09-08-2016, 08:17 AM
Yes, the Soviet's allowed the reunification of the two Germany's. This was negotiated between Herr Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany, James Baker III of the USA and Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. It isn't as well known as it should be simply because the US immediately reneged on the agreement made between the three of them for the reunification of the two Germany's (HERE). That's why Gorbachev dissolved the Warsaw Pact. But the US refused to do the same with NATO.
On China you may wish to read about the Pivot to Asia (HERE), although there has been a great deal written about it elsewhere - but I'm just too lazy to search for all the links. Pepe Escobar's articles are probably as good a starting point as any.
On Russi and China, Pepe Escobar is probably a good place to start again, but with a focus on the new silk road project, BRICS, SCO, AIIB etc. When the UK decided to join the AIIB last year, it did so against a background of enormous US pressure not to do so (HERE). Likewise other members of the hitherto US camp like Australia (HERE). Whereas the US had gone to great lengths to stop nations joining (HERE). Until recent years that sort of US pressure would have been observed by all. A realignment is taking place. Smell the fear.
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Reverting to your earlier post.
Things began changing during Nixon's period in office in regard to repatriating black money back into the banking system.
Nowadays, drug money and other illicit cash is already in the system, not sitting rotting in some warehouse somewhere. Once it's inside the system (because it's been "bleached" or "laundered) it becomes part of the financial system and accounted for. That's why all the major banks keep getting caught for money laundering for the drug cartels and only get a cursory slap on the wrist fine - usually paid not by the bankers but by the bank itself (the shareholders) as it's regarded as being the cost of doing that sort of business.
The cut-off period for unclaimed or "orphan" funds is set at 10 years as I recall, after which it reverts to the state (certainly this is true of Switzerland but is probably BIS wide). But even if that expiry time limit didn't exist the money is still inside the system and is thus counted and circulating. Who owns it is of far less consequence than that it circulates.
Meanwhile, you keep missing the central thrust of the argument here. The problem is the rise of another reserve currency that will lead to the collapse of the dollar as a viable and singular hegemon. This doesn't mean the US will cease to exist - but it will mean that it will lead to it losing it's ability to project its power anywhere near as widely as now. And that, in turn, will have continuing and deleterious impact on the US economy with a $200 trillion + accumulated debt (yes, $200 t not $20t - see HERE - one of many similar articles).
The example for what happens is the British Empire which even 100 hundred years ago was still very vibrant and immensely powerful and which still retained the only reserve currency status that kept it going comfortably. However, we all know what happened to Humpty-Dumpty. When an empire crumbles, it happens quickly. The Brit Empire came to a shuddering halt because it horrendously miscalculated the consequences of starting WWI to keep Europe divided.
But the British elites were smart enough to have prepared for an American hegemon to take over from them - because the secret elite of the UK saw the future (HERE) - and built structures like the CFR and the Pilgrim Society (HERE) to carry Cecil Rhodes' vision forward into the next century.
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On nuclear war: no one is speaking of starting a nuclear war, but of a nuclear war starting.... out of a conflict that grows out of control if & when there is direct conflict between Russia and the US in Syria (and or the Ukraine).
Your belief that humans always make rational decisions in highly tense situations is charming and heart-warming - and I want it to be true. But it fails from a lack of psychological reality. I do not regard the elites as psychologically able to subdue their own shadows any more than anyone else.
Let contemporary history be the guide on this.
On China you may wish to read about the Pivot to Asia (HERE), although there has been a great deal written about it elsewhere - but I'm just too lazy to search for all the links. Pepe Escobar's articles are probably as good a starting point as any.
On Russi and China, Pepe Escobar is probably a good place to start again, but with a focus on the new silk road project, BRICS, SCO, AIIB etc. When the UK decided to join the AIIB last year, it did so against a background of enormous US pressure not to do so (HERE). Likewise other members of the hitherto US camp like Australia (HERE). Whereas the US had gone to great lengths to stop nations joining (HERE). Until recent years that sort of US pressure would have been observed by all. A realignment is taking place. Smell the fear.
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Reverting to your earlier post.
Things began changing during Nixon's period in office in regard to repatriating black money back into the banking system.
Nowadays, drug money and other illicit cash is already in the system, not sitting rotting in some warehouse somewhere. Once it's inside the system (because it's been "bleached" or "laundered) it becomes part of the financial system and accounted for. That's why all the major banks keep getting caught for money laundering for the drug cartels and only get a cursory slap on the wrist fine - usually paid not by the bankers but by the bank itself (the shareholders) as it's regarded as being the cost of doing that sort of business.
The cut-off period for unclaimed or "orphan" funds is set at 10 years as I recall, after which it reverts to the state (certainly this is true of Switzerland but is probably BIS wide). But even if that expiry time limit didn't exist the money is still inside the system and is thus counted and circulating. Who owns it is of far less consequence than that it circulates.
Meanwhile, you keep missing the central thrust of the argument here. The problem is the rise of another reserve currency that will lead to the collapse of the dollar as a viable and singular hegemon. This doesn't mean the US will cease to exist - but it will mean that it will lead to it losing it's ability to project its power anywhere near as widely as now. And that, in turn, will have continuing and deleterious impact on the US economy with a $200 trillion + accumulated debt (yes, $200 t not $20t - see HERE - one of many similar articles).
The example for what happens is the British Empire which even 100 hundred years ago was still very vibrant and immensely powerful and which still retained the only reserve currency status that kept it going comfortably. However, we all know what happened to Humpty-Dumpty. When an empire crumbles, it happens quickly. The Brit Empire came to a shuddering halt because it horrendously miscalculated the consequences of starting WWI to keep Europe divided.
But the British elites were smart enough to have prepared for an American hegemon to take over from them - because the secret elite of the UK saw the future (HERE) - and built structures like the CFR and the Pilgrim Society (HERE) to carry Cecil Rhodes' vision forward into the next century.
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On nuclear war: no one is speaking of starting a nuclear war, but of a nuclear war starting.... out of a conflict that grows out of control if & when there is direct conflict between Russia and the US in Syria (and or the Ukraine).
Your belief that humans always make rational decisions in highly tense situations is charming and heart-warming - and I want it to be true. But it fails from a lack of psychological reality. I do not regard the elites as psychologically able to subdue their own shadows any more than anyone else.
Let contemporary history be the guide on this.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14