Well, If We have to Pay For It...

Then never mind...

Not sure what to make of the new President of the Philippines, Duterte, who is stacking drug dealers like cord wood and telling off the USA Hegemon.  The massive US Air Force Base was shut down a while ago, but to throw out the rest of USA soldiers is new:

At the height of that, some 1,200 Americans were in Zamboanga City and on Jolo and Basilan islands, both strongholds of Abu Sayyaf, which is known for its brutality and for earning huge sums of money from hostage-taking.
The U.S. program was discontinued in the Philippines in 2015 but a small troop presence has remained for logistics and technical support. Washington has shifted much of its security focus in the Philippines towards the South China Sea.
In his speech to officials on Monday, Duterte repeated comments from last week when he accused the United States of committing atrocities against Muslims over a century ago on Jolo island.

Now Trump will like cutting that cost being cut, but the more interesting thing is Duterte is admitting Moslem complaints.    Will he reach a detente with militant separatists?  Will he guide he Philippines through the dicey decade to come with the USA/China sea lane fights coming?

A Philippines with no USA military presence is actually in a better position to negotiate with China than with USA presence.  The Philippines itself is no threat to China, so China can afford to be magnanimous with a Philippines free of the hegemon.  Maybe that is the thinking.

The Philippines and Vietnam both claim the Islands China claims.  The more the Philippines freezes Uncle Sam out, the easier it is for Duterte to cut a deal with the Chinese.

 (And I swear, every Filipino has a nickname, and Duterte's is Digong.  Ancient Rome was the same way, people were known and addressed by their nicknames, Cicero is "Garbanzo beans, Caligula is "little boots" and so on.  To this day mobsters are called "the torpedo" "the chin" "the bull"  An Air Philippines  flight is a hoot, "Hey Candy" "Sit down, Lucky" "hello Kitty...')

Filipinos I know speak approvingly of Duterte, although, like Trump, uneasy at his cowboy-style, wild west style.  But the admire. The Philippines economy may improve now with such fundamental shake-ups, and usually someone effective is initially questioned.

At the same time the fact that more countries are telling the hegemon to take a hike, means less power for the hegemon.  The hegemons power is/was based on ex nihilo credit.  For whatever reason, that weapon no longer works. This is good, so we can get back to an organic market.

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What Happens To Those Who Paid the Clintons?

To the powers that be, the Hegemon, or whatever you want to call them, it was clear the ex nihilo credit regime of the last forty years was over.  For the last 20 of the last 40 years the Clintons of the Clinton/Bush/Obama face of USA were active building both a private and public political machine.

The core problem is unfunded pension liability.  Since it is based on ex nihilo credit, it is not possible to grow your way out of it.  It has to crash and then an alternative regime must replace the old one.  I say go back to interest-free asset backed, private vendor financing, like Hong Kong upon which is jumping.   The majority who got burned by the ex nihilo regime were getting fidgety, and more wars were not going to mollify them, not even WWIII.  The Hegemon let them have a champion for this change, The Donald.  Now The Donald has to walk the talk.  Good luck.

Trump does not start until Jan 20, but now it starts. All those who lived off the ex nihilo credit regime, like the silicon valley sultans, are now fearing the end of the gravy train.  Think, even more dire, of all those people around the world who gave the Clintons $100,000, a $1,000,000 etc...  That tally was from people who, in their place of power, had lots of tally and lots of enemies and were buying "friendship" and protection.  Wikileaks has exposed all of that.  Now, literally overnight, the Clintons are no more.  There are a whole lotta people out there exposed with no friends.  Can't call Bill to drop in on the Att Gen to stop some investigation, or get some permit to pollute.  Those exposed people are right now moving their assets to safe places like Switzerland, and slipping out of their countries by the overland route.

I was talking about he Philippines breaking from USA two months ago,  And now...

Duterte has threatened 'to break up with America' and instead seek closer ties with China and Russia, despite the country's long standing relations with the US.He has previously described Washington as an unreliable ally, saying Filipino forces have not benefited from joint combat exercises with US troops.'Instead of helping us, the first to criticize is this State Department, so you can go to hell, Mr Obama, you can go to hell,' he said in an inflammatory speech last month.

The Bush/Clinton/Obama face was a debacle.  They were a wing of the Hegemon group that no longer exists.  Now there will be no V. Nuland to back puppets in the Ukraine, with Joe Biden's son in place to look after the Clinton lootings.  There will be fleeings, and suicidings and murders.

Politics can get nasty.

Update:

Here is a fellow making the same point, but he is a much better writer....

I submit that the large numbers of sizable “donations” to Mrs. Clinton’s “foundation” were made with the assumption that Hillary would become president.  The size and source of the donations suggests that the donations were made on the assumption that presidential favors would one day be paid.  Not secretary of state-level favors, but chief executive-type favors.  And then along comes November 8, and the unthinkable happens.  We then have the situation where money has been paid, but the favor cannot be returned.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/hillarys_clientele.html#ixzz4QVUjYowb Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

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