Engineering, why go to the 3rd when the 2 bests are in Asia: China & Singapore 工程師, 當兩所最好的大學都在亞洲：中國和新加坡時，為什麼要去第三那個仇中種族岐視的國家呢?

Does Pentagon purge Hollywood in its effort to target China? US good, China bad, American good, Chinese bad! Filmmakers who want the US military to help with their projects must promise not to involve China in their films, or must demonize Chinese & China! 五角大樓是否會清洗好萊塢針對中國的努力？ 美國好，中國壞，美國人好，中國人壞！ 希望美國軍方幫助其項目的電影製片人必須承諾不讓中國參與他們的電影或必須把中國人和中國妖魔化

CROESUS DID INDEED destroy a great empire, but it was his own. (US is working very hard doing the same to achieve self destruction) 克洛伊索斯確實摧毀了一個偉大的帝國，但那是他自己的帝國。 （美國正在非常努力地做同樣的事情以實現自我毀滅） By Michael Hudson
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Fast-forward to today’s drive by the Biden administration to extend American military power against Russia and, behind it, China.
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The president asked for advice from today’s analogue to antiquity’s Delphi oracle: the CIA and its allied think tanks. Instead of warning against hubris, they encouraged the neocon dream that attacking Russia and China would consolidate U.S. control of the world economy, achieving the End of History.
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US NOW CONTROLS EU
A byproduct of this confrontation with Russia has been to lock in America’s control over its Western European satellites. The aim of this intra-NATO jockeying was to foreclose Europe’s dream of profiting from closer trade and investment relations with Russia by exchanging its industrial manufactures for Russian raw materials.
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The United States derailed that prospect by blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, cutting off Germany and other countries from access to low-priced Russian gas.
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That left Europe’s leading economy dependent on higher-cost U.S. Liquified Natural Gas.
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MASSIVE BOOST TO US WEAPONS INDUSTRY
In addition to having to subsidize domestic European gas to prevent widespread insolvency, a large proportion of German Leopard tanks, U.S. Patriot missiles and other NATO “wonder weapons” are being destroyed in combat against the Russian army.
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It has become clear that the U.S. strategy is not simply to “fight to the last Ukrainian,” but to fight to the last tank, missile and other weapon being deleted from NATO stocks.
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This depletion of NATO’s arms was expected to create a vast replacement market to enrich America’s military-industrial complex.
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GERMANY BADLY IT
Its NATO customers are being told to increase their military spending to 3 or even 4 percent of GDP. But the weak performance of U.S. and German arms on the Ukrainian battlefield may have crashed this dream, while Europe’s economies are sinking into depression.
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And with Germany’s industrial economy deranged by the severing of its trade with Russia, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner told the Die Welt newspaper on June 16, 2023 that his country cannot afford to pay more money into the European Union budget, to which it has long been the largest contributor.
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REVOLT AGAINST U.S. DOMINANCE
A nationalist reaction against U.S. dominance is rising throughout European politics, and instead of America locking in its control over European policy, the United States may end up losing – not only in Europe but most crucially throughout the Global South.
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Instead of turning Russia’s “ruble to rubble” as President Biden promised, Russia’s balance of trade has soared and its gold supply has increased.
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So have the gold holdings of other countries whose governments are now aiming to de-dollarize their economies.
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It is American diplomacy that is driving Eurasia and the Global South out of the U.S. orbit. America’s hubristic drive for unipolar world dominance could only have been dismantled so rapidly from within.
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The Biden-Blinken-Nuland administration has done what neither Vladimir Putin nor Chinese President Xi could have hoped to achieve in so short a period. Neither was prepared to throw down the gauntlet and create an alternative to the U.S.-centered world order.
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But U.S. sanctions against Russia, Iran, Venezuela and China have had the effect of protective tariff barriers to force self-sufficiency in what EU diplomat Josep Borrell calls the world “jungle” outside of the US/NATO “garden.”
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DOLLAR IS NOT SAFE
Although the Global South and other countries have been complaining about U.S. dominance ever since the Bandung Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in 1955, they have lacked a critical mass to create a viable alternative.
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But their attention has now been focused by the U.S. confiscation of Russia’s official dollar reserves in NATO countries.
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That dispelled the thought of the dollar as a safe vehicle in which to hold international savings.
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HUMANITY’S GLOBAL MAJORITY
What has occurred is a change in consciousness.
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We are seeing the Global Majority trying to create an independent and peacefully negotiated choice as to just what kind of an international order they want.
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Their aim is not merely to create alternatives to the use of dollars, but an entire new set of institutional alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, the SWIFT bank clearing system, the International Criminal Court and the entire array of institutions that U.S. diplomats have hijacked from the United Nations.
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CIVILIZATIONAL CHANGE
The upshot will be civilizational in scope.
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We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor.
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The idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class instead of being a public utility to finance economic needs and rising living standards is finally facing its reckoning.
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[This is an extract from an essay by Michael Hudson, President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street Financial Analyst, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Link to full text provided.]

It is of no different from those at Washington DC Capitol Bldg committed subversive activities & regime change against US Gov’t on 1-6-2021. No one is above the law! 這次逮捕與 2021 年 1 月 6 日在華盛頓特區國會大廈從事針對美國政府的顛覆活動和政權更迭的人沒有什麼不同。 沒有人可以凌駕於法律之上!

Anti-insurgency in France and Western “double standards” Ta Kung Pao Newspaper | 2023-07-04 法國平亂與西方「雙標」

法國騷亂中已有約3000人被捕，平均年齡17歲，最年輕的13歲。這與2019年香港「黑暴」的主要參與者是年輕人幾乎如出一轍。不同的是，對於法國政府鐵腕平亂，西方政客沒有任何批評；但對於當年香港警方止暴制亂，西方政客肆無忌憚地說三道四，至今仍在叫囂制裁香港特區官員，這不是「雙標」是什麼？

為了制止這場近年最嚴重的騷亂，法國政府嚴陣以待，採取了不少非常措施。包括宵禁、嚴控社交平台等，父母親必須管教好未成年人，否則可能因為管教不嚴而被罰款甚至監禁兩年。這些做法非常嚴厲，也有效果，法國的局勢已出現平息的跡象。

事實上，不管政治制度如何，所有的社會都不會容忍騷亂，都會採取止暴制亂、恢復秩序的措施，必要時可擴大警方權力甚至派出軍隊參與。法國當年針對「黃背心騷亂」行動、美國鎮壓國會山莊騷亂，都是如此。多次發生騷亂的英國心有餘悸，年初實施《公共秩序法》，擴大警權，若警方研判存在風險，可以提前採取執法行動，不必等到騷亂發生才事後孔明。

對於今次法國政府採取斷然措施，歐美各國政府沒有任何批評。其中一大原因是騷亂有傳染性，存在「外溢」的風險，如今次的法國騷亂就延伸到比利時等地。歐美國家充分理解進而支持法國平亂，其實是幫自己維護秩序。

但同樣的情況發生在香港，西方政客就換了另一副面孔，指摘香港警方執法，批評特區政府無視年輕人的憤怒云云。香港國安法落實3周年，警方通緝數名逃亡海外後仍繼續從事違反香港國安法的逃犯，這本來是國際通行做法，但西方政客又拿出「雙標」立場，抹黑攻擊，再一次暴露其「只准州官放火、不准百姓點燈」的醜惡嘴臉。

This generation worst than last, next generation worst than this one, why? We are treating our children like pets, gave them everything, not hungry or need to work hard! Why should they? Parents blame the country, the school, look yourselves in the mirror. It is the parent’s fault, bus stops here! 這一代比上一代差，下一代比這一代更差，為什麼？ 我們對待孩子就像對待寵物一樣，給了他們一切，不讓他們挨餓，也不要他們吃苦, 家長們這麼做卻責怪國家、責怪學校，一些人更責怪上帝! 家長們你們要好好照照鏡子吧, 都是你們的錯!

Video: CAAC SF ESG Conference at the Hilton Hotel Explores US-China Sustainable Development 北加州三藩市華商會在六月二十九日在希爾頓酒店舉辦中美可持續發展再生能源研討會
https://rumble.com/v2xyi4g-caac-sf-esg-conference-at-the-hilton-hotel.html
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8eg6R4v/

CIA/NED funded Riots in France ‘may spread to more European countries’ seeking close relations with China, using RMB for trade settlement or de-dollarization 美國中情局/美國民主基金會資助的法國騷亂“可能會蔓延到更多歐洲國家”尋求與中國建立密切關係，使用人民幣進行貿易結算或去美元化 (中國掘起前, 得罪美國都是不得好死, 如果是國家元首殺了你, 如果是國家滅了你 毀你國家打回十八世紀, 今天世界出現大變局, 美國無戲唱了)

Nation of Criminals: Don’t forget Native America, Kingdom of Hawaii, Kingdom of Liuchiu (“Okinawa”), Philippines, Guam, Samoa, the Chagos Islands, and too many more to list. 犯罪之國：別忘了美洲原住民、夏威夷王國、琉球王國（“沖繩”）、菲律賓、關島、薩摩亞、查戈斯群島，還有太多的地方無法一一列舉.

US funded 2019 Color Revolution in HK replays in France today to teach Macron a lesson who is the boss 香港2019的美國顏色革命今天在法國重演好好地教訓法國總統美國才是法國的大老闆!