No matter what the ever growing list of facts that come out about the Obama Administration’s Uranium One deal, and how much closer and closer it appears to be running up the chain of command to President Obama himself, the ‘Paid to Report’ Media stills, because of the depths they’ve already gone to protect this bipartisan ‘Swamp,’ is losing whatever credibility they still might of had left!
As I watched the Media’s different interviews over the last day or so, and hearing these Liberal mouthpieces making their token partisan comments trying to deliver their version of a fair and balanced ‘he said, she said’ message about the collusion connection between the Russians and the Trump campaigners, I find myself not being thankful for anything when it comes to the political ‘State of the Union’ Swamp this Thanksgiving!
I could see the ‘Left’s’ once enthusiastic ‘Never Trump’ wind dying down when trying to defend the Liberal’s accusations against President Trump after the revelations of Uranium One’s deep and treasonous gestures toward America’s sovereignty. Then comes their blow hard false Russian narrative leaving these fading believers of Progressivism thinking twice about ‘falling on their swords’ for a lost cause. Next we have the once loyal to the Clinton’s Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and others that once followed behind Obama’s lock-step Gestapo, are now jumping overboard the ‘Good ship Hillary’ to save themselves from the wrath of the American people when the midterm elections come rolling around in just under a year!
What really surprises me the most though is how these Progressive Liberals, with the help of the ‘Paid to Report’ Media’s agenda journalists, still believe that they will be rewarded for obstructing and resisting anything and everything Trump, while sitting on their hands and doing nothing to fulfil the American people’s election result mandate! ~~
All Americans have to get behind a Federal Voter ID Law! All Americans have to understand that Voter Fraud is the biggest threat to America’s sovereignty, and that no matter what the Liberal Left proclaims about a Federal Voter ID Law being racist, know that it’s bull sh*t, and has happened in the both the 2012 election, attempted in 2016, and definitely ‘The end justifies the means’ strategy in 2018 because it will be Progressives last chance to create their ideological Socialist change to America’s Constitutional Republic!
All Americans need to know that when it comes to interfering in an election that the Obama Administration paid to undermine Israel’s reelection of Bibi Netanya, tried to topple Syria’s reign of terror by support and funding the rebels who later turned into what we know today as ISIS, and influenced the well known ‘Arab Spring’ to establish a regime change in Libya that led to the death of 4 Americans in Benghazi!
The last thing that the American people should understand is that it never was the Liberal Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia, but China, China, China, and why they are the real threat to America’s sovereignty, and not Russia as you will see later in this article!
Our Republic, in order to protect our sovereignty, needs a Federal Voter ID Law, and as I watch the Liberal members of this committee challenge the need for this law using their racist themes and accusations, you know that the voter fraud end game in 2016, will be used again in the upcoming 2018 midterms because it’s the only way they will be able to get their Socialist 3rd world platform passed, unless of course the new members of the silent majority, along with the previous members that came out of the woodwork in 2016, come together to help drain the bipartisan ‘Swamp’ once and for all!
It’s a sad day when most of the members of congress who represent America’s political system are more concerned about their being reelected and getting more face time to show their constituency that their on the job, but at the same time not executing the mandate that the American people, after the last election, set down to be followed. What this really should be showing the American people is how truly necessary term limits are desperately needed, and how pathetic the State of the Union truly is!
Because of the Liberal’s Russia, Russia, Russia narrative over the last year, and blaming President Trump’s campaign for colluding with Russia to take down ‘crooked’ Hillary with no proven connection found of that reality for over a year, don’t you wonder why, especially after the new revelations coming out about Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation’s illegal and unconstitutional lack of ethics, and their continued lack of respect for the rule of law and constitution, why the Liberal Left seem as if they’re as dumb as a stump, which doesn’t say a lot for their lock-step constituency!
Was it OK that the Obama administration tried to negatively affect the reelection of Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu, and then there was Libya:
“We came, we saw, he died,” exclaimed an ebullient Hillary Clinton, as she exulted over the horrific death of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who was sodomized with a bayonet before being brutally murdered by rampaging militiamen. Visiting Tripoli, the Libyan capital, the American Secretary of State was eager to take credit for the “liberation” of yet another Muslim country by Western powers acting in concert.
Hillary’s starring role in the events that had led to this moment. The timeline, her top policy aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote, demonstrated Mrs. Clinton’s ‘leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.’ The memo’s language put her at the center of everything: ‘HRC announces … HRC directs … HRC travels … HRC engages,’ it read.”
Mrs. Clinton was easily won over by the Libyan rebels who presented a utopian view of what the post-revolutionary era would look like: there would be free elections, a free media, women would be able to “do it all,” and everyone would get a pony. They “’said all the right things about supporting democracy and inclusivity and building Libyan institutions, providing some hope that we might be able to pull this off,’ said Philip H. Gordon, one of her assistant secretaries. ‘They gave us what we wanted to hear. And you do want to believe.’”
Confirmation bias in a writer or reporter is fatal, but only to his/her own career: in a Secretary of State it is a death sentence for thousands. And that’s exactly how it turned out in Hillary’s case.
To this day, Clinton savers that “it’s too soon to tell” whether the Libya intervention qualifies as an unmitigated failure – even in the face of marauding militias, no less than two self-declared governments, the horrific death of an American ambassador at the hands of the very militias we empowered, and the incursion of the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and other terrorist outfits. She refused to be interviewed for the Times article.
While Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden opposed regime change, Clinton took the side of the younger “back-benchers,” as the Times calls them, who wanted to go in there and “get on the right side of history.” The misnamed “Arab Spring” was in full bloom, and the media was pushing the idea that this was a great awakening of “democracy.”
Hillary, who had hesitated at first to jump on the bandwagon during the Egyptian events, made up for lost time in Libya. She “pressed for a secret American program that supplied arms to rebel militias, an effort never before confirmed,” the Times reports. Those arms would be used to attack a CIA outpost in Benghazi, where Ambassador Stevens would fall at the hands of these very militiamen.
While initially the US was purportedly acting only to prevent civilian deaths at the hands of Gaddafi – a “humanitarian disaster” that turned out to be nothing but media-driven war propaganda – Hillary and her staff soon fell down the slippery slope to actively aiding the rebels. The ‘responsibility to protect” soon became another regime change operation, as in Iraq. ~~By Justin Raimondo, a Friend of America!
China, China, China, Not Russia, Russia, Russia!
CHINA-based hackers are suspected once again of breaking into U.S. government computer networks, and the entire federal workforce could be at risk this time.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that data from the Office of Personnel Management — the human resources department for the federal government — and the Interior Department had been compromised.
U.S. officials suspect that hackers in China stole the personal records of as many as four million people in one of the most far-reaching breaches of government computers.
CHINA Is Buying Its Way into the U.S. Economy
The concept of “Made in America” is slowly giving way to “Made by China … in America,” as Chinese investors are increasingly snatching up U.S.-based companies and assets and raising the eyebrows of some regulators and market spectators.
Since the turn of the new year, Chinese suitors have either announced interest in or closed on several multi-billion dollar acquisitions of American institutions, such as General Electric’s appliance wing, construction manufacturer Terex, Starwood Hotels, California-based tech company Ingram Micro and finance and production outfit Legendary Entertainment.
CHINA-North Korea Relations Can’t Be Broken
Despite North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, its ties with China have been remarkably stable — and will remain that way.
North Korea’s nuclear development has been all over the headlines lately. Accordingly, some Western media and Chinese observers seem to believe that it would be within China’s strategic interests to cool down, or even break off, its relationship with North Korea. In view of their real national interests, however, China and North Korea will not turn away from each other, despite their cooling relations. From a long-term, historical viewpoint, ties between the two countries will eventually stabilize and strengthen, but under one condition – North Korea’s nuclear impasse must not drag on forever.
CHINESE Military Bases in South China Sea
Satellite photos show China has been rapidly building military outposts on disputed islands in the South China Sea, significantly boosting its presence in the already tense region, according to a Pentagon report released Friday.
“China continues to invest in military programs and weapons designed to improve power projection, anti-access area denial and operations in emerging domains such as cyberspace, space and the electromagnetic spectrum,” said Abraham Denmark, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia.
The report to Congress reveals that China has added over 3,200 acres to the seven sites it occupies in the South China Sea during the last two years. ~~~
How China Became One of America’s Biggest Bankers
China is more than happy to own almost a third of the U.S. debt.
Owning U.S. Treasury notes helps China’s economy grow by keeping its currency weaker than the dollar. It keeps Chinese exports cheaper than U.S. products. China’s highest priority is creating enough jobs for its 1.4 billion people.
The United States allowed China to become one of its biggest bankers because the American people enjoy low consumer prices. Selling debt to China funds federal government programs that allow the U.S. economy to grow. It also keeps U.S. interest rates low. But China’s ownership of the U.S. debt is shifting the economic balance of power in its favor.
Why China Owns So Much U.S. Debt
China makes sure the yuan is always lower than the U.S. dollar. Why? Part of its economic strategy is to keep its export prices competitive. It does this by holding the yuan at a fixed rate compared to a “currency basket” of which the majority is the dollar. When the dollar falls in value, the Chinese government uses dollars it has on hand to buy Treasuries. It receives these dollars from Chinese companies that receive them as payments for their exports. China’s Treasury purchases increases demand for the dollar and thus its value.
Also, China promises to redeem dollars for yuan at the fixed rate.
It must keep a good supply of Treasury notes in reserve to do that.
China’s position as America’s largest banker gives it some political leverage. Now and then, China threatens to sell part of its debt holdings. It knows that if it did so, U.S. interest rates would rise. That would slow U.S economic growth. China often calls for a new global currency to replace the dollar, which is used in most international transactions. China does this whenever the United States allows the value of the dollar to drop. That makes the debt China holds less valuable.
What Happens If China Called in Its Debt Holdings
China would not call in its debt all at once. If it did so, the demand for the dollar would plummet like a rock. This dollar collapse would disrupt international markets even more than the 2008 financial crisis.
China’s economy would suffer along with everyone else’s.
It’s more likely that China would slowly begin selling off its Treasury holdings. Even when it just warns that it plans to do so, dollar demand starts to drop. That hurts China’s competitiveness. As it raises its export prices, U.S. consumers would buy American products instead. China could only start this process if it further expands its exports to other Asian countries and increases domestic demand.
China’s Debt-Holder Strategy Is Working
China’s low-cost competitive strategy worked. Its economy grew 10 percent annually for the three decades before the recession. Now it’s growing at 7 percent, a more sustainable rate. China has become the largest economy in the world. It’s outpaced the United States and the European Union. China also became the world’s biggest exporter in 2010. China needs this growth to raise its low standard of living. Despite its threats, China will continue to be one of the world’s largest holders of U.S. debt.
~~By Kimberly Amadeo, a Friend of America!