THE MANUFACTURING GAP: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

    While the American public is eagerly awaiting MSNBC's and Fox News' exposure of all of the lurid sexual details surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's secret files---as if anything in there was any great secret---some apparently have been amusing themselves by shutting down Government offices with fake bomb threats and swatting their political opponents. I would guess that the frustration that threat of Jihadi terrorist attacks haven't materialized is starting to wear on the public mind, so many are creating their own dramas. Meanwhile, in the exceptional United States, the City of Portland, Oregon is suffering an outbreak of Shigellosis, a disease which Wikipedia says "is usually the cause of epidemics of dysentery, particularly in confined populations such as refugee camps." 

   Chinese weather-balloons are also making the news again, this time in Taiwan just 10 days before the Taiwanese Elections: what a coincidence. Now, naturally the US Deep State is totally disinterested and unbiased in the Taiwanese Elections, there are absolutely no Wall Street vested interests involved in the outcome. 

    Those big meanies in Beijing were at it again today complaining that the Junta's emissary to the Japanese Empire---apparently forgetting the disastrous New Years Day earthquake there---took to social media instead to pounce on an ongoing territorial dispute between China and Japan. Former Obama henchman Rahm Emmanuel made his remarks---once again coincidentally, we reiterate---just days after the news broke that China had surpassed Tesla as the world's leader in Electronic Vehicle technology. 

    As Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel's top donor was that great Conservative hero, Elon Musk. Shortly after Emmanuel's election, he awarded a contract to Musk to electrify the City's transportation system. This, coincidentally, follows a similar pattern: Musk was also a top donor to Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democrat Washington Governor Jay Inslee; both of whom announced State transitions to electric vehicles by 2035. Likewise, former Democrat Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak was one of Musk's top recipients and suddenly Tesla got a grant to build a new factory outside Las Vegas. Sisolak has since gone on to Chicago, where he now works for the Deep-State connected Pritzker Family. 

    

    The widening technology gap between the US and China is another entirely of our own making. From the 1990s onward, both Republicans and Democrats engaged in a deliberate policy of deindustrialization as entire manufacturing sectors were outsourced and shipped overseas. The 'experts' and the pundits assured us all that Big Tech was our future; that we no longer needed an agricultural or industrial base in the New American Century; that American technological superiority could never be challenged, etc. As usual, they were wrong: today we have rotted-out cities and high unemployment to show for it.

   Both the Trump Administration and the Biden/Harris Junta have attempted to bring manufacturing back to the United States, but both are finding it easier said than done. Manufacturing requires skilled labor and skilled management and a well-developed distribution infrastructure---and the US no longer has these things. There are really only two options left for us: either give up the policy of 'containment' and start working with foreign countries in free and fair trade; or invest substantial sums in a nationwide Industrial Policy. 

  The odds of either of these things happening are not especially high: the political and commercial classes gain more traction by scapegoating and finger-pointing. The Whackos at the WEF imagine that AI and robotics will eliminate the need for troublesome things like workers. Not to worry, though, according to the same experts who told us that tech would replace industry: there will be plenty of manual labor and service-sector jobs created, and of course a demand for more bureaucrats and social workers to administer the New Order. Besides, cooperating with foreign powers or investing in American Infrastructure instead the Security State will make us look weak. It must always be remembered that when the sociopolitical and economic 'experts' talk about American interests, they mean the interests of the self-appointed New Aristocracy and the American people at large don't factor into their equations. To them, we are simply a herd to managed (or culled if necessary). This is why, for example, interference in the Taiwan Elections are more a priority than domestic outbreaks of diseases common to underdeveloped countries.