by the DPP.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1830077216153354756

Ko should have stayed in the alliance with the KMT during the presidential election.

Plenty - Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, oil & gas, agricultural products, software, IT services, measurement and navigation tools, machinery, wafer fab equipment, semiconductors, aircraft, gas turbines, healthcare services, higher education, etc.

Yet manufacturing plays such a minor role in the US economy, while the output of its service sector is inflated potentially.

Manufacturers in the United States account for 10.70% of the total output in the country, employing 8.41% of the workforce. Total output from manufacturing was $2.5 trillion in 2021.

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Compare that to China:

Which countries are “stand[ing] up to the U.S.” that haven’t previously? And if the U.S. can flawlessly erase foreign competition with sanctions and colonize effortlessly, that’s no longer “temporary” since the more the U.S. does it, the stronger the U.S. gets and the weaker the rest of the world gets which means in the next time period, the U.S. can do more of the same.

I see, win-win cooperation is not a thing for you, and you have to resort to the zero-sum game of sanctions and colonization. Since we are at it, let me show you what a win-win partnership is: almost all African countries will attend the China-Africa summit:

China to pitch green tech exports to African leaders as Western curbs loom​

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Good.

Antimony, gallium prices soar as China widens rare-metal export curbs​

Buyers scramble to stock up on minerals amid uncertainties over tighter controls

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[9dashline]

US seizes Maduros' plane.

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"Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of... We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law," US officials told CNN.

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“Our country cannot and must not get used to this,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz said after the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party triumphed.

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"The European automotive industry is in a very demanding and serious situation," Volkswagen Group CEO Oliver Blume said in a written statement.

"The economic environment became even tougher, and new competitors are entering the European market. In addition, Germany in particular as a manufacturing location is falling further behind in terms of competitiveness."

I dont know how these clowns keep a straight face

Everyone knows by now, : "In Times of War, the Laws Fall Silent"

And the US has been at war for 96% of its entire history.

 

[gelgoog]

The US government basically stole someone else's airplane. According to the sanctions Venezuela isn't allowed to buy any aircraft with US content in it, even if it is a single screw. Iran leased Venezuela a 747 of theirs and it got stolen by the US when it landed in Argentina. This time it is a French built private jet (Dassault Falcon 900EX), that has US made engines in it stolen by the US when it landed in the Dominican Republic.

The US government do not believe the first-sale doctrine applies to their extraterritorial sanctions.