Would you consider China as a
nation we should all model ourselves after? Some on our American
political leftist think so. Quote: "It’s rather sickening to watch
self-described liberals embrace China as a responsible power. The
headline on the cover of
this week’s Economist, which I now read solely to find out what is
not the case, is “China: the global grown-up.” The
Washington Post purports to explain “
Why China will be able to sell itself as the last liberal great power.” These articles, besides being wrong, have the distinction of following the line set by Beijing itself: “
China may lead globalization movement,”
says propaganda outlet CCTV." and, "Reading the gushing coverage of
this dictator’s turgid and clichéd speech, I can’t help but think of the
last time America’s liberal elite went gaga over China. “One-party
autocracy certainly has its drawbacks,”
Tom Friedman wrote in 2009.
“But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as
China is today, it can also have great advantages.” Chief among those
advantages, according to Friedman, is the Chinese Politburo’s ability to
“just impose the politically difficult but critically important
policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.” Spoken
like a true apparatchik. Six months later, on Meet the Press, Friedman
confessed his fantasy: “
What if we could just be China for a day?”
http://freebeacon.com/columns/dont-fall-chinas-global-baloney/?
If you do not believe that American leftist are not in league with
communist thinking you are not paying attention to their words or
deeds. I am reminded of how much the political left/progressives were
in love with Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy's
before the horrors of their reigns were exposed.
This is a assessment of
socialism well worth reading. Quote: "For it is not the copper-riveted
old-time believers in Marxian theory that we in America have to fear.
Those old-timers, although calling themselves democratic, still give
lip-service to the Marxian doctrine of progress through increasing class
division. They do not seem to me really to believe in it any longer; in
the present state of class relations in this country such a belief
would require feats of mental gymnastics for which even Marx did not
prepare them. But their formal adherence to this and the rest of the
Marxian mystique isolates them in America. Their fairy tale is not
plausible enough to be dangerous. It is the bureaucratic socializers—if I
may devise that label for the champions of a
lawyer-manager-politician-intellectual revolution—who constitute a real
and subtle threat to America’s democracy. It is their dream that is
moving into focus as that of Lenin grows dim. The assumption common to
these two dreams is that society can be made more free and equal, and
incidentally more orderly and prosperous, by a state apparatus which
takes charge of the economy, and runs it according to a plan. And this
assumption, though alluringly plausible, does not happen to be true. A
state apparatus which plans and runs the business of a country must have
the authority of a business executive. And that is the authority to
tell all those active in the business where to go and what to do, and if
they are insubordinate put them out. It must be an authoritarian state
apparatus. It may not want to be, but the economy will go haywire if it
is not."
https://fee.org/articles/the-alluring-falsehood-of-socialism/
The left's irrational "feelings"
instead of facts regarding the vetting of refugees gives rise to false
truths. These are some of them. Quote: "The sober and logical reasons
for President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees and visitors
are rising above the noise after an evening of hysterical over-reactions
and emotional meltdowns on the nation’s TV networks. Advocates of
sane, secure immigration policy have long noted that it’s almost
impossible to have a reasonable discussion of the refugee and
immigration issues, because it’s been sentimentalized and politicized
beyond the realm of rational thought. This weekend brings them another
superb example of media-magnified shrieking about fascism, bleating
about “white nationalists,” howling about “religious persecution,”
falsely invocations of the Constitution, and theatrical sobbing on
behalf of the Statue of Liberty. For readers who want to wallow in the
emotion, examples can be found in this
handy dossier of hysteria compiled by the
Washington Post. But clear-eyed adults prefer to examine plain facts about Trump’s executive order."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/01/29/seven-inconvenient-facts-about-trumps-refugee-actions/
This Chinese billionaire offers
America some needed insights. Quote: "Like Trump, Ma also accused
multinational corporations of profiting from globalization. “The
American multinational companies made millions and millions of dollars
from globalization,” Ma said. “The past 30 years, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft,
they’ve made tens of millions — the profits they’ve made are much more
than [those of] the four [largest] Chinese banks put together… But where
did the money go?” For many companies, the profits wound up overseas
in offshore tax havens, or even in places like Nevada where protected
onshore havens are managed by the infamous Rothschild family. Ma stated
that too much money in the U.S. is not distributed widely enough, and
this is a cause of economic anxiety. He said that too much wealth flows
to places like Silicon Valley and Wall Street, into the pockets of
people who are far, far richer than the average American. Instead, Ma
said, the U.S. should be helping people in places like the Midwest and
helping more Americans get better schooling. “You’re supposed to spend
money on your own people. Not everybody can pass [up] Harvard, like
me.” Ma said he believes in global trade, but that it “should be
inclusive,” with the profits not simply being funneled to the wealthy
few. “The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about
working together,” Ma stated. “As a business person, I want the world to
share the prosperity together.”
http://www.wealthauthority.com/articles/jack-mas-wise-words-for-america/
In follow-up to the previous
item, this summarizes the current day political left which is little
more than socialism at best or communism at worse. Quote: "On several
occasions I have asked in my columns the rhetorical question: What
became of the left? Today I answer my question. The answer is that the
European and American left, which traditionally stood for the working
class and peace (bread and peace) no longer exists. The cause championed
by those who pretend to be the “left” of today is identity politics.
The “left” no longer champions the working class, which the “left”
dismisses as “Trump deplorables,” consisting of “racist, misogynist,
homophobic, gun nuts.” Instead,the “left” champions alleged victimized
and marginalized groups—blacks, homosexuals, women and the
transgendered. Tranny bathrooms, a cause unlikely to mobilize many
Americans, are more important to the “left” than the working class. All
white-skinned peoples except leftists, including apparently victimized
women, are racist by definition. Racism and victimization are the
explanations of everything, all of history, all institutions, even the
US Constitution. This program of the left cuts the left off from the
working class, who have been abandoned by both political parties, and
has terminated the left’s connection to the people." And, "Thus, jobs
offshoring permitted the productivity gains to be monopolized by
corporate owners and executives. Instead of responding to Trump’s
support of the working class and his actions in their behalf during the
first week of his presidency—Trump’s termination of TPP and his demand
to auto manufacturers to bring manufacturing back to America—the “left”
has rallied around a victim group—illegal immigrants. The “left” even
elevates non-US citizens above the US working class.
Trump was elected by the working
class. If the left is defined historically as the champion of the
working class, then Donald Trump is their champion and the “left” is
their enemy."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/?
Consider this. If increased
terrorist acts are in our future Obama owns total responsibility for
them. Quote: "The Department of Homeland Security stopped more than
22,000 “high-risk” travelers from entering the United States in 2015,
but officials remain uncertain about how effective these security
screening methods are, opening the possibility that risky individuals
such as terrorists are still being approved for entry into America,
according to a new government
report highlighting these flaws."
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/thousands-terrorists-foreign-fighters-tried-enter-america-new-data-shows/?
Food for thought. Quote: "Those
who have been leading us down the garden path of liberty and conspiracy
have failed to both recognize and educate the disorganized masses on
the actual methodology of the multilateral transmutation of the
international monetary system. Reducing the power and influence of the
Federal Reserve fits exactly into the mandates of the multilateral. The
same can be said of the political platform of Donald Trump. The “Make
America Great Again” pledge and mantra is the condensed talking point
which is based on the depreciation of the dollar. This multilateral
depreciation will reduce the cost of US manufactured goods and increase
exports. This means higher GDP, reduced debt-to-GDP ratio, and more jobs
for Americans. The multilateral mandates are being sold to Americans
through alternative media and establishment opposition. The analysis
presented here on POM has been attacked and/or ignored by so many sites
which promise the truth. Yet, readers and followers of those sites and
personalities have been left more confused and less informed about
everything that is taking place internationally. Long-time readers of
POM have been provided a front row seat on the transition from a
unipolar USD dominated world to a multilateral SDR denominated world.
The fact that so much of the information presented here is trending
accurately is a testament to the validity of the analysis. Who would
have thought that the Bank for International Settlements and the Tea
Party, Ron Paul, and the Alex Jones network would all want the same
thing? Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, and conspiracy theory
is not the conspiracy we thought it was at all. – JC Interested readers
may also gain additional insight into the strategies and workings of
the international banking interests by reading the post
The Bretton Woods Origin of the Cold War.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/01/30/trump-is-about-to-hammer-the-federal-reserve/ We need to look beyond the obvious. Truth may be lurking in places other than where we are told it is.
This piece illustrates that left
leaning people seem to have lost the ability to think properly.
Consider the US tax policies proposed by Trump and the illogical defense
of current tax policy supported by the left. Quote: "The top rate
proposed by the new administration (33%) is substantially lower than the
maximum rate under President Obama (43.8%). Furthermore, a standard
deduction of $12,000 means, on average, the middle class will get an
additional $12k worth of tax-exempt income. Economic growth comes from
CONSUMER spending. Increase the net disposable income and that will jump-start the economy. Of
course,
the
Democrats will oppose this because they never saw a dollar they did not
want to get their hands on. They tend to forget their history; the
FIRST tax cut after World War II was implemented by John F. Kennedy."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/01/26/trumps-tax-reduction-follows-john-f-kennedy-approach/
