Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "World Affairs In Context" channel.

  1. Thank you for the update Lena. ❤
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  2. They are working for the USA, not Europe.
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  3. An interesting development indeed.
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  4. Great show, Lena, great guest. ❤🎉
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  5. What's wrong with renting?
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  6. Bail outs, then bail ins, then confiscation of gold and silver and whatever other assets the bankers can lay their grubby little hands on.
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  7. How many people will die of malnutrition and starvation or otherwise live lives of misery due to these reforms?
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  8. "The gold goes back to Europe. " Or maybe not.
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  9. ​ @opetelkaaluemaan  Money is never yours ever as it's owned by the government, which in turn is owned by the proprietors of the private banks that make up the Federal Reserve.
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  10. He's a member of the comprador class, a traitor and collaborator. Latin America is full of them.
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  11. Can the USA go back to the system it had before the creation of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements?
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  12. India keeps nibbling the borders, jealously guarding against the slightest encroachment on territory it claims – rightly or wrongly – belongs to it based on vague, non-existent or disputed boundaries left over from the time of the Raj.
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  13. What will happen to the Euro and the Pound if there is a US dollar default? Will they be able to carry on as alternatives to the dollar, or will they default too?
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  14. That's why their so interested in bringing out central bank digital currencies: to stop you having control over the money in your pocket.
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  15. To the Anglosphere any close relationship between India and China in Asia is like that between Germany and Russia in Europe with both being seen by the Atlantisists as a threat.
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  16. Dollarisation should never have occurred in the first place. John Maynard Keynes advised against it and recommended something he called the 'Bancor' as an international medium of exchange and that international lending institutions – and banks in general – should be geared towards the financing of the productive economy. His advice was, of course, never taken and the rest, as they say, is history.
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  17. Israel will be like Cuba if the USA goes bankrupt.
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  18. Also to reign in the CIA and Israel.
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  19. The Bank of International Settlements might be behind this. The bank of banks is after all an organisation with literally unlimited capital because it controls all the other banks and can have those national banks print money on its behalf. Alternatively, the same type of people who made a killing in real estate, insurance and the stock market after the false flag of nine-eleven might be behind this. They're 'in the known', as they say.
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  20. That's where you're heading.
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  21. Why? WHY! Why is the government of the United Kingdom doing this – what is in it for Britain, economically, politically? I suspect this might be a crafty way of creating an EU army or a pan-European slush fund for the military‐industrial complex of the USA, the EU, or both.
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  22. Or fascism where the 'socialist' aspects (remember national *socialism*) are prioritised over the capitalist aspects. Still fascism/corporatism. Call it State Fascism with Chinese/Asian characteristics (or State Capitalist if you don't like the idea that fascism – not communism, not socialism – has triumphed; that a melding of Keynesianism and Hayekianism/Mises-ism – not Marxist communism – is the end of history, at least for the next 500 years.
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  23. This is not aimed at China but Europe and elsewhere. The USA will probably get its strategic materials domestically, from non-Chinese sources, or from China, either openly or through third parties like India. Europe should not follow the USA and should not sanction thee PRC.
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  24. Parasitic rentierism such as banking are choking the economy. When you have to pay one fictitious unit of currency in interest for every unit of currency representing real value in the economy your debt becomes unsustainable and your currency worthless. Then comes inflation and hyperinflation.
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  25. Perhaps not coincidentally that's also about the same length of time that the average dynasty in monarchical systems lasts.
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  26. 1. It can be confiscated. 2. You can't eat it.
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  27. My take on what he's saying is that MBridge won't be upsetting the American domination of the West any time soon. And it's effects in Asia vis‐à‐vis Europe will be more gradual.
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  28. And how much of the gold has been stolen or bought with the money from other countries (Libya, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria) or maybe is on loan (like perhaps Germany's or the gold held by France on behalf of Africa). And let's not forget the gold give-away by the United Kingdom.
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  29. Where do they get the B grade actors for all this stock footage? 🙂
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  30. It will probably simply be revalued and re-issued under a new name. Like Argentina it will still have a currency backed by the gold stolen from such places as Libya and Venezuela. The USA may even invade Venezuela and some other place like the Congo, Syria or South Africa to outright steal there gold mines, oil and gas wells and other resources, as well as have Israel steal the resources of the Palestinians on their behalf. Like the crisis of the late roman Republic, it might even lead to a glorious globe-spanning empire as an American Augustus Ceasar invades other countries to enrich his own. I'm sure the Chinese don't intend for the USA to collapse entirely.
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  31. What alternative do we/they have?
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  32. Give away houses for free or at heavily subsidised prices. Or just make renting more socially acceptable and easier.
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  33. Compound interest. Non-performing loans. Low and/or declining wages. Rising inflation. Rising un- and under-employment.
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  34. That's probably what it will do – willingly or otherwise.
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  35. Cheney-Stokes breathing for Uncle Sam.
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  36. To be spent propping up the academia-think tank-mass media part of the MICIMATT complex, no less.
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  37. Dictatorship is just around the corner.
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  38. It's now what others outside of the USA are going to do to you, it's what the people of the USA itself are going to do to you (assuming 'you' are one of the elite).
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  39. He describes the American economy as a rentier economy operating under finance capitalism as opposed to industrial capitalism. The former is predominantly a service economy made up of the FIRE sector – finance, insurance, real estate – while in the latter the economy is predominately made up of the manufacturing sector – industries that actually provide real and tangible goods. One economy makes things that people need and want and the other merely provides intangibles, kind of like a virtual economy that exists only on paper but not in the real world (though unfortunately its collapse has real world consequences).
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  40. Yet every single Muslim country is beholden to the International Monetary Fund and its like.
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  41. Actually, it probably has more to do with Germany's flow of Russian gas and oil being interrupted and the effect of EU sanctions on Russia than China flooding Germany with cheap EV's. Rising fuel prices have made German cars uncompetitive.
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  42. It's what the the US deep state wants.
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  43. Bail ins, bail outs, seizing and freezing, confiscation of gold and silver....
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  44. The USA is trying to rebuild the sanctions and embargo regime that existed from 1946 to 1989, basically recreating the cold war in which Russia and China were largely isolated from international trade with the West. Whether it will work now as well as it did then is something that only time will tell but that is the economic policy. Perhaps they will also start a new arms race as well like they did in the 1980's with the Star Wars programme in an attempt to bankrupt Russia and China, paying for it by printing IOU dollars ad infinitum.
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