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The Phartford Files: Aliens Among Us Part I

Submitted by Ironside It was not my intention to start this short series with a reference to China. But after hearing that the government of Barbados intends to have the Chinese build a road or roads in St. Andrew, I decided it would be remiss of me not to awaken the public and hopefully this…

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Submitted by Ironside

It was not my intention to start this short series with a reference to China. But after hearing that the government of Barbados intends to have the Chinese build a road or roads in St. Andrew, I decided it would be remiss of me not to awaken the public and hopefully this beleaguered government, to the evil it is embracing.

None of what I am going to say will make any sense if you keep reading/ viewing the same traditional media: CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal (WSJ). For the most part, these prefer to dine at the table of domestic goings on and can’t get enough of Donald Trump’s Twitter menu. In some cases (WSJ) it has now been shown that some of these media outlets have actively aided and abet these benighted aliens in spewing their propaganda in the west. China got strategy; and lots of stealth!

No, what I am going to say about China won’t make any sense unless you spice up your media menu with the offerings of the ever growing new and “independent” media in America and across the world. Let me name a few NTD, China in Focus, Al Jazeera, WION (Gravitas).

I could pick over a dozen entry points for his expose. But let me start with the current and immediate.

Have you heard about the recent Hong Kong Security Law passed by China and the blow it dealt to democracy there? Why should anyone in Barbados care? Do you know that according to Article 38, anyone in the world who criticizes China – including anyone from the Caribbean – can now be apprehended if they visit Hong Kong or China and put into prison in China on the basis of that law? Do you know this?

Don’t take my word for it. Let’s start with news that is current as of today 10 August: the arrest of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftoNTyYQwo

Do the background checks and find out about the Hong Kong and the democracy movement there. I am not doing that research for you.

Let’s pause a sec. When we say “China” here, let it be clear that we mean the Chinese government a.k.a the CCP or Chinese Communist Party. Not the 1.4 billion Chinese people. Does CCP sound familiar? It sure as hell does! That is part of the unofficial name of the covid-19 virus, the “CCP Virus” so dubbed by yours truly, Donald J. Trump!

In case you want to go naïve on me, please be aware that Trump’s term is not just appropriate because the virus started in China; it is because the CCP deliberately deceived the world about the human-to-human transmission of the virus and still to this day refuses to let international pandemic researchers enter Wuhan, China (where the virus is purported to have started) to help determine the cause of the disease. That is another story for another time.

Now let’s do the CCP virus math to date: 19,998,817 cases, 734,753 deaths worldwide as today 10 August:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMre6IAAAiU.

That’s the human toll.

What about the economic and social toll? Economies shattered, small businesses wiped out, families torn apart. The jury is still out on this because second and third waves of the virus are being experienced in some countries.

What about Barbados? circa 29,000 people have lost their jobs; over 70 million paid out in unemployment benefits to date (See the article: https://barbadosunderground.net/2020/08/09/mystery-national-insurance/) on this blog).

Who is to blame? The Chinese Communist Party. If you lost a loved one in this pandemic blame the CCP. If you lost your job because of the pandemic, blame the CCP.

Over 100 countries have ganged up to demand reparations from China. Yet Barbados and other Caribbean countries are going cap in hand to China for loans which they will probably not be able to repay, like other countries in Africa. For the CCP this is no problem! Once access to something strategic they want is part of the collateral, for example, a port, natural resource or a strategic location, no problem!

Have you noticed that government controlled media in Barbados never reported any of the more interesting international debates on the CCP virus? Now you know why. Barbados and a string of Caribbean governments have bought into the CCPs grand Trojan horse scheme to control the economy of the world. It is called the Belt and Road Initiative, compliments of Xia Jinping, President of the CCP. It is the Kool Aid served by China and this BLP Government is about to drink deeply from the jug of the CCP. So they can’t talk, less they strangle (or be strangled!).

If you want to know how many Caribbean governments have drunk of the cup of the CCP’s iniquitous scheme, read our own Caribbean media: https://www.cijn.org/chinas-opaque-caribbean-trail-dreams-deals-and-debt/ .

I am not going to attempt to reproduce the vast amount of material available on the CCP. Do the research yourself. Here’s a starter kit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9xSA2gOZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_6YgGWBeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1axbPfGHf8

My call to action is for the Opposition. Get the Government disclose the terms of the agreement with the CCP. Everything is a state secret in China. Not so here. As flawed as it is, we still practice democracy. I hope!

143 responses to “The Phartford Files: Aliens Among Us Part I”

  1. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    @ Ironside
    Have you ever spoken to a Filipino to find out why the Septic Tanks are in the region.
    The next generation of biofuel can be harvested off the shallow seashores of Palawan Islands.
    It’s all Top Secret shit that Yanks don’t want you to know about. Don’t bother listening to their propaganda like a mug.

  2. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    China is the only lender I know of that lends money and then ensures by the conditions of the loan that the bulk of what they lend comes back to china in terms of their exports. By exports i mean ALL exports be they labour or material base.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Why focus on the lender? Does the borrower have a say in the transaction before signing on the dotted line?

  4. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    ???
    I seriously hope that we Bajans remember the Bishop Government of Grenada and what initially brought that GOV down. It was an international airport with a run way 10,000 ft long being funded by what was then considered a rouge state. It was being constructed with local and outside Labour. Our GOV must keep the masses abreast of our chinese partners intentions, via the GOV information services, if they are aware of the CCP’S thorough intentions. I visited Suriname in the mid 70’S and was surprised to see a China town there. They accounted for approximately 1 percent of the population then. Today it’s 10 percent or much higher. However, it’s been 45 years. I remember we had a small China Town in Roebuck Street in the 50’s & early 60’s. The majority left the island after a rumor started about dog-heads being seen in trash at the rear of one of the dozen or so Chinese restaurants. The rumor had a devastating effect on their restaurant businesses. The majority left BDS for Jamaica, Trinidad and South America. Those who stayed in BDS relocated to Ch Ch. The Suzie Wong’s family was one of the BDS original Chinese families that stayed. Their original housing community was Perry Bottom off Roebuck Street.

    Maybe the Chinese will build a city/community in St.Andrews. It also has an Ocean access. I would like to buy Culpepper Island before the Chinese do and install windmill generators and sell cheap energy/electricity to the St. Phillip residents. The sustain winds over the island is approximately 60mph constantly. Any structor built on the island has to be done with specialized cement, components of sulfuric volcanic soil, white lime etc. the mixture gets harder with salt water (steel). hope I’m not giving anyone free ideas, as we constantly do on this blog. I don’t believe the GOV would lend an ear to my offer. If they did, I probably won’t be able to afford it and I would end up borrowing the funds from the Chinese.
    wǒ bú huì shuō zhōng wén.

  5. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    My friend you only have a choice when you can do better. With our credit rating where it is and a record of default how many choices you think we have borrowing on the international market?

  6. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ John A

    We have had a government, headed by a top lawyer and with a string of lawyers in the |Cabinet, negotiating with White Oaks, a little known firm of financial advisers, not even known on the Mayfair street where they are situated, negotiating with the Barbados a contract under the laws of England and Wales. That tells you everything.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Thank you, this point needs to be stressed.

  8. Tee White Avatar
    Tee White

    @David
    I see the Trumpists and their white supremacist sidekicks are out in force today doing all they can to peddle the racist garbage of the Anglo-American tyrants. The whole tourism lopsided economy has collapsed, unemployment is north of 30% and the government is borrowing money whereever it can get it and some idiots want Barbados to hitch itself to Trump and Pompeo’s racist anti-China caravan.

    The Chinese building a road in St Andrew is the least of our problems. Our economy is in the hands of the modern plantocracy mafia and the government is in the hands of the IMF. And they are concerned about a road in St Andrew.

    All money lenders, whether it’s China, the USA, Britain, the EU, the World Bank, the IMF, the IDB or whoever come to Barbados for what they can get. Period. That’s what it means to be a small country living under the capitalist dictatorship of the big powers in ths globalised, capitalist economy.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    @Tee White

    Service based economies have been exposed in the new normal in a way that will challenge us for some time to come. It will get worse.

  10. Tee White Avatar
    Tee White

    What is happening “on the ground” e.g China’s military threat in the South seas, taking over ports and important assets in Africa / Caribbean; destroying democracies” is not an academic matter; it is cold reality and is therefore the issue.
    ###############
    This is pure disinformation. Which country are the South Seas nearer to, China or America? Of course China is pursuing its interests in Africa, just like all the other big (and some not so big) powers. But how can you talk about the new scramble for Africa and not menbtion that the US army has a whole command AFRICOM dedicated to the subjugation of Africa and which is militarily active in half of the countries in the continent?. How can you not mention the enslaving economic relationships that France has with its former colonies in Africa and that it also has its troops active on the continent? And by the way, China can’t be destroying any democracies since they are none to destroy.

  11. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @NorthernObserver August 14, 2020 3:28 PM “I congratulate the Chinese. They are beating the capitalists at their own game.”

    Sensible.

    I don’t know why people seem to believe that the Chinese Communist Party AND the Chinese people are not capitalists.

    They are ALL capitalists, regardless of what they call themselves. or what the rest f the world choose to believe they are.

    This is not war between capitalists and communists.

    Americans are capitalists.

    Chinese are capitalists [maybe even better capitalists than the Chinese].

  12. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    “The Chinese building a road in St Andrew is the least of our problems. Our economy is in the hands of the modern plantocracy mafia and the government is in the hands of the IMF. And they are concerned about a road in St Andrew.”

    Say it again brother. The Chinese can do no worse than the centuries of tyranny by the Western White Supremacists

  13. Tee White Avatar
    Tee White

    @David
    Service based economies have been exposed in the new normal in a way that will challenge us for some time to come. It will get worse.
    ###########
    I suspect you’re right about it getting worse but it also exposes the criminal negligence of those who transitioned the economy into a being a so-called service based economy in order to serve the interests of the local and foreign elites. We need a complete rethink about what an economy needs to look like for smallislands like ours.

  14. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Cuhdear Bajan :”Chinese are capitalists [maybe even better capitalists than the Chinese].”

    Correction: “Chinese are capitalists [maybe even better capitalists than the Americans]

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @Tee White

    The architect was laid to rest today. He moved it from where Tom Adams took it i.e. a healthy mix of agriculture, manufacturing and services.

  16. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Well according to the Economics Society Owen said before he died that we have to go for “import substitution”

    He did not say we have to grow more food, much, much more food. That is what we will have to do.

    Once everybody has enough to eat then we can think about other things, and WORK on other things.

  17. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ John A at 4:12 PM/
    Do we need to borrow? And to do what? Is it going into productive investments./activities? We should only be borrowing if it increases GDP and employment. Are we making mock sport again?

  18. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Vincent

    We borrow to invest, not to pay civil servants.

  19. John A Avatar
    John A

    @Vincent

    It would appear that is the case yes. I mean if we must borrow from the chinese and absorb their products, then lets do so for the alternative energy sector. Surely we dont need them to build a road. In other words borrow from them under their terms where there is a value added factor for our local economy.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    Is it just building a road or building a road in a problem area of the Scotland District that has proved a challenge in recent years. There are several roads and bridges falling apart.

  21. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Forgot the “not” but I see you got the point.

    Cuhdear Bajan,

    Your reference does not apply here.

  22. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David at 5:24 PM
    Is it proving a challenge or a lack of will. We have been building roads in the Scotland District for centuries. Should we not be in position to do better than “aliens’? Your word not mine.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    We should be doing better.

  24. Critical Analyzer Avatar
    Critical Analyzer

    What I would really like is for our government to stop borrowing RH money to keep up with the Joneses and take the time figure out how we can properly, honestly and sustainably earn our way in the world while reducing our overall debt.

  25. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @CA
    Dream on.
    What political legacy will you leave? Barbados has “borrowed” itself a middle class. If you stop borrowing, that will cease to exist.
    If one is worried about debt, keep clear of politics. They assume the debt can be refinanced when it comes due. Unless of course your credit is such that nobody will refinance it. Then you call the IMF.
    And hope their intervention will open other loan facilities.
    And the circuit begins anew.

  26. David Avatar
    David

    It has become fashionable to reschedule debt.

  27. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    David et al,

    The elephant in the room is whether the Scotland district is viable for anything other than agriculture, nature reserve.

    I submit that, when one considers the infrastructure investment required to get access to a fit state, it is not.

    It should be zoned purely for agriculture and as a national park.

    Move residences out of there. The land is unstable and it will forever be an issue.

    Have local engineers come up with a plan to convert the whole area abd split between farms and nature reserve.

  28. Mariposa Avatar
    Mariposa

    No LEC, gets to be a lawyer
    No different approach to the economy, but gets up grades that the DLP, was downgraded for,
    Went to CARICOM, GUYANA/ LIAT, and fked it up CARICOM more divided than before
    Serve St Micheal NE, for 30 years and did nothing, yet keeps getting reelected how
    Now nominated to be on the IMF board, with all that bad track record, ewwww not natural

    copied from a Fb page

  29. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Crusoe

    A long time ago I recommended that we should consider turning the Scotland District, or part of it, in to a dry ski run, complete with restaurants, leisure centres, ten pin bowling and swimming pools.
    Such a venue would be attractive to tourists and locals, provide new jobs and remove the risk of residential land slippage. As usual, it was ignored. I still think it is a good idea.
    We have good civil engineers who can build on the site. After all, all that sea between the mainland and Pelican Island has been filled in and has not given any problem since the 1950s.

  30. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    Northern Observer at 10:24 PM

    It is time we break that circuit.History will affirm that it has gotten us no where fast. No . Borrowing is not responsible for our relatively high standard of living. Visionary leadership is. One is not a substitute for the other. One cannot borrow nor import vision.

  31. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ David BU at 1 :33 AM

    Do you really believe that rescheduling debt is a fashion ? And one that we should follow? Debt is based on the notion and principle that it will be repaid ,not rescheduled. Nor postponed to the next administration or next generation to repay. Nor ,God forbid, be reneged. Business is based on trust. Remove trust and the borrower has no credibility. Of course ,since you love disruption,it can be solved with another financial meltdown. Take your pick.

  32. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @VC
    If so, then cease borrowing? Or has the vision ceased?

  33. David Avatar
    David

    @Vincent

    In the Sinckler years debt rescheduling was fashionable.

  34. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Vincent

    You are showing your age. Like you, I believe if you want something then save up to buy it. In the new, young, don’t care world, as long as you pay the minimum on your credit card the companies love it. All they do is increased your maximum. They see it as bad business if you clear your debt at the end of the month.

  35. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ Hal Austin at 9 :33 AM
    I am not at all afraid to show my age. I am happy with me. Of course we know that the practice is a Ponzi scheme and occasionally collapses when one participant no longer plays the game and declares : ” The Emperor has on no clothes”. We also know who take up the tab…….the same lower and middle income groups.

  36. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @VC
    Listen to Hal. These country and company leaders all have a bevy of advisors. This is the ME generation. The concept of saving to buy, or figuring out how one will repay debt, is as outdated as dinosaurs. Maximize your personal benefits while you have the chance. Let somebody else deal with issues arising later when you are gone.

  37. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ Northern

    Take you last breath and spend you last dollar the same day and let government pay to bury you! Lol

  38. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://youtu.be/hqdZB62Msvo?t=2

  39. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    But alas when you are small as a mouse and the other party is as big as an elephan it is real, real “hard to negotiate.”

    can’t punch anywhere near that weight class but you should hear them boasting.

  40. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Crusoe August 15, 2020 4:28 AM “The elephant in the room is whether the Scotland district is viable for anything other than agriculture, nature reserve. I submit that, when one considers the infrastructure investment required to get access to fit state, it is not. It should be zoned purely for agriculture and as a national park. Move residences out of there. The land is unstable and it will forever be an issue.”

    100% Correct.

    And the land filling from Pelican Island to Barbados was NOT without consequences. Just ask the families on the seaside of the West Coast, not all ric and white, in fact many, many poor and black who lost their backyards when the water was displaced from the area of the Deep Water Harbour. Of course they received no compensation for the lost of their land. Who compensates poor black people? This is a story little known.

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The fair started at 10 a.m. and was scheduled to end at 2 p.m., however all the lots were sold just after 12 p.m.

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/08/15/nhc-holds-successful-land-fair-at-deanstown-st-james/

  42. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Hants
    At nearly $800,000/acre, land en cheap.

  43. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Who bought the land. In that location, Bds$800000 an acre is cheap, if you are building multi-million dollar homes; but if you want a house spot to build a family home costing $250000, then that is hugely expensive.
    But why is the NHS (the Mottley government) still selling off Crown land. I have said on BU on numerous occasions that by 2023 there will be no Barbados to talk of. Mottley’s articulated plan is to sell off all state-owned property. One reason she got rid of Prescod.
    Has Commissiong got any views on this?

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ N O and Hal,

    The National Housing Corporation is selling the lots .

    The lots which are between 5 000 to 7 000 square feet are being sold at BDS$18 per square feet

  45. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Can one person buy more than one lot? But why are they selling land? People need homes, not land. Go to Parish Land in St Philip to see how badly our housing planning is. Little units with lots of space between each. Now they are moving in the squatters.
    The president is the minister for town and country planning. Instead of jumping for some silly United Nations position, she should concentrate on getting Barbados back on track.
    She is lacking in ideas, incompetent.

  46. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Hal,
    “Instead of jumping for some silly United Nations position”
    You have touched on an issue that has been on my mind for a few days. I saw some cheering and doing a victory lap for Mia and some questions immediately came to mind
    (1) What are the duties (if any) of this “new position”?
    (2) How much of her time would this position take?
    (3) Can she be an effective Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of Economic Affairs and Investment and at the same time be Development Committee chair for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
    (4) Is there a possibility that this multi-tasking could be to the detriment of the island?
    (5) How many leaders have served in this role at that the same time they were in office?

    Just getting nominated was an honor. Perhaps, we will not regret that she should have said “Thank you, but No”.

    Smoke and mirrors don’t solve problems.

  47. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Theo

    She is world class. Little Barbados is now marginal. How can an entire nation be fooled by such an egotistical, self-obsessed, self-important autocrat?

  48. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I wonder what Mia has to do to get a little respect round here. I know! She could drop dead!

  49. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    There is a push for successful black female leaders in politics and business, especially amongst liberals, in the likes of Oprah, Michelle, Meghan. Mia Mottley has the credentials to become popular worldwide in various roles as a similar international ambassador for black woman.

  50. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hal Austin August 16, 2020 1:45 PM “Can one person buy more than one lot? But why are they selling land? People need homes, not land.”

    Well regardless of what you think, the buyers thought differently. The land sold more quickly than sno-cones on a hot day, or breadfruits on a Saturday morning. 62 lots sold in 2 hours

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