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Monday, May 13, 2019

Part 2 - Obama's Money Laundering: Chinese Global Domination?



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[NYT 09012011 - Matthew Wald]

We recognized the Solyndra debacle was an Obama scam, but, we never quite grasped the depth of the corruption involved, or, how it would eventually tie to the Deep State shift of global control from the United States to China.  While America was distracted by the Russia scandal, which has dominated world news for more than two years, we were distracted from the actual Economic and Military threat from China.  This is a long and convoluted thread; take the time to read it all the way to the end which should open your eyes to the big picture from which the Leftist Media has been distracting us, while China has been subverting us from within.
NSA Map: Chinese Cyber Assaults on US Economy

A secret NSA map shows the Chinese government’s massive cyber assault on all sectors of the US economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as well as the US government and military.

The map's red dots mark more than 600 corporate, private or government “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacked over a five-year period, with clusters in America’s industrial centers. The entire Northeast Corridor from Washington to Boston is blanketed in red, as is California’s Silicon Valley, with other concentrations in Dallas, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, L.A. and Detroit. The highest number of attacks was in California, which had almost 50.

Some of you may recall the Solyndra debacle, in which Obama declared he was promoting private enterprise, and US manufactured Solar Panels, to create jobs.  He invested $527 Million in direct loans from the Federal Financing Bank under the 2009 Stimulus Package to Solyndra -- by-passing the normal scrutiny by the Treasury Department auditors.  Private investors, thinking this was a solid, federally-backed program, invested another $1 Billion.   After all, President Bush had blessed it in 2006, so what could possibly go wrong!

Be sure you deposit $500 Million to my off-shore account


Obama visited the company in 2010, proclaiming it was "... leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future" and had hired 1,100 workers.  Below the radar, though, the OMB watchdogs noted that Obama had "... bypassed key taxpayer protections in a rush to approve the funds."




As federal auditors and investors watched helplessly, Solyndra executives were funneling the cash to offshore banks through bogus invoices to "partner companies" which existed solely to create invoices for future auditor review.

By 2011, the company executives had safely transferred virtually all the cash to a variety of offshore banks; they then decried the Chinese competition as underpriced, and therefore, Solyndra was declaring bankruptcy and firing its 1,100 workers.

A flurry of "investigations" followed, but, with Tim Geithner running the Treasury Department, and Eric Holder at the Department of Justice,  and Bob Mueller heading the FBI, not much progress was made in following up with investigations, much less prosecutions.

So, you say, why reprise this scandal!
The depths of that corruption have already been plumbed, and there's not much to be done about it now except to wring our hands and say, "thank God Obama is out of office!"

But, wait, there's more!

Well, no one ever really created an audit trail on that $1.57 Billion.
But, we do know that Obama entered office with a net worth of less than $250,000, and left with an estimated net worth of several billion dollars.  We are told that he was a frugal man and saved his money, and invested wisely.

So, where did all the money go?

It seems the Solyndra cash, along with many billions of dollars from the stimulus packages were passed through shell companies to a variety of off-shore banks in the Caribbean, China, and elsewhere in the Pacific. [Other monies, directly from the NY Fed were transferred to European and Indonesian banks in 2008 by Tim Geithner - then President of the NY Fed.  
The total that Geithner transferred to China was $15 Trillion, rapidly boosting China's GDP from $6 Trillion to nearly $13 Trillion a few short years.

And, what did Obama do with all that cash? [see comments below for China's spending]
We're slowly unraveling that as reports emanate from Trump's Treasury Department.

Obama's lifestyle at our expense
[house is based on design of a commercial Phuket estate]
As luck would have it, Obama's CIA was managing Intelligence/ Interrogation operations in a remote part of Thailand, and, while visiting, Obama decided he needed a hideaway.

The house, on 400 acres, is in the Northeast section of Thailand, near Ubol Ratchatani, a former USAF air base during the Vietnam War.  USAID had modernized the infrastructure of the area, and it showed growth promise.

Ubol Ratchatani
Obama's Insurgent HQ 






So, Solyndra, using its ill-gotten gains, bought a comfortable house, accessible to a semi-private airport [constructed by the USAF, with other attributes we'll discuss below, to accommodate Obama's international aspirations.

This is a swell spot to vacation, and to manage his Shadow Government if things get sticky elsewhere.  During his time in office, Obama visited Thailand six times, and in 2017, visited there another four times.  It apparently appeals to him.

But, aside from the obvious comfort levels, what else would take Obama to this remote part of the world!


As we've noted frequently in the past, there's more to Obama than meets the eye.

Before entering US politics, Obama was reared in an Indonesian Muslim environment, and appears on the rolls as a Muslim student [complete with a UK birth certificate from Kenya (when it was a UK colony].


In  the US with his mother (whom he later ignored and condemned), he was tutored by his Communist "father", Frank Marshall Davis who inculcated young Barack with Communist doctrine.  Once in the US, it seems that Obama's employer, the Ford Foundation, may have prepped him for the US political system, greasing the skids for a Blitzkrieg rise to the Oval Office.
Essentially, Obama is a double edged sword -- as a Communist AND an Islamic radical.

So, what, you might wonder; 
we already knew most of that history.

If you take his background, and his aborted attempts to create a Socialist/Communist state in America, he is likely now on the same path on a global basis.  He has announced he would like to lead the United Nations [probably not a certainty at this point], but, what better background to start tweaking developing countries.

He attempted to create a totalitarian Communist state in the US, populated with Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Iranians, and Communists.  He and Hillary did their best to undermine and overthrow the governments in a number of countries, and was finally outed as a result of Hillary's Benghazi fiasco -- which became a conduit of weaponry for ISIS and al Qaeda.

You may recall that Thailand has been beset by chronic Communist protests throughout the past decade, with a highly critical world Press condemning the Thai Military Government for its aggressive posture against dissidents.

Reportedly, a recent raid on the compound [quickly vacated] produced encrypted laptops,  $200 Million in gold bullion, and dozens of crates of Chinese weapons and explosives.

[The Thai government reportedly confiscated the estate under the provisions of the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.]

That is not an aberration in either case, since the Communists have tried to overthrow the Thai Government since the mid-1950s.



NE Thailand Insurgency
Thailand was strengthened as a US ally during the Vietnam War, all the time fighting a Chinese  Communist insurgency supplied via Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the Northeast, and a Muslim insurgency at the border with Malaysia.

So, here, we get a two-fer. 

The insurgency in NE Thailand was headquartered right across the Cambodian border from Sisaket during the Vietnam War, while supplies and cadre crossed the river from Laos [via a North Vietnamese Binh Tram (logistics unit)] to operate near Ubol and Nakhon Phanom [NKP](another US air base)].
Obama's Mansion is strategically positioned
It was a viable and dynamic insurgent movement, with cadre recruited locally and trained in China, from which they would return to the region to recruit local villagers.

Mr Obama's Mansion is/was perfectly located to coordinate future insurgent paramilitary operations in this region already prepped for a renewed political offensive.



While in office as POTUS, Obama appointed Glyn Davies as his Ambassador, who immediately upon arriving, began supporting dissidents and supporting enemies of the Thai state.  This was in tune with the unwelcome UN involvement in Thailand which drew extreme criticism.
[and you'll recall how well UN involvement in the internal affairs of South Africa worked out.]

At the conclusion of the Vietnam War, a few stray bombs released from US F4s found their way across the Cambodian border, setting off more than 300 secondary explosions, incinerating insurgent soldiers, food stores, and weapon/ammunition stocks -- and essentially ending the insurgency.

What we learned later was that Henry Kissinger, in a 1972 letter to Chou en Lai, assured China that the US had no further interest in the region and would not interfere in a Chinese Communist incursion.  At the same time, Henry shut down all existing and clandestine Intelligence networks, some of which dated back to World-War-2 OSS nets.

Without those established nets, it would be difficult to monitor the flow of political activists and insurgent cadre and combatants as they flow in from China to be guided by Obama -- and Soros.

To tie all this information together,
Solyndra used the cash it siphoned from the US federal loans and private investors to acquire a number of real estate properties scattered about in Southeast Asia, valued at over $800 million. 

Given Trump's interest in these matters, we expect him to encourage other Southeast Asian countries to employ the ASEAN Declaration to Joint Action on Counter Terrorism.

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Editorial Notes:
1) I have some relevant knowledge of this situation as I served as the Regional Intelligence Advisor to the Thai Communist Suppressions Operations Command [CSOC (Now ISOC)], coordinating the Counter-Insurgency operations, in another lifetime.

2) Update 1MAY2019]: 

I visited Thailand recently and learned that, after Kissinger [in Nixon's name] ordered all US troops out of Southeast Asia, and simultaneously, shut down all US Intelligence operations [covert and clandestine], his Domino Theory almost succeeded in placing all of Southeast Asia in Communist hands. 

By 1975, virtually all US forces had departed, as had all Intelligence officers, so, an event which could have sparked World War 3 was not reported in Intelligence Circles - although Kissinger was likely fully aware.  


PRC forces from Yunnan assembled in northern Laos
and invaded the Chiang Rai region with infantry, armor,
and combat air support in 1975 - but were defeated.


Coincidentally, in 1975, the Peoples Republic of China [PRC] invaded northern Thailand from Yunnan Province, via Laos and Burma, near Chiang Rai.  

Thai Defense forces and the Nationalist Chinese [KMT], along with Hmong tribesmen, and a few Australian Military advisors, fought the PRC forces for three years, suffering thousands of casualties [a memorial exists today, with the names of all the casualties, at the site of the battles.

Eventually, the PRC withdrew, and left Thailand, only to support insurgent organizations to undermine the Thai government. 





[As an aside, some may remember the movie "Apocalypse Now" which described the hunt for, and assassination of Colonel Kurtz - whom the DS designated as a devil.  The movie portrays hundreds of bodies hanging from the swamp trees of Kurtz's camp ; those were Khmer Rouge, who had slaughtered, at random, millions of Cambodians merely because they were educated.  

On the positive side, "Colonel" Kurtz, was an advisor to the Mountain People, who were guerrillas fighting to keep Southeast Asia from succumbing to communism.  Watch the embedded video, all the way through the commentary after the Movie extract; it gives you an idea of what war is really like, and how it affects honorable men.]




Currently, the PRC is attempting an economic takeover of all Southeast Asia by investing, with loans to build national infrastructures, constructing dams for hydro-electric power, high speed rail, improving ports -- all with the trillions of dollars funneled to China via Indonesia in 2008 by Timothy Geithner while he was President of the NY Fed [he is currently a financial advisor to the PRC].  

Water remains a critical issue as China's plans for dams to furnish hydro-electric power throughout the region will flood farmland and/or cut off vital water supplies to farmers.  

In Laos, farmers complained that the Chinese routinely open and close dam spillways, sending tidal waves ten to 15 feet high roaring down rivers, inundating farms and wiping out crops.  

Additionally, since dams have been built in a hurry with little or no oversight, several of  have collapsed, causing death and destruction downstream.

Although the improvements are welcome, the governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma) are uncertain how they will repay these loans, which if unpaid, will result in the PRC seizing infrastructure assets and surrounding land.



The Third Prong on this economic threat, Chinese control of ports in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore.  As a part of what is now called the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road [MSR], it is clear that China's expansion strategy focuses on controlling regional ports, as well as those around the world.  




A fourth prong, though little known and yet to be accomplished enterprise is the Kra Canal, which will cross southern Thailand opening a sea lane from the South China Sea to the Andaman Sea, bypassing the Malacca Strait -- a maritime choke point adding enormous distance to maritime traffic between the two seas.  



The canal has considerable merit, 
but the reality is that China will control that conduit at the expense of Thailand, and the rest of Asia.


Global strategists have dubbed China's expansion into these sectors as the "Debt-Trap Diplomacy" - offered up as helping local economies through the "Belt and Road Initiative", but in reality, these huge developmental loans serve little to improve local life, but instead choke national economies with massive debt for unsound projects to secure Chinese access to resources or local markets. 

Cash strapped countries end up turning over their ports, their land, and their resources to China (just as Venezuela turned over its oil industry to China) when they can't meet their debt payments.  

In essence, China uses economic leverage in place of Military force to conquer target countries.  
The strategy is Wei Chi, or encirclement; in this case economic domination of regional and global ports cripples the ability to resist Chinese domination.  

From a military perspective, this high-speed rail could deliver troops and weapons system quickly and efficiently throughout Southeast Asia from Kunming to Singapore in a matter of hours.  Controlling internal waterways through dams allows for domination of the regional agriculture, and, control of ports means China declares what is imported or exported - thus controlling the economies of these countries. 

What the PRC could not seize through Military aggression, they are slowly seizing through economics.  
  
It seems that the Deep State's emissaries [i.e., GHW Bush, Clinton, G W Bush, Obama, and Kissinger] were routinely visiting the region from 1990-2016 to ensure China was not meeting any resistance in its expansion, and they would all profit immensely with China in control.  


Why have we not heard of these issues?  


Well, it's been reported, but the Obama cabal generated a great deal of noise and attention on the Russia, Russia, Russia meme to distract us from the Chinese economic - and Military threat.

Ultimately, the strategy has been to undermine the US to provide the PRC with full control, regionally, and eventually, globally.

Give that some thought as you listen to the Deep State Media continue the hysterics over Trump's alleged connections to Russia, Russia. Russia!







Saturday, March 18, 2017

WORLD WAR 3 - Pacific

China encircles South China Sea

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In an upcoming book [October 2017], award winning journalist Mike Faby -- 
"... with unprecedented access to the highest naval officers in America and 
China and their ships and weapons, ... presents a chilling look at the
 'warm war' over control of the South China Sea -- one that is threatening 
to flare into full scale conflict".

"The Chinese regard the Pacific, and especially the South China Sea, 
as their ocean, and they’re ready to defend it. Each day the heat 
between the two countries increases as the Chinese try to claim 
the South China Sea for their own, and the United States insists 
on asserting freedom of navigation. Throughout Southern Asia, 
countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, 
and South Korea respond with outrage and growing fear as China
 turns coral reefs into manmade islands capable of supporting airstrips
 and then attempts to enforce twelve-mile-radius, shoot-down zones. 
The immediate danger is that the five trillion dollars in international 
trade that passes through the area will grind to a standstill. 

"The ultimate danger is that the US and China will be drawn into all-out war."  

We've been following this WW3 scenario for for a number of years as China flexes its muscles in the Pacific.  It's not a new enterprise, nor is it a sea-based alone threat.  

China's design is to control the entire Pacific region, and the strategy is called "Wei Chi" [AKA: GO in Japan], developed more than 2,500 years ago. Although simple on the surface, Wei Chi is actually more complex than Chess, and has been successfully used by military leaders in China -- and Japan, for centuries.


Chinese strategy game of encirclement: Wei Chi
The basis of the game is encirclement of the opponent/enemy, in successively greater steps. Encirclement comes in stages of small maneuvers, each becoming part of a larger maneuver  in which the smaller encirclements are part of a greater encirclement until the opponent/enemy pieces/property are completely encircled on the playing board.  The victor has encircled the entire property of his opponent.

For Western powers, there are indicators of this strategy now, but in fact, it's been going on for nearly 50 years in the near term, but in reality, the strategy is centuries old.  The West has little concept of the Chinese strategy which has no definable time limit, and is generational rather than measurable.  

The end game of the Chinese is to dominate and control the entire Pacific, and not simply the South China Sea which the West presumes is the sole goal of China.  China has dominated small areas separately, but, standing back from the map, we see it is encircling many small areas which are encompassed by the very wide area known as the Pacific.

But, let's start at a visible beginning point, i.e., the Vietnam War.

China's involvement was initially limited to providing weapons and political philosophy to North Vietnam, whose leadership despised and distrusted the Chinese, but accepted their military largesse, along with arms and material and advisors also provided by the USSR.  

In the end, however, the Soviets withdrew when it was evident the North Vietnamese had lost the war and lacked the manpower to continue fighting.  China, however, recognized their regional opportunity and, still supplying North Vietnam with equipment, coveted all of Southeast Asia and sent their operatives into Laos, Thailand, and Burma to subvert these countries through insurgencies, and conversion to Communism.

It made no difference that the North Vietnamese had been defeated in Laos, and they had no foothold in Thailand, but they did have a tenuous grasp in Burma, but, the foothold was there.  


Henry, you are my tool!
What no one, including the Chinese, expected, was the surprise move by Henry Kissinger who met with the Chinese leadership in 1971 and, in exchange [so he thought) for Chinese trade opportunities with the US, Kissinger stated, and wrote in a 1972 letter to Chou en Lai that "... the United States has no further interest in Southeast Asia and will take no action should China wish to expand its influence in the region."      

Notably, Kissinger did not disclose this commitment to President Nixon, or to the State Department, or to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the US continued to fight the Vietnam war until 1975, with thousands losing their lives. 


At the close of the war, Kissinger, as Nixon's proxy, and again without Nixon's knowledge, directed -- "by order of the President" -- that all US regional intelligence operations were to be terminated immediately, shutting down espionage networks that had been in place since World War 2.  He subsequently extended that directive world wide, gutting the capacity of the CIA and the Intelligence Community and using the Church Committee hearings as his excuse.  So, our eyes and ears on the potential adversaries were sealed shut, neutering our safeguards.  Supposedly, NSA could take up the slack.

The purpose of Watergate, engineered by former Director of Central Intelligence Vernon Walters, was to dislodge Kissinger since Nixon had consummate faith in his most trusted advisor.  Unfortunately, we note that Kissinger, like a spotted tick, remains in the mix and has even met with President Trump - whom we hope did so solely out of courtesy.


Southeast Asia
And it was thus that all of Southeast Asia nearly fell to the Chinese.

The Chinese had engineered the fall and conversion to Communism of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, compliments of Kissinger, and they had structured the insurgency in Thailand, running a secret supply line [Binh Tram] through Vietnam and Laos to Northeast Thailand, setting up the Communist insurgent headquarters in Cambodia in the tri-border area.  The insurgency had been penetrated, however, to include sending double agents to the Chinese insurgent training centers, compromising their cadres and strategy, and disclosing their regional headquarters and strategies.

As luck would have it, a flight of F-4 Phantom attack planes was returning to its base in Northeast Thailand in 1974 and jettisoned their extra ordinance over what was thought to be an uninhabited area which was actually the insurgent headquarters and supply depot.  


The result was a series of over 325 secondary explosions and a body count of roughly 300 insurgents.  The impact was the near complete destruction of weapons, ammunition, training centers, communications, etc., of the Chinese backed Thai insurgency, a blow from which the Chinese almost did not recover, and crippled the insurgency.

The operative word is "almost", since the Chinese shifted from military/insurgent force to political persuasion as they targeted Thailand's political system, and nearly succeeded.  But, that battle continues today.  However, in the meantime, the Chinese backed insurgency in northern Burma also collapsed under pressure from the Burmese military -- again, through penetration of the insurgency by US Intelligence operatives.

But, as in all exciting assessments, the preceding history lays the groundwork for the current scenario, in which China carefully takes possession of more territory one piece at a time.

We won't go into all the specifics, but rather provide the strategy.

As you can see by the map, the current playing board is the South China Sea, which extends to the West beyond Vietnam's Eastern border, South to Indonesia, and East just beyond the Philippines -- and area of strategic interest to the US.

Within that area, China has been building little islands on coral bases and claims these manufactured islands are their territory -- enforced by building aircraft runways and military facilities on them.  Although our Military has viewed these outcroppings with some alarm, the Pentagon and Intelligence Community hierarchy under Obama seemingly ignored these territorial reaches, and, like Neville Chamberlain in 1938  who advocated appeasing Germany would sate the Nazis, the US leadership presumed the Chinese would not become a threat; at worst, it would be a "warm war".

Well, the Brits and Europe saw how well Neville's approach worked out.

But, the US approach, to the consternation of US allies in the region, has been appeasement to the Chinese.  

"Oh gosh, they're tiny little islands!  What possible danger can that be.  
The Chinese are merely wishing to extend their influence."

Notably, the CIA map above, which we used to open this discussion, focuses solely on the South China Sea and ignores the rest of the Pacific region.  Specifically, the map ignores the Communism of Vietnam and Laos and the semi-Communism of Cambodia.  There remains a Communist insurgency in Malaysia [albeit sub-rosa], and then there's the tilt towards Communism in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, we are witnessing the increased saber rattling of North Korea, threatening a nuclear attack on Japan.

In Indonesia and Singapore, there have been a number of port "visits" by the Chinese Navy which have merely dominated the ports with military vessels in a very visible show of force, though not a shot was fired.  There was no need since the Chinese Armada was of sufficient size and strength to intimidate even the most stalwart of local military forces.  The psychological impact was overwhelming, and the local governments recognized all this as a veiled, but very effective threat.

In the meantime, the US Navy has steadily been degraded in armament and size, while our best commanding officers were relieved of their commands during, and in the wake of Benghazi.  Our Defense contractors have created and deployed worthless sea-going vessels, which at best can be regarded as floating targets, but the Defense Contractors have made great profits, and political admirals look forward to this eternal revolving door with the private sector profiteering.  Worse, the Chinese have penetrated their production levels and stolen the sensitive design data for weapons such as the F-35 -- supposedly our most advanced [and expensive] fighter aircraft.

The US presence in the Pacific [and world-wide] has been downgraded, to include our carrier Strike Groups.  These depredations began with the attack on Benghazi, during and after which our fleets were rerouted and essentially downgraded to paper status while command officers were cashiered.  Mr Obama essentially gutted our Navy and made it into a paper tiger [with homage to Chinese lore].

Open Source Data provided by StratFor


Our allies in the Pacific have been convinced over the last eight years that they are at the mercy of the Chinese and have essentially acquiesced to the dominance of  the Chinese.  So, as an interim status, the US accepted the dominance of the Chinese, and the encirclement of the region.

Our Army forces in the Pacific are now being retrained and equipped for Jungle Warfare.  Oddly, it is as if there were no Military troops skilled in such matters, and so it's necessary for research and development of boots, uniforms, and equipment to operate in a jungle environment.  Apparently, the Army is unaware that we fought a 15 year war in Southeast Asia, and that there are quite a few Vietnam Vets who would be perfectly willing to train and equip our young troops for jungle operations similar to those conducted in Vietnam.

We were concerned that Mr Obama had linkage to the Russians or Chinese as it became evident that he was subverting the US Military to a Communist structure, perhaps to accommodate a transition to Communism.  Specifically, we noted that the Deputy Commander of Unified Commands had been converted to a civilian in some cases who served more as a [Communist] Political Officer to ensure adherence to political doctrine rather than as a subordinate.  In several cases during Benghazi, we noted such Political Officers relieved their Military commanders on orders from the White House.  Investigating further, we found that in some cases that the J2 in these commands was a civilian with no Military or Intelligence training, but appeared to be a secondary Political Officer.  Our current Military is unfamiliar with the Communist Military political structure, so such revelations lie in the hands of retired Cold Warriors.

Now, we throw in an extra factor to this odd equation.

Under the Obama Administration, we presumed there was linkage to China, complete with the trade deals, and movement of massive amounts of US currency to China via the Fed [$15 Trillion in 2009] which was unaccounted for, but tracked nonetheless.  Almost overnight, the Gross National Product of China skyrocketed, and suddenly, China was an economic force to be reckoned with.

And, by all reasoning in the economic world, it was not easily explained [well, other than the NY Fed transferring $15 Trillion to the PRC].  Suddenly, China had the cash to buy controlling interest in many US companies, to include IT and Defense -- which then depended on Chinese components for US Defense contracts. Think in terms of guidance and communications systems -- now controlled by the Chinese.

But, there's more to the story.

Why would the NY Fed move that amount of money out of the Fed to the Chinese.

Turbo-Tax Timmy Geithner
Well, it seems that Turbo-Tax Timmy Geithner was a classmate of Obama when they both attended school in Indonesia, when Barack was still Barry, and Timmy's dad was running the Ford Foundation - Asia, which employed Obama's mom, who lived with Barry in a four-star hotel and he was chauffeured every morning to school.  And, they were pals.

Tim Geithner then became allies in the development of the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] which supposedly would "create jobs" due to the lowering of tariffs.  Unfortunately, most US manufacturing jobs had been forced out of the US due to high taxes and massive government regulation, so there was no job creation to be had. In effect, China had consumed the American economy, emplacing still another piece of "territory" in its encirclement strategy.

Once again, as a reminder, we are using the Wei Chi strategy of encirclement -- but the encirclement includes subversion from within.

As we move forward, we return again to the strategic piece of the puzzle which is Tim Geithner, the supposed buffoon whom we all ridiculed for his incompetence.

In reality, Timmy is a pretty smart guy; his mother was a Mayflower descendant with ties to the Rockefellers and George W Romney.  He grew up in China, spoke several Chinese dialects [e.g., Mandarin] and Japanese.  Geithner is also is tied to Kissinger [imagine that] and served as a Treasury attache' to Japan.

But, US Presidents also have ties to China, including George H.W. Bush, who was the  Chief of the US Liaison Office to the PRC from 1974 to 1975.  The Clintons and Carters also had close ties to China, of which we heard little in the Press.  We have to wonder just how many deals were cut over the years between the US and China of which we were unaware.

But, getting back to Geithner, we learn that the company he formed has been actively engaged with China in developing deals for Obama while he was President, and on today as they cut deals about which we have no clue.

But, there are facts that are hard to deny.
Timmy has memberships in, among other questionable groups, the Bilderberg Group, which is tied to the ford foundation, which was known for its leadership in the New World Order, which advocates a One-World Government, which would have the world ruled by a small collection of elites.

Geithner's last employment of record was as President of the Warburg Pincus group of New York, with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, plus offices in Europe and Brazil.  We wonder about Geithner's dealings with China, and continue to wonder what became of that $15 Trillion he transferred from the US while he was President of the NY Fed.

So, here we are, back to the starting point.

Will we go to war with China, and is China on the verge of taking control of the Pacific.

Well, under Obama, it was a given that the US would withdraw its presence from the Pacific and allow China to control the region without firing a single round.  The Wei Chi strategy had worked quite well, and the Chinese were virtually in control.  The key word there was "virtually", since it was mostly smoke and mirrors, and the US had essentially abandoned a presence in the Pacific.  


Pacific Fleet strength
But, the fact now is that Trump has pulled the US out of the TPP and assured the US Navy that he will fund the acquisition of new warships to patrol the Pacific and reenergize the US participation in the Pacific alliances such as the now defunct SEATO [Southeast Asia Treaty Organization] which was instrumental in containing China and ANZUS [Australia, New Zealand, US] which partners three strong countries to serve as a barrier to Chinese regional expansionism. 

Will there be a confrontation between China and US with its allies, to include Japan?

It depends.  

Trump is an unknown "wild card" in this game changing scenario. We estimate that the game of Wei Chi has gone on hold for the time being as they presume Trump will rebuild the US Navy into a formidable Pacific Military force with efficient ship-building programs that meet wartime Blue Water needs versus the nonsense vehicles like the Littoral Combat Ships which were poorly manufactured, slow, and became essentially sitting targets. 


25th Division troops
The US Army has begun training for fighting in the Asian environment, particularly in jungle warfare, perhaps anticipating a Chinese incursion into the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, or even into Thailand.

But, the Chinese are patient strategists. In the West, we think in warfare terms of days, weeks, or months.  The Chinese, on the other hand, think in terms of years or generations to achieve their objectives.





World War Three may have begun 60 years ago, and may go on for another 50 to 100 years; or, they may lose their tempers as they did with the MacArthur threat to China during the Korean War and actually unleash their fury, drawing us into a full-fledged "hot" war. 


Commander in Chief
Can we beat them?
Well, according to Mr Faby, we are in a "warm war" with China.  It may get hot, but we suspect that with Trump's strengthening of the US Military, China will think long and hard about heating up the warm war.

Probably, but will we have the leadership and the will to keep them peaceful?

We won't know that except through the leadership we elect and put into office.

Stay tuned; we'll keep you up to date.







Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Remembering the WW2 Doolittle Raid

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Doolittle's Raiders; Only Four Survive
[As we regain our national dignity following the Presidential election, we can remember, with honor, a select few of the heroes who protected our country from those who attacked us on December 7, 1941.  These men honored our flag, and put their lives at risk to allow their grandchildren, and great grandchildren, the freedom to express themselves, with some seeking out"safe spaces" offended by those intent on reforming the corrupt government which now is in place.   We also note that this was a period in which the Press reported accurately, and Hollywood was not a Communist colony. 
We salute these heroes!]

 THE FINAL TOAST!

They bombed Tokyo 74 years ago.
 

They once were among the most universally admired and revered men in the United States .. There were 80 of the Raiders in April 1942, when they carried out one of the most courageous and heart-stirring military operations in this nation's history. The mere mention of their unit's name, in those years, would bring tears to the eyes of grateful Americans.
 
  
After Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor [December 7, 1941], with the United States reeling and wounded, our Pacific Fleet devastated,something dramatic was needed to turn the war effort around.
 
 
Although there were no friendly airfields close enough to Japan for the United States to launch a retaliation, a daring plan was devised. Sixteen B-25s
were modified so that they could take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier. This had never before been tried -- sending such big, heavy bombers from a carrier.
 
 
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The 16 five-man crews, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who himself flew the lead plane off the USS Hornet, knew that they would not be able to return to the carrier.
They would have to hit Japan and then hope to make it to China for a safe landing.
 
 
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But on the day of the raid, the Japanese military learned of the plan. The Raiders were told that they would have to take off from much farther out in the Pacific Ocean than they had counted on, so, they would not have enough fuel to make it to safety.
Undaunted, these crews went anyway.
 
They bombed Tokyo and then flew as far as they could. Four planes crash-landed;
11 more crews bailed out, and three of the Raiders died. Eight more were captured; three were executed. 
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Another died of starvation in a Japanese prison camp. One crew made it to Russia

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The Doolittle Raiders sent a message from the United States to its enemies, and to the rest of the world: We will fight. And, no matter what it takes, we will win!
 
 
Of the 80 Raiders, 62 survived the war. They were celebrated as national heroes, models of bravery. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced a motion picture based on the raid; "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," starring Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson, was a patriotic and emotional box-office hit, and the phrase became part of the national lexicon. In the movie-theater previews for the film, MGM proclaimed that it was presenting
the story "with supreme pride."


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Beginning in 1946, the surviving Raiders have held a reunion each April, to commemorate the mission. The reunion is in a different city each year. In 1959, the city of Tucson, Arizona, as a gesture of respect and gratitude, presented the Doolittle Raiders with a set of 80 silver goblets. Each goblet was engraved with the name of a Raider.  Every year, a wooden display case bearing all 80 goblets is transported to the reunion city. Each time a Raider passes away, his goblet is turned upside down in the case at the next reunion, as his old friends bear solemn witness.
 
 
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Also, in the wooden case is a bottle of 1896 Hennessy Very Special cognac. The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.
 
 

There has always been a plan: When there are only two surviving Raiders, they would open the bottle at last, drink from it and toast their comrades who preceded them in death.
 
As 2013 began, there were five living Raiders; then, in February, Tom Griffin passed away at age 96.
 
 
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He defined the term "War Hero". After bailing out of his plane over a mountainous Chinese forest after the Tokyo raid, he became ill with malaria, and almost died. When he recovered, he was sent to Europe to fly more combat missions. He was shot down, captured, and spent 22 months in a German prisoner of war camp.
 
 
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The selflessness of these men, the sheer guts ... there was a passage in the Cincinnati Enquirer obituary for Mr. Griffin that, on the surface, had nothing to do with the war,but that was emblematic of the depth of his sense of duty and devotion:
 
 
"When his wife became ill and needed to go into a nursing home, he visited her every day. He walked from his house to the nursing home, fed his wife and at the end of the day brought home her clothes. At night, he washed and ironed her clothes. Then he walked them up to her room the next morning. He did that for three years until her death in 2005."
 
 
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So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle's co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s.  They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.
 
 
The events in Fort Walton Beach marked the end. It has come full circle; Florida's nearby Eglin Field was where the Raiders trained in secrecy for the Tokyo mission. The town planned to do all it can to honor the men: a six-day celebration of their valor, including luncheons, a dinner and a parade.

Do the Dollittle Raiders ever wonder if those of us whom they helped to save the country have tended to it in a way that is worthy of their sacrifice? They don't talk about that, at least not around other people. But if you find yourself near Fort Walton Beach this week, and if you should encounter any of the Raiders, you might want to offer them a word of thanks. I can tell you from first hand observation that they appreciate hearing that
they are remembered.
 
 
The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date -- sometime this year -- to get together once more, informally
and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy. The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.
 
 
They will fill the four remaining upturned goblets. And raise them in a toast to those who are gone. 
 
 
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Their 70th Anniversary Photo 
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David Thatcher, a staff sergeant during the Doolittle Raid, smiles with pride as he listens to a speaker talk about the Doolittle Raiders, April 20, 2013 in Fort ...