China analyst Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” discusses Chinese Communist Party paid propaganda in American news outlets, how Beijing interfered in the U.S. elections, and why China is building a massive DNA database of people all over the world.
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Masks will be mandated if Sleepy Joe gets the WH. So, ‘If you’re tired of wearing a visible sign of massive government overreach and ginned-up hysteria everywhere you go, do not despair. Help could be on its way, courtesy of the most unlikely source: al-Qaeda.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the jihad group is refusing to accept the State Department’s complacent assertion that it is on the ropes, and has just published a new magazine with the catchy title Wolves of Manhattan, in which it calls on the warriors of jihad who find themselves in the U.S. to murder people by means of poisoned coronavirus masks. So now it’s wear a mask or the coronavirus will get you (unless you’re at a Black Lives Matter protest, of course; the virus knows better than to infect the righteous), or don’t wear a mask so that al-Qaeda doesn’t get you.
Al-Qaeda is one of the most evil organizations in the entire world, but if its new threat can help to put an end to the mask hysteria and bring back some semblance of normal life, at least before His Fraudulency President-apparent Joe Biden’s authoritarian kleptocracy descends upon us, then these jihadis might accidentally have done one good deed in this world, not that this will balance out their thousands of murders, enslavements, pillages, and other marvelous effluvia of their famous Misunderstanding of the Religion of Peace.
The article bears a title that could have come word-for-word from the Huffington Post or Slate: “Ways And Means Of Exploiting the Corona Pandemic Against The Powers Of Global Unbelief,” although in the HuffPo or Slate the “unbelief” in question would not be the rejection of Islam, but the unbelief involved in daring to doubt that stepping outside without a mask would result in one immediately dropping dead, after destroying the lives of hundreds of others in Typhoid Mary fashion by breathing freely in their presence. And the people “exploiting” the pandemic would be those mayors and governors who are happily destroying the areas they govern and asserting authoritarian control over their people.’https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/12/al-qaeda-calls-on-jihadis-to-kill-non-muslims-with-poisoned-coronavirus-masks?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_12_05_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-12-05
One would have to be a hermit not to know something about Twitter’s double standards in what they allow and will not allow on their platform! Now, ‘In the past week, state-labeled accounts from the CCP of China have spread misinformation regarding the origins of COVID-19, pointing the finger at frozen food from Europe and Italy, in an attempt to shield themselves from culpability and obfuscate any investigation into their actions in Wuhan or their virology studies. The posts from Chinese state-run media have gone unchallenged by Twitter, and Twitter’s communications team, whose members apparently don’t like using their own platform, remains silent.
When Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian posted a photoshopped graphic of an Australian soldier with a knife to the neck of a young child, as part of an ongoing conflict between Australia and China, the topic trended on Twitter’s news feed. It garnered a featured spot in their news section. The tweet prompted a response from Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida in a letter directly addressed to Jack Dorsey about why Chinese state accounts are allowed to spread misinformation on his platform at will, while the President’s account is policed within mere minutes.
Rubio doesn’t have much authority to enforce Twitter’s rules on its behalf, but just as it comes to banning Twitter accounts along ideological lines, if Dorsey and Twitter won’t begin to enforce their own rules, then someone else will. But Rubio is asking valid questions. Why are Chinese state accounts allowed to spread conspiracies and misinformation against other countries or about the global pandemic they created, while Twitter executives and engineers simply look the other way? The answer might be even more troubling than what it appears to be on the surface.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the likes of Nike and Apple are lobbying members of Congress against the Xinjiang Forced Labor Bill, which addresses American-based companies using forced labor camps, like the ones containing Uighur Muslims in China, to produce their products, or the materials that go into their products. These companies are arguing that the financial hit their supply chains will incur as a result of complete separation from China is not acceptable. Nike and Apple, you will recall, put up a woke facade this summer in the name of raking in millions of social-justice dollars for their products. Twitter does not offer a can of soda, or a pair of high priced trainers, but it’s not inconceivable to imagine that it views cultural investments in China in much the same way that movie studios such as Disney. Currently it’s illegal to use Twitter in China, though many Chinese people do so by using a VPN. Where you see a repressive authoritarian regime and a billion and a half silent citizens, does Jack Dorsey see a business opportunity?
This also isn’t the first instance of Twitter placating Chinese state accounts. In 2019, Twitter removed the accounts of several Chinese dissidents, three days prior to the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Twitter claimed it was a routine effort to stop inauthentic and spam accounts, an excuse they’ve used in the past when it comes to censoring certain conservative accounts. Eventually Twitter is going to have to answer for this behavior.’https://spectator.com.au/2020/12/twitter-is-in-chinas-pocket/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WORL%20%2020201204%20%20AL&utm_content=WORL%20%2020201204%20%20AL+CID_daeaa1896bfd7c8341b38f7f4a2a3678&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Stephen%20L%20Miller
Yep, a rock and roll singer, and not a good one at that in my own opinion, is the person that the government would go to for diplomatic advice. You see, ‘Jimmy Barnes is better known for his screaming than for his expertise on foreign affairs which, of course, makes him the perfect person to pontificate about international diplomacy on the ABC.
The ageing rocker told Q&A on Monday that Australia’s feud with China could have been avoided if Prime Minister Scott Morrison had been more culturally sensitive.
Well sure. And England’s feud with Germany could have been avoided if Neville Chamberlain had spoken in softer tones to the Fuhrer.
Jimmy Barnes didn’t mention the ‘cultural sensitivity’ displayed by China when, having realised coronavirus had escaped (or was it released) from a wet market (or was it a lab) they shut down domestic travel but continued to export the virus overseas.
He ignored the ‘culturally sensitivity’ on show when China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Lijian Zhao, accused the US army of seeding the virus in China.
And he failed to mention the ‘cultural sensitivity’ demonstrated by China spreading fake photographs depicting an Australian solider beheading an Afghan child.
None of that was relevant. It was Scott Morrison who needed a lesson in manners.
Jimmy ‘The Last Plane Out Of Wuhan’ Barnes said the PM’s call for an inquiry into the origins of the Chinese Flu, which spread from China to the world, had needlessly upset the Chinese.
“We can’t just expect… if we’re Australians and we say, ‘This is wrong, we’ve got to bloody stand up to it’ that may not culturally be the same way to speak to the Chinese,” he said, in a monologue that almost made Joe Biden look articulate.’https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/12/their-abc-presents-the-henry-kissinger-of-the-largs-piers-hotel/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OZWH%20%2020201205%20%20AL&utm_content=OZWH%20%2020201205%20%20AL+CID_4cec53f1b5ef01b6c399f04ed34dd711&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Their%20ABC%20presents%20Jimmy%20Barnes%20the%20China%20expert%20of%20the%20Largs%20Piers%20Hotel
President Trump was for America but if Biden and that other person get the WH China will have full control of the world or so it would seem. Nevertheless, the news out of China is that ‘As the likelihood of a US-China reset increases despite the distracting drama over President Donald Trump’s White House departure, former intelligence officials and foreign policy analysts are gaming how Beijing could test the mettle of the incoming Biden administration for weakness and opportunity.
Most expect Beijing to initially take it slow in line with its past approach toward presidential transitions and to avoid jinxing a potential course correction after four brutal years of trade wars, name-calling and recriminations.
“Beijing may try a combination of hard and soft probing as it assesses the incoming administration,” said Jing Sun, associate professor at the University of Denver. “Contacts will be under the surface and incremental due to Beijing being traumatised by the Trump administration.”
Fuelling Beijing’s reluctance to test Washington in dramatic fashion is a belief that it is not in a rush, that American power is declining and that it has met many immediate objectives in the South China Sea. And on other core issues, it has tightened its grip over Hong Kong, while any precipitous move against Taiwan is probably premature, analysts said.’https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3111548/how-might-china-test-new-joe-biden-administration
Note the RESET in the first paragraph. That’s the WEF’s KEY WORD! Be prepared for a BIG RESET in your life if Sleepy Joe wins the WH!
How much of the news out of China can one really believe? While the West seems to be in a war against the middle class the news out of China is the CCP is seeking to boost its middle class! Whether that’s true or not this article says ‘A critical mission for President Xi Jinping over the next 15 years is likely to be doubling the size of China’s “middle-income” group after Beijing reaches its goal of eliminating absolute poverty next summer, analysts say.
The Communist Party has not specified the target in its 2035 vision – vowing only to “significantly expand the middle income group” – but the message is clear among top policymakers: China must increase its middle class to avoid the middle income trap, where a developing country’s growth stagnates because of structural obstacles that impede development.
Boosting the number of middle-income earners would also help the government implement its new “dual circulation” economic strategy that focuses on developing the domestic market to offset external uncertainty.
Officially about 400 million Chinese are categorised as middle income, which is generally defined by the National Bureau of Statistics as a family of three earning between 100,000 yuan (US$15,200) to 500,000 yuan annually, though the definition is not always consistent.
That represents less than a third of China’s total population. Japan counts two thirds of its population as middle income and the US about a half.
If China were to increase its middle-income population to near 60 per cent, some 800 million people would fall into the category, creating a consumer market larger than the populations of the US and European Union combined, and giving it huge economic leverage on the international stage.’https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3111929/china-looks-boost-middle-class-it-wraps-xi-jinpings-anti?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-gme_trade_war&utm_content=20201201&tpcc=enlz-us_china_trade_war&MCUID=6ece799d24&MCCampaignID=0d00512114&MCAccountID=7b1e9e7f8075914aba9cff17f&tc=14
Enjoy your liberty while you can as these UN Communist/Marxist’s march to the beat of tyranny over the masses. Why would I say such? There are many reasons of which one is ‘The author of a book outlining the “Great Reset” received a Chinese state foreign honor in 2018.
Klaus Schwab, the author of “COVID-19: The Great Reset” and the executive director of the globalist World Economic Forum, received the China Reform Friendship Medal for his role in integrating Communist China into the world economy.
Schwab is cited as a “promoter of China’s international economic exchanges and cooperation” in a Chinese state media report on his state honor, which was provided to ten leading western globalists for their role in outsourcing jobs to the Communist-mercantilist nation. Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping personally bestowed the China Reform Friendship Medal to Schwab in a 2018 Beijing ceremony.
Schwab has advocated that “nothing return to normal” in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, predicting that human history itself will be differentiated between the era before the virus and after in a manner akin to the birth of Jesus Christ. He outlined his vision for digitized reorganization of the western world in the aftermath of coronavirus in a WEF in July, delegating power formerly held by citizens to “stakeholders” affiliated with the world’s large corporations and governments.
Another Chinese state media profile of Schwab reveals he assisted in organizing an equivalent of the globalist Davos Conference in China, having supported the integration of China in operations of the World Economic Forum.
The “great reset” vision supported by Schwab is broadly akin to China’s social credit system, in which powerful institutions are handed broad powers to punish and regulate the everyday behavior of private citizens. The World Economic Forum has previously suggested freedoms such as private automobile ownership, consumption of dark meat(to be replaced with insects), mass immigration and refugee resettlement, and private property are incompatible with their vision of a globalist future.
Global elites and oligarchs have keenly promoted Schwab’s idea of the Great Reset in recent months, eager to redistribute property and freedoms from ‘average’ and middle-class people to massive corporations and themselves.’https://bigleaguepolitics.com/globalist-great-reset-author-klaus-schwab-received-chinese-foreign-honor-in-2018/
Climate change is a religion to many and they will go to any length to dispose of those who do not agree.
‘Five years ago, I said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) behaves like Torquemada, using Inquisition-like tactics to harass “manmade climate crisis” skeptics, and threatening to prosecute them for racketeering. Tomas de Torquemada was the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition that interrogated, tortured, imprisoned and executed thousands for religious heresy.
The senator took great umbrage, and denounced me in Senate chambers where I once worked. But he didn’t change his ways. If anything, he has become more intolerant and vindictive.
He recently said Democrat control of the Senate would enable him and his colleagues to launch investigations, haul climate realists before committees (for star-chamber show trials), and even employ grand juries and criminal prosecutions – to intimidate, silence and punish climate crisis nonbelievers.
People could certainly conclude that the thin-skinned senator would feel right at home in Inquisition Spain, Stalinist Russia, Red Guard and Xi Jinping China, or book-burning pre-Holocaust fascist Europe. Their history of silencing dissenters, erasing them from history, and sending them off to gulags and salt mines (or worse) is legendary. Their economic and governing ideology is classic fascism:
an extreme, intolerant system, under which an authoritarian government does not own businesses and industries outright, but does dictate what they can make, do, sell and say – while controlling citizens’ thoughts, speech and choices – through intimidation, silencing, arrest, prosecution, and fear of being fined, jailed, fired, sent to penal or reeducation colonies, and being beaten or executed.
These tactics are reprehensible and dictatorial. They are un-American and anti-science. Indeed, science achieves no progress without dissent, discussion and debate. It requires not just hypotheses, theories and computer models, but solid, empirical evidence to confirm or disprove hypotheses, models and predictions.
Discussion, debate, dissent and evidence are especially vital in addressing the assertion that humanity faces an unprecedented manmade climate crisis. That assertion is being used to justify demands that the United States, Europe and developed world eliminate the fossil fuels that provide over 80% of our energy, petrochemical and pharmaceutical raw materials, fertilizers and countless other benefits.
It is being used to justify demands that we replace this reliable, affordable energy and raw material base with wind, solar, battery and biofuel power. Not only are these alternatives intermittent, weather-dependent and far more expensive. They involve extensive mining, land use, wildlife, pollution and other environmental impacts. They are not renewable, sustainable, environment-friendly or climate-safe.
In the United States alone, we would have to replace some 7.5 billion megawatt-hours of electricity and electricity-equivalent fossil fuel use per year; replace enormous amounts of oil and natural gas raw materials; and overhaul our transportation, home heating and other systems. That would require millions of wind turbines, billions of solar panels, billions of 1000-pound battery modules, tens of millions of acres of corn, canola, soybean and other biofuel crops – and tens of trillions of dollars.
Democrat urban population and voter centers will likely oppose those industrial-scale installations in their backyards. They would have little objection to locating them in what many ruling, media and Hollywood elites imperiously and derisively refer to “flyover country” – western, Midwestern and southern states.
This “transformation” – under the Paris climate treaty, a Green New Deal or a Biden-Harris regulatory program – would massively disrupt America’s economy, jobs, living standards, health and wellbeing, especially for poor, minority, blue-collar, fixed-income and flyover country families and communities.
Climate alarmists insist that any lost jobs would be replaced with “green” jobs. But those would be mostly minimum-wage positions: hauling, installing, maintaining, dismantling, removing and landfilling turbines, panels and batteries. Moreover, most of those green technologies would be manufactured overseas, especially in China, because environmentalists battle any mining in the USA, and a climate-focused energy system would provide insufficient reliable, affordable power for factories.
Those huge and unprecedented amounts of mining and manufacturing would require fossil fuels. So the only thing that would change is where the fossil fuel use and emissions occur.
It would be mostly in Asia and Africa, in countries that are not obligated under the Paris climate treaty to reduce their fossil fuel use or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; countries that will build as many hundreds or thousands of coal and gas-fired power plants as needed to lift their people out of poverty … and make “green energy” technologies they will happily sell to America, Australia, Canada and Europe.
That means, even if the US went cold-turkey on fossil fuels, it would make no difference to global GHG emissions or global atmospheric concentrations. And that means, even if carbon dioxide is the primary factor in climate change, destroying US and other modern economies would bring no climate benefits.
The EU’s and UK’s unwavering belief in human-caused climate cataclysms is already hammering its industries, workers and families, as numerous articles attest: here, here, here and here, for instance.
Thankfully, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that assertions of Climate Armageddon have been miscalculated, exaggerated or fabricated. Average global temperatures are rising far less rapidly than predicted by climate models: by at least a half-degree F.
Violent (F4-F5) US tornadoes have actually declined in number the past 35 years (1985-2020) versus the previous 35 years (1950-1984); and in 2018 not one F5 tornado touched down in the United States. For a record twelve years, from Wilma in 2005 until Harvey and Irma in 2017, no Category 3 to 5 hurricane struck the US mainland. Overall, there is little or no trend in tropical cyclone activity or intensity.
All that is not surprising in light of new research by Drs. William Happer and Willem van Wijngaarden that strongly indicates even doubling carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) in Earth’s atmosphere would have minuscule effects on global temperatures and climate (but would benefit plant growth).
Indeed, it is impossible to distinguish human influences from natural factors, fluctuations and cycles regarding temperatures, polar ice, storms and droughts. Some scientists certainly claim otherwise – and generally just blame humans. But they have little or no actual, empirical evidence to support their claims, predictions and models. They simply say the science is settled, and we must ban fossil fuels, so shut up.
With so much at stake for America and the world, this is completely intolerable. At the very least, those claiming we face a climate calamity must be required to present solid empirical evidence to support their assertions – and engage in in robust, transparent debates with manmade climate change skeptics.
That is precisely what Senator Torquemada seems determined to prevent and punish, while transforming “the world’s greatest deliberative body” into a Russian Politburo or Chinese National People’s Congress – and an integral part of the $multi-trillion-per-year Climate Industrial Complex.
In that quest he would certainly be aided by the Big Media and Big Tech moguls who share his views on climate change, silencing scientists and evidence that contradicts climate cataclysm catechism, and blacklisting “climate heretics” in government, academic and corporate circles.
People have been conditioned to kowtow to government lockdown edicts, to save humanity from Covid. Climate alarmists assume we will now be sufficiently compliant about banning fossil fuels to “save the planet,” when we’re trying to recover from Covid. Or their Torquemadas will make us compliant.
It’s time to reject politicized junk science, demand debate, and resist green climate and energy edicts. Perhaps most of all, the US Senate must assert its Advice and Consent responsibilities on the Paris climate treaty, the most far-reaching international agreement Americans were ever asked to ratify.’https://papundits.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/sheldon-whitehouses-climate-inquisition/
The Australian New South Wales state Liberal/Nationals Government is going down the communist/Marxist path via the climate scam! Of course this path includes MONEY!
‘MATT KEAN MUST RECALL CHINESE GRANTI urge Matt Kean to recall the $10 MILLION grant given to Goldwind, a CHINESE owned renewables company. The NSW electricity network is CRITICAL infrastructure and must be kept out of Chinese hands! Matt Kean’s actions are NOT in the best interest of the people of NSW!’https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/?ref=page_internal
‘Goldwind is a world leading wind turbine technology and energy solutions provider. Through the implementation and investment in industry-leading turbine technology, water treatment solutions and other green energy technological ventures, Goldwind has been hailed as one of China’s most innovative companies. The company now operates on 6 continents, has more than 8,000 employees, and more than 60 GW of installed wind capacity.’http://www.goldwindglobal.com/about/
Literally if the United States goes the rest of the West will soon follow. Here in Australia we are at the mercy of the CCP if the United States falls to Socialism/Marxist/Communism. I presently live in Australia and the CCP knows there is no way Australia can survive for long once the USA goes. ‘More than a decade ago, filmmaker Curtis Bowers released his first documentary: “Agenda: Grinding America Down”, which warned about subversive movements working towards a socialist push in the United States. Much of what he warned of is now taking place…’https://www.theepochtimes.com/video-curtis-bowers-a-socialist-agenda-is-underway_3604395.html
