BlackRock strikes $23 billion deal to place Panama Canal ports under American control by 6ixStringJack

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BlackRock strikes $23 billion deal to place Panama Canal ports under American control

POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Monday, April 7, 2025 12:15
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 7:39 PM

I would have put this one in the LEGITIMATE GRIPES ABOUT TRUMP thread if Second hadn't coopted that one for his daily TDS therapy and whatever shit Kevin Drum spews out every morning...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blackrock-panama-canal-deal-ck-hutchison-
trump/

I think this one is something we can all come together and have a problem with, although I know very well that some of us are going to have entirely different problems with it than others.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:38 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

another multi national owned Investment Management with foreign interests that stabbed the USA in the back and youre supposed to trust them?

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 4:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
another multi national owned Investment Management with foreign interests that stabbed the USA in the back and youre supposed to trust them?

BINGO

Although you weren't one of the people I figured would dislike this for all the wrong reasons.

Don't be surprised when you find out the Panama Canal is staffed exclusively with trannies in 10 years too. BlackRock LOVES their chicks with dicks.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:15 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

and rumors about adverts with guys who became shooters?

BlackRock yanks 2022 ad featuring Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/blackrock-pulls-ad-that-featured
-trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks/

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:20 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I think there's a lot going on in the background we don't know about.

Personally, I think Trump has about a dozen bags of burning dogshit on his porch, and TPTB covered up the dogshit for years, if not decades. Hell, if they can cover up the mental incompetence of a President of the United States, they can cover up anything.
Right?

So they decided to light them on fire now to discredit Trump and his policies. This is the problem that "death of America and the collective west" brought up. Border and DEI issues were nothing, compared to what's lurking in the deep.

I can imagine that BlackRock was heavily invested in Project Pillage Russia/ Pillage Ukraine, and if that project went tits-up BlackRock itself might be in trouble, so this might be a Project Rescue BlackRock. Bc, IMHO, some banks, investment firms and even the USA itself that are teetery, financially. It was just papered over with lots and lots and LOTS of newly-printed dollars.

Remember, Trump is swimming with the sharks now, and I'm not talking about the Deep State and the Dem Party. Those guys are pikers in comparison to financial insitutions and hedge funds and the interests of other superpowers.

There's another aspect to this. I heard a very interesting discussion with TheGrayZone's Max Blumenthal (not related to the other Blumenthal). He criticized Trump's foreign policy for a number of cogent reasons, the main reason being Trump's 19th century view of "multipolar". In Trump's view, "multipolar" means major powers with their "spheres of influence", where each major power (USA, Russia, China) has an area that it controls. For us, it would be the western hemisphere.

In CHINA'S view*, China is an EXPORTING economy and "multipolar" means that China should be able to invest anywhere in the world; establish mines, factories, and ports anywhere in the world; and trade anywhere in the world. China's Belt and Road initiative (BRI) is to establish the ports, railways etc needed for global trade. If you think that means China is aiming to become the next GLOBAL economic superpower, you're right.

China and Panama had a deal, where China would build infrastructure (ports, I think) in return for favored transit fees. So Trump leaned on Panama, making them break their last contract with China. I think this is Part 2 of Trump trying to clip China's nose and control the western hemisphere.

The original owner was, IIRC, a Hong Kong company, and Hong Kong IS PART OF CHINA.

What we're looking at is The Clash of the Titans. Only ginormous multinationals need apply.

* For the sake of completeness, I think Russia also wants to be able to trade, but it doesn't have an impulse to be the next global superpower. Mainly, I think, it just wants the threats and harassment to stop.

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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Well... I've always said that Russia means nothing to me and it's the Chinese we should fear.

But for the last 8 years it was Racist to say that.

Hopefully it's not too late.

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Thursday, March 6, 2025 5:31 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I think we need to get past that reflex that if China is active someplace it means a loss for us. I think what we need to do is take stock of our physical assets ... land, water, oil, gas, forests, grasslands, metals and minerals etc ... And see what we actually NEED from foreign sources and develop a list of possible sources and trading strategies. For example, I know we're short of strategic metals like titanium and tungsten and cobalt, and it should be important to us to develop mutually beneficial trade relationships and infrastructure with those areas

And not let ideology and fucking grudge-matches get in the way. One thing we're short of is heavy crude (required for diesel) and yet we refuse to trade with Venezuela, which has the world's largest proven reserves.

Why??!

Unless China gets in the way of important resources, if we organize ourselves properly, invest in manufacturing and real education (again) it shouldn't really matter to us what China does or doesn't do bc we will be able to provide for our own.

Altho I suspect it matters to our uber wealthy, who would like the whole world to be their money making machine.

Fuck en.

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"Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Monday, April 7, 2025 4:57 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

No doubt it will get outsourced and globalized. So are they getting a bunch of Japanese or Greeks to run the show?

BlackRock Rakes in BILLIONS Pushing Child Transitioning: ‘Young Bodies Are a Goldmine’

https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/blackrock-rakes-in-billions-pushing-child-t
ransitioning-young-bodies-are-a-goldmine/

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Monday, April 7, 2025 12:15 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

China is pissed off at the Hong Kong company that sold the port(s).

Quote:
The Panama ports deal is delayed, as China signals dissent

It was never going to be a simple transaction. But the deal hailed by Donald Trump as a way to regain American control of the Panama Canal seems to get more complicated by the week. BlackRock, an American investment firm, was scheduled to sign an agreement on April 2nd to buy 43 ports, including two in Panama, from ck Hutchison (ckh), their Hong Kong-based operator. That signing has now been postponed, even though both sides suggest the deal is still on.

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/04/03/the-panama-ports-deal-is-de
layed-as-china-signals-dissent

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