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1. China just closed the borders to all foreign residents. This is the third month since the Great foreigner exodus /in SH about 80% of international school kids went abroad – assume as did their parents/. Who is running all of those foreign – local JV factories, or wholly owned foreign enterprises? The locals. As much as you will see a reshoring of some factories, esp. in critical industries like pharma/medical, I believe you will see a similar push for renationalizing foreign factories within China. From the Chinese point of view, why wait 3-5 years for foreign companies to make their arrangements to move production out of China? Why not take over the facilities, at firesale prices, and capture the global market share before MNCs can start operations? You’re already seeing face mask diplomacy in play. Real power resides in control of physical things – natural resources, land, manufacturing – always has, always will. You can have sophisticated software to manage logistics, just in time automated warehouses and virtual platforms, but in the end it’s still some guy/gal on the other side of the world who decides whether to fulfill the order or not.

   1. If the Chinese seize all of the foreign assets in China, then I will expect the US to something similar. And then there is no doubt we will be at war. One Danger is emp – commercial planes falling from the skies.

      1. China would care about losing 500 million people either. They’d take over Australia and lots of SouthAmerica too. I don’t think a few factories are worth it.

      2. yes, well the question is, is there a war now or not? if it happened, it would be a slow bleed, lots of red tape, done on the enforcement / regulatory side, not on the government front page news side. difficulty exporting / licensing / selling domestically. difficulty in getting visas /if all Chinese visas were cancelled, it means everyone has to reapply and be approved denovo/. the Chinese are patient and don’t need to make big announcements. foreign cos. already have difficulty to get money out of China. a factory that isn’t running is a legal liability, and it’s worthwhile to give it away for free just to walk away.

         big protest in hubei as they tried to open up Wuhan and rising anti foreign sentiment as the virus is being portrayed as reintroduced back into local population by infected foreigners. US news says 90% of infections are from returning chinese, asian news says 80% are from foreigners. 10,000 foreigners in home quarantine just in pudong side of shanghai,it proved be too much to manage so now anyone returning must go to a government facility for two weeks. respread in Shanghai is very possible if incubation period is over 14 days. if more infections happen as the country goes back to work, foreigners will be an obvious scapegoat. we had it handled before they came back in!

         face mask /protectove medical equipment diplomacy at play as european exports are prioritized and US is not. many companies are trans shipping through Europe now – half stays in EU, the other half goes to new York.

         hope it all passes as the virus dies down but the world will certainly be different on the other side.

         god bless us all!!

2. Hoping this may be more good news today, from Del Bigtree, stating that some of the modeling of fatalities have been refigured, and are not as daunting:

   Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yvhmf38vOg&fbclid=IwAR0zVOhII_2G92-wYh83zlY-9K8coJKt72c0ZU_2zyOA5oiXhAoO0TacI3Y

3. Is there a possibility they’re getting the hospital supplies/buildings/recalling military vets/FEMA ready for either retaliatory nuclear/weapon strike on America soil and/or total economic collapse and mass protests?

   The looting and pillaging is astounding

   “It means that Mnuchin is transforming the US Treasury into a hedge fund. That’s what it means. It means that the Treasury is going to use the $450 billion that is obliquely allocated in the emergency bill, to create a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)–which is a sleazy, off-balance sheet operation that is used to conceal underhanded bookkeeping, that will leverage up by 10x (which means that the Fed will use the $450 billion to borrow tens times more than the original amount or $4.5 trillion) that will be stealthily used to bail out underwater corporations, financial institutions and, yes, banks. (Note–The fairy-tale about “well capitalized banks” is pure bunkum. These guys have serious exposure through “sponsored repo” which is lending to hedge funds via the repo market.) The Fed has already created one SPV for the Commercial Paper market under the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) which is supposed to be used to mitigate volatility in global currency markets, not for bailing out failing corporations. It’s a complete misuse of funds. Unfortunately, targeted suspension of the Sunshine Act will prevent the public from figuring out who is getting money in what amount and for what purpose. This whole scam has been carefully worked out right down to legal provisions preventing transparency.”

4. Massive social unrest. The 1200$ check only goes to tax payers.

   They could have chose riots in 08, instead they chose much bigger riots now.

   The Depression is on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohEl7ZhP__U

   “https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/west-faces-social-bomb-pandemic-sparks-unrest-among-poorest”
   “https://www.zerohedge.com/political/french-official-says-quarantine-should-not-be-enforced-migrant-areas-avoid-riots”
   These we’re posted today.

5. I have taken a few days off from commenting, to contemplate and few things occur that I thought I would remark upon:

   1) Back in the fall, I and a number of forum members sensed that something big was going to happen, that desperation among our enemies was spilling out everywhere.

   2) Catherine has been advocating “three months of stores” all along, and most who took heed were well ahead of the curve in preparations, which to me is only common sense, even in peacetime, when power outages and storms can disrupt supply chains, and visitors may arrive without notice.

   3) I was initially disappointed that Trump announced the $2 Trillion relief package, then outraged to know that Democrats wouldn’t go along without pork-barrel inclusions. Subsequently, I realized that what is being signaled is not necessarily back-sliding by the president, but essentially the kind of closing move that is equivalent to a two-out suicide-squeeze, an onsides kick, a deliberately missed free-throw—just what must be done, despite poor odds, to secure the game. This ties into closely with item 1), above. Even though this new debt, piled atop the mountain we already have seems ludicrously high, is a demonstration of the severity of the situation, which wasn’t as we might have initially thought–a dress-rehearsal for something else. Again, we must view Trump as Moses–flawed, but the right guy for leading the exodus. I understand that this is not necessarily a widely held view, even in these pages.

   4) Joseph and Daniel Liszt repeatedly remarked about various historical Deep State schemes to bring us down that have failed, and from those, one can reasonably conclude that TPTB are mere mortals, unable to overcome the inherent, spiritual determination of we eternal beings. Probably they could physically kill all of us relatively easily, but as has been discussed previously, their scheme is to co-opt our souls and ride them, they imagine, across the divide to a Valhalla they (probably erroneously) conceive.

   5) Much as I could not have in the fall given the day or hour, or even nature of the event, I now sense that the pandemic game is over and we have risen to the challenge. I do not mean to say that the danger is passed for individuals or communities, but I think this may have been equivalent to The Battle of The Bulge, the last big push by the enemy. The awful detailing of The Peace is still ahead, and that includes what retributions may be meted out.

   I continue to urge vigilance and prudence until long after the “all clear” siren is sounded. In addition to more sophisticated enemies, banksters, miscreants and common criminals will attempt to prey upon the unwary whose guards are too easily dropped.

   1. Just Lol, “I was intially disappoted with trumps 2 trmps 2 trillion.

      Dude mnuchin is going to leverage that 10x threw the treasury…Did u read the bill or not? It’s 6.2 trillion.

      This is a new world, a new normal. A hyper deregulated neoliberalism of the old industrial age.

      Trump had 9 CEOs on the podium tonight. can you really not connect the dots?

      A free for all, I am all for it.

      If you think the forced shutdown of small business(compeition) or the police outside costco/whole foods is going away you are foolish as a prole

6. President Trump is in a trap.

   When ‘America goes back to work’, they can release more doses of the virus in those areas. Trump is blamed.

   Deep State wins ….

   1. Lol…Deep state..fool.
      This is a new world, a new normal. We are entering an hyper deregulated monopolistic free for all of the old industrial age.

      Trump had 9 CEOs on the stage tonight and 6.4 trillion dollar bailout package. Can you not connect the dots?>

7. I have started seeing some of the questionnaires for applying for mortgage relief. Be extremely careful. This is looking like another set up to take people into defaults like in 2008. Like Franklin Sanders says, “All government money comes with a sock in the jaw.”

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