notsofastmister

I've lived in multiple European countries and have never seen any of the rationing, waiting lists, supply shortages or others that you list.

Treatment I've known people go through include cancer therapy, orthopedic surgery, eye laser treatment, chronic pain management, casts after accidents, and others.

Russia Today (bear with me for a second) did a documentary [0] on how the climate and geography (!) of the region is changing. They also interview the local population and how they view the change in the ecosystem on which their whole lives are build.

[0] https://rtd.rt.com/films/the-permafrost-mystery/#part-1

Thank our spineless Western leaders for committing war crimes in Yemen... From american white phosphorus weapons [0] to british cluster bombs [1].

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/09/19...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/saudis-dropped...

Ok, I finally found a good reference:

"In the 1960s and 1970s, David Rockefeller, then-chairman of Chase Manhattan, frequently visited Hong Kong and opened more branch offices there. In 1973, the bank became the Bank of China's first American correspondent bank." [0]

The guy who wrote the book in 2016 has an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, works for the Congressional Research Service and is an affiliate faculty member at the economics department of George Mason University.

Is this still fake news? Or was David Rockefeller the first American Banker to open a branch in China after numerous trips in Hong Kong?

[0] https://books.google.ch/books?id=Qaa7DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT116&lpg=P...

He probably wasn't too far from the disgusting coup against Salvador Allende on the 9/11/1973, organized by the CIA.

From the guardian :

"But the very name of Allende was anathema to the extreme Right in Chile, to certain powerful corporations (notably ITT, Pepsi Cola and the Chase Manhattan Bank) which did business in Chile and the United States, and to the CIA." [0]

"He [David Rockerfeller] was both chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan from 1969 to 1980 and remained chairman until 1981." [1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/feb/24/pinochet.booke... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller

Be the bankers of dictators, soviets and chinese officials?

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/review/david-rockefe...

Mao Ze Dong was working with the Yale-China association in the 1920s. So China wasn't as closed as it may seem. And a banker working with all the dictators in the world (and Kissinger!) isn't "most people". [0]

Can you find any other example of someone praising China at the same time? Mass killings had already been a part of life in China since 1911. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale-China_Association [1] https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/CHINA.CHAP1.HTM

I am a bit more on the pro-conspiracy side of the spectrum but good sources are important.

According to the New York Times in 2002, David Rockefeller was the banker of the worst leaders of the world while expanding internationally the Chase Manhattan Bank.

"He spent much of his career at Chase doing business with tyrants -- paying homage to oil-rich dictators, sitting through long meetings with the Chinese perpetrators of the Cultural Revolution (an associate once handed over a suitcase with $50,000 in cash to the Chinese so Rockefeller could have a meeting with their ambassador), holding court with Soviet party bosses. The contacts often led to profitable deals for Chase. They benefited the ruling cliques in those countries. But in ways he is oblivious of even now, Rockefeller was soiled by his close embraces with these thugs. While the forces of democracy squared off with the forces of authoritarianism, Rockefeller was perpetually in the room with whoever happened to be in power."

That's enough for me to think he's a horrible monster, but what do I know, I'm just into conspiracy theories...

Between him and kissinger, it would be tough to figure out who knew more war criminals.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/review/david-rockefe...

He also praised the genocidal policies of Mao Ze Dong in 1973. In the NYTimes, no less:

"The social experiment in China under. Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. How extensively China opens up and how the world interprets and reacts to the social innovations and life styles she has developed is certain to have a profound impact on the future of many nations."

http://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/archives/from-a-china-trav...