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East_Calling retweeted
So I have to really thank my new friends that I’ve met twice now in Beijing.
I’ve been introduced to a number of very delicious and interesting teas, and this one is incredible.
This is Xiao Qing Gan (小青柑), also known as Ganpu (柑普茶)—a specialty tea where ripe Pu'er tea is stuffed inside the hollowed-out peel of a small, immature green mandarin orange .
🍊 What Exactly Is It?
· The Outer Shell: The peel comes from small green mandarins (often from Xinhui, Guangdong), which are harvested early and sun-dried to become the outer container .
· The Inner Tea: The inside is filled with ripe Pu'er tea from Yunnan Province .
☕ Flavor & Brewing
The combination creates a unique taste. The Pu'er is mellow and earthy, while the citrus peel adds a fresh, tangy, and sweet aroma . The peel is believed to have health benefits in traditional Chinese culture .
To brew it, you can crack the mandarin open by pressing it with both thumbs, then take out some tea leaves and a few small pieces of the peel. It's best steeped with boiling water (100°C), and it's recommended to give it a quick rinse first before your first proper brew .
🇨🇳🇺🇸In China I was able to meet with some diplomats and businessmen from various African countries who were staying in my hotel.
They were there for Agriculture conferences in Beijing.
We got into big discussions about the state of the world economy, the wars and they stated saying, “you can’t be from the United States, because you think more like us”.
Interesting indictment of how Americans typically think (focus on the elections yesterday: Americans voted for Trump to fix the economy and end wars, 2 years and we are still there. So Americans vote against Trump for not doing what he said he would do— they didn’t look at California and suddenly say that that’s what they wanted🤣.)
🇰🇪Back home in Texas, my neighbor is from Kenya and in IT. He had an interesting observation: when he goes to Kenya, he sees how China has TRANSFORMED his birth nation’s roads and infrastructure— he considers it a miracle transformation.
He also travels to India and his comment: “India should ask China to build their highways.”
Observationally, that is why BRICS and all the alternative banking-for-infrastructure projects that are rapidly coming into existence. That’s why no one wants to be part of the IMF and World Bank system, that’s why multipolarity.
Europe and the USA only partially get it at the level of the population.
Leadership doesn’t get it at all. We get the leadership that reflects the population.
So we have to educate the population quickly.
East_Calling retweeted
Today is October 26 on the old church calendar — Saint Demetrios of Thessaloniki, the Great Martyr and Myrrh-streamer.
Demetrios was a young Roman commander, son of the proconsul of Thessaloniki, and Maximian trusted him enough to give him his father's post: defend the city from the barbarians outside, and wipe out the Christians inside. The order was simple — put to death anyone who calls on the name of Christ.
Demetrios took the post and did the opposite. He taught openly, and Thessaloniki started turning Christian under the very man sent to stop it.
When Maximian marched through the city after a campaign in the Black Sea, flushed with victory and ready to make an example of the Christians, Demetrios was brought before him. He didn't hedge. He confessed, denounced the idols, and told his servant Lupus to give his wealth to the poor — "we shall seek heavenly riches for ourselves."
Then he went to prison, to a damp cell under the baths, and prayed and fasted while he waited.
Maximian, meanwhile, staged public games in the city's amphitheater to celebrate his victory — gladiatorial combats and spectacles, with the whole city gathered to watch. His champion was Lyaios, a Vandal giant, a man who threw Christians onto a platform of upturned spears for sport. Nobody would face him.
A young Christian named Nestor slipped into the prison to ask Demetrios for his blessing. Demetrios signed the cross on his forehead and his heart and sent him out, like David against Goliath. Nestor walked into the arena, threw down his tunic, shouted "God of Demetrios, help me!" — and in the first rush, slipped aside and drove his dagger into the giant's heart.
Maximian flew into a rage. Nestor was beheaded outside the city. And at dawn on October 26, 306, soldiers came to Demetrios' cell and ran him through with lances, without a trial.
Lupus gathered up his blood-soaked garment and took the imperial ring from Demetrios' finger, dipping it in his blood. And from his relics myrrh began to flow — which is why he's called the Myrrh-streamer, and why Thessaloniki still keeps him as its patron.
Veneration of Demetrios in Rus' began right after the Baptism of Rus', and he became the soldier's saint — the protector of the army, of young men, of the defense of the country.
Russian soldiers believed they fought under his protection, and in the old barracks he was painted as one of their own.
It goes back to the very first pages of the Russian Primary Chronicle. When Oleg the Wise threatened Constantinople in 907, the Greeks were terrified and said, "This is not Oleg, but rather Saint Demetrios sent upon us from God."
The princes took his name as their own. Iziaslav of Kiev and Vsevolod of Vladimir were both baptized Demetrios, choosing him as their heavenly patron. And the most famous of them, Dmitry Donskoy, prayed to him before Kulikovo Field in 1380 — the first great Russian victory over the Golden Horde, the battle that rallied the nation around Moscow.
That is why Dmitry is still one of the most common Russian names, and why Demetrios is remembered in Russia not as a foreign saint, but as a patron of the Russian army and the Russian land.
East_Calling retweeted
The situation in Zaporizhzhia.
But the Ukrainians are claiming that it's an impregnable fortress and are placing their headquarters and command posts in shelters behind civilians.
As was recently the case in Kamyshevakha.
Let's make our bets, ladies and gentlemen, on how many more tearful stories we'll hear about how "bad" Russians are.
The Ukraine war’s end will mark the death of US-led Western hegemony.
Former US Army Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen says the war in Ukraine is one front in a broader international conflict that is aimed at preserving a world order once dominated by a global minority of Western powers, primarily the United States.
Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Cuba and Venezuela, together with tensions in Latin America, for example from the Trump administration's interference in Brazil’s presidential elections, and in East Asia with China, are all stemming from a desperate attempt to prop up the Western order. That order has prevailed for several centuries, with first the European powers and then the US taking over as the lead hegemon since the Second World War.
But that old order is failing and falling as a new multipolar order emerges, as illustrated by the growing importance of the BRICS, Eurasia, Africa, and, in general, the Global South. A world majority is more assuredly asserting itself, demanding equitable development based on win-win partnerships and mutual co-development in contrast to the exploitative Western order.
Earl Rasmussen also contends that the Western nations, as presently seen in France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, and other European states, are themselves undergoing popular revolts against their elitist ruling classes who are invested in the old order. The political crises in Western nations are due to the loss of moral authority of establishment parties. People can see their corruption and duplicity and how these parties are servants of corporate power, the Zionist lobby, the military-industrial complex, and so on.
The end of the Ukraine war will mark the end of Western hegemony. The US-led NATO proxy war is facing a historic defeat by Russia. Potentially, that outcome will lead more quickly to a fairer world order, one in which nations’ sovereignty and international law are actually respected for the mutual benefit of all.
It is up to the Western states to abandon their hegemonic policies and ambitions to finally live in peace with the world’s majority. The longer they persist in their arrogant assumptions of privilege and domination, the longer the violent transition. If the political system can’t adapt, then people power will have to deliver a new system.
FULL INTERVIEW: youtube.com/watch?v=SXOx6rsp…
East_Calling retweeted
Trump has taken us back to the 1950s.
Not in a good way, promoting economic development, but in the way that reinvigorates CIA-style “special operations,” and “covert actions.”
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President Donald Trump said Sunday (8 November) that a new task force is in place to disrupt land routes into Iran that the US military says are used for shipments of weapons and illicit materials.
(Who is running the administration?)
Would that rail link from China be a target?
This is unfortunately true. People voted for Trump to stop war and economic collapse. People just voted against Trump because of war and economic collapse.
But the Democrats have all been about war and the neoliberal polices that bring about economic collapse just as much as Trump and the Republicans.
East_Calling retweeted
Watch this smear campaign unfold in real time right before your eyes.
Not being fiercely anti-Chinese will cost him his company: he was reckless enough to let a “Beijing spy” get close to him (an accusation with no evidence whatsoever), he has a mistress (like many other CEOs of major tech companies before him), and so on.
If these accusations don’t hold up, others will follow.
This isn’t about morality, but about technological supremacy and total obedience to the narrative that China is the enemy.
In this interview, he explains that the U.S. policy of restricting sales of Nvidia products (and those of other brands) to China is a mistake.
(YOUR) Mistake: “You’re either with us or against us,” the Deep State reminds him today.
Other tech moguls in strategic sectors will soon have to toe the official line and actively demonstrate their loyalty.
This is the first salvo in the crackdown on American CEOs, who continue to invest heavily in China despite the official policy of “decoupling.”
He just put in a nutshell why America is currently the collapsing empire.
We don’t recognize that when other nations prosper their people and improve their security that it will improve our security.
We refuse to share in the idea of the benefits of all. We allow the financial elite of the US steal from developing countries.
We measure their “success” by how much their nation bends over and sacrifices more for our US elite’s gratification.
Huang is right. America should seek to cooperate when possible for mutual benefit.
The financial empire has not been brought to heel.
Watch this smear campaign unfold in real time right before your eyes.
Not being fiercely anti-Chinese will cost him his company: he was reckless enough to let a “Beijing spy” get close to him (an accusation with no evidence whatsoever), he has a mistress (like many other CEOs of major tech companies before him), and so on.
If these accusations don’t hold up, others will follow.
This isn’t about morality, but about technological supremacy and total obedience to the narrative that China is the enemy.
In this interview, he explains that the U.S. policy of restricting sales of Nvidia products (and those of other brands) to China is a mistake.
Mistake: “You’re either with us or against us,” the Deep State reminds him today.
Other tech moguls in strategic sectors will soon have to toe the official line and actively demonstrate their loyalty.
In 2022, I predicted in my book a global digital divide: countries in the Global South will soon have to choose between Western solutions (primarily American and Israeli, which have “bought up” everything there was to buy in the EU) and Chinese solutions.
This episode is meant to scare him. It could all end overnight if he submits. It will cost him only half his net worth in one of the high-profile divorces on the horizon.
This is the first salvo in the crackdown on American CEOs, who continue to invest heavily in China despite the official policy of “decoupling.”
Logically speaking, this witch hunt should soon cross the Atlantic.
East_Calling retweeted
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been called before Congress on Nov 18 for a closed-door briefing regarding his relationship with alleged Chinese intelligence asset according to unnamed “intelligence sources.”
But it’s totally ok to take money from the Adelsons.
East_Calling retweeted
Ukrainians are the firewood that we will throw into the stove of the anti-Russian rebellion.
—Lord Palmerston, prime minister of Great Britain, 1855–65
🇨🇦Canadian soldiers are complaining that residents of Daugavpils, Latvia, which is 50 km from the border with Russia, treat them poorly and sometimes even insult them.
According to NATO representatives, drones are increasingly flying over their positions, filming them.
Source: Военный обозреватель
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I still remember fight between NATO soldiers and hookers in Ventspils, Latvia (that is the coast of the Baltic sea) back in the beginning of 2000... People generally dislike NATO.
😂😂
East_Calling retweeted
🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD JUST HAPPENED
Japan has dumped $160 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries after its stock market crashed 8% in just a few hours.
This is the largest treasury sell-off in decades.
They've officially hit the PANIC button.
Japan is sitting on a massive ¥30 TRILLION in bond losses.
And it's getting worse by the minute.
Over ¥21,000,000,000,000 has been wiped from Japan's stock market today.
This is NOT a normal market correction.
Something much bigger is happening behind the scenes.
Japan is aggressively selling U.S. Treasuries to stabilize the yen and prevent a total collapse.
Meanwhile, its gold reserves have climbed to an ALL-TIME HIGH.
Japan is reducing its exposure to dollar-based assets while continuing to accumulate gold.
And there's a clear reason behind it.
Japan is fighting to protect its currency.
The Bank of Japan is deploying its enormous foreign exchange reserves.
And U.S. Treasuries remain one of the largest and most liquid assets available.
But Japan isn't alone.
China is following a remarkably similar strategy.
China continues reducing its U.S. Treasury holdings while its gold reserves reach new ALL-TIME HIGHS.
Two of the world's largest economies are now moving in the same direction.
→ Japan is dumping U.S. Treasuries
→ Japan is expanding its gold reserves
→ China is dumping U.S. Treasuries
→ China is expanding its gold reserves
This is a major shift away from traditional dollar-based reserves.
And it's not necessarily because countries don't want dollars.
It's because they have NO OTHER OPTION.
The AI bubble is collapsing, and foreign markets are dumping every day.
China's AI stocks have collapsed nearly 50% in 3 months.
And this will extend far beyond Japan and China.
Japan has to save its own market and defend the yen.
China also wants to save its own market and gain financial independence.
And GOLD is becoming a central part of both strategies.
This is where the situation becomes extremely dangerous.
If Japan continues selling Treasuries, additional pressure will build across bond markets.
And China's selling will add even more pressure.
→ Increasing Treasury liquidations
→ Growing pressure on U.S. bond markets
→ Aggressive currency intervention
→ Accelerating gold accumulation
→ Declining dependence on the U.S. dollar
Japan isn't deliberately trying to destroy global markets.
They're trying to prevent a much larger financial crisis.
But those actions will create consequences throughout the global financial system.
And if other economies adopt the same strategy, the pressure on the U.S. market will intensify.
This is how the biggest market crash in history starts.
First, gradually.
Then, all at once.
And we're watching it all in real time.
I've spent decades studying financial markets and have called nearly every market top and bottom.
And I'm warning you right now:
The 2026-2027 cycle will be life-changing for those who are prepared.
Make sure you're one of them.
Follow and turn on notifications NOW.
Because by the time everyone else realizes what's happening, it will already be too late.
🚨 THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST MARKET CRASH IN HISTORY
The warning signs are impossible to ignore.
1999 → Dot-com bubble → -78%
2007 → Housing bubble → -50%
2026 → AI bubble → -80%?
Different eras.
Different bubbles.
Same ending.
Every time, people believed every dip is for buying and the rally would last forever.
Every time, reality caught up.
Keep in mind:
I’ve spent 10+ years studying markets and calling tops and bottoms.
My next call will be posted here first.
Follow and turn on notifications before it’s too late.
Protect your capital.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Japan's Nikkei fell ~6% Nov 6 amid AI/tech selloff after US midterms, not an 8% hours-long crash with ¥21T wiped; no evidence supports claims of $160B US Treasury dump that day, ¥30T bond losses, or sudden coordinated gold surges by Japan/China.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/…
tradingeconomics.com/japan/gold-res…
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The head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, Rustem Umerov, will lead the Ukrainian delegation in the three-way talks in Abu Dhabi, according to advisor to President Zelenskyy, Dmytro Lytvyn.
He clarified that Kyrylo Budanov (who has been included on the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) will participate in the negotiations, but will not lead the delegation.
Earlier, Dmitry Peskov announced that the Russian delegation will be headed by Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky. Vladimir Putin discussed the upcoming three-way talks with members of the Security Council at today's meeting, confirming that they are scheduled to take place on November 10th.
❗️ "There are hundreds like this in Ukraine" - A map of torture sites in Ukraine has been published. A map has been published online showing the locations of four more places in Ukraine where forcibly mobilized men are subjected to torture:
Sumy region, Zapadinskaya Street, building 65; Kyiv region, Fastiv, Kyiv Street, building 67; Nikolaev, Otradny Lane, building 4; Chernihiv region, Bogushevicha Street, building 15.
🔻 These are the same illegal places of abuse as the torture site recently uncovered in Petropavlovka-Borshchagovka, near Kyiv. 🔻 When the head of Zelensky's office, Kirill Budanov (declared a terrorist in Russia), arrived there, trying to quell the unrest, he himself let slip that "there are many such places." Thus, he admitted that this is not "excesses at the local level," not "a single bad commander," but a state apparatus of torture.
🔻 Later, a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman named Sergei, codenamed "Kraken," admitted that there are at least a hundred such camouflaged concentration camps in Kyiv alone: in basements, deserters are brutally tortured, and their relatives are forced to pay bribes, otherwise they are sent to the most dangerous areas of the front.
🔻 Yulia Mendel, former press secretary to Zelensky, reported to the Bundestag yesterday that the amount of bribes to avoid being sent to the front lines is $30,000 per person. This is one of the sources of illegal income for the corrupt leadership of Ukraine.
❗Ukrainian "torture centers" bring Kyiv's regime $7.2 billion per year, according to Alexander Dubinsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, who stated this in his Telegram channel.
"It's all the same as with the Nazis; their concentration camps were also designed for profit."
Earlier this week, a scandal erupted in Ukraine regarding "torture centers": approximately 40 people, including military personnel and mobilized individuals, were being held in the basement of a house in the village of Petro-Pavlovska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv. Clashes occurred between local residents and the police.
Source: Политнавигатор/ Вести
Mass strike by workers at the Audi plant in Germany. Protesters are demanding wage increases.
Over 400,000 workers in the metal and manufacturing industries have participated in protests across the country this week, according to local media. The core of the conflict: the IG Metall trade union is calling for a 5% annual wage increase, while companies are offering one-time payments and an indexation of 1.3% starting in 2028.
East_Calling retweeted
Could there be a Yalta2.0 in Shenzhen?
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"The historical analogy looks like this: the 🇺🇸United States today is reprising the role of Great Britain, attempting to maintain its global dominance; 🇨🇳China, like the USA at Yalta, seeks to sustain its transformation into a leading global power; and 🇷🇺Russia, like the USSR, requires Victory to ensure its own survival and sovereign development.
Consequently, the motives of the participants also differ."
- Sergei Glazyev
🤖 Made with AI
If the Democrats don’t impeach Donald Trump for the Iran war that his own advisors told him to stop, you know it’s business as usual.
It’s prettyclear: nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/po…
East_Calling retweeted
A potential trilateral meeting of the Russian, US, and Chinese leaders at the APEC summit may give a strong positive impetus to international relations, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large Marat Berdyev said.
"It is hard to disagree that it (the meeting of the Russian, US, and Chinese leaders - TASS) could send a powerful positive signal," he told the Izvestia daily.
According to Berdyev, "amid the challenging geopolitical situation in the world, provoked by Western globalist elites," such an impetus would be very useful.
"The key parameters of such a dialogue will need to be clarified through close preliminary consultations, in which China, as the host, will play a special role. However, in my view, a meeting of this scale will focus on the most pressing international challenges that require collective responses from the key global powers of today," he stressed.
Could there be a Yalta2.0 in Shenzhen?
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"The historical analogy looks like this: the 🇺🇸United States today is reprising the role of Great Britain, attempting to maintain its global dominance; 🇨🇳China, like the USA at Yalta, seeks to sustain its transformation into a leading global power; and 🇷🇺Russia, like the USSR, requires Victory to ensure its own survival and sovereign development.
Consequently, the motives of the participants also differ."
- Sergei Glazyev
East_Calling retweeted
My friends over at Ehang in Guangzhou have this amazing new advanced drone fire-fighting solution.
They will be producing more technical capabilities, but the company thinks the California fire departments would be very interested about this product.
Maybe even wildfires!
Here is the thing: This is part of what is known as "Low altitude economy"
The low-altitude economy soars as China's new growth engine.
Notably, the global expansion of China's low-altitude sector has shifted from simple product exports to delivering a comprehensive package of its technology, standards, infrastructure and business models.
The popularity of China's low-altitude economy products is closely tied to its increasingly sophisticated industrial chain. This is particularly evident in the UAV sector, where China has a complete and cost-competitive industrial chain, allowing for rapid responses to international market demands.
The seventh China Helicopter Exposition witnessed the signing of 21 aviation industry projects.
The low-altitude economy will boost the entire industrial chain, advance multidimensional transport and logistics systems, and facilitate more efficient flow of production factors, injecting new momentum into China and the global economy.
@ehang @LIFTAircraft
Followup on the Canton Fair in @Guangzhou_City
After the fair I had a chance to visit E-Town (The Beijing Economic Technological Development Area).
This area is the brainchild of the mayor-- who happens to be a PhD engineer.
We got to get in there and see how the autonomous driving programs are created--- and it is EXACTLY how it should work: the city builds ALL THE SENSORS and EXPENSIVE TECH into the city infrastructure--- that way the the companies who are building EVs or autonomous driving don't have to do it--- thus their cars can be cheaper but better because the company gets to focus on the thing that makes their innovation worth using.
Contrast to WayMo which has all the tech ON THE CAR.
Therefore the per-unit cost of each vehicle is MORE.
An ounce of government participation, yields a pound of private initiative and enterprise.
Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area is also called Beijing E-Town.
It is the only national-level economic-technological development area in Beijing and an important window for reform and opening up of the capital city.
It's about 250 sq km of cool technological developments!
Four key industries lead the way in innovation, namely the next-generation IT, high-end automobiles and new-energy vehicles, biotech, health and wellness, as well as robotics and smart manufacturing.
The area brings together more than 26,000 corporations from over 40 countries and regions with a total investment of exceeding $100 billion.
Mercedes Benz, GE, Bayer and altogether over 90 Fortune 500 companies have invested in more than 130 projects.
#VisitChina @guangzhou_daily
Ukraine is unlikely to be able to regain the territories lost during the conflict with Russia. This statement was made by the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte.
The head of the North Atlantic Alliance also expressed confidence that such conflicts always end with the conclusion of a peace agreement, which implies a certain compromise.
As a reminder, the conditions for ending the Ukrainian conflict will be discussed in a trilateral format on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. The Russian delegation will be headed by Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky.
East_Calling retweeted
🇺🇸🐘🫏A good provocative election thread here.
@ZaharisJason makes the point that unfortunately can also be said about the Republican Party in a slightly different fashion:
The political parties in the United States are both mouthpieces for the same Epstein class criminals.
There was a reason Franklin Roosevelt was called a traitor to his class.
🔥🚬He was well aware that his maternal grandfather, Warren Delano Jr. chief of operations for Russell & Company in China, where he made a large fortune in the opium trade.
🇬🇧He was well aware and said as much, that his cousin Teddy Roosevelt was in league with the Anglo-American banking establishment—-
— it wasn’t tangentially, it was direct.
— FDR knew that his family was the family of treason: Theodore Roosevelt’s uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch was a high-level Confederate States of the US intelligence agent stationed in London!
Franklin Roosevelt stood up against it all. Henry A. Wallace, who was vice president end supposed to replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the next president was edged out by the treason faction. He was critical to improving agriculture and industry in America.
Trump said he was gonna do the same thing. He was going to be his version of the same battle for Americans and against the establishment. He was for the underdog.
This is the reason why Donald Trump has such low support in the population. But it’s also the reason why the US Congress has the lowest support across the board in history.
Trump didn’t do it and the Democrats are even worse.
(by the way, there’s a very good film in 1997 called the Opium War that was produced in China 🇨🇳 )
So this is a good intro and then follow the rest of the threads:
🇺🇸🧵 PROGRESSIVES USE FDR’S NEW DEAL AS PROOF VOTING WORKS — IT’S ACTUALLY PROOF TO THE CONTRARY
The Lies and Deceit of the Liberal
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for their respective seats in Congress on populist messaging of creating an economy that benefits all Americans, rather than the interests of a wealthy few, while dialing back American militarism abroad. Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York City.
Instead, Bernie and AOC turned their back on healthcare activists during Force The Vote, crushed a railroad strike and became the most aggressive advocates of NATO expansion and genocide in Gaza, while Mamdani arrested pro-Palestine protestors and engaged in regime change propaganda against Venezuela and Cuba. Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton with zero concessions despite the 2016 primaries being rigged and Abdul El-Sayed engaged in war propaganda in Ukraine and Iran.
Betrayal after betrayal, the progressive left tells you that you must keep voting in order to “push the Democrats left.” However, every time, it seems that the DNC party machine and its network of corporate donors and NGOs always push the progressives in the direction that is most beneficial to their interests. Progressives run on populist messaging and then George Soros, Jamie Dimon and Alex Karp walk into the room.
Follow the thread 🧵 👇
🇺🇸🧵 PROGRESSIVES USE FDR’S NEW DEAL AS PROOF VOTING WORKS — IT’S ACTUALLY PROOF TO THE CONTRARY
The Lies and Deceit of the Liberal
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for their respective seats in Congress on populist messaging of creating an economy that benefits all Americans, rather than the interests of a wealthy few, while dialing back American militarism abroad. Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York City.
Instead, Bernie and AOC turned their back on healthcare activists during Force The Vote, crushed a railroad strike and became the most aggressive advocates of NATO expansion and genocide in Gaza, while Mamdani arrested pro-Palestine protestors and engaged in regime change propaganda against Venezuela and Cuba. Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton with zero concessions despite the 2016 primaries being rigged and Abdul El-Sayed engaged in war propaganda in Ukraine and Iran.
Betrayal after betrayal, the progressive left tells you that you must keep voting in order to “push the Democrats left.” However, every time, it seems that the DNC party machine and its network of corporate donors and NGOs always push the progressives in the direction that is most beneficial to their interests. Progressives run on populist messaging and then George Soros, Jamie Dimon and Alex Karp walk into the room.
Most importantly, though, the example that the progressive left will invoke to trick you into voting for Democrats is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, what they do not understand is that this example falls flat on its face when you realize that it is actually proof that voting absolutely does not work.
And the reason why is because change is not a result of the great man theory. It’s not a result of individual will on the part of one President or elected official. It’s a direct result of collective organization, discipline and working class pressure outside the structures of bourgeois democracy. FDR’s Administration was a product of the times he was in. Now this is by no means an attack on FDR because he achieved many victories for the working class and showed great leadership during the World War II. However, the facts of the New Deal must be taken seriously.
The New Deal was not a result of the fact that FDR came into the White House promising reform. In fact, Wall Street and big business were aggressively opposed to any reform despite the aftermath of the 1929 crash and Hoover’s disastrous hands-off approach to the Great Depression. The decisive factor that ultimately drove the victories of the New Deal (expanded rights for labor unions, wages, farm subsidies, Social Security, Glass-Steagall, public works) was the role of organized labor.
Most importantly, the struggle of organized labor for the reforms of the New Deal was not led by anyone inside the Democratic Party. It was led by none other than the Communist Party USA under Chairman William Z. Foster. In 1932, with Foster and James W. Ford on the ticket, the Communist Party had received its best result in its history as socialist and left-wing politics were now starting to become more popular in this new era of monopoly capitalism.
We witnessed it once with the turnout for Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party in 1912 and again with the results for Robert M. LaFollette in 1924. Slowly but ever so surely, the masses were becoming far more politically conscious and it was only a matter of time before a revolution was inevitable. In 1932, Foster had just written his book Toward Soviet America which outlined the goals of the Communist Party. And as the Great Depression unraveled, FDR had proved to be the one person standing between the capitalist class on one side and the working masses with their torches and pitchforks on the other.
East_Calling retweeted
so I guess we are going to rename the "Gulf of America" back to the "Gulf of Mexico" 😂
East_Calling retweeted
🇺🇸It’s time for America to realize that the biggest enemy we have is not outside our borders.
🇨🇳America’s biggest enemy is not China.
🇷🇺America’s biggest enemy is not Russia.
🇮🇷America’s biggest enemy is not, most definitely, is not Iran.
America’s biggest enemy is the transnational financial establishment ensconced in our financial and policy-making centres.
It’s time to return to the good neighbor policy.
It’s time to focus inwardly and fix ourselves.
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🇨🇳🇺🇸In China I was able to meet with some diplomats and businessmen from various African countries who were staying in my hotel.
They were there for Agriculture conferences in Beijing.
We got into big discussions about the state of the world economy, the wars and they stated saying, “you can’t be from the United States, because you think more like us”.
Interesting indictment of how Americans typically think (focus on the elections yesterday: Americans voted for Trump to fix the economy and end wars, 2 years and we are still there. So Americans vote against Trump for not doing what he said he would do— they didn’t look at California and suddenly say that that’s what they wanted🤣.)
🇰🇪Back home in Texas, my neighbor is from Kenya and in IT. He had an interesting observation: when he goes to Kenya, he sees how China has TRANSFORMED his birth nation’s roads and infrastructure— he considers it a miracle transformation.
He also travels to India and his comment: “India should ask China to build their highways.”
Observationally, that is why BRICS and all the alternative banking-for-infrastructure projects that are rapidly coming into existence. That’s why no one wants to be part of the IMF and World Bank system, that’s why multipolarity.
Europe and the USA only partially get it at the level of the population.
Leadership doesn’t get it at all. We get the leadership that reflects the population.
So we have to educate the population quickly.
🇺🇸🇨🇳On October 26, 2026 in Beijing, China I was very happy to be honored to have a discussion with a group of PhD students and Professors on how we can improve relations between the people of China and the people of the United States.
We met at the Communication University of China.
What a sense of kindness and humor-- we were presented with the "finisher" medal won by "Lightning"--- the robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, that blazed through the 13-mile race in just 50 minutes, 26 seconds, besting all 12,000 human competitors and even surpassing the human world record for a half-marathon, set by Ugandan long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon last month, by nearly seven minutes.
