Just a Thought...
A Dangerous Man
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
So Pope Francis just visited Egypt where Christians are being
slaughtered, tortured, beheaded, and burned alive...where churches are
being burnt to the ground...and what does Pope Frances do...he calls for
Christians to "forgive" them. What is wrong with this man for "turn the
other cheek" and "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you,
and persecute you"...can NEVER apply to those who wish anyone
who does NOT believe like them dead. If Egypt's Christians do NOT start
fighting back there will NOT be a Christian left in Egypt (el-Sisi cannot save them all NO matter how hard he tries)...there will
NOT be a Christian left in the entirety of the Middle East...save for
Israel of course...and their collective deaths will be on this man's
conscience...if he has one that is. I hate to say it but Pope Francis is
as big a danger to Christianity as is the muslims who wish him dead as
well.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Just a Thought...
You've Been Had
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
So some in the media...and even some on the left... are saying that Obama's $400,000 Wall Street speaking gig will undermine everything he believes in...to that I say bull as Obama is doing exactly what he believes in...as in himself, his lining of his own pockets, and his selfish ambitions alone. You've been had you liberal morons and the monster you created has now come back to haunt.
You've Been Had
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
So some in the media...and even some on the left... are saying that Obama's $400,000 Wall Street speaking gig will undermine everything he believes in...to that I say bull as Obama is doing exactly what he believes in...as in himself, his lining of his own pockets, and his selfish ambitions alone. You've been had you liberal morons and the monster you created has now come back to haunt.
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Report: NKorea Launches Failed Missile Test
North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile from
an area north of Pyongyang Saturday, a news agency report said, but it
failed seconds after it was launched.
The test comes with tensions high on the Korean peninsula, with this
the latest in a series of missile launches by the North and warnings
from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration that it was running
out of patience.
"North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning," Yonhap reported, quoting a statement issued by South Korea's military.
"It is estimated to have failed."
In Washington, a U.S. defense official confirmed to AFP that North Korea had test fired some kind of missile.
The report added that the missile "apparently exploded seconds after liftoff".
According to a Reuters report, the U.S. military said on Friday it tracked the North Korean ballistic missile launch but the missile did not leave North Korean territory and did not pose a threat to North America.
"North Korea fired an unidentified missile from a site in the vicinity of Bukchang in Pyeongannam-do (South Pyeongan Province) early this morning," Yonhap reported, quoting a statement issued by South Korea's military.
In Washington, a U.S. defense official confirmed to AFP that North Korea had test fired some kind of missile.
The report added that the missile "apparently exploded seconds after liftoff".
According to a Reuters report, the U.S. military said on Friday it tracked the North Korean ballistic missile launch but the missile did not leave North Korean territory and did not pose a threat to North America.
Of course. Raising the minimum wage just raises an employer’s
expenses, resulting in layoffs. This is just more evidence of how
leftist policies are destructive to the economy and hurt the people. If
it weren’t for the enemedia’s relentless propaganda, this would be
obvious to everyone.“Harvard Study Finds Restaurants More Likely to Close, Less Likely to Open After Wage Hikes,” by Sam Dorman, Washington Free Beacon, April 27, 2017:
A Harvard University study found that raising the minimum wage increased the likelihood that restaurants, especially of lower quality, would close and made it less likely that new restaurants would open.
The study “Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit,” conducted by Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca, studied 35,173 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay area over the course of eight years (2008-2016). Luca and Luca saw 30 percent of these restaurants close, and claimed to “find suggestive evidence that higher minimum wage increases restaurant exit.”Read entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/04/harvard-wage-unemployment.html/
President Trump signed an executive order Friday that could open areas in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans to oil and gas drilling.In announcing the “Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy,” Trump said the executive order will direct a “review of the locations available for off-shore oil and gas exploration.”
The move seeks to reverse restrictions on offshore drilling put in place by former President Obama.
“Today we're unleashing American energy and clearing the way for thousands and thousands of high-paying American energy jobs,” he said at the signing.
"Our country is blessed with incredible natural resources, including abundant offshore oil and natural gas reserves," he said. "But the federal government has kept 94 percent of these offshore areas closed for exploration and production …[which] deprives our country of potentially thousands and thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in wealth."
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Friday, April 28, 2017
Just a Thought...
Taking Out the Trash
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
Oh boo-hoo...an Arkansas convicted murderer had a convulsion during his execution ...who gives a damn...he MURDERED someone! Where is the outcry over the horrific death his victim suffered and the heartache the victim's family has suffered. I am so sick and tired of the left's misplaced sympathies as this bastard...and others like him...lived for decades in a cushy jail cell on OUR taxpayer dime while the victim's family grieved. I think when brought up on murder charges you get one appeal and then you fry or get the needle. Time to take out our trash and stop wasting our hard earned taxpayer dollars on human garbage...period.
Taking Out the Trash
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
Oh boo-hoo...an Arkansas convicted murderer had a convulsion during his execution ...who gives a damn...he MURDERED someone! Where is the outcry over the horrific death his victim suffered and the heartache the victim's family has suffered. I am so sick and tired of the left's misplaced sympathies as this bastard...and others like him...lived for decades in a cushy jail cell on OUR taxpayer dime while the victim's family grieved. I think when brought up on murder charges you get one appeal and then you fry or get the needle. Time to take out our trash and stop wasting our hard earned taxpayer dollars on human garbage...period.
Today, Friday, April 28th from 7 to 9pm on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss the witch hunt against General Flynn, Craig takes the 2017 grads to school, and the week's important news.
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Op-ed:
"I see no evidence or no data to
support the notion that General Flynn complied with the law."
And Kelner saying
that during his briefings that Flynn
"answered any questions that were posed by DIA concerning the trip,"
is in addition to DIA spokesman Jim Kudla saying that General Flynn most assuredly did brief the agency in advance
about his trip to Russia and did so "in
accordance with all standard security clearance procedures." In fact, a
personal spokesman for the general has said that Flynn also disclosed the Russian trip in
question when he last came up for a security clearance review in January 2016.
Guess Jason Chaffetz
and Elijah Cummings, for whatever reason, have willingly...and possibly with
malice...turned a deaf ear to the words of Flynn’s lawyer, an official DIA spokesman, and
others. And what makes this especially grievous is Chaffetz’s saying that this is “not the first time this has happened”...a
harsh accusation with absolutely no proof to back those words up...words I
believe Chairman Chaffetz should not have said...words that down the line could see Jason Chaffetz
having to answer for.
"That money needs to be
recovered," so says
Jason Chaffetz, but seriously I want to know why money earned has to returned and
returned to who...Russia... really...I think not.
Elijah
Cummings should be the last person to ever be appointed to a committee that decides whether or
not to bring charges against anyone.
But what
will not go away is the fact that Chaffetz and Cummings are still planning to
write to the Comptroller of the Army and the Department of Defense’s Inspector
General to determine whether retired, now private citizen, Lt. General Michael Flynn broke the
law, and
whether the government needs to pursue criminal charges simply because he did
not disclose these two payments. Personally, I am not sure Flynn actually broke any law at least not to the degree this committee is trying to claim he did. And
these accusations are being lobbed at the same time as Flynn’s company’s foreign contacts are
being examined by other congressional committees as part of investigations into
Russia’s still unproven meddling in the 2016 election, and still unproven ties
between Trump associates and the Kremlin.
And a witch
hunt it is for where was the outrage and the bringing of charges against
Hillary Clinton who then candidate Donald Trump said engaged in "criminality" for connections
between Clinton Foundation donors and her actions as Secretary of State. And
where was the outrage about said Foundation’s total lack of transparency and the fact
that some donors, especially from foreign governments not really our friend,
may have been trying to buy influence while she was Secretary of State...as in
her dubious ‘pay-for-play’ scandal. Sadly, that too seems to have faded from public view no matter that
some foreign leaders have freely admitted that they did indeed buy influence for their
governments.
And seriously,
why was Hillary not indicted and found guilty...why was she not sent to jail...and why was she allowed to even run for president in the first place when a criminal investigation was in progress. The answer to those questions is simply because Hillary was a
fellow liberal Democrat who towed Obama’s islamic party line, and one who would not raise the alarm
about the true dangers from islam that we face.
So where does
all this lead us...it leads us to the fact that ‘selective enforcement’ is once
again the order of the day as it is again being used against a man whose political
views the Democrats do not like (especially since he is one of their own party affiliation wise), and now adding his voice to that is one of
our own.
First, here
is the breakdown of who stands where on President Trump’s controversial executive
order regarding those coming into our country from now six muslim countries:
So, is Chairman Jason Chaffetz going ‘soft’
on islam like General McMaster...a man who still separates the sum of the terrorists
from the whole...I do not know... but I do know that when one is dedicated to
their religion they tend to hold said religion’s core beliefs. And where do Mormons
stand on islam...this is the statement the Mormon hierarchy issued after
President Trump’s first attempt at a temporary ban, “The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints is concerned about the temporal and spiritual welfare of
all of God's children across the earth, with special concern for those who are
fleeing physical violence, war and religious persecution. The Church urges all
people and governments to cooperate fully in seeking the best solutions to meet
human needs and relieve suffering.”
“We can learn much from our Muslim
brothers and sisters. Islam has created a society in which modesty is valued,
in which divorce and premarital and extramarital sexual relations are much less
common than in our culture, and in which the strength of immediate and extended
families can be an example even to Latter-day Saints. Muslims develop strong
communities with interactive neighborhoods of people who care for each other
and watch out for the interests of both neighbors and strangers. Their culture
teaches the virtues of generosity and hospitality.”
A Witch Hunt by Any Other Name is Still a Witch Hunt
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots
- House Oversight Chairman Jason
Chaffetz
And so it
sadly seems that one of our own, as in House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and one
of theirs, as in Democratic Ranking Committee Member Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), both believe that President Trump's former
National Security Advisor retired Lt. General Michael Flynn might have broken
federal law after failing to disclose on his background security check
forms both his most recent trip to Russia and payments from
Russia, as well as payments from a Turkish businessman.
Apparently it
means not a thing to either man that Flynn's attorney, Robert Kelner, said in regards
to the Russia trip that Flynn did indeed report his plans to travel to Russia,
including his dining with Vladimir Putin, to the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA)...the very agency Flynn headed until 2014 when he was forced to retire from
the military by Obama...and that he had most certainly briefed officials at the agency after his return.
And yet even
with all this Chairman Chaffetz continues to say that General Flynn could be
criminally prosecuted because, "He (General
Flynn) was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the
secretary of state and the secretary of the Army prior to traveling to Russia
to not only accept that payment, but to engage in that activity...No former military
officer is allowed to accept payments from a foreign government, and my guess
is this is probably not the first time this has happened.”
And the specific
words “He was supposed to”...nothing
but supposition at best although as a retired military officer now a private
citizen thanks to Obama’s firing, I really do not understand why private citizen
Michael Flynn needed anyone’s permission to travel anywhere...even to Russia.
And exactly what
Russian payments did said private citizen Michael Flynn fail to disclose...apparently
all this brouhaha is, first, about his receiving about $33,000 back in 2015 from
the ‘Russia Today’ television network...a network which has been described by
U.S. intelligence officials...as in James Comey and his not quite trustworthy people...as
a propaganda front for Russia's government...something also that has never been
proven.
"That money needs to be
recovered," so says
Jason Chaffetz, but seriously I want to know why money earned has to returned and
returned to who...Russia... really...I think not.
And second,
coming into question is somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 Flynn received
as part of his personal take-home in the $530,000 that his company, Flynn Intel
Group, garnered for consulting work done for Inovo BV, a company owned by a
Turkish businessman who also happens to be a member of a committee overseen by Turkey's
finance ministry.
So let me get this straight...now it seems that according to 'certain' political folks other 'certain' political folks cannot garner monies from the businesses they own or from the services they rendered without it coming into question. Something sure stinks here
especially when it is the likes of Elijah Cummings who says that General Flynn's failure
to formally report this on paperwork requesting his security clearance amounted
to concealment of the money, which could, in his opinion, be prosecuted as a
felony. Now just look who’s calling the kettle black...the very man who not only relishes
in and is the poster boy for what is known as ‘black privilege,' but who in 2014 saw then House
Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa releasing a report implicating him in colluding
with the IRS and Lois Lerner against the nonpartisan voters rights group ‘True
the Vote.’
And as the
infamous tit-for-tat political game continues to be played between the two parties, all the executive
alphabet agencies and their ‘so-called’ watchdogs, inspector general overseers,
and the different oversight committees in Congress, it seems that failure to
disclose is a crime of the first degree for some but not for others, and it all
depends on whose side you came down on in the 2016 presidential election. Or to
put it bluntly and in perspective, the unrighteous indignation over this relatively small dollars and cents amount not having been disclosed by General Flynn is now
first and foremost to some yet the major infractions committed by some of those
on the left still go unpunished and worse...they are hushed up with help from
the media so that in the public venue they are simply made to ‘go away.’
And to see
someone like Jason Chaffetz...an honorable man or at least I always thought so...taking
part in this predominately Democratic witch hunt makes me wonder why he
really has decided not to run again when up for re-election, and why one of own
seems to have turned on the one man, Lt. General Michael Flynn, who actually understood
then and continues to understand now exactly who the enemy we face is...as in
the entirety of islam.
Also, where
is the indictment and jail time for Hillary’s involvement in and lies about
Benghazi and the murders of four brave Americans. And let’s not forget her
infamous email scandal...a scandal whose components surely broke federal laws...another scandal which came complete
with outrage and some committees investigating, but which again in the end went
nowhere.
Not quite like
General Flynn now is it...a man whose rightful and very vocal stance against islam, I believe, was what signaled both his political death knell of sorts and his being the target of this current witch hunt.
And dare we
not forget Eric Holder and ‘Fast and Furious,’ along with Loretta Lynch’s little
tarmac meeting with a former president who gives new meaning to the word ‘predator’...again
outrage and investigations that went
nowhere as did the looking into the anything but Reverend Al Sharpton who still owes millions
in back taxes and who also has not been arrested or served any jail time.
'Black privilege' coming into play again I suppose.
'Black privilege' coming into play again I suppose.
And herein
lies the quandary...why is House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz doing what
he is doing, and is it tied into his not running for re-election when his House
seat next comes up? And could some of his reasoning, if you will, be tied into the
fact that he, like General McMaster, is either being mislead about the enemy we
face or is it that he truly buys into the propaganda of his religious beliefs
for lest we forget that Jason Chaffetz is a practicing Mormon.
Let me
explain and offer these suppositions for you, dear reader, to decide upon.
Notice that
while Chairman Chaffetz supports President Trump’s keeping his campaign
promises, he concludes his statement with these words, “... People that have a green card supposedly already have been vetted,
so there needs to be some further clarification.” But what Jason Chaffetz forgets
is that people can change and muslims simply cannot be trusted...remember
taqiyya...so a past vetting might not expose their current views on let us say terrorism
and jihad, let alone on the sharia.
Sounds like kumbaya left dribble now doesn’t it.
Here is the Mormon
stance on islam in general, as written by Mormon scholars Brian M. Hauglid and
Kent P. Jackson, in their book ‘What Every Latter-day Saint Should Know about
Islam,’ in Religious Educator 4, no. 2 (2003): 9–23.
What I want
to know is this utter nonsense what Jason Chaffetz believes down deep... is this what is
driving his stance against the one man who actually ‘got it’ in regards to
islam being our enemy or can it be that he wants to make an example of Flynn to
show that we will call out our own if need be...and in the case of Lt. General
Michael Flynn I do not think it needs to be because if he was still National
Security Advisor I do not believe we would be in the situation we find ourselves in today.
But maybe we
would...who knows...but all I do know for sure is that a true patriot is now the
subject of a witch hunt and that one of our own is helping to lead the
charge, and that truly does not sit well with me...how dear reader does it sit
with you?
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important news.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Just a Thought...
A Truth That Must Be Told
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
ISIS and its likes in the name of islam are today's Nazis...today's SS...the total corruption of humankind and pure evil. If they are NOT stopped...if those blind to their evil do NOT see and understand the enemy we as Christians and Jews face...then the Nazis...the SS...by proxy will win but this time they will come for us dressed as an invading army of allah and all that will be left is a shell of what once was. Think about that you liberal morons next time your party tries to stop our president from doing the right thing NOT just for us but for generations to come, because if you do NOT those generations will never be born.
A Truth That Must Be Told
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
ISIS and its likes in the name of islam are today's Nazis...today's SS...the total corruption of humankind and pure evil. If they are NOT stopped...if those blind to their evil do NOT see and understand the enemy we as Christians and Jews face...then the Nazis...the SS...by proxy will win but this time they will come for us dressed as an invading army of allah and all that will be left is a shell of what once was. Think about that you liberal morons next time your party tries to stop our president from doing the right thing NOT just for us but for generations to come, because if you do NOT those generations will never be born.
WaPo Pleads With Obama to 'Rethink' Wall Street Payout for New Speech
Remember when candidate Barack Obama told Americans he did not run
for president "to help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street?"He doesn't.
Eight years after Obama made those remarks, he seems to have no qualms accepting $400,000 from Wall Street for an upcoming speech at a conference run by Cantor Fitzgerald LP.
The Washington Post's Aaron Blake is imploring him to rethink his decision. In addition to appearing like a hypocrite, the editors point out that if Obama accepts the money it will be poor optics for the Democratic Party - the last thing a defeated and divided party needs right now.
This whole thing comes at a somewhat inauspicious time for the Democratic Party: Just as Democrats' true identity is in flux, as Sanders's anti-Wall Street message seems to be ascendant, and as President Trump at times co-opted that message in the 2016 election.
That brand of populism clearly has very broad appeal, and now Democrats are being put in the position of deciding whether their former president should take $400,000 from Wall Street for a speech. At the least, it risks suggesting the party's anti-Wall Street posture is in some cases just that — posturing.Blake also points out that Wall Street baggage was one of Hillary Clinton's weaknesses during her 2016 campaign. Because she had accepted thousands of dollars from Wall Street, she drew snickers from opponent Bernie Sanders and debate audiences whenever she claimed to be Wall Street's biggest nightmare.
The Democrats are still seeking leadership, and their first legislative gain, since Donald Trump's victory.
New York Times comes out for Leftist thuggery against dissenters on campus
The thrust of the argument here is that to shut down voices that the
Leftist establishment considers odious — which includes mine, although I
am not mentioned in this article (no, I am not Richard Spencer) — is
aiding the oppressed to have a voice that they are usually denied. This
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Illegal Immigration Totals Fall Below Pre-Obama Level
"The numbers are not going up, and in fact, the numbers for Mexicans have been going down for almost a decade now," Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew, said in an AP interview, per Vocativ. "And that is counter to a lot of the rhetoric you hear."
Asian immigrants without legal status rose by to 1.5 million in 2015, from from 1.3 million in 2009. Those living in the United States illegally from Central America, meanwhile, increased to 1.8 million from 1.6 million during that time, according to the report.
At least China understands that Islam is the problem. And while I do
not agree with this approach or think it will achieve the desired
result, China is light years ahead of the West in this. The West is
still in delusion and denial. In the West, anyone who opposes jihad
terror and sharia is a racist islamophobic anti-Muslim bigot.Names are not the problem, the ideology and jihad doctrine is the problem. The Muslim world must stop blaming everyone else and purge all Islamic texts and teachings of holy war, hate and bigotry.
Children with banned names will not be able to get admission in public schools
Muslim names on the list have been banned in Xinjiang province
By Malaysia Sun, April 26, 2017:
The new measures are part of China’s fight against terrorism in Xinjiang
BEIJING, China – In a bid to get tough on terrorism – China has now banned dozens of Muslim names for babies belonging to the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang province.
According to the new measures introduced by the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s “Naming Rules For Ethnic Minorities,” Muslim names like Islam, Quran, Mecca, Jihad, Imam, Hajj, Medina and Saddam have been banned.
It said that children with banned names will not get admission in public schools and won’t get access to government benefits too.Read entire article here: http://pamelageller.com/2017/04/muslim-names-like-islam-quran-mecca-jihad-imam-banned-china-new-counter-terror-policy.html/
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!
Today, Tuesday, April 25th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss who has the upper hand in regards to North Korea, misplaced indignation from both sides of the political isle, and important news of the week.
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Op-ed:
In other
words, while both China’s government and her people know they would suffer and
suffer greatly on the economic front if war did indeed break out, they also
know that both prestige and regional influence not only comes into play, but that sometimes
those two factors trump even the economic scenario. And that is why President
Trump tried to put the ball back in our court when he told President Xi in a
recent telephone conversation that “a
trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them (China) if they solve the
North Korean problem!”
But if truth
be told an actual outward switching of sides will not be that simple for China to
do what with China being a big brother, a mother, a father, and an overseer all
rolled into one in regards to North Korea. And this is but a symbiotic relationship
that started when China’s Chairman Mao sent more than a million Chinese troops
to fight in the Korean War, and that very act directly afforded Kim Jong-un’s grandfather,
Kim Il-sung, the ability to keep control of the northern half of the Korean
peninsula. But as the years have unfolded, China ever so slowly has started to
see and digest the reality that the current regime of Kim Jong-un has done
absolutely nothing to benefit China’s growing national interests nor for its
growing economy...in fact the man-child has actually harmed China’s long-coveted
super-power status in certain key ways.
Thankfully,
that scenario changed for the U.S. when President Trump recently ordered U.S.
warships and aircraft carriers to the waters off North Korea’s coast.
And much to
the chagrin of so many, it appears on the surface that it is China who holds the
upper hand in regards to the above facts for China's role as America's largest
banker, if you will, gives her needed bargaining leverage no matter how the media
tries to claim it does not. And China quite often, and not so quietly, states
that it will sell off part of its U.S. holdings (and that includes its land
holdings) if we continue to pressure her to raise the yuan's value. In fact, since
2005, China raised the yuan's value by 33% against the dollar, and between 2014
and 2015, the dollar's strength increased by 25% causing China to allow the
value of the yuan to decline. And why did they allow this...simply...this decline
allowed China’s exports to remain competitive with Asian countries that did not
tie their currency to the U.S. dollar.
So how and
why does all this affect China’s sudden cooperation in reigning in North Korea’s
man-child Kim Jong-un...or at least their trying to. First, China is North Korea’s chief economic so-called ‘pipeline’ and that means they supply Kim Jong-un with the
oil and coal needed to keep his country operational, meaning if said oil and coal
is not supplied then the North Korean economy...no matter how unstable it
already is...would totally collapse in full.
Today, Tuesday, April 25th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss who has the upper hand in regards to North Korea, misplaced indignation from both sides of the political isle, and important news of the week.
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The Upper Hand Remains Ours
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots
Thanks to
President Trump, China appears to be trying to reign in the insane North Korean
man-child Kim Jong-un for China’s President Xi Jinping understands well that
the U.S. could and most likely will take unilateral action against the North
Korean dictator if he keeps up his saber rattling and rocket launching.
And with
President Xi saying that China "is
committed to the target of de-nuclearization on the peninsula, safeguarding
peace and stability on the peninsula, and advocates resolving problems through
peaceful means," it becomes apparent that Xi knows that to do so would
benefit China’s economic pocketbook...but is there actually more to his words
and even more at stake than seen at first glance.
And yes...there
is more at stake...much more...what with Kim Jong-un now threatening not just
South Korea and Japan but threatening also to do a
“mighty pre-emptive strike against the U.S.”...that is if his rockets do not
keep falling into the sea. And these recent threats have seen China moving its
military towards their shared border because Xi is wise enough to know that first,
a war on the Korean peninsula would not serve China’s said pocketbook nor its pecking
order on the world stage well and second, he also knows that a loony man-child like
Kim Jong-un could just as easily turn on China... the very country that made and
still finances his dictatorial bed.
In other
words, while both China’s government and her people know they would suffer and
suffer greatly on the economic front if war did indeed break out, they also
know that both prestige and regional influence not only comes into play, but that sometimes
those two factors trump even the economic scenario. And that is why President
Trump tried to put the ball back in our court when he told President Xi in a
recent telephone conversation that “a
trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them (China) if they solve the
North Korean problem!”
Translation:
Trump made it clear that China must, no matter the cost to them, reign in Kim
Jong-un for China not only needs bi-lateral trade deals and investments with the
U.S., but with us now flexing our military muscle the dynamics in both the
Middle East and the Far East have changed...as in the U.S. is now leading from
the front having replaced Obama’s leading from behind.
And that particular
dynamic has common sense dictating that if China was smart they would switch
sides in the North Korean standoff or at least call for the man-child to stand
down...something they now seem somewhat to be doing.
But if truth
be told an actual outward switching of sides will not be that simple for China to
do what with China being a big brother, a mother, a father, and an overseer all
rolled into one in regards to North Korea. And this is but a symbiotic relationship
that started when China’s Chairman Mao sent more than a million Chinese troops
to fight in the Korean War, and that very act directly afforded Kim Jong-un’s grandfather,
Kim Il-sung, the ability to keep control of the northern half of the Korean
peninsula. But as the years have unfolded, China ever so slowly has started to
see and digest the reality that the current regime of Kim Jong-un has done
absolutely nothing to benefit China’s growing national interests nor for its
growing economy...in fact the man-child has actually harmed China’s long-coveted
super-power status in certain key ways.
How
so...with North Korea having the nuclear bomb...albeit at this time minus a successful
delivery system...which in time please know they will get...and with North
Korea lying on China’s eastern border...they can and do try to pretend that
they are a major power broker. And as such with both threats and accusations
they have held the true power brokers at bay...power brokers including China,
Russia, and until just recently these United States.
Thankfully,
that scenario changed for the U.S. when President Trump recently ordered U.S.
warships and aircraft carriers to the waters off North Korea’s coast.
So, if an
actual switching of sides by China might not be realistically feasible at this
given point in time what with Chinese so-called ‘saving face’ also coming into
play...know that in the near future it just might happen. And why...because China
can ill-afford having a loon next door going ‘rogue’ without warning, and
because the Chinese know that the U.S. dollar is mightier than North Korea’s
saber rattling sword.
And how
so...first let’s look at a few key number facts* about both China’s and our
U.S. economy and see who, if anybody, actually holds the much needed upper hand
and why they do so.
Fact: China, thanks to rapid industrialization,
is the world's largest economy with $21.27 trillion in 2016 (with the allowing for adjusted purchasing
power parity which is simply the exchange rate between two currencies equaling
the ratio of the currencies' respective purchasing power); the European Union
is second at $19.1 trillion; and the United States, thanks to Obama’s total
economic disasters, is now in third place at $18.5 trillion. But even with this
China’s economic growth slowed to 7.7% last year, it continues to show some
signs of decelerating further. This has certain trading partners worried,
especially those that export a lot of resources to China...trading partners like Brazil and Australia.
But for
China this slowdown in growth is not necessarily a bad thing as a slowing down
usually does happen after years of rapid growth. And China has had an
eight-fold increase in living standards in a mere 30 years...an increase that
took the U.S. 122 years and Japan about 80 years to achieve. Or as economist
Barry Naughton states, “China’s growth is
slowing in part because it has graduated early.”
Fact: as of this
past February the U.S. debt to China stands at $1.059 trillion and climbing...as
in 27.8% of the $3.8 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by
foreign countries. The rest of the $19.9 trillion national debt is owned by
either the American people or by the U.S. government itself, and that once
thought unimaginable number of monies owed is again thanks to the free-for-all spending of
one Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Fact: China
exported about $482 billion in goods to the U.S.in 2015 (the latest finalized numbers
available), more than any other country who exported goods to the U.S., and
that is according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. However,
we exported just $116 billion in goods to China during the same year, putting
our goods trade deficit at $366 billion.
Fact: China
buys U.S. debt to support the value of the dollar. And why...because China ties
in its currency (the yuan) to the U.S. dollar, and devalues said currency when
needed to keep its export prices competitive.
And much to
the chagrin of so many, it appears on the surface that it is China who holds the
upper hand in regards to the above facts for China's role as America's largest
banker, if you will, gives her needed bargaining leverage no matter how the media
tries to claim it does not. And China quite often, and not so quietly, states
that it will sell off part of its U.S. holdings (and that includes its land
holdings) if we continue to pressure her to raise the yuan's value. In fact, since
2005, China raised the yuan's value by 33% against the dollar, and between 2014
and 2015, the dollar's strength increased by 25% causing China to allow the
value of the yuan to decline. And why did they allow this...simply...this decline
allowed China’s exports to remain competitive with Asian countries that did not
tie their currency to the U.S. dollar.
So where exactly
does our economic upper hand come in or do we actually have one at all? First, to
outwardly gain the economic upper hand within a short period of time some say we
can always place tariffs of up to 45% (remember President Trump spoke about that
during the campaign) on goods coming into the U.S. from China. However, doing this
would actually hurt both our countries as we are a prime export market for
Chinese goods, and so in turn U.S. companies would lose access to China's growing
middle class.
And then China,
a country who has now for all intents and purposes actually embraced capitalism, can always choose to rid itself of its
U.S. Treasuries which would negatively affect U.S. financial markets by its causing
so-called downward ‘shifts’ in the dollar or interest rates.
So where does
our economic upper hand really lie...it lies with the fact that as China’s economy
continues to develop no matter a temporary slowdown, they are now being forced
to pay their workers more which in turn sees low-cost manufacturing jobs leaving
China for even lower-cost countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh, and even (gasp) Mexico.
And as per The Washington Post, China has also exhausted most of what
economists call 'catch-up' growth
from acquiring the technologies of more advanced markets for as countries catch
up and get richer, their economic growth just tends to slow...and might I add
while our economic growth is finally moving forward instead of just holding
steady.
So how and
why does all this affect China’s sudden cooperation in reigning in North Korea’s
man-child Kim Jong-un...or at least their trying to. First, China is North Korea’s chief economic so-called ‘pipeline’ and that means they supply Kim Jong-un with the
oil and coal needed to keep his country operational, meaning if said oil and coal
is not supplied then the North Korean economy...no matter how unstable it
already is...would totally collapse in full.
Second, if
that collapse did happen the Kim family dynasty would obviously come to an end,
which in turn could lead to a unified Korea (which by the way will eventually happen)
led by the South, which is home to tens of thousands of American soldiers
sitting right on China’s border. And lastly, that would be coupled with
countless numbers of refugees from the north flooding into China which would negatively
impact their economy...that is unless beneficial economic trade agreements were
reached between Beijing and Washington...trade agreements that would bring into
China enough cash to balance out all the new mouths they would now be forced to
feed.
And how does
this new cooperation in turn affect the U.S...it allows the U.S. to have leverage
over both any new trade agreements reached as the Chinese now know they need
the increased trade and resulting cash flow in case Kim Jong-un does the
unthinkable...as in turn on the so-called Chinese hand that feeds them. And
that possibility is now starting to loom large what with China now doing what
Kim Jong-un never thought they would do...as in suspend all imports of North
Korean coal for the rest of this year.
So in the
end when push comes to shove, China does need us more than we need them for the
dollar is indeed mightier than Kim Jong-un’s ever threatening sword.
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*Number facts cited
from Real Money, The Washington Post, and The Balance
Copyright © 2017 Diane
Sori / The Patriot Factor
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