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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    (And if you believe that CCP propaganda, you might be interested in buying one of their bridges...)

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    In any case, at the rate the infrastructure in China is failing due to shoddy construction and increasingly heavy flooding, there won't be much of it left...
    This video covers just a few examples of the current flooding, with yet more rain coming.
    Where is your proof that the US think tank, ITIF.org, New Scientist and anyone that reports on China’s nuclear advancements are CCP propaganda?

    Also typhoon Gaemi also caused major damage, severe flooding and deaths in the Philippines and Taiwan not just China.


    https://itif.org/publications/2024/0...nuclear-power/

    How Innovative Is China in Nuclear Power?
    Stephen Ezell
    Executive Summary

    As Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), observed, “China is the de facto world leader in nuclear technology.”1 Indeed, China likely stands 10 to 15 years ahead of where the United States is in nuclear power (referring especially to the ability to field fourth-generation nuclear reactors). China’s government has assigned considerable priority to domestic nuclear reactor construction as part of Beijing’s broader energy strategy. Looking ahead, China appears likely to use this established domestic capacity as a foundation for competitive reactor exports, much as its “dual-circulation” strategy has accomplished in other areas, such as electric vehicles and batteries.

    Indeed, China has embarked on a rapid buildout of its nuclear industry, with 27 nuclear reactors under construction (more than two and a half times more than any other country) complementing the existing fleet of 56. The country expects to build 6 to 8 new nuclear power plants each year for the foreseeable future, with the country surpassing the United States in nuclear-generated electricity by 2030. In total, China intends to build a total of 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035. Moreover, in December 2023, China commenced operation of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, the 200 megawatt (MW)-producing, gas-cooled Shidaowan-1, in China’s northern Shandong province. China’s Nuclear Energy Administration has asserted that “90 percent of the technology in the new plant was developed within China.”2 China is also leading development and deployment of a new fleet of cost-competitive small modular reactors.

    China likely stands 10 to 15 years ahead of the United States in nuclear power.

    However, this does not necessarily mean that China’s largest nuclear power companies—notably the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN) and the China National Nuclear Power (CNNP)—are exceptionally innovative technologically. Indeed, the bulk of China’s current fleet of nuclear reactors consists of “third-generation” nuclear reactors that were initially designed by the U.S. company Westinghouse Electric (its AP1000) in the late-1990s and whose technology and designs Westinghouse transferred to China in 2008 as part of a contract to build four Chinese reactors based on the AP1000’s 2005 design. And while China is certainly to be credited for deploying the world’s first operational fourth-generation reactor, as one expert commentator noted at an ITIF roundtable, “That technology has actually been known to the world for decades; it’s just that China took the actions required to build and deploy it.”3 It’s also of note that China’s second-largest nuclear power operator, CNNP, notes on its website that “innovation and research and development (R&D) are not the primary emphases of the company … Instead, the company primarily focuses on safety, stability, optimization, and sustainability.”4

    Where China has thrived, however, regarding nuclear power innovation more pertains to systemic and organizational innovation. This especially refers to the country’s coherent national strategy toward nuclear power—at both federal and provincial levels—which entails a range of supportive policies from low-interest financing, feed-in tariffs, and other subsidies that make nuclear power generation cost competitive to streamlined permitting and regulatory approval (i.e., of safety and environmental impact assessments), to coordinating supply chains in an effective fashion. Indeed, as industry analyst Kenneth Luongo commented, “They don’t have any secret sauce other than state financing, state supported supply chain, and a state commitment to build the technology.”5 That said, China’s rapid deployment of ever-more modern nuclear power plants over time produces significant scale economies and learning-by-doing effects, and this suggests that Chinese enterprises will gain an advantage at incremental innovation in this sector going forward.

    Nuclear fusion—the process by which two light atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one while releasing massive amounts of energy—represents a potentially transformative, disruptive nuclear energy innovation.6 In January 2024, the Chinese government launched a new national industrial consortium, led by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), and composed of 25 organizations, to promote the development and advancement of nuclear fusion technology.7 However, industry analysts observed that nuclear fusion technology remains very nascent, and commented that China and the United States are probably on par with regard to development of the technology. Those analysts also observed that China would be likely to adopt a fast-follower approach with regard to nuclear fusion and probably seek advantage when it comes to rapidly scaling deployment of nuclear fusion reactors, once they become technically viable.

    The United States, with 94 operational nuclear reactors, remains the world’s leader in nuclear energy output, accounting for one-third of nuclear power generated globally. However, the country has only launched two new nuclear reactors in the past decade, with the newest, the Vogtle Unit 4 plant in Georgia, coming online this year (with its construction originally begun by Westinghouse but completed by Bechtel).8 If the United States is to again become a leader in the nuclear reactor industry, it will need to likewise adopt a coherent national strategy and a “whole-of-government” approach. Among other steps, this would entail sufficient staffing at federal R&D and regulatory agencies to support the innovation, down-selection, regulatory approval, and deployment of new reactor types; incentives, tax credits, or attractive financing that facilitate the production of cost-competitive nuclear energy; and policies such as streamlined export credit programs that facilitate exports from U.S. nuclear reactor producers. Civilian nuclear energy represents yet another industry the United States and its enterprises pioneered, but which has experienced a significant (and potentially permanent) loss of U.S. capabilities.9

    Background and Methodology

    The common narrative is that China is a copier and the United States the innovator. That narrative often supports a lackadaisical attitude toward technology and industrial policy. After all, the United States leads in innovation, so there is nothing to worry about. First, this assumption is misguided because it is possible for innovators to lose leadership to copiers with lower cost structures, as we have seen in many U.S. industries, including consumer electronics, semiconductors, solar panels, telecom equipment, machine tools, and, as noted here, quite possibly, nuclear power. Second, it’s not clear that China is a sluggish copier and always destined to be a follower.

    To assess how innovative Chinese industries are, the Smith Richardson Foundation provided support to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to research the question. As part of this research, ITIF is focusing on particular sectors, including commercial nuclear energy.

    To be sure, it’s difficult to assess the innovation capabilities of any country’s industries, but it is especially difficult for Chinese industries. In part, this is because, under President Xi Jinping, China discloses much less information to the world than it used to, especially about its industrial and technological capabilities. Notwithstanding this, ITIF relied on three methods to assess Chinese innovation in nuclear power. First, we conducted in-depth case study evaluations of two Chinese nuclear power companies selected from nuclear power companies listed on the “2023 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.” Second, ITIF conducted interviews and held a focus group roundtable with global experts on the Chinese nuclear power industry. And third, ITIF assessed global data on nuclear power innovation, including scientific articles and patents.

    Importance of Nuclear Power and the U.S. Role

    Enrico Fermi and his team at the University of Chicago constructed the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor, known as Chicago Pile-1, under the school’s football stadium in November 1942.10 In 1946, Congress passed the Atomic Energy Act, which established the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.11 The commission subsequently designated Argonne National Laboratory as the first and primary national laboratory for nuclear research.12 The United States commissioned the first commercial electricity-generating plant powered by nuclear energy, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957.13 The majority of America’s nuclear power plants were built in the 1970s and early 1980s, although construction of new facilities plummeted after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and almost all were launched by 1990.14

    By the 1990s, Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and General Electric became America’s leading suppliers of commercial nuclear power plants. Driven by the interest in designing safer nuclear reactors in the post-Chernobyl era, in 1999, Westinghouse introduced designs for the AP1000, which became the first Generation III+ reactor to receive final design approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in 2004.15 In 2007, Westinghouse (acquired by Japan’s Toshiba in 2006) won a CNNC bid for four AP1000 reactors, although this also included a major technology transfer agreement that significantly accelerated the advancement of China’s commercial nuclear power industry.16 This would become the main basis for China’s move to Generation III technology. For its part, the slowing pace of nuclear power plant approvals over the past-quarter century (and notably, the inability to find a robust domestic market for the AP1000) led to Westinghouse declaring bankruptcy in 2017, with its assets now possessed by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco.17 Today, Bechtel is an important player in the industry, alongside a range of start-ups including NuScale, TerraPower, X-energy, and others that are attempting to design and build innovative fourth-generation nuclear reactors.

    The rest,
    https://itif.org/publications/2024/0...nuclear-power/


    https://x.com/newscientist/status/1814729512732573719



    https://www.newscientist.com/article...eltdown-proof/


    Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof
    The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passively cool itself in an emergency was a success, showing that it should be possible to build nuclear plants without the risk of dangerous meltdown

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    China Unveils World’s First Meltdown-Proof #nuclear #Reactor

    Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have successfully demonstrated a meltdown-proof nuclear fission reactor - the twin reactor design can generate 105 MW of power each and has been in the works since 2016.

    Conventional nuclear reactors use fuel rods that are energy-dense, containing large amounts of uranium with smaller amounts of graphite. In the HTR-PM reactor design, the fuel rod is inverted, and a large amount of graphite is used within which uranium is encased.

    The nuclear fission reaction occurs much slower than a conventional reactor and can withstand a higher temperature for much longer. Additionally, the excess heat generated through the process is dispersed over a larger fuel area and can be cooled using passive or non-energy-consuming methods.

    The reactor began commercial operation only December 2023.

    https://x.com/MichaelAshura/status/1815771652199981331



    https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1815552472951251420

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    The proof is easy enough to find if you follow the reports about what is actually happening in China, and not what the White Monkeys (CCP shills) are reporting. The CCP is constantly claiming that everything in China is superior and advanced.
    But the reality is quite different because fraud is so widespread from industry, construction, banking, to the military and every other sphere, due to the greed and dishonesty of CCP officials.
    I am quite aware that Taiwan and the Philppines were also impacted by Gaemi, but that is irrelevant, as it was not the subject of my post.
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    Where is your proof that the US think tank, ITIF.org, New Scientist and anyone that reports on China’s nuclear advancements are CCP propaganda?

    Also typhoon Gaemi also caused major damage, severe flooding and deaths in the Philippines and Taiwan not just China.

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    UK

    Dozens of police and ambulances rush to 'major incident' in Southport amid reports of mass stabbing including a number of children.


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    No other reports of this incident mention multiple victims ?
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    A swarm of dragonflies were over a Rhode Island beach. Could they actually be manmade? Considering global tensions, I wouldn't doubt it.

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    Quote A massive swarm of dragonflies descended on a Rhode Island beach forcing terrified beachgoers to take cover as their day in the sun became something reminiscent of biblical plague.

    Beachgoers were heard screaming as a cloud of insects swarmed Misquamicut State Beach in Westerly on Saturday afternoon.
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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    The proof is easy enough to find if you follow the reports about what is actually happening in China, and not what the White Monkeys (CCP shills) are reporting. The CCP is constantly claiming that everything in China is superior and advanced.
    But the reality is quite different because fraud is so widespread from industry, construction, banking, to the military and every other sphere, due to the greed and dishonesty of CCP officials.
    I am quite aware that Taiwan and the Philppines were also impacted by Gaemi, but that is irrelevant, as it was not the subject of my post.
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    Where is your proof that the US think tank, ITIF.org, New Scientist and anyone that reports on China’s nuclear advancements are CCP propaganda?

    Also typhoon Gaemi also caused major damage, severe flooding and deaths in the Philippines and Taiwan not just China.


    https://x.com/MissPolly62/status/1816744169517252773



    https://x.com/KitKlarenberg/status/1721932409904439629



    https://x.com/leee_harris/status/1491389250226765825



    Article here,

    https://prospect.org/politics/congre...rage-of-china/


    https://x.com/Factschaser/status/1800233908463604178

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    https://x.com/Kanthan2030/status/1816760568092524909

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    Meloni in China!

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrived in Beijing today for a five-day visit.

    She will meet with Pres. Xi Jinping and Premier Qiang.

    Demonize China… quit BRI… impose tariffs… and then go begging for business deals.

    Europe’s 🤡 foreign policy.

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    I felt this 4.7 - 5.2 earthquake in Barstow, California and I'm over 120 miles away. No damage or injuries reported yet.

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    A US defense official told Sputnik on Monday that the Army and Navy recently initiated a test of a conventional hypersonic system but avoided commenting on whether the test was successful.

    "The US Army and Navy recently initiated a test of a conventional hypersonic system at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida," the official said. "This test was an essential benchmark in the development of operational hypersonic technology."

    The US military was scheduled to test the US Army's Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), developed by Lockheed Martin, over the Caribbean last week, media reported.

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    No doubt the efforts by the US to portray what goes on in China went to overkill, but discovering what is actually going on there is no easy task.
    The CCP monitors and censors any and all news including what Chinese Netizens post, and the news the CCP does allow is primarily propaganda and not at all true.
    What uncensored news that does manage to leak out is proof of that, bolstered by what the numerous Chinese who have left China now are reporting, that living there has become untenable--just for starters...
    See the "Turmoil in China" thread for countless examples.
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    Also see this, which I have copied below, from: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1625875
    and this:
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    Quote Posted by kfm27917 (here)
    Second, read General Chi's chilling speech (The secret speech of General Chi Haotian). Anthony Hall confirmed this is not a forgery. It leaves you wondering what's really behind China's big smile.
    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    No doubt the efforts by the US to portray what goes on in China went into overkill, but discovering what is actually going on there is no easy task.
    The CCP monitors and censors any and all news including what Chinese Netizens post, and the news the CCP does allow is primarily propaganda and not at all true.
    What uncensored news that does manage to leak out is proof of that, bolstered by what the numerous Chinese who have left China now are reporting, that living there has become untenable--just for starters...
    See the "Turmoil in China" thread for countless examples.
    Quote Posted by Ravenlocke (here)

    https://x.com/MissPolly62/status/1816744169517252773


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    Abstract
    This article, the second in a series published on my substack, provides an overview of the manipulations that led to the incorporation of the former Chinese Empire into the global power structure designed by the Global Mafia (or Glafia, i.e. the Predators), the criminal owners of most of the planet’s wealth, governments, corporations and institutions. Many details and references not mentioned here can be found in my book The Predators versus The People.

    Introduction
    Chinese civilization goes back thousands of years and is one of the oldest in the world. It has seen many changes and wars, and someof these wars were certainly not defensive. The same goes for the Great Wall, which in part protected the Empire’s newly annexed territories.

    Until the early 1800’s, Asia and especially China, was the dominant player in the world economy and technology (James Petras; Joseph Needham). The ships used in Admiral Zheng’s “charm offensive” in the 15th century to visit India, Arabia, Egypt and Africa were up to 4 times bigger than the European ones. Yet China never colonized the world, probably for philosophical reasons (Confucianism, Taoism) and also because the rest of world had little of interest to offer to China (G. Arrighi).

    In the early 19th century, the hidden driving force behind world history in the last 500 years – Glafia - placed China on its list of Eurasian empires to be “normalized”, to provide a “level playfield” for their plan to dominate the whole world. Activities were started to weaken all great Eurasian empires, in the case of China mainly the opium wars and the making of a subordinate (or comprador) elite.

    However, for the final conquest of the still highly sovereign empires of Eurasia, a very strong force had to be established: an alliance between Glafia's already fading but still very powerful British Empire, and its rising American Empire, helped by its European proxy states. That coalition, in which many Zionist proxies also participated, would instigate and execute the World Wars, the communist revolutions in Russia, China and elsewhere, and financial crises.

    Indeed, in 1897 Britain and the USA made a secret agreement to carry out the gigantic project to subdue and colonize the whole of Eurasia, China included. This project, which included the setting up of bogeymen Hitler and Mussolini, is here called The Great 20th Century Slaughter of Eurasia. It affected humanity more destructively and on a larger scale than had ever happened in history.

    Rockefeller in China
    In 1863, John D. Rockefeller (just 24 years old) sold his first (lamp) kerosene in China and made his first “disinterested” gift to China missions. In the usual Rockefeller style, he quickly established a monopoly. At the time, China had been made “the sick man of Asia”, due to the devastating opium wars launched at it by the British Empire. In cahoots with the USA, it forced China to accept opium produced in British India (and not bullion) as payment for its exports of luxuries to the West.

    The Rockefellers and their influence would never leave China. Across the 20th century, their “philanthropic” investment in China’s science, medicine, and higher education officially surpassed one billion dollars. Mary Brown Bullock writes:

    "Over the course of the 20th century, several hundred Chinese institutions and many thousands of Chinese scholars and practitioners received Rockefeller philanthropic support. Rockefeller philanthropy’s sustained emphasis on science and medicine transformed and secularized the American cultural role in Republican China. It legitimized an American scientific influence and a tradition of intellectual and professional relationships that transcended Mao’s China and continues to distinguish the bilateral relationship.

    Rockefeller philanthropic institutions have long served as a bellwether for the American non-governmental presence in China. Their formative influence on China’s science and medicine defined the post-missionary era in the first half of the [20th] century. Their re-entry into China after Nixon’s [1972] opening was carefully orchestrated by China’s leaders."

    Glafia, together with the Rockefellers and other minions, led China’s trajectory from sovereign Empire to global hegemon in three revolutionary steps, which are discussed below.

    The first Glafia-led revolution in China: Sun Yat-sen
    Japan had been corrupted since the 1860’s by Glafia’s British, and later also American, hegemon (for example through Jacob Schiff’s $200M loan to Japan), to serve as a future battering ram against China and Russia, which started with the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese war. Japan also served as the base for Sun Yat-sen’s overthrow of China's Qing dynasty in 1912, financed by Wall Street & The City. According to A. Sutton:

    “The best-documented example of Wall Street intervention in revolution is the operation of a New York syndicate in the Chinese revolution of 1912, which was led by Sun Yat-sen. Although the final gains of the syndicate remain unclear, the intention and role of the New York financing group are fully documented down to amounts of money, information on affiliated Chinese secret societies, and shipping lists of armaments to be purchased.”

    Sun, a Christian who had studied in the USA, wanted to develop China in the same way. But as in the case of Russia, Glafia's bankers did not, at least not at that time: their plan for the 20th century was to make the USA their new hegemon. China had to be suppressed, by placing it in the “communist fridge”, under Mao Zedong, together with Russia (which had been in the communist fridge since the 1917 Revolution). Never forget that communism was also a Glafia project!

    In 1925, Sun Yat-sen was poisoned, probably by the British, and died. Under Chiang Kai-shek and his successors, the Chinese Nationalists were sabotaged by the treasonous Americans, who officially supported them. That's why, since 1928, they had to govern mainland China from Taiwan. In 1949, the Chinese Communists took over control of the Chinese mainland, and the Nationalists were left with the small island of Taiwan.

    Glafia’s second revolution in China: communism
    Already by 1919, Mao had been headhunted and earmarked by “Yale in China” school. It was a US intelligence front, in collaboration with members of the Skull and Bones Society at Yale University, which had been founded in the 1830’s by the US Russell family, opium dealers in China. Under the cover of WW2, the USA betrayed China into Communism (see James Perloff), with a treasonous key role for Glafia pawn General George Marshall, America’s wartime commander and name giver to the later Marshall Plan.

    Mao received several Glafia advisors, all Jewish, to assist in the creation of a Glafia-desired totalitarian state. After David Rockefeller visited China in 1973 with his faithful agent Henry Kissinger, he was very satisfied about "this" - or should we say "his" - experiment:

    "Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution ... [this] social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history".

    With "whatever the price", Rockefeller coldly referred to the fact that in the 1950’s and 60’s, Chinese communists slaughtered tens of millions of Chinese non-communists, often people dedicated to Tao. Today’s pro “pacifist, harmonious and Taoist” China and pro “multipolar order” Westerners – like Pepe Escobar and Matthew Ehret - seem to have forgotten this horrible episode.

    An important reason for the US hegemon to put China on the communist path was to keep it backward and isolated for several decades, the same "refrigerator" trick as applied earlier on in Russia. That eliminated China and Russia as economic competitors, so the USA, the "great champion of liberty and free trade", could have a typical, soaring Glafia career. It was also an experiment in the creation of the modern, Glafia-controlled totalitarian Chinese state - which it remains until today. Klaus Schwab and his pupil Justin Trudeau are big fans of present-day Communist China, and they show it on YouTube.

    Glafia's third Chinese revolution: global hegemon
    When Glafia's US hegemon started to prepare their "China hegemon" project in 1971 (a year of great change), that was because:

    · Glafia has no loyalty to any nation, religion, race, or ethnicity, and presently they see Communist China (assisted by Russia) as the best global system for their domination project (see also the Yalta Conference during WW2, in which the Allies gave Central Europe and North Korea away to communism).

    · China, with well over one billion clever and hardworking people, had by far the largest economic potential - just as it had shown before 1850.

    · China was severely humiliated in the 19th century, which it will never forget, and was only going to participate in Glafia's New World Order as its leader state (as confirmed in this George Soros interview).

    In that very same year 1971, the People’s Republic of China, led by the Chinese Communist Party under Mao, was recognized as “the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations”; with support of Glafia's US hegemon, of course. The representatives of the Republic of China in Taiwan were immediately removed from the UN organization. So again a seed for a future conflict was planted, a trick also used by splitting North and South Vietnam, North and South Korea, and the giveaway of Crimea by Khrushchev.

    Forty years ago, Antony Sutton prophesied about the development of China by American corporations. As it turned out, he was right - again:

    “Bechtel Corporation has established a new company, Bechtel China, Inc. to handle development, engineering and construction contracts for the Chinese government... It appears that Bechtel is now to play a similar role to that of Detroit-based Albert Kahn Inc., the firm that in 1928 undertook initial studies and planning for the First Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union. By about the year 2000, Communist China will be a "superpower" built by American technology and skill...

    And who is to say that the Chinese Communists will not make their peace with Moscow after 2000 and join forces to eliminate the super-super-power, the United States?"

    In recent years, it was easy to see how all Western actions against China and Russia – the Ukraine war included – had their unification and reinforcement as main goal. The Pentagon’s 2017 budget was the first driven by Glafia-created bogeymen China and Russia. Yet another Glafia project to upset the global balance of powers is arriving at its harvest time! History shows that the Global Powers have no loyalty to any nation, religion or race, and Glafia-supported China is now simply their best totalitarian and hegemonic model.

    This is how countries are used as “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world” (Lord George Curzon, 1859-1925, British politician, Vice Roy of India). Remember that there’s only one player behind the board!

    The Great Shift: after 500 years, Glafia goes East
    To quickly recap: according to Giovanni Arrighi (1994), the world capitalist system developed in four cycles, each led by a temporary hegemon, respectively Spain, Holland, England, and the United States. Each cycle was divided into three phases:

    1. An accumulation phase, through trade (piling up of capital).

    2. A phase of industrial expansion.

    3. A period of financialization (investment, mostly foreign, of capital), dominated by bankers (the earlier merchants lending out their capital).

    This last phase is "burning hot and then fading away", or as Braudel called it, “a sign of autumn”. In it, not only the finance era runs its final course, but also the leader state itself. The gradual demise of one cycle would become the gradual birth of the next, on an ever grander and more global scale.

    For Glafia's present hegemon, the Arch-Fascist informal empire of the United States of America - officially "the free and democratic USA" – the turning point to autumn can be dated to 1971. When we take the recent developments into account, including the war in Ukraine, there can be no doubt: China, and Russia too, will be the new horses pulling Glafia's chariot.

    This time the move is cleverly being sold by stating that we will go from a bad and disgraced uni-polar world to a good, harmonious and even Taoist multi-polar world. With ALL LANDS now brought under control, and the Global Digital Prison on its way to controlling ALL PEOPLE, that powerful Western-Zionist coalition is no longer needed and is being dismantled.

    The “China hegemon” project
    Like practically all meteoric careers since the start of the Glafia project around 1500, either of persons, corporations or countries, Communist China's skyrocketing rise after 1971 was Glafia-made. Glafia's proxy for this new state-building project was of course its 20th century hegemon, the United States of America. Special roles were given to Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and members of Yale's Skull and Bones Society, amongst others as US ambassadors to China.

    The US hegemon started the "China hegemon" project overtly in 1971, when the visible part of the preparations took off, with Henry Kissinger's famous visit. No doubt that secret preparations had started long before (the book The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency [OSS] provides evidence of such). To recap, the reasons for this project were:

    Glafia's core of dynastic families sees Communism - which they themselves launched and helped to establish in Russia, and later in China and elsewhere - as the best control system for their global domination project. Under their guidance (see here for an example), China has become the global leader of the "Digital Prison" project. Many Western leaders criticize it, while omitting to mention that their own countries are covertly implementing the same system.

    China, with far over one billion capable and industrious people, has by far the largest potential for economic capacity - as it had already showed for thousands of years.

    China, which was severely humiliated in the 19th century, was only going to participate in Glafia's New World Order as its leader. George Soros openly admitted this in 2009 (see George Soros interview).

    The rude, brutish, and ruthless USA, with its constant see-through lies, has on purpose lost its credibility in most parts of the world, while China has been doing its best to gain – and buy! - global popularity.

    China wasn't the USA's first big-state-making project: it had also managed Russia's transformation into a communist empire, the Soviet Union. Then, after the Glafia-planned fake de-colonization, it made all the post-WW2 "newly independent" ex-colonies their dependent proxies, via bought and paid for sub-ordinate elites (also called vassals or puppet regimes). And in fact, there's no difference in how they "made" Israel, the European Union, NATO, Japan as their battering ram in Asia, the 19th century unification of Italy, and also of Germany, et cetera: as always, they bribed and corrupted the political and blueblood elites in those countries, including the mainstream media and academia.

    Is China's new role a reason for HOPE?
    Will an era of global peace, prosperity and freedom rise with the proposed multipolar order led by China and Russia?

    The answer is: Sorry, but NO, for the five major reasons are given below.

    First, the Covid litmus test: China, and Russia too, knew that cheap HCQ and Ivermectin work, as shown on a large scale in China, Uttar Pradesh, Japan. But even so they suppressed their people massively with such crazy measures as mRNA jabs (Russia, not China) and lockdowns.

    Second, read General Chi's chilling speech (The secret speech of General Chi Haotian). Anthony Hall confirmed this is not a forgery. It leaves you wondering what's really behind China's big smile.

    Third, the criminal Triads, who had a role akin to Freemasons in the West, have since long been in cahoots with the Hong Kong tycoons and the Chinese Communist Party, together forming a "Glafia-subordinate gangster elite”.

    Fourth, a shocking 2014 article shows how nearly 22,000 members of China’s communist elite hold secretive offshore companies in British and other tax havens, which makes them highly dependent on Glafia's banksters. Like all Glafia's proxies, they can never stray from the agenda, because just as Glafia made them, it can also break them. Yes, that’s “autonomous” China!

    An important fifth reason is the money system litmus test. Indeed, the whole multipolar effort will be futile if the present usurious money system, fully under control of Glafia's banksters, is maintained, as it is totally incompatible with peace, prosperity, sustainability, and freedom. As long as Glafia's bankers stay in charge of our money system, there will be no “autonomous” China, nor any other "self-reliant" countries or regions, or a "sustainable" world, or a "free" world.

    Of course the new Chinese hegemon is sold to the public as a benovolent, and even Taoist country, “on the path to socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Just as the criminal and genocidal American hegemon was always presented as “the great champion of democracy and free trade”!

    Only if we can create awareness in lots of people, if we re-discover our strength as miraculous and spiritual human beings, and if we cooperate in an open-minded manner with others seeking the truth, can this gigantic problem be tackled.

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    This is an odd "breaking news". It's been going on for over a week and only now declared a 'disaster'.


    West Texas hit by over 100 earthquakes in a week, state of disaster declared
    Monday, July 29, 2024

    https://watchers.news/2024/07/29/wes...ster-declared/





    More than 100 earthquakes struck West Texas between July 22 to 29, 2024, prompting the declaration of a state of disaster.

    The strongest in the series thus far was M5.1 on July 26 — making it the 6th strongest earthquake in Texas history.
    The earthquakes are caused by activities related to oil and gas extraction.
    An earthquake swarm with at least 100 earthquakes hit West Texas from July 22 to 29. The sequence was initiated by M4.9 at 03:38 UTC on July 23 (22:38 LT).

    There have been 4 earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or higher, with the highest registered as M5.1 on the morning of July 26 — making it the 6th strongest in the history of Texas. The quake hit at a depth of 3.3 km (2 miles) and was located 17 km (10.5 miles) NNE of Hermleigh.

    The magnitude of the earthquakes is considered strong for the region. While it is unlikely for a very strong earthquake to hit the area, it cannot be ruled out.

    This area has seen a significant increase in earthquake activity since 2019, and USGS scientists believe it is linked to enhanced recovery techniques used in depleted oil fields to economically extract the most difficult-to-get oil and natural gas.

    “We can say with confidence that these are related to oil and gas extractions,” said Justin Rubinstein, a geophysicist with the USGS in Menlo Park, California.

    The Scurry County Judge has declared a state of disaster due to increased seismic activity, structural damage, safety concerns, and resource mobilization.

    In a statement released on Monday morning, July 29, the Railroad Commission of Texas reported on its investigation into the earthquakes.

    To reduce seismicity possibly caused by the underground injection of produced water, several operators in the area have converted deep saltwater disposal wells to shallow saltwater disposal wells within the last year. Disposal wells are used to dispose of produced water, which is water that comes out from wells during oil and gas production. RRC inspectors have been inspecting saltwater disposal wells within a 4 km (2.5 miles) cluster of earthquakes, and they will evaluate the next steps to mitigate earthquakes.

    The commission said it will continue to take necessary measures to protect the environment and residents in the area.
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    That is exactly what Dutchsinse has been warning about ever since those oil and gas extraction projects began.
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    This is an odd "breaking news". It's been going on for over a week and only now declared a 'disaster'.

    West Texas hit by over 100 earthquakes in a week, state of disaster declared
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    “ The proof is easy enough to find if you follow the reports about what is actually happening”

    Thank you Onawah, I needed that..
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    It's important to include the rest of that couple of paragraphs, otherwise the first part doesn't make a lot of sense, which is no doubt not what you intended:
    " The proof is easy enough to find if you follow the reports about what is actually happening in China, and not what the White Monkeys (CCP shills) are reporting. The CCP is constantly claiming that everything in China is superior and advanced.
    But the reality is quite different because fraud is so widespread from industry, construction, banking, to the military and every other sphere, due to the greed and dishonesty of CCP officials."
    I invite you once again for more examples to visit the Turmoil in China thread.
    Also what kfm27917 posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1625875
    ...And what Paul posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1625961

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    China Caught Cheating at Olympics/New Doping Scandal
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    China's doping scandal is out of control, scary, and dangerous.

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