These Fourth Turnings sure are interesting.
Several hundred opponents of a far-reaching trade pact with China occupied Taiwan’s legislature late on Tuesday, further delaying action on a measure that Beijing strongly favors. The protesters burst into the legislative chamber, knocking down a large metal gate in the process, and used chairs to block police from entering the building.
“These Fourth Turnings sure are interesting.”
“Yats”, the Nazi in Kiev, the pencil-necked little bureaucratic lickspittle unelected puppet of the western backed global finance mafia has ordered Ukranian troops to shoot to kill as of today.
Biden, our own pencil-necked faggotfuk fascist was in Poland yesterday saying the USA (we’re #1, oh yeah!!) is considering sending troops for war games in the Baltic states bordering Russia. Un-goddamn-fucking-believable.
Catelonia stll wants to secede.
Scotland will be voting this September to part ways with the Brits.
And here’s something I bet you don’t know. VENICE is voting to leave the Eye Talians! “Voting has begun in Venice and the surrounding region on whether to break away from Italy.”
————– http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26604044
I’m not sure if I’m intrigued or terrified at the changes going on world wide. The world governments and borders have never been stable, constantly changing, but the world has never had so many crazy “leaders” with nukes before either.
That includes America as well.
Our leaders are exhibiting all the signs of a empire in it’s last days, trying to be the big dog in a new neighborhood. Must be difficult to be considered insignificant to the rest of the world when you want the world to look to your leadership for stability, and if they get any attention at all it’s to tell them to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
So to “prove” we are still a big dog to be feared, will our leaders strike first?
Sure seems to be a lot of turmoil everywhere. I don’t know, maybe you do, but in the late 30’s was it a global rumbling too?
” …. but in the late 30′s was it a global rumbling too?” ———–Tommy
Late ’30’s? The only one here qualified to talk about that, because he was in his late twenties at the time, is SSS.
General John McCain Strikes Again!
by David Stockman • March 19, 2014
In response to the growing tension around the Ukraine, General McCain has apparently been scouring the map of eastern Europe for former Soviet satellites and vassals that have not yet joined NATO. Behold, he found some! The following is from his 11 point plan:
“Work within NATO to take all necessary steps that can prepare for the expansion of the alliance to include countries such as Georgia and Montenegro as soon as possible.”
Just what I was thinking: a military alliance with a tract of land that is home to a complete sample of all the warring peoples of the Balkans including: 278,000 Montenegrins; 178,000 Serbs; 6,000 Croats; 21,000 Muslins; 54,000 Bosniaks; 30,000 Albanians; 5,000 Romani; 900 Macedonians; and 31,000 others who won’t say.
Never mind that its GDP is only $5 billion or 0.0003% of the US. General McCain is thinking deep amidst the fog of war.
Tommy:
Germany experienced the Reichstag Fire in 1933
The Italians invaded Ethiopia in 1935
The Spanish fought a Civil War from 1936–1939
The Japanese invaded China in 1937
The Japanese invaded the Soviet Union and Mongolia in 1938
Yeah, the whole world was going to hell in the 1930s, with some of the craziest leaders the world has ever seen. The U.S. was still in the middle of the Great Depression, as described here:
Together, government and business spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. On the other hand, consumers, many of whom had suffered severe losses in the stock market the previous year, cut back their expenditures by ten percent. Likewise, beginning in mid-1930, a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the US.
By mid-1930, interest rates had dropped to low levels, but expected deflation and the continuing reluctance of people to borrow meant that consumer spending and investment were depressed.[13] By May 1930, automobile sales had declined to below the levels of 1928. Prices in general began to decline, although wages held steady in 1930; but then a deflationary spiral started in 1931. Conditions were worse in farming areas, where commodity prices plunged, and in mining and logging areas, where unemployment was high and there were few other jobs.
The decline in the US economy was the factor that pulled down most other countries at first, then internal weaknesses or strengths in each country made conditions worse or better. Frantic attempts to shore up the economies of individual nations through protectionist policies, such as the 1930 U.S. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act and retaliatory tariffs in other countries, exacerbated the collapse in global trade. By late 1930, a steady decline in the world economy had set in, which did not reach bottom until 1933.
In other words, the financial crisis in the U.S. led to many of the economic problems experienced abroad, although global trade was less ubiquitous then.
Thinker…I hope no one brings up the crap about war got us out of the Depression .
Tommy, read: The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon it is about the 30’s and all the unrest in the world. Yes I do believe WWIII is just around the corner.
Buckhed, you’re right. In fact, the economy was “recovering” as early as 1933 (sound familiar?). There’s one theory that states recovery really began to take off when unrest in the rest of the world caused a huge “flight to safety” to the U.S., particularly once the dollar was devalued. We didn’t get involved in the war until 1941 – 42. We didn’t really start our military buildup until the Germans captured Paris in 1940.
One can be sure an over-leveraged ( understatement of the century)China is watching the Ukraine /Crimea situation with intense interest for an anemic, blabbering no show Sam.
Thus the game is played….Welcome back , bitchez…any assets up for nationalizing?