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The CCP has many many goals of which one is to close down small businesses in the West. Small business owners are usually middle class people. The CCP do not want any middle class in the West. If Biden and the Devilcrats get the WH and Congress the middle class are history. This is happening in those cities and states controlled by the Devilcrats NOW!
How long will it be before we in the West face the same persecution Christians in China are facing? In ‘Chinese courtrooms this month were the scene of two trials prosecuting Christian businessmen for selling audio versions of the Bible, a new crackdown that is part of a government campaign to “eradicate pornography and illegal publications.”
Lai Jinqiang, a Christian businessman whose company sells an audio Bible player — an MP3-like device that allows users to share passages from the Bible — was tried in a district court in China’s coastal city Shenzhen on December 7 for selling the electronic devices.
On December 9, four Christians, Fu Xuanjuan, Deng Tianyong, Han Li and Feng Qunhao, were tried by the same court for “illegal business operations.” They all worked for Life Tree Culture Communication Co., Ltd, whose main business is selling audio Bible players. The prosecutor recommended that the court sentence Fu, the owner of the company to five years in prison. The other three sentences ranged from 18 months to three years.
According to Bitter Winter, an online magazine on religious liberty and human rights, police are also reaching out to buyers of the Bible players to warn them about potentially breaking the law by making such purchases.
Audio Bible players
China for years has allowed sales of the Bible through official channels only. Currently, among China’s major religions, which include Buddhism, Taoism, Islam and folk beliefs, Christianity is the only one whose major holy text cannot be sold through normal commercial channels. The Bible is printed in China but legally available only at church bookstores approved by Beijing. Roughly two years ago, the Chinese government banned online Bible sales.
Audio Bible players, nevertheless, have become popular with people of faith in China because of their ease of use. Apart from Bible verses, these electronic players are also equipped with sermons, hymns and other religious content. They were widely available on China’s largest online commercial site Taobao.
Ma Jing, a Christian at a family church, told VOA that the government can detain and punish worshippers for whatever excuse they come up with.
“This is bullying,” she said, adding that she believes the reason the Chinese Communist Party controls sales of Bible-related products is that it fears a large number of Christians could pose a threat to its rule.
Gina Goh, regional manager for Southeast Asia at Washington-based rights group International Christian Concern, told VOA the ultimate purpose of the trials is to make people fearful.
“These are examples that serve the purpose of warning other Christians to stop spreading the theology or the words (of the Bible) through your business,” she said.
She added that this is another example that the Chinese government is increasingly cracking down on Christians.
“They want to have full control. Targeting these Christian businesses is just one of the many ways that they are trying to crack down on Christianity overall,” she continued.
Sui Muqing, a Chinese human rights lawyer, told VOA the trials were meant to stop the spread of the Bible.
“My feeling is that this is the same kind of suppression as before, it’s just now expanded to Christian businesses. In essence, these are no difference from past religious persecution cases,” he said.
Christianity has been growing in China during the past two decades. According to a 2018 report by China’s State Council, from 1997 to 2018, Catholicism grew to 6 million worshipers from 4 million, while Protestantism increased to 38 million worshippers from 10 million.
Most surveys and experts, however, believe that these figures represent only about half the total number of believers, because each has a strong underground church that roughly matches the number of believers in government-run churches.
The Council on Foreign Relations estimates China is on track to have the world’s largest population of Christians by the end of this decade.
Retranslating the Bible
As part of a longstanding effort to limit the influence of Christianity in China, central government authorities last year indicated that they would publish an “official translation” of the Bible for Chinese worshippers.
The CCP called for “a comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aiming at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times” in a 2019 meeting held by the Committee for Ethnic and Religious Affairs, which oversees religious matters in China.
The meeting concluded that the new “official edition” of the Bible must not contain any content that contradicts socialism, and paragraphs deemed wrong by censors will be amended or retranslated.’https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/china-conducts-two-trials-crackdown-audio-bibles
Australia USED to have some of the cheapest energy in the world but no longer due to trying to save the planet from climate change! Australia can sell coal to China, India and Japan BUT will not use it in Australia because we feel better about ourselves when we are spending lots more for energy while saving the planet! What a joke!
Even the supposedly thought to be ‘conservatives’ have sold the country down the climate scam hole from which there will soon be no return! In spite of being a supposed free democracy all we seem to get at elections are these people who talk jobs and low energy prices but at the same time have swallowed the climate change Kool Aid and seem bound and determined to continue the Green New deal without being in the Greens Party! In other words they lie at election time. Now, ‘Energy Minister Angus Taylor says Australia’s “great challenge” is to bring down and contain energy prices and at the same time bring down emissions. Mr Taylor and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are in Tasmania to formally sign an agreement making the state the battery of the nation. Under the plan $94 million will be invested to build a second power interconnector to Victoria. “That’s exactly what this project is doing. We’re seeing dramatic investment right now across Australia in solar and wind. $9 billion last year,” Mr Taylor said. “And that’s in keeping with dramatic reductions we’re seeing in emissions. The challenge of that is to make sure we have firm, reliable power and we contain prices when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. That’s exactly what hydro projects can do. “When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, you need a solution and Tasmania has part of that solution which is very exciting for all of us here.”’https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6216267512001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter&utm_content=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter+CID_7134b2b086947a3f89e1d037be7b10ad&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=Australias%20great%20challenge%20is%20to%20bring%20down%20energy%20prices%20emissions
Who’s Colin Kaepernick? The name sounds familiar but really is it worth the time to get to know who he is? Now, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream that’s a different story! I know about them as we were in the north east of the once good ole USA way back when and had some of their ice cream. It wasn’t bad then but now!? Well, it has now been found out that this guy, Kaepernick has ‘…his own flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
Kaepernick and the company teamed up to create a flavor called “Change the Whirled,” which will be available in early 2021.
“I’ve teamed up with Ben & Jerry’s to serve up joy on the journey to justice!” Kaepernick tweeted. “Today, we’re excited to introduce Change the Whirled, a new non-dairy flavor that hits shelves in early-2021 [sic]! 100% of my proceeds will go to Know Your Rights Camp with matching support from Ben & Jerry’s.”
Know Your Rights Camp is Kaepernick’s own social justice organization. According to their Twitter bio, they “advance the liberation and well-being of Black & Brown communities and elevate the next generation of change leaders.”
As for the ice cream, it is caramel and sunflower butter based and includes fudge chips and graham cracker and chocolate cookie swirls.
Ben & Jerry’s is quite politically active for an ice cream company. Just a couple of other examples: their “Pecan Resist” flavor released in October 2018, which “supports groups creating a more just and equitable nation for us all, and who are fighting against President Trump’s regressive agenda,” and their “Bernie’s Yearning” flavor released in 2016.
During the George Floyd riots and hysteria over the summer, Colin Kaepernick’s name began reappearing in the headlines. Big League Politics wrote about how he and Dr. Anthony Fauci were winners of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award. And we also covered his disgusting anti-American video posted on the 4th of July that called Independence Day “a celebration of white supremacy.”’https://thepatriotwatchdog.com/what-ben-jerrys-releases-colin-kaepernick-ice-cream-flavor-called/
‘A recently leaked database has revealed that 1.95 million registered members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been employed at universities, major corporations, and British consulates around the world.
Some members have been employees of U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing and pharmaceutical maker Pfizer.
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), a global coalition of lawmakers, obtained the database from an unidentified Chinese dissident, then shared the material with four media organizations, according to a Dec. 12 report by British newspaper The Mail on Dec. 13, which obtained the list and reviewed it.
IPAC, in a statement on Nov. 13, said one of its representatives received the database from a “non-government source” and the coalition had experts verify the list.
“IPAC will push for governments and companies to respond, setting out how they intend to safeguard their values in the face of infiltration,” IPAC stated.
According to the outlet, the database contained names, dates of birth, and ethnicity, while some also had addresses and telephone numbers. The database was first leaked on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, after it was allegedly extracted in 2016 by people believed to be Chinese dissidents, from a Shanghai server.
Most of the CCP members in the database are from Shanghai.’https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-members-hold-positions-at-british-consulates-major-uk-us-firms-leaked-database_3616310.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-13-4
The Demoncrats want to say ‘There is nothing to see here’ but if Creepy Sleepy Joe gets the WH then expect more of the following from his son, Hunter. There will not be any news coverage of his dealings but they will be taking place none the less. While millions will lose their jobs the Biden’s along with the other ‘We are more important than you’ people will get even more wealthy!
My wife just came in and told me K Mart has now Covid (China Virus) Marshalls to keep people safe! Oh, yeah, K Mart is really concerned with our health safety! Then there is this from an unsolicited email received from OZY x Chevrolet. ‘What does the American Dream mean? It’s a question that strikes people in vastly different ways and sparked a spirited debate from our panelists on the first episode of “Real Talk, Real Change,” a special edition of The Carlos Watson Show sponsored by Chevrolet. We’re having the hard conversations about racial justice and opportunity that America needs right now. I truly believe that the 2020s will be the new 1960s, when we will finally grapple with long glossed-over questions about race, love, gender, loneliness, capitalism and more. I’m thrilled to get those debates started with this exciting discussion…’
What is it with these companies? General Motors now has a web site that tells us how bad America has been to black people.
BLM and Antifa are Marxist organizations that will only get more bold if Sleepy Joe gets the WH. Here in Australia even the Cricketer’s are getting in on the BLM act for some reason by (I think) taking off their shoes and standing in a circle in protest! WHATEVER!! There isn’t a nice way to say this but these people are NUTS!
Now, there just might be a smidgen of truth somewhere in all this Communist/Marxist/Leftist talk but the truth is hidden so far down in the darkness of the lies it cannot be heard. Well anyway, to simply put it so those at GM understand, there will be no more General Motor automobiles or trucks for this blogger (as if those at GM care) as GM has gone fully woke and unless it receives another government handout it will certainly go BROKE!
