Posted on 04/02/2020 4:48:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Sometime in June 2001, while browsing the Wall Street Journal, I stumbled upon an item on an inside page all the way at the bottom. It was no more than 75 words in a box. It covered a CIA security announcement concerning an increase in internet and cell phone traffic among suspected terrorists from suspect areas in the Arab world. I canceled a Fourth of July trip downtown because of it.
I assumed that if an attack was coming, it would be on America's premium self-celebratory holiday, the Fourth of July.
When nothing happened, I took off my tinfoil hat, ascribing my worries to my suspicion of Islam suspicions I had carefully curated from prior events such as the first World Trade Center attack, the Cole, the embassy bombings, and the killing of Americans soldiers in the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.
It has become accepted knowledge that America's intelligence agencies missed 9/11 warning signs but that's not entirely true. Signs were seen, but they impelled no action. We were so convinced that the fall of the Soviet Union as the end of history precluded any need for urgency. Yet, even if there had been, no one, at that point, knew how to react.
I don't think I need to remind everyone of what happened on 09/11/2001.
I share this vignette as a means of showing that there are always signs. We, for whatever reason, miss them, or we ignore them for political purposes, or we refuse to believe them because they contradict the core tenets of our belief system.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
All meds need to be made here.
I purchase military rations from all over the world. I’ve gotten them from China, Russia, South Korea, the Ukraine, Great Britain, etc. Beginning only a few days ago, I cannot find ANY Chinese rations. Not on EBay, not on Amazon. However, I can find other Chinese goods such as camping supplies. So what is going on? Are they experiencing societal breakdown, and they need to keep their food? Or are they saving their rations for their military as they are contemplating war? Just asking.
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China is not going to attack us militarily.
They will use their well-purchased Democrat Party and their media to foment civil war from within. I know I’d prefer to see Democrats and media types hanging from lamp posts by piano wire than dead Chinese peasants in Canton.
instead, most of the 33,000 U.S. Korea War deaths occurred after MacArthur was fired and the chicoms allowed to have a get-out-of-jail-free card...
Truman's accomplishment: Turning the already 8,000 American deaths that cleared the peninsula into about 33,000 and losing most of the peninsula permanently...
“China is Asshoe.”
This^^^^^
China has been lusting after Taiwan for decades and Trump just shored up their defense. But active war is off the table because China's economy is too inextricably attached to ours. They can not kill the Golden Goose that's enabled them to perpetuate the illusion of Communism while actually being capitalist. Way to go, WalMart.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/china-seizes-covid-19-advantage-in-south-china-sea/
The excuse of the "USA bring the virus" would just be for the locals. Still though, I have a hard time believing China really wants to take on a larger war, right now.
Unless, they know... or believe, that they are in a much stronger position, militarily, than we all believe.
Do you have recollection of the times preceding stuff being all made in China? I certainly do.
Deming proved that they weren't.
Went to a 3-day Deming seminar back in the 90s.
Man he was a crusty old dude.
Much wisdom.
And he had a cute young “assistant”.
Collateral damage.
Did Deming believe things made in China were better quality than those Made in America?
Back then (early 90s) China was not really on the map as a manufacturing power. Deming pretty much believed that any country which adopted his system would do well. Deming first became known because he went to Japan after WWII and taught the Japanese who became a high quality manufacturer. Deming died in 93.
My own experience is that any country can make good quality and any country can make bad quality. It comes down to the management and the culture of the company.
Thanks.....ringing a bell...remembering him, now.
...sorry, were those YOUR lungs?
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China has zero history of ever attacking a formidable foe. They always go for the small size cultures and even then they employ non-direct combat operations.
They are sneak warriors.
The Wuhan release is the perfect sneak attack.
The launch picture is dated 2010.
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