Archives
All posts for the month April, 2022
‘International demand for commercial ships is fueling the growth of the Chinese navy, according to a new report, which found that billions of dollars in foreign shipbuilding contracts could be being used by Beijing to fund new combat vessels.
The new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a security-focused think tank, found that four major shipyards responsible for building Chinese naval vessels also raked in billions of dollars in foreign commercial investment and technology transfers every year.
“China’s opaque business ecosystem offers limited transparency into the flow of capital within its shipbuilding industry, but available evidence indicates that profits from foreign orders likely lower the costs of upgrading China’s navy,” the report said.
This is because of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) strategy of military-civil fusion (MCF), which aims to prioritize commercial, technological, and research endeavors which simultaneously serve civilian and military purposes.
With MCF in mind, China’s premier state-owned shipbuilders are able to use the profits from international contracts to hasten military projects, such as the CCP’s expanding fleet of aircraft carriers.
The report notes that one such company, state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), is the primary builder of Chinese naval vessels, and also develops weapons and other national security equipment for the regime.
According to the report, CSSC alone accounts for 21.5 percent of the world’s shipbuilding market, and the mammoth company controls more than 100 subsidiaries. The United States placed CSSC on an investment blacklist in 2020 but, as the numbers demonstrate, such has had little to no effect on international demand.
The example of CSSC highlight the important issue of China’s centrality to the global shipbuilding market. In 2020, China accounted for more than 40 percent of all merchant shipbuilding in the world. Second place went to South Korea with 31.5 percent, and third to Japan with 22.2 percent.
The rest of the world combined accounted for less than eight percent of all merchant shipbuilding.
Vitally, the report found that the same shipyards used to build the world’s merchant vessels were also being used to rocket China’s navy to global ascendency.
Four shipyards, Dalian, Jiangnan, Hudong-Zhonghua, and Huangpu Wenchong, received billions from foreign investors in recent years, where top firms from France and even Taiwan commissioned ships to be built in the same drydocks as China’s combat vessels.
Previously, a French ship was being built in the same drydock that is now constructing China’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier. Recent satellite imaging, moreover, showed that a commercial container ship for Taiwan’s Evergreen Marine Corporation was being built in the next dock over.
The incident raises concerns that the Taiwanese shipping titan could be essentially funding China’s capacity to invade the self-governed island.
“It should raise more than a few eyebrows in Taipei that Taiwan’s premier shipping company is pouring money into the coffers of shipyards assembling warships for the Chinese navy,” the report said.
“Given CSSC’s lack of transparency and its central role in supporting the PLAN [People’s Liberation Army Navy], foreign companies should exercise more caution when engaging with it and other Chinese shipbuilders. For democracies, especially those in the region that must weather the brunt of China’s rising assertiveness, these ties are more than just worrying. They present a tangible threat to national security. ”
In all, CSIS found that Evergreen purchased 44 vessels from China from 2018-2022. Only two of those orders were built by shipyards that were not known to produce combat vessels for the Chinese navy.
Evergreen’s contracts with CSSC are just the tip of the iceberg, however.
The CSIS report found that from 2019 to 2021, the four aforementioned shipyards received 211 orders for commercial vessels, with some 64 percent of those orders originating from outside of China and Hong Kong.
As such, the report warned that global demand for commercial vessels was likely accelerating Chinese naval development by a significant margin at a time when the West is increasingly at odds with the communist regime over its global ambitions.
Nevertheless, the report said that there was a silver lining in the fact that the two other largest shipbuilders were South Korea and Japan, which CSIS described as “thriving democracies.” Both nations also enjoy favorable trade and security agreements with the United States.
As such, CSIS recommended that lawmakers in Washington seek to draw international shipbuilding contracts away from China and into the markets of more democratic societies in the Pacific.
“Policymakers in Washington should explore opportunities to incentivize foreign companies away from China and toward partnerships with South Korean and Japanese alternatives,” the report said.
“The shift will not be easy or immediate. Short-term capacity issues will arise. But in managing hard choices vis-à-vis China, especially those critical to national security, the United States should be prepared to steer the lead ship. “’https://www.theepochtimes.com/international-shipbuilding-contracts-fuel-chinese-navy-modernization-report_4397072.html?est=eBFJ5doDK8dDckunmwgx%2BtWt2FpLlFD1zeTDrC5b5YeHX9NJncBCWQzK%2FCyeWH%2FPdg%3D%3D
Are more lockdowns like China’s coming to the USA and Australia? https://www.theepochtimes.com/are-more-chinese-communist-party-style-lockdowns-coming-to-america_4400065.html?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy&rs=SHRKCTZH&
Wish the politicians would read this!
By Ronald Stein ~
The worldwide movement toward the electrification of everything, from intermittent electricity by industrial wind and solar farms, to more electric vehicles, the political actions are supportive of jumping onto the green train, most-likely not knowing there is a darker side of green technology, associated with environmental degradation, humanity atrocities, and other embedded costs for materials.
A recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) notes: “A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant”.
- Nickel: A major component of the EV batteries, is found just below the topsoil in the Rainforests of Indonesia and the Philippines. As a result, the nickel is extracted using horizontal surface mining that results in extensive environmental degradation: deforestation and removal of the top layer of soil.
- Lithium: Over half…
View original post 783 more words
The Snake in the grass is now in the water.
This documentary by Stew Peters Show with Dr Bryan Ardis is a game changer.
WATCH HERE ON Rumble.com https://rumble.com/v10mnew-live-world-premiere-watch-the-water.html
In a dynamite interview Dr Ardis connects the evil dots that connect both the Fauci promoted drug Remdesivir and mRNA bioweapon shots to the venom of snakes, especially the king cobra. These drugs are literally snake poison. Well what about the water? Are they putting it in the water supply? You have got to watch this or listen to the audio on Podbean.
This is a spiritual war folks and it now looks like Satan — represented by the snake from the Garden of Eden — is using literal snake venom to murder billions of humans. This is the final great conflict. Get right with God!
Comments welcome below.
Join me onTelegram.org:@GideonHartnetthttps://t.me/gideonhartnett
If you want to be notified by email each time I add a new post…
View original post 10 more words
‘Mr. Thomas Senzee, aka Thom Senzee, worked as a journalist and freelance writer for over 20 years, according to his Huffington Post bio. Nearly all Senzee stories and online bios mention something about “LGBT.” Mr. Senzee announced in December 2020 that he would be rolling up his sleeves for the experimental injections as soon as possible. He reasoned that receiving the injections is “logic[al],” despite no long or even credible short-term studies about safety and effectiveness.
His first Pfizer mRNA injection came sometime in March 2021. Mr. Senzee was so excited about the second injection that he announced it twice before receiving the shot on April 23, 2021. He captioned the band-aid photo, saying he “can’t wait for faster download speeds.”
Vaxx zealotry continues
Mr. Senzee utilized a lot of word salads to appear enlightened and non-judgmental against the non-vaccinated. But the strategy was ineffective. He said in late October that wearing masks is “our responsibility” and then compared experimental mRNA gene therapy to measles and mumps vaccines from the 1970s.
British singer Eric Clapton had severe adverse reactions to an AstraZeneca viral vector DNA injection last May. He starting warning others about the risks and what he experienced after the shot. Mr. Senzee referred to Mr. Clapton as “#coocooClapton” and an “anti-vaxxer nut” for telling the truth about his adverse reactions.
Mr. Senzee then denied thriving on schadenfreude, while saying the non-vaccinated need to “heal…mentally.”
He then insinuated that “my body, my choice” only refers to abortions, and not the experimental injections and masks.
Another pattern we’ve seen in nearly all of these LGBT virtue signaling cases is unabashed, universal Fauci worship and obedience.
Of course Fauci is responsible for upwards of 300,000 homosexual American deaths with his promotion of and profiteering off the poisonous HIV drug AZT in the 1990s.
Finally, right before the New Year, on December 27, Mr. Senzee blamed the non-vaccinated for his obsequiousness and obedience to government, mainstream media and big tech.
Sudden death
It’s unclear if or when Mr. Senzee received a booster shot. However, we’ve cited surveys by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation several times on this blog.
The HRC, known as the “largest LGBT rights organization in the United States,” found last August that 92% of American adults that identify as LGBT were fully-vaccinated. HRC updated its data and released a new report on March 24. It found that 96% of LGBT American adults have either already received a booster shot, had a booster appointment set, or planned to set an appointment in the very-near future. Thus it’s safe to surmise Mr. Senzee was triple-vaxxed.
The Blade reported that Mr. Senzee was found dead in Palm Springs on March 24. Another LGBT publication described his death as “tragic and unexpected.” Note that Mr. Senzee averaged about five tweets per day from January 2021-22. That dropped to about one per day in February. He tweeted only twice in March, with the last one coming on March 16.
The Riverside County Coroner said in a statement that the cause of death is undetermined, pending further investigation. There was a GoFundMe page created on March 30 with a goal of raising $6,700. The beneficiary was listed as Barbara Senzee, who appears to be Mr. Senzee’s sister. But the page, with only half of its goal met, now says it is no longer accepting donations.
There are no further updates as of publishing.’https://thecovidblog.com/2022/04/11/thomas-senzee-longtime-lgbt-journalist-mocks-the-non-vaccinated-with-the-regurgitated-faster-download-speeds-trope-dies-unexpectedly/
‘We know that SARS-CoV-2 is a man-made “paravirus” if you will, created in Wuhan/Moderna laboratories and reinforced by mainstream media propaganda. But in the grand scheme, at least the first iteration released onto the world, so-called COVID-19 is a lightweight illness that is mostly just rebranded influenza.
The mRNA and viral vector injections, along with Remdesivir, combine for a quick two-year, $200 billion global racket for big pharma and Bill Gates. Ivermectin is a proven, powerful drug to treat and prevent so-called COVID-19, according to 108 peer-reviewed studies. The Ivermectin Merck patents are long expired. So the cheap, $1-per-dose, Nobel Prize-winning drug poses a serious threat not only to the emergency use authorizations for the lethal injections, but also to the temporary COVID-19 racket. But those simply cannot be the only reasons for the persistent, petulant, childish mainstream media anti-Ivermectin propaganda.
The cancer industry will surpass $522 billion per year by 2028, according to Global Market Insights. Market analytics firm Precedent Research predicts the cancer industrial complex will surpass $581 billion annually by 2030. The COVID Blog™ has chronicled the strong correlation (perhaps causal relationship) between mRNA injections and cancer. Cancer has been a goldmine for big pharma since the 1960s. The average cancer patient is worth about $160,000 to the cancer industrial complex. Big pharma will never offer a cure, nor will the industry allow off-label, cheap, effective cancer treatments.
This blogger has seen scattered studies concluding that Ivermectin not only inhibits cancer cell growth, but also kills cancer cells. Perhaps placing nine said studies into one article can help disrupt the cancer industrial complex and wake up the snoozing masses.
1) American Journal of Cancer Research – 2018
This study by researchers at Unidad de Investigación Biomédica en Cáncer in Mexico concluded:
So far, at least 235 clinically-approved, non-cancer drugs have proven anti-tumor activity either in vitro, in vivo, or even clinically. Among these, ivermectin, an anti-parasitic compound of wide use in veterinary and human medicine, is clearly a strong candidate for repositioning, based on the fact that:
i) it is very safe, causing almost no side-effects other than those caused by the immune and inflammatory responses against the parasite in infected patients, and
ii) it has proven anti-tumor activity in pre-clinical studies. On the other hand, it is now evident that the use of very selective “unitargeted” drugs is commonly associated to early development of resistance by cancer cells, hence the use of “dirty” or “multitargeted” drugs is important to explore.
2) Pharmacological Research – 2020
Some key findings by Chinese researchers at Bengbu Medical College include the following:
- Recent studies have also found that Ivermectin (IVM) could promote the death of tumor cells by regulating the tumor micro-environment in breast cancer.
- In an experiment designed to screen potential drugs for the treatment of leukemia, IVM preferentially killed leukemia cells at low concentrations without affecting normal hematopoietic cells.
- In a study by Hashimoto, it found that IVM inhibited the proliferation of various ovarian cancer cell lines.
- Experiments confirmed that IVM could significantly inhibit the proliferation of five renal cell carcinoma cell lines without affecting the proliferation of normal kidney cells, and its mechanism may be related to the induction of mitochondrial dysfunction.
3) Frontiers in Pharmacology – 2021
Researchers at Henan University in China concluded:
We have demonstrated that ivermectin may regulate the expression of crucial molecules Caspase-3, Bax, Bcl-2, PARP, and Cleaved-PARP in the apoptosis pathway by increasing ROS production and inhibiting the cell cycle in the S phase to inhibit colorectal cancer cells (Figure 11). Therefore, current results indicate that ivermectin might be a new potential anticancer drug for treating human colorectal cancer and other cancers.
4) Molecular Medicine Reports – 2018
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City concluded the following:
Results from the present study demonstrated that ivermectin preferentially targeted the stem cell population in MDA–MB–231 human breast cancer cells. Ivermectin has been demonstrated to be safe, following treatment of millions of patients with onchocerciasis and other parasitic diseases, which makes it a strong candidate for further studies investigating its potential use as a repurposed drug for cancer therapy.
5) Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications – 2017
Some key findings from researchers at The Second Clinical Medical College in China:
- Ivermectin is preferentially against renal cell carcinoma (RCC) while sparing normal kidney cells.
- RCC tumor growth in vivo is delayed by Ivermectin.
- Ivermectin induces mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress.
- RCC has increased mitochondrial biogenesis than normal kidney cells.
6) EPMA Journal – 2020
Researchers at three Chinese institutions concluded:
Those findings provided the potential targeted lncRNA-EIF4A3-mRNA pathways of ivermectin in ovarian cancer, and constructed the effective prognostic model, which benefits discovery of novel mechanism of ivermectin to suppress ovarian cancer cells, and the ivermectin-related molecule-panel changes benefit for its personalized drug therapy and prognostic assessment towards its predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine (PPPM) in ovarian cancers.
7) BMC Cancer – 2021
Chinese researchers at Henan University, concluded the following:
We demonstrated that ivermectin effectively inhibit the proliferation of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cells by inducing mitochondrial dysfunction, suppressing NF-κB signaling and promoting apoptosis. Our results suggest that ivermectin may be a potential therapeutic target against ESCC.
8) Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology – 2020
Some key findings from researchers at Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia in Mexico City:
Ivermectin reduced both cell viability and colony formation capacity in the stem cell-enriched population as compared with the parental one. Finally, in tumor-bearing mice ivermectin successfully reduced both tumor size and weight. Our results on the anti-tumor effects of ivermectin support its clinical testing.
9) EMBO Molecular Medicine – 2014
Some key findings by University of Geneva researchers are as follows:
Constitutive activation of canonical WNT-TCF signaling is implicated in multiple diseases, including intestine and lung cancers, but there are no WNT-TCF antagonists in clinical use. We report that Ivermectin inhibits the expression of WNT-TCF targets, mimicking dnTCF, and that its low concentration effects are rescued by direct activation by TCFVP16.
In vivo, Ivermectin selectively inhibits TCF-dependent, but not TCF-independent, xenograft growth without obvious side effects. Given that Ivermectin is a safe anti-parasitic agent used by 200 million people against river blindness, our results suggest its additional use as a therapeutic WNT-TCF pathway response blocker to treat WNT-TCF-dependent diseases including multiple cancers.
Job 38:4
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
‘Every day, all over the Earth, plants engage in chemical warfare against insects and animals that would eat them. When this drama is described by evolutionary scientists, they usually talk about plants as though the plants were skilled chemists who developed their abilities on their own.
For example, the leaves of the oak tree contain tannins. Tannins form complexes with proteins so that, when eaten, they have little nutritional value. An evolutionary account of how this arrangement came about describes how the trees supposedly developed this strategy for self-defense. Stories like this make one wonder how oak trees gained so much knowledge about animal digestion and chemistry. Some species of milkweed and dogbane produce powerful muscle relaxants that can be fatal to humans.
One might picture, in the far distant past, white-smocked milkweeds working in the chemistry lab. Other “doctor” milkweeds are feeding various concoctions to humans in cages to test their responses. When one tries to account for this without a Creator, the picture can become silly.
The Bible provides an answer that makes a great deal more sense. In Job 38 and 39 the Lord – the Creator – asks Job about dozens of aspects of the creation. In His questioning, He asks Job about the source of the knowledge and abilities found in living things. The answer, of course, is that the creating God, and no one else, designed, built and taught the creation. Other answers simply can’t satisfy.’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/plant-self-defense-3/?mc_cid=90ceddb138&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
whatyareckon 