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[Vicus]

Argentina - A political earthquake

Peter Koenig
Global Research
Wed, 22 Nov 2023

On Sunday, 19 November, the extreme neoliberal Javier Milei won the run-off elections with 56% against 44% for the present Peronist (center left) Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa. This is more than a surprise. On 23 October, during the first-round vote, Massa had a 36% to 30% lead. Massa is an experienced economist and well-versed politician. Milei is neither.

However, Milei boasts he will drastically reduce Argentina's inflation, currently more than 140%, get rid of the Argentine Central Bank and adopt the dollar as the national currency, replacing the Peso. This is just one of his radial neoliberal measures he plans for Argentina.

Introduction of the US dollar as the national currency is the most drastic measure Milei announced way ahead of the elections - and it would be more than surprising if Argentinians just 22 years after the economy totally collapsed (2000-2002), precisely because then-President Carlos Menem's dollarized Argentina in 1991 by pegging the Peso 1:1 against the dollar. Already then, the argument was "fighting inflation."

This "argument" was strongly advanced by Washington and the IMF, while every sane economist knows that you cannot run a country which has its own culture and economic parameters with the currency of another country. It is unbelievable, that neither Washington, the FED, nor the IMF should have no even-headed economists.

In today's George Orwell's 1984 world, everything goes. If people go along, why not. The Tavistock Institute, whose specialty is social engineering and mind manipulation, will take care of it. In the Western world, it happens almost permanently.

There is one country in South America, Ecuador, which is since 2000 fully dollarized. Almost exactly when Argentina's economy sank into an abyss, because of dollarization, the then right-wing Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad, under pressure from Washington / FED and the IMF, dollarized the hydrocarbon-rich South American nation - allegedly for the same reason, "hyperinflation."

No lesson learned by sovereign Ecuador. Her economy runs by petrol income. More than 50% of export earning stem form petrol - and US oil companies control the rich Ecuadorian hydrocarbon resources.

Ever since, the US dollar replaced Ecuador's national currency, the Sucre. Ecuador's economy is enslaved to Washington's economy, hovering in a crisis, some times more than others. To the detriment of the population, Ecuador's politicians are easily manipulated and corrupted by the US.

Argentina has a diversity of riches - and a well-educated population. Those factors have helped Argentina to recover relatively well after the downfall 20 years ago.

Argentinians, for sure have not forgotten the misery they went through 20 years ago, and a similar onslaught of poverty-inducing economic measures by another neo-liberal /neo-fascist president, Mauricio Macri (December 2015 - December 2019) - a four-year period during which Macri made sure that the riches gained by hardworking Argentinians during the 15 years of recovery, were transferred north - to the IMF, Wall Street, and the elites of the Unite States, Europe and international corporations.

The same is happening now. And most Argentinians, according to the election results, would go along? Hardly.

So, there must be a hidden agenda to subdue and "social-engineer" the masses so that they refrain from protesting, no questions asked, with a new fraud dismantling their economy under the pretext of reducing inflation.


Inflation can be artificially-induced, especially in countries whose economies are strongly dependent on the US dollar, as is Argentina, despite her efforts to de-dollarize by trading in local currencies. This works well with China, Argentina's second largest trading partner (2022).

As part of Mercosur, Brazil is Argentina's main trading partner for both exports and imports, followed by China, the United States, India, Chile, Paraguay, and Germany. Other than China, most of these countries trade in US dollars or the dollar-dependent Euros.


By far the largest investor in Argentina is the US, with more than US$ 12.6 billion (2022), mainly in agriculture, manufacturing, oil and gas, communications and technology, and financial services. This is an increase of 3.6 % over 2021. A sign that dollar-dependency may be increasing.


See this and this.


With dollars flooding the nation, artificially generating inflation in a country proven vulnerable for hyper price hikes already in the 1980s, is like 101 of manipulating economics.

Argentina is a member of China's Belt and Road. The BRICS Summit in August 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa, welcomed Argentina as one of the six new BRICS members as of 1 January 2024.

How the Belt and Road and the new BRICS membership will fit into Milei's radical neoliberal agenda remains to be seen.


If Javier Milei, who has the support of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, succeeds in pulling through with his radical economic measures, the population may be programmed for enormous hardship like in 2001 / 2002, or worse. Working then in Argentina, experiencing this misery first hand, it is difficult to believe that Argentinians would be so easily and so quickly "forgettable", just to be duped again with the same medicine.

There is so far no proof, but it is more than suspicious, and likely that there was fraud involved in these run-off elections. This often happens, a sudden turn-around between the first election results and the run-off vote. Curiously, there are never any exit polls taken by neutral observers in such crucial and fraud-prone elections.

Question: will Argentina succumb to the globalists, giving up her riches for an international US-led elite, giving away for the third time in about three decades, Argentina's fortune and resources to a globalist clan, led by the visible face of the World Economic Forum (WEF), but whose strings are pulled by a financial elite lurking in the dark?

Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion - An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney's book When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis (Clarity Press - November 1, 2020).

https://www.sott.net/article/486353-...cal-earthquake

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Posted by Vicus (here)
Question: will Argentina succumb to the globalists, giving up her riches for an international US-led elite, giving away for the third time in about three decades, Argentina's fortune and resources to a globalist clan, led by the visible face of the World Economic Forum (WEF), but whose strings are pulled by a financial elite lurking in the dark?

Answer:

Modern Argentina was established by Synarchy (financial elite) already in the 1930s.

Then one finds Nelson Rockefeller responsible for bringing "Nazi Argentina" into the United Nations, that this formed the basis of Article 51 or "collective security agreements", which in turn was used to design NATO.


The backdoor deals of San Francisco 1945 are rarely mentioned, but it is easy to track his next ventures in Latin America:

After the war, Rockefeller promoted a reformed capitalism he envisioned would involve collaboration among government and private groups in the United States and Latin America. Starting in Venezuela and Brazil, he created a nonprofit entity, the American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA), that partnered with Latin American governments, especially in public health and agriculture, and a for-profit business, the International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC), which fostered joint investments. In 1950, he headed the International Development Advisory Board to advise the Truman administration on the Point Four program, established to foster US technical assistance toward developing nations.

Which is the precursor for Colombia 1959, which links to a very extensive article that shows nothing ever changed and it is always concerned about overthrowing the government of Venezuela.

It may be that common-sense Argentinians have occasionally pushed back the influence, but the continent as a whole has been a playground for Truman's Empire, Argentina being something like the axle upon which the wheel revolves.

It is like most of the wars--you get lost quickly when studying them in terms of who said this, who was fighting for that, and so on...it helps to have the central point operating behind the smokescreen. Capitalists overthrowing governments and doing basically whatever they want. This is not very abstract because it always comes down to a small number of men who are in a closely coordinated effort. It just is not the commonly-published story or explanation, since the strategy is to conceal and re-direct attention. That way, for example, you spend eternity "fighting inflation", rather than chopping the root, the priviliged emission of bank notes.

[Vicus]

This simple move by China could demolish the EU's aggressive agenda


Timur Fomenko
RT
Wed, 29 Nov 2023


President of China Xi Jinping

Visa-free travel may not seem like a big deal, but it throws a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a "closed" and "bad-for-business" Beijing...


Last week, Beijing announced that the citizens of six EU countries - Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal - will be allowed to visit China for a 15-day period visa-free, allowing them to bypass the cumbersome process of attaining a Chinese tourist visa.


The announcement comes about a week ahead of the upcoming China-EU summit, which will bring European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel to Beijing.


Recently, von der Leyen has been engaging in increasingly hawkish rhetoric pertaining to Beijing, including making a number of complaints about what she refers to as "China's unfair trade practices," pushing for "de-risking," demanding more market access, and threatening levies over Chinese renewable energy goods. Beijing, on the other hand, has been critical of this attitude and has urged the EU to take a friendlier and more cooperative approach, touting the benefits of engagement.


So how does China respond? By announcing an unprecedented visa-free scheme for select EU countries. Although that may seem like a minor gesture, it's a big deal. A central complaint and criticism coming from the West towards China in recent years is that it has become increasingly "inconvenient" to travel to, and of course from 2020 to early 2023, it was practically impossible. This is because the Chinese state's level of bureaucracy and regulations for incoming travelers has intensified, which makes getting a visa even for tourism a nightmarish process.

To receive a Chinese tourist visa, one must make a formal appointment with a designated office. If you do not live in a major city, that means you must have to travel to one. Depending on the country, these offices can be busy, meaning you cannot get an appointment on a whim. When making your appointment, you must already have every element of your trip pre-booked in terms of flights, accommodation, and dates, and then fill it all in on an extensive online form, which will ask about unusual and tedious details such as your family members' occupations. You must also bring passport scans and photos, as well as the full passport itself, and submit it. If you get the appointment date wrong, it cannot be changed.


After paying for all that, after a few working days you can retrieve your passport with the visa taking up a page inside of it. A tourist visa will only ever last for a year, requiring you to repeat this process later on if you are a regular visitor to the country. Therefore, for China to suddenly turn around and say to some EU countries, "oh, you don't need to do this anymore" that's a huge deal. It is a very generous gesture, one extremely unlikely under any circumstances to be extended to any of the 'Five Eyes' countries. But behind it all there is a hidden, political motive: to thwart the EU "de-risking" of China.


If you're a European businessman from one of these key countries, which coincidentally represent the bulk of the EU economy, your ability to enter China and do business has improved remarkably. It's a friendly sign, it's helpful, so do you think those German, Dutch and French executives who are being told to reduce their presence in China are going to be more inclined to listen to von der Leyen and her ilk when they say de-risk? Why would they? Accessing the Chinese market just got that little bit easier, and therefore the de-risk agenda is thwarted. After all, business groups are opposed to such agendas in the first place. The German car industry is never, ever going to give up on the Chinese market.

In addition to this, the move also undercuts the popular Western narrative that China is "closing" to the world, that Xi Jinping is bad for business, and that the mood is "unfriendly." On the strategic level, Beijing is determined to keep the EU on side as much as possible, a feat which has become increasingly difficult given everything the US is throwing at it to undermine the relationship. China, however, understands the importance of making tactical concessions in the pursuit of long-term gains, and playing the visa-free travel card is a smart move. It's not likely to sway skeptical EU leaders, but it is likely to ferment the conditions to continue to expand EU-China business ties whether they like it or not.

Vicus comment: haaaaahaaaa...that sound to me like a chess move from Sun Tzu "The art of war"

https://www.sott.net/article/486451-...ressive-agenda

[onawah]

Anyone who follows the news coming out of China (not the "official" news which is simply propaganda, but the real news), would know that the CCP has made China very bad for business (not to mention very toxic and unhealthy), which is why so many businesses and individuals are leaving, and why the people are miserable.
I think anyone going there now would soon regret it.

Posted by Vicus (here)
This simple move by China could demolish the EU's aggressive agenda
Timur Fomenko
RT
Wed, 29 Nov 2023
Visa-free travel may not seem like a big deal, but it throws a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a "closed" and "bad-for-business" Beijing...

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Posted by onawah (here)
would know that the CCP has made China very bad for business (not to mention very toxic and unhealthy)...

Is that the John Birch version?

I understand it is bad for "unchecked capitalism".

The idea that it is "bad for business" while making its own upgrade over an Intel quad core in less than a year does not seem to match.

In fact, this would seem physically impossible for the largest consumer of Russian petroleum. One single city dwarfs the whole U. S. industrial capacity. While it goes around replacing Americanism in large areas that have received sixty years of stagnation (at best), this piece of Chinese handiwork is probably very bad for *some* businesses:

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri, in his first phone call with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Chief Prince Khalid bin Salman on Thursday, stressed that Tehran is fully prepared to promote military relations with Riyadh.

Bin Salman, for his part, stated Saudi Arabia welcomes the improvement of cooperation between the two countries' Armed Forces.

In a joint statement after signing the deal, Tehran and Riyadh highlighted the need to respect each others’ national sovereignty and refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of one another.

While on the scene of ordinary capitalism:


German Unemployment at Highest Rate in More Than Two Years

38% of Europeans No Longer Eat Three Meals A Day

Bankruptcies Soar Among German Large Companies

Germany is seeing a sharp rise in insolvencies among companies with a minimum annual turnover of 50 million euros (54.5 million US dollars), according to a study published on Monday by credit insurer Allianz Trade.

In the first nine months of this year, the number of larger businesses that went bankrupt increased by 73 percent year-on-year to 45, according to Allianz Trade. The fashion industry, hospitals, and mechanical engineering were hit particularly hard, Xinhua news agency reported.

Among the German clothing companies filing for insolvency this year are well-known brands such as Peek & Cloppenburg and Gerry Weber. Aachener, a company that wanted to take over several branches of the department store chain Galeria Kaufhof, also went bankrupt.

Aachener is also in the news due to a scandal over company founder Friedrich-Wilhelm Goebel, who has been the subject of an arrest warrant since he refused to appear at a court hearing for asset fraud earlier this month.

With consumer prices still rising well above normal levels, Germany's entire retail sector has been under pressure this year. Driven by food prices, inflation has soared, only slowing to 3.8 percent in October.

As a result of high food prices, consumers are economizing on all other expenses, said Milo Bogaerts, CEO of Allianz Trade in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

"This year, significantly fewer presents are likely to end up under the Christmas tree," Bogaerts added.

The fruits of these failed policies being obvious, here is a rebound of American suicide:


Men were about four times more likely than women to die by suicide, and rates were highest among senior men.


On the racially-segregated basis, this is way "up" for Native Americans and Alaskans, and "down" for hispanic females.

The one is occupied, the other is given an easy way to reproduce large families.


Where did real wealth go?

The typical American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021, right before inflation soared to 40-year highs, according to a recent analysis of government data.



Let me guess...someone took a multi-million dollar bonus recently.

While we are busy buying as much violence as possible.

A paradigm shift is inevitable, we can figure out how to remain relevant, or just slide in to the full extent of poverty and suicide that is still at the "taste test" level.

[onawah]

Things are bad all over, but they are worse in China.
Just start here to see how and why and work back:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1588554

[pounamuknight]

Posted by onawah (here)
Just start here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1588554

Sources like China Observer & China Insight (and probably a few others) are funded by one of the CIA's favourite assets, the whacky Falun Gong

Check out their massive multi-million dollar HQ in China New York

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ym-AOabMy5A

Also, The Grayzone and Moon of Alabama goes deep into Falun Gong's CIA history

Just saying

[onawah]

There are more than sufficient and credible accounts, replete with videos and photographs, from Chinese citizens themselves which cast sufficient doubt on the accusation that they are staged or false in some way in order to discredit the CCP.
It's extremely doubtful that the Falun Gong would be considered such a threat by the CCP if the Falun Gong's reports weren't casting light on what is already very much in evidence concerning the CCP's extreme, even murderous aggressiveness towards Falun Gong practicioners.
Not to mention the CCP's genocidal oppression against such as the Uyghurs, or their heavy-handed censorship and persecution of anyone who attempts to expose their tyranny, and their very obvious and predictable efforts to malign any information portraying in a postive light those who oppose them.
And it's not as if ordinary Chinese citizens are the only ones providing accounts and evidence regarding what is really going on in China, as there are plenty of reports from experts both within and without who are keeping a close eye on what goes on there.

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Posted by onawah (here)
Not to mention the CCP's genocidal oppression against such as the Uyghurs...

Also CIA and:


To further #humanrights & human dignity for all people in China, the National Endowment for Democracy has funded Uyghur groups since 2004. #NEDemocracy #HumanRightsDay https://t.co/C0LJEyWxq1 pic.twitter.com/OqZdehdxXN

— NEDemocracy (@NEDemocracy) December 10, 2020



It bloviates:

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders shares the same Washington address as Human Rights Watch. The HRW has been a major source of attacks on governments targeted by the U.S., such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria and China. The network has long called for sanctions against China.

The CHRD’s sources include Radio Free Asia, a news agency funded for decades by the U.S. government. The World Uighur Congress, another source of sensationalized reports, is also funded by NED. The same U.S. government funding is behind the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation and the Uyghur American Association.

...there are plenty of reports from experts both within and without who are keeping a close eye on what goes on there.

Class of their own:

The Rising Cult of China Experts

Pretty sure anyone who can string a few sentences together and end with "China will soon collapse" will be regarded as a China expert.

I understand that the government told Deutsche Bank "no, you may not do private central banking here".

In general, I am not sure how all that industry could be considered a poor business environment.


In a related area of concern, there is a dynamic of government, finance, and housing:

The current housing downturn began with the government’s regulatory
tightening on real estate developers’ financing. The goal was to force heavily
indebted real estate developers to deleverage and cut the financial system’s
exposures to real estate to keep potential systemic risks at bay.


The rescue plan was effective in easing the housing slump. Property sales and
investment in the first quarter of 2023 remained in negative territory but by much
smaller amounts.

So, there was a concern about real estate tied to risky banks, they put in a regulation, and here is Covid.

Well, do someone's feet get tickled?


First:

China's financial regulator on Sunday reduced the risk weighting it attaches to insurance companies' holdings of blue-chip shares and tech stocks, encouraging them to invest more in the country's lagging stock market.

Here, Clinton repealed Glass Steagall; there, they reduced a little risk. It's like a mild encouragement. Soon followed by the type of meeting that takes place twice a decade:

The government meeting held Monday and Tuesday also reflected the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s increased oversight of finance.

In recent months Chinese authorities have eased restrictions on home purchases and sought to support developers in finishing construction of apartments, which are typically sold ahead of completion.

But Beijing has stopped short of an outright bailout for a sector that’s widely expected to shrink from its roughly one-quarter share of China’s economy.

The property market is closely intertwined with local government finances, which have also struggled after paying for many Covid-related measures.

The government meeting held Monday and Tuesday also reflected the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s increased oversight of finance. Delayed by more than a year, the latest meeting was called the “central” financial work conference — instead of “national” as it was called in 2017.

“This time around, the focus is to keep regulatory pressure to prevent the emergence of new risks, instead of launching another de-risking campaign,” the Macquarie analysts said.

To understand it, there are two kinds of Estate in China, State or Collective; the government basically owns all the urban areas. Revenue is generated by tenancy and sales.

They have eased some risks and restrictions, and have not done a "bailout". They are increasing oversight on Finance. I thought that was what a government was for, to regulate a national currency, not to behold a Bank Note.

It sounds reasonable, it is a slight accommodation so that some investors will find real estate more appealing.

Should they have reacted differently?

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1730995667093328343

[onawah]

Looks like CCP propaganda to me, of which there is no lack of examples.
Just saying...

Posted by pounamuknight (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
Just start here:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1588554

Sources like China Observer & China Insight (and probably a few others) are funded by one of the CIA's favourite assets, the whacky Falun Gong

Check out their massive multi-million dollar HQ in China New York

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ym-AOabMy5A

Also, The Grayzone and Moon of Alabama goes deep into Falun Gong's CIA history

Just saying

[pounamuknight]

Posted by onawah (here)
Looks like CCP propaganda to me

Kinda looks more like a Bond villain's secret hideout or a Scientology compound

[onawah]

That sounds about right.

Posted by pounamuknight (here)

Posted by onawah (here)
Looks like CCP propaganda to me

Kinda looks more like a Bond villain's secret hideout or a Scientology compound

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[Vicus]

The Nazi Roots of the “Brussels EU”

First published in 2010 and containing copies of previously unpublished historical documents sourced from international archives, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU’” proves that the key architects of the European Union were recruited from among the same technocrats who had previously designed the plans for a post-WWII Europe under the control of the Nazis. By revealing how the undemocratic nature of the European Union bears a notable resemblance to the intended post-war plans of the Nazis for a “total European economic area,” the shocking information contained in this book essentially marks the beginning of the end for the so-called “EU Project.” As such, mindful that the Europe of today is now teetering on the brink of economic collapse, the authors conclude by showing how the building of a new Europe – designed for the people and by the people – could lead to a world of health, peace and social justice becoming a reality.

Further information

References throughout the book refer to additional material collected on this page. The codes shown below can be found in the red ‘Further information’ boxes located at the bottom of pages in the book

https://www.dr-rath-foundation.org/2...ssels-eu-book/

[shaberon]

Posted by Vicus (here)
“The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU’” proves that the key architects of the European Union were recruited from among the same technocrats who had previously designed the plans for a post-WWII Europe under the control of the Nazis. By revealing how the undemocratic nature of the European Union bears a notable resemblance to the intended post-war plans of the Nazis for a “total European economic area,” the shocking information contained in this book essentially marks the beginning of the end for the so-called “EU Project.”

If post-WWII plans were conceivably slated pre-WWII, it fits a relatively bland and toneless paper on 1930s industrial self-government which is looking at the same questions from the input angle. Were some of the financial results of the war something close to what Nazis were seeking?

This mainly ran through steel and coal cartels, which contradicts the Nazi platform of "against unions and labor movements"; and by the time this machine was assembled, it had 85% of the world's steel market.

Did that "possibly" pull through as the backbone of the E. U.?

And then the Nazis were very temporary and Germany never had that much to do with anything did they?

No, because it was a practically brand new country that was made to get beat up.

In the current EU, whether something is "undemocratic" means less to me than what is it doing. Has some kind of financial favoritism been pushed along. Well the Constitution of Germany currently says that Germans are vassals of the European Central Bank. This has been the same since 1950.

Yes, you will find a chain of custody through all that.

It owns things in a Carolingian way, which is because portions of navigable rivers were allowed to be privatized with perpetual and transferrable property rights. The major form of corporatism is considerably older than Banking and was developed from this situation in France as early as the 1300s.

As we just saw, in China, there is no such thing, you can't just own part of a river. From what it seemed to me was that all land title was clearly understood as a temporary leaseholder agreement.

Those are of course two completely different outlooks on law and finance.

I would think that medieval bundle of property ownership simply snowballs into the newer one related to world wars.