To the extent anyone can know anything behind that curtain, I get the impression that rumor might have fizzled? All flights stopping was an interesting touch, maybe we learn something as people take inventory of who’s gone missing
Good questions being asked here Amy, big picture stuff. The 'war on terror' was never about terrorist attacks. It was about us. Now we can slowly but surely be branded as 'domestic terrorists' and 'extremists' for merely dissenting and not embracing the ideologies.
China is the pinnacle of psy-ops, state sponsored propaganda, and boots stomping on faces. The truth will out, although it's nigh impossible for us to draw reasonable conclusions from afar. Please do share any nuggets you come across from the sources you follow whom are based in China.
I've seen all the clips of the so-called 'big whites' - the government employees wearing the PPE gear hazmat suits, herding the masses into detention centers, and forced testing etc. Still to this day, admittedly, I do not know what it all means and what they are really doing.
The reported power struggles within the CCP are fascinating and I hope we shall learn more about its true nature in time.
One thing that has taken my interest in recent days is rural China. My daughter watched some survivalist video with me and my husband some days ago. He was sure from their language that they were in China close to the border with Myanmar. I read that 60 percent of the population is rural yet you never hear about them and they are not counted. The one dissident account I was following who was leaking a ton of videos is gone now. The farang in China are tight lipped often though my Shanghai based writer for the economist posted some interesting tidbits about the drop in domestic flights and the mass exodus of foreigners living in China. I can't say for sure but they have a history of culling and I think it's ongoing right now
Interesting and frightening in equal measure. I've had friends who lived there and they were always hesitant to be too vocally critical about the CCP, even via conversations on encrypted chat apps. Ask them about the social credit score system (which they *must* have had themselves) and they'd joke that they have no idea what their score is, and that the CCP probably has a huge dossier on them...
I would love to hear your thoughts about the controversial '24 September 2022' topic.
It was triggered by the remark of the German Finance Minister early September that 'everybody would remember where he/she was on 24 September' (akin to the 9-11 attacks).
Even Neil Oliver - the UK coast guy - posted a tweet on the 23th "Deep breath, everyone .. here we go ...".
Many responded to that tweet that he had fallen for a hoax and that this was once again a conspiracy-theory driven End of the World prediction.
Others saw it as an omen of:
- the coming Rapture / Jewish calendar indicating end of a 9-year cycle
- melt-down of the stock-markets (although 24 Sept was a Saturday with stock-markets closed)
- an asteroid destroying life on earth
etc.
Of course in hindsight there will always have happened 'something' on 24 September, and the alleged House-Arrest of XI Jin Ping might be explained like this if it leads to a Chinese military escalation.
But we are already the 26h today in this part of the world, so more than 1 day has passed and it's unlikely that I missed an event of such magnitude that I would forever recall where I was when hearing about it.
I heard about the 24 September one and took a wait and see approach it's now passed the 24th everywhere on Earth. The Xi Jumping one was trending but disappeared quickly. I'm missing witness accounts in Beijing as most of the people in China I follow are in Shanghai. Curiously two: both Chinese Nationals one who was leaking some of the most in depth and prolific videos on the ground had their accounts taken down. I'm real curious about Russia mobilizing all of their military age men too. If something big went down it's too soon for me to tell. What I do see that gives me optimism is it is extremely difficult and expensive to maintain a lie with force alone. You need a large amount of the population to go along with it and police their own. That seems to be falling away by the day
Xi’s Absence From Public Eye Ahead of Third Term Bid Sets Rumors Flying (Source – ET); “By Sept. 24, Xi Jinping had become one of the top trending topics on Twitter. His name appeared on hashtags more than 42,000 times and the term “China coup” circulated 9,300 rounds on the platform.
China analyst Gordon Chang deemed a coup unlikely, pointing to the lack of supporting evidence on the ground.
“I don’t think there was a coup,” he told The Epoch Times. “Because if there were a coup, we would see, for instance, a lot of military vehicles in the center of Beijing. There have been no reports of that. Also, there probably would be a declaration of martial law that has not occurred.”
Gordon Chang: no signs & symptoms of a coup. Still, China’s Plebes are not happy. Housing is where Chinese Plebes put their life savings, as it is normally safer than China’s stock market, or China’s banks. Now, their life-savings are being obliterated by the 20+ year housing bubble pop, which they all thought could never happen. Will Engineer Xi end up paying the price? If not him, then who? This slow-motion housing crash is China’s version of a massive set of bank failures. Best of luck to China’s Plebes. The little people of every country need all the help we can get during this time.
My assumption is that there would be a lot of witnesses in Beijing of mass military movements and I have yet to see video of it. That said their housing market and demographics are imploding fast and a banking collapse might be in the cards. Half the lockdowns were likely about quelling unrest and putting the digital restrictions in place to keep people locked in. Chinese cities always looked like giant prison wards and I haven't changed my mind about it
To the extent anyone can know anything behind that curtain, I get the impression that rumor might have fizzled? All flights stopping was an interesting touch, maybe we learn something as people take inventory of who’s gone missing
Good questions being asked here Amy, big picture stuff. The 'war on terror' was never about terrorist attacks. It was about us. Now we can slowly but surely be branded as 'domestic terrorists' and 'extremists' for merely dissenting and not embracing the ideologies.
China is the pinnacle of psy-ops, state sponsored propaganda, and boots stomping on faces. The truth will out, although it's nigh impossible for us to draw reasonable conclusions from afar. Please do share any nuggets you come across from the sources you follow whom are based in China.
I've seen all the clips of the so-called 'big whites' - the government employees wearing the PPE gear hazmat suits, herding the masses into detention centers, and forced testing etc. Still to this day, admittedly, I do not know what it all means and what they are really doing.
The reported power struggles within the CCP are fascinating and I hope we shall learn more about its true nature in time.
One thing that has taken my interest in recent days is rural China. My daughter watched some survivalist video with me and my husband some days ago. He was sure from their language that they were in China close to the border with Myanmar. I read that 60 percent of the population is rural yet you never hear about them and they are not counted. The one dissident account I was following who was leaking a ton of videos is gone now. The farang in China are tight lipped often though my Shanghai based writer for the economist posted some interesting tidbits about the drop in domestic flights and the mass exodus of foreigners living in China. I can't say for sure but they have a history of culling and I think it's ongoing right now
Interesting and frightening in equal measure. I've had friends who lived there and they were always hesitant to be too vocally critical about the CCP, even via conversations on encrypted chat apps. Ask them about the social credit score system (which they *must* have had themselves) and they'd joke that they have no idea what their score is, and that the CCP probably has a huge dossier on them...
Oh Amy, this one is SOOOO good! That tweet! How perfect!
Love your mind, your way of seeing through all of this BS. Excellent!
Godspeed, Joy
Hi Amy,
I would love to hear your thoughts about the controversial '24 September 2022' topic.
It was triggered by the remark of the German Finance Minister early September that 'everybody would remember where he/she was on 24 September' (akin to the 9-11 attacks).
Even Neil Oliver - the UK coast guy - posted a tweet on the 23th "Deep breath, everyone .. here we go ...".
Many responded to that tweet that he had fallen for a hoax and that this was once again a conspiracy-theory driven End of the World prediction.
Others saw it as an omen of:
- the coming Rapture / Jewish calendar indicating end of a 9-year cycle
- melt-down of the stock-markets (although 24 Sept was a Saturday with stock-markets closed)
- an asteroid destroying life on earth
etc.
Of course in hindsight there will always have happened 'something' on 24 September, and the alleged House-Arrest of XI Jin Ping might be explained like this if it leads to a Chinese military escalation.
But we are already the 26h today in this part of the world, so more than 1 day has passed and it's unlikely that I missed an event of such magnitude that I would forever recall where I was when hearing about it.
I heard about the 24 September one and took a wait and see approach it's now passed the 24th everywhere on Earth. The Xi Jumping one was trending but disappeared quickly. I'm missing witness accounts in Beijing as most of the people in China I follow are in Shanghai. Curiously two: both Chinese Nationals one who was leaking some of the most in depth and prolific videos on the ground had their accounts taken down. I'm real curious about Russia mobilizing all of their military age men too. If something big went down it's too soon for me to tell. What I do see that gives me optimism is it is extremely difficult and expensive to maintain a lie with force alone. You need a large amount of the population to go along with it and police their own. That seems to be falling away by the day
Kevin Sorbo's birthday was on the 24th. I just figured it was going to be a really big thing.
China: https://peakprosperity.com/a-huge-dollar-rally-and-a-tipping-point/?vgo_ee=V2DsatKV7STEjJIxirmRSw%3D%3D (Dave Fairtex has a good read on lots of things)
Xi’s Absence From Public Eye Ahead of Third Term Bid Sets Rumors Flying (Source – ET); “By Sept. 24, Xi Jinping had become one of the top trending topics on Twitter. His name appeared on hashtags more than 42,000 times and the term “China coup” circulated 9,300 rounds on the platform.
China analyst Gordon Chang deemed a coup unlikely, pointing to the lack of supporting evidence on the ground.
“I don’t think there was a coup,” he told The Epoch Times. “Because if there were a coup, we would see, for instance, a lot of military vehicles in the center of Beijing. There have been no reports of that. Also, there probably would be a declaration of martial law that has not occurred.”
Gordon Chang: no signs & symptoms of a coup. Still, China’s Plebes are not happy. Housing is where Chinese Plebes put their life savings, as it is normally safer than China’s stock market, or China’s banks. Now, their life-savings are being obliterated by the 20+ year housing bubble pop, which they all thought could never happen. Will Engineer Xi end up paying the price? If not him, then who? This slow-motion housing crash is China’s version of a massive set of bank failures. Best of luck to China’s Plebes. The little people of every country need all the help we can get during this time.
My assumption is that there would be a lot of witnesses in Beijing of mass military movements and I have yet to see video of it. That said their housing market and demographics are imploding fast and a banking collapse might be in the cards. Half the lockdowns were likely about quelling unrest and putting the digital restrictions in place to keep people locked in. Chinese cities always looked like giant prison wards and I haven't changed my mind about it
Amy: This is what's going on in China. Now.
https://youtu.be/vPRDLqggwQU