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US Citizens Are Almost Chinese Slaves
“There are lies and there are damn lies”
Mark Twain
The rumor states that when Hillary Clinton went to China, she pledged the ownership of our homes as collateral to the Chinese so that they would continue to purchase our debt.
What Are the Chinese Purchasing?
Before I subscribe to this rumor, I would like to know which debt the rumor is referring to. Is the debt consisting of the United States selling 17 trillion dollars in budget debt and the Chinese are purchasing that debt?
Would the purchased debt consist of the unfunded liabilities debt totaling 240 trillion dollars? Or, would the Chinese be so kind as to purchase the really big debt of 1.5 quadrillion dollars of derivatives debt created by the bankster Ponzi schemes gone bad?
Are the Chinese just plain stupid or are they just dumb like a fox?
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(David Hodges – humanasarefree.com/thecommonsenseshow.com)
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Davos Billionaires
Oblivious to the Coming Revolution
(Paul Farrell)
Davos
The world looks different from rarified altitude of a billionaire. Especially if you’re one of the 85 richest, who control more wealth than the 3.5 billion poorest.
You guys already own half the planet. Keep up the good work, getting richer, by the end of this century your family could be one of the world’s 11 trillionaires predicted in the new Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report. Capitalism is the ticket to owning everything.
Cruising at 51,000 feet, Mach 0.85 in your $40 million Gulfstream jet, you know the world belongs to you. A few days at the World Economic Forum in historic Davos, Europe’s highest city, high in the Swiss Alps, and your world seemed even bigger. Roots in the Higher Middle Ages. Fabulous ski resort.
Davos is mostly about business contacts, meeting other powerful capitalists, great PR and i-photo ops walking among world leaders, in seminars, at meals, over drinks, just mingling with the 2,500 participants — all the captains of industry, central bankers, heads of state, thought leaders and celebrity economists, maybe even listening to actor Matt Damon talking about his Water.org or attending a mindful meditation session with Goldie Hawn.
But bottom line: for 1,500 business and financial types at Davos, many whose firms are permanent members, just one new contact can justify the quarter million often spent belonging to the exclusive Davos Forum. Yes, up at their altitude, the world really does looks different.
Billionaires aren’t ‘Curious Capitalists,’ they just want to make more money
The truth is, for 43 years Davos has been a private club for capitalists that has had more to do with increasing economic inequality than any other global organization. Here’s how a real “Curious Capitalist,” as Time’s editor, Rana Foroohar, sees it from ground level mingling with world leaders, gathering quotes, interviewing and blogging, to get answers to “The 5 Most Important Questions for the Davos Elite”:
- Is U.S. economic recovery for real?
- Will China’s economy blow up?
- Is technology a friend or an enemy?
- Who wins, millennials vs. baby boomers?
- What will the political impact of inequality be?
Actually, only one of these five questions has the potential of triggering catastrophic long-term consequences: Economic inequality. The other four, while significant, are all what mathematicians call dependent functions of the inequality equation that’s impacting technology, generational conflicts and the economies of China and America.
In fact, a cultural revolution is creating a new global collective conscience between capitalism and inequality, the Haves and the Have-nots. A powerful virus is spreading, rising from the grass roots of billions in the repressed poor and the middle class, forcing moral leaders to step forward and openly challenge the destructive forces of capitalism. You can now even see them jumping on this new bandwagon.
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(Paul Farrell/26.01.2014/marketwatch.com)