If you thought western mass media have been brazenly pushy with their anti-China propaganda, wait til you see The Hill's appalling new opinion piece titled "America must prepare for war with China over Taiwan". "China’s massive investment in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) may show China is preparing to fundamentally change the status quo and preparing for possible war with the United States over Taiwan," the piece begins. "To deter China, the United States must rapidly build up its forces in the Pacific, continue to strengthen military alliances in the region to ensure access to bases in time of conflict, and accelerate deliveries of purchased military equipment to Taiwan."
Hanna Arendt used the phrase "banality of evil" to describe Eichmann -- a man accused with war crimes which staggered the world -- saying the man was not stupid, but possessed a completely authentic inability to think.
Such men are commonplace, apparently, and they seem to crave positions of influence and control.
The Hill article like many other saber-rattles are propaganda - now analysis. Arguments generally go: "Why, well look at the size of their military. Why, well look at the size of their military. And look at Hong Kong, and what Xi says about Taiwan. Of course, ignore that China is bordered by 3rd-world countries that require a huge military just to keep rebels, terrorists, smugglers and thieves out (Russia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Pakistan, Kursicstan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and North Korea). Russia too has 9 countries on its border - including China! Both Russia and China have a huge coastlines and lots of international water-borne trade, so both countries need a big Navy to protect their trade interests. They also have large international coasts - China especially, which also has major cities on its coast that dwarf LA and San Francisco. There, feel better? 🤓
I'm glad you said "the Biden *administration* " because, for a minute there, I thought you said that Biden would have to articulate, and he can't even find his dick, let alone hold it.
There clearly is a ramping up of anti-China rhetoric. Numerous progressive journalists and commentators speak of the fomenting of a new cold war with China. And can we really trust that the brandishing of weapons and aggressive posturing won't blow up? Manufacturing consent extends into the realm of art as well. I was just at an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in DC of the painter Hung Liu, "the acclaimed Chinese-born American artist." Her work is indeed stunning, beautiful, sensitive, and poignant, but it can hardly help but fuel emotional repugnance toward China. In this context, the prominent featuring of her anti-Communist China work--the first exhibit of an Asian American woman in the museum--does not seem to me to be coincidental.
I'm with Caitlin except where she uses the jerk's picture to slander both nerds and and people with sexual hangups. You're better than judging people on the basis of their appearance, Caitlin!
the "us" being groomed will change at a moment's notice. It's AUKUS doing the sabre rattling, but in the end I think it will be Singapore Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Korea India who will carry the weight and bear the fight. I have a feeling........ It should be called "Tim Cook's War". After all, Apple has reaped its trillion dollar market capitalization on China/Taiwan. No company so much so. (Funny thing: when Trump was openly racializing American politics for the coming two decades, imposing Tariffs on "foreigners" products, Apple got a deal! Zero tariffs on their "imports". As late as 2019. Wonders of Mar a Lago.)
I think it is more likely that the media are hyping the fear of war than promoting actual war. The former will result in trillions of dollars wasted on armaments, while the latter will result in the U.S. getting its ass kicked by China, a defeat that the US’s own war games indicate is virtually certain to occur in very short order.
Still ignoring the scamdemic... lockdowns...forced vaccinations...all orchestrated by the people who are pushing the anti China bullshit? I used to respect you... no longer
We are layers and layers into the madness…a human even thinking seriously about creating a nuclear weapon is sheer madness…so is accepting them as a given our entire lives, while we argue about lesser things.
Our egoic conditioning makes us all mentally ill.
The most important subtext to every conversation you or I have ever had—and it should pervade the discourse like a fragrant bouquet or the stench of a fish market—is that 1) we are mentally ill due to compulsive thinking with which we identify 2) this dysfunction sends danger signals to the body so we retreat to the survival brain where hierarchy, domination, violence, deception and extreme othering suppress our collaborative empathetic programming 3) the human organism in order to survive requires clean air, water, food, shelter and resources to prevent and repair injury to the organism…and education and creative expression and space in order to fully develop.
If these are not the subtext—and we can include nuclear weapons and ecocide in the subtext when someone speaks about “ the urgency of x! “then the debate is largely pointless… literally that person is missing the point, the greater and deeper context.
The first 2 in the list above are more challenging to explain but number 3, at least, should be the ground upon which we formulate all discussions on any topic of concern.
Playing on any other field of discussion is giving away home field advantage and likely losing control of the narrative.
So we set the premise, and status quo defenders will use jargon to pretend they prioritize survival of the human organism but if we keep that as our baseline at every point in a conversation then the forces of domination and resistance will quickly reveal a ‘survival of the fittest or most worthy’ ideology and the narratives they have built will collapse more easily.
The most important thing however is to cultivate deep present moment awareness to quiet the mind and begin to help us heal our insanity which makes us do brutal things and makes us easy to dominate and manipulate.
Well, OK. But only if we'll finish up in time for dinner? Weren't Biden, Obama, Clinton suck ups those sneering white-flight suburbanite "hippy" kids, who'd gentrified Black & Latino business districts, bulldozed by daddy's firm, as they smoked dope, miscegenated away working class movements, incorporated "our" party & wrote laws, legalizing feeding upon us (while incarcerating 23 million, for whathefuck EVER we did, trying to survive?)
Hanna Arendt used the phrase "banality of evil" to describe Eichmann -- a man accused with war crimes which staggered the world -- saying the man was not stupid, but possessed a completely authentic inability to think.
Such men are commonplace, apparently, and they seem to crave positions of influence and control.
Their faults are not worth one more human life.
The Hill article like many other saber-rattles are propaganda - now analysis. Arguments generally go: "Why, well look at the size of their military. Why, well look at the size of their military. And look at Hong Kong, and what Xi says about Taiwan. Of course, ignore that China is bordered by 3rd-world countries that require a huge military just to keep rebels, terrorists, smugglers and thieves out (Russia, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal, Pakistan, Kursicstan, Kasakhstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and North Korea). Russia too has 9 countries on its border - including China! Both Russia and China have a huge coastlines and lots of international water-borne trade, so both countries need a big Navy to protect their trade interests. They also have large international coasts - China especially, which also has major cities on its coast that dwarf LA and San Francisco. There, feel better? 🤓
I'm glad you said "the Biden *administration* " because, for a minute there, I thought you said that Biden would have to articulate, and he can't even find his dick, let alone hold it.
There clearly is a ramping up of anti-China rhetoric. Numerous progressive journalists and commentators speak of the fomenting of a new cold war with China. And can we really trust that the brandishing of weapons and aggressive posturing won't blow up? Manufacturing consent extends into the realm of art as well. I was just at an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in DC of the painter Hung Liu, "the acclaimed Chinese-born American artist." Her work is indeed stunning, beautiful, sensitive, and poignant, but it can hardly help but fuel emotional repugnance toward China. In this context, the prominent featuring of her anti-Communist China work--the first exhibit of an Asian American woman in the museum--does not seem to me to be coincidental.
I'm with Caitlin except where she uses the jerk's picture to slander both nerds and and people with sexual hangups. You're better than judging people on the basis of their appearance, Caitlin!
the "us" being groomed will change at a moment's notice. It's AUKUS doing the sabre rattling, but in the end I think it will be Singapore Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Korea India who will carry the weight and bear the fight. I have a feeling........ It should be called "Tim Cook's War". After all, Apple has reaped its trillion dollar market capitalization on China/Taiwan. No company so much so. (Funny thing: when Trump was openly racializing American politics for the coming two decades, imposing Tariffs on "foreigners" products, Apple got a deal! Zero tariffs on their "imports". As late as 2019. Wonders of Mar a Lago.)
Who pays? who fights? Rich get richer.
I think it is more likely that the media are hyping the fear of war than promoting actual war. The former will result in trillions of dollars wasted on armaments, while the latter will result in the U.S. getting its ass kicked by China, a defeat that the US’s own war games indicate is virtually certain to occur in very short order.
Still ignoring the scamdemic... lockdowns...forced vaccinations...all orchestrated by the people who are pushing the anti China bullshit? I used to respect you... no longer
We are layers and layers into the madness…a human even thinking seriously about creating a nuclear weapon is sheer madness…so is accepting them as a given our entire lives, while we argue about lesser things.
Our egoic conditioning makes us all mentally ill.
The most important subtext to every conversation you or I have ever had—and it should pervade the discourse like a fragrant bouquet or the stench of a fish market—is that 1) we are mentally ill due to compulsive thinking with which we identify 2) this dysfunction sends danger signals to the body so we retreat to the survival brain where hierarchy, domination, violence, deception and extreme othering suppress our collaborative empathetic programming 3) the human organism in order to survive requires clean air, water, food, shelter and resources to prevent and repair injury to the organism…and education and creative expression and space in order to fully develop.
If these are not the subtext—and we can include nuclear weapons and ecocide in the subtext when someone speaks about “ the urgency of x! “then the debate is largely pointless… literally that person is missing the point, the greater and deeper context.
The first 2 in the list above are more challenging to explain but number 3, at least, should be the ground upon which we formulate all discussions on any topic of concern.
Playing on any other field of discussion is giving away home field advantage and likely losing control of the narrative.
So we set the premise, and status quo defenders will use jargon to pretend they prioritize survival of the human organism but if we keep that as our baseline at every point in a conversation then the forces of domination and resistance will quickly reveal a ‘survival of the fittest or most worthy’ ideology and the narratives they have built will collapse more easily.
The most important thing however is to cultivate deep present moment awareness to quiet the mind and begin to help us heal our insanity which makes us do brutal things and makes us easy to dominate and manipulate.
Well, OK. But only if we'll finish up in time for dinner? Weren't Biden, Obama, Clinton suck ups those sneering white-flight suburbanite "hippy" kids, who'd gentrified Black & Latino business districts, bulldozed by daddy's firm, as they smoked dope, miscegenated away working class movements, incorporated "our" party & wrote laws, legalizing feeding upon us (while incarcerating 23 million, for whathefuck EVER we did, trying to survive?)
Don't let your kids infect VULNERABLE folks.
B.1.1.529 should be here for Christmas?
https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(17)50676-6/fulltext
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/11/antidepressants-tied-lower-covid-19-death-rates
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354294929_The_Combination_of_Quercetin_and_Bromelain_with_Zinc_EGCG_Retinoic_Acid_Vitamin_C_and_Vitamin_D_for_the_potential_Symptom_Reducer_Prevention_and_Treatment_for_Coronavirus_Disease_2019_COVID-19
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https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(17)50676-6/fulltext