CHIPS and Dips

The Shadow Presidency and the Oligarchy

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This piece is the sixth entry in the ongoing Badlands Media China series, which started with ‘Taiwan Tipping’ and continued with ‘Tigers and Flies,’ ‘The Two Chinas,’ ‘Empire’s Enigma’ and ‘Mirror, Mirror,’ and is best read following those features.

For those who’ve been following my writing for any length of time—and particularly those following my ongoing explorations of both China and Russia—you will know that I have a fascination with what I refer to as Potential Events.

Potential Events do not refer to ‘almost’ events or ‘false’ events, but rather events that take place in the realm of the Narrative. Virtually everything the Media Industrial Complex deploys on behalf of their Deep State, systemic masters is a Narrative or Potential Event, while counters from Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and many of the other political figures and thought leaders we track in the Information War fall along the same lines.

While the terms, ‘potential’ and ‘narrative’ sometimes provoke a feeling within the reader that these events are somehow less important than Actual Events/occurrences, I have long argued that nothing could be further from the truth.

Potential Events originate within the realm of the mind, and are deployed either in service of or in opposition to the Collective Mind of American—even world—society, which is the ultimate prize sought by both Globalists in the System of Systems and patriots within what I refer to as the Sovereign Alliance standing in opposition to them. We are in the midst of a Fifth-Generation War for the very psyche of humanity, and that war is being fought on many fronts simultaneously, at different layers of reality itself.

There is nothing magical or pseudo-science about that. Narrative deployments and Media blitzes are as much weapons of war as kinetic deployments; it’s how [they] managed to infiltrate every institution and administration in world governments in order to seize the levers of power, corrupt our financial systems and begin the slow, steady and insidious process of subverting sovereign culture in the west in service to the faceless, formless, obedient collective they’d like to convert humanity into.

As we have explored in previous entries in this budding series, perhaps no land has seen more systemic, unrelenting subversion than China, with its people largely being subjugated and controlled as a communist-dominated society that puts its focus on the system at the expense of the sovereign.

Sovereignty may be innate in the heart and soul of Man, but it is not ubiquitous with all societies. That said, I believe that the Great Awakening is global, and while I do believe the American experiment is returning to the spotlight, and may yet become the metaphorical city on the hill when it comes to shining a beacon of hope and light for liberty to the rest of the world once again, there are moves taking place throughout the world to that end, leading me to believe that we will be joined by many more sovereigns than we could possibly imagine.

And, while many of these battles for sovereignty are being fought on a Potential and Narrative level, those I have been digging into regarding the Chinese theater in the Shadow War find far more data points in the realm of the real, with Actual Events abounding that suggest a decoupling between our two economies in a way that, while painful in the interim—beginning with the lockdowns of the COVID era—will ultimately serve as a powerful mechanism for positive change when it comes to international trade agreements and therefore sovereignty and freedom.

Of course, the prospect that I would argue lockdowns and their ensuing trade disruptions could result in one of the most accelerated positive changes to world trade and monetary systems than we have seen in modern history carries with it both disconcerting and scintillating implications regarding just how long various ‘plans’ have been in the works, and by whom.

But I’ll save that particular rabbit hole for another time.

Today, I’d like to focus on a few Actual data points that seem to fly in the face of the ubiquitous idea that consumes this community that Joe Biden, the Pretender-in-Chief is a Globalist puppet of Chinese masters, while also suggesting that said masters may have been brought to heel in a more overt manner than purely Narrative engagement with the Information War would have you believe.

In previous entries in my deep dive on China, both its systems and its leadership, I have explained that Xi Jinping’s actions and nationalist words paint a different picture of the man and his aims than what liberal AND conservative figures in the west would suggest. In place of a domineering and collectivist heir to the Maoist empire of blood, Xi has seemingly waged war on the ‘tigers and flies’ of the Chinese oligarchy, which may as well be a dragon-blooded aristocracy that traces its insidious and daunting origins and power structures all the way back to the Ming Dynasty and beyond.

In short, when it comes to rooting out institutionalized corruption, it is fair and accurate to suggest that sovereigns would have their work cut out for them when it comes to China, even in comparison to the corruption we have seen infesting the west and our own lands, which also suggests that moves made to destabilize these Globalist power structures would have to be as impactful and far-reaching as they are carefully managed.

For I would argue that the Chinese oligarchy shares much more than common interests with the American, Russian and European oligarchies. I would suggest that they are one in the same, and that, in the place of family bloodlines and political legacies that dominate the ruling class and culture of the far east, corporations, logo’s and stock ticker acronyms do so in the far west.

There is no difference between Apple, Amazon, Google and other major U.S. Fortune 5 companies, just as there is no difference between them and ‘foreign’ corporations such as Samsung, Volkswagen and on and on.

No matter the original intent and function of these companies, subversive Globalist policies that allow them to benefit from engineered wars, front-run emerging crises and utilize slave labor as a means of production, cheap, communist means of distribution all to serve comparatively ‘rich’ consumer bases in the lands where they are incorporated have changed them into kingdoms unto themselves, and while the American citizen has seen his purchasing power suppressed over the decades by these practices, the horrors they have visited on other lands, such as China and the Chinese people are sobering to behold.

The unrest has already begun, and it has accelerated, with the recent riots in the city named after the iPhone itself to escalating push-back against draconian lockdown measures that may very well emanate from the enigmatic Xi himself, or regional magistrates still wrapped in the molting skin of their communist forebears.

Now imagine that a leader like Xi Jinping—like Vladimir Putin before him—is sick of seeing his people suffer and toil on behalf of foreign masters in order to put the latest and greatest modern tech into western pockets as cheaply as possible. And imagine he drummed up a plan—or helped to drum one up—that might begin to turn that ship around for said people.

What sort of complexion would that economic plan take?

Enter the CHIPS Act and other recent political and economic deployments ostensibly by the Biden Administration, but that either ideologically mirror his predecessor—the potentially-devolved Trump Administration—or that continue our chosen leader’s policies outright in a silent and significant break from the will of his Globalist masters, the powers that would be.

Semiconductors did not enter the public consciousness in a significant way until the aforementioned lockdowns of 2020, when international restriction policies severely contracted Chinese trade, thereby rendering western—global—dependence on this slave labor and ‘too good to be true’ production methods stark, sobering and horrifying.

Hell, even in the midst of this deep dive on the CHIPS act and other Biden actions limiting the economic influence of the Chinese Empire, it shocked me to learn that semiconductors are the MOST-TRADED commodity in the world. More than oil. More than steel. More than any single staple.

Chips.

They make everything run, from the computer I type this on to the components that make up the thermostat calling for the heat to warm my draughty office as I type it, to the vehicle I need to move around in the modern world, to the backbone of every piece of technology that runs the modern world and modern society.

The CHIPS Act severely limits the fiscal benefit of U.S. companies doing business in China, limiting foreign production and restricting Chinese interference in an industry that should be considered a red-line national security directive.

In fact, to me, the CHIPS Act and Biden’s signing of it represents one of the clearest proofs yet of Jon Herold’s Devolution theory, which posits that the United States Presidency was dissolved and devolved under Donald Trump and its powers distributed among a group of trusted advisors and administrators—perhaps the Combatant Commanders of the U.S. Military—in order to protect National Essential Functions until such a time as Trump—or someone like him—can be reinstalled into the public seat of power without risking a kick-off of Civil War.

While it has undoubtedly been frustrating to live through this time period, from the COVID lockdown era to the inflationary environment the Federal Reserve and Central Bankers around the world have placed their peoples into, I believe that the System of Systems has been exposed like never before, and that the very hardships we are enduring right now are paving the way for the sovereign society to come, as the public mandate to reduce dependence on foreign, ‘cheap’ production, to onshore jobs and infrastructure and to produce national energy at home ratchets up by the day.

A multi-polar world order is being forged out of the ashes of the Globalist system, and if you know where to look, you can see that some of the very figures who are ostensibly meant to be clinging to that Globalist system—from Biden to Xi—seem to be forwarding political and economic objectives that serve only to destabilize collectivism while embracing sovereignty.

From the CHIPS Act that has resulted in Apple transitioning production from China to Arizona, to the approval of a Gulf Oil Terminal by the Biden Administration, to the continued strengthening of the BRICS sovereign and free trade alliance, of which Xi is a founding and central figure alongside Vladimir Putin of Russia, Jair Bolsonaro of the politically-embattled Brazil and Narendra Modi of the growing production powerhouse that is India, the world is changing for the better.

The foundation is being laid for a world order built on the budding individuality, sovereignty and nationalist strength of each respective nation, which seeks to serve itself before others, BY trading with others to mutual benefit, rather than by the designs of centralized collectivist oligarchs, and the pillars are being set atop it.

And while these moves will undoubtedly benefit the United States as we attempt to survive a necessary, albeit rocky transition out of a fiat central banking monetary system into a ‘real’ future, these moves will also serve as a net positive for the subjugated peoples of China, India and the collective east just as they will do so for the once-depressed and desperate Russian and Central Asian producer states.

So when you see the next contradictory signing or political deployment emerge out of the respective Biden or Xi Administrations—or any of the other usual suspects as we continue to parse the complicated and convoluted Information War—ask yourself who is really pulling the strings that count.

And smile when you arrive at the answer.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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