African immigrant boats were sunk often and people drowned no one asked, a single billionaire drowned headlines news every day 非洲移民船破损淹死人无人问,一名亿万富翁天天头条报道
Breaking News: 3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement in ‘forever chemicals’ suits, but no one especially their CEO not going to jail. That means in the name of making more money, they will do it again and again!
Some people got too rich or powerful tends to do something stupid like Hunter whose father is the President therefore above the law: underage girls, drugs, fast money, and ultimately their lives for this group of 5.
A company without heart and soul only money, my father & grandfather used to taught us “the love of money will make a man do anything including illegal acts and killing” 一個沒有靈魂的公司,我的父親和祖父曾經教導我們 “對金錢過份熱愛會讓一個人失去理智做任何事,包括違法和殺人”
Ukraine conflict “f***ing good for business” – BlackRock recruiter
An employee of the asset management giant was filmed running from Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe
BlackRock wants the conflict in Ukraine to continue as long as possible because it is “good for business,” a recruiter for the asset management giant told an undercover reporter with Project Veritas successor, O’Keefe Media Group, in a video published on Monday.
“War is really fing good for business,” Serge Varlay, whose since-deleted LinkedIn profile described him as a technology recruiter at BlackRock, told the reporter. He outlined a scenario in which an investor could profit off a surge in wheat prices triggered by the bombing of Ukrainian wheat silos, explaining “volatility creates opportunity to make profit” before editorializing, “It’s exciting when s goes wrong, right?”
“We don’t want the conflict to end, as a country,” Varlay continued, noting, “the longer this goes on, the weaker Russia is.”
Varlay also boasted about his employer’s control of the political system. “It’s not who the president is, it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president,” he declared, clarifying that it was “the hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks” who “run the world.”
“All these financial institutions, they buy politicians. You can take this big fton of money and then you can start to buy people,” he said, explaining that senators were “fing cheap, you got 10 grand you can buy a senator.” The US government also needs BlackRock to run its financial simulations, he said.
Admitting BlackRock “[does] not want to be on the radar,” Varlay suggested that “It’s easier to do things when people aren’t thinking about it.” He appeared briefly suspicious of the reporter’s motives: “you’re like an undercover reporter,” he said, arguing “normal people” were uninterested in her lines of questioning – but continued to boast about his role in “decid[ing] people’s fates.”
After he was confronted in a New York cafe by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe himself, Varley abruptly headed for the nearest police station. He can be seen in a video motioning for O’Keefe to follow him in. Following the meeting, Varlay deleted his LinkedIn profile, which is still viewable in search engine results for his name.
With over $10 trillion in assets under management, BlackRock controls sizable shares of most large American corporations and pension funds, including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Alphabet, Pfizer, Tesla, Merck, Visa, and Mastercard. The company was tapped to assist the US government in the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 response, making it the only private corporation aside from the Federal Reserve itself to exert direct control on the levers of the US financial system and raising questions about insider trading and other conflicts of interest. Several BlackRock alumni serve in the Biden administration, including Brian Deese, the head of the National Economic Council.
Extraordinarily insightful talk by John Thornton on China and its relations with the US. Truly a must-watch!
To a typical braindead question that the Chinese are brainwashed and, if only they knew about the world, they’d be “on our side”, Thornton has a masterful reply: “I’ve been teaching at Tsinghua now for 20 years so I know a lot of young Chinese… I don’t know a single one of them who doesn’t know what’s going on in the outside world.”
Here he explains the “fundamental disconnect” between public statements that China-US is the most consequential relationship in the world and the utter lack of action to actually cultivate the relationship. For instance he says that if you asked US cabinet members the names of their Chinese counterparts, 90% of them wouldn’t know the answer.
Thornton is probably the single American who best knows the Chinese system. He is a personal friend of most of the Chinese leadership, including Xi Jinping. In 2003 he became the first non-Chinese full professor at Tsinghua University since the establishment of the PRC. He is also one of America’s foremost business leaders, having been co-president of Goldman Sachs and seating on the boards of companies such as Ford, Intel, ICBC, China Unicom, IMG, BSkyB, DirectTV, or News Corp.
He says, rightly, that the only way one can ever hope to have an impact on China is by building trust (with an interesting personal anecdote of a diner he had with Xi Jinping).
China will obviously never listen to someone it is convinced is trying to contain or destroy them.
He also says that Chinese leaders lament that US leadership never actually read or hear what they say, only seeing China through the writings of “China watchers” – like Kevin Rudd – who get China completely wrong.
One thing he says the West misunderstands about China is its aspirations, which isn’t to have “a Chinese century” but a “century of diverse civilizations, a new era in which there will no longer be a single civilizational hegemon”.
John Lawson Thornton (born January 2, 1954) is an American businessman and professor and director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation and non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments. Thornton stepped down as co-president of Goldman Sachs in 2003.
Premier Li Qiang at the 11th China-Germany Economic and Technical Cooperation Forum: “We don’t think it’s risky to drive in a Volkswagen, nor do we think it’s unsafe to get a CT by Siemens equipment. We never regard these as risks, and China never means to “de-risk” from them.”