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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

Experiencing the pain of not getting supplies for our business. (truck parts)

My theory is they are holding back manufacturing until interest rates here bite the consumer and then they simply raise prices on ordinary items sold a big retailers, because they can. Kind of like the fentanyl problem we have and they don't. Its a soft war we are losing and don't know we are fighting.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

Spot on, and Pelosi’s vainglorious trip to Taiwan is just another poke in China’s eye - spurring on Xi while we manufacture pronouns.

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Aug 3, 2022·edited Aug 3, 2022

Thanks QTR. I am living in Thailand since 1985. Thailand is very much controlled by Chinese. They worship money and the power achieved by that. There is nothing they will not do to win the money game. They are ruthless. They don't honor contracts. They don't honor intellectual property. They are mostly atheists, which is something Christians who feel some relationship with the creator can't understand.

Whatever they are doing, they are not going to show their hands.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

As I commented on one of your related articles just yesterday, there are a large number of possible actions that the Chinese government can take which will be certain to cause additional damage to our economy.

The very narrow framing that, "they didn't shoot Pelosi out of the sky means we won" from so many is just nonsensical. The reaction from China will be ongoing and they apparently intend for punitive actions against us.

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Aug 3, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

Good assessment...that said, I have to ask. Is China just mostly a country of 'pro-maskers'? I can find accounts of people who think the strict measures are better in the long run. Here at home, I can tell when someone is visiting from up north because they are wearing masks and looking bug eyed at everyone else in the Food Lion who isn't. This could be manipulation; it could be appeasement of the majority that favors strict measures and control, in a communist controlled country. Despite the attempt to make a 'dollar free zone', I also wonder if China really wants to break the grapple with Western economies by pushing the US/West to greatly decrease their own manufacturing and supply reliance on China. I know the theory about the goods/services and US Treasuries revolving wheel, but there is a lot less gold in Africa and Russia than in the G7 (and they may be playing for more control in leverage without completely breaking the hold). Sorry, no good answer here, just more questions.

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Doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory. The results of China’s lockdowns harm the western countries that decided to give China massive power over their lives. Then add the West committing suicide with green hysteria and proxy wars…….And …And……and…….we are so stupid!!!!!

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China manufactures something like 90% of the inputs for US antibiotics.

They would hardly have to fire a shot.

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"I can’t believe it’s not a product of Democrats here in the U.S."

US democrats are just communist disciples who haven't graduated yet

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The CCP lies about everything as a matter of policy. That we can be sure of.

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Thank you for your writing. Finally someone brave enough to write what we are thinking.

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I agree 100%. From the first time China re-locked down, I said this was deliberate to inflict pain on the west. There was no other explanation. What, Chinese scientists are dumber than all other scientists? China goods = Russian oil. China knows we don't manufacture anything here anymore just as Russia knows Europe doesn't have the oil needed to run their economy. Funny how they hold all the cards because we so willingly surrendered ours. Better buy your Christmas gifts now for December 2022-2033.

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Well they know the US population is too lazy and entitled to actually go back into manufacturing - so they can strangle the supply chain until we beg them to start producing again (similar to Joey in the middle east begging for oil).

China knows they have 2.5 years to get whatever accomplished before the administration changes here, so i would suspect things will get worse before they get better.

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China & New Zealand are in a neck & neck race to see who has the bigger idiots in charge.

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Maybe stop talking about a ‘virus’. It’s simply not a thing. To think, grown adults, whole societies believing in fairy tales.

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Viruses are a made up concept. They have never been proven to exist. It's exocytosis and endocytosis. The body detoxifies. It's how we stay healthy. Too many toxins causes overload and then a person becomes more seriously ill with more extreme symptoms. The common cold has always been around and will never go away, so they can justify their lockdowns indefinitely.

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Who is behind the scenes, manipulating East and West? China owns lots of US land and even owns some of the grand old estates in England - so they say. Ant then there is Canada where China is rumored to own a lot,

It seems to me that there is a power we do not know about, a secret power who has decided to fuin our lives and our planet. WHO are they?

Maurice Strong died in Beijing just about three years ago. I have read that his cousin, Ann Louise, was a very important inf;uence on Mao Tse Tung. She also had to do with Stalin taking all the food from the Kulaks of the Ukraine so that between 7 and 12 million people died of starvation in the winter of 1933 - 34 according to Solzenytsin. Stalin sent a man called Kaganovich to supervise that monstrous theft.

It is a man called Kagan and his wife Victoria Nuland who started the destabilising of the Ukraine.

All so strange and interesting.

And - is this present conflict in the Ukraine just the old conflict between Russia and the Mongols - who settled between the Caspian and Black Seas, took Slav women, decided to be Jews, in the 17th, Century I think. (Read The Thirteenth Tribe. )

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