Who is listening?

July 17, 2021China, Espionage, Life
Who is listening?

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Who has access to our chats and conversations, and for how long?
What lists have our social network bots put us on, based on our online typing, audio and video conversations and our ‘like button’ activity?
“Why would it matter to me?” you ask. “I am a law abiding citizen.”

We always thought it was fine because we are “not doing anything illegal,” but that is changing in many countries with the introduction of new laws regarding basic human rights: curfews, mask laws, QR codes, PCR tests…. religious beliefs, travel history, contact with people, socializing in groups of more than X number of people, new kinds of paperwork for travel, new paperwork for going to the supermarket. These are all a reality now in some countries, and possibly very soon in your country.
–All of a sudden, actions that used to be normal, legal and accepted as a basic human rights have become crimes that might carry large fines, and the possibility of some form of incarceration, whether it be in a jail, a hotel, your home, your city, state or country, or perhaps being forbidden to return to the country you call home.

We need to think about what our current human rights are, and notice when any portion of these are taken away, and we need to notice it even if it is done so incrementally that it’s not in the news. They were not allowed to listen in on you before, but now they are.

New kinds of jails are being built. They are writing new rules for being able to keep you there.
Leading the way in the erosion of human rights is Australia.

The Australian government has introduced the new regulation that resets the clock on travelers being remanded in ‘quarantine facilities’ every time a new +ive case comes in. This is new, and it should be terrifying to the people, but they are behaving like live crabs in slowly warming water that has not yet boiled. Australians, watch your governments carefully. (Link at the end of this post)

New forms of surveillance such as QR codes to sign into restaurants and bars go into a database. Your PCR status is being recorded for posterity. In some countries the governments are tracking the movements of their citizens for the purposes of selective quarantine. We live in a (brave) new world and we don’t know what is coming.

In China they lock up and re-educate those with religious beliefs that go against party policy. All that stuff about organ harvesting, torture by gang rape etc. well that’s true.

In North Korea, if a citizen does not have a picture of Kim Jong-un on the wall of their house, they can be locked away, and so can their family members. Believing in God is illegal.

Why should we care about any of this? It does not concern us, or does it?

 

Thanks for dropping in.

China is the new England

July 17, 2021China, Espionage
China is the new England

Whenever I get into a cab with a driver from a country that was colonized by England, I always end up asking them about cricket, that funny unintelligible game that the English love to play at home and against its current colonies and its emancipated ones. We have all but forgotten the reign of the British Empire. Those ships roamed far and wide, conquering. These days, usually when a country invades, a war ensues but there has been a very quiet and gradual invasion going on.

China has been putting foreign governments in painful and humiliating ‘holds.’ We should be watching our respective politicians and business leaders with great suspicion and mistrust. Has your government sold something to China? A port perhaps? An airstrip? A thousand acres of land?

Politicians and businessmen from several countries in Africa have already mortgaged enormous resources. South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Angola, Ethiopia, and Nigeria have borrowed more money from China than they can could realistically have hoped to pay back. China’s share of the debt owed by the poorest countries to members of the G20 has risen from 45% in 2015 to 63% in 2019. Interest rates are often high and the loans are usually backed by the borrower’s resources and or infrastructure–railways, airports, bridges and buildings.

Of equal concern, the Chinese contracts increasingly include confidentiality clauses to avoid international oversight. China offers ‘terms’ simply put: “We’ll allow you leeway on the unpaid debt if you give us ‘X resource’ for 99 years.”

Australia has effectively sold its ports of Darwin, and Newcastle to China. How did that happen? Why did China want them? Is Melbourne’s port already sold? China now has a 30% stake in the port of Rotterdam. The port of Gvardar, Pakistan is now owned and operated by China. China has a 90% share in Brazilian port operator TCP Participações. Sri Lanka has handed over control of the port of Hambantota (and 15,000 acres) to China; 99 years again. Long after the Sri Lankan politicians left office after borrowing the money, the deficit budget is inherited by some other unfortunate politicians. We really have to watch the idiots we put into office.

The pattern of China’s rising new empire has emerged. Supply chains are being wrestled from the world’s hands. Epidemics of viruses help to weaken economies and open doors to make big moves and great deals. It’s like taking candy from a sick baby and it’s scared parents.

We, the people, are like the wife of the addicted gambler. If we turn a blind eye, it will all be gone and the mafia boss, China, will be there to catch us in its very strong arms.

We need to pay great attention.

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3 child policy will not work

July 17, 2021China, Surviving Spies
3 child policy will not work

China’s new “Three Child Policy” caused tittering in the 20-30 age group. For decades the Chinese government has enforced birth limits (of one or two children). Provincial governments could, and did, require the use of contraception, abortion, and sterilization to ensure compliance, and imposed enormous fines for violations. There was a scene in my second book, “Surviving Spies” which touched on the subject, and referred to real events. (Meet the sniper who went on a rampage).

After a period of famine and champion baby making across China, the Chinese communist party nipped the problem in the bud with razor-sharp secateurs.

Watch this interview. They seem to agree that children are expensive, and that the aging population is going to be a significant burden, economically. The rearing of three children would be financially achievable by perhaps the top 5% of the population, according to these interviewees.

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