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Tammy's avatar

I work very closely with service member families and they would tell me awful stories about things being broken, water contaminated by fuel, etc. I had one family who couldn’t even go downstairs because it was covered in ants. I asked her to speak with efmp or housing and she said she has and they had tried so many different methods to get rid of them and they couldn’t.

I have an active duty service member in a hotel for a month with his family, already pcs’d and no house ready for him. Stuff like this makes me so ill.

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Janet Torres's avatar

You are my favorite source for anything military. Thank you 💙

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Martial Arts and the US Economy

One of the principle tenets in martial arts is that one uses the opponents energy to defeat them using passivity as a strength

China since 1982 after Mao's death began a restructuring of their approach to their economy and part of the plan was to amass gold and silver seeing that the West had decided to go the way of fiat currency allowing governments to create large amounts of fiscal debt China saw that some bimetallic standard was necessary to back their national currency, the yuan So it has gone for 4 decades of increasing both gold and silver to huge amounts now totaling 30K+ tonnes of gold

Now China is poised to open up exchanges in Saudia Arabia and Hong Kong where the yuan and gold will be interchangeable This is coupled with opening up ASEAN trade agreements

China is the second largest holder of US debt in the form of Treasuries(bonds) and they could potentially ransack the US economy by simply large swathes of their holdings But they didn't

all this to undermine the dollar as the global reserve currency....a distinct advantage to the US economy....which if lost would precipitate an economic crisis Add to this the debt trap the US is in currently with a ballooning deficit with Cheeto's tax bill for the uberwealthy But China didn't have to do anything All they did was allow the US to implode on its own and use that energy for the final destructive blow to the US economy

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