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Agence Press International (Beijing)

China has announced a new measure called 中國收購這些中國血統的 or CHATCA (CHina Acquisition of Those of Chinese Ancestry).  The Chinese government has implicated everyone of Chinese “Han” ancestry.  In their view, since Han people all descend from Chinese emigrants, they must pay taxes to China in order to express their gratitude to the mother country for giving them life itself.  This is how it works:  China now requires that these people pay all of their taxes to China instead of to the countries in which they live.  If a country refuses to comply with CHATCA, it will result in economic sanctions.  Since China now owns all of the multinational corporations, no one will be able to buy or sell food, oil, clothing, or electronic goods without the imprimatur of CHATCA compliance

Human rights activists are complaining that CHATCA is a violation of the sovereignty of every country in the world.  In addition, they say that national origin discrimination is still frowned upon in many countries. However, this complaint simply bears no weight in today’s world, because the major Western powers abolished their national origin discrimination protections in 2014-2015 in order to implement FATCA, a similar measure that the USA tried to thrust upon the world (see Wikipedia, FATCA 2010-2016).

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Have you or anyone in your family ever been an American?

It’s time to double check.

Of course it may be very difficult to prove to a bank that you’re not an American, even if you aren’t.

Barack Obama, 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, on why the US should bomb Syria:

But when would modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.

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Here is the original fable according to Aesop:

Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” Then he called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?”

“Nay, master, nay,” said Lambikin; “if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.”

“Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?”

“That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.”

“I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out:

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

Now, the contemporary version:

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