I want to revisit my earlier post once again - on account I learned
today that China just overtook the US as the worlds largest economy
(http://www.businessinsider.com/china-overtakes-us-as-worlds-largest-economy-2014-10).
Paul Craig Roberts predicted this would happen within 2 - 3 years in
the July 19, 2012 article I copied below - right on schedule. That's
just one little bit in an article that resonates powerfully in light
of what's happening in Ukraine and Hong Kong.
This is what we need in these difficult times - facts, not wishful
thinking on the part of people like my unnamed but not forgotten DSA
debate partner.
I included the webmaster of the DSA to encourage them to restore the
missing page, so that people can benefit from the many insightful
comments people made. Most of them were skeptical of the usefulness of
speaking truth to John Kerry - very prescient, as everybody now knows
that Kerry is a dangerous clown, as bad and disappointing as Obama and
Biden put together. DSA Webmaster, tear down that wall!
I also wrote to Paul Craig Roberts to tell him how much I appreciate
his analysis and insight.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:17 PM, matt love <mattlove1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scott posted a link to this page (on the Progressive Democrats of America
> website) about a year ago... I got into some interesting arguments there.
> One guy argued that the US was way ahead of anybody else because we invented
> the television (!). I argued proof of our decline was found in the fact that
> there are no TVs manufactured in the US. He mocked my claims about the
> economic challenge China posed to the US. He said China wouldn't pass the US
> as an economic power in 100 years.
>
> Every once in a while I've wanted to go an update the conversation with
> information that's come out just in a year that would suggest I had the
> clearer understanding of world events, but sadly, the page seems to be gone.
>
> I don't mind that John Kerry never read what I wrote, I didn't expect him
> too - but I regret not having copies of what I said, as now nobody else will
> read it, either. Much like the Obama campaign strategies to get us to waste
> a lot of time supplicating him online, instead of pretesting him in the
> streets.
>
> Anyway, Paul Craig Roberts thinks China will pass the US in 2 - 3 years.
>
> The whole article is very interesting:
>
> July 19, 2012
> Russia and China Back in Washington's Crosshairs
>
> War on All Fronts
>
> by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
>
> The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition
> is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy
> and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian
> government and install an American puppet state in the geographically
> largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient
> to deter Washington's aggression.
>
> Just as earlier this year Egypt expelled hundreds of people associated with
> foreign-funded "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs) for "instilling
> dissent and meddling in domestic policies," the Russian Duma (parliament)
> has just passed a law that Putin is expected to sign that requires political
> organizations that receive foreign funding to register as foreign agents.
> The law is based on the US law requiring the registration of foreign agents.
>
> Much of the Russian political opposition consists of foreign-paid agents,
> and once the law passes leading elements of the Russian political opposition
> will have to sign in with the Russian Ministry of Justice as foreign agents
> of Washington. The Itar-Tass News Agency reported on July 3 that there are
> about 1,000 organizations in Russia that are funded from abroad and engaged
> in political activity. Try to imagine the outcry if the Russians were
> funding 1,000 organizations in the US engaged in an effort to turn America
> into a Russian puppet state. (In the US the Russians would find a lot of
> competition from Israel.)
>
> The Washington-funded Russian political opposition masquerades behind "human
> rights" and says it works to "open Russia." What the disloyal and
> treasonous Washington-funded Russian "political opposition" means by "open
> Russia" is to open Russia for brainwashing by Western propaganda, to open
> Russia to economic plunder by the West, and to open Russia to having its
> domestic and foreign policies determined by Washington.
>
> "Non-governmental organizations" are very governmental. They have played
> pivotal roles in both financing and running the various "color revolutions"
> that have established American puppet states in former constituent parts of
> the Soviet Empire. NGOs have been called "coup d'etat machines," and they
> have served Washington well in this role. They are currently working in
> Venezuela against Chavez.
>
> Of course, Washington is infuriated that its plans for achieving hegemony
> over a country too dangerous to attack militarily have been derailed by
> Russia's awakening, after two decades, to the threat of being politically
> subverted by Washington-financed NGOs. Washington requires foreign-funded
> organizations to register as foreign agents (unless they are Israeli
> funded). However, this fact doesn't stop Washington from denouncing the new
> Russian law as "anti-democratic," "police state," blah-blah. Caught with
> its hand in subversion, Washington calls Putin names. The pity is that most
> of the brainwashed West will fall for Washington's lies, and we will hear
> more about "gangster state Russia."
>
> China is also in Washington's crosshairs. China's rapid rise as an economic
> power is perceived in Washington as a dire threat. China must be contained.
> Obama's US Trade Representative has been secretly negotiating for the last 2
> or 3 years a Trans Pacific Partnership, whose purpose is to derail China's
> natural economic leadership in its own sphere of influence and replace it
> with Washington's leadership.
>
> Washington is also pushing to form new military alliances in Asia and to
> establish new military bases in the Philippines, S. Korea, Thailand,
> Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.
>
> Washington quickly inserted itself into disputes between China and Vietnam
> and China and the Philippines. Washington aligned with its former Vietnamese
> enemy in Vietnam's dispute with China over the resource rich Paracel and
> Spratly islands and with the Philippines in its dispute with China over the
> resource rich Scarborough Shoal.
>
> Thus, like England's interference in the dispute between Poland and National
> Socialist Germany over the return to Germany of German territories that were
> given to Poland as World War I booty, Washington sets the stage for war.
>
> China has been cooperative with Washington, because the offshoring of the US
> economy to China was an important component in China's unprecedented high
> rate of economic development. American capitalists got their short-run
> profits, and China got the capital and technology to build an economy that
> in another 2 or 3 years will have surpassed the sinking US economy. Jobs
> offshoring, mistaken for free trade by free market economists, has built
> China and destroyed America.
>
> Washington's growing interference in Chinese affairs has convinced China's
> government that military countermeasures are required to neutralize
> Washington's announced intentions to build its military presence in China's
> sphere of influence. Washington's view is that only Washington, no one
> else, has a sphere of influence, and Washington's sphere of influence is the
> entire world.
>
> On July 14 China's official news agency, Xinhua, said that Washington was
> interfering in Chinese affairs and making China's disputes with Vietnam and
> the Philippines impossible to resolve.
>
> It looks as if an over-confident US government is determined to have a
> three-front war: Syria, Lebanon, and Iran in the Middle East, China in the
> Far East, and Russia in Europe. This would appear to be an ambitious agenda
> for a government whose military was unable to occupy Iraq after nine years
> or to defeat the lightly-armed Taliban after eleven years, and whose economy
> and those of its NATO puppets are in trouble and decline with corresponding
> rising internal unrest and loss of confidence in political leadership.
>
> Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and
> Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, Wirtschaft
> am Abgrund (Economies In Collapse) has just been published.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Progressive Democrats of America <amiller6210@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM
> Subject: Copy of: "Mobilizing the Progressive Vote"
> To: Mattlove1@gmail.com
>
>
> Copy of:
>
> This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.pdamerica.org/ from:
> Matt Love <Mattlove1@gmail.com>
>
> I can't reach this, what happened to it?
>
> Mobilizing the Progressive Vote
> From Senator John F Kerry
>
> http://www.pdamerica.org/blog/view/from-senator-john-f-kerry/
>
> it was up as of 6/24/11.
>
>
>
>
> --
> I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
> http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
Matt Love Ah, the blind optimism of youth, how well I remember it. Hopefully as we experience imperial collapse, you'll find some piece of flotsam to cling to until you arrive at some more economically hospitable shore, perhaps China or Brazil. Perhaps you'll be lucky enough to snag a woven basket to hang onto, they are quite buoyant, as Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated.
