[Conservative Tree House via Lucianne] Pompeo's remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there's an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China's communist party; and their alignment with China's interests. Makes for an interesting read.
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Unfortunately the linked document has not been translated from the Chinese, but a linked story highlights the governors of Indiana and Maine as being among the most pro-Chinese. The most "hardline" or less-susceptible to Chinese influence(-buying) include NY's Cuomo and FL's DeSantis.
Why it matters: “Our concern at the end of the day isn't focused on an election event. It is focused on the integrity of our policymaking process and the policymakers' decision-making ability," said the FBI official.
Key takeaway: Beijing is using economic carrots and sticks to cultivate relationships and gradually change perceptions from the ground up, so that hardline policies on China become less popular and harder to adopt.
China, Russia, and Iran all engage in influence activities, but their goals are different, the FBI official said:
"Russia wants us to tear ourselves apart."
"Iran wants us to leave them alone.”
"China wants to manage our decline."
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The Russian strategy is merely to nudge American hotheads to do what they're already doing: "Look at what Evil OtherSide said today! Doesn't it make your blood boil?!?!" Not benign, or innocuous but really, $600k in FB ads is close to zilch. Almost harmless in the grand scheme. They could do far worse.
The CCP strategy, OTOH, is massive and aimed at changing our policies by cultivating quislings at all levels of government, from local to state to federal;
throughout academia, both in terms of students ("Confucius Institute") and researchers and even elite department heads e.g. Harvard's Charles Lieber;
and of course across the media-- not just useful idiots like T. Friedman but ordinary journos at publications and outlets large and small.
We have never seen anything like this in our country -- not this scale, not this scope, not this degree of focus or tenacity or singlemindedmess of purpose.
The Nazis had Lindbergh and a few other symps; the Soviets had a few scores with the Rosenbergs and a few others; the 18c XYZ Affair was minor, trivial by comparison.
But none of these foreign subversion efforts came anywhere class to changing US opinion and US policy on a mass scale. The Chinese are in a league of their own. Unprecedented for sinister intent. Unprecedented for effectiveness.
#5
All politicians want to spend more. Governors and mayors are among the worst. University and college administrators are right up there too. If they can't get what they want from Uncle Sugar, there is no devil they won't deal with.
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How many of you made the link between that group and Chinese Communist Party officials?
How could you not make such an assumption unless your head is up your ass?
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(CNN)Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Sunday that he signed a series of new measures into law aimed at expanding access to voting in the commonwealth.
The new legislation will establish Election Day as a holiday, remove the requirement that voters show a photo ID prior to casting a ballot
...the real objective buried in the feel-good stuff...
and, expand early voting to be allowed 45 days before an election without a stated reason.
"Voting is a fundamental right, and these new laws strengthen our democracy by making it easier to cast a ballot, not harder," Northam said in a statement. "No matter who you are or where you live in Virginia, your voice deserves to be heard. I'm proud to sign these bills into law."
Several states and cities have already made Election Day a civic holiday, including Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky and New York. State offices typically close, though it depends on the state whether employees are entitled to paid time off to vote.
Proponents say making Election Day a holiday could improve voter turnout. But Election Day may not become a federal holiday anytime soon -- it's drawn deep division along party lines.
In January 2019, Democrats proposed a sweeping bill that would make Election Day a national holiday among other measures. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the measure would pay government workers to "hang out at the polls during an election" or campaign for candidates.
The new legislation also repeals the current Lee-Jackson day holiday which honored Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as "defenders of causes." Both men owned slaves and fought to preserve slavery in the US.
The holiday is typically observed with Civil War-themed parades, wreath layings and reenactments hosted by Confederate memorial groups, though these celebrations are increasingly unpopular. Defenders of the holiday say it honors Virginia history.
"We need to make Election Day a holiday," Northam had said in his State of the Commonwealth speech earlier this year.
"We can do it by ending the Lee-Jackson holiday that Virginia holds ... It commemorates a lost cause. It's time to move on."
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[DAILYWIRE] Texas Sen. Ted Cruz unloaded on his fellow wardheelers on Friday in response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... sending a letter to President Trump declaring that she is "disappointed" in his administration’s plan to block funding to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. The Democrats’ demand of Trump to help Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... get $5 billion in aid, Cruz noted, comes "at the exact same time" that they are "blocking desperately need relief to small businesses in America."
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What ever happened to the investigation of her Chinese handler driver?
[BREITBART] Virginia Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam ...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?... (D) announced on Good Friday that he signed into law a bill his new Democrat majority rushed to approve, one that repeals most restrictions on child sacrifice abortion in the state.
Northam minimized the extremity of the Reproductive Health Protection Act, referring in a blurb to the restrictions on child sacrifice abortion that are now repealed as "anti-women’s health laws."
"No more will politicians in Richmond—most of whom are men—be telling women what they should and should not be doing with their bodies," Northam said in an accompanying statement. "The Reproductive Health Protection Act will make women and families safer, and I’m proud to sign it into law."
Yes, it is exactly what it sounds like.
[PJMedia] On Easter Sunday, Pope Francis sent a letter to leaders of social movements promoting "structural changes" to the "economy of exclusion and inequality." Among other things, he encouraged these activists to use the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to spur radical change and launch a "humanistic and ecological conversion." He also endorsed the idea of a universal basic income (UBI), championed by former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Pope Francis addressed his letter to the World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), an alliance of Roman Catholic Church leadership and "grassroots organizations working to address the 'economy of exclusion and inequality' by working for structural changes that promote social, economic and racial justice."
In the letter, the pope argues that these activists are "invisible to the system. Market solutions do not reach the peripheries, and State protection is hardly visible there." Rather than encouraging philanthropy to reach these peripheries, Francis writes to encourage "you who are looked upon with suspicion when through community organization you try to move beyond philanthropy or when, instead of resigning and hoping to catch some crumbs that fall from the table of economic power, you claim your rights."
In this context, Francis endorses a UBI. "I know that you have been excluded from the benefits of globalization. You do not enjoy the superficial pleasures that anesthetize so many consciences, yet you always suffer from the harm they produce," he argues. "Street vendors, recyclers, carnies, small farmers, construction workers, dressmakers, the different kinds of caregivers: you who are informal, working on your own or in the grassroots economy, you have no steady income to get you through this hard time ... and the lockdowns are becoming unbearable. This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out. It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights." Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest!?!
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This guy is a plant by the devil. Or something.
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I'll take this fake pope seriously soon as he begins launching these directives at China and Russia. Until then he and all the other SJWs are just pussies making demands of soft audiences rather than addressing the real sources of real oppression.
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His words echo Quoranic phraseology. All this "You who are excluded from... you who are oppressed..." business.
There are verses in the Hadiths and Quoran that go like this : "You who are scattered in the kingdoms of the unjust, the jahilya of the unfaithful..." and "You who live under the yoke of unbeliever kings and priesthoods..." etc.
Very strange.
My personal theory is, he's the same spiritual phylum as the other sons of Belial so it's no surprise.
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[Conservative Tree House via Lucianne] Pompeo's remarks were made to the National Governors Association (NGA) Feb 8, 2020; and there's an interesting segment where Pompeo reveals his awareness of a list of U.S. governors compiled by China's communist party; and their alignment with China's interests.
[DAILYWIRE] Texas Sen. Ted Cruz unloaded on his 
...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He has a fondness for wearing blackface. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
