[brownsfan]

Bah.

Most Americans have no idea what this means, and couldn’t care less, as long as the malls are open and the Kardashians are on.

Then, there is a wealthy group of Americans who know exactly what’s going on, and will do anything to profit from the situation, regardless of the impact on America.

Most of us freepers are caught in the middle, (a dwindling population it seems).

[LomanBill]

Then, there is a wealthy group of Americans who know exactly what’s going on,

Uhuh.

There is the Financial Vanguard NyLon Elite who pretend the market is "Free" whilst manipulating it via centrally managed insider/micro-traded/front-run smoke and mirrors -- and skimming all the honey off.

And then there's, the rest of us...

[flamberge]

This is China, flexing their strangler’s noose around the entire “high-tech” industry. They would enslave the West if they were allowed to continue.

The liberal elites in the West do not care. They believe that they can make accommodations with the Chinese elites to retain their power - and they may well be correct in this assessment, for at least one more generation.

Liberal Western elites envy the unchecked authority wielded by their counterparts in undemocratic countries. They consistently obstruct any efforts to resist totalitarian systems or defend against aggression from totalitarians.

Expect any new discoveries of rare earth minerals outside of China to be owned by Chinese investors, or to be tied up indefinitely by “environmental concerns”.

Our present class of political elites must be removed in order for Western nations survive as free peoples.

[La Lydia]

LomanBill is a troll thread hijacker, and he has you in his sights.