There Are No Coincidences
For a long time after the end of the war in Vietnam, the Communist Vietnamese government had a law in place that any US citizen who entered Vietnam would immediately be arrested.
In 1999, things changed when the British government returned ownership of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong to the mainland Chinese government. There was speculation that the city would become another Communist wasteland. Instead, the Chinese government had been watching how things worked in Hong Kong and in the business world outside of China and took the track of business. Instead of interfering with a successful economic model, they embraced it and began a new way of doing things. Construction of new buildings in Beijing and the irruption of the capitalist business model made many, many people prosperous. And China wanted money coming in. China’s plentiful coal resources spurred the construction of new coal-fired power generating stations, and began to provide power to provinces that had not had a reliable source before. China is now contracting to build coal-fired power plants in other countries.
With Vietnam being heavily influenced by the Chinese government, the capitalist business model was adopted and tourism grew. Americans can visit there, but do not speak out against the government unless you want to spend time in a re-education camp.
Ho Chi Minh started the French-Indochina war over the French presence in Indochina before World War II. He wanted money and the French colonials out of Indochina, period. His war with France began in 1946 just as Kim Il-Sung, the godlike grandfather of ND:tBF, started his own war in Korea in his attempt to unite the north and south of that peninsula. Grandpa Kim wanted power more than money.
Both Uncle Ho and Grandpa Kim got help from the Chinese in their quest. There were Chinese weapons and troops in both Korea and Indochina. When the French capitulated, Ho demanded a ransom for the 10,000 French POWs, but returned only 3,900 to the French. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel, and Laos and Cambodia became independent states.. MacArthur, in Korea, stubbornly refused to end his trek into the north, demanded a nuclear weapon drop on the north, and was refused and recalled to the US by Pres. Truman. Saigon became the capital of South Vietnam, and Hanoi the capital of North Vietnam, and the Korean peninsula was permanently divided.
In the 1960s, the US sent advisers to South Vietnam. South Korea was still recovering from its own war, with a US base at the DMZ that marked the boundary between the north and south. Occasionally, people would slip through the cracks, into the South or across the Nork-Chinese border into China. Pres. Johnson decided that the US should get more heavily involved in Vietnam and sent in more troops to start a shooting war in 1965.
In 1987, two years before the USSR was dissolved and the war in the Balkans got underway, Donald Trump began to make trips to the Soviet Union for the purpose of making real estate deals. In 2013, the Miss Universe pageant was held in Moscow while Trump was there, negotiating a real estate deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. That deal fell through and he returned to the USA. Robert Mueller was Director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013.
In 1989, after 10 years of futile warfare in Afghanistan, Gorbachev declared the Soviet Union bankrupt, dismissed the Politburo and sent everybody home. Shortly afterwards, the Berlin Wall was pulled down and the Balkan Wars began.
During this time, with Trump engaging in his business deals and going wherever he felt like going, the CIA paid the Chinese through a third party to make it appear that the Russians were interfering in the US elections. The third party go-between for this was a woman whose presence was so lowkey as to be almost nonexistent. She went by several names, including the Dragon Lady and Mah Jongg. She appears in a few photos, but very, very few. Her appearance is not completely Chinese, but seems to be something else. There has been speculation that she is part Chinese and part “other” such as Yakut or Vietnamese.
She was known for her ability to pick up languages quickly with the correct accent, especially important when speaking various Chinese dialects such as Mandarin or Yue or Hakka. If your accent is incorrect, no one will understand what you say. This made her a valuable asset for mischief.
She also seems to have been an expert code hacker. In 2016, hackers stole $100 million from the central bank of Bangladesh after obtaining payment-transfer codes and moving the money overseas in what information security experts say appears to be one of the largest bank heists in history. Anyone who can use these codes can also make transitions quickly and instantly once they are confirmed. But the bank reportedly managed to block a further transfer of $870 million initiated by the hacker group.
The destination for this large sum of stolen money was never identified. The speculation was that the Dragon Lady sent it to North Korea, but attempts to trace it failed. Any account that received that money in the beginning was gone, period, with funds immediately transferred to other accounts to hide them. However, Mah Jongg did leave a mark behind, almost as a tease: $1.00 was left in the Bangladesh account.
Only part of the blackmail money that Obama sent to Iran was delivered there. Some of it was diverted to North Korea, and from there to China for the purpose of enhancing the deceit that Russia was involved in meddling in the affairs of other countries, especially the US elections. Remember that recent whine from the Ayatollahs that they were running out of money?
The discovery of Maria Butina’s inept and silly efforts to meddle in things, after she came to the USA in 2016, was also a distraction meant to enhance the notion that Russia was interfering in US politics. She was what Stalin used to call a “useful idiot” – the perfect plant to distract attention from what was really going on.
In addition, the Chinese persuaded Fatty Kim da T’ird and his Nork bombmakers to create a distraction with his 25 kiloton test in September 2016, near the time of US election debates. He’s had plenty of assistance from China in return for distracting outsiders like the US government from their activities. The second test, the half-megaton underground test in September 2017, was a secondary distraction meant to draw attention away from the Chinese and put it on the Russians even though Trump was long since sworn in.
All those missile tests going on in Norkiland, and the posturing and threats by Fatty Kim da T’ird, were distractions right up until the ballots were counted and recounted with more Trump votes being found, and the electoral college had cast its votes. The activities from North Korea abruptly ceased when Trump, in November 2017, got the two Koreas to work together, made business deals with Xi JinPing in China, visited Vietnam, and has watched while every ridiculous effort possible has been dragged into existence to try to unseat him, including the Circus of Trolls called Supreme Court justice hearings.
The effort is still going on. And China is now negotiating for contracts to build coal-fired power plants in countries outside their borders, while now openly demanding that the USA give them more cash.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", China, Korea, Politics
You’ve outdone yourself, Ex. When is the movie deal, and more importantly, who plays you?
*grin*
Thank you, AW1Ed!
I’m just The Reporter. 🙂 Now if only someone can track down Mah Jongg.
Can you post some sources for the Mah Jongg angles? That’s the first I’ve heard of that.
I believe you’ve also got some of the details wrong on the Bangladesh Bank hack – the transfers were for $951M in total, most of which didn’t go through, and the BB has a value of ~$30B. It’s an interesting story, though, and Reuters has a pretty good write-up here:
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/cyber-heist-federal/
My favorite bit? The hackers were clever enough to disable the printer that automatically prints logs of transactions of this kind. Paranoid people use a combination of remote logging and line printers that don’t have a direct network connection for this very reason.
Actually, LC, the source I used for the numbers came from the Bank of Bangladesh.
The Norks had a building in South Korea in which a large group of people did nothing but try to hack bank codes all day long. I did an article on this when this original theft took place.
So hackers left $1 in an account that they tried to transfer $951M out of, but only successfully transferred $100M out of? That is, they did all this due diligence, but failed to notice the accounts only had $100M (plus one dollar), not the $951M they tried to transfer? Once again, a source would be pretty good on that, and on this Mah Jongg character too.
Care to post the original article or a reputable source? There are obviously some Nork agents in SK, but most of their hackers go anywhere but SK. The Korean spoken in the North is, to native speakers, easily distinguishable from that in the south. It’s like putting someone from Boston in the middle of London – sure, it’s the same language, but it doesn’t sound that way. A building full of NK hackers in the middle of Seoul would attract a fair amount of attention from SK’s NIS.
NO, sorry I wasn’t clear. The hackers snagged $100 million from the account on their first try. They were very good at leaving no trace, BUT when they made a second attempt to extract the remaining $870 million, the computer geeks at the NYC Federal Reserve had caught the loss and blocked the hackers from taking more.
The part about ‘left $1.00’ was an inside joke.
I just watched a new movie thats out on dvd, its called Air Strike with Bruce Willis, its a chinese company made movie and is about the atrocities the Japs did to the Chinese at the beginning of WWII…no problem there remembering what the japs did to them..but what is amazing…and WITHOUT HONOR is how the scumbags don’t seem to remember what America did FOR THEM, that saved their asses from the japs!! If the idiots are going to remember their history, REMEMBER IT ALL! and stop trying to shyt on the country that saved your worthless asses….imho!!
The price of aluminum just spiked. Hats.
Pie plates make great hats, too, W2.
I am totally down with that. Although the spouse may get mad, I am going to get her foil turkey roasting pan out and place it on my melon. That covers a lot of surface area right there.
Talk to Skippy. He had some copper hats that really work. Grounding can be a pain, though.
I still have my M1 style helmet…
Good Post Ex-PH2. Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug. The US Taxpayers, because of ineptness of our government “leaders” has been the bug for way too long. It is time we became the windshield of an unstoppable freight train barreling thru the enemies that would do us harm. Sadly, our “useful idiots” are the elected and appointed officials who are only idiots and that are useful to our enemies advantage.. Nikita K. was correct when he said he would use our own laws and our own people to destroy us from with in without firing a shot. Many of the heavy weapons captured by the NKs in the early part of that war were transferred to Uncle Ho and used against the French, and later, our troops in Viet Nam. Uncle Ho had copped an attitude towards the US (Truman’s admin) when we refused to help throw the French out, and started rebuilding Japan in spite of the atrocities that the Japanese did in SEA/China. Mao had the same problem. Folks forget that Mao and Ho were big allies of ours during WWII. Mao was also a little peeved caused we backed Chiang Chi Shek when the commies wanted to take over China. I regress, let me get this puppy back to tracking. Everything in the world revolves around either the money or the poontang. Appears to be, in this case, the poontang made off with the money. No one could ever convince me that this type of operations can only be carried out at the highest levels. dTrumpster needs to put down his tweeter phone, ignore the demonrats and continue with the mission. Drain the swamp, start investigations of all the crap that the Bitch of Benghazi and her minions have done, and hope that enough of the American People wake up to continue the whole MAGA Program. Time is slipping away, won’t be long before the whole re-election thing starts up again. The free shit army is getting stronger and shriller every day. We need to quit giving away resources to those who want… Read more »
Some poontang will do whatever is necessary if the price is right.
Mao was a “big ally” who collaborated with the japs every chance he got, then manufactured a bullshit story about his “heroic resistance” once the war was over and he needed to stay on Stalin’s good side (speaking of worthless allies). Chiang’s KMT, as bad as they were, actually fought for their homeland. Hardly a shot was ever fired between the Japanese and the commies.
True all that T.O.W., my rambling point was we have spent too much of our blood and treasure in too many places where we really shoulda just finished the job and got the hell out. We have been used by these other governments for too long. Ho and Mao did play both sides against the middle re the Japanese.
The Japs did get away with the rape of Nanking and using 20,000 + Chinese and Korean comfort women who serviced their troops 35 – 70 times a day each. Each girl got 1 day a month off to be checked by the Japanese Army docs for STDs. We also let let slide the atrocities of ChiChi Iwo and other places, ie execution and canalabalism of American troops.
We are still steadily draining away our resources, trying to be the world’s policeman, while our enemies are steadily plotting our demise.
On Stalin, well we know how that worthless bastard plotted with FDR to divide the world.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.
It’s more likely that Woodrow Wilson had some deal going with Stalin (re: what you’re referring to) at the Treaty of Versailles conference, Paris 1919, than anything Roosevelt did.
Might want to check dates there.
Stalin was at both Paris post WWI and at Yalta post WWII.
Agreed! the bugs are the dumocraps and the illegals stealing across our border imho! The wall is the windshield against BOTH! imo
Complete BS from the first paragraph.
I would take it apart, piece by piece, but the mods here are too chickenshit to allow even this post.
Says the man, full of sound and fury.
This is Ex’s post- what she does with it is entirely up to her, even to letting your comment stand. Who’s the chickenshit now, Hussar?
So tell us, oh Great Brainiac, just WHICH parts are incorrect??????
I got to watch Gorbachev announce on TV the Soviet Union’s bankruptcy because of the expense of its prolonged war in Afghanistan. I did an article a short while ago that included the drastic reductions in pay for all military, due to the spendy costs of that war. It was a dreadful drop to something like 2 rubles a month, maybe 3. I’d have to go revisit that for the figures. So is that part a falsehood?
Come on, you boneheaded birdbrain! Is it the part about the theft of money from the Bank of Bangladesh’s account at the NYC Federal Reserve? I did an article on that, too, when it happened. Too bad you were asleep at the switch on that.
Is it the part about the Chinese supplying weapons, ammo and troops to the North Koreans under Kim Il-Sung, and the Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh? That cost a lot of lives and money, so where is it false, again?
Is it that opening sentence about the Communist Vietnamese government barring US citizens from entering Vietnam on pain of arrest? That was in place in the 1970s and 1980s, so how is that “fake news”, Sport? It was part of a news report on the radio in 1977 during the Carter administration.
Just puzzled AS TO where you think you can take this apart, piece by piece.
And finally, the woman in the photograph has been frequently referred to as the Dragon Lady. Vicious as a cottonmouth snake, too.
I know things that YOU don’t know… lots of things.
Get over yourself.
Damn girl! I know that wasn’t directed at me, but it burned when it went by. Give a guy a chance to set Condition Zebra next time, please?
*grin*
Hahahahahah! That’s funny! I will use a self-driven missile technique next time.
That woman? That’s your Dragon Lady? Your Mah Jongg? Because yes, she was known as the Dragon Lady … when she was South Vietnam’s unofficial First Lady, Tran Le Xuan. She also died in 2011, so her hacking skills are evidently world-class if she’s doing it from beyond the grave:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dragon-lady-madame-ngo-dinh-nhu-dies-in-rome/
If you don’t think that’s the same person, a reverse-image-search of the photo you uploaded should do the trick, too.
That bit, for sure.
Ha! LC, I wondered if anyone would catch that.
Thank you! You broke the code! Nice job! Well done! I don’t have a prize for you, but buy yourself a beer.
It is, indeed, that heinous bitch Madame Nhu, who suggested bringing sauce to the barbecue when a Buddhist monk committed suicide by fire in the middle of traffic om Saigon.
Almost forgot – I used the name Maj Jongg, because if you’ve ever played the real Mah Jongg game, you know that it is based almost entirely on trickery.
Nothing like the tile-matching version online.
Hey Ex-PH2, ‘ol Babbles McButthead had just used most of his weekly allowance for an oil change on and gas for his 1995 Volvo to go to someplace with free WiFi to post that bit of his latest brilliance!
You have to ask, API, how anyone can live in a world as narrow as his is and still have oxygen to breathe. It also might explain a few things.
“Representatives of two American banks—the Bank of America and First National City Bank—were invited to discuss trade possibilities, and American oil companies were informed that they were welcome to apply for concessions to search for oil in offshore Vietnamese waters.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States–Vietnam_relations
Took about 5 seconds to find.
You going to allow this post, mods? Or block it so your little forum princess doesn’t look like an idiot?
A non sequitur statement that has nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.
Geez, SquishfishMcBlobgoop, you are even thicker than I thought you were.
Ever try reading for CONTENT, you numbskull??:?
As I said, you couldn’t even get the first paragraph of your nonsense correct.
No need to waste time tearing apart the rest.
You ENJOY being about ten thousand times more dense than Uranium, don’t you?
She wrote:
“Is it that opening sentence about the Communist Vietnamese government barring US citizens from entering Vietnam on pain of arrest? That was in place in the 1970s and 1980s, so how is that “fake news”, Sport? It was part of a news report on the radio in 1977 during the Carter administration.”
Absolutely false. And now she is trying to say her original post on the subject was a prank.
Who is the dense one again?
As always, you moron, you can’t tell real from unreal. Americans WERE barred from entering Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam war BY the Vietnamese government. I would NOT expect you to know anything about REAL history because not only were you NOT alive in the 1970s, you choose to ignore real history.
Second, I have pulled more pranks here than you have fingers and toes to count on.
YOU are so dumb about this whole thing, Mr. Not So Very Smartpants, that you couldn’t even ID the most hated woman in South Vietnam, commonly known as the Dragon Lady.
I do things like this all the time. You’re just too numb to recognize when you’ve been hosed. Yes, the entire thing was a prank. I used real world events and made stuff up.
Jonathan Swift did the same thing with his essay on the solution to the problem of the Irish poor.
Please explain how diplomats and leaders of business were invited to, and visited Vietnam at the request and invitation of the Communist government, if they were barred?
I’ll wait….
It’s a prank, you stupid fuck. You’re the victim. Get it now? Do I need to get out the crayons, draw you a picture?
Waste of skin.
And YOU the blithering idiot were taken in by a practical joke.
Sure, ok. If that’s how you want to spin it so you dont look like and idiot…go for it.
I’m sure the little echo chamber you have here will ignore your mental deficiency.
Have a great weekend.
Ahem
When I first saw that post, I started to respond “Troll Bait”. I deleted it, because why spoil their fun.
You are just so terribly predictable, unable to keep your hands off a Tar Baby.
Sure, ok.
Ahem.
Oh, my Hot Dog from Sammy’s Place!
This idjit can’t accept the truth from anyone!!!!
I went to the trouble of getting ideas from other people on how to make it even better. And you fell for it like a stone ball dropped from the Tower at Pisa.
Well, hallelujah! I won that one!!!
“I would take it apart, piece by piece, but the mods here are too chickenshit to allow even this post.”
Give it a shot…you might be surprised.
Or laughed at.
Oh, my, my, my.
The reality of real history before this thumbsucker was even out of diapers must hurt.
So EVERYTHING in this article is untrue, even though it’s all fact-based? What a special world Squidchips is living in.
Still can’t stand being out of the loop, can you, Squishblob. Such a waste of molecules.
Oh, well – moving on!
We’re waiting… enlighten us, Hussar?
The jackass has multiple personalities, and not one of them has a freaking clue….
He, reality is hard to deal with when your world is tiny and compacted into a shoebox.
Must be getting past his Hipness’s bedtime or something.
Not that I expected anything except the disparaging stuff from der Commissar, anyway. And I’m sure he’s showing off all the responses to his friend… or something… maybe his frog??
That’s not Lars is it?
I bet you a shot and a beer it is!
Of course it is. Hussar was one of his monikers last year.
What is it with this guy? It’s like he goes out of his way to be annoying.
Umm, wrong.
So you rerouted you IP to Florida? You don’t even try.
Sorry, lady. I’m not this other poster.
I know you and your white knights want me to be, because you can’t fathom that someone else might actually deal in logic and reason, but yeah.
Stick to taking photos. You’re out of your league here, pogue.
It’s POG you fucking student.
No, Comrade, you are too dense to admit that you’ve been had but good.
It’s a shame that you can’t just admit that someone else beat you to the punch. Someone else saw through the joke WAY ahead of you last night.
Trying to insult me lets everyone know that you are a sore loser and a troll.
You lose, Tootsie.
The one with the magic twanger?
Hard to realize I have lived through all of this and can go back in time for another look before it all fades in the rear view mirror.
No denying Kim Il Sung received loads of support from the DPRC, (including copious amounts of peasants for human wave attacks during the war) but the Russians (think Stalin) was the one that molded him.
I’d bet on that, Kim Il Sung fled to Russia during the Japanese Occupation during WWII and guess who Stalin installed as the Puppet Dictator after Russia liberated Korea North of the 38th Parallel?
This is not speculation or even new information. It is a well documented and widely known fact that China and the Soviets intervened in Korea- The battle of the Chosin Reservoir an the heroic stand of the 31st RCT/TF Faith being one of the most publicized battles of the war.
Other than the infiltration of these troops to achieve surprise at the tactical through strategic level (McArthur told Truman during the infamous Wake Island meeting in October) that there was no way the Chinese would intervene), China made no attempts to hide or deny that they were fighting in Korea, and they flew under air cover provided by Soviet Pilots flying aircraft with Chinese and North Korean markings.
Is that one of those new heliocopters you wrote about a while back?
Had extra blades and no tail rotor.
Yes, it’s a test model. Hovers, darts about at the will of the pilot so fast you can hardly keep up with it.
I’m not the quickest study, and I am admitedly slower than normal this morning after a late night Christmas party that involved wayyy too many Manhattans, but I am very confused by this piece.
Is it meant to be a synopsis of the last 70 years or so, or is it the plot of a novel or screenplay you are writing?
I ask because while most of it is simply a slightly colored version of known facts, you added not only the Dragon Lady/Mah Jong bit but also the “CIA paid China to frame the Russians’ angle.
I am aware of just about everything else you mentioned, although I think you either oversimplified or over speculated in a few spots, but I have to admit I’ve never heard of the Dragon Lady or the alleged CIA plot. Could you cite a link or reference that would get me up to speed? I’ve searched online and come up with nothing.
It is indeed, such a plot. And LC, I’m happy to say, was the first person to break the code.
Remember, some people think Jason Bourne movies are about a real person.
Does it not strike you as strange that Madam Jongn bears a striking resemblance to the illusive Elaine Rickie?
She does, doesn’t she? Maybe the Ever Elusive Elaine Ricci has a time machine and went back to Saigon without telling anyone. Hmmmm….
Hussar is Chesty who posts gems like this:
Be easy on Hussar, English is not his first language.
Ex, I’ll see your Madame Nhu moonbat conspiracy and raise you this:
President Donald Trump and European Council President Donald Tusk both have the same first name and last initial. They’ve also never been photographed together in the same room at the same time.
Think about it…
Ooooh! But which one is wearing the mask???
Ex-PH2:
You commented that your post was humor, i.e. a joke, that you were kidding (satire?).
Were you kidding on these two comments or did I miss something?
“It’s more likely that Woodrow Wilson had some deal going with Stalin (re: what you’re referring to) at the Treaty of Versailles conference, Paris 1919, than anything Roosevelt did.”
“Stalin was at both Paris post WWI and at Yalta post WWII.”
I thought Representatives of the Bolshevik Goverment were not invited to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 by the Allied Powers.
Lenin was head of the Bolshevik Government.
Am I missing something?
Thank You.
You aren’t missing anything. She’s a moron.
Another Pat, it has been a while since I read “Paris 1919”, so I was winging it, but Lenin sent Trotsky to Belarus for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia’s participation in World War I. This was meant to appease Lenin more than anything else.
The Allies reps: Wilson, Clemenceau (France), Orlando (Italy) and Lloyd-George (UK) were at Versailles, outside Paris, working on dividing up Europe, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe and getting rid of the Ottoman rule of Turkey.
There was a lot more than just the treaty going on. Lenin was quite ill, and near the end of his life. Stalin had already started to take over the Soviet government.
Trotsky was exiled to Mexico by Lenin, and was killed by a Spanish-born NKVD agent named Roman Mercader, who may have been acting at Stalin’s behest.
The post itself is a rough summary plot for a novel involving all sorts of skullduggery and tricks, including fooling the Russians/Soviets into thinking they’re in charge of something, when it’s China pulling the strings on them. 95% of it is taken right out of history. The rest – secret squirrels, code crackers, looting bank accounts – all possible, and plausible, and LC did recognize Mme. Nhu, who coudl out-queen bitch shrillary any day of the week. And I acknowledged his doing so, too.
But compared to Imelda she was a piker when it came to buying shoes…
True, but the Dragon Lady liked shooting handguns in front of the troops. Imelda wouldn’t touch a weapon. Might damage her manicure.
Ex-PH2:
Was crushed that you left out Skinny and Injun, two “Ghost Walkers”, from your story…
😉
rtr🐘
Oh, I will add them. Did not know about them. Couriers, right?